NEW RELEASES
In Our Humble Opinion…you should use the restroom at work before going to a parent teacher conference. You don’t want to get stuck using that tiny little potty at the elementary school.
In Our Humble Opinion . . . everyone needs to keep their crazy to themselves, unless they have a blog – then by all means . . .
In Our Humble Opinion . . . first impressions are extremely important, make sure your crabby unlikable self shines right through.
In Our Humble Opinion . . . the Home Depot should stop thinking we work there and have an ACTUAL employee ring up our drywall.
A tall drink of very still water
Every so often we like to tell you about TV shows we love. We’ve certainly mentioned Sons of Anarchy and The Walking Dead enough times to get our point across. I’m currently the only Sister watching Justified on FX, but Ava has heard me 
rave about it enough that her family is planning to get the first season to watch.
The story line and hero, Raylon Givens, originated in an Elmore Leonard short story. He’s even taken to writing Raylon into other works because he’s become so popular.
Why is Raylon so popular? I don’t know, but the actor playing him, Timothy Olyphant, has nailed this character. Additionally, his cousin on again/off again bad guy you love to hate, Boyd Crowder, played by Walton Goggins, is superb.
This is the spiel from the FX publicity department:
U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is a modern day 19th century-style lawman, enforcing his brand of justice in a way that puts a target on his back with criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service. That conflict results in a reassignment for Givens to the U.S. District covering the town where he grew up. He is an anachronism – a tough, soft spoken gentleman who finds his quarry fascinating, but never gives an inch. Dig under his placid skin and you’ll find an angry man who grew up hard in rural Kentucky, with an outlaw father, who knows a lot more about who he doesn’t want to be than who he really is.
The thing is, even as well written as that description is, it doesn’t get across just how hot Raylon is. He’s not my usual guy. My type is fairly well defined as big men – six feet plus with some muscular bulk. Think hockey player with a 
handsome face. My Honey is a big guy with a handsome face. I don’t think Tim is that big a man. He seems wiry but the internet has him at six feet. The attraction must be how authoritative Raylon is. Tim Olyphant has that thousand yard stare down pat.
Anyway, the show is awesome. I do suggest you start at the beginning because it’s very convoluted and to truly understand the relationships – especially with Raylon and Boyd and then the really convoluted relationship with Boyd/Raylon and Ava – you should start with the first episode.
Hie thee to Netflix. You’ll be happy you did.
In Our Humble Opinion . . . it’s called rush hour because we’re all in a rush – yes, we’re talking to you Mr. SlowPokeDriver in the left lane.
In Our Humble Opinion . . . Muhammad Ali had his “Rumble in the Jungle” and now Arizona will have its “Mess in Mesa” at today’s Republican debate.
In Our Humble Opinion . . . if Romney thinks his donors are “maxed out” he needs to talk to the American people.
In Our Humble Opinion . . . we know it’s totally politically incorrect but no matter how many times we see you today we think that’s dirt on your forehead.
Fat Tuesday and we’ve run amok
I was completely gob-smacked. Ava had never heard of King Cake. How is it possible there is a cake out there she is
unfamiliar with?
It all started with an instant message conversation. I noted that I would be willing to eat a cake with a baby in it. Ava was alarmed, which is the appropriate response if one doesn’t know what King Cake is. For those of you out there who don’t know what King Cake is, before I tell you, I want to know where you’ve been keeping yourself? It is unfathomable to me that Ava doesn’t know what it is, so you may not either, although I did take an unofficial poll which consisted of me yelling the question out to our office mates and everyone else knew what King Cake is.
Wikipedia has a large entry that gives a concise history and its international variations of the cake. As far as how it’s celebrated in New Orleans and surrounding areas, the person who gets the baby trinket in their piece gets to be King or 
Queen for the day. Why in God’s name would Ava not be sold on that fact? I’m totally in. Queen for the day? Yes, ma’am!
Also, it is suggested the person that gets the baby will also HAVE a baby. Well, neither of us is having a human baby, but Ava is dying for a kitten and a kitten is a baby cat. I’d be very happy for a baby hedgehog or a prehensile porcupine baby.
Nevertheless, she was confident I was making the whole thing up. Ava’s like that. I suggested that she doesn’t know everything, but that did not make my case either. When I pointed out that she didn’t know that polar bears and penguins actually never meet in the wild as they live on opposite poles of the Earth, she didn’t believe that either.
My knowledge of stupid stuff is epic, people. 98% of the crap I know is not important, life saving, or integral to the day-to-day operation of living life but if you need to know something inane or trivial beyond measure, I’m your gal.
Still, I absolute cannot fathom how Ava didn’t know about a cake that can make you Queen for a day and get you a kitten.