1. I will be attending a black tie event this weekend.  I bought my dress three years ago but by the time I got around to trying to hem it, it was too late and I ended up wearing another dress I already had.  It’s been too long since I dressed up like a grown up in classy garb!  Looking forward to it, plus Ms. Vest is going to be my hot date for the night!  Yeah I know.  She’s married.  Oh! And, yeah, we’re not gay.   Nevertheless, we plan to have a great time!!

2.  Going from classy to crassy, and continuing the hot dog conversation from my previous post… I’ve been told there is a food truck with the best hot dogs in Ventura called, wait for it, The Greasy Weiner.”  Great! Here I am, the girl who cuts up her dog at Bombay’s because it looks too phallic to be eating it the traditional way IN A BAR,   and I’m going to be seen eating a “greasy weiner” on the streets?

3.  Brilliant post seen on Twitter:

“I hate people who don’t know the difference between ‘Your’ and ‘You’re’.
There fucking idiots.”

Bwahahaha!!!
(by the way, if you don’t get this joke you should contact me immediately!)

4.  Some people measure driving distance by miles, and some by time.  For instance, “It’s 30 miles to Santa Barbara.” vs “It takes a half an hour to get to Santa Barbara.”  Sometimes I measure distance in songs.  “It should take me only eight songs to get to Santa Barbara.”

5. I believe the Meerkat is my favorite animal to watch.   I could hang out at the Santa Barbara zoo observing these little guys all day long.  They have such soulful looks in their eyes.  And they acknowledge you and watch you right back!  Love them!

And who didn’t love Timon in the Lion King?  Nathan Lane was the voice behind the character in the Disney movie.  Great stuff.  The movie came out the same year Syd Rose was born.

6. Something you may not know about me.  My father use to drag my sorry ass out of bed to watch those NASA launches in the wee hours of the morning when I was growing up.  I always loved following our adventures into space, that is until I was on-the-air at KEZY that fateful day.   This week marks the anniversary of the Challenger tragedy.  I actually got yelled at for announcing it on the air because we were not a “news station”.  I still couldn’t disagree more with that policy.

7. Speaking of that Orange County station (which was mostly great fun being the first radio station I got to work at), my mentor, Craig Powers, posted on Facebook earlier this week about KEZY and a whole bunch of past announcers and other folks chimed in including an engineer who worked there the same time I did.  He has this internet website page about it and lo and behold, there I am!  Too funny!!!  I’m such a geek!

8. I once saw a TV show, or maybe it was a segment on a program where they’d pick women at random walking by and put them on a pedestal on a busy public street and they’d ask people how old they thought she was.  These women were horrified to learn most guessed they were 10 years older than they were.
Honestly, my women friends ALL look at least 10 years younger than they are.  I believe it’s in the water here in Ventura.

9.  I’m proud to say that my friend Mike Matthews created the “Pam Baumgardner Files” a while back for his Mike’s Daily Podcast. From time to time whenever I post a comment or make a suggestion, he’ll share that with his audience.   He does these crazy fun characters and will interview up and coming artists from time to time.
Check him out:  http://mikesdailypodcast.com/

10.  Whenever I get super upset, I clean.  I’ll tidy up my desk, then I’ll dust, maybe vacuum,  do the dishes, mop the kitchen floor, do the laundry.  A pristine house = one pissed off gal.

But seriously, all kidding aside, whenever I do get upset with someone.  I take a moment to calm down, and then I do some busy work (depending on the upset, sometimes longer than other times). But then as if by magic, I get this incredible feeling of affinity for mankind.  That person may still be “wrong”, but in the grand scheme of things, it really doesn’t matter.  Very therapeutic.  Plus I get more order in my surroundings!

11.  I LOVE rollercoasters!  Metalica…not so much.

12.  From my favorite quotes file, and this one is dedicated to my daughter, Sydney Rose:  “Vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat.”  Fran Lebowitz

Thanks for listening.