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A Couple of Things…

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1. Apparently I’m not the only one, but I am so relieved for Daylight Saving Time.  Sure I miss that hour like crazy, but I’ll have the correct time in my car again, at least for six months. One of these days I’ll figure out how to adjust the time in my VW, but probably not before I turn it in as my lease is up in September.
Side note: As I searched for an image, I found a tutorial on “How to set the clock in your Volkswagon” #NeverTooLate

2. I’m still working on one of my New Year’s Resolutions this year, which is to copy-edit before sending text messages, or emails, or social media posts, or blogs.

3. Here’s my opinion regarding low self-esteem.  I think one earns esteem.  Self or otherwise. It’s not a birth right.

4. Funny story: a co-worker confided in me while discussing going to mass for Ash Wednesday that she sometimes has to say an extra prayer afterwards…on a count of swearing to herself about how much ash was put on her forehead.  #ThatWouldBeMe

5. At first I thought it was a satirical website, but CBC Radio out of Canada isn’t. So this makes the headline even more hilarious! Headline on the story read: “Man angry his photo was used to prove all hipsters look alike – then learns it wasn’t him” – CBC Radio

  • Saw Captain Marvel. Nothing like a girl-next-door being a super hero.  Such a great role model for young girls everywhere!  #CantWaitforNextAvengersMovie
    My only questions regarding the movie evolve around the cat. WTF
  • Years ago I enjoyed the movie with Mel Gibson, What Women Want.  That being said, I couldn’t muster the energy to go see What Men Want, because seriously, don’t we already know?
  • As much as I enjoy Glenn Closes’ acting skills, her performance in “The Wife” resembles how most wives conduct themselves…stoically. Is that really digging deep? Poetic ending though; liked it.
  • I recently watch the 1943 version of Lassie Come Home.  I figured it was safe because you know, Lassie never dies. Unfortunately I didn’t account for other dogs.

7. Kerfuffle is one of newest favorite words to use, especially since it is found in the dictionary. I always thought it was a made up word, but no!  Its from… “1945–50; < Scots curfuffle < cur- (< Scots Gaelic car ‘to twist, turn’ |< Old Irish cor ‘a turn’) + fuffle ‘to disorder, confuse’ (of imitative origin)”

8. Do you ever find yourself mimicking the walk of someone ahead of you?  Yeah, me neither.

9. If I ever write a book, I think I’ll call it, “But I like my Turkey dry”.

10. So I hate to say it, but I was sexually harassed last year. Someone sent me a vile photo along with gross description of what they wanted to do with me.  They used my name too.  I thought about posting his face, but what if this person used somebody else’s photo? I did not recognize the number nor the person in the dick pick. Creeped me out, so I blocked the number, but then thought maybe there is a proper protocol to handing the smut of the earth, so I called Ventura PD and the detective told me to unblock, and to send a text explaining to that person that they should never contact me again, in person, via text, phone, email whatever.  So I did, then blocked him again.  This way if they continue to contact me, PD then has a case and will hunt him down.  My only regret is that I didn’t use a hashtag, #NotMeTooSUCKER

11. I saw somewhere that for $45, the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing will sell you a 5-lb bag with $10,000 worth of shredded U.S. currency. Bargain!  My question is, “How could they possibly prove it is $10,000?

12. Time really flies.  You realize that when you hit certain milestone anniversaries…such as VenturaRocks.com serving Ventura for ten years!!

From my favorites quotes file: “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.”  – Lao Tzu

A Couple of Things…

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Cark1.  Saw this on Facebook.  This is just freakin’ funny!

2.  I once saw the Oscar Meyer Wienie mobile broken down along the Conejo Grade.  Talk about killing the magic, or as they say in the industry, “There goes the fourth wall.”

3.  Speaking of Oscar Meyer, and other crap food you should never put in your body, I saw this headline from the Washington Post: “Your healthy habits are eating into the packaged foods industry”.

The article went on to site sources from the Kellogg Company, Kraft Foods, Chef Boyardee and others whose profits have fallen drastically in the last year, Kraft said by 62 percent!  See complete story:  http://www.washingtonpost.com

Somehow I don’t feel sorry for those poor bastards.  How about selling affordable healthy foods?

4.  One of my favorite things about my ex-mother-in-law Cheryle and her significant other Bruce who worked for Disney in the accounting offices was that they use to give us a Disney coffee mug every year for Christmas.  It’s been over ten years since I got one, but I still use them every day.  My favorite?  Either Tinkerbell or Dumbo.

5.  Speaking of Disney, I use to receive a family pack of four tickets every year when I worked in the media, first radio, then the magazine.  Disney was really smart about PR because they knew they would receive publicity in exchange.  You never had to prove you said or wrote anything either.

Toontown
ToonTownOne of my favorite experiences at Disney was actually work related and it was the grand opening of Toon Town.  They invited radio stations from all over Southern California for cover the grand opening with live broadcasts.  We had three DJs from the KXBS there.  We each had our own rooms at the Disneyland Hotel, food and beverage included, and a free sweatshirt thrown in because it got cold.  They picked me up that morning of the broadcast in the lobby and drove me via golf cart through the back lots of Disneyland, something most visitors never get to see.  When we arrived, the gates swung open and for the first time I saw Toon Town which was totally deserted as the park hadn’t open yet.  What a thrill.  I imagine that was how Dorothy felt when she stepped into the land of Oz.

6.  I love when a fellow employee brings in goodies for the rest of us to partake in.  Goodies are typically due to a Public Works Engineering Bylaws infraction (we get a list of these after we start our jobs in engineering at City Hall). Goodies are suppose to be “Not good for you,” so no one ever brings fruit (which I  would love!); typically they’re donuts or bagels, but it’s noteworthy to understand a goodie partaker will also owe goodies if they burn their bagel in the toaster, and it’s ALL FUN AND GAMES until their bagel burns so bad that the City Hall fire alarm is set off and the entire building has to be evacuated; hence, as of this week, we now have a new bylaw for when the fire department is called in. Pizza for everyone!

7.  I have a confession. I had never heard of Ash Wednesday until someone had to explain it to me when I was a waitress at Bob’s Big Boy.  I couldn’t figure out why certain people had dirt on their foreheads.  I even went outside to see if something was hitting them in the head on their way in.  Yeah, I wasn’t raised Catholic.

I can still celebrate Fat Tuesday, right?!!

8.  Bill Cosby thanked Eddie Murphy for choosing not to spoof him during “Celebrity Jeopardy”.  “He will not kick a man when he is down” is the quote from another Saturday Night Live alumni, Norm MacDonald.

How about spoofing a man who is being repeatedly accused of rape is not funny.  Bringing him into the mix was just done in bad taste. Tsk tsk.  And really?  He won’t kick a man when he is down?  Like he’s supporting him? I know, innocent until proven guilty, but there is still NOTHING funny about Bill Cosby right now.

Too bad too because that skit had me in stitches; it was extremely well done. “I’ll take Whore Ads for $200” said Sean Connery, when the category in fact was “Who Reads”.  TOO funny.

Here’s the skit if you care to spend over 8 minutes with it.

 

9.  key fobI use to hate how those car fobs beep when you lock and unlock your car.  They’ve taught society to disregard horn toots.  They use to signify that someone was trying to get your attention.  I hated them until I realized how useful they are to find your “lost” car in a parking lot.

10.  From my favorite quotes file: “Lost time is never found again” – Benjamin Franklin

Thanks for your time!