Ramblings From A Cracked (by the LPP) M&M

When You're Not Here


When you are ill,
our sun goes under a cloud.
Your presence in our lives
is such a bright joy
that everything seems in shadow
when you're not here.
When you aren't feeling well,
we feel the lack
of your glowing energy
and contagious vitality.
When you are sick
we feel incomplete,
like a jigsaw puzzle
with a missing piece;
Please rest,
take good care of yourself,
and feel better.
We miss you
and want you back.


Get well soon.


By Joanna Fuchs

When I become President and can make laws, I know a few I’ll make right away! Here they are:

If you’re going to drive a car, there are rules you need to follow. Here are just a few of them.

If your lane is ending and you are close to the back of my car in the other lane, and there is plenty of room for you to merge over, get behind me. Don’t speed up to squeeze in front of me and the car I’m behind because you want to be ONE car closer. Don’t make me have to slam on my brakes to let you get your big, honkin SUV in front of me. Just because you’re bigger than me doesn’t make you king/queen of the road!

If you’re going to pull out when there are cars coming, use the pedal on the right and get up to speed. Don’t go about 15 mph for the first few hundred feet. There are cars coming the speed limit and why should they have to slam on their brakes because you don’t know how to accelerate? I’m not asking you to speed. I can deal with slowing down so someone going the speed limit can be in front of me. Just get up to speed!

If you’re going to turn and there is this cool little lane in the middle of the street with arrows pointing both ways, get in that frackin lane to turn. Don’t stay in the left lane of the traffic and cause everyone to go around you. They aren’t turning, so why should they have to stop and wait for you to get to your destination? Also if you’re turning right, you do not need to stop before you turn into the huge driveway. It is possible to turn while still going a few mph.

If you’re trying to get out of a driveway or off a street, and someone is nice enough to let you get in front of them, you have to wave to thank them. They are not obligated to do so and are doing it to be nice.

If you drive a car bigger then the one turning right out of a parking lot, and you’re turning left, you MUST stay back to where you can both see the traffic. Why should the person turning right have to wait for both lanes to be clear to pull out because you’re rude and decide to block their view?

If you do any of the above, the people behind you have a right to hit you and there is nothing you can do about it. If you try to fight back with them, you go to jail and they get to go home. If you get hit more than 3 times, you have to revoke your license and find you a driver who knows how to drive. After a year, you can go take all the tests again to have a license reissued to you upon passing the driving test which will include at some point all of the above infractions.

I have a right to update this law as I see fit.

Oh yeah, I also have another new law, but it’s on a different topic.

If you know you’re going out of town in a few weeks and you want to get a puppy, you MUST wait until you get back from your trip. Don’t make someone puppy sit for you when your puppies (2 of them, one 8 weeks and one 5 weeks) aren’t house broken at all. Don’t make someone puppy sit for you when all your puppies can do is cry until they loose their voice. Don’t make someone do your job for you. This is the time YOU need to spend with YOUR puppies so you can train them the way you want them to be. I shouldn’t have to have puppy pee all over my house because the puppies can’t use the yard. I shouldn’t have to clean up the patio because your puppies don’t like the grass. I shouldn’t have to clean the kennel they are STAYING in the whole time unless they are outside because they make a mess in it. I shouldn’t have to make my poor, nice dog be nice to your puppies if they are going to be mean to her. If your puppies are going to be even the least bit mean to my dog and bark and growl at her for no reason, your puppies will be punished. My dog comes first to me. Hopefully this punishment will solve the problem after the first time but if not, I don’t mind letting them know again who the boss is. It’s not them. And if you’re going to get someone to puppy sit for you, PLEASE ask them before the day you’re leaving to go out of town for 9 days. 9 days of puppy whining and cleaning up all the time wears someone out who isn’t even going to keep the dogs.

Any questions?

All right, this is the Veronica Mars recruiting office for the 583rd time. To all the people who didn't listen to us the first 582 times, I beg of you to please just watch this 3 minute video and if you aren't the least bit interested after it, I'll be quiet about it for 4 days. Deal?



P.S. Thanks to Famin for the video!

Years ago I suggested to David that they find a way to sort the blogs by the colored circles as an option (like put the ones with half orange at the very top, the orange ones next and the white ones last) so you can see easier if anyone has replied to anything you read without going back several pages or getting so many e-mails.

Does anyone else find this to be a good idea? I hope they are able to find a way.

Also, have a wonderful 4th everyone!!!

I recently had a meeting and a new BFZ law was passed. Here is the important part of the meeting so you know how it came to be:

Mannie: I want to make a motion for a new law to the BFZ. It is so hard to come back on Monday to so many posts done on the weekend. I would like to pass a law that there be no blogging here on the weekends. Does anyone second the motion?

Annie: Well, that'd be a little too demanding, even for you.

_: I agree with Annie. Maybe you could modify that a little bit to make it nicer to others.

Mannie: Who cares if they don't like the law? What would you suggest?

_: Maybe only allow so many posts per weekend?

Annie: What if we pass a law where they can post as much as they want to, but on Sunday night, they have to do a summary blog so we know what we need to go back and read? I'll make a motion to legalize that law.

Mannie: That sounds great to me too Annie. Does anyone second the motion?

_: Yeah, I like it too, so I'll second.

Mannie: Great! With all the power invested to me I pass that law.

