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{January 14, 2021} Trailers…say so much…or so little

I am, of course, talking about movie trailers, vs. the trailers you live in, or the trailers you haul stuff on or in. Movie Trailers.

They really can say so much or so little and they can make or break if you are going to see a movie. There are a lot of times I can watch a trailer and know instantly if I am going to like a movie or not. And…I am usually spot on.

There are great trailers that just give you a tease, or a taste, leaves you wanting more, which is great, then there are the trailers that give you practically the entire movie, where’s the fun in that? How about the trailers that give you the best one liners? Or the trailers that give you the best one liners that never actually make it into the movie.

When I was in college, I majored in broadcasting, and one of my dreams was to one day make movie trailers. I thought, what a job that would be, watching movies and determining what would be a great hook, to bring you in and make you want to watch it vs watching a trailer and realizing you just watched a mini movie and what would be the point to go to the theater to see it.

One of the best new trailers I have seen in a long time is for Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar written by, and starring Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo. They also wrote Bridesmaids and I have to say, if the movie is half as good and funny as Bridesmaids, it will be amazing! I watched the trailer and I didn’t stop laughing, you never actually see their faces, only the tops of their heads, hands, and feet, it’s classic! They are talking about movie trailers, and what if they were in a movie trailer, they wouldn’t give away anything, especially their faces. It really is classic and clever!

There is a second trailer, Barb and Star go to Vista Del Mar: Fashion Trailer, which only has them at the very end, and they are buried in sand, you only see the tops of their heads! It’s hysterical, especially what it represents and pokes fun at.

I cannot wait for February 12th, that’s when the movie comes out and they make a point of it in each trailer to mention the air date, clever. As I said, if this is half as good as Bridesmaids, Kristen Wiig will have made up for the WW84 Cheetah mess. Here’s hoping!

{January 13, 2021} Does unsubscribe actually do anything?!

Seriously! Why isn’t it working?! AAAARRRGH!

When you make the decision that you no longer wish to receive emails from a particular company or vendor, something you actually signed up for and would like to unsubscribe, because we know that half the time we get an email, the vendor is phishing and if we click unsubscribe, we are actually verifying our email addresses, rude! Sorry, par for the course, I digress…here you are, you have an email you don’t want and you take the time to scroll to the bottom of the email and sometimes have to hunt for the unsubscribe hyperlink, that just annoys me! then you click unsubscribe, which I prefer so much more than click here to change your email preferences, OMG! I just want to unsubscribe!

Now…I am being routed to the website so I can make it known I want to unsubscribe from their mailing list. Then…I have choices, what?! I like the ones that just say click here to unsubscribe and it’s over. Well, maybe a note telling me that they are sorry to see me go, but…other ones, do I really have to tell you why I no longer want to receive your emails? Yes, I am sure it’s to help with their reporting stuff, but I just want you to leave me alone! Is that so hard?! apparently!

Now…I have unsubscribed from your mailing list, you were sorry to see me go, you tell me that it may take a minute for the emails to stop. Ok, I get that, maybe a few emails will come later today or tomorrow, until the little tiny workers, maybe they are Oompa Loompas in there, remove my name from their mailing list. That’s understandable, what is not understandable is a few days or even a week!

I recently went through one of my inboxes and decided to unsubscribe to quite a few emails that I no longer need or want. That was over a week ago. Why, oh why….are you still sending me emails?! Please stop! Just stop!

Ok, rant over. What’s next?! Let me check my email! HA HA HA

{January 12, 2021} Do I look like my Bitmoji now?

Ha Ha! I finally got on the Bitmoji bandwagon with everyone else about two or so years ago, I’m not even sure, I know I was still living in Hawai’i. The reason I know that is my Bitmoji has a Hawai’ian flair.

