I always have random things bumping around in my head, some of which might cause the headaches I have been getting. Some of these random things are questions I have. Like what is the difference between a motel and a hotel? What is up with the word read? What is up with muscle cramps? Why does my stomach make noises sometimes? Why do some farts stink and others not? What the heck are headaches all about?

Those are just a fraction of the questions I have in my big head and tonight I am going to search for some answers. If you too have some of these same questions you might want to stick around for awhile and get smart with me.

What is the difference between a hotel and a motel? From what I found on wikipedia, motels are typically for motorists and are close to main roads of travel. Motels also offer quick access to the outside with doors typically opening to the parking lot, which also give guests a little more anonymity because they don’t have to interact with other guests and staff every time they leave the room. Finally! I know what makes a motel different form a hotel. Somehow it wasn’t as satisfying as I had hoped.

What is up with the word read? You can go to the library and read or you can go to the library and find out that you have already read all the good books and there are no more to read. I am not a fan of this annoyingly confusing word in the english language, but i do wonder what the deal is and maybe I can find out…. 10 minutes later I can’t find anything entertaining about this word! booo!

What is up with muscle cramps? I don’t get them too often but sometimes when I bend my toes down they just cramp up and give me the weirdest feeling ever. I try to bend them back but they fight me and it seems like some evil joke my body plays on me because the second I think everything is okay they will just cramp up again. Oh yeah, when I was about 10 I got a charlie horse in my leg while my sister and I were waiting in the car for my mom and I thought I was dying but I guess my sister and I should have not tried to hide on the floorboard of the backseat so my mom would think we got kidnapped, then I wouldn’t have got a cramp. haha, okay now onto the good stuff.

According to about.com the exact cause of muscle cramping is not known but it might be related to poor flexibility. So the cousin of not being able to bend down and touch your toes is a cramp, just so you know. Apparently muscle fatigue and doing a new activity are also close relatives, maybe even siblings to the cramp. I am going to call the mother of the cramp this other likely cause they have listed, which is exercising in the heat and becoming dehydrated. Who knew that the muscle cramp had so many relatives. I guess I better quit hanging out with cramps relatives so she doesn’t come around here no more.

Why does my stomach make noises? Lately my stomach has been making a ridiculous amount of noise. Sometimes it happens at school during a quiet class and is quite embarrassing. I just want to know what the heck is going on in there. 10 minutes later… Okay, apparently stomach noises are called borborygmi and are essentially the sounds of food, air and gas moving through your digestive system. Mothernature.com also says that a rush of stomach acids go through your system every two hours whether you have eaten or not and this too can cause grumbling. The last thing they list as a cause is upset stomach and irritable bowel syndrome, those both sound like a party to me. This info still isn’t much help to me I guess, because how the heck do I know which thing is my cause? Okay… now I have nother question, what is irritable bowel syndrome?

What is irritable bowel syndrome? Sounds like it might be irritating but I still dont know exactly what it is, lets find out! I looked on wiki and from what I make of it irritable bowel syndrome is gut pain which is only relieved by going to the pooper and doing the poopy business. Everything else I read was boring and I rather get to my next question.

Why do some farts stink while others don’t? I assume this has something to do with what food you eat but I normally find that my assumptions are just my way of pretending that there is nothing I do not know. Some of you may be surprised to know that there is actually a lot I don’t know, I am just a really good maker-uper of stuff. Okay so onto the answer… Okay! stinky farts have a few causes. They can be caused by sulfur rich foods, such as cauliflower, eggs and meat and they are also caused by bacterial fermentation in your digestive system. Apparently meat is digested so slowly that it can ferment. Okay, farts are boring me…

What are headaches all about? Okay, I get headaches pretty often now and I am thinking that they are caused by stress or something because I never used to get them. What I notice though is that sometimes the headaches seem different in that the degree of pain and location tend to change. So I was curious about what these headaches things are all about… Headaches have many causes (not surprising!) such as eyestrain, dehydration, caffeine withdrawal, posture (tension headache), certain foods, life threatening conditions like encephalitis and this is a shocker, head injuries. Okay, so they are caused by many things, but what is going on in there? why does it hurt?

