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A Couple of Things…

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1. Thanksgiving this year was so nice.  Family, friends, a beautiful table in a gorgeous setting. So much to be grateful for this year.  Some Thanksgivings are more stressful than others, but this year I have to say was one for the books.  Everyone contributed to the success of the day, each dish a delight, but what I’ll always remember is the warmth of gathering with people who make you feel so damn good.
Thank you Linda for hosting!

Oh! The phone call from my daughter was icing on the cake ♥

2. One of my girlfriends recently asked me if I liked to dance.  And the sad truth is that I do, but since my knee surgery, that is one of a handful of activities that hurts (mostly the next day). It’s the side to side motion that causes the discomfort. I use to dance, and I still do on occasion…but mostly while sitting in my chair now.

 

3. I confess I was a hardcore David Cassidy fan when I was a little girl.  I owned a copy of The Partridge Family Album with “I Can Feel Your Heartbeat” and “I Think I Love You” on it. I bought copy after copy of Tiger Beat magazine just so I could put up posters of David on my bedroom walls.  Of course my love for the Partridge Family gave way to my love of the Rolling Stones and I never looked back; however, when I worked for KXBS during their Oldies phase, I was asked to introduce David Cassidy at the Ventura Theater around 1992.  I got to meet my teen idol. He was super sweet, and put on one hell of a show.  It wasn’t on my “To-do” list like meeting Dave Grohl, but it was pretty damn cool.

I didn’t follow his career closely, but I was aware that he had issues with coping with stardom and drinking.  He had his demons. R.I.P. David.

4. I’m a little embarrassed (but obviously not enough) to report, I’m totally jazzed about the possibility of Taco Bell adding french fries to their menu. Tell me that doesn’t freakin’ rock!

5. I came across a meme on Instagram and I had to share it.  It featured a “generic” photo of a man sitting in front of a fireplace petting a cat to his right and it read:
“The word ‘homeowner’ has the word ‘meow’ in it.  Good luck pronouncing it correctly ever again.”
“Ho meow ner” works for me!

6. I have to say, I feel uneasy around people who don’t like music.  I mean really, what kind of person doesn’t like music?  Any of it?  I could understand if for some reason music caused them pain like a physical headache or something, but to just not like music?  Freaky, right?  I wouldn’t go so far as to say they’re untrustworthy, but something is seriously off.

7. Sexual harassment. There are various degrees of being harassed. Even the most lucky among us, if hard pressed, would realize they had been inappropriately spoken to before.

8. There are nefarious characters out there on the web creating robots that troll websites and fill out forms, so whenever you come across a form online, you are sometimes asked to fill out a line that that’s called a CAPTCHA(Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart).  I kid you not.  It use to be where you saw an image (not text) and then you had to type in the text to prove you are human.  Now they ask you to perform a function.

But really, they’re asking you to not only prove you’re human, but that you passed the third grade.  Am I right?

9. I guess we’re now in full holiday swing. I’m looking forward to getting out and seeing friends and eating more than I should, but the one thing I’m most looking forward to is spending time with my baby, Sydney Rose.  It will be my first Christmas in Portland and only for a couple of days, but I can’t wait to see her beautiful face again in person.  Best present ever.

10. From my favorite quotes file, “Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.” – William Shakespeare

A Couple of Things…

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With Ron1. I think I’ve mentioned before that my first love was Ron way back in high school.  We’ve been friends on Facebook for a few years now and when he was in town recently, we met for a couple of beers downtown taking in some live music and catching up on what we’ve been doing: my social life with the music scene, his marriage and job and his brothers and mom whom I always liked.  It was a fun night and he suggested we send a photo to Linda who would be shocked when she got it.  She was!

So here is the REALLY FREAKIN’ WEIRD story about Ron.  We grew up in Whittier where we attended Sierra High School.  He graduated a couple years ahead of me.  After we broke up, we fell out of contact and went our separate ways.  Fast forward to the mid Nineties and my sister informed me that Ron lived in the neighborhood.  It turns out that we both moved to Ventura in the mid Eighties, we both lived at Pierpont Beach.  We both had kids.  We never ran into each other!  He use to live less than a mile away for so many years!

2. If nobody ever mentioned that it was Daylight Savings Time and you’d be losing an hour of sleep over the weekend, and your clocks all changed automatically, would you really notice?

3. I like the way my favorite news morning team positioned Daylight Savings Time.  You gain an hour of daylight.  You lose an hour of sleep.

I love daylight!  So much more energy when the sun’s up!  Although, I don’t mind being a night owl either. 😉

syd-balls4. To this day I still can’t imagine what was going through Sydney’s mind when she was in the midst of these colorful plastic balls at Chuck E Cheese.

1. “Um, will we be here long?
2. “I am the Queen Bee; you are my subjects.”
3. “I’m peeing right now and no one knows it.”
4. “Next time, I pick party location.”
5. “So this is how it’s gonna be.”
6. ” I’m calm, I’m playing along; but someone will pay for this.”
7. “You know your old boyfriend lives around the corner, but I’m not telling.”

5. I’m sorely disappointed to learn that there is a sector of society that does not enjoy kissing. I’m not naming names, and if you fall into this demographic, I honestly feel sorry for you.  There is nothing like deep warm passionate kisses.

