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I just popped in over at Sov’s blog, Bona Fide Cynic, and I LOVE the door picture she has on the site. Which brings up an odd & interesting point. I have this “thing” for pictures of doors or windows. If I go into a picture shop or a framing store, every single picture I point at and say “ooooooh, I like that” will be a picture of a door, a window, or some sort of entry way – like an arch leading into a garden. I wonder what that says about me? Does it mean that I a curious person? Always wondering what is behind the door? Or that I am seeking new adventures? Or does it just mean I am strange and like pictures of doors & windows?

I don’t like those pictures exclusively – my favorite Paula Vaughan image that I have cross-stitched is a picture of a swing with a quilt … and a path leading to the porch of a Victorian home in the background … with a door and lots of windows with beautiful vintage shutters. read more here to get shutters just as beautiful as the ones in my favorite picture.

Watching Entertainment Tonight & they were discussing an upcoming special on Destiny’s Child that is going to show their concert from the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. I think that’s pretty cool, great press for the Rodeo committee. They do a lot of great scholorships. I do have to say though – if you watch it and notice that everyone seems to be dressed “Western” – we don’t all dress that way normally! You just dress up like a cowboy or cowgirl when you go to the Rodeo. Even if you are going to see Destiny’s Child. Or Duran Duran, like Kymberlie & I did.

I find it so amusing that I seem to have been indexed now by Yahoo in the “toes” category! Yes, yes, my toes are the subject of many searches. Hmmmm… I have feet pictures, do I need to post them to humor the people coming here to see toe photos? This is from 11:17 last night to 9:10 this morning:

27 Aug, Mon, 23:17:49 Yahoo: long toes – I don’t have long toes. I have *cute* toes. Cute feet to be exact.
27 Aug, Mon, 23:35:55 Yahoo: short toes – Um, well I guess they are short. Not really, more just cute.
28 Aug, Tue, 00:00:25 Google: Blah blah blah – Yep, I say that all the time.
28 Aug, Tue, 00:32:46 Google: guyna College – See the entry below. If you can’t find it then do the search in the box at the bottom of every page.
28 Aug, Tue, 01:02:34 Yahoo: guyna college
28 Aug, Tue, 01:12:07 Yahoo: bla blah network – Um, that’s not here. Maybe blablah.com?
28 Aug, Tue, 02:51:53 Google: long toes – No, cute, damn it!
28 Aug, Tue, 03:17:24 Google: “blah”
28 Aug, Tue, 04:56:40 Google: blah blah – Amazing how many people search for the word “blah”
28 Aug, Tue, 07:24:42 Google: blah
28 Aug, Tue, 09:10:49 Yahoo: long toes pictures – Cute! I said CUTE!!!

Here are the latest queries to amuse me. This is just from Aug. 26 at 8:20pm through Aug. 27 at 9:10pm. Just over 24 hours…

Google: plaid paint shop pro – Um, that may be my other site, Sudsalicious which is both plaid and used Paint Shop Pro.
Google: “no-effort online” – no effort is a myth. Of course it takes effort, there are no free rides!
Google: blah – Of course.
Google: windows blog software – Greymatter rocks. Has nothing to do with Windows, all it cares about is the surver.
Google: Guyna College – tee hee! Dad’s joke made the search engine!
Yahoo: sunrise scenary – Hmmmm, wonder what that is.
Excite: IVP Urologist test – Yep, had one back in May. Not fun.
Google: “guyna college” – Again!!!
Google: tasty toes – ewwwwww…
Google: blah – Of course.
Yahoo: wedding etiquiette – Too funny. I never could find the answsers I was looking for!
Google: “avantgo”+”blog” – Oh! That’s easy!
Yahoo: Houston how to get EZ tag beltway 8 – It was SOOOOO easy! I just went into the store at Beltway 8 and I-10. $55 credit ($40 to spend, $15 for laughing) and I was on my way!
Google: blah, Google: blah, Google: blah blah blah
Yahoo: call guyna college – Wow! Again…?

Know what’s amusing? I have never submitted my site to a single search engine. Yet Google, Yahoo & Excite have found me. Hmmmm… just think that’s interesting.

Read my post over at Nobody’s Bitch about school uniforms and PISD. (Pearland ISD) Read the Houston Chronicle article where my best friend’s son, Jordan, is interviewed regarding his feelings about being forced to wear a uniform to public school: Pearland pupils divided over new standardized-dress code. Then let me know what you think. Was PISD wrong in implementing the dress code without a parent’s or tax payer’s vote? Does the dress code & the punishments go too far? And, in general, how do you feel about uniforms in public schools?

I always swore I would see Chelsey on Jerry Springer some day. I am starting to think it is going to be her and the Superintendent having a knock-down over this uniform issue! Anyways, Chelsey will be speaking before the PISD Board tomorrow, along with the media there. Channel 2, KPRC, already contacted her today – bet they want the early scoop on the story! She is very nervous about it. I keep telling her, I am behind her 100%. My official press statement is “Regardless of my personal opinions on the standardized uniform issue, I support Ms. Edwards in her attempts to overcome the totalitarian rule of PISD. PISD was unfair in their implementation of the dress code without allowing the parents to have a referendum to vote on the issue. This is America, and the tax payers should be allowed to make that decision, NOT the “PISD” board.” Then I get out the Sprite bottle and spray everyone with Sprite. (Sorry, long story…)