Monday, March 05, 2007

Ahhh, Childhood...thanks Shane...

My commentary will be in Pink....b/c this is WAAAY too close to reality...

IF YOU WERE A LITTLE GIRL IN THE 70'S......


You had that Fisher Price Doctor's Kit with a stethoscope that actually worked. Still have it!



You owned a bicycle with a banana seat and a plastic basket with flowers on it. Inheritied my Sister's...



You learned to skate with actual skates (not roller blades) that had metal wheels. - with one skate on & the other off for EXTRA balance...


You thought Gopher from Love Boat was cute (admit it!) -Well, he's a definite sight better from Dr. Bricker! & didn't you just love it when Gopher & Juile were having a "thing"????


You had nightmares after watching Fantasy Island. -Tattoo still scares me, I found a fairy tale theater tape where he is Rumplestilskin, and it is CREEPY!


You had either a "bowl cut" or "pixie", not to mention the "Dorothy Hamill".

People sometimes thought you were a boy. - Had the Dorothy Hamill, NOT a good look for me....


You had rubber boots for rainy days and Moon boots for snowy days.

YEAH! You owned a "Slip-n-Slide", on which you injured yourself on a sprinkler head more than once. -MY MOON BOOTS CHANGED COLORS!!!! no slip-n-slide, we got the garden hose & the sprinkler only...


You owned "Klick-Klacks" and smacked yourself in the face more than once ! _ I was darn good at the klick-klacks! I can still do it, but they don't have them on string anymore...boo!


Your Holly Hobbie sleeping bag was your most prized possession. -No Holly hobbie sleeping bag, But My sister & I had the doll & her friend. We both liked the friend better & fought about who would play her, we considered Holly Hobbie a grime-stone primarily...


You wore a poncho, gauchos, and knickers. - I had an -awesome- crocheted pancho in a odd shade of blue...I think we found it in a garage sale....


You begged Santa for the electronic game, Simon.
Never got it, Dad thought it was a waste of Money I guess...



You had the Donnie and Marie Dolls with those pink and purple satiny shredded outfits, or the Sunshine Family. I didn't, but my friend Mia did. I was Jealous!


You spent hours in your backyard on your metal swing set with the trapeze. The swing set tipped over at least once. - nope, Dad poured concrete down so we wouldn't kill ourselves as children.

You had homemade ribbon barrettes in every imaginable color. (Oh yeah!) .
- My sister had a pair with yellow feathers on the ends and she NEVER let me wear them...*sniff*

You had a pair of Doctor Scholl's sandals (the ones with hard sole & the buckle). You also had a pair of salt-water sandals. -Nope, Mom was SUPER weird about shoes. We got swayed Buster-browns in Day-glo colors...(maybe I exagerated the color part....)




You wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder really bad; you wore that Little House on the
Prairie-inspired plaid, ruffle shirt with the high neck in at least one school picture; and you despised Nellie Oleson!



You wanted your first Kiss to be at a Roller Rink!

PONG! ("video tennis" ) was the most remarkable futuristic game you've ever heard of !



Your hairstyle was described as having "wings" or Feathers" and you kept it "pretty" with the comb you kept in your back pocket. When you walked, the "wings" flapped up and down, looked like you were gonna "take off"



You know who Strawberry Shortcake is, as well as her friends, Blueberry Muffin and Huckleberry Pie. I NEVER got any strawberry shortcake & I had to beg until I was blue in the face to get My Little Ponies in 5th grade. I was so deprived from the mainstream marketing....

You carried a Muppets lunch box to school and it was metal, not plastic.

With the thermos inside some were glass inside and broke the first time you dropped them. I think I had this set....


You and your girlfriends would fight over which of the Dukes of Hazzard was your boyfriend. -Actually, my friends and I fought over who could be daisy, or Princess Leia. By the time we got tired of that, we played Charle's Angels instead b/c there were enough girl-parts to go around...



YOU had Star Wars action figures, too! LOVED it!



It was a big event in your household each year when the "Wizard of Oz" would come on TV. Your mom would break out the popcorn and sleeping bags! You better believe it!



You often asked your Magic-8 ball the question: "Who will I marry.

Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, or David Cassidy?" This was more my sister....I was fixated on Paul McCarthney..


You completely wore out your Grease, Saturday Night Fever, and Fame soundtrack record album. I learned how to do the Hustle before I was 5.... bah-bah-bup-ba-da-dah-daaaa



You tried to do lots of arts and crafts, like yarn and Popsicle-stick God's eyes, decoupage, or those weird potholders made on a plastic loom.



You made Shrinky-Dinks and put iron-on kittens on your t-shirts!


You used to tape record songs off the radio by holding your portable tape player up to the speaker. Yes, but more often I would hold the recorder up to tape my mom's beatles albums.


You had subscriptions to Dynamite and Tiger Beat. No


You learned everything you needed to know about girl issues from Judy Blume books. (Are you there God, It's me, Margaret.) I read them, but didn't like many of them...


