I am now watching episode 3, first season of Highlander. This is the one with Dustin Nguyen, you know, Officer Harry Truman Ioki from 21 Jump Street. I may have to queue up some 21 Jump Street episodes when I get sick of Highlander. That’ll never happen. I am enjoying watching Highlander. It’s been 17 years since I last saw these episodes! The thing I am finding absolutely fascinating is how high everyone wore their jeans. Watching these shows is taking me back to my time spent at Rosemont College. My old roommate, Catherine the Red, and I watched Highlander, Forever Knight and Superman with absolute devotion! Highlander came on Saturday mornings. I sat desk at Mayfield and I tuned in weekly! Does that sentence make sense to anyone but a Rosemonster? Sitting desk meant you were paid to sit and watch the dorm entrance. Mayfield was one of the dorms. Any man entering the dorm had to be signed in and out. Those guys remaining after curfew were then fetched and taken down to the cots in the basement lest any of our girls be put in a sinful situation. In all of my four years, I only signed in TWO guys. One was a friend of my sister and the other was an actor I got to play lead in the play I wrote and produced. And they both left well before curfew. I did have a guy pick me up once. Yeah I went on a date. WAIT! I went on two dates. The one guy was from Audra’s Star Trek fan club and he was so ugly that I was embarrassed to even stand next to him. He took me to see Il postino. I now wonder if maybe, even in all his Quasimodo glory, he was my soul mate but I was too “lookist” to notice. Nah. The more I think about it the more I remember how he confided in me that he enjoyed exposing himself to strangers. Yeah, he was ugly and screwed up. DANG IT! My little cousins read my entries and I really shouldn’t have wrote that… now I feel ashamed AND DIRTY! What was I even writing about to begin with? Highlander and Catherine the Red. Yeah, I look back very fondly on that time. We used to squeal and laugh at the silliness of the episodes. She recently (probably over a year ago) found me through the Rosemont Directory, found my blog and read some of the old entries I wrote in which she featured. She was terribly upset. And she had the right. She searched for Rosemont and all my entries in which she was mentioned showed up one after the other and it really did seem like I was mocking her. But I wasn’t. She had reached out a few years back and I responded but she never answered and I couldn’t figure out why she would reach out if she had no interest in responding. And I blogged about it. I think if you look at the entries spanning many many months, what I wrote was very innocuous but taken one right after the other it seems crazy. I felt super bad then and I have to admit I’ve carried it with me. So I drank too much Chardonnay and am watching Highlander and I finally decided to put it out there. So be it. Like I said, I really do look back fondly on that time in my life. I miss it to some extent.

I just discovered an old British glam rocker. His name is Alvin Stardust and I think I love him. You may want to consider checking him out on Youtube. You won’t be disappointed.

Look, I’ll make it easy for you. Here’s two videos:

So, c’mon! Admit it! You like him too! Right? Just a little bit?

I’ve been cold calling this morning. Trying to see if I could find work designing Web sites for small businesses, optimizing their Web presence and helping them better understand Social Media. A lot of companies already have Web sites. And the small few who do not have Web sites apparently don’t pick up their phones when they ring. I am trying to figure how else to get the word out… to companies that don’t use the Web. You see, I just want to break free of “the man.” I want to work for myself. And I have absolutely no skills other than understanding the Internet and being able to design Web sites. So Web design/Internet Consulting seems to be my one option. But its something I love. I would love to help companies get online! I have to assume there is business out there. Don’t you think? I guess I just gotta keep calling.

I am sitting here on my light blue, faux suede sofa and I am watching Highlander, season one, episode one on my Vunow and thinking about Russell Stover Internationale German Black Forest Truffle chocolates. I was given three pieces the other day and it was DELISH!!!

Today was the annual Community Day. There were tons of vendors. Lisa and I walked around with Bo. He gets so much attention! Every child and adult wanted to pet him! I met a woman who was hawking Tastefully Simple. The company is like Mary Kay or Avon or Tupperware. She almost has me convinced to become an associate! What do you think? Can you see me having parties and selling cake mixes? She told me she makes about $200.00 per party and she does 3 parties a week. She said they’ve been doing even better as a company since the recession because people like to splurge on little items like graham crackers and salsa. Color me curious, I may buy the starter kit.

