Something funny from my brother

I found it on his MySpace page, and it just made me chuckle. Under the 'Interests' section, this is what I found.

General: General who? Man, f*** him!

(Dedicated to every grunt that's ever gotten pissed off at a REMF.)

Funny saying

Mexicans have the funniest sayings, I think. This is an actual conversation that took place in our house this afternoon.

Jesus: "Mmmmm, something smells good."
Me: "Cooking some sausage for the bean soup."
J: "I bet Daniel will really eat it up tonight." [a joke, because Daniel is a picky eater.]
Me: "Well, I want him to keep trying, because I think he'll eventually like it, if he tastes it enough."
J: "And I bet you believe in saints that can pee."

(Obviously a reference to some of his relatives who believe their saints eat the food set out before their shrines on holidays, etc.)

Some other gems:
When everything seems to be going wrong, "All that's left is for a dog to pee on us."

If I have to ask him to repeat himself several times (like if he mumbles, or there is a lot of background noise), after about two times, he goes, "I said, THE DEAF PEOPLE'S MASS IS ON FRIDAY!"

They sound so much better in Spanish!!

NCAA bracket picks - Round 1

Louisiana
Ohio St
Utah
Cleveland St
WVa
Kansas
So Cal
Mich St

UConn
Texas A/M
Purdue
Washington
Utah St.
Maryland
Memphis

Pittsburgh
Tennessee
Wisconsin
Xavier
VCU
Villanova
Texas
Duke

UNC
LSU
Illinois
Gonzaga
Temple
Syracuse
Michigan
Oklahoma

I tried to pick at least one ACC team to make it through the 1st round in each bracket. I've got UNC going all the way, which I do most years just on principle. I've got Duke going to the Sweet 16. My general tendency is to pick the higher seeds to go further, but NCAAs always have several upsets (any given Sunday....) so I tried to allow for that.

I LOVE MARCH MADNESS!!

TTIL #3 - Flexing

Flexing is what happens at work when we have too many nurses and have to send people home. Last night was my lucky night, made even better by the fact that I am off until March 27th!

Birthday shout-out

To Miles. :)

New piece of trivia

I am getting interested these days in my family's history, especially the military history of it. If you don't already know, I am the proud sister, daughter, niece, stepdaughter, granddaughter, and (now I find out) great-great-granddaughter of military servicemen.

Talking with my dad today, I found out that my great-great-grandfather fought in the Civil War. The funny thing is that my dad's family came from England and settled right around here (there are lots of people in this area w/ my maiden name. Anyway, part of the family migrated down to Alabama, where my grandfather was born. However, my great-great-grandfather, George Washington S., volunteered in Tennessee - for the Union.

When he was buried in Alabama, whoever made the headstone assumed that he's fought for the CSA, and engraved it accordingly. One of his grandkids (my grandpa's brother) rubbed the word 'Confederate' off, so his grave to this day reads "[blank] States of America." And, I also find it funny that we have a George W. in our family too.