Awards and Reformation

It's Friday and I'm not posting about wild animals or running. I'm happy about that. I hope you are too. Today, I'm ecstatic that my blog buddy, Quirkyloon, has bestowed upon me an award. She is such a nice lady. She loves fudge and diet Dr. Pepper which are at the top of my criteria list for great people and she writes hilarious blog posts!


Thanks, Quirky!

I'm supposed to pass this award on to other bloggers and here is how I will do it.

There is a game going around where bloggers are asked to post about things that start with the letter that is given to them. Well I didn't get a letter and I didn't ask for one so I decided just to take one. I don't usually play by the rules (Just ask anyone, they will tell you that this is true.)

I gave myself the letter "R" (for Reforming of course).

I will start by giving the award to some of my favorite blogs I've recently discovered that start with the letter "R" or that the letter "R" is a major part of their blog name or just because I want to pick them.

Tracy over at Rambling Thoughts of the Neverending Mind - Ramblings thoughts? Maybe. Fun? Yes!

Confessions of a Random Chick - Hilarious craziness. Visit her and lose the grumpiness. Be careful. She might already be wearing her straight jacket.

Nooter the Dog - GRRRRRR! Beware of dog. No really. It's a dog and your next life might be as a dog or a peanut. You just never know.

The Cubicle's Backporch - Country girl at heart blogs about life. Here's a funny story about technology and older folks.


Feel free to take your award and pass it on or come up with your own fun game!


As for the rest of the "R" words, here goes:

Roses - I would like to see some serious blooms on my rose bushes next spring. Let me make this clear. BLOOM PRETTY OR ELSE IT'S THE SHREDDER FOR YOU! DO YOU HEAR ME!

UH OH! I sound like a mom.

Reformation - No, not the time in world history following the Renaissance but the reformation from geek to non-geek that I'm perpetually working on. Wish me luck.

Robot - Get Will Smith out here. I think I have a robot gone bad trying to break into my house. It's red light is on. Will can be shirtless. Yeah, I know it's winter but he's tough, right?

Ridiculous - Think Harry Potter. How to turn something you are afraid of into something funny. I'm afraid of rejection and failure.

OK. Here goes. I'm waving the wand and shouting

R I D I C U L O U S!!!!

Thru the smoke it's made clear that I'm on a podium telling funny light bulb jokes and folks are throwing money at me.

OUCH! Wait a minute. That was a SHOE! OUCH! I guess I should have asked Hermione to do this spell.

Restitution - Uh oh. That's a big word. Better go look it up. OK. Got it. For all those people I have hurt in some way, I am truly sorry and I will come do your laundry for a week.........

Ha! You fell for that? You sure are gullible.

Ruler - All the better for measuring.......

No. That's not it. It's the ruler of the world thing. I've determined that the Interwebs rule the world.

Rack - as in I wish I had a nice rack. Actually, any rack would do. That's right. Something to catch crumbs on and bounce around when I run (maybe I should rethink this one). Actually, I have a nice Baker's Rack in my dining room. I guess that will do.

Riddle - Riddle me this:

What are the next two letters in the following series and why?

W A T N T L I T F S _ _

What? Did you expect the answer to be here? If you know it, you can put it in the comments.

Resolution - I resolve to get out of bed 6 out of 7 days a week and write a blog post at least once a week. I have to allow for hangovers, illness, writer's block, demands of family, pets, windigos and wildebeests and occasional real work.

OK. That's enough. Feel free to pick a letter and do what you want with it. Enjoy!

I can always use awards smiley votes over at humor-blogs.com.

Mrs. White with the Lead Pipe

What's in post title anyway?

Hubby and I were discussing the movie CLUE over dinner one night. In case you are CLUE-less, you can read all about it. In a nutshell, it's about people with less-than-stellar lifestyles coming together at a scary old house with a storm brewing. Someone meets an early death. The classic who-done-it unfolds. The movie came out in late 1985. Hubby and I had just had our first date. It was Christmas light viewing and we were crazy enough to go on December 23rd. We sat in traffic but at least it gave us time to talk. And, yes, the lights were cool.

"Can that be called a date?", hubby asked.
"Absolutely", I replied, remembering that I didn't have many dates back then.

We saw the movie together at the theater but I obviously can't remember a thing.....can't even remember what ending was shown. At dinner I kept talking about Mr. Peabody and hubby finally said "WHO IS THAT?" with that "your nuts" look on his face so I had to go to Wikipedia and remind myself of the characters of the movie. It's really Mrs. Peacock and her "lifestyle issue" was bribery.

Hubby confessed to a big crush on Miss Scarlet (Lesley Ann Warren in the movie). She's a gorgeous red-head and runs a brothel....enough said. I can say that my hair is sometimes reddish brown (thanks to a secret formula only known to my hairstylist) and I think I look OK but I can't say that gorgeous has even been used to describe me. (Now I'm sure folks were just being discreet and didn't want me to get all conceited). I did have a guy tell me today that I look as good as the 27-year girl I'm filling in for at the fitness center where I'm working this week. I don't believe it. I could be her mom. That guy has got the flattery thing down good or maybe he needs some glasses.

I remember playing the CLUE board game quite a bit as a kid. I loved the cute little weapons and the color-themed characters. I also liked CANDYLAND and was very jealous of my best friend who had that game. Please realize this was few years earlier than my CLUE days. Then there's OPERATION. I can't forget that awful "squawk" when you touched the sides. I wasn't very steady with my hands so I decided surgery wasn't in my future. Seems like there was some game that had a buzzer in the middle that you pushed. I think it was called TROUBLE. I liked it.

Then there was TWISTER in Junior High and the occasional Spin-the-Bottle at parties (don't tell my mom). Yes, I know it's not really a board game. I eventually matured into the video game circuit when DONKEY KONG came out or was it PACMAN? Maybe both. I think there may have been a game of PONG in there somewhere. My brother and I thought that was great stuff.


Board games are classy. My family enjoys a good game of Scrabble when we visit at Christmas. I see some interesting board games at the stores and there seems to be a Monopoly for everything now. I can't imagine that Trivial Pursuit will ever leave us. I remember when I first starting working, folks played Trivial Pursuit during lunch. Hubby was quite good at it. I suck at it.

What are some others you like?

Finally, Hollywood should stay away from making movies out of board games. CLUE was not that great of a movie.