Tuesday Memes

10 Favorite Bands of All Time

In no particular order. I don't usually like "bands", I usually like the individual singers. And I want a cigarette.

1. The Carpenters
2. The BeeGees
3. Black Eyed Peas
4. Prince & The Revolution
5. Nsync
6. Shenandoah
7. Destiny's Child
8. The Gap Band
9. The Commodores
10. Son by Four


Loaded Questions #18

Hypotheticals: If you created a new flavor of ice cream, what wold it be?
Kiwi-Strawberry Sorbet. But if you're insisting on an ice cream, one that tastes like Dairy Queen's Moolatta Chill.

Anything Goes: What celebrity makes you glad you are not a celebrity?
All of them. I wouldn't like the public dissecting every effing thing I did.

No-Brainers: Besides a cat or dog, what animal would you want as a house pet?
A snake. They're not as messy as furry pets. :-)

Personals: Which of the following do you feel yields the greatest benefits - extraordinary wealth, strong friendships, true love, or a loyal, loving family?

I had a fucked up family (still do), I don't believe in "true love" the way most people think of it, and friendships come and go...

I'd choose extraordinary wealth. Other than taxes, I don't see the downside.

Cynic tagged me.
Serves me right for reading his blog I suppose.

INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so:

1. The Ice Box
2. The Buzz Queen
3. Opinion Minions
4. Freelance Cynic
5. Angelika

Next select five people to tag:

1. Whoever
2. wants
3. to
4. do
5. it

THEN answer the following Questions:

What were you doing 10 years ago?

* I was working at Blue Cross Blue Shield. Evan was 1½, so I was really broke buying diapers & paying for daycare. :-)


What were you doing 1 year ago?

* The same shit I'm doing now.

Five snacks you enjoy:

1. Reese's Fast Break Snack Size.
2. Potato Chips
3. Cereal sans milk
4. Starburst
5. Pretzel sticks. The skinny ones.

Five songs to which you know all the lyrics:

1. Let's Stay Together - Al Green
2. I Wish I Didn't Miss You - Angie Stone
3. Ain't Love Strange - Paul Thorn
4. Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
5. Mama Knows - Shenandoah

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:

1. Pay someone to beat up the people who piss me off.
2. Have a driver & a butler & a personal chef.
3. Go to Prague
4. Take Evan to the happiest place on earth.
5. Have a house with a gate that was always locked, LOL.

Five bad habits:

1. Assuming that whores can't have good personalities.
2. Assuming that whores can't be smart.
3. Assuming that most celebrities are whores.
4. Calling everybody a whore.
5. Speaking my mind about whores in front of my son because he still doesn't realize that what happens in the house stays in the house.

Five things you like doing:

1. Sleeping
2. Masturbating
3. Reading
4. Watching too much TV
5. Listening to music

Five things you would never wear again:

1. I don't know. I don't give a shit about fashion.

Five favorite toys:

1. Sit & spin
2. Easy Bake Oven
3. Slinky
4. Commodore 64
5. Legos

Songs that are stuck in my head

Lip Gloss by Lil Mama

Retarded song. Who is this girl? I can't get it out of my head. *sob*

Get Me Bodied by Beyonce

I like the video when she's doing those old school dances. I can't believe she's old enough to remember them...

Makes Me Wonder by Maroon 5

Catchy. Adam Levine looks like he's tried to get a makeover while the other dudes are stuck in the 70s...

Last Night by Diddy

I like the song. It sounds like Prince. Pre Changedhisnameandlosthismind Prince.

Shiny

Today's theme is Shiny.

.....

I just thought I should post something before I get removed from the blogroll, LOL.

Just got back from Wal Mart

That's why I love summer. I can go to wal-mart in the middle of the effing night if I want to. Because the boy is still awake and I don't have to worry about school the next day.

So I did.

Obviously.

First, have you tried the new dark chocolate/mint 3 musketeers bars? AWESOME. Minty marshmallowy goodness. LOVE IT.

