Wednesday, April 30, 2008
It ain't just in the cartoons..........
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
I like this..............
Can you cry under water?
How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
Once you're in heaven, do you get stuck wearing the clothes you were buried in for eternity?
They're going to see you naked anyway.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Commercials
Windex is a trademark for a glass and light-duty hard surface cleaner manufactured since 1933 (currently by S. C. Johnson & Son) and popular in the United States and Canada since the mid-20th century.
Ok, first I am doing the above so I don't get in trouble.........I'm not sure if this is covering everything that should be covered, but I am doing me best.
Now to get to the commercial..........do you remember the two birds sitting on the power lines, and one of them goes and rings the doorbell, the guy inside goes to the door and of course no one is there, comes back and walks into the sliding glass doors............ok, in reality we - I, should be feeling sorry for this man.........but trust me, I just sit on the love seat and laugh until I am almost breathless.........it gets me every time...........every time .
www.luzianne.com
Luzianne tea has a new commercial out now, in fact if you click on the link above you can actually watch it................I love it. It just makes me feel so good........why...because I am at that stage in my life, that I wonder what would have happened if I had done this, or if I had done that.............of course I would have to surmise that this man's wife isn't feeling real secure..........but it is a good commercial.
The new AT&T commercial with the flowers coming out of the flowers............well what a combo for me...........flowers and kaliedescopes...........whoa...........that is a winner for sure. I tried to look for a site to put in the blog for this too, but to no avail............BUT I TRIED.
Last but not least we won't even mention the Hallmark commercials (in fact I haven't seen one in ages)....those, well just pass the facial tissues and pass the wastepaper basket..........whoa, those are usually real heart wrenches.........
So all in all, most of us do make fun of commercials, plan to change loads from washer to dryer, get up and get a drink........whatever...........but if we are to be brutally honest, there must at least one of two that you enjoy.............
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Windows open.............
I am just a well rounded woman, in more ways than one..........tee hee
psssst, we aren't going to Fiesta........it's ok, trust me.........we all need the stay-at-home time........there is always next year..........and if not, the world won't stop turning........
Friday, April 25, 2008
Thursday, April 24, 2008
FIESTA.......
That original Battle of Flowers parade became an annual event and has grown into a multi-cultural community celebration unlike any other in our country. From its small beginnings, Fiesta San Antonio has grown into an elaborate 10-day celebration featuring more than 100 events, including a parade where floats really float down the San Antonio River.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
which way should I go?
I truly did have an idea for today's blog..........I did. I started it a few minutes ago and I was typing away, and the more I typed, the more and more it was sounding like sermon......a full blown, raise your hands and arms into the air, amen, type sermon. Ok, I have preached to my kids, to friends, to relatives, but I am not going to preach and shake my finger at people out in internet land..........just not able to be that strong yet. Then I have something going on with my computer........have no idea what, but it just doesn't seem to be running as fast as it should........I need more something, but I don't know what I have now, so that I can go buy more of whatever it is I need..............brand name ........so I struggle along. It's ok, except for as slow as I am, adding the crawl of the computer to this............well if I were in a race with a snail..............take the sure bet and wager on the snail..........
So no topic today, just prattling..........jabber jawing.........me showing up and taking up precious space............there is always tomorrow, the busiest day of the week!
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
what length?
Monday, April 21, 2008
sip sip sip
FRUIT SPRITZER
1 can unsweetened frozen juice concentrateClub soda
Mix frozen juice concentrate according to directions on the can, substituting club soda for water.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
We survived
Saturday, April 19, 2008
— Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson on September 18, 1905. Garbo was born in Stockholm to poor parents. She went to work at age 14, first as a lather girl in a barbershop, then as a clerk in a department store and as a model.
In her first motion picture, Luffar-Petter (1922), she played a bathing beauty. From 1922 to 1924 she studied at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. During that period met Mauritz Stiller, the foremost Swedish director, who gave her an important role in Gösta Berlings Saga (1924; "The Story of Gösta Berling"), gave her the stage name Greta Garbo, and trained her in cinema-acting techniques.