Bitmoji me’s got red hair, just like me. Short red hair, definitely just like me as of last week! Bitmoji me’s got blue lips. I have blue lipstick, and, you might not believe this, but anyone who knows me from middle school knows, I wore blue lipstick. Well, not just blue lipstick, there was purple lipstick, green lipstick, and black lipstick. And sometimes…at the same time. I would divide my lips and put one color per quarter, it was quite colorful. But, back to Bitmoji, blue lipstick.

White bikini-like tank top. I wore tank tops all the time, but I got brave and wore a bikini quite a bit, work with what you’ve got! The skirt, could be a skort, not sure. And for those of you not sure of what a skort is, it’s combination skirt with shorts in it, nice for those of us who might not want to start a fire when our thighs rub together! It’s red with tropical flowers, could be a hibiscus, looks like a Hawai’ian shirt!

Bitmoji me has slippahs like the first pair of Tevas I bought in Hawai’i, one of which Mother Nature STOLE from me! [Just so you know, I haven’t gotten over it yet, I LaLaLaLOVED those slippahs!!!] First, let me ‘splain! A slippah is what is referred to as a flip-flop on the mainland. Sometimes you can include sandals. One of my favorite signs, which we have hanging outside our front door Please remove your slippahs, but don’t take mo bettah ones on da way out! Classic!

Hawaii Style – Signs PLUMERIA-SLIPPAH | Indonesia Export

Even bettah…check out this scene from Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw, when Momma stands up and threatens all her sons wit her slippah! The whole clip is 3:11, but momma gets up at 2:30, SO worth it! I watch that scene over and over again!

So…now you know what my Bitmoji looks like… ME! Do you agree?!

{January 11, 2021} How to spot a biker chick…

A friend, KN, sent me a text the other day, no message, just the picture you see below with the caption How to spot a biker chick. I got so excited! Let me tell you why!

If you are not a motorcycle rider, here is something to know about a bike so this makes sense. A motorcycle is similar to a 5-speed car, in that you have a clutch you engage when you’re shifting gears. Just like driving a manual transmission car, you engage the clutch and shift gears, and just like a car you shift with your left foot, on a bike, it’s by either putting your foot under the shifter and pulling up, or pushing down on the shifter. There is another type of shifter, called a rocker shift, that you rock forward and back on. PSM has a rocker shift on his bike, I have a traditional shifter, pull up or push down.

The point of the photo is to show the mark that the gear shifter leaves on the toe of your left shoe…if you have a traditional shifter. In the image, notice the huge black scuff marks on the left sneaker. The best part of the image is that I can tell it’s a Chuck Taylor/Converse All-Star! And guess what…that’s what I wear for a riding shoe!

I’ve worn Chucks for years as my riding shoes. I’ve had other riding shoes, ones that I’ve been told would be safer and protect my foot better, but I haven’t found the perfect pair yet, still looking. But…as I said, I’ve worn my Chucks for years. I even introduced you to the group in a post Meet the Family! If you look at the pair in the middle, striped, I talk about wearing them as motorcycle riding footwear!

One of the pair in that group I turned into my most recent motorcycle riding shoes and I love them. And to go back to the point of this post…if you look at my Chucks…you can see the black scuff marks forming on my left foot!

Proof…How to spot a biker chick!!!

{January 10, 2021} Is it a lid or is it a door?

These are the pressing questions that I get asked on a daily basis. Not really, but it was a conversation I was drawn into today.

As you know, my blog is about everything and nothing all at the same time, if I didn’t tell you that up front, you would probably have guessed it by now. And as proof, one of my favorite posts, that I use to prove that point is Bathroom Query. Check it out and if that doesn’t say it all, well…let me know if I need to come up wtih something else!

Back to my original statement. Or question. Is it a lid or is it a door? Let me ‘splain…[that always makes me think of I Love Lucy, when Ricky comes in and says Lucy, you got some ‘splainin’ to do!]. I walked into Smoothie King to pick up something for PSM and myself and immediately, the guy behind the counter asks me “What do you call this?” pointing to the refrigerator. I said “refrigerator.” sort of with a question in in my voice, I wasn’t sure if it was a trick question! He said “No, this” and opened the door. “Door” I said! “Yes!” he said. “And what do you call this?” and went over to one of the freezers they keep frozen things in, like their frozen yogurt and other smoothie making things. I said it could be a door or a lid, maybe. “Ah ha! Yes!” It’s a lid! That’s all he wanted and the girl working behind the counter said no! “It’s a lid!”

