Wednesday, January 28, 2009

isn't he cute for 111 years old?


NEW Zealand's most celebrated centenarian, a rare reptile known as Henry, has discovered his charm and become a father for the first time at the age of 111.

Henry the tuatara, a lizard-like creature of prehistoric origin, has become the father of 11 offspring over the past four days, staff at the Southland Museum in the southern city of Invercargill said yesterday.

Henry once had a reputation for aggression and was not interested in sex, but he turned his life around after a cancerous growth was removed from his bottom.

He mated last March with Mildred, 31 years his junior, who laid 12 eggs in June with 11 surviving.

"It's the completion of a love story,'' museum tuatara curator Lindsay Hazley said.

The 1.2kg, 60cm long Henry, who had been known to attack female tuatara before his operation, was now living with three females "in great harmony'' and was expected to mate again this year, Mr Hazley said.

"He's had a major personality transplant.''

Henry, however, is unlikely to play an active role in parenting as tuatara are known to eat anything that is small and moves.

Tuatara, found only in New Zealand, are the sole surviving members of the order Sphenodontia, which was represented by many species during the age of the dinosaurs 200 million years ago, according to a government website.

Its relatives became extinct about 60 million years ago.

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

i cracked up over this article.... typical boys..


Video cameras around the home provide an added measure of security on multiple fronts for Cuba Gooding Jr. The 41-year-old actor revealed during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that with a trampoline, a hockey rink, a batting cage and a boxing ring at his disposal, his 14-year-old son Spencer has become quite an accident-prone kid. While recovering from a broken arm, Spencer began urinating blood, necessitating yet another trip to the emergency room. “The doctor said, ‘What’s going on? He’s got a broken arm and he’s urinating blood. You’re beating the hell out of this kid,’” Cuba recalled. “I said, ‘No, no, no. Cut to the tape.”

“So I put the tape in, and there he was on the trampoline, doing backflips with his roller blades on, and a cast. I said, ‘I got you on tape, man! That’s right! Because you know I love you and everything, but they aren’t putting [me] in jail!’”

When asked by host Jay Leno if Spencer and his 11-year-old younger brother Mason have discovered girls yet, Cuba demurred, replying “that’s their own personal business.” While Cuba hasn’t yet had “the talk” with any of the kids from the sound of things, that talk will instead be had with their mom, Cuba’s wife of 15 years, Sara. “Spencer and Mason are two years apart, so when Spencer was 1 ½ it was cute for him to say ‘penis,’” Cuba explains. “Then when he was 4 ½, and Mason was 2 ½, he’d say something and Mason would repeat it, and Spencer would laugh…for an hour.” Sara stepped in, telling the boys that certain words can be said in the bathroom, only — which quickly made the bathroom the funniest room in their house!

Said Cuba,
“I’d come home and there’s all kinds of craziness coming from the bathroom…My wife said, ‘No no no, that’s where they talk like that.’ They’d be in there laughing, you know, ‘Penis…butt…fart!,’ [laughter] ‘Poopy, poopy!’ [laughter].”

In addition to the boys, Cuba and Sara are parents to 3-year-old daughter Piper Adelaide.

when spandex wearing is JUST PLAIN WRONG!

Friday, January 23, 2009

tripadvisor







look at how cute is he... getting big so fast...


camila alves and baby levi... adorable! looks just like his mother and nothing like his daddy matthew mcconaughy....

does her baby look like her or what?


how stinking cute is jenna elfman's little guy? his name is story elias...

3 Out Of 4 More Optimistic With Obama

Poll Shows More People Think Future Brighter

WASHINGTON -- Three out of four American people feel more optimistic about the country's future now that Barack Obama has been inaugurated president, a new poll showed.

The Associated Press-Knowledge Networks poll also showed that even among Republicans, just 29 percent of those surveyed felt more pessimistic with Obama at the White House -- roughly the same number as the 30 percent of GOP people who said they felt more optimistic.

A smaller proportion of those who said they saw or heard his inaugural address -- 51 percent -- called it good.

Man trims 3 inch eyebrows for charity

A 72-year-old southwestern Indiana man with eyebrows so long he brushed them each morning has raised $1,600 for charity from people who paid to trim them.

Some of the wiry hairs shorn from Si Burgher's shaggy eyebrows measured more than three inches long when they were finally trimmed last week by members of the Bloomfield Rotary Club.

The former jeweler agreed to have the brows trimmed to raise money for a polio eradication campaign.

Burgher barely winced as his wife, Amy, got the first whack at the overgrown hairs.

"I don't care if they ever grow back," he told The Herald-Times of Bloomington. "My wife says I look 20 years younger."

very very interesting...

Brushing and flossing your teeth helps prevent heart disease and diabetes and can help pregnant women avoid low-birth weight babies, a doctor and author says.

Dr. Helaine Smith said in a news release that the scientific community is starting to see the connection between oral hygiene and whole-body health.

"Despite this better understanding, many patients were coming into my office with questions about the new findings. For example, research has proven that untreated periodontal disease can cause low birth-weight babies and even miscarriages -- yet women still do not know they should visit a dentist before getting pregnant," she said.

facts about my birthday... wanna get facts on yours?

