All About Eve

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riday night Evan and I stayed up until at least 5 am. We were watching "The Others" with Nicole Kidman. I was falling asleep but the effing commercials were so loud and bright that I woke up every time there was a commercial break.

I saw "All About Eve" on the schedule (on TCM) & ended up taping it because of Bette Davis and it had 3½ stars. IMDb gives the plot as:

"An ingenue insinuates herself in to the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends."

The version I taped was black & white. But, thankfully, no commercials.

Oh.My.God.

If you can get past the overly dramatic acting in it (it was the '50s, after all) this is a really good story.

Image via WikipediaBette Davis plays Margo, a very successful Broadway actress. One day, her close friend Karen (played by Celeste Holm) sees a young woman standing outside the theater waiting for Margo. The girl, Eve (played by Anne Baxter), adores Margo. She comes to see every single performance of the play in which Margo is currently starring.

THE SAME NIGHT that Eve is introduced to Margo, she tells a sad story about the difficult life she's lead. Margo takes pity on her & lets Eve move INTO HER HOUSE.

Eve makes herself very helpful, almost indispensable. Margo's real "assistant" is very suspicious of Eve from the beginning. *insert ominous music here*

Not long after she starts managing Margo's affairs (business & personal) she sets up a midnight (4 am in NY) long distance call to Margo's boyfriend in California for his birthday. She "forgets" to tell Margo about it. She also sends the BF a telegram from herself & plans a birthday/welcome home party for the BF (I can't remember his name.) inviting people that Margo does not like. Margo finds out about the party during the midnight phone call.

Margo gets drunk at the party. She says some unpleasant things about "Sweet, innocent Eve" and BF & Karen stand up for Eve. At the party, Margo tries to get Eve a job working for someone else.

After the party, Karen sets it up so that Margo will miss her next performance and Eve can go on as her understudy.

'Somehow', the press and all kinds of people find out about Eve's performance.

One of the main "society" reporters in NY gives Eve a glowing review & basically accuses Margo, "the mature actress" of trying to hold the "fresh new talent" back. But he also asks her some trick questions about her background to be used for the purposes of blackmail later in the movie.

I think this movie could have been made today. It was great. In spite of the acting. In spite of the fact that Eve got slapped and reacted 2 seconds after the slap. In spite of being black & white. It is a little like a soap opera, but it's Bette Davis!

There's a cameo from Marilyn Monroe in the movie. A lot of the faces looked familiar to me, but when I looked at their resumes on imdb, I can't remember seeing anything else they might have been in with the exception of "The Twilight Zone" (wasn't everybody on that show at some point in their career back then???)

If you happen to see it on your DVR guide, check it out. It wasn't a Bette Davis movie the way that 'Baby Jane' was a Bette Davis movie. It is, after all, "All About Eve". But you will LOVE the ending. I certainly did. :-)

Entrecard Update

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irst, one of my EC droppers commented that he had been penalized when dropping on my blog. Sent me into a panic. I left a message at the forums, sent a message to support, and sent a message to one of the admins. I also sent a message to Daisy asking if she'd been penalized when she dropped. She said "No". Here's the reply from the Admin.


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So...whatever. It's not me. :-)

:-( - 6/29/08

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ou have heard me talk about my cousin. The one who has a baby daddy who is an ex con & has abused her in the past, right?

Well...I've always thought that she was too quick to hit her own kids. Instead of talking to them.

Yesterday Evan was playing with his favorite cousin & they got hot so they went to her house. She and Baby Daddy were arguing so she told Evan that she'd let FC (Favorite Cousin) come back later. Which means some other day.

Anyway, he just came over here and asked if Evan could play with him outside.

Evan - Can I play outside with FC?
Me - If I can play with your Gameboy Advance. (I have to say the Whole Name)
Evan - Fine.
Me - FC, you see how I have to ask permission to use Evan's Gameboy? He's so mean.
Evan - That's because I bought it with my own money.
FC - Well when my mama gets my Gameboy and I try to get it back, she just backhands me across the face.
Me - Thanks for the tip. If it starts raining, y'all come back over HERE. You hear me, FC?
FC - OK!

