Happy Valentine’s Day! I’m sure by now you’ve already made plans for how you will woo your sweetheart.

But just in case you didn’t…You can still make reservations to have a romantic dinner at White Castle, a hamburger joint in the U.S. (Really – click here for locations and phone numbers for reservations.)

Imagine, just the two of you romantically trying to determine if that thing in front of you is a burger or…well…something else… No offense to White Castle or anyone who likes White Caste, but I kind of think their food is probably best left for certain extreme situations where you are starving to death and your other options are to eat something out of a dumpster or gnaw your arm off…(well, maybe its not that bad, but pretty close!)

At any rate, I wouldn’t think of it as romantic, especially when you think of the millions of other things you could be eating today. Although, if you’ve been dating someone you’ve been trying to break up with months now, this could be a great way to deliver the message.

Whatever you did or are doing today, hope you have a good one!

How did you spend your Valentine’s Day? Tell me all about it in the comments below!

I don’t watch a lot of TV. But it seems anytime I do turn on the TV, I see this really cheesy commercial for the Snuggie Blanket, the blanket with sleeves! The commercial is so invasive that even my 5 year old has started telling me I need one.

This video helped me understand it all. They’re not trying to sell you some backwards robe: it’s a cult!

What do you think? Have you seen the snuggie blanket commercial? Do you actually OWN a Snuggie blanket? What do you think? Strange cult following or not?

Update: If you want your very own Snuggie blanket it’s now available to order online from Amazon! Click here to order a Snuggie Fleece Blanket of your very own!

It’s Super Bowl Sunday and so naturally all I can do is give my readers a taste of what you’d get if you were in Pittsburgh right now. This is the Steeler’s Fight song, aka the “Here We Go Song”. The Steeler’s Fight Song has been a long standing tradition here in Pittsburgh, even though the song is just a bit moderately annoying. (Well, at least after you’ve heard it about 300 times!) The player’s names and the verses have changed over the years, but the “Here We Go” part is permanently ingrained in anyone in Pittsburgh’s head.

Also highly popular is this video for Troy Polamalu:

Here we go Steelers…Here We Go!

Kick off time for the 2009 Super Bowl is 6:20 pm ET, so make sure you don’t miss it!

Since Pittsburgh is a drinking town with a football problem, I would also like to please remind everyone to not drink and drive this Super Bowl Sunday. Either stay at home, or better yet, enjoy an alcohol free Super Bowl Sunday. Be safe everybody!

I’ve stumbled across some pretty funny things over the past week or so and thought I’d share them all with you.

First Up: Chris Lombardo’s Finds (aka The Shark Guy)

Chris has found a few more funny things to share with me: A Stupid Label on a Pair of Underwear and a Stupid Caption he found in a newspaper article, clearly written by a genius.

Second Up: The Best Spam Submission Ever

Rebecca from SEOMoz.com was sick of all the spam submissions she received, and so decided to illustrate one she received about selling things on ebay. Below’s a sneak peak, but you’ve really got to go over and The Best Spam Submission Ever to fully appreciate it. Now I understand where all these people selling stupid stuff on ebay learned how to do it!

Third Up: Bored At Home? Create Your Own Zoo!

This post is from almost 2 years ago, but I just saw it for the first time recently, and I’m sure that not enough people have seen it. See How You Too Can Create Your Own Zoo at Home. Don’t think I’ve ever been quite that bored before…

In other news, a sheep had been arrested for armed robbery, with police believing that the human suspect mysteriously turned into a sheep. Really, read about it here.

Any funny stupid things you’ve seen lately? Share them with me below.

Could the beloved American snack cake, the Twinkie, be facing extinction? Considering the Twinkie supposedly cannot even biodegrade in a landfill, this is pretty shocking news. (Actually, that’s just a rumor, Twinkies only have a shelf life of 25 days.)

Apparently Interstate Bakeries Corp, the bakery who produces the Twinkie, is facing bankruptcy and the company needs to start liquidating – which allegedly means the Twinkies will be unfortunately no longer made.

Heartbroken by this thought? Don’t worry – there’s a petition to save America’s snack cake. That’s right, you can sign up to beg Congress to bail out the bakery right here.

It seems a little strange though, since the official HostessCakes.com website mentions nothing of getting rid of the Twinkie, and in fact all over their home page is nothing but Twinkie Goodness. The Twinkie just celebrated its 75th anniversary! But the bankruptcy is true according to this article on Bizjornals.com.

What do you think? Is the Twinkie in trouble? Should our government just start handing money out to everybody?

