Random Tuesday Thoughts – He Can Call Me Shirley
I know he was in his 80′s but it’s still sad to see that Leslie Nielson died. What’s even weirder is that I was just thinking about him. I have a strange thing where some random person will pop in my head and then they’ll either have some major life change happen, I’ll hear from them (if it’s been years) or they die. Usually happens within a week of them popping in my head and I never know what it’s going to be but when they’re really old and I realize I’m thinking about them I usually say “Oh, shit.”
Okay so I’ve been singing the Golden Girls theme song and I take serious issue with it. I’ve always used it as a way to tell people I love them when I’m blogging or on Facebook but I was in the shower (slow, soapy lather for all the pervs out there – I found plenty yesterday) and I realized she said “And if you threw a party and invited everyone you knew, you would see that every gift would be from me and the card attached would say ‘Thank you for being a friend”
Dude. What the fucking fuck? So no one else brought me a gift? It’s either that or Miss McPsycho changed all the tags. I’d prefer the second one because I’d totally do something like that.
I went to the mall on Black Friday. I had no choice. I needed a sweater that I couldn’t find anywhere else. It wasn’t crowded and I got a good parking space. What I needed was in a department store and my only issue, since I had to go to three department stores to find what I wanted, was that I could tell when I was near a checkout line because it smelled like farts. I noted this on Facebook and a good friend said “Turkey farts” which I as first found funny but then completely logical. Every group fart smelled the same.
Here’s a taste of something adorable. I also happened to bring my two year old with me. I hate those leashes they have but my son is just like me – happy and outgoing. At two years old he likes to stop and talk to every single person and taking him to a mall with his five year old brother was a teensy bit stressful so I put his cute little Eddie Bauer backpack on with some diapers in it and yes – yes it has a leash. I pretty much just hung on to the backpack part but my little man insisted on having the leash out. He also insisted his older brother walk him. I didn’t get a pic of both of them because I wouldn’t let go of either of them but this is hilarious -
Whatever. He is ADORABLE. I make good baby. Considering I was in a mall with two small children and needed to try somethings on, I’m super impressed. Granted, I’ll never bring them back again but it’s just that it’s a mall and I hate malls. Perfume makes my throat hurt.
I went out last weekend and sang. I actually did it well, too! I recorded a song last night, “Son of a Preacher man” for the show. I didn’t save it on my computer so you’ll have to tune into the Momspective BTR show and fast forward until about 40 minutes in. I sing then we play “Fact or Bullshit”. You should check it out. Starting in December we’re going to start keeping score of who is in the char room, what they’re saying and then we’re going to have a weekly challenge and whoever is left standing at the end of the month is going to win shit. People apparently liked my song because we had a lot of listeners. We also had a theme song. We like to call “Shot!” and drink some beer whenever we talk over each other, someone in the chat room types it or we have nothing else to do and when we do we have an applause going. It’s getting to be a pretty good show. We went off on a tangent last night and ended up talking about how we took turns being designated driver one night and drunk the other. TRY is seriously the bestest friend I could have, except when we get on each others nerves – which happens all the time rarely.
I have to wrap this up. I woke up late and I have to get my mini-man up and ready for school.
Does anyone remember “Cats Cradle”? The thing we used to do with the string in school? How about that crazy pick a number, pick a color, get your fortune origami thing we did? If so, remind me. Those were fun.
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Your kid IS ridiculously adorable. I’m anti-leashes for kids too but on Black Friday, even I would have given in.
Cat’s Cradle is one of those things I begged my mom to get me – the one that came with a book – and soon realized there wasn’t much you could do with it. I guess I didn’t know there was a purpose to it other than trying to create shapes and shit.
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I had no idea Leslie Neilson died. That is sad. I still rememeber wathcing Airplane with my Dad when I was a kid.
You’re little one is adorable!
I remember cat’s cradle and that origama whatcha-ma-jigger game. I played them all the time when I was a kid. My Midgets used to play the origama game when they were younger too, but not cat’s cradle.
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My kids had this cute monkey backpack/stuffed animal thing with a leash. They wanted to wear it and its inherent cuteness with the overwhelming cuteness of my children got me lots of attention from the ladies. Of course it was usually at Walmart so many times it was either a 500lb giant on a rascal scooter or a toothless meth head. But there was the occasional gem in there.
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I make those origami finger fortune tellers all the time for the kids. By all the time I clearly mean once.
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My 3yr old also has a leash on when I go out with him as he can really run. It’s really difficult chasing after him in the mall with the other 2 kids in tow.
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I love Leslie Nielsen and it really saddened me that he died.. :’(
Eww @ turkey farts! LMAO!
hahaha!
I bring my 2 and 8 year old kids to the mall all the time! I have no choice, I have no sitter..
In our malls, the perfume area smells exactly like any part of the mall, perfumes are way expensive here, so no trials, unless it’s the cheap kind of perfume, but all the ones with brand names are sealed shut, they use the magazine sample as samples..
LOL
I have your BTR show on my iPod! Yay!
People were looking at me like I was crazy when I was listening to it while getting my coffee in Starbucks last Saturday cause I was giggling..
We still do that pick a color pick a number origami thing!
Have an awesome week Julie!
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OMG, out of nowhere, I played Cats Craddle the other day… Really, I am not joking!
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I remember cats cradle lol
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That weird origami thing was off the chain back in the day! I might have been the only girl in my entire grade who didn’t know how to make one (b/c the boys wouldn’t fuck around with that), but whatever.
Also, your son is totally adorable.
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Cats Cradle and that origami thing were tons of fun. I cant remember exactly how Cats Cradle went and i never could make those origami things… BUT do you remember playing MASH?
Glad you’re feeling better!!
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So the Turkey was Lurkey at the mall?
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I love those back pack things. I always get eyeballed when I use it, but I know my princess won’t run off in the split second it takes..
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