over it

Or should I say, over her? And by her I mean Katherine Heigl. She withdrew her name from the list of Emmy contenders because she does not feel she was given material worthy of an Emmy this season on Grey's. She's also trying to get out of her Grey's contract so she can focus on her movie career.

Honey, just because you got lucky with Knocked Up and 27 Dresses doesn't mean you're the shit. Why don't you ask David Caruso how that worked out? I think that career move has only worked for George Clooney.

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amazing births

Original source here.

These are incredible stories.

This baby had a large tumor growing out of her tailbone. So, when the baby was 6 months old they took the fetus out, removed the tumor, put the baby BACK IN, and she arrived 10 weeks later. She was born twice.

Three of these babies are identical triplets. There are fewer than 100 documented cases of identical triplets plus one. I feel kinda sorry for the odd one out.














This girl delivered her baby at home in the shower. Then she jogged 4 blocks to the hospital with the baby still attached by the umbilical cord. Think someone was trying to hide being pregnant?

















This one is my favorite. This baby is a badass. Her mother delivered while she was going to the bathroom on a TRAIN. Mom passed out, baby fell through the toilet and onto the tracks! They found her TWO HOURS later. Alive. She only weighed 3.22 pounds.



















This cool lady gave birth to her twin GRANDchildren. She was a surrogate for her daughter. Oh and she was 51. You know, my mom's turning 51 soon....














This lady gave birth to her SECOND set of TRIPLETS last year. The odds of this are 1 in 64 million.














This sweet baby was born weighing only 10 ounces.












This big, old, honking baby was born weighing SIXTEEN POUNDS.












This lady had quadruplets, three years after having triplets. As Izzie says on Grey's, "You really gotta read the fine print on those fertility drugs."












This 62 year old woman just gave birth to her 12th child. At the time of his birth, she already had 20 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. It would be pretty wild to be present at the birth of your great uncle.

funny husband quote

While watching an elderly man buy pot on an episode of Weeds...

Nick: That guy always plays an old man in movies and tv.

storm chasers

Or rather...being chased by storms.

You would not believe the night we just had. We were out driving late (around 9:00pm) to get dinner because we were too engrossed in Weeds Season 3 to get anything earlier. So we head out not really knowing where to go. Let me just explain to you how crazy the night was in bullet points because I don't want to forget anything:

• The night was hot and windy and you could tell the sky was about to open any second.
• A homeless guy came out of nowhere pushing a shopping cart and carrying a broomstick (anyone read The Road?)
• We were driving on the highway and lightning struck thisclose to us.
• We saw 2 transformers blow up RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR CAR. The most blinding light you've ever seen.
• Some of the sparks from the explosion showered onto our car.
• There is construction on our exit to get home and the orange barrels were scattered all over BOTH lanes on the exit ramp.
• Nick had to drive like he was taking a stunt driving course. On my bald tires. He did brilliantly.
  

I gotta go. Nick's making me sleep on the floor so the lightning can't strike the metal springs in our mattress and melt us to the bed.

Faces I Love

I stole this idea from my new favorite blog, The Sheila Variations.
Expect many more posts similar to this. I'm making Nick do one too.

pet peeves, of the grammar sort

I WAS going to post a blog about the Sex and the City movie, but Nick said that everyone will be posting about it and that's boring and predictable. So blame him if you wanted a review of the movie. It's coming later this week though.

Instead, this blog will be about some of my own personal pet peeves regarding poor grammar. I read alot of blogs and I come across alot of misspelled words and incorrect grammar. Let me preface this by saying, I do not claim to use perfect grammar. In fact, by spending most of my time speaking to children I come up with some crazy sentences.

Here are my top ten pet peeves:

1. When people say Nick's and I's instead of Nick's and my. Nick's and I's party was really fun. Ouch.
2. Conversate, instead of converse. I personally haven't heard anyone say this, but my dad says his students use it all the time in class and it drives him nuts.
3. Dieying, instead of dying. I'm dieing to see Sex and the City this weekend. Nope, not a word.
4. Your-You're. I am amazed by how many people misuse this. People of all ages and educational backgrounds.
5. Literally, it makes me want to jump off a cliff when people use this word figuratively.
6. FonT ThAt LoOkS LiKe ThIs literally makes me hate the person that used it. You heard me.
7. Too many exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!! Or question marks????????????????????
8. Yeah-Yea. Yeah is a casual way of saying yes. Yea is another way of saying yay!
9. Sister-in-laws vs. Sisters-in-law. Since I now have 2 sisters-in-law, I have to make sure I am saying it the right way.
10. Inappropriate quotation "marks". Look at this website for more instances like these. They'll make you cringe.

I realize that by typing this I open myself up to criticism and I'm okay with that. Even if this is riddled with mistakes in grammar, I can sleep at night knowing I'm doing my best to keep learning how to improve my own written words. By criticizing others.