Given Obama’s massive popularity across the nation and the crazy amount of propaganda available (Get your Obama tshirts, hats and underwear here!) I decided to see what other goodies we could find in honor of Obama and the Presidential Inauguration on eBay. Here’s a few I’m sure you won’t see anywhere else:

Baraka Water:

This isn’t really related to the Presidential Inauguration at all. It’s water from Egypt where the brand name is Baraka. But the seller suggests you pretend that it is official inauguration bottled water. What a conversation piece it will be! Auction #200300932805.

The Inauguration Day Hot Dog Bun

Imagine, on the day of the inauguration, after watching Obama being sworn in, this seller finds a hot dog bun with “09″ stamped on it. What a miracle! What a piece of history to own and commemorate the inauguration of a new president! Action # 290290790439.

The Obama Snow Man

This here is the Obama Snowman, made from real snow collected on inauguration day!  If you win this auction, you get 1 melted snow man, his eyes made from pennies and nose made out of a paper clip, and a small gold chain in a snow man shaped jar along with 2 newspapers!  Wow! Now surely that will be worth big money! Auction # 270333168744.

You too can have these amazing collectors items to celebrate Obama officially becoming our new president – so Click here for eBay! I’m sure you’ll be able to find some other funny Obama stuff out there too!

Are you worried about pin-heads coming into your house? Want to keep stupid people away?

Maybe this doormat will do the trick:

This one is from Bill O’Reilly, a guy who has a show I watch on Fox News from time to time and usually makes me laugh.

Naturally this made me want to find other funny doormats, so here’s a few more that could really make an impression on someone who comes to your door:

Please Hold…Doormat

If you’re worried your doormat is not ever being used, I’m sure this one will keep people on it. Hope you don’t get too many visitors at once! From Amazon

Doormat With an Identity Crisis

Clearly this is a doormat with an identity crisis. But if you were a doormat, you’d probably have aspirations to be something else too.

I Can See Your Underwear Doormat

This one only works if your guests are wearing skirts I think. Could really make them wonder though! From Amazon.

Instant Manhole Doormat

Wish you could have a manhole on the front porch? Hey, now you can!
From BaronBob.com

What’s the funniest doormat you’ve ever seen? Which of these do you like best? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

A sign that you are getting to be old is that the Classic rock and Oldies radio stations have started playing songs you remember being new in high school.

Another sign that you are getting older is that you go to see what concert tickets are available in your area and you either don’t recognize who any of the performers are or you think to yourself “Wow! They’re still going at it?”

Here are some of the bands I noticed that I can’t believe are still touring:

Fleetwood Mac: I love Fleetwood Mac! But they’ve been going at it since 1967…more than 40 years now!

Chicago: Another band still in it 40 some years later, though ironically the band doesn’t have any of its original members.

Queensryche: They’ve been together for 27 years, and yet I can only think of a handful of people I know that would know who they are and probably less people than that who would be up for still seeing them live. (Unless maybe younger kids are getting into them now?)

Phish: I saw Phish live about 8 years ago. I don’t know why this one surprised me, but it did. I hadn’t thought about them or seen if they’ve had any new albums or songs since about 2001.

Reel Big Fish: Notably one of the worst bands of the late 90′s that I remember, how the heck are they still on tour and people still showing up to watch them?

The Eagles: They take their song lyrics “You can check out anytime you’d like, but you can never leave!” literally apparently.

The Pretenders: Another band I love, but can’t believe is still putting on shows over 30 years since they first started. Chrissie Hynde just had her 57th birthday last September!

It’s really amazing that these bands are still going at it. Such determination. Such a passion for their music. And if I take Stevie Nicks out to eat, we can save 10% off the bill thanks to the senior citizens discount!

Next time you or someone you know starts complaining about getting old, go grab yourself some concert tickets and remember if Stevie Nicks can still do it, so can you.

It’s a new year, and what better time to decide to go for a new hairstyle? Inspired by this post on funny hair, there’s plenty of fantastic styles to choose from.

The Statue of Liberty does not get enough recognition these days. What better way to show your support?

Hairstyles are a great way to show your personality and interests. Aviation lovers, this one is for you!

If you’re not concerned about the effects of hairspray on the o-zone layer, you can recreate this classic 80′s metal mullet. (Perfect for the whole family!)

Show off your strength and ability to balance 15 pounds of hair on top of your head with this lovely style. Added bonus: You will not need to buy a hat this winter.

This one I saw on a late night TV commercial. For just $19.95 you too can put a giant lump in the back of your head at bighappiehair.com. (Gotta love the way they spell happy, too!)

If you have any plans to fool bees into believing you are a little black rain cloud hovering under a honey tree, this hair style is for perfect you!

