Betty Be Blogging!
I can’t believe that I had not noticed before how most of the sitcoms and other “comedy” TV shows are mainly about deception in one form or another. Next time you get the chance to watch any of these shows pay attention and you will see what I mean. They are filled with lying, trickery, arguments and deceit from beginning to end. It makes to sad to think that we are all watching these shows and being entertained by such bad and rude behavior that is becoming so very abundant in today’s world.
My birthday is right around the corner and everyone in my family is asking me what I want this year, so I have been thinking about it and I have decided my top pick would have to be a home karaoke machine. Ever since I was a young kid I’ve always find myself turning up some of my favorite music and singing along (quite loudly, mind you) with it, dancing around the room with a spiral hair brush in my hand pretending it is my microphone. Most of my girlfriends did the same thing and when we would all get together we would spend most of it listening, singing and talking about music. Man didn’t we have some great times, all based around the magic of music.
And the sleep-overs, I swear I don’t think I ever spent a weekend along. I was either at one of my friends house or one or more was sleeping over at my place. Most of the time we were at my house, it was always so kid friendly and a safe place for all the kids of the neighborhood and all the other kids that wanted or needed a place to hang and have fun. My parents made a huge effort to make and keep it that way for as long as possible. They still have people come to the door that used to come over and play that just wanted to stop by and say hello and see if our family was still calling the house our home. My mother really gets a kick out of seeing how much they have grown and changed and hear all of there stories.
Well back to the subject of a karaoke machine I searched around on the Internet for some idea of the prices that they are asking for today’s home karaoke machines, and where to buy a microphone that I would like with it and had found a particular website that offers so many awesome karaoke machines for outrageously low prices. I sent out an email shared this sites URL with my close family members that have asked me for any ideas that I might have for a birthday gift this year.
A few years ago, while perusing through TV channels one Saturday evening, I discovered that my favorite Christmas tale of all time, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, was airing in its live action movie format. I’d loved the book and the cartoon specials as a child and thought they did a good job of fleshing out the story in order to accommodate the feature length format. I was living with my college roommates at the time and we waxed nostalgia while enjoying it on TV. The movie plot basically follows the book where the anti-Christmas Grinch tries to spoil it for the people of Whoville by stealing all of their presents. Realizing the true meaning of Christmas after the folks of Whoville were able to enjoy it even without presents, the Grinch has a change of heart. The movie was directed by Ron Howard and starred Jim Carrey. It originally came out back in 2000 at the height of Carrey’s popularity.
Anyway, watching it has pretty much become an annual holiday event for me. Now that I’m out of school and back at home, I’ve been watching it the last two years with my parents. We usually catch the weekend showing when the whole family can get together. The only other requirements we have are some snacks, drinks and some cozy blankets.
Something that I have picked up the years is a few slight of the hand magic tricks, it is something that has brought me much amusement and entertainment in some pretty nerve racking moments in this life time. I have to admit that most of my audiences have been with children, but I do a pretty good job of pulling things out of various places, while “pulling the wool” over my captivated audience. My favorite item to use is one of the many challenge coins that I have collected throughout the years. Sometimes is is a challenge in itself trying to get the coin back!
So many of my friends have kids or close family members that are of childhood age and it has been a good ice breaker with many of these kids through out the years, and I’m so ever grateful for that!
I was looking on-line the other day and came across a website for magic and found myself interested in some products that they have to offer like an Invisible Deck, invisible threads, several coin tricks that I’m interested in and you can even view a demo video right on their site, showing the trick being done, that’s cool to be able to see how the trick or slight of hand is actually performed.
I’m thinking on branching out just a bit, maybe order something and practice until perfected and try them on the next unexpected soul that ends up being at my mercy some evening.
There must be some type of Roseanne marathon going on this past week or so. As much as I love the Roseanne show that was so popular in the 90’s I have become tired of the reruns over and over. I have to admit that once in a blue moon I will see one that I don’t remember, but not often enough to be glued to the TV in anticipation of one of those showing up. It’s too bad that this show had to come to an end. It really was an awesome show, with an awesome cast, many of them we get to see showing up on the new hit TV show The Big Bang Theory which has become one of my favorite shows these past couple of years.
