Remember this gem from a few years ago? Well, Ok Go may have finally outdone themselves. This video has to be one of the greatest videos I’ve ever seen, and you’ll need to watch it more than once to catch all of the coolness you wish you could have accomplished in junior high science. My favorite part easily is the perfectly pitched water glass segment. Brilliant!

Why in the world would Lou Admundson think he could prank Shaq Diesel and get away with it?!?!  The man is a beast.  He’s one of the greatest prank artists in professional sports, and he will get revenge.

Lou’s prank

Shaq’s revenge

Lou’s Hair

Lou’s Eyebrow

This is one of my favorite student workers. I have no idea what she was doing or thinking (it sounds like Beyonce’s Halo in the background), but whatever you do today watch this video from 1:45-2:00. It’ll make your day.

I give you … The Peep Show.

I hate April Fool’s Day. How could I love after growing up with Capt. April Fool’s Zac? However, I do enjoy helping others prank people on this special day. This year was no exception when my Friend Mike called and enlisted me to prank his mom. Apparently she and her husband love the restaurant Pappadeaux and eat there all the time. So early this afternoon, I called her up and pretended to be from the Pappadeaux corporate office rewarding her for being a faithful customer with a free appetizer and dessert that evening at their local Pappadeaux restaurant. Just to push the boundaries of belief I called the reward program ‘Pappadeaux’s Frequent Feaster’. Amazingly enough she bought it and agreed to call the local restaurant to schedule her reward except I gave her her son’s cell phone number instead. Amazingly enough, she did not recognize her own son’s number.

After waiting a few hours for his mom to call, Mike finally broke and called his mom to see what was up. His mom then spent the next thirty minutes telling him how she had the worst day ever and nothing had gone right. Finally after she had vented and completely purged herself of her horrible day, she confided to him that the best part of her day was when Pappadeaux had called and offered her free food for being such a great customer. Oopsies! With a lil luck, Mike extricated himself from the phone call with his mom and hung up feeling a bit guilty. Within the next few minutes his phone rang with his mom’s number, and he decided to let the joke play out. After a few seconds, his mom recognized his voice and figured out the joke. Thank goodness, she enjoyed it and wasn’t upset. Otherwise, I would have felt horrible. Now I just gotta beware of retribution next year.

Zac sent me this gem today, and if I could find it, I’d buy it and wear it (but only when I’m alone and at home.)  ~

I have a simple love/hate relationship with most of my student employees. I love them them, and deep down they despise me.  Ok, despise is probably too harsh of a word, but let’s just say sometimes they look at me like I’m the mom that drives them and their friends to the mall while singing along to Britney Spears.  (Oh yeah, I’m gonna be that mom, but that’s beside the point.)  While I don’t have favorites, I do have a certain handful of students who we share an equal amount of tolerance for each other.

One of these students in particular might be a long-lost cousin of mine and our similar musical and entertainment choices can be a bit frightening at times.  But more than anything I enjoy giving her a hard time and watching her dramatic reactions to being fake fired or making fun of her whatever shenanigan we can dream up at 5:10 on a Thursday afternoon.  Well recently she mentioned that she needed to get off work early for a volunteer project she was heading up.  Knowing that she’d have to get the approval of her supervisor, I sent her to him to ask for this favor.  Before she had the chance to plead her case and without her knowing, I asked him to deny her request and play along with me.

Confidently, she pleaded her case and seemed stunned when he told her ‘no’.  (Guess I shouldn’t have told her it would be no big deal.)  I came back into the room as she was leaving with her head down completely floored that her boss was being so unresonable.  I put my arm around her and told her I’d plead her case for her.  Again I enlisted the support of her supervisor and our boss, as I called her back into the full-time staff office and told her with a lil work I’d been able to broker a deal that would allow her to get the time off she needed.  All she had to do was dance for at least 60 seconds to Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

Now the guys had no clue that she had learned the whole dance last semester and didn’t think she’d go along with my plan.  But after convincing her it was the only way she could get the time off, we opened up the youtube video of Thriller and watched as she worked through her shame and embarrassment to give us a brilliant performance that riveled Jennifer Garner’s in 13 Going On 30.  By the end of her minute of glory, I couldn’t stop laughing and she quickly realized she had been played.  Being the great sport she is she laughed it off and headed back to finish her shift.  Now I just gotta keep my eyes open to her retaliation.

My dad forwarded an email to me today with a handful of these letters to God, and I had to share my favorite. Outta the mouths of babes.

All I can say is thank you, Judy. Thank you so very much for getting this song buried deep into my brain so that all day at work I can’t stop making up my own verses. One day I will buy your children obnoxious, noisy toys to repay your generosity.

Sometime in the middle of moving last fall, I broke my trusty alarm clock and was forced to find a new one. Being the geek I am, the first one I tried let me wake up to the music of my iPod. A genius plan if music actually had the ability to wake me up. So after a week of late mornings, I headed to Target to try and find another option. Lucky for me, they had a simple, yet loud, red alarm clock on sale for 10 bucks.  Even better than it’s pretty color, this alarm clock sets the time and time zone automatically when you plug it in. Needless to say for months I’v been more than satisfied with my purchase that is until this morning.  In case you didn’t know, Arizona is one of two states that do not observe Daylight Savings Time.  This is something my alarm clock was not aware of and something I didn’t consider when crawling into bed at oh-dark-thirty after yesterday’s marathon cleaning spree.  So when I woke up for church this morning and those big red letters displayed 10:45am, I didn’t really think much of it.  Disappointed in oversleeping and not being able to go to church, I rolled over and went back to sleep until my phone beeped at me.  You can imagine my surprise when my phone said it was 10;41am.  It took but a second for me to realize that time was not moving in reverse but that my alarm clock was set to DST.  Oopsies!  Worst part is…. 4 days later I still can’t figure out to reset it back an hour.

Zac was not amused at Hero’s ecard to him. I, on the other hand, LOVED it!