If you were feeling left out because you have no hair, don’t worry! You can change your look simply by getting a head tattoo! Not into tattoos? A Sharpie marker could be all you need.

What do you think? Which funny hair do you like the best?

Am I lazy blogger? Sometimes, sometimes. Mostly I am just a busy blogger and sometimes a site or two of mine will get neglected for a few days…or weeks unfortunately…

The good thing is, for bloggers who have no time to craft thoughtful and meaningful posts, there is the Lazy Bloggers Post Generator. To see how amazing and wonderful it really is, I’ve used it to craft the wonderful post below in less than 2 minutes:

Holy Snapping Duck Do! I just got slapped with a wet salmon – really – I have not updated this since Hammertime was in the charts… You would not believe how heavy that rock really is. I hope you still love me!

I am totally exhausted with setting fire to people wearing Crocs, choosing my retirement village, and just generally being of great concern to every man and his dog. My day is a magical flight from the moment my children manage to unlock my bedroom door and use me as a jumping castle to when I am begging my kids to go to sleep. I am not complaining though. Life is good.

I promise that I will write something that makes sense soon. Well, I’ll try. What do you mean you don’t believe me?

One of the drawbacks of December is the end of the Fantasy Football season. Our league’s superbowl is this weekend, but since I’m not a contender, it’s really just kind of annoying as my hubby who made it all the way to the superbowl asks me 3000 times to double check his line-up. (Not that I’m not happy for him and supportive, its just depressing to think I did such a horrible job this season I didn’t even play the playoff games the past 2 weeks!)

It’s hard to say what caused my team to suck so bad this year. Maybe it was Tom Brady getting hurt the first week, and making Randy Moss as a wide reciever pretty much useless, getting a whole 4 points for many games. Unfortunately since Moss was supposed to be a key player, he couldn’t be dropped – only traded. And even though it was the Best of Stupid football fantasy league, nobody in my league was stupid enough to trade anyone for him.

I felt a little bit better when I saw the guys over at Brag Fantasy Football post their playoff stats. A guy named Nick was actually crowned the “Worst Fantasy Football Player” having 2 wins and 11 losses. I had 7 wins and 6 losses, so nothing wonderful, but not fame worthy of the crappiest Fantasy Football owner title either. If you head over there, you can even see the lovely picture of what the worst fantasy football player looks like, as they have it posted right up on the homepage.

Oh well, it was fun, and that’s what matters – next season I’ll be trying a different strategy though, that’s for sure! Did you play fantasy football? How’d it go for you?

I’ve decided today to officially declare that I hate my vacuum. I have one of the Bissell upright canister vacs. It’s supposed to be super powerful, easy to clean, yadda yadda yadda – don’t believe a word of it.

In reality, it doesn’t pick up anything really. So many times I vacuum the entire house only to realize an hour later some of the crumbs that made me decide I needed to vacuum in the first place were still there.

Part of the problem with this vacuum is that there are three million filters to clean out each single time you want to use it, assuming you are using it to actually pick stuff up from the floor. I am just too lazy for that.

Thinking back to the old days where vacuum salesmen used to come back to the house with their slicked back hair, shiny shoes, and suits and would dump a pot of dirt on a carpet sample, I wondered how my vacuum would hold up to the test. I didn’t want to use dirt though, so I thought I would try baby powder, because at least it smells nice if I couldn’t get it out.

Sure enough, it didn’t pick up any of it. Thank goodness for my shop vac! Cleaning an entire house with a shop vac though is a bit back-breaking, and not something I’d want to do on a regular basis. I could probably replace all the filters and belts in the vacuum I have now, but I’m sure that would cost a good $50 – money that could go towards a new, better, sucking vacuum that won’t have me swearing at it again in 3 months.

I saw this entire blog about the Miele canister vacuum, and it looks pretty sweet – cheaper than a Dyson and slightly better than the Kenmore I’ve heard good things about…but then again I see it has all those stupid filters…

I need your help everybody, I need a vacuum that sucks! Any suggestions? What kind of vacuum do you have? Do you like it?

Putting up a Christmas tree seems like a harmless endeavor, doesn’t it?

But really, it depends on HOW you put up that Christmas tree, and whether you decide to get a “real” used-to-be-alive Christmas tree or if you’re smart and go for something less dangerous like a nice balsam fir artificial Christmas tree.

For us, we have to have the real Christmas tree. There’s nothing like that smell of Christmas tree in your house, and the swearing as you put it up and stepping on needles is no less of a Christmas tradition for us than hanging up stockings or giving presents to people.