She has already been reported for child abuse. She can't figure out which family member did it...

WHY is it that the people who can't even take care of their damned selves have kids to abuse and neglect while people who really WANT children & would treat them like the precious Gifts from God that they are can't get pregnant?

This is the thing that pisses me off about God.

Did you see last night's SNL? George Carlin was on. He said "Maybe God isn't perfect. The mountains are all uneven. Every living thing he's ever created dies. He can't even give us messages himself. He has to send a Winged Angel. He's clearly subject to the same laws of physics that we are."

I'm paraphrasing.

But at least it brings a smile to my face when I really want to smack the shit out of my stupid ass cousin.

I only have to watch this 7,000 times

To actually be able to fold my shirt in 2 seconds...

Random Thoughts - 6/28/08

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hat ever happened to Terence Trent D'arby?



I was just listening to my R&B playlist on I-tunes and realized that I haven't heard from him in forever.

OMG. I just found this site. He's flipped out just like Prince did, LOL. "a mystical experience with dreams" made him decide to change his name to Sananda Maitreya.

WTFever.

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Listening to: Terence Trent D'arby - Rain via FoxyTunes

The other day the cable went out. Internet too. But it went out at 11:30 pm. Which is 5 minutes before Craig Ferguson comes on. Why does Charter hate me? It went out right before Craig a couple of days. Luckily, I had so much shit recorded that I still had stuff to watch, but WHY doesn't it go out earlier or later??? Why only when Craigie is on?

When I called the cable company, 3 things irritated me:

1. The damned computer. I refuse to talk to a computer. I constantly repeat "Operator" or "Agent" until the computer says "Ok. I understand that you'd like to talk to an agent. I will transfer you now."

2. When I call, I have to enter my phone number so that they can pull up my acct information. But then as soon as an agent gets on the line, they ask me for my phone number again. Why can't this information pop up on the effing computer screen so I'm not repeating myself 12 times?

3. After the dude asked for my phone # for the third time & entered my information, he came back on the line and said "I don't know if what I'm about to tell you is good news or bad news."

Then he paused.

Me - Just tell me.
Dude - Well, after I entered your info, the screen went blank and they have officially declared an outage in your area.
Me - Which means what?
Dude - That you must have been the 3rd person to call and report it, so now it's an emergency and some technicians will be out to fix the outage ASAP.
Me - They work at this time of night?
Dude - Well, I don't know about your specific area, some of them do. But regardless, they will be out first thing in the morning before it gets hot.
Me - Ok. Thanks.

Why the hell did he pause before telling me that? There's nothing that I can do about my cable & internet being out no matter what. I know that it being declared an outage is better than having to wait for 3 days for someone to come out and switch my DVR.

Was he bracing himself in case I started yelling? What good would that do?

*rolling eyes*

FYI - Cable came back on 30 minutes after Craig went off.

....

*sigh*

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Listening to: Danity Kane - Bad Girl (Feat. Missy Elliott) via FoxyTunes

What kind of names do I like?

You Like Names that Are Retro and Fashionable

You like names that are from the past but becoming modern again. Names with a strong history are very appealing to you. You're a big believer in giving children very adult sounding names. You're not a fan of nicknames or newfangled spellings. Some female names you might like: Audrey, Emma, Fiona, Georgia, Isabelle, Naomi, Rosemary, and Veronica Some male names you might like: Brendan, Colin, Ethan, Jared, Kenneth, Martin, and Nathaniel

What Kind of Names Do You Like?

High Five Friday - 6/27/08

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ere is this week's list of blogs that get a High Five from me:

Steven Humour for this post.

Makes You Laugh for this post.

Skirmisher for this post. Why?? That's it. Just WHY?!?!?

The Why File for this post. It made me smile. :-)

Why Are You Stalking Me? for this post. Cracked me the fark up! :-)

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Listening to: Snoop Dogg - I love weed
via FoxyTunes

This post may be a bit rabid

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ecause I drank a HeadShot today. Last night I took a sleeping pill at 10. Got to sleep about midnight. But when I woke up at 7 am, I felt like I would have that "sleeping pill hangover" and be napping all day so I went ahead and drank it.

