Did you see Piper Palin holding baby Trig during Sarah Palin’s speech tonight? Here’s the video. At one point, Piper licked her palm and then smoothed down Trig’s hair. Then later the camera showed her stroking his face. Absolutely tender!

The Palin Family

Last night RT and I were watching TV, and there was a commercial about “Silence Your Rooster” and that was it. No other information about what the commercial was about. Obviously it was about some type of sleep aid. So out of curiosity (which is the blatant objective of the commercial anyway) I looked it up.

Silence Your Rooster?

“Silence Your Rooster” is an ad for Ambien CR. I’ve written about my experience with Ambien before. I would personally never take it again since I didn’t enjoy feeling like a zombie. Maybe the “CR” formulation works better than what I took a few years ago. I must say, though, that the “Silence Your Rooster” campaign is a very clever advertising tactic.

A couple days ago I wrote about Hurricane Dolly, and I misspelled the word “hurricane” in the title. I left off the final “e.” I promise it was a typo. I spelled hurricane correctly the four times I used the word in the post. However, I didn’t notice that missing e in the title until I checked my sitemeter yesterday and saw hundreds of people had ended up at The Median Sib as a result of a Google search for “Hurrican Dolly.” Apparently, leaving off the final e in “hurricane” is a frequent misspelling or typo.

I corrected the typo in the title of my post, but I’m still getting hundreds of hits from other misspellers throughout the word. Site meters are fascinating.

You can’t say I don’t bring you some interesting stories. A 52-year old Los Angeles woman was putting on a thong she had purchased from Victoria’s Secret. As she pulled the thong up, a decorative metallic piece flew off and hit her in the eye. Now she is suing Victoria’s Secret.

Right Pundits has the video of Meredith Viera interviewing the woman and her lawyer.

Do you remember the “Sex and the City” episode when Carrie is talking to Sanford about the “jack rabbit” sex she’d had the night before and the resulting neck ache - and Sanford asks, “Are straight men allowed to do that?”

So my question after reading about the thong injury is: Are 52-year old women allowed to wear thongs?” And “In court, will she have to demonstrate what happened?”

Tiara tip to Beth.

RT was driving toward Hohenwald, TN this past Saturday morning to get lumber to do some repairs at the log cabin.  He was cruising along a country road, and to his right was a sheer rock wall that rose straight up for about 25 feet with a ditch between the road and the wall.  As he drove along, out of the corner of his eye he caught sight of a large shape plummeting down the cliff.  His immediate thought was that a boulder had broken loose from the rock ledge at the top.  As he swerved to the left to avoid being hit,  he caught a better look and realized that it wasn’t a boulder.  A large black angus cow was falling down the wall.  In his rear view mirror he saw the cow land in the ditch, lie there dazed for a couple seconds, and then get up and walk off. Now THAT is not something you see every day!

Ha!  Just look at this graphic I found!  It’s perfect!

Wouldn’t it be great to win a $20,000 home makeover? Just think of what you could do with you home with twenty grand!  The contest is sponsored by Renuzit TriScents which are electric-scented oil air fresheners in two new scents: seaside breezes and morning meadow.  To enter to win the contest, you must make a video or take a photo of your home.  Then write an essay about why your home needs that makeover.  Then just go to the Triscents website, upload your video or photo and essay showing your home, why you need a home makeover and how Renuzit Triscents can help.  Your entry will be judged on how convincing you are! You must visually show your home in order to be eligible. The video should be no more than two minutes long, and the essay should be limited to 250 words.  Not much effort for the opportunity to possibility of winning a $20,000 home makeover!

Renuzit makes it easy for you to enter. Just download and print the Renuzit TriScents Starter Kit coupon so you can find Triscents at a store near you. Use Triscents yourself and become inspired to create your own video of how much Triscents can help make your home even more wonderful.  You can see official rules for the contest at the Renuzit Triscents website.

What is wrong with people?  First we have the woman who sat on the toilet for over TWO MONTHS at one time - and thus her butt was stuck to the toilet and had to be surgically removed.  That was after spending the past two years in the bathroom.  Her boyfriend brought her food and water - which she consumed in the bathroom.  And her boyfriend says that otherwise they had a “normal relationship.”  Yeah sure.

