Framed

I just got a very interesting phone call from my mom, who just got an interesting phone call from some nutjob woman who is convinced that I hit her while she was riding her motorcycle last night. Here's the story:

Apparently this woman, who I will call Mrs. X, was riding her motorcycle last night when a girl in a Chevy hit her somehow. They exchanged information, but the idiot woman lost it and decided to go browsing through the phone book looking for the perpetrator. For whatever reason, she remembered that the girl's last name was supposedly Rigatti and that she had graduated from Peters in '01 with her son. So Mrs. X looked through her son's yearbook, found me (since I was the only Rigatti in my grade) and then looked up my mom in the phone book to call her and accuse me of hitting her. There are just a few problems with this story:
1. I don't drive a Chevy.
2. I was at home last night at 9:30 when the accident supposedly happened. Thank goodness Guy was here to give me an alibi!
3. The girl had twins in the backseat of her car. As you can probably tell from my perfect figure, I obviously haven't had children, let alone twins. Okay, maybe I don't have a perfect figure, but I still don't have any kids.
4. The girl had Progressive insurance. I have State Farm.
5. The insurance was in the girl's dad's name -- Ray. My dad's name is Joe and he's been dead for 9 years.

My mom said the woman was getting upset with her over the phone, acting like my mom was just trying to protect her daughter and it really was me that hit her. She also claimed that the girl who hit her looked "exactly" like my picture in the yearbook. It obviously wasn't me, and I know it wasn't me, but it really bothers me that someone would have the gall to accuse me of something and call and bother my mom about it just because she's too stupid to keep track of important information like that. I really hope I get to hear the end of the story and find out who actually hit the woman and if I have a bizarro twin out there, but for now, that's all she wrote.

New Blogging Venture

I've started a new blog called The Dog Blog. Check it out.

Noteworthy Blogs

I've recently come upon a few very funny blogs dedicated to specific topics. One is called Cake Wrecks and has posts with -- you guessed it -- pictures and entries about terrible-looking cakes. The other is a blog about the unnecessary use of quotation marks that plagues society today. They're both good for a laugh. Check 'em out.

Cake Wrecks

The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotations

Celebrity Babble

Some may call it invasive and obnoxious. Others may call it our right as fans. Whatever they call it, though, I can't help but enjoy the guilty pleasure of celebrity gossip. I fall right into Yahoo!'s trap every day when they post links with tantalizing headlines like "Morgan Freeman in terrible car accident. Kelsey Grammar hospitalized. Ryan Seacrest bitten by a shark." I can't help but to click and get the scoop. Just today, I encountered two interesting tidbits of celebrity gossip -- one rather infuriating and one thought-provoking (as far as light-hearted trash can provoke thoughts, anyway).

The first was an article about Jennifer Love-Hewitt and her new, slim self. Apparently little miss "I am proud of my big booty that was photographed at the beach last summer" has lost 18 pounds. Normally this would be just another drop in the celebrity-weight-loss bucket, but it annoys me because of the big to-do after paparazzi and vicious Americans in general criticized Jennifer for being chunky when photos of her in a teeny bikini popped up last year at about this time. Granted, her butt did look kind of big -- at least compared to the waifs we're used to seeing in US Weekly. But sizes or perceived sizes of rear-ends aside, she responded to the criticism with a lot of dignity and stated that she loves her body, the photos were at bad angles, etc. Normal girls everywhere stood up and cheered for a celebrity that wasn't afraid to be labeled as having some meat on her bones. And now, a year later, we find out that she has gone and lost 18 pounds. Sure, she has a right to change her body if she'd like to, but if she was truly happy and unaffected by the negative comments made last year, why the need for such a drastic change? It reminds me of when Jessica Simpson's little sister (She Who Shall Not Be Named) preached to girls about self-acceptance, confidence, and the like, and then went and got a nose job. Must everyone succumb to the pressure of Hollywood?

The second article I found was one that showed pictures of celebrities and their twin siblings. Did you know that Jeremy London has a twin brother? Neither did I, but I also didn't know who Jeremy London was until I saw that article. Someone I did recognize, though, was Scarlett Johannsenn. She's got a taller and much less busty twin brother. The last person the article mentioned was Ashton Kutcher. Not only does he have a not-so-easy-on-the-eyes twin brother, but his twin brother also has cerebral palsy! Talk about getting the short end of the stick. That genetic gyp rivals the one with the set of twins on Little People, Big World, where one twin is normal-sized and the other is a little person. I only hope Ashton shares some of his riches with his brother...and that Jeremy helps Zak get something down from the tall shelf every once in a while.

Funniest Game Show Moments

Back in college, I was lucky enough to tune in to a show called Funniest Game Show moments. It had all kinds of bloopers and funny moments from, well, game shows. Ever since then, I've enjoyed going on YouTube to watch compilations of even more of these moments. If you're bored, just go to Youtube and type in "stupid game show answers" and you should come up with quite a few good results. If you don't want to watch them, though, here are some of my favorite answers, mostly from Family Feud.

-Name a body part that people have only one of.
-Big toe.

-Name something made of wool.
-A sheep.

-Name a reason for kneeling.
-To be beheaded.

-Name a slang term that means "wife."
-Bitch

-Name something you might buy that could turn out to be phony.
-A horse.

-Something you squeeze.
-Peanut butter.

There are soooo many hilarious game show moments out there. My favorite part is the look on the person's face when they realize what a dumb answer they just gave. Priceless!

Saving the Environment, One Bag at a Time

About six months ago, I discovered the wonder that is Freecycle. For those of you that are out of the loop, Freecycle is a Yahoo! group where members post offers and wanted ads for things that they have to give away or things that they'd like to receive, respectively. Everything is free, with the idea of keeping things out of landfills that still have some use left in them. I've always been the type to enjoy getting rid of things I don't use by way of garage sales, eBay, craigslist, and other moneymaking ventures, but I definitely have a lot of things that people wouldn't necessarily want to pay for but could still get some enjoyment from. Just today, I gave away the dress from my senior prom (with its matching wrap and purse), an old Chupa-Chup tin bank, a bar of unopened breast-cancer-awareness soap, and a VHS tape of Romy & Michele's High School Reunion. The dress and accessories are going to a little girl who likes to play dress-up, and I have no idea what the other things are going to be used for, nor do I care. The exciting part for me is emptying out boxes and making room in my closets!

If you haven't checked out Freecycle in your city, I would highly recommend it. Like they always say...one man's trash is another man's treasure!