Georgia and its care and feeding of my soul - AYFKM?!?!

I tend to grocery shop on Sunday. I suppose I could do it on Saturday - but I LIKE to do it on Sunday - I LIKE IT!!! I am not religious and Sunday is just another day of the weekend for me.

Each and every FRAKKING time I go to the grocery store I am again incensed and livid and other colorful angry words because I cannot buy an adult beverage. I've been here 10 years and it never fails to piss me off.

Georgia has decided (long ago I am sure) that the adults of this state should not be able to buy alcohol on Sunday. AYFKM??! They WILL however serve you alcohol in a bar or restaurant. I do not understand the logic that is behind the decision to allow people to drink publicly and possibly drive home intoxicated but precludes buying beverages to take home and drink in your own house.


The closed minded thinking behind this type of lawmaking is what drives my liberal ass to the polls. Even if the misguided goal of the law is to honor some type of Christian value - what the hell about the 7th Day Adventists and Saturdays?? If I were a 7th Day Adventist, I would be super-offended that MY sabbath isn't "GOOD ENOUGH" for a beer ban!

A not so open letter to the Government of the State of Georgia:

Dearest Saxby and pals:

AYFKM?!?!?!?!

AYFKM?! - "That day"

AYFKM?? I did some stuff prior to "that day"

"That day" is the vague day in the future when I'm going to do all the things on my list of stuff that I want to do and should do but aren't critical to my day to day survival and sanity.
A subset of those things can be viewed to the right of this column. I am proud to announce that I have done some of those things and will be removing them from that list. (items being removed are highlighted in red)

* I mailed Christmas cards to a jillion people.
*There was a family photo on those Christmas cards.
*I am compiling the Calendar of Birthdays and have purchased the cards and stamps to go with. (Facebook has been very helpful in this endeavor).
*I have used my smartphone on a number of occasions to notate the myriad of ideas that come and go regarding possible blog content.
*I explored GHWT Studio mode and determined that it is crap and am removing that entry from the list.

Random AYFKM?!?! Moment

Several years ago, my daughter and my husband and I attended a board gaming convention in Atlanta that was organized by Batty's Best something or other - a board game store that I used to love to visit.

Its been AGES ago! We had a great time that day. For those of you who have never done something so completely dorky, attending consists of showing up at the appointed hotel and jumping in and playing board games of all different kinds with all different strangers. Its a great time and it costs very little. (I think its 35 dollars for the three day pass - or cheaper than that for one day) You can also buy new games and people sell the ones they don't play much anymore in kind of a flea market type environment.

So last night, around 2am, I am surfing the world wide webispheres and looking at gaming blogs and run across the blog of Ward Batty. (http://gametable.blogspot.com) He has lots of interesting gaming info on his blog - you should visit if you are into that kind of thing. I was surprised and happy to see - a blurb and link to another event in January like the one we attended several years ago.

So I'm all fired up - WE GOTTA GO! I click on through to take a look at the info and BAM!!!! there I am with my kid in living color on the main page. We are sitting at a table at the front of the room playing a strategy game with two guys we had never met before who are very patiently teaching us how to play. I love it - AYFKM?!?!

(Click on the title of the post to jump to the atlanta game fest site for the "Wheres Buhlinda" type game action)

Buhlinda - The South Park Version

Last week, due to the overwhelming response to my world wide webbified blogtastic musings, I made a cameo appearance on an episode of South Park. Screen clip above:

My daughter has an AYFKM moment - I am so proud.

Gmail - boling. - cohcardinal@gmail.com:

"I just fowarded you a conversation I had with mr boling, the senior counselor.

He has obviously not taken care of my absences like he promised he would.
I confronted him about it via email and he mildly attacked my intelligence.

AYFKM?!?! im a genius. hes a doo doo head.

I told him you or daddy one will speak to him in the near future, but youll see that in the email.

Email him orcall him or have dad call him, I DONT CARE.
im so over this crap.

completely.
love you"