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Author:	Kat's Bûrb Blog	Created:	Thursday, August 09, 2007 8:30 PM
A humorous (and sometimes NOT so humorous) look into daily life.

Grrr
	By Kat's Bûrb Blog on Friday, November 30, 2007 11:24 AM

Why bringing your dog to work is a good idea: 1. She can console you when people make you sad. 2. She can entertain you when you are bored. 3. She reminds you to take regular potty breaks. 4. She likes you even when other people don’t. 5. She can attack people who are evil towards you. 6. She can win over people who are indifferent or mean to you. 7. She can give fleas to people who are female dogs to you. 8. She can eat that report that was due yesterday. 9. She can remind you why you keep going to this wretched place day after day: to pay her vet bills. 10. She can clean up your spilled French fries from the floor BEFORE your boss sees them. Can you tell that I am having a particularly difficult day today?

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The Mad Pooper?
	By Kat's Bûrb Blog on Friday, November 30, 2007 10:44 AM

This morning while I was sitting behind my computer at work (at the local high school), my email notification beeps and I read this: “Good morning, If anyone issued a pass this morning during 1^st period (probably to a female student), please let me know. (The “mad pooper’s” sister has gotten into the act.) It may be a male, so anyone on a pass may be responsible. -Principle” So right away I text message my co-workers who are out of the office today and say, “What’s this Mad Pooper business?” I figure they’ll know because they have been here way longer. They must have their phones off during the conference (how polite, no one does that anymore) and I cannot wait any longer because “Mad Pooper” just keeps racing back and forth in my brain like an annoying screen saver that hits the side of the screen and returns the other direction until it hits the other side and starts all over again. So, I ask a co-worker in another room. You'll recall my Rainbow Pooper blog entries last month. If not, search for them on the search engine below. Apparently, last year, the “OMP” (Original Mad Pooper) would “catch” his poop and smear it all around the bathroom at the high school. This brought back memories of 8^th grade when I walked into the bathroom in the girl’s locker room and someone had written on the mirror a la romance movies. They didn’t use lipstick though. Some misguided girl obviously hadn’t realized that you were supposed to use lipstick, not poo. Visions of “I love Bobby” scrawled largely on the mirror in broken brown traces are now the new screen saver in my head. I think the all text “Mad Pooper” was a lot better than the picture version for my personal screen saver.

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Pierce my Chicken Tender Calories
	By Kat's Bûrb Blog on Thursday, November 29, 2007 11:49 AM

I have two jobs at the high school that I work at; make sure the kids are only using the computers for school work and move the mobile laptop lab from class to class. The worst part is monitoring the computer usage of high school students. The other day, a Spanish class was in the computer lab researching different Spanish artists and people who made a historical difference. One of the kids was looking at pictures of spiders and showing all of the kids around him. I asked him to please start working on his project and he said, “I am!” I said, “What do spiders have to do with Spanish?” He replied, “They’re Spanish spiders!” I was drinking a glass of water and it came out of my nose from laughing. Don’t worry; it didn’t get on my work issued computer. Today I was thinking about how strange it is that the same student who was “googling” “tongue piercing” and then after he satisfied his knowledge for that topic, his next search was for “calories in chicken tenders”. I sense a liberal arts student in the making.

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List Lady
	By Kat's Bûrb Blog on Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:16 PM

