"AND THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED"

" The Tip Just Got Me, Odell"

"FOLKS, RIGHT NOW...WE MAY NEED EMERGENCY SURGERY IN THE STUDIO"

Guilty Pleasure Sunday 11/18/07 (on 11/19/07)

One word for this week's guilty pleasure: sleep.

That's all.

Once Again, FALLING IS FUNNY!

Listen to the very end. So funny. I could watch this over and over and over and over....

I WANT TO EAT THIS PUPPY!

This is the cutest thing ever. If you do not think so, then you have issues.

I want, want, want, want, want, want a puppy, this puppy.


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FALLING IS FUNNY.

The news anchor's laugh is probably the funniest part. Still laughing.





Thanks Lou! XOXO

Guilty Pleasure Sunday 11/11/07 (on 11/12/07)

Okay, I may be a day late on this but as the saying goes: "better late than never"--That really should also be my life motto (but I'll save that commentary for a later date). So, it is Sunday (or really late Monday morning) and it is time for the next installment of Guilty Pleasure Sunday. (refer back to GP 11/4/07) for more info).

So, today I am only putting one thing that I see as this past week's (or month or past year and year to come) GP.

It is one word. Not sure if Merriam Webster has declared that but 90% of the human race that uses the internet certainly knows it as one word.

Are you ready?

Yes, it is: Facebook.

Ok, ok, insert jokes here -->...wait, let me do it for you: Are you supposed to be under 16 to be on that? Are you really that big of nerd that you have to play on that shit all day? Carla, even though you can't make friends in real life doesn't mean you can solicit them on the internet? Have you met your future husband yet? (and to that last one)..is he of legal age?

I think that covers some of the basics.

But let's face it. When has keeping in touch with all (yes, ALL) of your friends, acquaintances, old co-workers, schoolmates, etc in one central location and not have to leave your home or even change out of your jammies ever been so easy? Social Networking has sky rocketed with these sites (amongst many others).

I mean, when was the last time you could take a picture of your brand new kitty, post it somewhere where everyone you know can see it and then get a comment from your third grade teacher on just how cute it is? All within a 20 minute period? (Note: a. that question is rhetorical because I know someone reading this just did that and 2. my third grade teacher is not on it....or so I think).

Believe me, you think you'd never do anything like it. But, I swear to you that it is completely addicting. Like Crack, I tell ya. Do it. Go make yourself a page. Find your friends. Before you know it, you'll be sitting on your computer looking through your best friend's cousin's sister wedding photos and it won't even phase you...

I guarantee it.

Now, you'll have to excuse me. I have to go see if my third grade teacher has a page.

I LOVE ME SOME REBA!

That's it. I am now a Country fan. I never thought it's happen. I always said, "no way, I hate that corny, twangy music". Well, I am now my very own hypocrite because I am sitting here, fresh from watching the CMAs (Country Music Awards) on TV and I have fucking tunes from such greats as Sugarland and Reba McEntire playing over in my head as I try to hum my way through the lines I don't know while making my cat hide under my bed.
Somehow the whole: shotmywifethenkickedmydogwhoranawaywiththemilkmaninmy67rustypickup-esque type music has crept into my head and placed a nice ear worm in me.

To prove this, today I spent 45 mins walking between the New Releases wall and Country in FYE (the new name for Media Play). Ended up with Ani Difranco's Canon ( a 2 disc set with all the oldies re-done and some new ones that I heard at her concert on sale for $13.99). However, I did have Reba's Duets in my hand all the way up into the check-out line when I realized...

"Carla, you are not buying a country CD, let alone a Duet one."

So, what does all this mean? Well, I have no idea. Guess it means I am growing up. I mean, you can only love Block Rockin' Beats and Uncensored Rap for so long before you realize you look like a complete ass singing along to KISS 98.5 while dressed in a business suit and driving 130 mph to work.

I am all for trying new things. So, who knows, maybe next I'll try some Christian Rock...

HELL NO!

Guilty Pleasure Sunday 11/4/07

So, I've decided that I will try and do a post each Sunday with some of the week's Guilty Pleasures, GP's if you will. These can be: Songs, TV Shows, Movies...Basically any noun.

So here is my list for this Sunday:

1. TURNING CLOCKS BACK --- 2am turned to 1am right before my eyes and I was like a kid on x-mas morning (minus the screaming mom and QVC boxes).

2. I LOVE NEW YORK 2 --- Show is ridiculous. Absolute shite. Like a train wreck, I just can't stop watching.

3. LMN --- I have just watched 3 Lifetime movies (one starring RICKI LAKE). I don't know who I am more mad at; myself for watching all this or the network for putting such bad actress' and actors in movies that are more addicting than CRACK.


Okay. That is it for today. I have so many more and I will save those for Sundays to come. I'd love to hear or read some of your GP's...if you are reading this, then send 'em on. I may just lavish in your GP glory too!

Back to Lifetime. I am crossing my fingers that Victoria Principle, Tori Spelling or Meridith Baxter Birney(?) are in one of the next five movies....

Santa Margherita and Brownies

So, I had total plans of just picking up brownie mix, mixing it with water and 30 mins later voila: 24 perfectly made brownies. ...nope.

Okay, let's go back about 20+ years. I am a diabetic. Yes, the type that Wiflord Brimley discusses on his info-mercials as bein' diabetus. I am the real kind. No HIV or illness that progresses into it-I am the real deal. 100% Juvenile Onset Certified. Not that that is any excuse AT ALL and I am not trying to use it as that.

But this leads me to tell you that:
I NEVER make desserts---of any kind. But I never thought these would be such an issue. I need about e'nuff for 60+people. Should be easy, right?

Yeah, well it wasn't.
isn't and in fact, they never got made.

So, now I have to wake up at like 7 am and make 60+ brownies.

Guess it doesn't help that I was watching the Sabres lose to Florida. I mean, c'mon. Assholes you live in ice and snow and you have to lose to a team that lives in the Sun and Sand. Fuck off guys. You should realize that you are being paid a gazillions dollars and you should be winning.

I am going to bed. I have had three glasses of wine and just don't feel like BettyFuckingCrocker right now. Hopefully, I am willing to do all of this work in the morning. But, we'll see.

At least I'll see my cousins tomorrow so that will be super nice. Now I am off to watching shit TV and drifting off to sleep land.

Nighty Night.

"Across the Universe"

So, tonight I went to see "Across the Universe": Directed by Julie Taymor and stars Evan Rachel Wood and Jim Burgess (with guest appearances by Bono and Joe Cocker!). Went to the Dipson on Main St. (always a treat). Four words for you: go see this movie.

Reasons why I say this:
1. If you like music, any kind of music (Beatles fans a +). Go see this movie.
2. If you like English accents. Go see this movie.
3. If you like interpretive dance. Go see this movie
4. If you find the 60's interesting. Go see this movie.

Now, this is not my usual, independent, quirky, try-to-hard-to-not-think-too-hard, indie movie that I love. It is also highly (no pun intended) filled with "psychedelic-y" type shots and situations. But the take on almost every Beatles song transformed and transposed into a different speed or key and then completely tied to the story line AND sung completely by the cast (who, by the way, all have great voices and mimic those of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix etc.) is spine tingling good. I got the chills throughout the whole movie.

Damn, means I have to go shave my legs again....
eh, it was worth it.