I got this as a joke email at work yesterday, and I thought I’d share it for fun.  Don’t get offended.  I chuckled at a few, because I got a few of these in the past week.  I’m not easy to live with.

1. Fine

This is the word women use to end an argument when they are right and you need to shut up.

2. Five Minutes

If she is getting dressed, this means a half an hour. Five minutes is only five minutes if you have just been given five more minutes to watch the game before helping around the house.

3. Nothing

This is the calm before the storm. This means something, and you should be on your toes. Arguments that begin with Nothing usually end in Fine.

4. Go Ahead

This is a dare, not permission. Don’t Do It!

5. Loud Sigh

This is not actually a word, but it is a non-verbal statement often misunderstood by men. A loud sigh means she thinks you are an idiot and wonders why she is wasting her time standing here and arguing with you about nothing.
(Refer back to #3 for the meaning of nothing.)

6. That’s Okay

This is one of the most dangerous statements a women can make to a man. “That’s okay” means she wants to think long and hard before deciding how and when you will pay for your mistake.

7. Thanks

A woman is thanking you, do not question it or faint. Just say you’re welcome.

8. Whatever

Is a woman’s way of saying F*&@ YOU!

9. Don’t worry about it, I got it

Another dangerous statement, meaning this is something that a woman has told a man to do several times, but she is now doing it herself. This will later result in a man asking “What’s wrong?”

For the woman’s response refer to #3.

I’m proud to announce that I’ve lost 4 lbs. in 4 weeks, which (if you can’t do the math) is 1 pound a week.  That is sustainable, doable, inscrutable, and not bamboozle-able.

I’m really happy for myself, and I’m gonna keep it going.  I was so thrilled that instead of walking before yoga today, I ran for 20 mins.  I was fired up the rest of the day.  Sure, I’m feeling it now — achy ankles and feet, sore leg muscles, but I reiterate.  “Yea!”

Minnie Leia? Ewww.

Ok, what is up with George Lucas? The man has been merchandising everything under the sun related to the Star Wars franchise.  As the owner, it’s his right, but shouldn’t he draw the line at the most ridiculous ones?  Case in point: Star Wars Disney character statues.  Mickey Luke, Minnie Leia, Goofy Chewie, and Donald in Carbonite? Why, George?  Why?

Minnie Leia does not do it for me.  It’s like seeing Ross’ mother dressed up as Leia all over again.

The first review is out on U2′s new album, No Line on the Horizon.”  The review is not that good.  It’s not terrible, but the reviewer felt the album was “mostly restless, tentative and confused. ”    I’ll wait for a few more reviews, and a chance for myself to hear some of the songs with my own two ears. U2′s 1997 album Pop was pretty well-maligned, but I didn’t think it was that bad.  I’ll take that back  — I’ll admit that I only liked, hmmm, three songs on the album, which is dismal.

After an almost five-year absence, during which Bono was named one of TIME’s Persons of the Year for his work on global poverty and the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the band returns on March 3 with an album called No Line on the Horizon. It offers up a few new hits for the wedding playlist, but No Line on the Horizon is mostly restless, tentative and confused. It’s not terrible, but it feels like the work of musicians torn between the comfort of the present and the lure of one last run into the adventurous past.

Let’s hope for the best.  No Line on the Horizon will be released next week on March 3rd.

I’m posting, because it’s about my family’s home state of Kerala, India.

After 26 years as a nun, Jesme Raphael gave up her robes and walked out of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel, the Catholic order in Kerala, India, that had been her home for three decades. Two years later, Raphael, now 53, has come out with her memoirs, Amen: An Autobiography of A Nun, cataloging lurid details of bullying, sexual abuse and homosexuality in the oldest Catholic women’s order in the idyllic coastal state in southern India. Shocking as it is, the book is only the latest in a long series of accusations and scandals afflicting the Catholic Church in the state with the largest population of Christians in India.

The article is A Former Nun’s Memoirs Rock India’s Catholic Church. I’m not surprised, but I’m irritated by the nonchalant and dismissive attitude of some of the clergy and others within the Catholic church.  Very typical of some of these people who want to deny the problem, and simply hope the problem goes away.

I found this on Gizmodo.  Funny, in a nutty sort of way. How does a one-term US Senator become President of the United States and enter office with crazy approval ratings? Previously unseen footage reveals Obama‘s secret: the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. Dang.

So is he now Obama Prime?