I have already vacuumed the living room, swept & mopped the kitchen floor, cleaned the oven, washed some dishes, and created a whole new "My Favorite EntreCard Blogs" widget.

Last night I rubbed Paula Deen's House Seasoning all over the pork butt that I didn't grill at MD's the other day. (Evan said, quote, "Let me smack that butt!" So he did, LOL.) I plan to bake it all day at 250 degrees. Which is why I cleaned the oven. Last time I baked some pork ribs, I spilled all kinds of grease in the oven and the next time Evan turned the oven on to broil a bagel, it set off the smoke alarm. (Yes, I have an ancient toaster oven that MD gave me about 10 years ago, but I have so much shit and so few plugs in the kitchen that I never use it.)

BTW, do you see the fantabulous paint job that Tater did? Does it look like it matches the paint AT ALL? He said he did 2 coats, but you can still see the drywall through it.

Let me go put the butt in the oven. BRB.

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Now playing: Will Smith - Just the Two of Us via FoxyTunes

I'm back.

While I was putting the butt in the oven, I got irritated that 4 (maybe 5) days after they came just to paint the effing wall where the new cabinet is and ended up trying to fix my hall light & etc, I still had no lights in my kitchen. I got the bright idea some time last night to see if the fan over the oven worked. It didn't. I had decided that I was going to make Tater buy some new energy efficient light bulbs since the ones I had installed in the kitchen before he got in were barely 2 weeks old.

What was I saying?

Oh, after the fan & light over the stove wouldn't work either, I decided that they had tripped a breaker in the fuse box. That's what it was. So once again I have lights on in the kitchen. And once again, I figured it out my damned self and not the fracking "handy men" who are supposed to know how to do this shit.

I really have done a lot to this apartment myself. Been here 17 years. I've put new "thingees" (I don't know what they're called) on the hallway railing because I knew that 1) some apartments don't even have a railing going up the stairs (!?!??!) and b) putting in a work order means that it will take approximately 6 mos before whatever landlord will finally get to it.

This new landlord is better than all the others, but he still hires people who do handyman work on the side instead of as a profession before he finally calls the professionals in. Which is why it takes so damned long to fix anything finally and completely and accurately.

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Now playing: Will Smith - Wild Wild West via FoxyTunes

I am a land owner!



One whole square inch. I was dropping Entrecards (oh yeah, that's something else I did this morning) and found this site that gives you one entire inch of land for FREE. No taxes. But you can't make any improvements. There goes my plans for a new flower garden... I found the site at Freebie Reporter. I love freebies.

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Now playing: Will Smith - I Wish I made that via FoxyTunes

I left a really long comment for CardioGirl. Really long. Like almost as long as this post long. But after I went back, I see that I'm not the only one. So I don't have to feel guilty about that, LOL.

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Now playing: Will Smith - Mr. Niceguy via FoxyTunes

I found a new blog today, because the owner of the blog (Jen) commented. It's called Happyfibrofamily. She has fibromyalgia and apparently wheat/gluten/sugar can exacerbate her symptoms. She has a post about dietary changes that were suggested to her by a Naturopathic Doctor for people with fibro or arthritis (I have that too, in case you didn't know.) One of the things was eating more red meat (YESSSSSSSSS!) and eating less sugar...like chocolate. I'll get right on that. (Did that seem believable?)

I use Splenda for everything but baking. But I still eat a lot of candy. I can't live without candy. Fuck that. I'll just put up with my swollen ankles & knees, LOL.

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Now playing: Will Smith - Miami via FoxyTunes

Did you see Will Smith on David Letterman this week? He was quite amusing.

Did I tell you that I bought some Invisible Glass Cleaner at my other home (Wal-Mart) last week?

I CANNOT get the damned computer screen clean. I notice it every time I post something on my blog. I've cleaned it 4 times already. It's irking me.

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Now playing: Will Smith - Summertime via FoxyTunes

I have to clean the computer screen again with vinegar & water or something. Did I tell you that MD touched my car windshield and got greasy fingerprints all over it?

Right in the lower driver's side corner.

I should lift them and frame her for a crime. It would serve her right for trying to kill me.