Then there’s ex-NY Governor Spitzer’s favorite hooker who aspires to be a singer and thus is hawking her recording for all she’s worth - which, according to the newspaper, is a very lucrative hourly rate.  Her MySpace recording is getting record breaking hits.

Then there’s the Sudan man who married a goat.  Yes, you heard that right.  Reminds me of the guy who married a dog last year.

 Rounding out the weird stories for the day is the couple who had EIGHT HUNDRED dogs in their mobile home.  That isn’t even counting the caged birds.

I got off work yesterday, and Sweet Stuff and I stopped by the grocery store for a few groceries.  On the way home, we talked to Sweet Stuff’s parents and found that her daddy had already picked up Sunshine from daycare, and that since they were going out for dinner, we would just meet them at their house instead of going to my house.  Considering the fact that we go practically right past their house to get to my house, that was the wise thing to do.  So Sweet Stuff and I waited a few minutes on their porch until they arrived.  Then I headed home.  I put away the groceries, and about that time RT got home.   I sat down for a few minutes to relax before fixing dinner, and suddenly I was just exhausted.   It was like I couldn’t hold my eyes open for even one minute more.   I told RT I was going to lie down for awhile since it was still early and I’d fix dinner a little later.  So around 5:30ish I went to bed for a quick snooze. 

At 1:30 this morning I woke up.  Nothing like an eight hour nap!  I was still fully dressed except for shoes.  So first thing I did was get into my jammies.  Now I’m catching up on a little email and blogging while RT is still sleeping.  I’ll go back to bed in a few minutes because even though I just slept for eight hours, I’m still sleepy.  I started a load of clothes, fixed myself a bowl of cereal, and I’m now wrapped up in blankets on the sofa.  RT obviously fixed hamburgers while I was asleep.  So he survived the evening without me.  I was so out of it, I wasn’t even aware of when he came to bed.

One of the exciting things about this weekend is that there is absolutely NOTHING planned all weekend.  I have all day today and all day tomorrow with nothing that HAS to be done.  No meetings, no appointments, no plans at all.   We’ll go to Sunday school and church tomorrow morning, and later this morning I think I’ll do a little shopping for my upcoming trip to NYC.

This past Thursday we had someone clean the house.  That’s the first time we’ve had someone to help with housework since we moved here in October.  It is amazing how nice that is.  The wood floors look wonderful and all the dusty shelves are now sparkling.  And, the best part, I don’t have a long list of housework that has to be done this weekend.  How wonderful!

There is so much to know about mortgages.  Just the word itself can strike fear in people’s hearts simply because mortgages can be so confusing with all the different types of mortgages and all the options that are available.  Fortunately there are sources of information to help you make the best decision for your situation.  One such source is Money Magic.  Money Magic is a UK firm specializing in all types of loans and in providing their clients with not only the lowest loan rates but also the best mortgage advice. Best of all, the mortgage advice, quotes and information are free.  You can simply surf their website, or you can follow three steps to get a free quote:  (1) fill out an online form, (2) receive a phone call during which you will talk to one of their advisors, and (3) then receive a free quote based on your specific circumstances.

I’ve never really understood what title insurance is.  Well sure, it’s insurance for a home’s title, but what does that mean?  Insurance against what? For what?  If you check the Yellow Pages, you’ll find that there are lots of title insurance companies, but what services do a  title insurance company provide for us?

Each time a land title transaction takes place, It is recorded with the local government.  Typically that is with the county government.  The transaction is then indexed by the names of the grantor (transferor) and the grantee( transferee).  In order to determine who owns the title to the property, those indexes must be examined.  Title insurance is simply protection against loss that arises from any problem that might arise connected to the property’s title.

For example, your home and/or the land it stands on might have gone through some ownership changes.  Somewhere along that chain of ownership, there may be a weak link that could potentially cause trouble.  There could be a problem with authenticating signatures or there might be unpaid taxes.  Title insurance covers you for any claims and legal fees that might arise from those issues.

Title insurance is necessary if you need a mortgage.  All mortgage lenders require mortgage insurance equal to the amount of the loan.  The insurance continues until the loan is paid.  The title insurance is paid upfront when you take out your mortgage.  While title insurance protects the lender up to the amount of the mortgage, it doesn’t protect your equity.  For that, you would purchase an owners’ title policy for the full value of your home.