May 25, 2007

Eight Random Facts About Dana

Mary of Mom Writes tagged me for a meme.  A meme in which I reveal eight random facts about myself.

Oh, where to begin.  I’m trying to come up with eight things you don’t already know about me and that is harder than I realized.  Here goes:

1. I despise most reality T.V. shows except Dancing With the Stars and the early years of MTV’s Real World.  American Idol makes me want to barf.  The Bachelor is complete bullshit because we all know the couple will break up once the novelty of television romance wears off.  Survivor is boring these days.  Besides, we’ve got Lost now.  And The Amazing Race?  Blah.  Wife Swap is the most annoying television show created, because who in their right mind would want to swap spouses, knowing fully that the person you get is going to be insane and you’ll miss your partner more than you realized.  We shouldn’t be taking our SigOths for granted in the first place.  Nanny 911 is almost tolerable, but it seems like ABC finds families with the most vicious children.  These people should be on Dr. Phil.  (Oh, did I mention I can’t stand him either?)  And what’s worse is I see commercials advertising new reality shows.  The Ex-Wives Club?  American Inventor?  Seriously, does this ever end?
2. I hate shaving my legs.  I can never shave without 42,000 nicks and cuts on my legs which makes me look like I wrestled a rose bush.  I like Veet, the razorless “shaving” system, but it never does the job completely.  I wish I could afford waxing, but I think I’d be afraid of the pain.  I cry when I have my eyebrows waxed sometimes.
3. I’m going to the BlogHer conference this July and while most of you know this, I’ve failed to mention how absolutely nervous I am about meeting the bloggers I love.  I secretly fear I’ll be left alone in my room because everyone will think I’m boring.  Totally irrational, I know, but I have already had a couple nightmares about it.
4. Sometimes when Doug cooks dinner, if I don’t like something on my plate, I feel bad telling him it wasn’t great, so I fib and then feed the dish to Murphy.  Shhh!  Don’t tell my husband.  He’ll cry.  I think.
5. I sometimes forget to read blogs.  Then I panic and do a long blog walk and pretend like I’ve been following along.  It’s terrible.  I’m sorry.  Forgive me?
6. I love gardening but I hate weeding.  I wish I had a gardener who came over to do my weeding, and maybe some landscaping.  And laundry, dishes, dusting and mopping. 
7. I let Dawson eat potato chips and string cheese for breakfast sometimes.  I know that’s not a good decision, but it keeps him quiet on the way to daycare.  Nothing is worse than a screaming child while trying to concentrate on driving.
8. I’m trying to find a way for me to work from home.  I desperately want to be home with Dawson.  Working out of the home is starting to wear on me.  I wish I had the luxury my mom had of being home with us until we started school.

There you have it.  Eight random facts.  The rules of this game require me to tag eight people.  I can’t tag Cheryl because Mary already did.  So I choose:

Erin of The Queen of Spain (that is if she’s not chasing naked toddlers around the house.)

Leslie of My Mommy’s Place

Christina of A Mommy Story (if she’s not in labor.)

Do I even know eight people?

Liz from This Full House

Lisa from Midwestern Mommy

Meg of Sleepy New Mommy

Debbie of Happy Working Mom

Carla of Four by 40

(Can you tell I had to dig through my comments?  It’s hard to think of eight bloggers, who haven’t already been tagged, on the spot!)

May 24, 2007

Silverstone Snubs Hasselbeck

Check out this post from The Dissident News.  I agree with his opinion.  Elisabeth clearly took the high road.  Alicia took the road of a coward, as Rosie would say.

Go Elisabeth!

Review: Amy Winehouse, Back to Black

A few days ago I bought the CD Back to Black by Amy Winehouse.  I can’t stop listening to it. 

I’ve watched her debuts on The Tonight Show and Letterman, and she’s got a voice reminiscent of the 60s girl groups like The Supremes, The Shangri-Las and The Ronnettes, all of which I’ve loved as a child.  These were the artists my parents listened to when they were teenagers.

Amy has a textured vocal delivery, an almost raspy voice, combined with her contemporary song lyrics. Hailing from the U.K., she is truly inspiring and her music is full of soul and quite funky. 

I watched several of her music videos on YouTube and immediately fell in love with the R&B/doo-wop/soul mix.  I bought the album last Saturday at Target.  You can purchase it here, if you’d like to stay in the comfort of your own living room.

Her hit song, Rehab is a catchy tune.  I’ve been singing it nearly all morning.  Check out this video of Rehab on YouTube.  It’s my favorite, thus far.

In several ways, Amy Winehouse riminds me of Etta James.  It is truly an album full of soul and musical style.