I have to pee. Have I said that already?

Whatever.

Bye!

**Update** 6:47 pm

1) I took the butt out of the oven a few minutes ago and made gravy from the drippings. The all day cooking makes the meat 'fall off the bone' tender. Love it!

2) Today I actually felt the "crash" from the HeadShot. I normally don't. But then normally when I drink one, I'm out of the house all day and still have to drive, so maybe I just don't notice it. It lasted, for me, from 7 am until 3 pm. Then I took a 2 hour nap. I will be up all night.

3) I can't remember what else I was going to say.

Pork Butt Samiches for a couple of days! WHOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO!

Mommy Dearest came over today - 6/25/08

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he came over yesterday too. I got an ankle bracelet. She bought one and got one free (dur). So I got the silver one. She got the Onyx one.

Whatever.

Yesterday she had been trying to take a nap & people kept calling so she gave up and came over here. Made some calls on her miniscule cell phone (she gets no reception at her house).

Evan & I had to go to Wal-Mart (the one in TN this time) to get a charger for the Gameboy. I forgot to tell you about that yesterday. But this post is about MD.

Today we were supposed to grill over there (I bought a pork butt & some steak) but I didn't feel like it because I stayed up all night (literally) playing Crash Bandicoot (but I didn't tell her that) so she came over and brought me some cucumbers that Omah had grown.

And to talk.

We always tease her that she only comes over here to watch Al Green on youtube. So she decided that she wanted to talk. We talked about all the new TV shows she missed because she was watching the BET Awards waiting for Al Green's Lifetime Achievement Award. We watched Wipeout & I Survived a Japanese Gameshow & Celebrity Family Feud.

We talked about Golden Showers. (Evan was upstairs by this time.) She taped that "Talk Sex with Sue Johanson" show and someone was asking if it she could get diseases if her boyfriend urinated on her. Apparently, MD watches this show all the time. Me, myself, personally? (HA! That phrase is so retarded!) I do not want to listen to some ancient woman talk about sex. But anyway, I don't think she'd need to watch it if she'd go to those singles' dinners they have around here every weekend. She could experience it. (LMFAO!)

She does not masturbate. (!!!!) She hasn't been on a date or anything since my dad died 21 years ago.

It depresses me, really. I can't imagine not having sex for 20 years. Or the rest of my life.

I mean, she's "picky". I don't think she can have sex just for the sex. She says she wants a "friend" to go out to dinner and movies with her. But she never mentions sex.

Whatever.

Anyway, I was looking to see the new Fall TV Schedule for her and I happened to be on my Other blog and she saw "My momma tried to kill me!" on the RSS Feed Reader and she said "Go there!"

So I did & read it to her.

MD - Oh, so I'm Mommy Dearest?
Me - Well, you don't want me to use your real name, do you?
MD - *Shocked & Horrified* No!
Me - Well that's why you're Mommy Dearest.

Ha!

I'm so glad she doesn't have a computer. :-)

Yay! I'm like Hitler.

Your Inner Blood Type is Type A

You seem cool and collected, though a bit shy. You are highly driven and a perfectionist, but that's a side you keep to yourself. Creative and artistic, you are a very unique person who doesn't quite fit in. People accept you more than you realize, seeing you as trustworthy and loyal. You are most compatible with: A and AB Famous Type A's: Britney Spears and Hilter

What's Your Inner Blood Type?

I'm still tired from yesterday...

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esterday we went to Unclaimed Baggage in Scottsboro, Alabama. I don't know if they didn't have any air conditioning on, or if all the bodies in there heated up the place. It was HOT in there.

It's been years (two or more) since I've been there. I used to get all of Evan's clothes there because you could get a pair of pants for $2. I mean name brands. Like Sean John or whatever. I got my Kickass Cowboy Boots for $60. If you click the link it will take you to a page on my old website, HB is short for Honey Bunny which is what I called Evan back then.



Anyway, things have changed there! Now they no longer have DVDs in clear cases for $3.50. I mean, they do. But it's cheaper to get DVDs at the $5 bin in Wal-Mart. I saw Rush Hour 3 for $14.49... As IF. I can wait for it to go down at Wal-Mart.

