Oasis Day 3 - Cheater Edition

I was recently made aware of the fact that you can type lyrics into a search engine and magically get the name of the song. So my little contest is just ruined. Seriously though...I have never had a need to do this. Sure I've searched the name of a song and gotten the lyrics, but not vice versa. Kinda seems like you're working backwards to me. But oh well...there really isn't anything in the world I can ask and you can't find on the internets, so let's consider this a contest for who can cheat the fastest. Get your search engines fired up!

All my people right here, right now
D'You Know What I Mean?
All my people right here, right now
D'You Know What I Mean?
All my people right here, right now
D'You Know What I Mean?
Yeah, yeah


Good luck!

Name that Oasis Tune - Day 2

Countdown: 5 days and 7 hours!

Ok, so today's lyric is a bit more challenging, but hopefully not too hard. It leaves you in suspense, but it also provides a nice little hint.

We live in the shadows and we had the chance and threw it away
And it's never gonna be the same
Cos the years are following by like the rain
And it's never gonna be the same
'Til the life I knew comes to my house and says...

??????????

Diary of a newlywed...what a way to start the week

I can already tell this is going to be one of those weeks... I should've taken yesterday as a sign that I'd be much safer faking meningitis today instead of attempting to come into work. It started last night when I dropped the glass jar I was refilling with Q-tips on the top of my foot causing me to slap my hand down on the counter which mistakedly hit the box of of Q-tips causing them to sail into the air before raining Q-tips all over the bathroom floor. I'm actually limping today because my foot is so bruised and sore!

Today started off on a similarly sour note. First I slept through my alarm, which starts going off at 6:42am. I say begin because I am a snooze button addict. I read an article on MSN about how your quality of sleep is better if you set your alarm for the actual time when you have to get up instead of setting it 20 minutes early, like me, and slamming the snooze button 3 times before you actually get up. In my mind it's almost a luxury to set it early and know I can hit it 2-3 times before actually getting out of bed. Either way I didn't actually get out of bed until 7:15am which really ruined my carefully calculated schedule in the morning. I don't leave much time for mishaps so I had to scramble to wash my face, brush my teeth and throw on some clothes to allow me enough time to eat breakfast which brought me to my second problem.

I am a firm supporter of breakfast being the most important meal of the day. I probably haven't skipped breakfast in 15 years and my body is trained to be hungry within 15 minutes of waking up, no matter what time of the day I wake up. To say I'm a cereal aficionado doesn't quite capture my love and obsession with cereal. Nick calls me a cereal monster because I've been known to eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner! Lucky Charms, Cinnamon Life, Honey Bunches of Oats with Strawberries, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Kashi Go Lean Crunch are just a half of the boxes I normally stock in my cereal cupboard. Apparently I haven't been paying much attention to the depleting boxes in the cupboard because I went to the cabinet today with a craving for Honey Bunches of Oats and found nothing but an old box of Granola which isn't even mine! I just can't be in a good mood when I haven't had my fill of the magically delicious Lucky Charms or Life cereal.

After scarfing down the granola I asked Nick to start my car on his way out. He usually leaves 10-15 minutes before me and even though both our cars are parked in the detached garage it's still nice to have it toasty warm. He grabbed my keys, kissed me goodbye and headed out the door. 10-15 minutes later I locked the doors from inside the house and walked out to get in my car. The first thing I noticed as I closed the door behind me was the silence; no purring engine or exhaust coming from the garage. As I walked the few snowy steps to my car my fears were solidified by the lack of taillights glowing in the dark garage. I hurriedly opened my car door figuring he must have thrown my keys on the seat and felt the first moment of panic when my keys were nowhere to be found. I quickly retraced my steps to the house with intentions of waiting inside while I called Nick, temporarily forgetting that I had just locked the doors behind me. So there I was standing between the garage with no way to start my car and a warm house with no way to get in. I called Nick, trying to keep the fury in my voice to a minimum and then spent the next 15 minutes pondering, WHILE SHIVERING, what happened in the 10 seconds between him agreeing to start my car and driving off in his car with my keys! As expected he had zero explanation for his mistake, I guess I'll be chalking this one up to a case of the Monday's! God, just let me get through this day please!

Oasis Week!

