Fun with Words: Anagrams

Today I played around with this anagram website: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/.
Try your name and see what you get. I had some interesting combinations with different forms of my name. Here are some of my favorite anagrams:

Based on my first and last name:
Mayoral Attar -- One question, how do mayors smell?
Amatory Altar -- Oh, really!
Aorta Malt Ray -- Sounds dangerous and high in cholesterol.
A Mayoral Tart -- Hey, that's not nice!
A Loamy Tartar -- Are you saying I'm dirty?

My first and middle name:
Maternal Ale -- A stronger form of mother's milk?
A Neater Mall -- Yes, we are the neatest.
Lateral Amen -- A new way of praying?
A eternal lam -- Sounds painful or tiring, either way it's ungrammatical.

Anyway, it was fun.

Who doesn't love a Princess?

A total, total Princess, complete with royal, purple pillow.

Electrically Charged with Rainbow Television

Last night around 12:20 there was a huge KABOOM and light throughout the apartment. We were hit by or were at least very close to the lightning. Now, our televisions are rainbow colored. Evidently, this is God's way of saying get HD already.

P.S. Can you identify the images?

My Top Five Movies

Cold Comfort Farm
Powder
Much Ado about Nothing
Room with a View
Chocolat

Honorable mention: Amelie

What are yours?

Movies & Such

On Thursday J.D. and I went to the Botanical Garden to see the lilies in their supposed prime. Some of them were as tall as J.D. But I think they were past their prime in terms of blooming. We did see some nice gladiolas. I liked the orange-red ones, but I forgot to take my camera. When I wrote "Botanical Gardens" just now I thought... isn't that a bit redundant? I suppose they're just being specific. It's certainly not a mechanical garden or cat garden (Thena is currently meowing her head off at me). I suppose they mean botanical, as in the garden's scientific uses, its relation to the study of botany and such ??? Someday I'm gonna have me a "plant garden" yep.

Anyway, I'm feeling very Byronic today, in the Don Juan way, which is not to say cannibalistic or even dog-eating for that matter, nor Wordsworth-hating, but merely roundabout and silly.

We've recently seen quite a few movies. We went to The Dark Knight on Friday. It's ok. I know it's probably blasphemous to all the raving critics, but I liked Batman Begins better in terms of its storytelling. Although, J.D. really liked the movie. (I didn't dislike it). It just wasn't as fabulous to me as to everyone else.

I did really enjoy watching, through Netflix, Amelie. It's a movie that I would like to own. I would put it in my top 10 or even top 5. It's a sweet and funny film. I won't say too much about it, in case people haven't seen it and want to. There's some sexual content, which is the only reason I can understand its R rating.

My footprint 3.81

Well, I learned today that if everyone on Earth lived like me, it would take 3.81 earths (in terms of resources) to sustain that level of consumption. I tried to be really honest. For example, we do eat out a lot, and our food isn't produced locally (that I know of). But on the positive side, I do walk to school (helps that it's close), and we only replace things when they're broken or really old. In terms of recycling, we always recycle our aluminum but not plastic or paper. Sorry Earth... we'll do better. *I would LOVE to grow my own food if I could.

If you want to see your footprint check out: http://www.myfootprint.org/en/

My results compared to the average in the U.S. (numbers in bold):

(in global acres) Footprint Country Average
Carbon footprint 32.14 91.43
Food footprint 76.46 65.74
Housing footprint 9.08 31.58
Goods /services 30.29 57.66

My total footprint 147.97 246.41

(in global acres) Footprint Country Average
Cropland footprint 18.60 29.61
Pastureland footprint 42.33 68.02
Fisheries footprint 30.72 49.33
Forestland footprint 56.33 99.45
My total footprint 147.97 246.41

Number of Earths 3.81 6.35

"Still-President Bush"

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

Gooey butter cake

Happy Birthday Dad. Love you. I wish we were there to join the fun.


Today Athena ate lettuce. I swear, she acts like the "in-famous" Delmar. She also ate 2 black beans and a piece of red pepper. I have a garbage cat on my hands. Of course, it's my fault for giving her this stuff, but part of me is curious what she'll actually eat. I sure didn't bet on the lettuce.

As for us and our eating habits, tonight I tried baking a St. Louis style gooey butter cake. Yeah, not such a fan. Perhaps I just made it wrong, but basically it's like eating soft butter rolled in flour. Blahh. Maybe I've had this stuff before, but I honestly don't remember. Seems weird I wouldn't remember that. I got the idea to make it from watching Show Me St. Louis during a segment advertising a place that specializes in them called Gooey Louie. At least I satisfied my curiosity. I wasted a lot of butter though. Shhhh... don't tell J.D.

Alternative Names and Places

I've taken to calling Athena "grasshopper." It's fun to say; it fits her well, and she certainly has a lot to learn. Today we discovered that she likes eating popcorn. She likes it plain, no butter, no salt. J.D. and I enjoy air-popped popcorn. As J.D. was preparing it, a couple of popped kernels fell on the floor, and Athena vacuumed them up, crunching merrily. What a little grasshopper indeed.

Today we also continued our adventures in finding new restaurants. We haven't done this in a while, so we figured we might as well have a fun day. J.D. and I like trying to find new places. Plus, we're always up against the Law of Diminishing Returns. The Law, by the way, is our finding that upon return visits, it's never quite as good as the first time you eat at a particular place or enjoy a certain dish. When you find something really delicious -- enjoy it --because it's never that tastey again. (And sometimes it continues to be less and less delectable with each return visit). That's our theory. It may be depressing, but it just encourages us to savor things while we can.

Anyway, we tried a place called "The Shaved Duck" tonight. We enjoyed the Italian cheese "Castel Beldo," and we did try the duck confit, which was good. We also tried the frites, which we probably wouldn't order again because they were a little messy. Overall, it was fun. Oh, I also learned something: I do NOT like bourbon... yuck. Not even with fruit or extra ice.

After dinner we went to the Moolah, in my opinion, an awesome theater. I like snuggling on the leather couches. Plus, it's such a cool building, and there are end tables for drinks and food. If we ever open a movie theater, we'll model it on the Moolah. During the previews, J.D. brought in two tequila shots. I'm not a bourbon fan, but I think tequila is fun. I like the salt and ritual. The movie we watched was Hancock.

My review: "Eh, ok."

Although the whole "tangoing in a tornado" scene was really stupid.

There are so many "superhero" movies this summer:

Giant-Angrified Green Guy;

Rich Dude with a Chiroptera Fetish;

Immortal Liquored-Up Founding Father;

Fe with Atomic Number 26 Man;

and Tartarus Muchacho.

Geez.

Where are the female superheroes?

Then again... the only female superheroes would have to wear really skimpy clothes and prance around. Whenever I see comics with the women drawn basically naked I think "Who could fight like that?" Seriously? So, I guess never mind.

All in all, it was a fun day.

Riverfront Flooding

Yes, remember to exercise caution while walking down there.

J.D. is standing at the marker for the 1993 flood,
which was the highest in St. Louis history.
You can judge the difference.

"Riverfront"

The Girls

A thought for today

"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little." -Sydney Smith, writer and clergyman (1771-1845)