This debate went on quite a while, what is considered a door vs a lid…I said on a washing machine or dryer, it could be either, but technically, I call it a washing machine lid, same for the dryer, since they’re both top loaders. He was trying to get everyone who came into the store to agree with him, as did she.

It was entertaining for the time I was in there, they were having fun and everyone had a laugh. But…at no point did I wake up in the morning expecting someone to bring me into a conversation…the age old question…is it a door or is it a lid. One now must ponder…

{January 9, 2021} My faith in humanity has been restored.

A little. 2020 was, well, 2020. Recent events, well, I don’t like to watch the news because I end up crying, a lot. Then I see stories like this that make me happy, proud even, to be a human being.

This story, I found on Yahoo News, is about a Texas school district opening a free grocery store to help disadvantaged students. The on-site store, was created by Paul Juarez, who is the executive director of First Refuge’s Ministries. The idea is that even though it’s a food pantry, it looks like a ‘regular’ grocery store and people shop with a card they get from the store and use that to pay, just like anywhere else. The thought being, this way, people can feel good about shopping there, it doesn’t feel like a hand out, and as Juarez says, “we can keep dignity in people”

Everyone can shop there, no matter what. They pay with points, which are loaded onto the card each week, and the number of points based on the size of their family and each item is one to three points. Students can also earn more points in different ways in school and on campus. I loved that he said the goal of the point system is to help keep people from feeling embarrassed about needing help. If someone doesn’t need or want to use the points, they can be donated, pay it forward.

Juarez is also hoping to try to make this program take off, he’s already spoken to school officials in other states. The end of the article was the most empowering statement “If the school district can be so important like that, we can change a community,” he said. “And if we can change a community, we can change an area. And then, if we change an area, we can change the state. If we can change the state, we can change the country. If we can change the country, we can change the world.”

With everything that is happening today, not only in our country, but in the world, we need good people and feel-good stories like these to help give us hope, even if it’s just a glimmer. This gives me hope for humanity and 2021. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for more! What’s next?!

{January 8, 2021} Yearly Departed

I just watched Yearly Departed. Non-stop laughter. That’s really all I have to say. Come on, you know me, do you think that’s all I have to say? Ha to the Ha!

This was a fabulous watch on Amazon Prime, it’s included with Prime, not sure how much it is if you don’t have an account, but if you do, oh please watch this! The IMDB.com description ‘Comedy special features eulogies for the year 2020 with a line-up of all-women comedians discussing everything from casual sex to beige Band-Aids and everything in between that we’ve “lost” in 2020.’

I’ve seen it advertised and watched the trailer and couldn’t stop laughing through the trailer and I can tell you that the funny parts were not only in the trailer, which is how it happens many times. How can you not laugh when it starts with ‘2020 was a triflin’ ho’! It takes place in a funeral home, opening as if it’s a true funeral, the set up, the costumes, the mourners, the funerary urn with 2020 on it.

The cast was amazing, all female, except for the funeral director, Rick Overton, he’s not credited in the cast and Sterling K. Brown, his job was to lie on the floor and look good. There are a few other cast members not credited, Cathy Chang is one, who works at the funeral parlor and has some great reactions, but I’m still trying to figure out who the rest are!!

The funeral is hosted by Phoebe Robinson, giving a great eulogy and talking to us about what we’ve lost, she also has some great lines between each speaker. She introduces Tiffany Haddish, who eulogizes about Casual Sex, moving and hysterical. Next is Natasha Rothwell, who bid farewell to TV Cops, apologizing to recent theater school workers, who missed their opportunity to be an extra on tv! Then Rachel Brosnahan, who bid farewell to Pants, with a great ending, possibly uncomfortable, to her eulogy! As the ‘dark spirit’ was lifting, Patti Harrison cried over the loss Rich Girl Instagram Influencers, harsh, but awesomely funny and on point.