So Evan found a GameBoy for $20.99. He got that & 3 games for it. The only problem is that we don't have a screwdriver small enough to open the back & change the batteries. We've both been playing the hell out of Crash Bandicoot on there and a little red light is on. I assume that means that the batteries are dying...

After The Boy made his purchases, I was ready to go. We went to my other home (Guess where?) and got him a new bike, new bike helmet & new pads. I got myself some t-shirt sheets since Evan has claimed my old pair.

The reason we went all the way to Scottsboro, AL to shop was because MD just told me that in AL, you only pay one sales tax. In TN there's on 9.75% tax & then another 8.35% tax for other stuff. In AL it's only the one 9.whatever% tax.

I knew there were 2 taxes. I look at my receipt every time. But I didn't realize that Alabama didn't have both of those taxes.

So now, not only will I be getting up early to fill up my gas tank, I will be going to AL for a lot of the junk that I buy. It's only 5 minutes to cross the state line to get dish washing liquid or whatever. Why not?

I was nervous driving home with my trunk sticking open with the bike in back. I mean, we had chained the bike & the trunk lid together with an actual chain, but I've heard that those police in Scottsboro will stop you for anything. At least around here, everyone knows me or someone in my family so I don't worry about getting pulled over. For anything, LOL.

That's all. I'm ready for a nap!

Time for Evan's Smile!

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s I told you the other day, Time for a Smile is having a contest right now. I entered twice. Once with a picture that Evan took of himself and once with a picture of Evan and his favorite cousin.

You still have time to enter!

That is all.

My momma tried to kill me!

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esterday Evan asked if he could go to Omah's house with his cousin. I said sure.

I picked up the phone to call my mother & let her know that the boys were coming and had a message from her. She needed some Attarax (the Benadryl x 10 that I told you about). So I put on some clothes & drove over there. Passed the boys on the way. I was happy to see that 1) they had water bottles with them and 2) they were walking facing traffic. I waved at them & went on MD's house, LOL. I got there at 1 pm.

I gave her 2 pills. She said she'd take one at bedtime since they knock us out. I was about to leave & she said "Are you leaving?" I said "Yes, because if I sit in your squishy couch I might not ever get up again."

But I stayed and cut some coupons from her Sunday paper & the younguns came to jump on the trampoline.

So I went outside to make sure that they weren't both jumping on it at the same time. Stayed there long enough for MD decide she wanted to grill for us. I had to go to the store & get maters, taters, beef & buns. (That's how I remembered it, LOL.)

Entyway, after she was done cooking the burgers I went in to wash my hands and she had LEFT HER SHOES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR. Of course I tripped over them and fell into the bathroom. It's the size of a closet.

So I had to lay on the floor squished between the toilet and the wall while the pain stopped being so painful.

I have two boo boos on my knees from rug burn.

She wouldn't kiss them.

Me - See, even as I was falling, I was considerate enough to spill my soda in the sink so you wouldn't have to mop and you won't even kiss the boo boos that you caused!
Evan - Why are you trying to kill my mama?
Cousin - Yeah, Aunt MD, why you trying to kill Evan's Mama?

So MD blew air kisses.

Like that counts.

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Now playing: Sara Bareilles - Love Song
via FoxyTunes

Anyway, after we ate I told the boys that they'd better get started walking home if they wanted to make it before it was dark.

HA!

I bet they thought I was going to drive them home.

Hell NO! I soaked Evan with the hose and got Cousin a little wet too. No way they were sitting in my Hoopty!

I sat at MD's and watched almost an entire episode of "Gene Simmons' Family Values" before I left & passed them on the way home.

They were yelling something at me.

I didn't hear them. Had the radio up too loud. *giggle*

So now they're outside playing because Cousin's mother is gone somewhere.

If you hadn't guessed, I'm writing this on Sunday while I still remember. I'm fiddnuh watch "The Great Debaters" or whatever it is with Denzel Washington. Borrowed it from MD. She hadn't even opened it yet...

She just watched "I am Legend" that I gave her (months ago) this morning. *rolling eyes*

Ta!


