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Timeline of Internet Memes

Do you remember when you first heard Hampsterdance? Do you know what LOLcat is? This timeline takes you through internet memes - units of thinking that spread through the population.

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My Soul is Worth $137,070

I took the How Much is Your Soul Worth? test tonight. I'm not sure if that's good or bad because I don't have anything to compare it to, but I'm pretty sure that I would want more than $137,070 to sell my soul.

$137,070 Soul Dollars
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I'm Lucky if My Grass is Green

I can barely keep my grass green and a family of birds has destroyed my flower beds by dropping more seeds than I can pull (assuming I actually went out in the Texas heat to pull weeds).

And then there's this guy...

A Friend Needs Help

A friend of mine was in a bicycle accident on Father's Day that left him paralyzed from the next down. Since his accident, I have learned a lot about spinal cord injuries. The most shocking bit of information is that the cost of living the 1st year in the life of a quadriplegic is $1 million!

His attitude is extremely positive, but he and his family are going to need help during this trying time. He has been on the local news in Dallas a couple times because he has not learned the identity of the jogger who found him after the accident. He has created a website about spinal cord injuries with updates his condition. A fund has been started in his name - The Joe Groh SCI Fund. You can get information about the fund at his website - The Joe Groh SCI Fund.

Please pass this information along to anyone you know who can help.

Asshole Rednecks and Masturbating Pomeranians

We rented a lake house this weekend. It's a great house with a good amount of land for the dogs to run around on. But then, there's the neighbors...

We were greeted by the neighbors dogs, 2 pit bulls and 4 pomeranians. Strange dog combination aside, they seemed friendly enough, plus they were on the other side of the fence. At least for a while. The pomeranains had a secret hole in the fence which allowed them to slip onto our side.

Once there, one continued to bark at us, one rolled on her back for a belly rub, and one started doggy masturbating on the ground. Yes, I said doggy masturbating.

I don't know if I can describe this in it's full weirdness, but I'll try. Imagine a tiny dog humping an imaginary leg on the ground and at the critical point it'd lift both front legs up completely off the ground in a doggy cheer. I really wish I took video of this, because I cannot possibly due it justice with mere words.

If that wasn't bad enough, when our dogs went to check out the pomeranian yap fest, the owner, an asshole redneck, told us to keep our dogs from "charging" at the fence. When we told the asshole redneck that their masturbating pomeranian and friends slipped through the high security chicken wire setup, he told us that the owner of the rental house should fix it. WTF!

We've been here for two hours and we've seen a masturbating pomeranian and met and asshole redneck. The weekend is off to a good start. We'll need more wine though...

Bike Trail Etiquette

I have posted airport travel rules in the past to help those less informed to get out of my way more quickly in security, now that I've started rollerblading again, I've decided to post bike trail rules for the same reason.

Bike trails typically consist of cyclists, rollerbladers, runners and walkers. In order to coexist, there really is one simple rule. Walk to the left and watch behind you so you don't get run over. It's really for your health and safety.

This weekend a couple of women started on the trail as I was putting on my blades. One immediately stopped in front of a cyclist and almost got run over. Not 5 minutes later, when I came up behind them, they were walking side by side, not paying attention. I put on my brakes about 30 feet behind them so they could hear me coming. This caused them to jump 2 feet in the air and do some confused squirrel-like freak out dance (except you would never see a squirrel do this dance, because they know to watch and listen to the trail so they don't get run over). Seriously, 2 times in 5 minutes, this woman almost got taken out of the gene pool.

Here's a couple rules:
1. Pay attention. The world does not consist of the 160 degree field of vision in front of you. Look behind you, especially if you have your headphones on.
2 Don't walk three people wide. Two people wide is really too wide. Move over when someone comes up to pass you.
3. Don't stop at the bottom of the hill in the middle of the trail. In fact, don't stop in the trail at all. If you have to stop GET OFF THE TRAIL!
4. Rollerbladers cannot go in the grass. Everyone else can, so cut us some slack.

For the record, if you step in front of me and make me fall, I'm taking you with me...

Our Biggest Sale Ever

We just had our biggest sale ever! We sold 300 heart shaped soaps for wedding favors. This is a whole market that I didn't even know existed. People buying soap to give guests at their wedding. Genius!

We are definitely going to expand in this category. Tell everyone you know that is getting married.

Soap Rockstars!

We have had the best Pig and the Peacock weekend ever! We had 10 sales on Friday for a total of about 40 bars of soap. One person bought 11 bars. We had 3 sales to Canada. We are so international.

The sales have slowed down the rest of the weekend, but we have had a consistent trickle of sales all weekend. We are such soap rockstars!

We finally perfected the bath bomb this weekend - by going to another shape and forgetting about the elusive and extremely difficult sphere design. Many of our bath bombs resembled hamburgers, mushrooms, blobs, and the shape of any surface that we put them on. I thought that nature liked the sphere. You know, perfect shape, equal forces, maximum volume to surface area, and all that. Apparently that does not hold true for bath bombs.

We made our first body polishes this weekend and we are moving into body butters next. My obsessiveness has finally found an outlet.

A Big Day for The Pig and the Peacock

This was a big day for The Pig and the Peacock! I woke up this morning to find about 150 views on our website, which it turns out was because we made the front page of Etsy. Yea us! (That's us circled in red.)

   

We had two sales immediately after I found out about this, one of which was an international sale. Double yea us. The Pig and the Peacock has gone international!

To top it off, we shipped our 1st consignment order this week to Oak in Boston and I happen to be in Boston today, so I stopped by the store today and got to see our product in a STORE!  (That's our stuff circled in red!)

We are soap rock stars!