You thought Olivia Newton John's song "Physical" was about aerobics. (?? its not??)


You wore friendship pins on your tennis shoes, or shoelaces with heart or Rainbow designs. OH YEAH!



You wanted to be a Solid Gold Dancer.
Don't you ?


You drowned yourself in Love's Baby Soft - Which was the first "real" perfume you ever owned. eww!


You glopped your lips in Strawberry Roll-on lip-gloss till it almost dripped off. ack! that stuff was AWFUL!




Saturday, March 03, 2007

My Friday

SO-
Kellie and I went shopping for Cousin K's birthday (which was Wednesday, but hey...). Cousin J and her friend came with. Had a good time. Then took Cousin J to get a haircut (friend cam with). it's VERY nice, check it out! SOOO edgy! you can't really see it but it's like razor-cut in the back. very chic.


that is really All I have to say this fine Morning, except that's it's really pretty today! and I'm excited b/c a bunch of the family will be here for cousin K's party & my Mr. Man really loves playing with cousin B!!!

Love to all!

Friday, March 02, 2007

New Feature

I have now added a MySpace slide show to this blog. The jury is still out as to which I like better.
It's nice to be able to send stuff to Myspace friends, and I am learning LOADS about Java & Html, but.... I think I like the "formality" of my blogger account. The myspace seems random & sporatic, whereas this feels more structured....
hrm.

Well, now is not the time to debate. Bub is napping & I need to take advantage of the quiet & study a bit!

Love to all!

Monday, February 26, 2007

MySpace?

So the big thing in my extended family right now is Myspace. I just set one up too, so I can compare whether I like it better or not than this blogger account.
It might be easier for some to use, but then again, I really like my blogger site.

One thing that could be cool on myspace is the photo gallery, but MAYBE i can set one up there, link it to this one & have the best of both worlds?????

Hrmm, Must ponder that.

Meanwhile, I've added the link to my links section (Wacka Wacka Wacka), and here it is again:
www.myspace.com/162796578

groovin!

Friday, February 23, 2007

Yayee for Friday!


Doesn't this look fun? Don't you wish you could fit into a wheelbarrow & have your little cousins push YOU around? (I do...but I'm kinda too big....) *grin*

Thanks to Pam & Grandma for getting this to me from last weekend's roadtrip to AR. We all had fun!

Saturday, February 17, 2007

MUHWAHHAHAHAHAH-star wars

I FOUND THE PARODY OF "COPS" with storm troopers!

My friend Mike showed this to me -years- ago & I nearly PIP! So now I found it! Go there & take a gander, it's great!


http://youtube.com/watch?v=1iCY4loD9sA&mode=related&search=

(can't figure out how to do the anchor thing, so just cut & paste!)

I love this stuff. :)

Now, I really should go to bed, but I'm not too tired yet as Joe let me take 2 naps today while he played with the Bub. Mr. Man got better by the end of the day, his nose did not re-crustify....is that a word?...that makes me think of this commercial I saw a while back for a laptop. one of the descriptive words for it in the commercial (adjective) was some made up word - ruggedablity-

anyway. let's hope I am not poorly in the morning. We're driving up to AR on Sunday & I need to be better. time to suck down the orange juice. bleah. I really don't like it tho.

More pictures for my Mom. I made kashka (tho I can only find "maltomeal" down here) for the little man a few days back & put in the jam. He looked at me funny & then started eating with gusto!


Like the mess he makes for me? *sigh* at least if I give him a towel & say "wipe wipe" he does try to clean a bit...yayee!

Friday, February 16, 2007

so much for spring

It's in the 30's today. It's pretty darn cold. I am a wimp. I don't want to pull out my parka, so I'm staying indoors & taking Bub to the upstairs portion of the house for his walkabouts. I am a sad, sad, sad person (I don't mean sorrowful, I mean -sad-)

Anyhow, it's Friday. Yayee. Me n bub are fighting off the beginnings of a cold. I'm super cold & sleepy, Mr. Man has a crusty nose. eww! How ookie is that? He started picking it again. I JUST got him to quit picking his nose, then he gets crusty & starts all over again. *sigh*.
Joe's healthy tho, so that is good. I don't think I could handle the three of us sick. Member? My lessons a few weeks back? All men want to be babied when they are sick, even if they are only two? well, I stand by it.

Anyhow, Joe got home early today & let me take a nap. I am so grateful. I don't want to be babied when I'm sick, I just want to sleep. yeah.

Some days Mr. Man gets upset when I leave for class, other days he wants to join me. This is one of the latter days.




Happy Weekend! Love to all!

Sunday, February 11, 2007

Dude, This guy wins the Muppet obsession award.

