Jeopardy

I need money and I seem to have no luck with the lottery.  So I have decided I am going to get on Jeopardy. 

It is my favorite game show, and when I get one question right I am BRILLIANT!!!  I yell out to anyone who is close..."Did you hear that? I got that question right!! Come revel with me in my brilliance!"  Only once did the associate at Walmart ask me to leave electronics, but come on....NOBODY there was getting any right!

I digress...I decided that getting one (or the odd 2) questions would not be enough to get me money, so I will be studying to get on the show.  I will start by reading any trivia book I can get my hands on... I will share some of what I learn, but not all...just in case you too decide to take on this endeavor and I end up next to you on the show. 

Wish me luck...and stay tuned.

My Observations

After watching America's Got Talent and my hero, Stevie Nicks, I have decided that my generation (40 to 60 yrs old now)has decided that we will never grow old.  


You know when 63yr olds (Stevie Nicks, Ozzy, Steven Tyler...) are still touring with the band, that's just proof  that we will not go softly into the night.  Or as Neil Young  put it... "its better to burn out than to fade away"

Thrift Store Find/Game Fail

Is the word "anal"????

Found this at a thrift store.

Really Parker Brothers?  You  couldn't

think of a better name for the game?

Cryer's Cross

I love to go to the Young Adult section for great finds.  It seems like sometimes the adult books are written for the benefit of the author.  The young adult authors know that their audience has a shorter attention span so they better have a great hook and get them involved quickly.

Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann is a story centered around Kendall, a senior who has OCD.  The town of Cryer's Cross, Montana is a mere 212 residents strong, and as the books opens, one of them is missing.  A new family moves into town and the oldest boy falls under suspicion, but nothing comes of it and soon the search for the missing freshman girl ends and a new school year begins. 

Since it is a small town, the high school students are in one room for the day.  Kendall's OCD requires her to be the first in the room to place the desks, markers, trash can and curtains properly.  Soon after school starts, Nico, Kendall's best friend and boyfriend (though she doesn't really feel as strongly for him as he does her) starts to act strangely.  When Nico disappears the town again forms search parties without avail.  The sheriff requires all children under 18 pair up and never travel alone.  Kendall gets paired with the new boy, Jacian. 

The first 190 pages of this 232 pages of this book deal with Kendall's character development and how she's torn between her feelings for the new guy and her problem with not feeling loyal to Nico. 
Honestly at chapter 23 it felt like the author thought, "Crap, I forgot about the missing kids, I better come up with something quick".  From here, the book just got weird.  When you look at the description of the book, the ending really came out of nowhere.
The book jacket's description ends with this:

        Something's not right in Cryer's Corner - and Kendall's about to find out how far the townspeople    will go to keep their secrets buried.

I was really disappointed with this book...the problem I had was it was just false advertisement.  They should have described the book like this:

Kendall is a high schooler in a small town.  She has OCD that seems to rule her life and now she seem to have gotten herself caught in a love triangle between her childhood sweetheart and the new bad boy in town.  And oh, by the way,  two kids are missing, one of them is her current boyfriend.

Very rarely do I finish a book and say to myself, "well that was a waste of time"  I'm afraid that's exactly what I said when I finished this one.

I give this 0 out of 5 stars

Netflix

If you love movies, you probably have a Netflix account.  We are big movie fans at our house, but we have been having a problem for about a year now.

Not with Netflix, but with the United States Postal Service.  "Nooo way" you say!  But yyyeeeesssss.  "Not our postal service" you protest....oohhh yes, our government employed postal service, I reply.




We live in a trailer park and have a LOCKED bank of mailboxes much like the ones pictured here:

 

When we mail our newer Netflix movies it always takes longer than the older releases.  I have been suspicious of our mail person...thinking she's probably watching them and sending them back later.  But how do you prove that?  Recently we received a badly mangled Netflix envelope in a baggy, with the standard "we are sorry about this, but shit happens" (I paraphrased).  TWICE this has happened.  What we received Saturday, though, pushed me over the edge.  