Natasha Leggero lamented about Having Any More Children, ‘she didn’t have children to teach it, she had a baby to get likes on Instagram, just like everybody else!’ Ziwe Fumudoh, bid farewell to Beige Band Aids. And we finished with Sarah Silverman to Making America Great Again with a bang, ouch!

The dialog was funny and poignant and biting. The reactions were great, there were random people in the funeral parlor at different times, the main cast was static, but everyone else was here and there. There is also a surprise at the end, someone else not credit, but you’ll know who she is. The very end, during this special performance, singing Sarah McLaughlin’s I will Remember You, there is a screen rolling with all the things we have said goodbye to and will remember

Watch the credits to see how they shot the special while definitely keeping socially distant. A lot of greenscreen happening, which leads to interesting reactions, since the actors don’t always know what’s going on, someone has to tell them how to react or what they are seeing so they can figure out what they should do. For this editing, I thought they did a great job, you couldn’t tell, and I definitely look for that.

Overall, I thought this was a great treat and testament to what we went through, are going through and that what we really need, is to laugh.

[Parental Advisory [No this is not parental advisory warning week!]…if you are offended by bad language, you have been advised.]

{January 7, 2021} History of Swear Words

Classic. [Parental Warning Advisory! Ha Ha] Classic as F*ck. Funny as Sh*t. Don’t Bitch. The list goes on.

Today, we discovered History of Swear Words on Netflix and it’s fabulous! Nicolas Cage is the host of this fabulous show. The description on IMDB is “An education in expletives: the history lesson you didn’t know you needed hosted by Nicolas Cage. A loud and proudly profane series that explores the origins, pop culture-usage, science and cultural impact of curse words.”

It delves into the history of swear words, Season 1 is six episodes. Interestingly, when you look at the names of the episodes, not all the words are modified, you know, with an ** in the middle of the word, making it safe for tv, but you still know what it is!

Each episode has a terrific opening by Nicolas Cage, dramatic in appearance, like a documentary on PBS, but with swear words, it’s very clever. Then there are comedians, actors, experts. People we know as comedians, like Sarah Silverman, how could they do a show like this without her! Jim Jeffries, and Nikki Glaser. Actors like Nick Offerman and DeRay Davis, and experts like film critic Elvis Mitchell, associate professor of feminine studies, Mireille Miller-Young, and my favorite, Kory Stamper, who worked for Merriam-Webster, specifically being an expert on especially unusual or controversial words. Who does that and how awesome is that! To be able to use those words for your job and not get in trouble?!

We watched the first three episodes, F**k, Sh*t, and Bitch. For each word, you get the historical background of where the word originated from, when, and what it meant in its origin to how it’s been transformed into what we know it as today.

All the words in the series have different meanings to different people and how you use them really plays into how they are taken. F**k and sh*t can be both good and bad, depending on the context you are using them, they can be an adjective, verb, noun, how many words can you say that about, not to mention an expletive. We learn how they play into our culture, music, everyday lives. One of the stories they told about sh*t was a story a former boss I worked for, MDM, told me about Ship High In Transit, love that story! Turns out, SNOPES.com says this is bullsh*t, but…I still love the story!

Bitch, that was an interesting one. Following the same format, the origin, how it came to be morphed into what it is today, all depending on how you use it, to and on whom, the reactions are very different. Not surprisingly, this episode was more female focused, in terms of content and the participants being interviewed. It was interesting to hear their take on what it means to be a bitch. They talked about Lizzo’s song Truth Hurts, singing about taking a DNA test and she’s That Bitch, that was an interesting concept, the difference between being a bitch and being that bitch. No, sorry, I haven’t taken the test, I can’t tell you what I am, let me know what you discover!