Since I've been in bed for what feels like forever, I've been watching a lot more TV. Hard to believe, I know. My back still hurts, but not as bad as it had been. I figured that it was the Chantix fucking with my kidneys that was making my back hurt so bad, so I stopped taking it.

I think it's been about a week.

But now I have PMS, LOL. So it still hurts. I KNOW it's PMS because I've been feeling like crying over stupid shit. Like TV commercials.

Anyway, TV Shows.

Today was the FIRST time an episode of Tyler Perry's House of Payne was any good. He sent an e-mail after the first shows aired and told us to (I think, I don't really remember) give the show about 5 weeks or some shit and it would get better.

The 2nd episode tonight made me laugh out loud a few times. And it was the FIRST episode where all the jokes haven't been from one of his plays. YAY! I hope he keeps it up.

I watched a marathon of "The Closer" on TNT (I think). I liked it a lot. :-) I think Kyra Sedgewick's accent is too heavy and unreal. I think she's southern for real, but I don't recognize the accent at all. It's like anyone who tries to do a southern accent who thinks all southerners are stupid so they go way overboard. But anyway, I like the show. I just wish I liked her face. *shudder*

The History Channel is REALLY GOOD. They have a lot of interesting shows. I hated history when I was in school, so I had deleted the channel from my TV's memory so I wouldn't see it when I was channel surfing. I got so bored laying on the heating pad that I re-added it, National Geographic and something else.

So the History Channel's shows aren't all about history. YAY!

You HAVE to watch "Ice Road Truckers". For about 2 months they make a road made of ice across a lake & marshland and deliver stuff to a remote part of Canada. The ice is about 2 feet thick. And they have to go really slow so as not to break through the ice. It's physics or something. I don't really care about the science. But the show is so interesting.

I watched a marathon of Deadliest Catch. Another good show. I've never really thought about where the crab I eat came from. But those dudes are the kind of men (personality wise) that turn me on. REAL men, IOW. Not some pussy sitting at a desk. I LOVE blue collar men. The season finale was this weekend, I think. I don't know. Maybe it was Monday. Anyway, check it out.

Um...I watched half of an episode of the new "Making the Band". I won't watch it again unless there's absolutely nothing else on.

I can't remember what else. I've had TV overload.

I'm out.

Nothing to say

Other than my ENTIRE SPINE is hurting.

Do you ever think about your spine?

The vertebrae?

Of course you don't, unless you've been in an accident or something.

But my effing spine hurts. Everything except the tail bone.

I am amazed.

Usually my neck only hurts if I sleep wrong or bang my head to heavy metal too long. But even then it's just the muscles.

I feel like my bones are made of chalk and they're grinding against each other with no lubricant in between.

I tried those icy hot packs that Shaquille O'neal is hawking. They suck. I'll have to stick to the heating pad.

I'm taking a lortab & going to back to bed.

:-(

House of Payne

Well, tonight was the premier of Tyler Perry's House of Payne.

Here's a one word review: *sigh*

It was very disappointing. It wasn't funny AT ALL. I didn't LOL once. In fact, the longer I watched, the more pissed off I got.

I'm used to him using the same recycled jokes in his plays. But these jokes were juvenile and not funny.

I enjoy juvenile sometimes. As long as it's funny.

I noticed on the second episode, it was written by someone other than Tyler Perry. So she (I think it was a she) is trying to sound like him, but it's not working.

And there was no message.

I also noticed that the wife of one of the characters is always late/missing, so I assume she's cheating.

COME ON. Why telegraph this shit in the first episode??? This is not a Tyler Perry play.

The gimmick in the first episode was to have Madea do a guest spot. BUT that didn't work either.

I think Tyler Perry is used to doing Madea at live performances. He breaks the 4th wall. I love that. With TV, he has to be a lot more constrained.

Whatever, man. There was so much wrong with this and I'm so disappointed.

The actors playing the parents of the 2 kids look way too young to have a son that age. (He looks about 12). The woman playing his mother looks like a teenager herself.

The girl playing the daughter was smiling BEFORE her punchline.

