One idea I absolutely plan to steal is from EDW. Her blog, appropriately titled ‘The World According To EDW’, is a good read. For her post titles, she uses a song lyric. Sometimes they’re obscure, sometimes they’re blatantly obvious, but either way, it’s cool.

Jami has a unique post title convention also. For her posts on ‘The Very Important Thoughts Of Jami’, she goes all Elmo-style and writes the title in the third person always with her name first, for example, Jami Writes The Alphabet or Jami Talks With Mr. Noodle.

Cinders, back when she blogged more regular on ‘adventures in blah blah land’, always put her posts titles in all lowercase. That may be fairly common, but in my feed reader, it was usually pretty easy to pick out a new post from Cinders.

So, what convention do I use? Ah, that’s easy. It’s the three periods after nearly every title. It used to be a play on when the blog was titled ‘Patrick Says…’. The only time I don’t use the three periods is when the title is a question or an exclamation. Then it’s a question mark or an exclamation point, for example, ‘Hey Is That Acne Cream In Your Pocket?’.

What convention do you use in your titles or do you use one at all?
Share it in the comments.

I am behind on both the electric bill and the phone/Internet/satellite bill, not to mention six hospitals and an accountant I owe. I need $200 for car repairs that I don’t have. My student loan people are hunting me down like a dog and we’re a little short around here on groceries.

But I couldn’t be happier today. Because The Wife does not have cancer. It’s a good day, people.

(Can I mention strollers without making you wince? Cause I have those car repairs and they aren’t going to pay for themselves…)

Let me go on a tangent about this Chevy Lumina. Now it’s a beautiful car, don’t get me wrong, but the maintenance is a bear. First, it has ’special’ wheels. They’re a thinner tire…I think it’s like a fifteen-inch wheel instead of fourteen like every other Lumina, so when the tires need replacing, go ahead and add three ‘car mechanic units’ or $300. When the battery has to be replaced, they have to move a bar and remove the washer fluid reservoir, so that’s an extra ‘car mechanic unit’. You can see where this is adding up. I hate that car.

Anyway, so I went to Dobbs and got the battery changed. The best part: they were out of the silver battery and all they had was the $10 more-expensive gold battery. Nearly two ‘car mechanic units’ lighter in the wallet, thank you very much. That’s like the cost of a couple golf bags or something. It’s ridiculous.

How many ‘car mechanic units’ did your last repair cost? Share it in the comments and we’ll have good rant together.

Of course, I sing it phonetically. I have some idea of what the lyrics are, but I’m not really sure. So, for your pleasure, I will record here what I think the first verse is. After I’ve put my translation, I’ll go find the actual lyrics and post them. Enjoy the hilarity.

Move a double dip, cause I’m a double dipper.
Upside down on the lip lip lipper.
One, two, one, two, three,
I got a ticket, so ride with me.
Merry go down on a merry-go-round
All is fair, or be fip down.
Let’s go slow, let’s go fast,
Licorice whip gonna whip your ass!

Okay, now for the actual lyrics:

Move it over dad ’cause I’m a double-dipper!
Upside down on the zip-zip-zipper
1,2,1,2,3, I′ve got a ticket so ride with me
Mary go down on the merry-go-round
All is fair ‘n’ a big fair ground
Love go slow, love go fast
Licorice whip gonna whip your ass.

Not as far off as I thought…

And what was in this dish? Progesterone? No, what? No, the candy in the jar was those fruit-shaped hard candy. Not the ones that taste like Sweet Tarts and are fruit-shaped…those are actually kind of good. No. These were those ones that are hard as stone and kind of opaque, but colored.

Maybe you know what I’m talking about…maybe you don’t. Either, Truman Bank should have got some better candy…maybe you wouldn’t be closing that location…cheapskates.

If watching this ad makes you think about things like auto insurance compare and whatnot, remember it’s a Saturday and you could be outside playing. Have fun, but don’t forget the sunscreen.

Kudos to the first person who figures this one out. I’ll give you a hint: it has to do with entertainment and not my personal life. Also, this concludes the PicApp promotion, although I will continue to use them in the future…just not quite so much.

Sometimes, it’s hard to tell the real ones from the fake ones.

Sorry, no funny shirts in this post. Maybe next one?

One more thing about the restroom at work…

The room is small; we established that. But the design is such that if you are a passerby walking down the hall and someone opens the door to the john, you can see right into the room where the urinal is. So, if the timing is right, you can see me taking a leak and I hope you brought popcorn and a soda because believe me you, it’s a heck of a show. YAHOO!

Who designed this bathroom: Ronnie Milsap (pictured on right) or Stevie Wonder (not pictured on right…or left…or anywhere really)? Just saying…would it really have been that hard to design in a little partition or something or rearrange the room to prevent this kind of thing? Does the ladies room have the same problem? Okay, it can’t exactly have the SAME problem. Those of you with a biology background know what I’m talking about. But seriously, what’s the ladies room look like???

And remember, people who wear MBT shoes shouldn’t throw rocks…or something…

In more serious news, for those you following the medical drama (and when I say ‘medical drama’, I mean health issues, as opposed to ‘medical drama’ as in ‘Grey’s Anantomy’) with The Wife, she is having more testing and we’re keeping it optimistic.