as if it wasn't easy enough

so earlier this morning i was getting a little frazzled trying to figure out why it's the gambia and not just gambia. i understand the bahamas, the united states, but seriously? the gambia? i don't get it.
and true to jen form, i hit the internet for an answer. of course i still don't know the answer, but i did stumble upon something quite....scary?

as if we weren't already overly dependent on our friend wikipedia, turns out he has a younger, slower brother who suffers from a severe case of adhd, and his name is simple english wikipedia.
take for example the chernobyl disaster/accident. well, wiki calls it a disaster, has 88 "sources," and scrolls for roughly 24 screens (depending on your screen resolution and such). retarded simple wiki calls it an accident and sums the whole thing up into two whole paragraphs.

i am now even more frightened about the future.

the weekend report

(please excuse the photo quality -- beer, blackberry, and golf don't mix)

so this weekend was the first one in many months that i actually went out for more than erranding. i'm getting to old for this...

friday cami and i took jennifer and lisa to top golf, the bestest place in the whole wide world. the guys at work have been going for a long time, but seeing as how i suck at everything sports-like (including my sucky ass fantasy soccer team), i never bothered to go, but when bo described it as a cross between golf and skee-ball, i was in. so i've been about 3 times in the past 2 weeks, and plan on making at least 2 more outings to top golf before the end of the week. who wants in?
btw, if you want to go, just print out this coupon and put me and my number (1069405) and you won't have to spend $5-$35 for a game card and we'll both get a free game -- hells yea! btw, they serve food and beer and are open til 11 every night.

saturday night we went to see les americains at the artist formerly known as the tea room. prophet bar my ass. i'm convinced that, because it's run by russell and the straight edge coalition, the hired the most inept bartender ever so that it would take on average 15-20 minutes to get a drink and we would all give up and go away. it was horrid. the service, not the band. i had no idea what they were going to sound like so i was going into it blindly, but i was quite impressed. two thumbs up -- people should check them out.

so i spent all day sunday recovering and watching all of season one of mad men. love. it. now merritt just needs to catch up so we can start season two...

and the best blog of the week (shane pointed this masterpiece out the other day): fail blog.

Oh, Greatness

Thanks to Samerten for that one.

Oh, and SAD and bellapoison pointed me over to my favorite new blog: Cake Wrecks. I've been near tears I've been laughing so hard. And I'm not alone. Others agree...I can tell by the giggles and chortles. (But the links are just my faves, see for yourselves.)

This freaks me out so much...

Thanks to Matty for this incredibly bizarre fitness video. There's no way in hell we're ever posting documentation of our WiiFit shenanigans, so nibble on this nugget for a while. I have no idea what is up with the poodle-puff muscles and frankly, I'm not sure I want to.

Speaking of the Matt-tastic, though, I want to congratulate him and his lovely on their impending September nuptials! I've purchased a truckload of Kleenex and and waterproof mascara just for the occasion.

In other news, I'm a terrible blogger. My mid-year resolution is to stop over here more. In my lengthy absence from Alex, us DO music peeps busted out the Dallas Observer Music Awards issue, I got to go to an awesome narrative workshop in Archer City--where I was honored to meet THE Larry McMurtry, Texas' king of storytelling and I've inadvertently eaten cow's heart (just a peek at an upcoming food review). Now, with the timestamp urging me bed-ward, I'll say night-night and promise that I'll do my best to post more!!