In 1925, when Stiller went to the United States to work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he insisted that Garbo be given a contract also. In all, she appeared in 27 films (two in Sweden, one in Germany, and the remainder in Hollywood); the most important of her silent films were The Torrent (1926), Flesh and the Devil (1927) and Love (1927), both with the popular leading man John Gilbert, whose name was linked with hers in a much-publicized romance.
Anna Christie (1930) was the talking picture in which her rich, low voice was first heard. It was a great success, although Garbo herself despised her performance. It earned her the first of her four Academy Award nominations for best actress. That same year, Garbo earned another Academy Award nomination for her role in Romance.
Garbo was her most seductive playing the WWI spy in Mata Hari (1932). So much so that the censors complained of the revealing outfit shown on the movie poster. Her next film that year was Grand Hotel, with one of the first all star casts. The film earned MGM it’s second Best Picture Oscar.
After almost 2 years off the screen, Garbo signed a new MGM contract granting her almost total control over her films. She exercised that control by getting leading man Laurence Olivier fired from her film, Queen Christina (1934), and forcing Mayer to replace him with former co-star and lover John Gilbert, who’s career had faltered since the coming of sound.
In 1935, David O. Selznick wanted Garbo cast as the dying heiress in Dark Victory, but she insisted on a screen version of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel, Anna Karenina. She had already starred in a silent version, Love (1927), with John Gilbert.
Many have called Garbo's performance as the doomed coutesan in Camille (1937) the finest ever recorded on film. Some fans even claimed that during the star's climatic death scene they saw her soul leave her body. Not surprisingly, this role earned her a third Academy Award nomination.
Director Ernst Lubitsch’s finest work of the 1930s was the classic Ninotchka (1939). It starred Garbo—in a comedy! "Garbo Laughs" said the advertisements. And she does, charmingly. Ninotchka earned Garbo the last of her four Academy Award nominations.
At age 36, after the flop of her film, Two Faced Woman (1941), Garbo withdrew from the entertainment field and retired to a secluded life in New York City. In 1954 she was awarded a special Academy Award for unforgettable performances.
Garbo died on April 15, 1990, in New York, N.Y. She was one of the most glamorous and popular stars of the motion pictures of the 1920s and '30s.
Garbo had, in the opinion of her directors and most critics, a perfect instinct for doing the right thing before the camera. Her talent, her great beauty, and her indifference to public opinion made her career unique in the history of the cinema.
Biography taken partly from http://www.cmgww.com/stars/garbo/ggbio.html and Britannica OnLine's entry on "Greta Garbo."
Here is the other site that I found
Friday, April 18, 2008
TIME
When someone gives me some of their time, well it just means so much to me....oh I'm not going to get all flowery and weepy, but I do want to let everyone that has shared their time with me know that I truly was thankful. It could have been an email, a phone call, a wonderful and almost a lost art, something in the mail....a luncheon, a beautiful smile on the street or store, those precious hugs or sweet child kisses that will soon be lost.............these all took time.
everything" model................I don't like them. I don't like a machine telling me when to get up..........never have, never will. I like to sleep..........amen. Not going to apologize, once I am asleep, I want to stay that way until my body tells me it has had enough and I wake up on my own. I have tried the cute little wake up songs, the radio (and San Antonio has a wonderful radio station, KONO 101.1, that plays THE best music ever.......60's - 70's ) and now alas, since I CAN and DO sleep through the music, I have had to resort to those horrible buzzer things............(man a few times I have slept through those too!)
I like to be on time too.......I keep my watch and clock in the van a wee bit ahead of schedule.............BUT, sadly I don't think I can claim that I am on time anymore........I mean I can get distracted so easily and EVERYTHING it seems takes soooooooooo much longer to do too...........everything. So, I now have to try double hard to be on time and that just has put pressure on me and makes me more rattled........sigh...........
