Rosie Live... More like Rosie Dead.
When Rosie O'Donnell was doing movies I liked her. She was a pretty good actress and a pretty funny comedienne too. I really enjoyed watching her movies and stand up comedy. Then she came out with her daytime talk show. Chip and I watched it every single day, it was a standing appointment for us, we made sure we watched her show and we both laughed and we thought she was the greatest human being for all the things she did for people on her show. She was constantly giving prizes away every episode. Not just whenever but all the time. She would shoot those things at the audience during the show and she was on top of the world. Then all of a sudden she got tired of it and quit and basically handed it over to Ellen Degeneras.
Now, don't get me wrong, I love Ellen's show too but it's a different respect you know? It wasn't as flamboyant as Rosies. Like Rosie had the desk and it was covered with stuff. Her set up was like the Tonight Show with the desk and chairs.
Then Rosie went on the View for a year. Boy what a year that was. All of a sudden she was pushing her views on everyone and not allowing anyone to disagree with her without her temper flaring out. You know, it's one thing to have an opinion and feel strongly about it but when you get into a fight over your passion for it then it's no longer a talk show. And remember, every action has a reaction. Let's say for example the fight between Rosie and The Donald. What was that all about? I mean come on. That year on The View basically ruined Rosie's career.
Now she started to go back to the fun days of having a variety hour show which I used to like in the 70's. I loved the Osmond hour and the Sonny and Cher show. I loved those shows. I don't seem to remember the brady bunch variety hour. It's a very vague memory. And apparently so is the new Rosie Live show because after only a few episodes it's being canceled due to bad ratings.
I personally haven't seen it yet. I don't even know what time it comes on. I have a regular schedule of things that I like to watch every weekday and I think that her show cut into that time frame. I hadn't planned on watching it though.
I did like Rosie so I don't want this to sound like I'm putting her down because I'm not. I'm just saying that her actions on the view is what destroyed this new chance at a future career in this industry and in order for people to forgive and forget she's gonna have to do a lot of ass kissing and start apologizing for pushing her view on people who have their own opinions and are passionate about that.
Hey, don't get me wrong, I have views that I'm very passionate about like gay marriage. I get so upset when I hear people telling me that I have no rights to get married just like a straight person does but I'm not going to let it rule me. If straight people don't like me getting married they have that right to think that. But I also have a right to tell them to shove it up their ass.
Monday, December 01, 2008
Skill going to waste
When I was 17 years old and my sister found me in Simi Valley after being homeless for nearly a year and let me move in with her I decided that after seeing my first boyfriend Robert crochet that I wanted to learn how to crochet too. I bought a couple of books about learning crochet and knitting as well as some knitting needles, crochet hooks and some yarn.
I learned how to knit but I never really liked and I learned how to crochet and found it was a lot faster to make something and I could read the directions easily and so I got hooked (pun intended) on crocheting.
Over the next 20 years years I had made many pillows, blankets, lots of coaster, a sweater during the rodney king riots and even a bed for my kitty. But last year I had to stop because my hands would get numb after only a few minutes of crocheting. I involuntarily gave it up.
Chips and his moms friend Julia had passed away after Halloween in 2007 and her neice was going through her house and found tons of yarn and gave the majority of it to me knowing that I crochet. Well, I was very happy to get it all but I knew that I wouldn't have much use for it anymore due to my numbness. I wasn't exactly sure otherwise I would've rejected it which would have meant it would all go to the trash which would've been a total waste of good yarn so I accepted it. At Christmas 2007 I brought a lot of the yarn that I didn't care about with me and gave it all to Chips neice and another family member as well as all these knitting needles and crochet hooks.
Well, even though I had a good 20 years of crocheting I'm not ready to give it up because I've been dying to crochet hehe. Even though I know I shouldn't do it because I don't want to flare up the carpel tunnel syndrome, I'm doing it little bits at a time. It's not going to hurt if I do little bits at a time.
I just think it's a total waste of a great skill because not a lot of men can or want to crochet. Some men think that if they crochet they aren't men but lots of men crochet like Rosie Grier the football player, my Uncle Ron who is probably the most masculine man I've ever met crocheted in his earlier years, the private detective on the tv show Pushing Daisies knits and crochets and they are always showing yarn on his desk in his office. So it's not a skill that is female specific. But it is a waste of a skill if you can't do it anymore. I would've liked to be able to do it all year because that is usually the source of christmas presents from me.
I learned how to knit but I never really liked and I learned how to crochet and found it was a lot faster to make something and I could read the directions easily and so I got hooked (pun intended) on crocheting.
Over the next 20 years years I had made many pillows, blankets, lots of coaster, a sweater during the rodney king riots and even a bed for my kitty. But last year I had to stop because my hands would get numb after only a few minutes of crocheting. I involuntarily gave it up.
Chips and his moms friend Julia had passed away after Halloween in 2007 and her neice was going through her house and found tons of yarn and gave the majority of it to me knowing that I crochet. Well, I was very happy to get it all but I knew that I wouldn't have much use for it anymore due to my numbness. I wasn't exactly sure otherwise I would've rejected it which would have meant it would all go to the trash which would've been a total waste of good yarn so I accepted it. At Christmas 2007 I brought a lot of the yarn that I didn't care about with me and gave it all to Chips neice and another family member as well as all these knitting needles and crochet hooks.
Well, even though I had a good 20 years of crocheting I'm not ready to give it up because I've been dying to crochet hehe. Even though I know I shouldn't do it because I don't want to flare up the carpel tunnel syndrome, I'm doing it little bits at a time. It's not going to hurt if I do little bits at a time.
I just think it's a total waste of a great skill because not a lot of men can or want to crochet. Some men think that if they crochet they aren't men but lots of men crochet like Rosie Grier the football player, my Uncle Ron who is probably the most masculine man I've ever met crocheted in his earlier years, the private detective on the tv show Pushing Daisies knits and crochets and they are always showing yarn on his desk in his office. So it's not a skill that is female specific. But it is a waste of a skill if you can't do it anymore. I would've liked to be able to do it all year because that is usually the source of christmas presents from me.
Atomic Alarm Clock
A few months ago I sent in a publisher's clearing house thing with a stamp for an atomic alarm clock. I'm kinda sick of having to set my TV to wake me up in the morning and I wanted something that was atomic because it sets itself via sattellite. It's not a radio alarm clock and it takes batteries, not plugged in which makes it even easier if we lose power.
As soon as I get it I put some batteries in and it says that it's 12:00 and it doesn't update right away like you see on the commercials. In fact it is still not set right, it says 5:08pm when it's really 2:06pm. I read in the manual about how it works and it says that it doesn't talk to the sattellite until night time so I pretty much have to wait until tonight for it to update. It also thinks that today is January 31st lol. Frankly I don't know how to set it yet so I am just waiting for it to set itself and hope that it sets the date too.
As soon as I get it I put some batteries in and it says that it's 12:00 and it doesn't update right away like you see on the commercials. In fact it is still not set right, it says 5:08pm when it's really 2:06pm. I read in the manual about how it works and it says that it doesn't talk to the sattellite until night time so I pretty much have to wait until tonight for it to update. It also thinks that today is January 31st lol. Frankly I don't know how to set it yet so I am just waiting for it to set itself and hope that it sets the date too.
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