And whiskers on kittens. Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens. Brown paper packages tied up with strings, these are a few of my favorite things. Umm no, they’re not. I do like the raindrops on roses and sometimes those brown paper packages can have some vibrating-ly good surprises inside, but are they some of my favorite things? Pfft, hardly!

What are some of my favorite things? Blogs! There are some absolutely wonderful blogs out there, that I visit daily, covering a variety of topics. It’s a very difficult thing to pick just a handful out of so many and label them as my favorites.. however…

Cathy, an unbelievably talented blogger/writer, has tagged me. Woohoo! I’m on her list of favorite blogs! I’m extremely honored, not only to be considered a favorite by someone whose wit and style I truly admire, but also the company on her list with whom she placed me. The woman just left me speechless I tell you.. and that is a HARD thing to do.

Now I have the extremely difficult task of choosing 5 of my favorite blogs out of the many and bestowing the same fate on them. Listed in no specific order, some of my favorites are…

When Your Only Tool Is A Hammer
Fantastic blog by a stay at home dad who takes me on strolls down memory lane, makes me think and usually has me laughing out loud. I’ve found he is a wonderful way to start off my day.

Jennyhaha’s Flaw & Disorder
Funny, quick witted mom of three with a quirky sense of humor that I love. I picture her writing with a smile on her face and I mirror that smile while reading her posts.

Once Upon A Time
A beautiful real life fairy tale of a Vancouver mermaid and a Montreal photographer, who met, fell in love, and are working on their happily ever after.

I Eat Snowman Poop
A refreshing, no holds barred blog where you can find a little bit of everything discussed in an insightful, humorous and straight-forward “in your face” manner.

Nucking Futs
This one is my blog crush. Feisty as hell red-head who puts herself out there with a like it or leave it attitude. Her blog screams at me every time I visit.. “You know you would love me in real life!”

Whew! That was incredibly hard because there are so many more that rank right up there with those five. Like the ones that have already been listed by others doing this meme, the ones that teach me something new, save me money, make me laugh out loud, long for my children to still be small, think outside of the box and take my mind places my body has never been. The list could just go on, and on, and on.

Thank you all kindly for letting me peek into your corner of the world and adding to my ever growing list of favorite things that brighten my day.

When the dog bites. When the bee stings. When I’m feeling sad. I simply remember my favorite things, and then I don’t feel so bad.

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A wife came home just in time to find her husband in bed with another woman. With super-human strength borne of fury, she dragged him down the stairs, out the back door, and into the tool shed in the back yard and put his “manhood” in a vice. She secured it tightly and removed the handle. Next she picked up a hack saw.

The husband was terrified, and screamed, “Stop! Stop! You’re not going to cut it off, are you?”

The wife, with a gleam of revenge in her eye, put the saw in her husband’s hand and said, “Nope. I’m going to set the shed on fire. You do whatever you have to.”

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Woohoo! I am so glad last week is over! I am.. seriously. I found myself having to go out shopping every single damn day for something or other.. Easter basket items because I kept eating all the candy, clothes, shoes, accessories for outfits.. aggghhh!

I hate shopping to begin with, I always have. But I’ve found that the older I get I like it even less, which is something I didn’t even know was possible. I’m sure it has something to do with my goal in life to not get out of my pajamas unless it’s absolutely necessary, but I think it has more to do with an intolerance for the rude ass people who maul other shoppers.

Like the wench who acted like her elbow didn’t actually make contact with my left breast. The hag hit me so hard that it caused me to yelp and draw unwanted attention to the tit massage I needed to give myself to alleviate the pain. But did she say excuse me or I’m sorry.. oh hell no she did not. Rude bitch.

All that bumping, jostling and the “has cooties written all over it” invasion of one’s personal zone. It makes me frigging nuts! When I get to the point of feeling the veins in my neck popping out or have the urge to push someone down the escalator, I know it’s time for me to go. Either that or bop the next rude bitch that tries to mow me over and doesn’t say excuse me, upside the head with $150 worth of shoes and the Swiss Colony cheese log that screamed “Buy me even though you really don’t like cheese” as I was passing by.

It’s a damn nightmare and it turns me into this mean, vicious bitch who puts my normal bitch self to shame. I kid you not, something comes over me and it ain’t pretty. I actually turned around and snarled at one bleached blond bimbo, who really shouldn’t have been wearing that streetwalker outfit she had on to a mall, and said.. “If you step on the back of my shoes one more time, I’m going to shove those 3 inch heels you’re wearing up your ass.. so I advise you to back off bitch!”

The day before Easter people!!! I said that crap to someone the day before Easter. I should have been ashamed but I wasn’t. On the contrary.. I meant every damn word of it when I said it. I couldn’t help it, I really couldn’t. She had stepped on my heels and walked all up in my shit about 20 times and I said nothing. It was like each time she did it, in my mind I was saying, “please don’t do that, please don’t do that” …then I just snapped and what was in my mind at that point just came out of my mouth for real. You know she knew she was doing that! How could she not? But she just kept on like that was going to cause the people ahead of me, those of whom I was NOT trampling by the way, to speed up.

There should be some common knowledge shopping mall etiquette or something. Here’s what I think..

The main walkway of all malls should be traveled like roads and all shoppers should keep at least one “shopper’s length” between them and other shoppers at all times.

If you are going in this direction then stay on this side of the walkway, that direction.. then get your ass in the lane on the other side until you approach your destination.

The areas surrounding the kiosks are your turn lanes, when you get to the store you are wanting to visit, get in your turn lane and shoot the fucking gap. But for Pete’s sake do NOT go the opposite direction down a one way street!

I noticed a lot of people already do take this approach, whether it is a conscious or subconscious action on their part, who cares.. I’m just glad they do it and would happily kiss their ass in gratitude if they desired it. But the rude, “thinking only of myself” shoppers that I encountered last week, just completely ruined the whole mall shopping experience for me and turned it into a chaotic mess.

Maybe some signs need to be added, “Macy’s Exit 20 Feet Ahead”, and some strategic cell phone “rest stops” every so many feet or so for the idiots who can’t walk and talk at the same time.. the ones that find it necessary to come to a dead stop right in front of you to answer their phone or dial a number. I don’t know, but something needs to be done before I get arrested for assault while trying to hunt down a white hair bow and size 32 brown belt.

Whew.. well I feel better now having gotten that off my chest! So now that I’ve made all you lovely folks realize I should not be allowed out in public and that all of my shopping should be done online because of my pent up rage, I’m going to shut up with my ranting, sit here comfy in my PJs knowing I have done my part in educating everyone as to how I think shopping malls should be traversed.

Oh, and direct you to the post below if you haven’t read it yet and happen to be on the main page, announcing our contest winner.

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Sorry to be so remiss with posting! Real life decided to intervene and take up the majority of my time.. and money but that’s a different story and tends to happen when you keep eating all the Easter candy before it ever makes it to the kid’s Easter baskets. Hopefully after Easter things will settle back down into their usual organized chaotic routine.

In the meantime…

I hope you all have a Happy Easter!

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