Look who are dating again after all these years and on a completely different show!
I found this list of backstage demands of Pop Stars on Yahoo and thought them to be so very outrageous and had to share them here.
• Keith Richards: A guitar strap. Chicken sandwiches. Diet Coke. Cigarettes.
• Nirvana: Macaroni cheese.
• Marilyn Manson: Air-conditioning always on full. Gummi bears. Doritos. Microwave popcorn. Bottle of Absinthe. A bald hooker with no teeth.
• Prince: A physician. All food to be covered in clear plastic wrap.
• Frank Sinatra: An ear, nose and throat specialist with the anti-inflammatory drug Decadron.
• Motley Crue: Mayonnaise. Grey Poupon Dijon mustard. Creamy peanut butter. A 12ft-long boa constrictor. A sub-machine gun. Local Alcoholics’ Anonymous meeting schedules.
• David Hasselhoff: Life-size cut-out of David Hasselhoff.
• Sammy Davis Jr: Assortment of groovy chicks.
• Britney Spears: Two boxes of Pop Tarts. Fruit Loops. Cable television. Two 6ft sofas. Odor-free carpet. A phone line.
• Led Zeppellin: Iron. Ironing board.
• Janet Jackson: Chaise lounge. Ten black roses. Male catering staff.
• Beyonce: Pepsi products only. Honey Nut Cheerios. Ginger root. A two-man love seat. Toilet scrubbed with disinfectant. No sweets, chocolate or chips in dressing room.
• Barbra Streisand: Rose petals in toilet.
• Madonna: A new toilet seat. 25 cases of Kabbalah water.
• James Blunt: 120 bottles of beer. 12 bottles of Magners cider. 4 bottles of vodka. 3 bottles of white wine. 2 bottles of champagne.
• Jennifer Lopez: White flowers. White tablecloths. White curtains. White candles. White couches. Low watt light bulbs. Coffee to be stirred counter-clockwise. Skittles.
• Elton John: 74 towels. Flowers (NO chrysanthemums, lilies, carnations or daisies).
• P Diddy: 204 towels. 20 bars of soap. Two bottles of Hennessy cognac. Two bottles of Santa Margherita Pinot Grigio. Two bottles of Veuve Clicquot. A bottle of Dom Perignon. Grey Goose vodka. Boom box. Bouquet of white flowers. Cheddar cheese and sour-cream chips. Sweet Tarts. A $300,000 bullet-proof Maybach.
Thought FOR THE DAY
I’m just passing this thought along …..
Have you ever wondered if the one dollar bills in your wallet were ever in a strippers’s G-string or possibly in some bums shoe?
If not, you’re wondering now.
Have a nice day .
(They say money is the dirtiest thing we handle)
They say that men are from Mars and women are from Venus. I have not read that book but I get the concept.
Here’s a snapshot of the two scarecrows that I made last year. I made one of the boy scarecrows into a girl by adding lipstick and eyelashes with marker pens. Then I cut off the straw bow tie from around her neck and stuck it under her hat to make bangs.
So my ex husband came over and took a look at the curb to take a look at my handiwork. I thought I was pretty clever with my “gender change” techniques. He took one look at the two scarecrows and this is what he said, “Can’t you stick something down her shirt so she has boobs?”
I have never been a fan of game shows but I do enjoy, on occasion, watching Family Feud. This is one game show that doesn’t make me feel like a bumbling idiot. I usually do pretty good on guessing the answers and find myself feeling good about it. Gotta take the good with the bad, but I like good the best. I do have to say that it has definitely become an adult game show that should only be on at night or cable. I don’t get to see this game show very often but when I do I swear at least once an episode the question or one of the answers has a word that is used in place of the word penis. When I was growing up and watching that show during the daytime, I am quite sure that wasn’t the case or else my parents wouldn’t have allowed us to watch it.
“Darn it,
I forgot what I was going to tell you!”
P.S. My best friend sent me this in an email today, which is her 39th birthday, hence the “old” jokes!