Things I did not know

Well this isn't a list of things that I did not know previously to today. But there is one thing that I did not know until just now.
Thingamajig is a word.
I know, surprising. But I typed it in to an email and my Outlook did not target it as a misspelled word, leading me to believe that it is actually a word.
This pleases me greatly because for someone having an English/Communications/Journalism college degree I don't speak as well as one should. I say such things as "you guys" (which is better than saying ya'll, which I hate btw {btw means by the way, by the way}).
"Hows come?" is another one that I get made fun of for. And I tend to screw up the whole "i" before "e" except after "c" and before "v"? I'm not sure how it goes actually. I just use spell check when the situation with the i and e arises.
But one other cool thing I didn't know until a few weeks ago...while in a word doc as in Microsoft word...hold down the "ALT" key while pushing a series of numbers on your keypad. For instance hold down ALT and type in 145. There are a ton of them, try it out. I guarantee it'll keep you occupied for at least 5 mins. I don't know how far back that little trick goes but I have MSOffice 2003.
Back to this whole thingamajig thing...
I'm begining to wonder if all the words that I make up will soon become actual words. For instance whatserface, or whatshisface, or also a variation of the two, whatserbuckets name, or whatshisbuckets name.
Will all carbonated drinks become pops?
Is the world slowly developing into sheeple followers of me?
This would work out quite well with my plan to become the dominant world leader, everyone will speak Nettiespeak or Philspeak, Flaire is very excited to become the Secretary of Production of Squeaky Toys. Man this could be so awesome.
In the meantime, I'll keep a lookout for more of Nettiespeak becoming part of mainline society.
Oh I know what would work...I need to get on that show with Paris Hilton...My New BFF or something, and start throwing out the mespeak.
Oh yes, muwahahahahahahahah (evil laugh)

Writers Block

So as memeber of livejournal everyday they have this "Writers Block" thing, I guess to help you out if you can't think of anything else to write about and I thought today's was interesting. Well that and I don't have any new poop stories to talk about.
So todays writers block mentioned Kurt Vonnegat's titles, like Slaughterhouse 5, and how great the titles are, so if I were to write a book about my life what would the title be?
Well after not thinking about it for very long I came up with this..."5 Blocks From Gas n' Shop" Mostly becuase much of my childhood had to do with the house in town, which is where I mostly grew up. "5 Blocks from Gas 'n Shop"...and miles from everywhere else.
It really defines my childhood. And it also speaks to where I came from, which has made me who I am today.
When we moved to town, I remember hating it. I loved living on a farm. I loved having room to run around, most of my friends and family lived on farms, and they had and got to do things that we couldn't do anymore.
Of course I grew accustomed to it and found things to do in town that we couldn't do in the country, and one of those things was scrounging up enough change to go down to Gas n Shop to buy a pop.
Gas 'n Shop was the place we hung out at after games, after practice, after conditioning. On Sundays, after mass, we made a run for a pop and a box of Hot Tomales. Its where we met up at when going somewhere else. It was the only place to get a Swiss Roll or a Honey Bun. It was the only place to order a pizza from (cept for Thursday when the Pizza Hut Truck was in town).
I remember renting movies and a VCR from there, back before we ever had one.
And though its not called Gas 'n Shop anymore, I think its a Casey's or something, I still call it Gas 'n Shop and every time I'm home its hard not to make a stop in there. Its hard not to when its the only gig in town.

Cookies are num num!

I got a wild hair up my ass yesterday and decided to make some cookies. I don't think I've made any since last Christmas.
And I even have one of those super sweet mixers, Kitchenaid...those things are tight. But I digress...but those things are awesome.
So I made the ol staple chocalate chip cookies and boy did I make a lot. I have like 30 or more cookies at my house right now. I'm freezing some.
Nothing better than bringing out some homemade cookies and not have to do the work to enjoy them, like 3 months later. (I'd actually be surprised if they made it that long, but we'll see.)
I normally don't switch things up very much, but this time I used a mixture of chocolate chips and white chocolate chips (both left over from Christmas last year as well) and was pleasantly surprised.
The Hubby isn't much of a fan of chocolate so I made a few batches with just white chocolate then the rest I mixed it all up. The white chocalate doesn't melt as well and regular chocolate chips but still they turned out darn tasty if I do say so myself.
So now I'm prepared to gain about 10lbs. from eating too many cookies. Oh but it'll be worth it.