There is an easy way and a hard way to put up a Christmas tree. To help you avoid the struggle, tears, pine needles flying and all that I’ve experienced in Christmases past, here is Chelle’s guide to how to put up a Christmas tree the easy way:

1. Drive Directly to Lowe’s: Lowe’s is a home improvement store in the US that typically I don’t endorse, but they are THE PLACE to get a Christmas tree. You walk into Lowe’s near their covered Christmas tree section, and a super nice guy will come up to you and help you pick the perfect tree. He will then trim the bottom for you and wrap it so beautifully in netting, and even load it in the car for you if you need help. It was the best Christmas tree buying experience I ever had this year. Their tree was also $15 less than anywhere else I saw them for sale.

2. Get a Good Base: It might seem that tree stands aren’t that important, but it’s the difference between setting the tree in the stand and making a few changes before saying “Ah, that looks nice!” and swearing for 6 hours as the tree fights you, falls down, and puts your life and limbs at risk. When you put the tree into the base, do NOT unwrap the netting around the tree! Leave it wrapped until the very end and you decide the tree is “straight”. Once you unwrap the tree, changing anything will be extremely difficult and/or painful. See diagram below to help you see the difference between a good and a bad Christmas tree stand.

3. Add Water: Christmas trees need a lot of water so they don’t dry out and get sharp needles. You can also put aspirin in the base with water so it doesn’t get a headache and stays fresh longer.

4. Add Lights and Decorations: This is the fun part of putting up a Christmas tree. A 7 foot tree will need between 400-500 mini-lights to really look nice. Make sure you read all warning labels on the lights – you don’t want to burn your house down from having too many lights plugged in together. Put heavier and fragile ornaments at the top of the tree where the branches are stronger. If you have kids, pets, or are naturally prone to breaking things, you may want to invest in some nice plastic shatter-proof ornaments.

5. Take a Nap: Taking a nap afterward is very important. You will likely be exhausted and cranky, and you will not be much in the Christmas spirit when you are cranky and tired. Treating yourself to a cup of hot chocolate or maybe a mixed drink is optional, but highly recommended.

I don’t mean to scare anyone away from getting a real Christmas tree, but if this sounds like a lot of work, you may want to opt for an artificial white Christmas tree to save yourself lots of time and frustration. Artificial trees are a pain in the neck too though, so perhaps changing your traditions and celebrating Hanukkah or Kwanzaa instead would also be a good viable option.

All in all though, it’s great when the Christmas tree is up and decorated. It really feels like the holidays are here!

Do you put up a live tree or artificial? (Or not celebrate Christmas at all?)

Have any Christmas tree horror experiences to share?

Today is my birthday. I’m not one of those people who do or expect a whole lot for my birthday. Memorable birthdays of my past include my cousin blowing out all the candles on my cake at my 6th birthday party and the tears that ensued and another that was spent freezing outside while playing a French horn. I’ve had lots of others, but I don’t really remember them too well. There was probably cake and singing.

The last few birthdays have been the best – they involve my kids trying as hard as they can to be good for one whole day. My 5 year old is getting smarter though when I told him I just wanted him to listen for one whole day. He asked “Can’t I make you a card instead?”

To celebrate I made a couple of “Blogger Birthday Cakes”. I know, I’m pretty wild sometimes. A real party animal. But hey, it’s not like I get older everyday, right? (Well, okay, technically we do…but nevermind that…)

You can make your own bday cakes say whatever you want them to say by going to Redkid.net, Image Chef, or Caption.it. I could probably come up with lots more, but I don’t have all day and night to waste online

I also found out from this birthday calculator you can get more useless information than you’ve ever wanted about your birthday. Really. I now know that if I lit my age in candles on my cake this year, it could boil 3.09 ounces of water. Olivia Newton John’s Physical was the Top Billboard Hit the year I was born. Truly fascinating stuff.

Anyways, now you know when my birthday is and everything important relevant to my birthday, tell me about yours. Have any ideas for funny things to write on a birthday cake?

Recently there have been a few examples of how stupidly people can act with guns. Gun violence is a big problem that many of us have probably become desensitized about – since it seems everyday people are senselessly shot and killed.

Here were the two headlines that really stood out to being stupid to me:

Plaxico Burress Shoots Himself in the Leg
You may or may not know who Plaxico Burress is, but he is a football player for the NY Giants. He was out at a club and shot himself in the thigh by accident with an illegal weapon. Smart. Read the news story here.

Two Shot Dead at Toys R Us on Black Friday

This video shows most of the details about this senseless shooting between people shopping on Black Friday. Glad I did all of my Christmas shopping online!

What do you think about these things happening?