23 February 1977

Your date of conception was on or about 2 June 1976 which was a Wednesday.

You were born on a Wednesday under the astrological sign Pisces.

Your Life path number is 4.

Your fortune cookie reads: To love is to forgive.

Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 8, 11 & 22.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 6 & 7.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 3, 5 & 9.

The year 1977 was not a leap year.

Your birthday falls into the Chinese year beginning 2/18/1977 and ending 2/6/1978.

You were born in the Chinese year of the Snake.

Your Native American Zodiac sign is Wolf.

Your plant is Plantain.

You were born in the Egyptian month of Pachons, the first month of the season of Shomu (Harvest).

Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 5 AdarI 5737.
Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 6 AdarI 5737.

The Mayan Calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.18.3.11.13 which is 12 baktun 18 katun 3 tun 11 uinal 13 kin

The Hijra (Islamic Calendar) date of your birth is Wednesday, 4 Rabi'u'l-Avval 1397 (1397-3-4).

The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 10 April 1977.

The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 10 April 1977.

The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 23 February 1977.

The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 29 May 1977.

The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 5 June 1977.

The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Tuesday, 13 September 1977.

The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Sunday, 3 April 1977.

The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 22 February 1977.

As of 1/23/2009 11:03:24 am
You are 31 years old.
You are 383 months old.
You are 1,665 weeks old.
You are 11,657 days old.
You are 279,779 hours old.
You are 16,786,743 minutes old.
You are 1,007,204,604 seconds old.

Celebrities who share your birthday:
Dakota Fanning (1994)
Tommy McCarthy (1980)
Howard Jones (1955)
Patricia Richardson (1951)
John Sandford (1944)
Johnny Winter (1944)
Peter Fonda (1939)
Donna J. Stone (1933)
W.E.B. DuBois (1868)
George Frederic Handel (1685)

Top songs of 1977
You Light Up My Life by Debby Boone
Best of My Love by Emotions
I Just Want to Be Your Everything by Andy Gibb
How Deep Is Your Love by Bee Gees
Evergreen (from 'A Star Is Born') by Barbra Streisand
Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
Torn Between Two Lovers by Mary MacGregor
Rich Girl by Daryl Hall & John Oates
Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band by Meco
Got to Give It Up by Marvin Gaye

Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 4.56242661448141 years old.
(You're still chasing cats!)

Your lucky day is Thursday.
Your lucky number is 3 & 7.
Your ruling planet(s) is Jupiter & Neptune.
Your lucky dates are 1st, 10th, 19th, 28th.
Your opposition sign is Virgo.
Your opposition number is 5.

There are 31 days till your next birthday on which your cake will have 32 candles.

Those 32 candles produce 32 BTUs, or 8,064 calories of heat (that's only 8.0640 food Calories!) .

You can boil 3.66 US ounces of water with that many candles.

In 1977 there were approximately 3.1 million births in the US.

In 1977 the US population was approximately 203,302,031 people, 57.4 persons per square mile.

In 1977 in the US there were approximately 2,152,662 marriages (10.1%) and 1,036,000 divorces (4.9%)

In 1977 in the US there were approximately 1,921,000 deaths (9.5 per 1000)

In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.

In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.

In 1977 the population of Australia was approximately 14,281,533.

In 1977 there were approximately 226,291 births in Australia.

In 1977 in Australia there were approximately 104,918 marriages and 45,150 divorces.

In 1977 in Australia there were approximately 108,790 deaths.

Your birthstone is Amethyst

The Mystical properties of Amethyst

Amethyst is used to increase spiritually

Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone.

(Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Bloodstone, Onyx, Moonstone

Your birth tree is Pine Tree, the Particularity

Loves agreeable company, very robust, knows how to make life comfortable, very active, natural, good companion.

There are 336 days till Christmas 2009!

The moon's phase on the day you were born was waxing crescent.

Go HERE to get your birthday facts......

Thursday, January 22, 2009

shots taken just in the knick of time...

















uh oh... you're in trouble mister!

Eleven-month-old boy accidentally dials 9-1-1 and gets dad arrested

WHITE ROCK, B.C. - A man probably wishes he had given his 11-month-old son a set of keys to play with instead of a phone, after the infant accidentally dialed 9-1-1 and brought police to dad's marijuana grow operation.
Mounties say a 9-1-1 call came in from a White Rock, B.C. residence Friday morning but whoever was on the other end of the line hung up. Officers arrived at the residence and after numerous knocks on the door went unanswered, they entered the home.
"The gentleman was quite surprised," said White Rock RCMP Const. Janelle Canning.
She said the 29-year-old male, startled by the sudden sight of police, insisted he hadn't made the call.
When it was suggested a child might have dialled, the father objected and said his son was far too young.
That's when police spotted the baby boy, phone in hand.
"We saw him playing with the cordless phone and just pressing all the buttons, so evidently he had called 9-1-1," Canning said.
With that mystery solved, officers began inspecting the residence and soon discovered a 500-plant marijuana grow operation.
The father was arrested and will appear in court in early April on charges of production of a controlled substance and mischief.
The boy was removed from the home by the Ministry of Children and Family Development, though he was later released into his mother's custody.
The mother does not live in the residence and Canning says she had no idea what was going on at the home.

smoking update....

still haven't... good update no? lol

look a like...

check this out... click here! pretty funny right? lol

i love this quote...