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Now playing: Ludacris - The Potion
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How Republican am I?

You Are 28% Republican

You're a bit Republican, and probably more conservative than you realize. If you're still voting Democrat, maybe it's time that you stop.

How Republican Are You?

They should separate some of these questions. I believe that abortion should be an option (and for some sluts, mandatory) AND I'm pro death penalty.

Please go in, Baby. It would make Tater so happy.

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his is what I heard the other day when "Tater" was here painting the drywall where the new cabinet is supposed to go up.

Tater has a real name. He told me once, but I forgot. So I asked him again and he said "Tater".

Tater didn't stink like others ('handy men') that have been in here. Which was nice.

His talking to himself was quite amusing.

He was replacing the plug (that was still working) in the wall where the new cabinet will be.

Apparently, whomever wired my apartment in the first place (50 years ago) didn't know what they were doing either. There are supposed to be 4 wires or something. Or maybe 3. But I do know that there was one live wire that they just wrapped around METAL at the bottom of the actual plug.

So every time I plugged in the George Foreman, I was risking electrocution without knowing it.

Since my hall light (going up stairs) stopped working a couple of months ago, I asked Tater to fix that one too.

He couldn't.

So the gist is that the lights in my kitchen don't work. No idea why.
The hall light set off sparks a couple of times and it still doesn't work. It's now hanging out of the wall with electrical tape covering the exposed live wire.

An ACUTAL ELECTRICIAN is supposed to be here next week (we'll see) and fix all of my outlets that don't work.

I'd be pissed if I hadn't enjoyed listening to Tater talk to himself so much, LOL.

And Tater is loaning Evan some Star Wars DVDs that he has that aren't the usual.

Whatever...

What am I supposed to do

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or my "Blogoversary"? It's in 12 days.

My blog will be 2 years old...

Any suggestions?

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Now playing: Day 26 - GOT ME GOING - EXTENDED
via FoxyTunes

YAY for thieving relatives! :-)

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y favorite aunt has worked at a particular place for about 20 years. She always comes home with stuff that she 'gets' from them. When I worked at a hotel as a housekeeper I used to bring home almost empty rolls of toilet paper or unopened beer that I found in the fridge. It's a fringe benefit of a shitty job as far as I'm concerned.

Anyway, since I've had all these stinky workmen in and out of my house lately, I've gone through 2 (TWO) bottles of Odoban and I can't stand it. So I asked if she could bring me one of those automatic airspray thingees that they have at her job.

She did!

Unfortunately, she brought me Bayberry as the scent. I prefer Baby Powder or Clean Linen or something like that. But beggars can't be choosers. I'll just look for refills at Wal-Mart or whatever when I get the chance.

And Bayberry is better than Sour Sweat & Cigar scent, nodamene? It goes off Automatically every 15 minutes. Evan likes the scent. I think it smells like 70s cologne. *shudder*

Whatever.

**Update** OMG! I put the sprayer up on the wall right next to the door. It goes off every 15 minutes. Last night it kept scaring me half unto death every time it sprayed because the little click that accompanies the spray kept sounding like someone was trying to open my front door.

So we will be turning off the sprayer at night so I don't have a heart attack...

High Five Friday - 6/20/08

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es, I know it's been a while since I've done a High Five Friday, but I have a new Firefox add-on called ReminderFox and now it will remind me every Friday to do it & it will remind me on the 30th of every month to do my EntreCard Link Love posts too! :-)

1. Idiocrasies of the English Language for the "History through Children's Eyes" post.

2. Steven Humour for this post and this post.

3. What Comes Next for this post because I agree with his assessment.

4. Makes you laugh for Cloudy Urine, Sadist Freeway Signs, and Free Speech Rulez.

5. WhyRUStalkingMe for this hilarious post.

6. VideoGum for "Hugh Laurie is Not Like Us" because I gotta give love to anyone who talks about my imaginary lover.

7. Jillian Approved for her post about "What I Should Have Said".

8. Karlonia.com for Axioms & Cliches.

9. Sosuna-o-Lata for Victory is Mine! Girl Power. :-)

Time for a Contest!

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ime for a smile is having a contest. I have already entered.

