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| A True Gem |
| 2008-12-14 21:06:00 |
A thousand thanks to my husband for proposing to me in private. This if for all you guys out there who wonder if it's a good idea to propose to your gal in front of thousands of people:...
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| Eco-Unfriendly |
| 2008-12-09 23:05:00 |
I'm generally a big fan of The Disney Channel on cable. Turn it on, plunk the kids down, and get a half hour of work done. The morning shows don't even have commercials on during them. But they really kill you with the few minutes of airtime after the show is over. As soon as "Tigger and Pooh" ends, a bevy of short, public service type ads roll out in front of your child's vacant eyes. Remember to exercise. Being nice is cool. Apples are the new ice cream. You get my drift. Apparently they are running a new blurb about being eco-friendly. I only know because I'm one of the victims of the ad.Out of nowhere, my four year old Pixie has started following me around the apartment turning off light switches. "We need to save electricity, mom," she says. "No we don't," I respond.Imagin...
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| Westurn! |
| 2008-12-06 22:17:00 |
My sister-in-law Mindy moved from Baltimore to po'dunk Wyoming this week. After years of living on the east coast, it's no small adjustment. Today Mindy sent the following email describing one of her first experiences in town:"So this drunk cowboy guy came up to me in Wal Mart. He was missing a front tooth, wearing full cowboy garb, a crumpled up leathery face the works. And wanted to tell me what a great deal he got on DVDs. He started pulling them out of his bag. He pulled out Dances with Wolves and said "WESTURN!" then he pulled out 3:10 to Yuma and said "WESTURN!" and then he pulled out one more movie and said "WESTURN!" and I looked down and it was Brokeback Mountain. I started to tell him that he probably wouldn't like that one, but then I decided to let him discover that for h...
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| How to Clean a Carpet |
| 2008-12-05 21:14:00 |
Yet more of my fabulous follies as an apartment manger. This job tempts me to hate mankind.We have a family who moved in three years ago. They seemed nice, normal and promised to provide little or no hassle to me. But last year the wife knocked on my door."Hollywood, is there anything you could do for us? Our carpet is so dirty. Could we have a new one?"I went down to their apartment and saw that the beige carpet we had installed only two years before was literally black throughout the entire apartment. I made a phone call. My management company was feeling generous so they put in a new carpet at no cost to the tenant. Yeah, they're just nice like that sometimes.Last month there was another knock on my door. It was the wife."Do you think you could put a new carpet down in our apar...
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| The Christmas Diet |
| 2008-12-05 00:15:00 |
With Thanksgiving stuffed tidily down my gullet and the globs of candied yams scrapped off the kitchen floor, my husband Spike and I grimly face the December Diet. The one where you smile and say 'thank you' when neighbors drop of cookies but self-righteously dump them in the trash the minute you wave them off the doorstep. The diet where you repeat in your mind day and night that Santa is a fat fraud who would rather you end up with type II Diabetes and die in your sleep next month so he doesn't have to whip up yet another Christmas present for you. The diet where the Christmas tree lights shine a little dimmer because your eyes are misted over with the dull ache of hunger.Its in times like these when I turn to the cooking channel. I am a vicarious eater when I have to be. Tonight, I...
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| Sneaking in a post... |
| 2008-12-03 22:11:00 |
So I haven't posted in months and have received many emails wondering if I'm dead. I didn't respond and was tempted to let it play out disappear to Costa Rica never to be heard from again but alas, here I am, alive and well in Los Angeles.Here's the summary of what you've missed. In June I was feeling spunky and changed my life-long left hair part to the other side. Things got a little funky after that and I even switched from my Republican allegiance to Democrat. But I was unable to control the whirlwind of change and the day before the November 4th election, my part and my party allegiance reverted to old ways.In August I read all the Twilight books, while silently hating myself. Apparently I'm a Jacob girl.In August, I read all the somber, intelligent books I could handle (Kite Run...
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| Million Page Mission: Now Accepting Applications |
| 2008-09-17 12:46:00 |
My one year old Cher has recently become obsessed with books. She has her favorites that she plops in my lap anytime I'm sitting down and takes the whole process quite seriously. Most of her books are only about 10 pages long and she makes me read them over and over. But she's quite emotional about the whole ordeal. Every time I turn a page she gets upset, seeming to know that a page turn signifies the approaching last page. As I get closer to the end, she gets more hysterical and by the time I reach the last page, she's a wailing, sobbing fit and demands I go back to the beginning. So we read a lot of books, and not many last pages.It seemed fitting that Cher accompany me to an event last week sponsored by Lunchables and First Book. Lunchables has organized a Million Page Mission. ...
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| 2008-09-04 12:41:00 |
nothing, really. I just can't stand to see that picture pop up as the first item on the blog for even one more minute. So I am posting about pretty much nothing. Don't believe me? Well, just keep reading. There, now aren't you glad you read a post about nothing? Here's a nice picture to get the taste of the other one out of your mouth:...
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| Transvestite Blondes Have More Fun |
| 2008-08-28 17:52:00 |
My dear old dad works out of New York City and was thoughtful enough to snap this photo on the subway a few days ago of a fellow passenger. The thing that cracks me up the most is that with all the questionable fashion choices that this outfit entails, he (she) had to throw in socks-with-sandals. The uber-mini skirt I can understand, but seriously, what was he thinking with the socks? My father commented to me on the phone today about how grateful he was for the dim lights on the subway car so the contents of the mini skirt could remain a discreet mystery.Three cheers for New York City!...
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| War May Be Hell, but Hollywood Is Even Worse |
| 2008-08-14 11:29:00 |
Posted by Spike (without Hollywood's permission)Here is a story from the New York Times that doesn't actually have anything to do with the Hollywood, but I thought the headline was funny. (The story is about Tropic Thunder.)http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/13/movies/13trop.html?bl&ex=1218772800&en=bf042c4d96f94d9e&ei=5087%0AAlso, it is almost time to do another "Best of Youtube" post, so post comments with links to the funniest videos. The winner (picked by me) gets glory....
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