This DVR thing is a drug I swear. I am watching more TV because of it. In the old days all the detectiveie shows and all else that came on at 10 when the eye lids needed a clothes pole to stay open I would just miss them. NOW I just scan the schedule and hit record!
So I find myself falling behind on watching all this stuff and falling behind in my most beloved hobby of all,reading!
I watch or record: Cold Case,Without A Trace,orig. CSI,various things on the History Channel and BBC's Antiques Roadshow. This show I ADORE. I have about 10 now I must watch. Loaded with so much history and really cool places they visit to say nothing of the "objects" brought in for appraisal. Prince Charles was even in one I watched last night. A folksy,charming guy! I also find the British version is filled with far more humor than its more serious American cousin!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
You Can Fight City Hall (Maybe)
Sometime in March we received a letter from the Phila. Parking Authority saying we had failed to pay for a $300 parking ticket for parking in a handicapped spot on January 19,2009. The only thing is the lic. number given is for a car we bought for our kids on January 24,2009. We did not get the tags,title and registration until Feb. 2,2009. Foolish me wrote a few times even sending in copies of all of the above. I just kept getting form letters telling me to call the phone number on the original letter which never connects you to a human being!
I decided to write to our local Phila. CBS affiliate's consumer watchdog guy. He actually called me and we have been in communication twice. He has connections at the parking authority. I did get a letter saying the case was suspended for 30 days pending an investigation. We shall see. meanwhile...Thanks,Jim D.!
I decided to write to our local Phila. CBS affiliate's consumer watchdog guy. He actually called me and we have been in communication twice. He has connections at the parking authority. I did get a letter saying the case was suspended for 30 days pending an investigation. We shall see. meanwhile...Thanks,Jim D.!
Saturday, May 2, 2009
Stuff You Don't Know About Me
I just got an email from a friend about all the expensive beauty stuff she uses. I don't spend on the individual products just on the amount I experiment with!
So I have found mineral makeup really does make the face a uniform color. However,if you have a zit or two as I did right after Easter candy time you do need a cream or liquid base.(hubby says my zits keep me young!) I use an Avon cream to powder that I really like. I bought the one Ellen Degeneres is sponsoring but I think it dried my aging skin out even though it supposedly does have a cream in it. I try not to use the same moisturizer everyday. I flip between a Garnier,Olay and Clinique!
My eyebrow area was really dry and peeling all the time so I got this Burt Bees night cream and that works. A N D for some reason giving up my 40+ year one diet cola a day habit has improved this condition!
So that is how this old crone keeps foolin' um in HHNJ!
So I have found mineral makeup really does make the face a uniform color. However,if you have a zit or two as I did right after Easter candy time you do need a cream or liquid base.(hubby says my zits keep me young!) I use an Avon cream to powder that I really like. I bought the one Ellen Degeneres is sponsoring but I think it dried my aging skin out even though it supposedly does have a cream in it. I try not to use the same moisturizer everyday. I flip between a Garnier,Olay and Clinique!
My eyebrow area was really dry and peeling all the time so I got this Burt Bees night cream and that works. A N D for some reason giving up my 40+ year one diet cola a day habit has improved this condition!
So that is how this old crone keeps foolin' um in HHNJ!
Friday, April 24, 2009
Possibly,There But For The Grace Of God..........
Would I have gone! Its just that my particular brand of combo perimenopausal mood swings and fury at my kids just did not ever go over that edge the West Chester County Mom went over last Sunday. She was so mad at her fighting daughters she threw them out of the car. The 10 year old never made it back into the car.
Here is where I have an issue with the supposed "good samaritan" who called the police! I have a feeling that this 10 year old girl who lives in a 2 million dollar house is a quite savy,with it,sophisticated kid who has a cell phone and knows how to text. This is no waif in the storm for days gone by and anybody with experience with kids in the 2000's knows this..... I am also sure she can match my two daughters at that age when there smug,heaven looking glances and smart mouths could send you just short of a giant slap.
Had I been the person to happen upon this girl in very nice White Plains I would have asked what her Mom's cell phone number was and called the Mom and say I will chat with your daughter until things calm down. There was no need to involve the police and social services. I think the girl,or more like it,the mom had the bad luck to run into some righteous goodie,gooie who never had an irritating 10 year old!