So all in all, time to me is a precious gift........one that I do treasure.........each moment to me on this earth is a gift and if you share some of yours with me, please know that even if I don't vocalize it, I do appreciate it and want to thank you.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
To make or not to make..........
I think I can safely say, that everyone at one time or another has left their bed unmade..........ok, you over there with you hand in the air, waving like some silly nilly...........just stop it...........you are the one in 485,472, 110 people what who have.......pblllllllllllt!!!!!!! Now there seems to be rules on how you make your bed..............see first comes make or no make, now come the rules on how to make it..........see it gets more complicated.
This site shows you how to make it the old-fashion way ........http://www.ehow.com/how_1987_make-bed.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art. (oops, see there is that big ole' blank spot in the blog........and I have done everything but jump into the screen and manually tried pulling the words beside the picture........). Now this site is almost the same, but a wee bit of difference http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Be see the pillows are outside of the coverlet/bedspread
I don't know, I learned with the bedspread over the pillow method, but that was waaaaaay before all of the coverlets, duvets, and beautiful quilts became more accessible to us "common" folk.............you know I have to agree that a bed that is made, makes the messiest bedroom look more pulled together...........but I also know that if you don't make your bed each and everyday, well you are still a good person............you are. So I don't care if you make or don't make your
bed, I truly don't..........why, because I think there is just to much pressure put on people by others..............yes I do (for the most part make my bed) but will I stop being your friend if you don't..........nope, you're stuck with me.........and again it was just one of those things that popped into my mind the other day while I was looking at some pictures on the internet and thought "well here is a good question to put on the blog.".......plus it was fun looking at all of the pretty bedrooms..........wonder if anyone will even comment on "to make or not to make"?
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
My poor classic record
Ya know what, after doing my little dissertation on ALICE yesterday, I realized something.........I am truly under read in the classics. Now is this going to affect world peace.......no. Is this going to make the world stop turning...............no. Is this going to make me a better Nana.................no. Actually it only makes me wonder how it happened? I went to good schools..........most of them private Catholic schools..........so you would think that the classics would have been encouraged (hmmmm, a polite way of saying read this or else.) I have never read TOM SAWYER, UNCLE Tom's CABIN, DAVID COPPERFIELD, TALE OF TWO CITIES.....man this list is becoming rather an embarrassment. Now I have read Shakespeare, Silas Mariner, the Scarlett Letter, Little Women, Little Men, Jane Eyre, and Robinson Crusoe. SO all in all I am not a total heathen in the classics...........like most young girls I fell in love with all of the sisters in Little Women wanted to be like Jane Eyre and was totally outraged and angered in reading the Scarlett Letter. Now Silas Mariner was something we read as a class in mu junior year in high school......I rather liked that too.........some of Shakespeare was ok..........all in all I guess I held my own in what I read...........I wonder, do they still have to read classics in high school anymore? I was studying to be an English Lit major/teacher/ in college, which sadly I was unable to finish.........and that was ok for many reasons..........and I remember the semester I had to drop out, I was in a class that was totally Shakespeare and with a professor that had horror stories about her that would make a vampire/ogre tremble in their boots...........so I am not to upset about missing that part of my education..........tee hee.. Like I said, the world is still turning, and world peace is no closer today than it was yesterday, so all in all my ignorance of the classics has effected no one but myself............and now I am opening being truthful here..........I just don't have that much strength or fortitude to start them now..........if this makes me a heathen, then slap my name in capital letters on the top of the list...........me, I have beading to do, movies to watch, grandchildren to read to, laundry to do, oh yeah, and this blog to write..........see I have important "stuff" to tend to ...................
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
of cabbages and kings
Look at that cat..........and he disappears................man don't talk to me about the 60's...........and trust me, I didn't get to be a flower child at all........nope came from a really strict home, no free love or opinions for me!!!