Did you know that if Buddy Holly were alive, today he would have turned 73-years-old? Here’s a video of him singing Peggy Sue:

A couple days ago I noticed a few more icons on my VuNow’s list of popular Web sites. They are PlayOn Hulu, PlayOn CBS, PlayOn CNN & PlayOn Netflix. Last night I finally had some time to play around with it. This is how I made Vunow work with PlayOn:

1. Download and Install the MedialMall PlayOn Media Server.
2. Purchase a MediaMall license and register it.
3. Open PlayOn: Start > All Programs > PlayOn > PlayOn Settings
4. Make sure your Hulu and Netflix usernames are entered in the User Accounts tab. (You MUST have accounts set up with Hulu and Netflix.)
5. Turn on Vunow and go to the Popular Websites icon, then choose your poison, my favorite is PlayOn Hulu.
6. THAT’S IT! At this point, just navigate the different folders. I went to PlayOn Hulu > TV Episodes > Folder R > and chose to watch the old TV show, Run for Your Life. You could also check out what’s on your Hulu queue. Of course you need to have episodes queued up. So far it appears to only show  the first 10 in queue. Regarding Netflix, it seems it only shows the movies that are in your Netflix queue, meaning you aren’t browsing their entire inventory. So make sure what you are looking for is in your Netflix queue. I would definitely suggest browsing the actual Hulu /Netflix Web sites with your computer first, figuring out what you want to watch and then just using VuNow to find it. VuNow is not easy to browse.

I am absolutely LOVING this new functionality.  I finally have Video on Demand!!  My hope is the next thing VuNow works on is getting connection with Rhapsody! How awesome would that be? I’d love it!

I’m still here.  I got busy with real life.  You know how that is.  So I turned another year older and continue to get older with every day that passes.  My father took me to Great Adventure on my birthday.  We rode the El Toro roller coaster, watched a dolphin show and laughed at the Wiggles.  I had an awesome time!

That evening, Pookie Bear took me to my favorite Italian restaurant where I ordered Melanzana Rollatini.  So very yummy.  I also got a little tiny chocolate cake with a candle!  The celebration did not stop that day.  Two days later, Audra and Steve took me to Casablanca, a Morroccan restaurant to eat with our hands and watch a male belly dancer perform!   Omar danced beautifully and he seemed a cross between Rudolf Valentino and General Zod.  A good combination if you ask me!  On Sunday, Lisa took me to Bushkill Falls where we hiked the red trail. With all the wooden bridges and trees, I felt like a lost boy in Peter Pan. Yeah, it was fun! I had a great birthday!

Saturday I went to the Open House at my sister’s new school.  I got to see her classroom!  She had it decorated in such a fun way!  Seeing her standing there, wearing a pretty dress, a huge smile plastered across her face, standing in HER OWN classroom… I just felt so happy!  It was the culmination of years of determination for her.  So many ups and downs.  False starts, wrong ways, and yet it all came together.  Congrats Lisa!  You deserve it all!

As I said in a previous entry, the new shower is in!  The shower looks great but the ceiling above it looked horrible.  On Sunday, Pookie Bear and I put down some drop cloths and painted the ceiling.  We started around noon.  I figured it might take an hour or so to get it done.  We finished at 5:00.  It looks good.  There is still more painting that needs to be done but in the other rooms.  The bathroom is finished.  Hooray!

My birthday is fast approaching.  Two days.  I can’t believe I am going to be 35.  It seems a joke.  I know what a 35-year- old person is like AND I AM NOT THAT!  So either I am exactly like that but am blind to it or my idea of 35-year-old person is totally wrong.  Let’s go with the latter.  I am sure not every 35-year-old woman has a mannish haircut, drives a minivan and listens to Phil Collins.   I remember as a little girl, many of my little friends had mothers who were 35-years-old.  I remember this because my mom was in her 40’s and I couldn’t quite understand why my mom was so very old when their mother’s were just kinda old.  Makes me laugh now.  35-years-old!  Here I come!

Check this out!  It’s an Ikea Catalog from 1965!

It’s nice to know some things haven’t changed much.  I wish she would post more scans of the catalog.

Bug Bites UP and DOWN my legs!  Last night I had dinner with my parents.  We ate out on their deck.  My mom had gotten an email earlier claiming that if you spray Listerine, bugs stay away.

“I was at a deck party awhile back, and the bugs were having a ball biting everyone. A man at the party sprayed the lawn and deck floor with Listerine, and the little demons disappeared. The next year I filled a 4-ounce spray bottle and used it around my seat whenever I saw mosquitoes. And voila! That worked as well. It worked at a picnic where we sprayed the area around the food table, the children’s swing area, and the standing water nearby. During the summer, I don’t leave home without it…..Pass it on.”

As luck would have it, Mom had a bottle of Advanced Citrus LISTERINE® Antiseptic on hand.  She put some in an old spray bottle and doused the area.   Now maybe there is a difference between using original Listerine and Adanced Citrus Listerine but I gotta tell you, I got bit worse than usual.  And now all I want to do is scrape the skin off my legs with my nails.

Check it out! Kids in the Hall are reuniting for a comic murder-mystery series!

“Excuse me Ladies, you are scantily clad and have nothing to do with the narrative….”

Les terriers sont mes types favourites
Jolies, charment, pas de problem a maintenir
Ils donnest du joie
Quand tu es ‘blue’
Les terriers sont a pier pres vingt livres