Doesn't this quote fit perfectly with the times?

"Change, however, does not occur magically. It represents individual and collective pioneering efforts. You can still choose to be a pioneer? And I hope you will do so." - Stephen Breyer

"remember when it rained" by josh groban

here's my boy josh groban... i freaking LOVE his voice... he is so talented and very very sweet and kind....

boy is she different... and fantastic...



her name is adele and she is from the UK......i think her voice is something we do not hear very often...

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Our President and First Lady's First Dance...

do they look so in love or what? i think that is a lot of the reason why i have liked obama this whole time since i first seen him making his speeches and the way he treated his wife and daughters... sometimes you can just TELL what kind of man some men are... and i think he is one of the good ones... you can see the love between these two and I LOVE, LOVE!!!! don't you? isn't it nice to see a man up there kissing his wife and loving her and her loving him without them being intimidated by the press, the cameras, the paparazzi? i just love it and it's super inspiring... also, can i get a friggen WHOOT WHOOT.. BARACK IS OUR NEW PRESIDENT... i have hope he can turn this country around... YES WE CAN!!!!!...



and for anyone who did not watch channel 3 last night and how they went through barack's life from child to the president, you missed a great program... it was so insiteful and really got into what kind of a person barack is... and i am so happy he is OUR PRESIDENT!!!!

this guys job is now down the tubes....


Fox 13 morning anchor Russell Rhodes from Tampa Bay got a beat down when he stupidly attempted to resist an officer trying to arrest him for a very obvious DUI.

An off-duty deputy spotted Rhodes driving recklessly in a parking garage at 10:15pm on Friday night. According to the police report, Rhodes "was attempting to reverse his vehicle into other traffic after passing the exit token machine."

And when the deputy finally got him out of the car, his belt and pants were undone!

Rhodes tried to flee the deputy twice before he finally got a hold on him. The violence occurred when Rhodes tried to yank his car keys from the deputy. And that's when he got tossed to the ground! And arrested, of course.

Rhodes was taken to the hospital for his facial injuries and released on a $500 bail.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

i'm super excited for today....


i don't know about you but i'm beyond excited for today... a new day... a new time... a new voice... i have such strong hopes for what this country will become... i know barack is gonna change us... it has already started.. and will continue... who would have thought we would have a black man as our president? i would never have thought in our lifetime that is for sure... but i am so happy people can see past the color... see him as a good caring man...
Obama Family Pictures, Images and Photos
a father, a son, a husband... a LEADER... i am so excited for today... i hope you are too! THINK POSITIVE!!!
Barack Obama Pictures, Images and Photos

it's official !!!!!!!!

As of 9:30am this morning, i will NOT have had a cigarette in exactly one week! You have no idea how proud i am of myself... not even ONE LITTLE PUFF in a week... can you freaking believe it? i never thought this day would come... lol... well, i hoped for it... but wasnt' sure i was strong enough... looks like I AM! To be honest, i can already tell a difference in my breathing... i could never have shoveled around our chicken coop and NOT been out of breath before... and now, i can shovel like a champ and NOT get winded.. it's a very good feeling! Wish me continued luck!!! I still need it!

YES WE CAN....


More Barack Obama Widgets Here

Thursday, January 15, 2009

11 foods that can improve your health...

CLICK HERE to check out a small slide show of foods that are good for you and your health... i am going to try to incorporate them into my diet too... can't hurt to try right?

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

freaking MORONS!!!!

what in the hell are these parents thinking? they are LOSERS!!!!

Monday, January 12, 2009

Rob and Big's "DIRTY GIRL".. by Bobby Light

if you don't watch the show ROB AND BIG, this might not be as funny to you as it is to me, a follower of the show... but i laugh so freaking hard when i see repeats and they are making this video... HA HA HA

some random pics i stole from auntie tammy... hee hee!


me and juliana over the summer on the ESSEX steam train for ati's grandparents anniversary if i am not mistaken....


on the train again... it was fun and we saw a bunch of nice sights along the ride...

me over christmas


the ladies over christmas at ati's grandparents house...

taylor lautner in NEW MOON!

this little cutie is going to be in the next twilight movie called NEW MOON, it's the sequel to the original movie and the 2nd book as well.. he will play jacob black and if you read the book, he looks exactly like what you would picture him to look like! ADORABLE!

Saturday, January 10, 2009

took some photos at the tower over the holidays...











these are from december 16th.... ati's 29th birthday....


my loving adorable parents...

my dad LOVES lobster... can you blame him? he's so silly and sweet!!

i love you mama!!!

mwah! you're the best mom!!!! xoxoxo

yummy!!!!

happy birthday ati... even though the poor guy had a sinus headache that night... he still chowed down the lobster... my mom was cute enough to bring us the bibs...

juliana made some chocolate chip muffins....

oh ya, and she got her hair cut.... isnt' she wicked adorable with this cute bob?