Is anyone as excited as I am that it's Oasis concert week here in MI?! Doubtful, but that's ok. I am brimming over with joy that in 6 days and 1 hour I will see Liam, Noel, Gem, Andy, and whoever their new drummer is live in concert at the Palace! The world is my oyster this week and I want to share some of the excitement with you all.

I propose we host our first contest here on dyingtobedivas! Here's how it works: each day this week I will post a lyric to an Oasis song. The first person to correctly guess the name of the tune gets a fantastic prize. The only catch is that you have to actually know me in person or be willing to come to MI and claim your prize, but either way it's still fun! If you are the first person to correctly guess the Oasis tune, you will get a free drink courtesy of me. Yes, I'm feeling very generous. So even if you're not an Oasis fan or haven't even thought about them since your boyfriend put Wonderwall on your 8th grade mix tape, just give it a shot!

We'll start off with an easy one and see how things progress. Ready, GO!

How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?

Disclaimer: Nick, you can't play unless 24 hours goes by without a response!

The Week in Review 12/5/08

Is anyone else freezing balls today? Can someone make the cold weather thing stop? You'd think I'd learn and move somewhere warm after all these years. I'm convinced that people living in cold climates forget just how horrible it all is as soon as it's over. It's kind of like childbirth. I'm absolutely convinced (with zero first-hand experience of course) that women forget the agony and torture of childbirth as soon as it's over...that's why they keep popping them out. Otherwise, that crazy woman with 18 children and one on the way would have stopped a long long time ago.

I hope to inspire some warm and fuzzy feelings today with the weekly post of all things awesome.

Steve-O from Jackass fame scheduled to appear on next season's Dancing With the Stars!
- This is enough to make me DVR the entire season. Does the network have any idea what they are getting into? They go from geriatric Cloris Leachman to coke-head partially brain-damaged Steve-O?! This show just gets better and better. I, for one, will be tuning in to see how he dances the cha cha cha with his butt cheeks pierced together.

Shania Twain steps out in NYC with (bear with me) ex-husband's girlfriend's ex-husband!
- Well played Shania, well played.

OJ Simpson sentenced to at least 15 years!
- While I am satisfied to hear this wife killer is finally off the streets, I am shocked that it took a lame robbery attempt to do it. Was the bloody glove and blood-spattered Bronco really not enough evidence? Instead he gets tossed in the slammer for attempting to steal sports memorabilia. My head hurts.

Ex-Red Wing and current Dallas Star, Sean Avery suspended from NHL for 6 games!
- Hot-head Avery called ex-girlfriend Elisha Cuthbert (from 24 and some horrible movies) his sloppy seconds in front of the media...on purpose. I'm sorry Sean, but something tells me you didn't have firsts either. Just sayin.

Finally, I had to share this photo from some site of LOLCatz. My co-workers love these cats and being a dog person I never really got the humor. I think this one is pertinent to our current state of affairs, so of course, had to share it.

Stay warm cold staters!

Hottie of the Week!

Is it Thursday already?? Well, I guess that means we're past due for our weekly hotness. Have you had your coffee this morning? Are you willing to forgive me for what I am about to do? This week's hottie is carrying on the theme from last week; yes, we are giving more love to our female counterparts. As you can probably tell from the picture, and decipher from my shameful typing, this week's hottie is Ms. Britney Spears. More applause, less annoyed groans please! Bear with me: it's Britney's 27th bday week, her album Circus was released on Tuesday, and that "tell-all" documentary about her psychotic behavior is playing over and over on MTV. As I was flipping channels last night, contemplating turning it all off and reading more of Sense and Sensibility, I randomly stumbled upon this docu "Britney: For the Record." I threw Jane Austen aside and spent the next 90 minutes deliriously hanging on every amazing word. The girl just has it so tough. I think I was actually buying into her sob story right until she came out with this gem about her daily routine: "I'm kind of stuck in this place and I'm like, How do you deal? I just cope with it every day....It's bad. I'm sad. It's like Groundhog Day every day. It's really boring..." Oh poor Brit Brit! I really want to call her up and say "Britney, do you know what I did yesterday? Do you know what I'm doing today? Do you know what I'm doing tomorrow?...I'm going to work and then I will come home and eat dinner and then probably spend 90 minutes of my life watching you complain about being a freaking millionaire!"