You can enter in various ways. The easiest, IMO, is commenting on one of the posts. It's easy because I LOVE the blog. No matter what kind of day I'm having, I know that something will make me smile there. :-)

There are so many prizes (and so varied) that I can't even tell you here. Just go enter it yourself. Or don't. Because the fewer people that enter, the better my chances of winning! Muuuuuuuhahahhahahahha. ;-)

FINE! I won't comment on your blog anymore!

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hat do you think when you take the time to comment on someone's blog and then they delete it?

I'm not talking about using profanity or saying something rude, I mean a regular comment.

I've noticed this a few times.

But this is one of the blogs I visited every day.

Until now.

What, you don't like me stating the obvious? You think my intelligence makes all your other readers feel stupid?

Fine.

Kiss my lumpy ass. You don't have to worry about any more comments that SHOULD BE OBVIOUS TO ANYONE WITH HALF A BRAIN from me anymore.

The rest of y'all, have a nice day. :-)

The Invasion

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hen I went to Wal-Mart the last time, I made up my mind to only buy one movie. It was between "The Brave One" with Jodie Foster, "Braveheart" with Mel Gibson, "Shoot 'em Up" with Clive Owen and "Invasion" with Nicole Kidman.

I like Jodie Foster movies, for the most part. I wasn't particularly fond of "Nell" or the one she did with Mel Gibson...Maverick? I like Mel Gibson movies. I LOVED Braveheart. I have it on VHS. I just really wanted to see something different. Something that I'd never seen before.

I won't make you read through my entire thought process, but I settled on "Invasion". Obviously.

It was good. Once again, I was afraid I might not find it worth the $13, but I usually end up liking a lot of Nicole Kidman movies that I only watched because it was during one of those free premium channel cable weekends (Like "The Others". That movie was awesome!).

I hate her fake American accent. Some people can get away with it. But other actors slip back to their native accent when they're being emotional.

Whatever.

The story is about a US Space Shuttle that crashes back on earth and then people start getting a strange form of the 'Flu'.

Apparently, it was a remake (of sorts) of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". I never saw that, so I can't say.

I can say that you probably know the story. People get infected, they start changing & Dr. Carol Bennell (Kidman) tries to save herself and her son from being infected.

Photos from IMDb. Click to enlarge.

*sigh*

I liked the movie. It's worth a rent. But I really don't feel like talking about it anymore.

There's a Dr. Who marathon on Sci-Fi right now and I have a lot of episodes to watch on DVR.

Bye!

How negative am I?

You Are a Little Negative...

You can be negative from time to time, but you rarely go overboard. You have a realistic view of the world, and most people appreciate your honest insights. Like everyone else, you have your darker moods. But when you're feeling super negative, you keep your feelings to yourself.

Are You Too Negative?

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Assassinate by Nyhm

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ave you seen this? I put it on my other blog. Evan is always looking for Ninja crap & whatever boys who aren't yet masturbating (as far as I know) look for. He bookmarked about 30 (thirty) things for me to see. Finally last night I watched a few of them just so he'd SHUT UP about it.

I LOVE IT!

There are lyrics on the video, but I'm so in to the beat that I haven't really paid attention. With a title like "Assassinate" they can't be good, but whatever. It's my jam! When I heard the first few words, I instantly thought of Angela Bassett in "What's Love got to do with it?". But I got over that pretty quickly, LOL.



I just wish I had that kind of creativity! To write music like that. I'm not vouching for the rapping (although he does have a good flow). In my next life, I want to be the female Timbaland/Pharell.

When I was watching some of his bookmarks (like the "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" song) I saw a very obese girl in the side. I asked him if he'd watched that and he said "That's just sad."

Me - Are you being facetious?
Evan - No, it's really sad.

So of course, I watched about 10 seconds of it.

The girl is 7 years old and 400 lbs. It IS sad. I don't know why her parents (or whatever kind of people she lives with) would put that on youtube. It's not funny. It just makes you feel sorry for the girl and angry with her "caregivers". WTF???

Anyway, that's all for now.

Listen Up!

