In the end...they're just a bunch of cards...but with a lot of meaning

My family has to be the luckiest family on the planet. They are the luckiest because once a month they get to be the victims of my wrath. Once a month they get to see me scream, cry, scream some more and act like a complete moron. One day last week was their lucky day.

In the shortest terms possible I had a massive dose of PMS, I freaked out at Emily because she didn't tell me that her aunt, my sister, who buys her every freaking thing in the world, had gone out and bought her Valentines when I was the one that wanted to take her shopping for them. I was really hurt, I said kinda mean things to Emily, I vented about it on another blog, I felt better about it a few hours later and apologized to Emily the next morning. Oh, and she had also bought Valentines for Blake too, but I had already beat her to the punch on those.

In my venting on the other blog someone suggested we donate the extra box of Valentines to a shelter for a child that maybe couldn't afford them otherwise. Someone else suggested handing them out at a nursing home. I fell in love with the idea and so did Adam. I filled them out Thursday night while I watched our Thursday night shows and yesterday I bought four bags of chocolate hearts to give with them. We have about 50 valentines to pass out to the residents. Adam had called a nursing home near us and they gave us a time that would be good to come up.

Most of you probably don't know that my little construction worker of a husband used to be a CNA at a nursing home before he started working in construction. He knows what they are like and how the residents light up when little kids come to visit and how a lot of them don't get a lot of visitors of their own, if any at all. We explained to the kids what it will be like and why we are doing it. We told them we just want them to understand what it means to give instead of receive, receive receive. I'll update you when it's all said and done.

It's not you, it's me...

I bought a new keyboard today while I was out shopping. The old one we had had a pretty rough space bar that you really had to hit hard, sometimes with both thumbs to get to work. Even then when it did work it would make an ugly 'CLICK' sound. I hated it. I hated it because I LOVE to type and that keyboard was not a typist's friend. The new keyboard loves me and I love it. It's quiet. The keys are slightly curved to make typing easier and the keyboard very quietly goes 'click.'

The old keyboard got messed up when something random was spilled on it. The new one has a "spill resistant design", whatever that means.

Holy Toledo! I just realized that when you click on this little calculator button, the calculator comes up on the keyboard. Now THAT is magical.

A Look Back at the Grammys By Amy WaWa...

Today I've decided to give a recap of Sunday night's Grammy awards. I didn't even know the Grammy's were on until I heard Lisa Rinna's voice coming from the living room. Speaking of, I really loved Lisa when she was on DOOL and her lips were smaller than her vag but dang old girl has gotten a bit skanky in her old age. Anyone see her at the SAG awards where we all got a bit more of Lisa Rinna than we needed??? As if the picture didn't look awkward enough in the fact that it looks like she has only one leg, now she needs to show us a bit of her lady bits? Seriously, cover that thing up.





As for the Grammy's they was a'ight. It's been a long time since I've watched any awards shows. Alison Krauss' face creeps me out. It's frozen like Nicole Kidman's from too much plastic surgery and colligen injections. Also, her corset-style dress did nothing for her except emphasize her horrible, horrible posture and it squeezed the upper part of her body out the top in a really weird way. Another thing that was weird about her and her buddy Robert Plant was that every time they were called up to the stage for an award, Bob would do all the talking while Alison stood there "frozen" with a big smile on her face, holding the Grammy. Then, as they walked off the stage she would hand the Grammy over to Bob. When they won Album of the Year Green Day, who presented them with the award, tried to hand the statue over to Alison but she declined it and told them to give it to Bob. Then she actually did say a few words, something to the effect that Robert is a PITA to work with, but she said it much nicer and you kinda had to read between the lines. Quite frankly, after hearing them sing together just before they somehow won album of the year I was even more unimpressed and more suprised they had won the albums they had won so far. Frankly I thought it sucked. There, I said it.



I won't even talk about what M.I.A. wore during her performance:



In case you missed it, there was also a giant polka-dot patch covering her ass. Sadly, this ensemble was almost better than what she showed up in:



As I watched the pre show they showed Jennifer Hudson arriving. There she was standing beside her limo and her "peeps" were fixing her make-up. I remember thinking, "Oh. They've put some kind of paper in front of her dress to protect it from any make-up mishaps. A couple minutes later she stepped over to Ryan Seacrest's booth and that's when I said, "Oooooooo. That was actually part of her dress!"





To me it looks like a giant piece of fly paper flew around in the air and stuck itself to the front of her otherwise beautiful dress.

Coldplay performed and I commented to Adam that it looked like Punky Brewster channelled Sgt. Pepper and designed their costumes and set.





I guess I should mention some highlights of the show, instead of focusing entirely on the negative. With the exception of the Plant/Krauss suck-ass song, I enjoyed all of the performances. Kid Rock did a mix of three of his songs, however the big talk of the night was the fact that Paul McCartney was going to be performing. I was anxious to hear it because Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters was going to be backing him on the drums. After all the hype Sir Paul finally made his way to the stage and simply did "I Saw Her Standing There". That was it. Paul McCartney 1, Kid Rock 3. Somehow it just didn't seem right.

We saw a lot of Justin Timberlake I think mainly because they had to fill time because of the Chris Brown/Rihanna issue and the fact that both were supposed to perform but obviously neither showed. I didn't mind. Gimme J.T. over Brown or Rihanna anyday.

Radiohead did an awesome performance of "15 Step" with the USMC Trojan drum corps. I told Adam I bet it was even better if you were there. I bet a lot of people in the audience got goosebumps, it was that good.

I've read a lot of negative things about Katy Perry's performance and outfit during "I Kissed A Girl." At the start of the performance Katy was lowered onto the stage in a giant banana and she looked a bit like Carmen Miranda, however I didn't REALLY think it was that over-the-top, especially for Katy Perry. I mean...come on...do I need to bring up M.I.A. again???



Performances I could have done without include Neil Diamond singing Sweet Caroline. Actually he doesn't even sing it. He just "talks" it and lets the audience fill in a lot. Also, Stevie Wonder with The Jonas Brothers. I felt bad for Stevie. The poor guy had no idea the trio of teenage losers he was singing with.

What did you think of the Grammys?