What's in a name?

Why do I suddenly hate the name Rick?

The Wizard of Oz

It's the 75th anniversary of the Wizard of Oz movie release (1939). Theatres across the country were having a one night only showing last night. Our troup included Bev, Heidi, Noah, Kaia, Aaron, Tracey, Mel, me and lots and lots of candy and a $6 pop shared between us 3 ladies. We were dissappointed that we didn't see anyone wearing costumes, especially since it is so close to Halloween. However, on our way back to the car we did see a tiny little Dorothy, complete with ruby slippers and a basket with Toto being strapped into her carseat after a long evening.

Don't you forget about me

If it weren't for John Hughes, we would have spent the 80's having to come up with our own one-liners.

Most awesomest picture ever!

World Beard and Moustache Championships

It's exactly what is sounds like.

http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/

MJ

Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize your neighborhood

Why did I love MJ so much growing up? Because he gave me the Thriller View Master. That's why.

Tumultuous

–adjective
1. full of tumult or riotousness; marked by disturbance and uproar.
2. raising a great clatter and commotion; disorderly or noisy.
3. highly agitated, as the mind or emotions; distraught; turbulent.


We used to talk about the girl who started the drama, she and I, the girl who stood by me. We used to talk about the fact that we hated the drama and that she only did it for attention. Now she is the girl that starts the drama. She started it this time all by herself.

My brush with Camelot

I was speaking with a member today at work, a very lovely, sweet, Jewish woman from New York. She was very sweet and kept commenting how nice and helpful I was being (naturally). Then out of the blue she mentioned that she used to design jewerly, and I ever so excitedly said, "Oh Really?" She said "Oh yes, I designed Jackie Kennedy's Pearls." I had to stop myself from screaming. "Oh, that's nice" I calmly say. The conversation went on about work, but she kept commenting on how helpful I was being. Then she says, "If I still had a store open on Madison Avenue, I'd steal you in a heartbeat." Egats!! Be still my heart!! But instead I literally say, "You're killing me!" How often at work do I actually get to talk to someone so interesting? Let alone want to sit on the phone and talk to her? We finished our conversation and she had to go, all I could think was "Don't go neat little old lady, don't go.....(ps-Call me back any time!)"

My new favorite website

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

Chocolate and Acts of Kindness: No Difference to Your Brain

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/depression/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100226639

Project what?

OK, so we love Project Runway on Bravo, or it used to be on Bravo. Some sort of contract negotiations sent Heidi running in her 5 inch stilettos and Brian Gunn in his $5,000 Dolce and Gabbana suit to the Lifetime channel. Though Scott is not happy, he will now be a Lifetime channel viewer. That makes me giggle.

However now to compete, Bravo has started a new show called Catwalk, or the Fashion Show or Better off Dead, or something like that. It premiered last night, and as I sat in my gray sweatpants and stained with baby puke t-shirt, I critiqued it the whole way through. What the hell is this show? Why is it on, and who are these horrible designers? I'm sorry, a garment bag stuck under my rumpus will make men swoon? I don't think so. It was a boring show with boring hosts. I thought I liked Issac, but Kelly who? She must have a book coming out. Lame premise, lame designs, lame cast. The only thing that would have made this show better was if I had opened a bottle of wine beforehand.

Something cool

I've added a Gadget to my Blog which lets me see where in the world people are from that view my Blog. I am sure most people just stubmle on it by accident and aren't truly searching for interesting facts about my life. If you're interested to see where other people are from click on the map on the side of the page. That will take you to the listing of all the countries. Currently the viewer tallys are as such:

United States (US) 41
United Kingdom (GB) 1
France (FR) 1
Romania (RO) 1
Bolivia (BO) 1
Austria (AT) 1

A Hairy Situation

Oh...my...God......Scott decided to cut his hair, by himself, without a mirror. I am not joking when I say it is the absolute worst haircut I have ever seen. There are bald patches, and patches in the middle of his head that are still 3 inches long, and that's even after he thought he was done. He had no neck, now it just goes from shoulder into skull. He thought that he needed to shave the hair on the back of his neck like they do in the barber shop, so he tried that and shave what's actually his head so short, he now has no neck, it's just one giant shape on his shoulders. But then on top of it, the hair on his neck is still long; he missed that part. He cut the hair on the top of his head so short and still wanted to have his faux hawk that now he has this giant egg shaped head that points at the top. You could not have cut a worse cut if you tried. It's like a comedy movie when they try to make a guy look really goofy, or retarded, but it's worse then that. OH! And on top of it, Grayden had no idea who he was and it made him cry. His new haircut made a baby cry! For the love of God! He just clung to me scared at the stranger in his house. I had to tell him it has his uncle. Now I feel bad that I had to leave him home today with a complete stranger. I hope they get along. I took some pictures, that Scott looked at and at first he said it wasn't that bad, but then later he begged me to even it out for him. Are you kidding me? I'm sorry, Pompeii is destroyed, there's no going back.

More Christmas pics

I don't know if you can see past the bottles of wine on the table, but for Christmas dinner we had a wonderful crown roast stuffed with cornbread and apple stuffing, haricots vert with bacon, garlic mashed potatos and of course burnt biscuits. It was great.

Christmas

Here Scott is hanging with Miss K. Doesn't she look lovely in her red velvet gown? At least one of them makes the pictures look good. By the way, what the heck is she doing with her tongue? That's like freak show stuff.

Normal

On Scott's insistence, I had to post this picture. He wanted to prove that he really doesn't look as creepy as did in the last picture I posted of him.

Admission of guilt

I just needed to get this off my chest. My MIL Bev (that's mother in-law for those of you not in the know) gave me a few containers full of Christmas cookies to take to work with me to share with, i.e. dump off on, my co-workers. I just passed through the kitchen and saw the empty containers and realized that I never took them to work. Scott and I finished them all. So much for the resolutions.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving included friendly faces and lots and lots of wine.