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fter years of listening to my headphones at full volume (when I was a teenager) and putting up with my BFF sending me Miracle Ear info through the mail, I finally got that "Listen Up!" thing that you've probably seen advertised on TV.

I get tired of having to turn my TV volume almost all the way up to be able to hear. I get tired of constantly rewinding my DVR to hear what someone said (or read, if I have the captions on).

My hearing is weird. I mean, I have high frequency hearing loss. I haven't been tested, but I know this. And I can't hear well at all with the air conditioning or some other white noise thing running.

Listen Up! works better than I had anticipated for $10. The little ear buds are uncomfortable (for me), but I can use it with my regular headphones and hear just fine. Plus the actual device can be mistaken for a mini MP3 player. So if I ever wore it out in public, people wouldn't think I was eavesdropping on them.

Which I would be.

Evan went a few steps up the stairs and whispered and I could hear him.

The only thing is that I can hear myself too.

I was using it while the landlord & Roto Rooter dude were here fixing the wall (the cabinet is supposed to go up Thursday). I had it up so that I could hear the TV. Then they started talking loud and almost burst my ear drums.

Anyway, if you're half deaf like me, you should try it. It was cheaper at Wal-Mart than it is on their official website.

Evan's Discoveries

This one's funny.

I like this song a lot.


No words for this one. Just watch.

Jumper

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ou may have heard some things about this movie which make you think it won't be any good. I know I did. I was nervous to buy it. All I knew about it was that Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) was in it and he could basically teleport.

But it is so much more than that. I didn't know Samuel L. Jackson was in it. It was a different kind of role (IMO) for him. He played Roland. One of the "religious freaks" known as Paladins. Roland wants to kill all Jumpers because Paladins believe that only God should have the power to be all places at once.

The movie starts with a young teenager named David Rice. He is bullied (I guess) in school. One day, he wants to give his crush, Millie Harris, a gift (a snow globe that he found at a yard sale). The main HS bully snatches the gift from Millie and throws it onto a frozen lake. David walks out onto the ice to get it. He stands there just long enough to fall through the ice.

Look, this movie requires some suspension of disbelief. I have watched "Ice Road Truckers". I know that the last thing you want to do on top of a frozen lake is stop. He should have gotten the freaking snow globe and gone back to the bank. But then there would have been no movie, LOL.

So while he's in the freezing lake, he somehow transports himself to the middle of the city library. Water and all.

Then he goes home to his drunk father. Apparently, his dad beats up on him too because he has a serious chain on his bedroom door to keep his father out of his room.

His dad asks him why he's wet and he says something like "Oh, some kids from school..." then he goes into his room and chains it up. His dad comes upstairs to get more of an answer and David won't open the door. When his father is about to break into the room, he transports himself back to the library out of fear.

After that, he realizes that he doesn't have to stay in Nowhere, Rhode Island (or wherever he is) and he starts robbing banks (by Jumping himself into the vaults) to finance his new life. He goes to England to pick up chicks, he Jumps to the ocean to surf, he eats lunch on top of a sphinx's head in Egypt.

All of it is pretty fun to watch. Made me wonder what I would do if I had that kind of power.

One day he finally gets the courage to go back to his hometown to seek out Millie. Everyone else in town had thought that he was dead because he never came back after falling through the ice. He did, however, leave the snow globe on a bench in Millie's back yard so that she knew he was alive.

He runs into the old HS bully and Jumps him inside a bank vault.

Payback.

But the bully meets Roland & spills the beans. So while David is taking Millie to Rome to see all the sites that she had wanted to see in HS, Roland is trying to find him and kill him.

Rent the movie. As I said, Evan watched it about 30 times since the day we bought it. I watched it with him half of those times and didn't mind listening to it while I dropped cards or whatever the other half of the time.

I liked it a lot. I like the way that just because he had this "super power", he didn't try to be a Super Hero. He did what I think any of us would do. Exactly what he wanted. He had fun with it.

The only reason I say Rent the movie instead of Buy the movie is because you might not like it as much as we did. But the special effects were not overdone. I like the way they made Jumping look. There are some cool & funny action scenes when another Jumper is jumping a car through traffic at high speed.

2 snaps up with a bootie smack. Or something. Whatever. Watch it!