I've been debating whether to take part in this whole Earth Hour thing.
Will Jake be asleep?
Most likely. So the lesson would be lost. He doesn't have a nightlight. His clock is a wind-up.
Will Dave turn off the tv or internet for something so crunchy? He's a lot of things, granola isn't one of them.
He will be out playing mangames with his friends anyway. Who I am quite sure don't even know about this.
Will I be able to stay up? Entertain myself by candlelight?
Who knows. I don't sleep much these days. Do cell phones count? I have Pandora.com on there and Google Reader. I don't need no stinkin eelectreeseedee. As long as my charge holds out.
My laundry is done. My house is heated with oil and as far as I can figure out, a hamster running in a wheel. It's primitive. That's for sure. I have a million candles, both olden fashioned wick&wax and battery (rechargable, natch) operated. I'm usually done eating by 8.30. I just bought a new book, promo-ed by one of my new.local.bloggy.besties because her dad wrote it and I'm a sucker for anything new and true and within a few degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Kevin Bacon's dad spoke at a few of my Urban Studies seminars in grad school. When I shook his hand, all I could think of is that I touched a man who touched Kevin Bacon's babypenis. That knocks off at least a degree and a half. And my dad's middle name is Edmund. Srsly, how many Edmunds are there? Two. My dad and Kev's dad.
I can call him Kev because I touched his penis. Within one and a half degree.
I need a shower.
So, I'm going to do it. The Earth Hour thing, the reading local history by candle light thing. Not any other nonsense that I spoke of, including showering. Showering can't be green, no matter how much Aveda I have in there.
I made up my mind after reading my uncle's post. Oh sure. My uncle blogs. And mentions math, which always makes my ears perk. Does your uncle blog?
Yeah, so what if he does. I'll bet he isn't two degrees separated from Kev's Kock.
I hate when people start C-words with K's. It reminds me of white supremacy. But I didn't want to type the work cock here. That's not cool. This is a family blog.
Somehow.
I might even do an Earth Night. It isn't hard for me, considering that I have a mental health disorder (I love that post) that makes me frightened of anything that plugs into the wall. Which reminds me, I think I need a new coffee pot because mine has some gunk in it and what if that gunk isn't totally dried out and it gets in the innerworkings of the maker and when I push "on" because I have an addiction the electricity shoots through my 130+ year old walls and into the machine and out of the button and into my finger which is damp from filling the pot and into my body and up through to my heart and I die?
It can totally happen. My other uncle is an electrician. He heard that it happened to a friend of a cousin of a coworker's wife and told me that theoretically, yes, absolutely.
Addiction kills.
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Holy hell. All I can say is that if either one of my uncles has a blog? I never ever want to know about it.
I guess we're doing Earth Hour because Joe is super-crunchy. I'm semi-crunchy. Unless something good is on tv. I just wanna know why we can't have Earth Hour at a time when it's light outside. I mean, I get that it's kinda defeating the purpose and yet - I'd totally just read on my porch.
Also, our weather sucks so it's possible our power will be out and NOBODY will be greener than me if that happens.
I have a Kindle, is that cheating?
I'm still debating this LOL because I want to but Hubby is watching me like I'm nuts LOL
We'll see, probably we will :)
I had an inadvertent earth hour the other night, when something went totally batshit wacko with all the electricity on our block. I lit some candles and read, but also cheered when the power came back on in time for 30 Rock.
If sanctimonious Tinseltown weenies like Edward Norton get on your nerves by demanding that you lower your standard of living for the sake of their bogus ideology, don't forget to celebrate Human Achievement Hour this evening by opening the shutters and turning on every light in the house from 8:30 to 9:30 local time.
Meanwhile, moonbats will be festering in the dark as they honor Earth Hour. Their idea is that by turning off the lights, we can send a message to our socialist rulers that we don't mind paying radically higher energy bills. If in fact you do mind, then send a different message.
You might even have a little fun by telling neighbors that your city is testing its energy grid, and needs people to turn on all their lights at 8:30.