It’s been a long time coming but I have to share the experience of my first Home Owners Association Meeting. It was at this meeting that I decided to be a member of the board, thus giving me the inspiration to write this blog. Due to the drama and "energy" at past meetings, a police officer had to be present. While the lawyer went over the covenants and rules via a power point, people continuously interrupted to tattle on one another and to complain about their “rights”. I’m sorry, did you not read the fine print when you bought your house and decided to live in an associated neighborhood? You were told exactly WHAT your rights were and let me tell you, they stop at the moving truck. One neighbor complained about all of the wild cats and dogs running around. Oh, I know she wasn’t talking about the two or three times that my dog ran away from me and we were right on his tail, along with two neighbor friends. Then, the infamous Cat Lady stands up and says, “Please, don’t call the Humane Society! Just call me; I have a no-kill cat trap that I will let you borrow. I won’t even charge you but you have to promise that if you catch a cat, you will bring it to me”. Right lady, like we are going to help you feed your addiction. Creepy cat junkie… Then, this other lady stands up and I swear, she unrolled a scrolled up list, Santa Clause style. As the end rolled down to the floor, she began reading the following, “Mow your lawn, I’m sick of looking at knee-high grass, there should not be cars parked on the street or the driveways, USE YOUR GARAGE! Take care of your weeds; you need to have only grass growing in your yard. People, get some curtains! Take those freakin’ bed sheets out of the windows!” I turned back around and faced the front, my jaw almost to my belly-button. “Who died and made her queen?” I asked my husband. The rest of the meeting was then monopolized by Cat Lady and List Lady. Oh, and let's not forget the Angry Guy who is angry that the drainage pond behind his house is not full. He yelled and screamed and cursed up a storm. At that moment, the police officer STOOD UP! According to our lawyer and management company, List Lady is not in the right and cannot dictate her own rules and impose them upon the people of the Maple Neighborhood. Thank the Lord. Not that I have bedsheets in my window but when I was a kid, my mom made me curtains out of bedsheets so I don't see a problem with the whole idea.

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101 Things to do in 1001 Days Project
	By Kat's Bûrb Blog on Monday, November 26, 2007 2:33 PM

My Newest Project 1. Help out with the youth group 5 times (when Jacob is around). 2. Donate our pledged amount of money to the church 3. Lose 60 pounds. 4. Exercise 5 times per week for a month. 5. Get back into rowing. 6. Kick the soda habit in the butt 7. Join or begin a walking group 8. Find a job that I love (most of the time). 9. Buy a 2^nd piece of property. 10. Have a girl’s night out 3 times per month for a year. 11. Live off of my planned budget for 1 consecutive month 12. Pay off all of my credit cards 13. Keep my car very clean (spotless) for one month 14. Get diamond earrings 15. Keep up with my oil changes 16. Keep up with the dog’s shots 17. Go to an OSU football game 18. Go to a Colts football game 19. Break a 150 at bowling 20. Attend 2 Alumni rowing events 21. Vote for a president and have 10 great reasons why! 22. Go sailing and be a part of it 23. Keep up with this list at least once per month. 24. 30 consecutive days of no television 25. 10 consecutive days with no internet 26. Sell 100 items on ebay 27. Paint the living room 28. Paint the kitchen 29. Paint the master bathroom 30. Finish painting the upstairs bathroom 31. Finish painting the downstairs bathroom 32. Tile a backsplash in the kitchen 33. Replace the kitchen cabinet doors with some glass 34. Re-floor the kitchen 35. Replace the flooring in the living room/dinning room 36. Put up that fence 37. Organize the closet 38. Get a china hutch 39. Organize the game closet 40. Organize the downstairs closet 41. Make my bed everyday for one month 42. Finish one of my books 43. Post one blog per day for 2 consecutive months 44. Write my will. 45. Read 100 books. 46. Visit Greece 47. Visit Australia 48. Go on an out of country trip with my parents again 49. Visit Havasu 2 times per year. 50. Go on a train trip 51. See a Broadway show on Broadway! 52. Geo-cache with Jacob and find 200 more caches 53.Visit Christmas at the Zoo 54. Visit the zoo on a normal day 55. Visit every winery in Indiana 56. Make wine with J 57. Visit 3 art galleries or showings 58. Attend 2 really big concerts 59. Visit the Art Museum each season 60. Attend the theatre (not movie) 5 times 61. Work on at least 4 devotions with Jacob. 62. Attend church activities at least 2 times per month 63. Daily quiet time for one month 64. Find my niche at church (where can I serve/give back) 65. Get my degree 66. Take a class for fun 67. Learn to dance 68. Transfer 8mm camcorder tapes to digital format 69. Scan and upload photos from mom and dad’s house 70. Scan and upload all of the photos at my house 71. Scan and upload photos from Jacob’s parent’s house 72. Take one photo every day for a year 73. Complete a 26-Things Scavenger Hunt 74. Eat only raw foods for an entire day 75. Volunteer to read at church 5 times 76. Visit my old church in Greenwood 77. Train for a marathon 78. Complete a marathon 79. Take my heart medication daily. 80. Be active in Partylite for one year or quit. 81. Sleep on the beach 82. Scuba dive with dad 83. Take a hot air balloon ride 84. Get a parks pass and USE it! 85. Clean the heck out of the garage and get rid of it all! 86. Go snowboarding at least once 87. Date night with Jacob 2 times per month 88. Find a friend to also make a 101 things list! 89. Try 50 new restaurants 90. Interview my grandparents 91. Participate in Race for the Cure 92. Organize my computer files 93. Back-up everything on my computer 94. Go ice skating 95. Play laser tag 96. Enter something into the state fair 97. Go one month without eating out. 98. Eat one two meals per week at the kitchen table with Jacob. 99. Organize miscellaneous scraps of paper. 100. Organize my recipes. 101. Make a new list of 101 Things to Do & donate $5 to James’ memorial fund for every task on this list that I do not complete. I pledge to do everything possible to complete this list (beginning Monday, November 26, 2007) by Monday, August 23, 2010