Yes, I think the paparazzi are enough to drive anyone crazy and I don't wish that upon anyone, but the girl needs to buck up. She probably sees more excitement everyday of her life than most people see in a year. Maybe I'm just bitter because I've never dated international pop icon Justin Timberlake or toured Europe playing to millions of screaming fans, or bought a 10 million dollar house in Malibu. If that's her idea of Groundhog Day, then call Bill Murray and send him to my house.

On the positive side, Britney appears to be turning things around both physically and mentally. Her abs are looking pre-Federline again and her weave is settling in perfectly. I don't think she's been caught barefoot in any gas station restrooms in at least a few months and she stopped wearing those horrid cowboy boots. I'm a sucker for a comeback and for that reason Britney is our hottie of the week! I'm too tuckered out to do the breakdown categories, but I will give her a 20 out of 30. She gets 10 points alone for her recent effort to keep the crazy at bay, and there are 10 more where that came from if she snags JT again. Come on...you know you want it to happen.

Shameful Admission...

I had one goal and one goal only when I left the gym yesterday. Okay make that two goals. The first was to rid myself of the seriously nasty men germs I knew were crawling all over me after having to use the men's locker rooms due to renovations taking place in the woman's locker room. I don't care what the wonderful employees of Lifetime Fitness said they did to "clean" the men's locker room to make the female members comfortable in the guys dungeon and I don't care, because the thought of sweaty, smelly, man feet walking barefoot on the same carpeting as me and sitting their stinky, hairy arses and pale upper thighs on the benches was enough to make me want to lean over and puke down the side of my bed, (oh yes, I've done that too!)

But I digress, this story really isn't about the gym, it's about my singular goal: to go to Walmart (which is nearly across the street from my gym), and pick up a cheap copy of Britney Spear's latest CD.

If you haven't stopped reading, I'll consider that a hopeful sign that we're still friends even though I went to get the new Brit-Brit CD the day it came out. While I'll admit that her new single "Womanizer" isn't the deepest, most lyrically enriched song, it's a catchy tune and I own all of her other albums so I figured why stop now! But back to the story...

Fortunately, us Plymouth/Canton citizens have plenty of great grocery shopping options like Kroger's, Meijer's, Busch's, Hiller's Market, etc... so I haven't spent more then a handful of times in a Walmart except for emergency situations, like the new Britney album. Two bad cosmic occurrences collided to make this Walmart trip different then the rest: 1. I was in no rush to get home so I didn't have to scamper through the store and 2. the CD section is in the complete back corner of the store forcing me to walk through the entire facility. I don't know my way around the store so I headed straight when I walked in and this took me right to the ladies accessories section, i.e., undergarments, scarves, gloves, etc... it was at this point when I was walking through miles of colorful scarves that I suddenly realized I "needed" a green paisley scarfy-wrap thing for only $5.00, and the softest pair of pajama pants ever for only $9.00 and some new socks for only $3.00, pretty soon my hands were full since of course I didn't stop for a cart on my in with the intention of only leaving with one CD! Next I walked past the movie section and there were loads of newish movies for only $6.00 a piece, $6 can you believe it?!? So I grabbed Ocean's Thirteen and The Golden Compass and went to look for the Britney CD. After grabbing the album I shamefully had to go back for a cart so I could pick up 2 nice wooden and leather folding chairs for when we entertain more then 6 guests! I was out of control, and didn't have the wherewithal to realize the evil trap that is Walmart! Besides the CD, the thought of a green scarfy thing had never crossed my materialistic mind but at only $5.00 it was a NEED TO HAVE item, along with PJ pants, socks, movies and chairs! I ended up spending $146.00, precisely $134.00 more then I would have spent if I'd just downloaded the dumb thing off of Itunes...and at least Itunes doesn't produce their songs from South American sweatshops!! Now I'm not here to get all political or raise awareness on causes, I leave that to my liberal Diva counterpart, but the stereotypes must be a little bit true for those kind of prices. Yes, I was delighted to save $1.30 on my toothpaste and .98 cents on my face wash but the thrill was short lived when I realized I spent way more on useless crap I don't need! I'm not knocking on anyone who shops at Walmart but I think yesterday will be one of my last trips there, until I can get the sweatshop images out of my head and control my useless spending.