Pops & his wife (who I LOVE from the plays) were not funny. :-(

It sucked.

And it pains me to say it.

I find it hard to believe that these episodes are supposed to be better than whatever was tested in Atlanta last year (or whenever). I can't believe it got picked up.

Did anybody else see this shit?

Tuesday Twosome

Daily...

1. How many hours of sleep do you get and is it enough?
Since I've been taking this Chantix, it seems like I fall asleep all the time. Which is great! Nice change. But it's too much, LOL.

2. How many times do you get angry/upset and is it too much?
Daily? I don't get angry or upset daily. Most stuff just isn't a big enough deal to get me upset. If I had to deal with the public everyday, I'd probably get ticked off a lot more often.

And have a lot more to blog about...

3. How often do you drink caffeine and is it too much?
Rarely. If I drink caffeine in the hopes that it will keep me awake, it waits until about 11 pm to kick in. If I drink it because I like whatever flavor beverage I'm drinking, I usually overdo it and get zero sleep for 3 days. Not even a nap. Like Mooolatta Chills from Dairy Queen. Those are D-lishus.

4. How often do you use your cell phone and does it distract from your responsibilities?
Rarely. No. I don't like talking on the phone. I only have a cell phone because 1) I might have to call 911 one day and 2) it keeps Mommy Dearest from stopping by so often to "make sure you haven't killed the boy".

5. How much time do you spend on the Internet and is it too much?
Lately, not much. When school is in session I spend a lot more time online because they boy isn't here aggravating me to death. During school, yes, I spend too much time online.

Stuff & Thangs

You never know who's reading your blog.

I just got a comment today from the director of digital marketing at TBS. Because I blogged about Tyler Perry's House of Payne....

Freaky. I feel like Big Brother is watching me.

Anyway, I bought 4 movies yesterday. The Devil Wears Prada, Rocky Balboa, Borat & Stranger than Fiction. The only one I'd seen is Borat.

Rocky was good. Better than I thought. But I was watching it thinking "How did Rocky get smart? He was stupid in the first movie, and now we're supposed to believe he's intelligent after he's had his head bashed in dozens of times?"

The Devil Wears Prada was good too. Not exactly what I expected. Whoever wrote this seems like she totally worships fashion. Anna Wintour is probably her idol. I couldn't help but scoff when "The Devil" began explaining why fashion is so important. To the world. But whatever, the movie was good even though I totally disagree with that point of view.

Evan watched Stranger than Fiction. I fell asleep.

This weekend I watched a marathon of "Ultimate Fighter" on Spike. Interesting show. This was the 155 lb division. One guy is 6'4" or something. And he's 155 lbs. Ew.

Men are weird.

For some of them, fighting is their life.

I've never really paid any particular attention to my ears before, other than putting on earrings I never even think about them. But I saw several of these fighters with cauliflower ear.

This could be avoided by NOT fighting, LOL. It's one of the first things they teach you when you go to school.

I realize that there are female boxers/fighters too. Which confuses me even more. Like Layla Ali (or whatever). She's cute! Why take a chance on having your face fucked up if you don't have to? Getting hit in the head over and over is not good for your brain either.

Insanity.

I watched Pirate Master. Stupid Survivor on a boat. I won't watch it again.

Hell's Kitchen season premier is tonight. WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Can't wait to see it. :-)

The Memes:

Manic Monday

1. How do you learn best? Watch and learn? Participation? Reading directions or technical manuals?
I learn best by doing. I hate reading directions. I prefer trial & error, LOL.

2. Is one of your senses more highly developed than another? If so, which one?
Even though I'm half deaf, I'd still say my hearing.

3. Summer is almost upon us here in the northern hemisphere. What says summer to you? The effing heat.

Monday Music Mambo
List five songs you would enjoy on "repeat"

1. Justa Interlude - Heavy D. It's just an interlude. 66 seconds. But I love it to death.
2. You can do it - Ice Cube
3. Atomic Dog - George Clinton
4. Don't Leave Me - Blackstreet
5. Cup of Life (Spanish) - Ricky Martin