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Photo Meme

By Kat's Bûrb Blog on Monday, November 26, 2007 9:23 AM

A blog meme is a question or project asked or posted on one blog and responded to by other bloggers. This is a photo meme as reqested by Fat Bridesmaid. Feel free to post a link with a meme of your own!

1.Age I will be on my next birthday.

10. (Name of) Past love (I chose to select a thing I used to love to do).

2. Place I would like to travel/visit.

11. Best friend's nickname

3. Favorite place.

12. My nickname

4. Favorite objects.

13. A bad habbit I have.

5. Favorite food.

14. First job.

6. Favorite Animal

15. My grandmother's name.

7. Favorite color

16. My college major

8. Town where I was born

9. Name of past pet

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The Official Rules of Christmas AGAIN
	By Kat's Bûrb Blog on Monday, November 26, 2007 8:33 AM

I was asked to repost the rules for everyone. Why are there Christmas decorations everywhere? I just don’t understand what about NOVEMBER screams green and red and tinsel? Don’t we still have a turkey to bake (or in some cases fry)? I am going to step out and say that there need to be some guidelines about when people can put up decorations. Yes, I am one of those people who live in an associated neighborhood. In fact, let me introduce myself, “Kat, Vice President of the Home Owners Association. And while you are here, can you take care of that car that is leaking oil while atop the block in your driveway? That is a clear violation”. Here are the new guidelines for Christmas décor in the ‘burbs: You must wait to begin decorating outdoors until after the beginning of Advent, this year that is December 2^nd. In the event that you have scheduled a Christmas party prior to December 2^nd, you may begin decorating Thanksgiving weekend. If you are an invalid or in some fashion, unable to decorate your own home, and you cannot afford to hire a decorating service, you may allow your family to decorate your home the next time they are in town (you really should have waited until after Halloween though, and maybe even after the Thanksgiving china has been washed). Decorating of the indoors may begin the day after Thanksgiving. With the exception of testing the lights, please do not light the tree until December 1^st. If the tree cannot be seen from the windows, carry on. You may not in any form have fall decorations and winter decorations out at the same time. Weaning is for children. You aren’t tricking anyone if one morning your pumpkins disappear and “Ta-da!” a light up Santa is plugged in. Pumpkins do not cancel out blow up snowman globes. Happy to Oblige, Kat

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My Newest Project