The brain itself does not have pain sensitive nerve fibers so the pain comes from nerves that extend over the scalp and face. I am relieved to know that my headache pain is not coming from my brain, that just sorta freaks me out, thinking about my amazing brain sitting there in pain. As I read more and more there are all kinds of headaches and a bunch of boring mumbo jumbo and I guess I still dont know much more about headaches than I already did because I am too tired to comprehend all the crap I found. Thanks for playing along and if you have anything to add to any of my half-assed answers or any questions of your own that you decide to answer today please share. One question everyone should know the answer to: Does Laycie love comments? In the words of a dear friend, Hell yeah she does!

I apologize for any typos but I am a type-and-go kind of blogger tonight… and many other nights. Happy Sunday night y’all!

Yesterday Michael yelled out to me “Blacky has shit on her ass!” The tone of his cry was so urgent that the words didn’t even make it to my ears. I thought Blacky was having a seizure or something, she’s a weird cat which we basically know nothing about so who knows right? So then I was like, “what?!?!?” and he repeated his words in a tone that allowed me to hear them and I went hunting for Blacky and her shitty ass.

I am used to shitty asses, Spunky used to have one like every other day. So I find Blacky and see that she practically has an entire load hanging of her ass. I immediately open the door since she is running around the house like a lunatic trying to get the shit to fall off. She goes out into the yard and I shut the door and lock it, which leads me to think I am either in way too much of a habit with the locking of the door or I am more afraid of cat shit than I thought.

I stand there at the door and watch her. No I don’t have x-ray vision, we happen to be some of those cool people with a big window on their front door, I mean peep holes are so overrated. So, I am watching her to see if she gets the crap off but she just sits there, on her ass, doing nothing to get the job done. I had put her out hoping she would just do what needed to be done but here again I find that I just have to take action and resolve this before she just mushes the shit allover herself and I have to put her in the shower like I have had to do with Spunky so many times.

I walk into the bathroom, get a huge wad of toilet paper, unlock the door and venture out into shitville USA. I pet Blacky so she’ll stand up and then I am trying to grab the load off her ass when I am surprisingly met with some resistance, not from the cat but from her ass. I think its weird but get more toilet paper and go in for the rest when I realize that what she shit out was not just shit, but fur… fur with a nice creamy shit coating!

I am utterly weirded out because I never knew such a thing was possible. My second attempt at taking care of this sad excuse for a cat failed but with each mission I gained more knowledge. Mission one taught me to pull harder, mission two taught me that this was not just ordinary shit but super shit and that since the shit was so super Blacky was unable to get it all out and the reason there was resistance was because some of the troops were still in the tunnel if you know what I am saying.

I knew that this third mission must be my last mission so I got my toilet paper ready gave Blacky a nice little petting and talked her through it as I grabbed hold of the super shit and pulled it out of her. After this Blacky ran allover the yard and I like to think she did this as some sort of way to show me how happy she was that I had helped her out. Gross? yes. Crazy cat lady? most definitely. Now no one can ever, ever, ever doubt my love for the furry ones! You may doubt my sanity, but not my love. Laycie Loves!

this is so freaking hilarious, cats that like to be spanked…

I love what this little guy does after the spanking stops, LOL!

This cat is just s straight up freak.

This cat has huge paws!

The cat that gets run over by the remote control truck looks just like Spunky! and the cat on the fence is toooooo much!

So after I ditched my homework the most amazing Sunday of my life happened! We went to Pringle Park with Scott and Lisa and looked at some of what they are doing up there, it was all neat-o and pretty fun but the real fun happened when we went back to S&L’s house.

Lisa had to put some stuff in the oven real quick and while we were waiting for the food to get all baked we took a walk down the street to see this little house that is for sale. S&L are fancy pants because they live in the historic district with all the amazingly awesome houses I love! The little house we looked at was super duper cute. It was such a nice day to take a walk. There are so many pretty trees on their street, it just made me way happy, like WAY happy.

