October 16, 2008
ginger's-obama-sign
Originally uploaded by ivy_windchaser
October 12, 2008
I have been watching soaps since I was a small child and my mom was working part time. I remember her asking us to have the tv turned to ABC for All My Children... this was during the Jenny and Greg love story. (Before that I have a slight memory of being at my Grandmother's and she was watching her story (aka Another World)). After that I think I have watched every soap on every channel for at least some period of time. General Hospital was my favorite for years! (but it has been crap for a while now - IMO).
For the past few years I was DVR-ing The Young and the Restless, General Hospital and As the World Turns. Earlier this spring The Young and the Restless was axed.
This afternoon.... General Hospital. Actually for the past few years I have only been recording it to FF thru much of it.... this morning as I was scrolling through the list of shows sitting on my DVR there were 10... I thought this is ridiculous... I don't are about this show, and I don't want it cluttering up m DVR anymore... so I deleted it from future recording!
All that's left is As the World Turns.... I wonder how much longer they have??
The image above is what Madison looks like whenever anyone comes over to my house....she runs and hides... She has done this ever since I got her (about 4.5 years ago!).
Last night I had friends over for pizza and a movie...
About an hour into the movie Madison popped up on the couch! It was surreal...Then she jumped down and walked around the living room. She started rolling around on the floor. She walked around a bit more.... then went back to hiding.
Progress!
October 9, 2008
Stocks Tanking?!?!!? Who Cares!
Red Wine has another health benefit :)
October 8, 2008
October 7, 2008
Earlier today I received an email with the Subject "Man in the Woman's Restroom"...
Someone encountered an old man in the woman's restroom in my office building... they are trying to track down who it is (I think he has been seen in there a few times).
So after lunch I needed a restroom break, walked in and noticed some non-descript boring brownish shoes in a large size... they looked like they "could" be men's shoes...
Since I am not a big fan of confrontation I wasn't sticking around to see who they belonged to... I was outta there and went to another floor.
Was I being a shoe snob? Should I have stuck around to see who they belonged to?
October 5, 2008
(It contains a clip from my favorite Christmas movie - - in black and white! the only way I will watch it).
October 4, 2008
The last time I saw New Kids on the Block was at the Baltimore Arena back in 1989. I remember my mom calling for tickets from the rotary phone in the kitchen! This time I ordered my ticket from my office chair via ticketmaster.com.
Thursday I headed of to the Greenbelt Metro to begin my journey to the Verizon Center, and so did apparently most other suburban Maryland white girls in their mid-twenties - mid thirties. My train was packed! Then when we got to Chinatown/Gallery Place it was even crazier!
There was a line outside the front entrances, but thanks to seeing Pearl Jam at this venue I knew about the "secret" side entrance where you can usually walk right on in.... which I did!
First up a visit to the restroom. (I mention this only because they had turned many of the men's rooms into women's)! Next up finding my seat... unlike usually being spoiled by the Ten Club at Pearl Jam shows... I was not headed down to the floor, but up.... to the rafters!! I found my seat and it actually wasn't bad. I was almost parallel with the front of the stage and there was a big video screen angled toward me.
The first opening act was playing when I walked in but I had no clue who it was and the sound was so bad I could barely hear him... so I played with my BlackBerry (as did many people around me I counted at least 4 in my section!)
Next up... Natasha Bedingfield ! I was happy when I learned about this earlier in the day... I watch "The Hills" so I know 2 of her songs :P
Sound may have been a bit better, I could understand Natasha when she talked and the actual songs.
Another "feature" they had at this show was texting messages to the big video screen... this must be the new thing at big concerts (they did it at all 3 Pearl Jam shows I went to this summer, but I thought that was becase that tour had a tie-in with Verizon Wireless). I did manage to catch this fun shout out! Cheverly in the house!
Then it was time for NKOTB! Eeek!! They all looked good (especially Joey!)
Dance moves looked good! They played all of the hits! Sound still bad.... the vocals were just not loud enough to be heard over the music... not sure if it was due to a skimpy audio setup or what....
example -- My favorite song "Please Don't Go Girl" The only reason I knew this was being played was becasue Joey was at the front singing, and they were playing clips from the original music screen on the video screen!
I looked at tour merchandise afterwards but it was way over-priced ($45 for a T-shirt!)... so I passed.
Headed home! Metro was packed, but I found a new way home from the Greenbelt Metro! Thanks to my navigation system... no need to go all the way up 95.... I cut from 495 to 295 via Rt 1 and Powder Mill Rd. Yay!
Overall I am glad I went... It was fun to see them again after all these years (and it's been fun listening to all of the old tunes on my iPod!)
October 3, 2008
Joey McIntyre is still awesome!.... more details to follow...
Sent from my BlackBerry
October 1, 2008
Ok.... so after I got my BlackBerry (another addiction!) back in December a co-worker asked me if I heard of TwitterBerry. I replied no, and he went on to explain it (and the Twitter concept). Seemed pretty pointless to me.
Fast forward to earlier this summer (maybe July). I am not sure how I happened to go back to Twitter, but I ended up signing up. And adding TwitterBerry to my BlackBerry. The addiction started slowly. I would tweet in the morning while waiting for the train, before going to lunch, and then when I was headed home.
Then I setup TwitterFeed to feed my blog posts to Twitter. Then I added TwitterFox to Firefox. I tried Twhirl as a desktop client for my MacBook Pro, but didn't really like it. Then I tried Twitterific, and wasn't really happy with that.
Then I stumbled upon... TweekDeck. It took me a bit to get used to the multiple columns visible at once... but now I love it... especially sinced I found TwitScoop... whcih is a big tag cloud of the most popular topics buzzing on Twitter...
this is a full view... and the TwitScoop is from WHen it was announced that Paul Newman died.
This is the TwitScoop form when Wachovia was bought by Citi...
So now I have this visible on my desktop for most of the day at work.... so I can knwo what's happening... sometimes even before I get my CNN alert!!