Nothing could be more symbolic of liberalism that turning out the lights, just as nothing sums up conservatism like making sure they stay on.
Um, yes. I love Ed Norton.
I also love anonymous commenters who live in Cary NC with all the other Erieite sheep who aren't good enough or smart enough to get a job other than the one they have (that sucks, clearly, because it couldn't thrive to begin with) so they pack up their crappy belongings and jump on the company bus and leave home but can't quite cut the apron strings once they leave Erie so they hang out on Erie Blogs and read about other people's lives because they don't have one of their own and slam people for writing about things that are too big for them to understand.
Thanks for stopping by!
Reading this post makes me think you have ADD.
Uhh... I don't know if I'll do the Earth hour thing. I do Earth hour for about 6 hours every night.
And now I'm upset that I haven't typed a single word that starts with "C"... so.
Kat, Kool, Krunchy, Kontagious, Kreatine!
By the way, yours is on of my top 5 favorite blogs. Just thought you'd like to know.
I heart Edward Norton. and Kevin Bacon. We will probably participate in Earth hour because we are usually thinking about taking out our teeth and putting on our leak-proof underwear for bedtime anyway. We set the alarms on our cell phones so we'd still be up in time to shake your hand at Walmart at 4 a.m. Where has my wild side gone? We've turned into our grandparents and I'm not even 30 yet! That's it, I'm starting a girls night! I've got to do something before I grow out my toenails or buy one of those quilted purses. Yeek. Oh, and great job standing up to Anonymous. I think they need to go make someone else their punching bag because you have WAY too many friends and supporters to start something here. Why are they getting so fired up over Earth hour anyway? There are alot more things they could be doing to make the world a better place right now and bullying a blogger isn't one of them.
Dear Anon,
Your ability to spell sanctimonious portens that you have personal experience with the concept. It seems that you and the other wingnuts are no longer able to understand what it means to be conservative, much less to conserve. You have been duped into supporting positions that undermine your own self interest for the benefit of the insatiably greedy.
I know your lights are on now, so I suggest you read What's the matter with Kansas?.
Oh my! Who needs electricity when we have enough here to fire up the entire state of NC?
I'm too old to heart either Kevin or Ed. Don't you think Ed plays the best prick in many of his movies? Do you think he draws on personal experience?
I missed Earth Hour as the hubs ordered a movie from the cable company, and I just couldn't bring myself to pissing him off for the gazillionth time today!
I'll make it up somehow...maybe I'll do laundry by hand tomorrow.
Yeah, why is that most people who leave Erie end up in NC? Not sayin' much for NC (sorry for those really from there).
I'm so clueless I had no idea about Earth hour. We probably watched TV right through it. I'm with Dave. I'm a lot of things, but granola definitely isn't one of them.
As always, your random musings totally crack me up.
I so missed Earth Hour. oops.
I so want to spend 5 minutes in your brain, like J Lo did in "The Cell."
I'm an idiot and didn't know about earth hour. Been a little out of the loop.
That bit about Kevin Bacon though, that was some funny sh#t (I know this is a family blog).
We shut off all of our lights. But the fridge was still running. As was our water cooler thing. And our TV was on. And our electric clocks were still plugged in and glowing.
But my husband was convinced that even just doing the lights would help.
oh,and I hate hate hate it when people change c-words and start them with K's. Drives me absolutely nuts.
you're so funny!
This is hilarious! It shows exactly why I love reading your blog...it makes me laugh and think and it is totally rambling like the thoughts in my head. So much better than the artsy-fartsy blogs where people write poetry that should have come from Bronte. None of my uncles blog, but they do have facebook, and that's pretty cool in my book.
hilarious!
I can say that I won't do the earth hour ....
that c - k thing makes me nuts too.
well, based on your comment today -- you are alive! Good thing!
So, I was totally going to do earth night just b/c I try, I really try... but bubs went out, LL went to bed and I vegged with on demand and wine (by candlelight though...)
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