It’s funny because I don’t know if you have ever not eaten something you loved for awhile but if you have then you know that when you once again eat that beloved thing it tastes even better than you remember and maybe even better than it actually might be because you have spent so much time fantasizing about it. That’s what going outside is like to me. I love it and I fantasize about it quite often, if you were with me outside on a sunny day you might think that I had been locked in a cupboard for like 5 years. I’m pretty bad. Yeah Laycie, we all know… That tree is beautiful and so is everything else out here, shut up now!

We returned from the outdoor adventure and ate a super delish brunch. Lisa is the best cook I know! Everything she makes is amazing and I can never stop eating. She made dessert too which is surely the best way to get on my “happy fun friend” list. Laycie loves her treats! After we ate we all went to Target. Target is fun, its good for like buying mops and stuff, which we did. Then after we bought mops we went home and mopped the floor. No, seriously… we had more of Lisa’s chocolate shortcake with bananas and caramel. That is way better than mopping.

After our second dessert we all just hung out upstairs in their office which is the dope bomb hangout. Lisa and I played this card game called Phase 10 and I totally kicked her ass. It was sad though because she used to play it all the time and I pretty much owned her. We then looked at some books because there are lots of books in their office and everyone knows that books are awesome and that once you open one it might be hard to shut it, especially if there are pictures, and there were definitely some pictures going on in these books.

So after digesting our food and dorking around upstairs we decided to go outside and play. We grabbed a basketball and walked to a park right by their house. We shot hoops, played for keeps, and worked up a sweat. Ever since that game thought I have an urge every now and then to just shout out “play for keeps!” but I refrain and smile because I just say it inside my head which is almost like yelling it out but without the strange looks from people. B-ball is the dope bomb and I want to go play more.

As the sun set we walked back from the park and when we got back to the house we were all saddened that there was not a third dessert to be had. We shed our tears and then scott went to go pick out a funny movie for us to watch. We were all just goofing around and Scott made the comment that it was totally like we were kids whose parents left us alone for the weekend. It was clearly a no parents weekend for us! Two desserts, playing outside, thats all ya need!

The movie we watched was Run Ronnie Run with David Cross, way funny and the way perfect ending to the way funnest day I have had in a along time! Thanks friends for making me smile!

Last Sunday I had an amazing day. It didn’t exactly start amazing but it quickly turned amazing. I had a lab due Monday for this one class that I have since decided to take next year… but my plan was to work on it all day and get it done. Sounds really lame and unexciting and I am sure it would have been even worse that it sounds.

We were supposed to go to this thing with Lisa and Scott up at Pringle Park where they are making a “green” community but I decided to not go. Lisa was going to make us brunch and that too I was going to skip out on. You know how it is… you have something to do, you step away for an hour or two and before you know it six hours have passed by. This has happened to me many times and I didn’t want it to happen to me on this day.

So I called Lisa, told her I wasn’t going to the Pringle Park thing. She asked about brunch and I said maybe. Maybe?!?!?! Yeah Lisa, go slave away in the kitchen making brunch so that I can call and tell you that maybe I will come. Hi, could I be more of a jerk?

So I sat here trying to figure out my lab and I felt lame because I should have just got it done sooner but I didn’t and now I had to sit here why my friends went out and had fun. So I was sitting here trying and trying to do my lab and feeling really lame when I got a little message on chat. It was after this message that I realized what a jack ass I was being and how I loathed the very thing I was doing to Lisa. Yes loathe. I am not a fan of people being loser jack-asses and here I sat being one.

It’s weird how at times you can get so caught up in your own bullshit that you just don’t think about how what you do affects other people. Here Lisa planned to have us over for brunch and I just tell her at the last minute I am not going… so way beyond uncool that the second I realized what a douche I was being I almost went crazy. I love realizing things about myself but sometimes it just sucks when you realize you are a jerk.

