Idle Hands

I’m still full from breakfast at “Omlettes n Moore” this morning. I indulged in a full breakfast of pork chops, scrambled eggs and hash browns with gravy. I couldn’t eat it all. They put too much food on the plate. We normally go on Sunday mornings, but the restaurant is closed for a week starting tomorrow for repairs. Then in August, they are going to cash only. Either that or they have to raise the prices. My breakfast is normally $6.00 for all that food. And it’s diner food. I love it.

Charlie has been an absolute angel to me these last few weeks. I don’t know what I did to deserve him. He’s been wonderful. We’ve been hanging out together and enjoying our time together as if we were just married. For our 2^nd anniversary, he took me to White Water Bay then we went to Cold Stone afterwards for some sorbet. Nothing fancy, but we had a blast. He surprised me with a video I-pod as a gift. I was NOT expecting that. He usually gives me jewelry. I love this I-pod. It’s been wonderful having it in the car. He bought an accessory package to go with it, so I can play it through the radio or thru the TV.

Most people have no idea that I love music. Unfortunately, I can’t hear it like most people can, but when I crank the stereo up I’m in heaven. I never understood why the AOL idiots made an issue of me watching American Idol and being rude about it. I guess the sign of a true loser is that they make fun of you for something you can’t control.

But, anyway, I’m trying my best not to buy out the I-tunes store right now by downloading old songs I loved growing up. I used to have tapes of songs that were popular when I was in high school, but the bitch-mother made me destroy them senior year of high school, claiming rock n roll was the “devil’s music”. Yeah, yeah, Foreigner and REO Speedwagon were devil worshippers.

It’s Saturday and I’m bored because it keeps raining and we can’t do much outside. We had planned to attend the CCR tribute band concert at Frontier City but with the scattered showers we didn’t go. Scattered showers, my ass. I keep thinking someone is up there in the clouds dumping giant buckets of water on us. Ice Age: The Meltdown is on and I’m not in the mood for TV. I don’t want to be on the computer either, but here I am. Meagan is at her dad’s for a week and I already miss her.

Charlie and I drove her to her dad’s in Tulsa yesterday and took both kids to a movie and dinner. We went to see Spiderman 3 at the AMC Southroads, and I was able to watch the movie with rear-window captions. I’ve never used this feature before and it took a little getting used to it, but it was fun to see a movie in the theater again. I’ll definitely make the effort to go to the movies when a good one is showing with the captions in Tulsa or Dallas. Meagan wants to go to Grapevine Mills before school starts, so maybe we can go to the movies etc.

I’m rambling. See how bored I am today. I’m gonna go piddle around.

Reality Show Junkie!

As everyone knows I’m a reality-show junkie! And my favorites are on the Bravo Network. Last year I discovered “Project Runway”, a competition for up-and-coming clothing designers. Bravo has since expanded their shows to include “Top Chef”, “Shear Genius”, and “Top Designer”. The competitive angle is great fun to watch and the shows have more at stake than a cash prize – the winner is offered an opportunity to enhance his/her career at the same time.

Another show I enjoy is “Work Out”, which follows fitness instructor Jackie Warner. This season, Jackie continued to develop her clothing line and ran into a major snafu. The company she hired to produce samples of her line provided Jackie with what THEY thought would be more appropriate. Unfortunately, Jackie needed the samples to show to a potential distributor, and had to more or less BS her way through a meeting and reschedule. The sketches I saw on the show were awesome and beautiful, but the products sold at this time through Paiva online aren’t anything special that I can see. Except for being outrageously expensive and having the SkySport logo, they look like something I could buy at Academy a whole lot cheaper.

Don’t get me wrong. I think Jackie Warner is awesome. I love watching her grow as a business owner and as a person. I was disappointed this season to discover she is dating one of the trainers at SkySport&Spa, because of the potential for sexual harassment charges. Jackie hasn’t had the best of luck with partners, as proved with Mimi in the first season. That girl was a hellion! It’s taking some time to get used to watching two women kissing on television. I know! I know! We see it all the time now, but most of the “lesbian kissing” I’ve seen on TV is just hype to get ratings. Not a true romantic relationship between two people who genuinely care for each other.

Yes, watching this show inspires me to become more fit. Not just “skinnier”, but healthier. I think healthier is a better goal than skinnier. Changing my diet and nutrition habits is going to be a challenge

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Currently, Bravo is showing “Shear Genius”, a competition for hairdressers. I didn’t know what to think of this at first, partially because the host is Jaclyn Smith of Charlie’s Angels fame. I have NO idea what makes her an authority on hair. Jaclyn Smith hasn’t changed her hair since the 70’s. After 5 episodes, I’m positive the Top 2 finalists will be Tabatha and Tyson. Both are incredibly talented and after this show, I won’t be able to afford a cut from them – ever. Especially if they prove to be as good as celebrity stylist judge Sally Hershberger, who did the Meg Ryan shag and charges $600+ per cut.

Tabatha and Tyson have both admitted on the show that they think the other is their strongest competitor. On the last episode, Tabatha did her best to make Tyson screw up, but he overcame this adversity and won the Elimination Challenge. Don’t you love it when the underdog pulls through?