Animals are My Best Thing [Even at Parties]

I recently attended a work party at the beautiful home of one of the executives at my company.  It was a lovely evening with perfect weather, a fantastic setting/view, kids playing in the pool, lots of great food, an awesome jazz band, a cozy fire pit once it got dark, and, of course, good company.  But the highlight of MY night was playing with the pets that live there:

Snuggling up with Nibbles

This is not the first time that I've attended a social event and have been perfectly happy spending the evening interacting with the pets and not the people.  In this case I had house-sat for the family a few times before so I was already familiar with the animals (a dog, two rabbits, two turtles, and a fish), and therefore, hopefully, this isn't as weird as it might sound.

If you know me personally I'm sure you don't find this at all surprising.  I've always been an animal lover.  You can expect to see a lot of future posts about the various organizations I support and my upcoming (but yet-to-be-planned) return trip to volunteer at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary (but I'm publishing it on my blog so now I HAVE to start planning!).  In the meantime, here are some of my all-time favorite animal videos:

(he's OK I'm sure)

Hope you enjoyed them as I much as I do!

Cookie Monster Cake: "me don't want to touch, me want to eat."

Last night I got together with some friends to watch the VMAs, and someone brought THIS:

I mean, does it get any better than a cake, covered in icing, with cookies sticking out of it?!

It turned our lips/tongues/teeth bright blue, which was HYSTERICAL (but lesbihonest, after 3 glasses of champagne almost anything is hysterical).  In the end we only really ate the "face" so I brought the leftovers in to work today.  I can't wait to see who of my coworkers will be walking around with blue lips!


PS. that is a legit Cookie Monster quote in the title of this post.  It is from "Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" (1983).  The full quote:
[Cookie Monster sees a painting of fruit]
Cookie Monster: Me eat picture!
Bob: No, no, no, Cookie Monster. You can't touch the picture.
Cookie Monster: No, me don't want to touch, me want to eat.
Bob: No, you can't, nooooo!
Cookie Monster: Let me eat frame.
Bob: The sign, Cookie Monster, look at the sign.
[sees a sign that forbids eating pictures]
Cookie Monster: Please don't eat the pictures. Aw, this going to be long night.

I <3 Cookie Monster.  Sesame Street was totally one of My Best Things during childhood and I hope it's around forever!

Lesbihonest, It's My Best Thing

On last night's "Jersey Shore" Pauly D and Vinny coined a new phrase while making fun of Deena's bi-curious exploits: Lesbihonest.  I know everyone's all gaga over "twinning" but lesbihonest, this is way better.

McDonald's Coffee: My Best [Morning] Thing

"Small coffee, black and an egg McMuffin, no meat"

This is my standard order at the local McD's.  I consider it a "treat" (as opposed to my usual boring cereal or instant oatmeal and gross office coffee) and want to keep it that way so I try to limit my "splurges" to about once every couple of weeks, sometimes once a week.  I bring it in to work and the coffee is still piping hot when I get in.  I add a little bit of 2%, some sweetener, and my morning becomes instantly better.  Happy Friday to me!

PS.  This is not a "sponsored" post.  I just really love McDonald's coffee.

PPS.  Unless you feel like losing your breakfast, don't scroll too far down if you ever do a Google image search for "mcdonalds coffee" (though I suppose this could be applied to any Google image search).  There are some pretty graphic images of coffee-spill burns - yikes. 

No One's Best Thing: Natural Disasters

Earlier this week, as an earthquake rattled the East Coast, Twitter exploded, we West Coast-ers giggled, which made the East Coast mad, but then they giggled too.  The end result:

Here are a few more pictures of the epic devastation.

But now people are boarding up their windows and fleeing their homes in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Irene.  New York, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina have all declared states of emergency.  The Weather Channel is calling it an "extreme" and "extraordinary" threat.

I mean, this is really scary right?

To my family, friends, and readers who might be in Irene's path: PLEASE please do what you need to do to protect your home and get yourself and your pets (read this if you have one) out of harm's way.  Seriously, stop reading this right now and GO.

In the meantime I will be praying you all stay safe.  <3

PS.  Are there really people out there still doubting global warming/global weirding?  Really?  If so, they need to WAKE THE F*CK UP.