Celebrities, Entertainers, and Entertainment

This broad category includes any time I did any "name dropping" and includes when I talk about "fun" stuff to do. My idea of fun might not be yours, but I hope you enjoy. Thanks for visiting!

Not Your Momma’s Bingo.

March 25, 2009

There’s an old joke:
How do you get five “prim and proper” Southern ladies to shout a cussword?
Have a sixth lady shout, “BINGO!”
OK, I cleaned that joke up a bit for you. But, I use it to illustrate that Bingo can be a serious game!
Do any of y’all play Bingo? I’ve been to many [...]

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My House Is A Nightmare

March 11, 2008

As I bopped out of my local coffee shop gripping my extra large mocha, I saw a familiar looking man standing with a camera crew on the corner of our town square. I had seen his face on television! It was Emeril! You know, the famous chef, Emeril Lagasse!
I was so [...]

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Yes, We Can Can

March 10, 2008

The first time I saw the Pointer Sisters on television, I thought, “What an unfortunate choice of clothing!”

Those gals were dressed in 1940s garb, which wasn’t very stylish back in the 1970s. Heck, it probably wasn’t “stylish” in the 1940s! It looked like something out of my Aunt LaVerta’s closet that she donated [...]

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Manic Monday–What Do I Want?

March 3, 2008

“What do you want?” my husband asks, as my birthday looms on the horizon.
“Oh, nothing,” I reply sweetly.
My husband is a smart man. He knows that if you ask a woman what she wants and she says, “nothing,” that’s not what she really means. She means, “Think it up yourself, buddy, and it [...]

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Rock On!

January 5, 2008

Y’all have probably already seen this, because it said in my AARP Bulletin from August (I’m finally getting around to reading it) that they are a cult hit on YouTube. This is The Zimmers, who are a group of 40 “Old Age Pensioners.” This British group certainly challenges any pre-conceived notions about old [...]

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Brush With Celebrity

November 18, 2007

Have y’all ever had a “brush with celebrity?” Were you excited when you did? Did you act like a moron? I’ve met some of my favorite singers, but no one that y’all would be too excited about. I did my best to act nonchalant when I met them, but I was [...]

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Huh?

October 29, 2007

My local paper, The Denton Record Chronicle, has a section called “Names In The News,” where they publish stories that come over the Associated Press wires. I don’t know why I bother to read it, because I usually scratch my head and say, “Huh?” Sunday’s paper was no exception.
The headline read:
Church [...]

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Dot, Bam, Crack

October 11, 2007

I believe I might have told y’all that I started blogging in order to cure my addiction to my computerized Mah Jongg Solitaire game. It didn’t entirely work. Occasionally, I see that icon on my computer and open up the game. Then, I get lost in it for a few hours. [...]

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Manic Monday. “Orange” Means It’s Halloween.

October 1, 2007

“Orange” is the word on this [tag]Manic Monday[/tag]. Mo gives us a word, and we are supposed to be inspired to write. It doesn’t always work! My first thought is of some orange trucks that we have around Denton, Texas, I’ve already told you about Frenchy’s Brand.
That leaves me with [...]

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Manic Monday. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

September 16, 2007

I don’t know about the rest of y’all, but when I was young I totally bought into the idea that I should look like a supermodel. The magazines at the checkout stand in the grocery store told me how I was supposed to look, and even told me how to achieve that look. [...]

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Great American Race—Lewisville, Texas Edition

July 7, 2007

Vintage cars lined the streets of old town Lewisville, Texas. “Oooh”s and “Ahhh”s could be heard from the excited crowd as they milled about snapping pictures. Bustling crew members wiped every speck of road dust from the cars until they gleamed as if they were on a show room floor. The exhausted [...]

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Anna Nicole’s Diaries

April 6, 2007

My husband and I finally got everything packed and crawled into bed to try to get some sleep before our travel tomorrow. We switched on the television to the nightly news and caught the story that two of Anna Nicole Smith’s diaries were coming up for auction.
My husband said, “Were they written [...]

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That Woman Was Janis Joplin

March 31, 2007

My hairdresser this morning had a first guess of Anna Nicole Smith. But, my mystery tough woman was Janis Lyn Joplin, who was raised in Port Arthur, Texas. She died in 1970 of a heroin overdose.
That the young woman took to drugs so readily would be no surprise considering the decades in [...]

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A Woman Who Was Tough

March 31, 2007

“Lyn”s early years gave no clue to the turbulent life she would live. She grew up in a typical small Texas town, in a family that was not out of the ordinary. Her Daddy labored at an oil refinery and her Momma was a domestic goddess. Life was rosy and sweet for [...]

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Leave It To Beaver And Wally And Eddie

March 16, 2007

This picture is making the rounds in e-mail. I don’t know if someone has altered it with a photo program to make it look worse. If so, they did a great job of it.
You might not be old enough to recognize them. From left to right, that’s Ken Osmond (a.k.a. Eddie Haskell), Jerry Mathers (a.k.a. [...]

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Thanksgiving in April?

March 14, 2007

Can’t get enough turkey and dressing? Personally, I think that one time a year for that meal is probably more than enough, but there is another celebration of Thanksgiving here in Texas. I’ve been to that celebration but, thankfully, do not remember having to eat turkey! I think I ate Mexican food.
In El Paso, Texas, [...]

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Time’s A-Wastin’

March 5, 2007

Click this picture to link to Lunchtimer…it will take you to the jigsaw puzzles!
I’m not addicted to Mahjongg anymore. However, I am thoroughly hooked on the World Wide Web. When my pea-sized brain lights on a subject, I start following links. I find an interesting blog; then I check out the links on the site [...]

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Old Jigsaw Puzzlers Never Die…They Just Go To Pieces

January 9, 2007

There is that “blonde joke” about the gal who said, “I bought a puzzle that said ‘2-4 years.’ I don’t know why they think it’s that hard…I finished it in 6 months.”
That was funny until my husband and I sat down to work a jigsaw puzzle, produced by The Puzzle House, called “Starry Night.” It [...]

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Let’s Play a Hand of Footsie

January 3, 2007

As a child, I remember that my parents often got together with friends for an evening of card games. Usually the game was poker, spades, or canasta. Everyone brought a dish of food for a “potluck” supper, after which the kids went off to watch television and play kid games and the grownups gathered at [...]

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