Here is where I have an issue with the supposed "good samaritan" who called the police! I have a feeling that this 10 year old girl who lives in a 2 million dollar house is a quite savy,with it,sophisticated kid who has a cell phone and knows how to text. This is no waif in the storm for days gone by and anybody with experience with kids in the 2000's knows this..... I am also sure she can match my two daughters at that age when there smug,heaven looking glances and smart mouths could send you just short of a giant slap.
Had I been the person to happen upon this girl in very nice White Plains I would have asked what her Mom's cell phone number was and called the Mom and say I will chat with your daughter until things calm down. There was no need to involve the police and social services. I think the girl,or more like it,the mom had the bad luck to run into some righteous goodie,gooie who never had an irritating 10 year old!
Saturday, April 18, 2009
"Elderly Graviderum"
Thats what it said on my medical records when I gave birth to DD#2 18 years ago today! I think by this time they have upped the date they start putting THAT on woman's charts!
One thing good about having a baby at 40 is when that baby grows up people assume you are younger because you have this child who is say still in high school! So sometimes assumptions are not bad.
One thing good about having a baby at 40 is when that baby grows up people assume you are younger because you have this child who is say still in high school! So sometimes assumptions are not bad.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Happy Easter- Mom Musings........
Honestly,old menopausal me could have gone to the sunrise service at church! I remind me of the lady who hears the rooster in the sleeping pill commercial...on some days!
The day should progress as follows: Trying to get the two darling daughters up and out the door on time for church that starts at 9:30. Daughter no. 2 is a crucifer so she better be ready! Forget son! I know he worked hard yesterday and last night,got in late and it is not worth the fight!
Its a friends Easter as the old people bailed(big surprise there)so it should be a relaxed laid back time!
Hail,Hail Festival Day......
The day should progress as follows: Trying to get the two darling daughters up and out the door on time for church that starts at 9:30. Daughter no. 2 is a crucifer so she better be ready! Forget son! I know he worked hard yesterday and last night,got in late and it is not worth the fight!
Its a friends Easter as the old people bailed(big surprise there)so it should be a relaxed laid back time!
Hail,Hail Festival Day......
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Current Reads; Other Stuff
Its been a rough couple of days. Bad news on the income front. Not a lay off or anything just a reconfiguration on hubby's behalf which will cut our income. I hope things improve in the fall when we both could HOPE to find something.
Time Magazine has what I call a neat system for reviewing books. READ SKIM TOSS!!!!
So I am definetly skimming John Grogans's memoir, The Longest Trip Home. His parents were so profoundly Catholic that his life and that of his siblings was like child abuse I swear! Family vacations to shrines,hymns at dinner,giving up your room for 7 inner city Detroit kids! I am liking the second half where he grows up,becomes a newspaper reporter and meets his future wife! When he moved in with her his parents flipped. Like they actually thought a thirty year old guy in the 70's and 80's was celibate till marriage. Give me a break!
My upstairs book,Glass Houses is a very intelligently done mystery by Jane Haddam that takes place in Philadelphia. Apparently this prolific writer has 26 or so other books featuring this retired FBI guy,Gregor Demarkian. Dull so far but I like all the mentions of Philly stuff.
Time Magazine has what I call a neat system for reviewing books. READ SKIM TOSS!!!!
So I am definetly skimming John Grogans's memoir, The Longest Trip Home. His parents were so profoundly Catholic that his life and that of his siblings was like child abuse I swear! Family vacations to shrines,hymns at dinner,giving up your room for 7 inner city Detroit kids! I am liking the second half where he grows up,becomes a newspaper reporter and meets his future wife! When he moved in with her his parents flipped. Like they actually thought a thirty year old guy in the 70's and 80's was celibate till marriage. Give me a break!
My upstairs book,Glass Houses is a very intelligently done mystery by Jane Haddam that takes place in Philadelphia. Apparently this prolific writer has 26 or so other books featuring this retired FBI guy,Gregor Demarkian. Dull so far but I like all the mentions of Philly stuff.
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