Mad Madam M here commandeering Crys’s blog today with this very important office etiquette reminder!! (WARNING: 
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I soooooooo wish I could do that!! Don’t get me wrong, I’m not advocating office violence, but a admin assistant can dream!! Perhaps I should hide the staplers today…
So, as promised, I bring reports back from my trip out west.
1. Calamity Jane was properly shocked when M and I showed up. She squealed. She jumped. She bounced. She tackled us with hugs and happy-happy-joy-joys that we’d come. Awww.
2. M and I had some road trip fun. Here’s some of the spectacular views of Mount Shasta.
3. And did you know that when you get far enough north in California, they’d tried to break off into their own state called Jefferson? Some haven’t given up the struggle.
4. When we got to Calamity Jane’s house–what I like to call Little House on the Prairie–and enjoyed the home on the range time.
5. Calamity Jane getting all diploma’d up. And a weird graveyard thing they had set up at her high school. I have no idea why.
6. Me and Calamity Jane. Don’t look at me, look at her. She’s cuter and thinner.
7. Me, M, and Calamity Jane.
8. The kittens that were hogging most of the bathroom. Try stepping over them and not on them when you reeeeeally have to pee, and they get less cute and more annoying really fast.
9. Me and my aunt, Calamity Jane’s mom.
10. Calamity Jane in a dress. I had to take a picture because it doesn’t happen that often. She’s sporty. Also, the cake in the background is her mom’s creation. She’s a bad ass baker. Yum. If you haven’t tried Bavarian Cream as cake filling, it’s orgasmic.
11. Me and M. And, oh yeah, my family thought we were gonna make out any second. They all camped out at the cabin and we eschewed the delights of kittens and campfires to stay in a hotel. Which of course meant we were sleeping together. That we had separate beds was beside the point and a trivial detail.
12. Calamity Jane’s younger brother. He’s the baby of the family and now he’s taller than me and has a girlfriend. I feel old.
13. Calamity Jane’s older brothers.
14. More road trip fun on the way back down to Sacramento and the airplane ride back to Utah.
This just in from the Mad Madam M front! Her email is just TOO funny so I’m copying and pasting it below for your edification and amusement.
It took me an hour to vote this morning. An HOUR. And not because there was a large queue of civic minded individuals wishing to have their democratic voice heard…that I could have handled. Instead I think a untalented 3 Stooges Tribute Troupe decided it would be fun to try to run a polling place. I should note that I was also turning in absentee ballots for my parents, but still…AN HOUR!!!
Here’s breakdown of the events:
8am - I arrive at the polling place (local middle school) and marvel at the fact there are open spaces right next to the door. (I now realize it is because people could sense the incompetence and simply avoided the area entirely.)
8:09 - I finish voting.
8:10 - I start explaining to Polling Person #1 (PP#1) that I need to drop off two absentee ballots for my parents. (Note: My parents had already filled in my name and I had signed the envelope as well to certify that they wanted them dropped off at a polling place.)
8:15 - PP#1 and I get into a ‘discussion’ over whether or not I need to sign the “Make a Mark” section of the absentee ballot envelope (You know the place if you can’t sign you name where you are supposed to make a mark…)
8:17 - PP#1 is joined by PP#2 & PP#3 who all assure me I am supposed to sign there. However, PP#4 is on my side saying that would nullify the ballot.
8:20 - Manual is consulted by PP#2, PP#3 & PP#5, because yes it takes 3 people to look at one manual.
8:22 - No answer found…
8:25 - I start mentioning that I need to get to work, but I am told that if we don’t get this worked out they are going to throw the ballots in the trash, so I wait.
8:30 - The manual is still not providing an answer so PP#4 suggests calling the main polling place for the county.
8:32 - Phone number finally found… (See what I mean about the incompetence!)
8:35 - On hold
8:40 - Still on hold, although, PP#2 & PP#4 assure me that this should only take a minute
8:45 - Still on hold…
8:50 - FINALLY AN ANSWER!!! GUESS WHO WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG!!! MEEEEEEE!!!! FUCKING IDIOTS!!!! JUST READ THE FUCKING ENVELOPE!?!?!?!?!!?
8:51 - As I exit PP#1 asks if I want an “I Voted Sticker”. I take the sticker and refrain from adding “Damn right I want my sticker!”
8:52 - Get into my car to leave only to have school bus pull up behind and block my exit. It appears to be loading kids for a field trip to some sort of water park.
8:59 - Still waiting for punk-as kids to get on the bus…
9:01 - Finally I exit onto the street; the ordeal is finally over.
And they wonder why people don’t find the time to vote…
Another Supernatural smackdown. This time it’s the women we love–or love to hate.
Bela (left) and Ruby (right)
Ellen
Jo
Jess (left) and Mary (right)
Sarah and Sam
Lisa
Mad Madam M would like some assistance in saving a show she loves. It’s called Jericho and it was canceled this season right when there could have been a civil war in the near-future US with nuclear weapons. It’s very cliffhangerish. She wants to know what happens next.
So, she’s thinking that the Sci-Fi network might pick up the show, but we have to let them know the show is made of awesome and looking for a new home before it’s gone completely. M’s letter consisted of explaining how she found the show (i.e. a SCI FI marathon) and why she thinks that Jericho would be a good fit on the network (i.e. loyal/vocal/crazy fanbase). You can write something similar and if you don’t know much about the show–just write so you get a chance to see it!
The address for SCI FI Channel headquarters is:
SCI FI Channel
21st Floor
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10112
Start your writing utensils and get the word out to the network people!
A “who’s hotter” smack down quiz! I thought we’d do something different–and in tribute to my (and the Mad Madam M’s) favorite show, Supernatural.
As always, I come home bearing stories from the road trip of fun.
The Mad Madam M has a distinct hatred of acronyms. I can only imagine how she handles those commercials where the kids and grandmother speak in text message acronym lingo until the mom goes: “I have completely failed you as a parent.”
So, in honor of that, here is the dorkiest, yet funniest, video on internet acronyms I’ve ever seen. It even has a song reminiscent of the Muppets. :)
Today’s hump day hottie…is Mad Madam M’s new retro bike, Daisy.
Here she is, sexy and turquoise.
Check out the rear view. Work it like the rent is due. Yeehaw.
And here’s how Daisy got her name. Check the tats. Oh, baby.
I’m not one to talk politics, especially in public, but the Mad Madam M pointed me in the direction of what I think is a very creative video. Will.I.Am. from Black Eyed Peas got a bunch of singers and actors together and set a speech “Yes, We Can” from Obama to music.
So, this isn’t a declaration of my politics–I pretty much think that’s no one’s business but mine…but anything that’s as creative as this needs to be shared.
The Novelty Girls