As you can see, The one on the left is just the top part that has your personal address on it, the part you tear off and throw away.

Here, again, on the top, is what we received.  ONLY the top paper.  Where's the movie you ask...I have no idea.  With the exception of the the top corner looking like it was cut off with scissors, it looks like someone tore it off and took the rest.  "I would go straight to the post office and complain" you say???  My hubby did.  The postmaster at Zeeland, MI informed him that it was a machine that the mail goes through that must have done this.  My hubby told him that we seem to have problems with other Netflix movies getting back.  Maybe someone else is messing with our mail.  As I mentioned before...we have LOCKED mail boxes.  The postmaster at Zeeland, MI suggested that we should take the time to get to know our mail person.

WTF??? Its our fault the mail isn't being properly handled because we didn't get to know who delivers our mail????  I work and my husband is sleeping when the mail is delivered (he works 3rds).  So I got online and sent a complain to the governmental institution, the United States Postal Service...here's what I wrote:


We have had a problem with our mail service concerning Netflix movies for over a year.  Recently we received a Netflix paper, neatly torn from the movie, without the movie.  When we send newer movies back to Netflix from this location, they suspiciously take much longer than older movies. We talked to Postmaster (name omitted) and he recommended that we should get to know our mail person better.  Are we getting punished because we happen to be working at the time our mail is delivered and have been unable to get to know our mail person?  If we leave them a cash gift will that take the place of our inability to be there? What amount would be good, as we do not wish to offend and worsen our situation. 


Please advise



I'm pissed (and passive-aggressive with a sarcastic nature)

Degrees of Bacon

So my oldest asks me...
Do you think when an actor works with Kevin Bacon they 
think to themselves:

"I've hit the jackpot! 
I am now
 one degree 
from Bacon"

The Hangover 2

I recently watched The Hangover II.  The first one was hilarious (could have done with out the pictures), this one wasn't as good. 

Let me just say, I saw more penises in this movie then I have ever seen in my whole life and I'm 45, been married twice and have 3 kids. 

Just saying.

Back in 2008 I listened to Water for Elephants and thought it was a great story.
I always get excited when they make a movie from one of the books I've read.  I'm anxious to see who they pick to play each part and I must say I did not expect these two actors to be the choices.  When I listened to the book I expected them to be closer in age, and I'm sorry, I am NOT a big Robert Pattinson fan.  I didn't get into the Twilight series (even thought that author wrote one of my favorite books). 

I do love Reece Witherspoon.  She was also in Just Like Heaven which was based on another book I read, "If Only It Were True" by Marc Levy.  The book was cute but I haven't seen the movie to compare yet.  Honestly I read the book around 2001 so I couldn't compare the two unless I re-read it. 

Have you been to see the Water For Elephants?  Did you like it?  Are you one of the few who have read it and can compare them?  I would love to hear from you.

Hi all!!

I'm back. I started a new job about 2 1/2 years ago and when I started getting full time hours my reading and blogging dropped off. I miss both so I have decided to keep my sanity I must make sure I have time to do both.

So here I am.

It was a rough year. I lost my mom quite suddenly and unexpectedly. My family, that I thought was the greatest ever, turned out to be users and underhanded. My sister has been my biggest support (aside from my kids and hubby)

We moved from North Carolina to Michigan 14 years ago so I could be closer to my family and mom, leaving my dad and sister behind. My hubby and kids are not happy here, so we have decided to move back to NC.


So here we are...almost June, and trying to sell our place, get jobs, and move back down south by early August at the latest.
Stressed? A little. I feel this is what God wants for us, so I gotta have faith that things will fall into place. My hubby wants to move so bad he's promised to get me a color nook if we move this summer!


On a side note...My sister says karma will get our aunt and brother for the crap they've done. I have NEVER witnessed justice coming around and kicking the rightful person right in the bahookie....have any of you? Share your story, give me hope, cause I am sick and tired of people getting away with so much crap.