And now, my friends, is how this is going to be!!!!

What do you think?

Old Spice used a computer model to determine the sweatiest city in the U.S. The rankings are based on the amount of sweat the average person would lose walking around for an hour in the summer. Who do you think made the top 10? I'll fill in as you guess correct. No cheating!!!

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One bright, beautiful Sunday morning, everyone in the tiny town of Johnstown got up early and went to the local church. Before the services started, the townspeople were sitting in their pews and talking about their lives, their families, etc.
Suddenly, the Devil himself appeared at the front of the congregation. Everyone started screaming and running for the front entrance, trampling each other in a frantic effort to get away from evil incarnate.

Soon everyone was evacuated from the Church, except for one elderly gentleman who sat calmly in his pew, not moving, seemingly oblivious to the fact that God's ultimate enemy was in his presence. Now this confused Satan a bit, so he walked up to the man and said, "Don't you know who I am?"

The man replied, "Yep, sure do."

Satan asked, "Aren't you afraid of me?"

"Nope, sure ain't," said the man.

Satan was a little perturbed at this and queried, "Why aren't you afraid of me?"

The man calmly replied, "Been married to your sister for over 48 years."

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First, I want to thank Famin for introducing me to this show and letting me know about CSTS! I had a wonderful time!

It started at 8 and it was really dead, so I wasn't sure how well it would have done. We went in and there was someone marking names off the list and I told her to just look for the person who gets the most stuff and that's us, but I had forgotten our names! She laughed and I gave her the correct name.

They had these really cool boxes and we
each got one. It was a big red Chinese takeout box filled with a big dinosaur, a small dinosaur, a chocolate Buddha, some chinese tattoos, a fortune cookie, some incense (but after the movie, I'm never burning that because I'm not quite sure if it really is incense), a CSTS pin and a little parasol.

This was Memphis's first year having a showing and I never saw it advertised around town. Needless to say, it wasn't very crowded so there were great chances to win something. I am such a lucky person that I won.... ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!! WOOHOO!!!! They even had 2nd chance prizes and I couldn't win any of those either.

They had several give aways and I almost went for the comic books, but I couldn't help myself and went for the parasol painted just like Kaylee's in the episode of Serenity. They also had a Jayne Hat (they actually had several so those people had a good chance), a DVD of Serenity, a couple of CD's, a necklace, 3 money packs and a fan club kit.

They also had a silent auction so I bid on a Jayne hat and won that one, so now I have a Jayne hat! My friend bid on and won a terrifyin' space monkey and a serenity brown bag.

Side note: I wish I got Famin to get an extra Buffy comic signed for him... Too bad I'm inconsiderate and didn't think about it until Saturday morning and had no way to beg and plead with Famin... Oh well, I'm a horrible friend. Next year though, Famin, you'd better remember to remind me!

Back to the scheduled program. We had an emcee and he did a wonderful song about him hitting on all the women on Serenity and why they shot him down. I'm going to try to find it because you just have to hear it. They had a DVD that Nathan made to all the screenings, but they couldn't get theirs to work, so they are going to try to get it online. I really wish they would have had it. I'd be interested to see it.

They asked if anyone hadn't seen the movie yet and there were about 4 of us, so they asked everyone to hold it down and not give anything away and I missed the VERY first part because I ran out to get the popcorn we ordered and there was NO ONE working the counter. They were in the back. When I got back, River was in school and I saw where Simon broke her out, so what did I miss Famin? I don't think it was too much.

I LOVED the movie and want to watch it again!!! I had spoiled myself on Book's death because before I told IG Simon died, I wanted to make sure I wasn't right and saw that Book died, so that death didn't shock me. When Wash died, my jaw hit the ground and I took in this deep breath. It shocked the heck out of me and made me VERY sad!!! I NEVER saw that one coming!!!

Some of my favorite parts was when Jayne got hooked by the Reivers (I was MAD they hurt my Jayne!!!) and told Mal to shoot him if they got him, then told him not to shoot too soon, when Kaylee said she wasn't going to die because Simon said he wanted her and shot a gun for the first time (that I can remember) and when the hatch opened and showed River after the fight scene. Amazing shot!

This is REALLY long, but I didn't want to leave much out of it. I'll post all the pictures I took below, plus I won't make you tilt your head!

Sooo... What kind of trouble do you think we're going to cause tomorrow???? Let's see if you can get close...

That's right people, there are only



days left until the M&M's are going to be bad.

Here's a preview... And to answer your burning questions... Yes, we are recruiting...

There are now only days until the big day!!!!!!! WOOHOO!!!!!

There are now days until something special happens. I am not saying what, but something will happen and it will be early in the day...

Where is my present?????

How about a game and just to make my blog different from usual, I’ll try to keep most of it TV related! (Quite a change for me, I know!) Anyway, let’s play…. Scattergories!!!

Use the first initial of your name first and if you want to play harder, make up a name and play again! I’m easy! If someone double posts, that's ok, you don't have to go back and change your answers. Try not to use answers already given and see how far we can go.

1. Your Name
2. A TV Show
3. An Actor
4. An Actress
5. A Male Character
6. A Female Character
7. A way to kill a character
8. A way to bring previously killed character back
9. A cliffhanger possibility
10. I’m out of TV related, so how about A Movie
11. A Singer or Group
12. A Song