There have been many times I have been canceled on at the last minute and 100% of those times I was deeply saddened and disappointed. I hate having plans and not going through with them. The only thing worse than feeling that way is when you relize you may have made someone else feel that way. Not that I was all like, omg Lisa is now deeply saddened because I am so amazing to hang out with but it just sucks when you plan on something and you work on things and some jackass just says, oh by the way I can’t come… like its nothing and like you mean nothing. Okay maybe I’m going a bit too far here…

Needless to say I decided to not do my lab and to go to the Pringle Park thing and to go have brunch with my friends. I am sooooo glad I did too because I had the funnest day I have had in a LONG time. It wasn’t just regular fun but it 12 year old on a summer day with the parents gone kind of fun. It was fun for my soul.

Nothing gets me in a good mood faster than some good old fashion complaining. I decided I would complain today about some of the things that I think are the worst things ever that people/animals can do/say. So here goes nothing.

One thing that I just think is the worst is when you show someone something you did and they say something to the effect of Gee I wish I had time to do something like that. No compliments, no jumping up and down at your awesomeness, just some lame sentence that makes you want to puke. Not only does a comment like that make you think they are lame but it’s really kind of an insult. Like they’re saying the only reason they haven’t done something like that is because they just don’t have the time. They are so busy living their important life and you just have such a sad meaningless life that there is nothing else for you to do but this one thing right here that you are showing them. This actually might be true though, I mean look at everyone who does awesome creative things… they are probably just the saddest little beings on earth. um, no, I don’t think so. Comments that aren’t compliments are the worst!

The next thing that qualifies for the title of the worst is when you have all these assignments due at school yet your mind just keeps taking off into the world of creativity and you just have all these ideas of great things to make and do but alas you cannot do any of them because the choice to make time for those things would mean less time for school work and that is never a good thing because you must have the most time allowable for completing assignments and reading chapters and coding labs and making power point presentations and doing research and going crazy and freaking out. That is actually the worst.

Another thing that I just think is the worst is when your cats just start acting like freaks right at the precise moment where the last thing you need in the world is to be entertained by your cats freakiness, at this point it would not be entertainment but pure cause to drive you to insanity. When you’re bored out of your mind and need to be entertained where is this freakiness?? Why does it only come when you yourself are just too freaky to appreciate it?

There is another thing that is the worst. It’s when you go to Dairy Queen and you order a blizzard but what you get is a runny ass sorry excuse for a milkshake. Like the person that made the thing just had nothing else going on in their life except that damn blizzard and they just mixed the F out of it until there wasn’t even a chance someone would mistake it for a blizzard, because that is just awesome. The Dairy Queen over here on Wallace Rd. is THE worst, but the other ones aren’t much better. Dairy Queen is pretty much the worst.

We played tennis with Scott and Lisa last Friday and Scott managed to slam everyone with a tennis ball I think. I got hit on my arse but Michael yelled out “you got her right in the butthole” wow, soooo awesome Michael. I’m never really down for tennis but I had a lot of fun playing with Lisa. Everything is fun with Lisa. I also had fun watching Lisa clean up Bridger’s dog shit off the court.

After we played for awhile we decided we were going to hang out so we went home for showers. An hour later we were at their house eating a pizza but Lisa didn’t take a shower so she was wondering what the took us so long. She told me that she told Scott if I came over with straight hair she was going to bitch slap me, haha. I’m not that much of a jackass. My wet hair saved me from a bitch slap though.

We ate some pizza from Walery’s then decided to go pick up blizzards. Mine had like hardly any blizz in it but I dealt. Dairy Queen you’re breaking my heart! So we took our blizzards into the movie room and watched the intro to The Way of The Gun because it has Sara Silverman being totally crazy and Michael loves her.

We then watched Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the whole time I watched it I was basically freaking out. I think it might be the best movie I have ever seen. I don’t even know what to say about it besides telling you to go rent it if you haven’t seen it. Everything about it was awesome. I am basically speechless about it because whatever I say just seems like it wouldn’t be good enough. Imagine watching a movie where afterward you felt like the movie had reached into your chest and smacked your heart… thats kinda how I felt afterward. I love a movie that you keep thinking about, its how all art should be. An artists goal should be to make people think.

I re-organized my Flickr account into some nice little COLLECTIONS. My most recent pics are always RIGHT HERE. If you look around a little you will see that the cats each have their own set! Cat lady? yes. Crazy? never.