Hold On, It’s Thursday
1. My grandson Bryce and I like to say “boom-shaka-laka.”
2. It’s a pretty weird world when you open a bag of parsnips from the grocery store and it says “like us on Facebook” on the bag.
3. I wonder who came up with the idea to cue Oscar winners at the Academy Awards to wrap up their acceptance speeches by playing the shark attack music from Jaws.
4. THIS is as close as I’ll get to going Academy Awards, which I watch like others watch the Super Bowl.
5. I tell Bryce his job is playing and that he’s good at his job. It was his idea to use a broom handle to pretend he was on an amusement park ride (shown in the photo above).
6. Part of my husband’s job is to play. See HERE.
7. A few years back a friend left an invite to a party on my answering machine. I thought he said it was going to be a “no holds barred” party, but when I got there and asked him what he meant by that, he answered, “I said NO HOST BAR, Colleen!”
8. NOwhere or NOWhere? ~ Good question seen on Facebook
9. So it looks like I won’t be wearing hot pink taffeta / or a French twist like Grace Kelly’s / I won’t be dying my hair red / to match the cabernet / or breaking up Jeff Bridges’ 33 year-old marriage / There won’t be any airbrushed endings / no lifts, nips, or tucks / I don’t need to keep filling / an already fulfilled love affair / one that’s never been cheated-on … Read the rest of After the Golden Globes and in Honor of Valentine’s Day HERE.
10. I just love the low tech nature of a ruler. It’s nothing but a stick, but we still need to use it.
11. Soundtrack for this post is HERE and the song I want played at my funeral is HERE.
12. After commenting that the “In Memoriam” section of the Academy Awards was very classy, my blogger friend Naomi, a show biz member, reported that many people were left out of it, which prompted her to say, “Good Lord, there is even a fight for ‘billing’ in death!”
13. Why waste time trying to be perfect when your flaws are what make you interesting? ~ Just Ask Judy on Facebook.
February 27th, 2013 8:34 pm
As always, my dear Colleen…A great T13. I love that you are so faithful to this tradition…!
Thanks so much for the mention. I do find it rather appalling that so many wonderful people were left off the memorial list; they could have cut some of those bad “bits” and had plenty of time for many more movie greats who passed on in 2012—-and as to”JAWS”, Since this was a year devoted to Music Of The Movies, I LOVED that all the transition music—playing people on and off the stage—-that was used, was from Academy Award winning films—I thought it was quite amusing that they chose “JAWS” for the WARNING music to each speaker….lol….Very Clever….
I also love the song you chose to be played at your funeral….!
February 28th, 2013 1:18 am
My funeral soundtrack includes “In My Life” by The Beatles for when everyone’s feeling weepy & nostalgic and “Under The Boardwalk” by The Drifters (don’t ask).
February 28th, 2013 3:03 am
Number two…and I thought just buying parsnips was weird.
Number three…I thought they played other music as a warning, not solely the theme from “Jaws.”
I didn’t care for this year’s host, and thought the intro with William Shatner and the end number particularly bad.
February 28th, 2013 3:51 am
If you ask me, Facebook is totally out of hand. Parsnips? Give me a break.
February 28th, 2013 9:27 am
I’m giggling at the parsnips note. I think they should put one fake on in the bag and have it hold a little card saying “If I get a million likes…”
Heh.
Happy TT!
February 28th, 2013 11:57 am
I was just looking for the ruler I keep in the kitchen drawer last night…needed to measure how an inch of tofu! Wonder where it is…the ruler…probably ran off with the wok! Or…wok’d off
February 28th, 2013 12:33 pm
7. oh, close.
2. Very strange phenomena. Stranger that people do it. Thousands of people declaring themselves as spokeperson’s for swanson dinners or whatnot.
February 28th, 2013 12:34 pm
or spokespeople? spokesperson?
February 28th, 2013 12:46 pm
Janet I saw your yummy inch square tofu on Facebook!
February 28th, 2013 2:01 pm
Those fabulous boys !!Boom shaka laka
February 28th, 2013 3:30 pm
I like your TT!! and Love your boys! They sure are getting big! xox
February 28th, 2013 6:11 pm
Boom Shaka Laka is a favorite in our house
February 28th, 2013 10:12 pm
My funeral line up includes Fleetwood Mac and Melissa Etheridge. No hymns for me.
March 1st, 2013 8:25 pm
Boom shaka laka is right up there with “babba ganoush” for being fun words strings.