6. Before I start getting grief for whining about the pain my knee has continued to give me, I would like it to be known that I gave birth without any drugs whatsoever, and THAT hurt like a mofo.  I think the difference is that I saw the light at the end of the tunnel and knew it would be over soon; I’d either die in childbirth, or the baby would be born soon.  The knee, not so much.

So, I got my first cortisone shot.  Didn’t know it was a steroid. I guess it doesn’t matter, I’m not going to be tested any time soon competing in sports, though I believe it’s the anabolic steroids that would matter.  I’m happy to report, I’m feeling better and I’m easing back into regular exercise.

7. It blows my mind that some people don’t enjoy reading.

8. I don’t appreciate seeing pictures of terrorists, thugs, or evil doers on the news feed on Facebook and Twitter.  I can only imagine people think they are doing a service to others?  Honestly, its a disservice.  When I want my news, I’ll go to a new service.

I will from time to time (maybe once a year) comment on something I feel passionate about hoping to start a dialog about it.

9.idiom I love using the expression, “Don’t get your panties in a bunch,” especially in regards to men.  Of course I could always use, “Don’t get your shorts in a knot.”   In case you’re wondering, they are both idioms which mean to become overwrought or unnecessarily upset over a trivial matter.

The bigger question of course, “Do you know what an idiom is?”
Answer: “An expression that cannot be understood from the meanings of its separate words but that has a separate meaning of its own.

You’ll typically find idioms at the end of a definition in the dictionary.

(By the way, I did find photos of panties in a bunch…ewww!)

10.  From my favorite quotes file: “An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.” – Winston Churchill

Thanks for your time!

A Couple of Things…

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1.  It’s always good to get all the facts before weighing in.

2015 New Year Photo2. Oh! By the way, New Year’s Eve was quite the night.  My game plan? It was to go out and shoot a couple of bands, stop by Maggie’s and be home by 11.  What happened in reality?  Two hours at Discovery for Tommy Marsh, then Guy Martin, Grapes and Hops for Shawn Jones, Iron Butterfly Experience at Amigos, then Mandex at Bombay’s.  I finally made it to Maggie’s just in time for midnight.  Got home by 12:30.  Missed my target by one and half hours.  Not too bad!  Plus I love the photo taken just after midnight.
Thanks to pops for being my DD.  Thanks for posting this photo Maggie!

3. I believe on my last post I mentioned that I’m a spicy mama; I love hot foods!  But I’m also a cheesy girl.  Can’t get enough cheese in my life.  It was with surprise that I found out that China doesn’t “do cheese.”  I’ve heard that the Chinese don’t have a milk-drinking culture, thus they are lactose intolerant, but a lot of people around the world think the whole process is flat out gross.  I have to admit, it kind of is.  But then I eat chorizo, and nobody really wants to know what’s in that.

4. Could someone PLEASE for all the love in the world, explain to Sydney Rose the difference between leaving a voice mail message saying it’s “URGENT” and a voice mail message saying it’s “important.”

She drives me crazy!

Selma5. I saw the movie Selma this weekend.  I don’t think I’ve been that emotionally impacted by a film in quite some time.  I’m hearing how certain businesses have pooled resources together in key cities to sponsor showings for all 7th, 8th and 9th graders.  The movie is a solid reminder that we have in fact come a long way.  You think cops nowadays are bad?  These guys were right down chicken shit motherfuckers.  People forget the segregation and the degradation, and bullshit rules imposed. Just shameful.

Yes let’s keep moving forward.  We shall not stand for human rights violations. PERIOD.

Read6. Cute story reported by LA Weekly recently where they show an LA Traffic sign was apparently hacked.  How funny would that be if it wasn’t hacked?  The sign reflects a Twitter hashtag, #ReadAFuckingBook, that’s been circulating since 2010. It’s often used to punctuate a perceived act of ignorance. Nice message don’t you think!

7. I’ve been creating websites since the 90’s when I was taught by a friend.  I never took an official class; he mentored me in website designs. I generate some extra income working at night and on the weekends as much as needed, but the World Wide Web Consortium has changed the rules over the years and so I’ve been teaching myself some of the newer technology via online tutorials.  I find the more tutorials I do for “beginners” the faster I get through them and the more the tech “sticks” with me.

Danny Carey of TOOL8. The Doug Webb Group featuring Danny Carey of the band Tool, have played here in Ventura three times in the last seven months.  Each musician is top notch and to see Carey playing jazz is just too cool for school.  A friend of mine was going to put a tip in the tip jar until someone showed him on their i-phone that Carey is worth $40 million.

9.  Note to self:  When recovering from a bad head cold and/or cough, avoid tearjerker movies.

10.  Yeah, I had to deal with a bad cough the past week and so I couldn’t go to physical therapy for my knee.  After one week of no exercise, tons of bed rest and not really thinking about it…my right knee feels fantastic! 🙂

11. I’m planning a trip to Europe this Fall.  Any tips on traveling on a frugal budget?

12. From my favorite quotes file, “The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”  – Malcom X

Thanks for your time!  And always question the media. 😉