Overall, so far, we really like this show, it’s funny and informative. But…if you don’t like that kind of language, I wouldn’t recommend it. But if you do…ENJOY!

{January 5, 2021} We have a fireplace!

Wah to the Hoo! As I like to say.

If you know me, you know I love a fireplace! My house in Georgia had a fireplace, I used it quite often. The house in New Hampshire has a fireplace and when we were there this summer, it was colder than expected and we used that fireplace often, it was wonderful, think the dogs enjoyed it almost as much as we did!

When we bought our house one of the things I fell in love with was the fireplace, even better, it’s a see-through fireplace! If you’re not familiar with a see-through fireplace, it’s just like it sounds, you can see through to the next room. It’s something I have always wanted! One of my best friends, LGR, has a see-through fireplace between her master bedroom and bathroom, another something I have always wanted!

The reason I’m so excited about not only the see-through part, but the fireplace on the whole is that when we had the house inspected before buying it, we were told that everything was in order, including the fireplace. Hmm…When I had someone come to look at it last year, to clean it to get it ready for use, turns out it was not quite in order as we were informed.

It took a while, but we are now in business, after waiting a few months for an appointment, this company is one of two in the state that can do this particular work. We practically had to have the chimney rebuilt, lots of mortar put in, bricks replaced, and a bit more. But…new bricks and mortar, and four days later, ugh, we have to wait for it to cure! …we now have a working chimney and fireplace!

Over the last few months, in preparation, we bought some firewood and tonight, we lit a fire for the first time in our home. And what a site it is! It’s lovely and something I know I’m going to be enjoying for a long time. Now…just need to find a company to deliver firewood, not sure if we can get it delivered this season or just prep for next season, but…I am a happy camper! We have a working fireplace! I’m going to buy some Jiffy Pop popcorn, maybe some marshmallows. Hey, it’s cold out there, let’s have some fun!

The embers are dying as I write to you, but it’s still such a lovely site, let me know when you want to come over to join me, PSM, and the pooches for a night in by the fireplace. Hey! You don’t even have to sit on the same side of the house! You can have a whole different room to yourself to enjoy the fire! HA HA!

{January 4, 2021} Today’s a Tough Day

I was supposed to be somewhere today and I’m not and that makes me a little melancholy.

I’m not going to go into details with you today, maybe some day, just not today, still too raw. I will take some blame for my part in why I am not where I am supposed to be, but it is a situation that could have been avoided with different actions taken, which I would have accepted, but this is not the way it went and as a result, I am not where I am supposed to be.

I am feeling a lot of emotions, DLP would say I am in my feelings, which I would have to agree with. And PSM, love him, says it’s ok for me to be feeling this way. For that, I thank him, if I was completely in the wrong I know he would tell me, no matter what.

2020 was tough in different ways for so many people and for us, we managed, we were looking forward to the end of the year, 2021 was on the horizon and good things were coming our way, well, at least we hoped, at least better, if not good or even great. Something happened in the middle of December and that was all she wrote.

Because of what happened in December, I’m not where I should have been today, and I am feeling it. I was disappointed by what happened and the way it played out, and the worst part is there was nothing I could actually do about it. The cards were laid out on the table and in the end, I lost. Yes, I know it sounds like a big ‘ole pity party and for that, well…I was about to apologize, but why should I? I am feeling sad, and low, and disappointed, and a little lost. You can’t tell me I’m wrong for feeling that way, it’s how I feel.

It happened a few weeks ago and I began to pick up the pieces and move forward, PSM said I was going through the stages, and he’s right, it was a loss. He did everything he could to help, as much as he could, unfortunately, he’s can’t fix it, but he helped to make me feel better, so did my family. I was doing alright and then I realized what date it was when I woke up this morning and it was like I got smacked in the face all over again, so…I am having one of those days, kind of out of it, doing what I can, but the melancholy set in.

Tomorrow is a new day, so they say. I am going to have my moment, or moments, and then tomorrow, pick myself back up, dust off the dirt and move forward.

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