I thought I had issues with collecting Muppet videos, memorizing songs, drilling people my age about obscure skits on Sesame street (like the Geefle & Gonk- I just was talking about them today because I gave bub a nectarine & started going "geefle, geefle" and holding my arms up like I couldn't bend them. Let me tell you, the looks I got from everyone just made me turn RED. Even my own son gave me that "what have you been smoking, momma?" look)

SEE! SEE! I -AM- a freak! & this guy is intensified to the nth degree.
I added him to my links...if you have a problem figuring out which one it is...wellllll, maybe I'm not the freak! :)

I started looking thru his links & there was a link to...Ross will love this...GELFLING COLLEGE!
But *sigh* the link was dead. the site had been closed, or moved, or something. but I was snickering pretty hard. *grin*

Ho hum. I should go to bed. BUT WOO HOO!
I finished typing my "due-on-monday-speech" and prepared my visuals (2) & can deliver it in 6min, 55seconds (time limit is 5-7 min)

Once I have it graded, if anyone is interested, I'll post the sucker. hehehehehe

loves to all!

Friday, February 09, 2007

spring in the backyard


Little Daffodil,
growing thru the leaves-
Sunshine in dirt.

Yes, I think I just did a haiku.
I don't think I have haiku-ed for a long time. None-the-less, a sign of the TRUE geek within.

This was yesterday? or Wednesday. one of those days were sunshiney *give me a break, I had 2 tests this week & I'm preparing my 1st speech & starting a group project (that I have become the lead on, because I'm not afraid to make a fool of my self---see earlier posts---) and a paper...and I have 2 more tests next week. *sigh*

I saw the daffodil & then this little bud on the tree.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

RFID continued...

I can NOT believe it. That Principal, Earnie Graham from Britton Elementary school in Sutton, CA just called me back. I got to do a 10 min interview with him about the RFID program they did at the school in 2005. How wild was that? I think he was afraid initially I was a crack-pot, then he thought I didn't understand what the technology was. When I finally convinced him that I just wanted to know how long the initiative ran, the results & and what the "fall-out" was, he was so helpful!

This is when all my years in Phone-sales and years in management and doing sales/motivation training have paid out. I knew FGI would be a good job for me even tho my uncle thought it was beneath me back in the 90's. True, I don't want to do phone-sales the rest of my life (that's why I'm back in school), but that experience was so helpful for doing any kind of business over the phone & being able to pick up on tiny cues the person you are talking to has no idea they are sending out. I am SO thankful to Al & yes, even Amber @ my last job for pushing me with my questioning skills.

I better get an A on this speech!
:)

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

how weird is that? RFIDs

So I'm doing research; preparing for my speech next monday. I have been clueless on what to do it on until I think, Destron Feared; Digital Angel; other evil corporations like Verichip need to be exposed! So I'm looking up info on RFIDs (radio frequency identification) and I am learning all sorts of weird things...Like did you know:

* casino's are using these RFIDs in chips, chip counters, table & tip boxes to make sure you don't cheat the house?

*Or that in San Fran, Chicago & some Florida city (miami?) they have sent out RFIDs embedded in Mini car keys & when one of these 4500 owners drive past the billboard, it will light a a special message just for them (like "Vera's cruising now!").

*Or that in northern California there was a school that made the kids wear RFID badges as a mandatory part of their dress code (Parents were NOT happy)...really, look it up- Britton Elementary, the principal is earnie graham. (I called the school & left a message for him asking for info on what happened b/c the only articles I could find were in 2005 & only dealt with the initiation of this policy...I doubt he will call or email me back) (I read the school's "student Handbook" on the school's website & didn't see anything about it, so it is prolly abandoned)

Now I don't think using the tech of RFIDs is completely bad, (like that mini car thing cracks me up & the owners made a voluntary choice to participate). but INJECTING A CHIP INTO YOUR ARM/HAND is a BAD IDEA! forbearing the whole "sign of the beast" thing, hello...Norplant?

Does anyone remember the fiasco of Norplant? Imbedding sticks of birth control hormones under the skin of your arm? Remember how they would "wander" and end up stuck in your elbow? (not a personal experience, just saw the pictures) At least with Norplant it was over an inch long & you could EASILY locate where the suckers were. This Verichip (which was approved by the FDA in 2004) is smaller than a flippin' penny! It's the size of a grain of rice! How are you going to find this thing when your subcutaneous tissue degrades & it goes floating off to regions unknown in your body?

Do you think Kurt Russel & Martin Short are going to miniaturize & search it out? HELLO!

STUPID STUPID STUPID.

*sigh*
Maybe FSJ can create an Ichip. hehehehehe

Friday, February 02, 2007

The fake steve jobs...I love it

Check this guy out! it is SO funny! seriously PIP funny!

I want a fakesteve tee-shirt, but alas, I am too poor.
http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/

DON'T go to the fake Hillary clinton site, it is only dirty language & badly written sarcasm.

Just my 2 cents for the day. :)

Boy, I hear the weather in the great snow state is -7 today & falling.
Glad I'm not out doing this....

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