This video never fails to crack me up! Her reaction to her hair snafu is just hilarious!
Poor girl...poor hair! I have a feeling that the hair fiasco was the result of combining a product with a high alcohol content (Tresemme "Split Remedy") and the highest heat setting on her curling wand.
This little gem of awkwardness is circa 1985. It's the only professional family picture I've even seen from when I was a baby. (My parents divorced when I was little). My dad told me that Sears offered a free family photo around Christmas time that year, so we all piled into the car and went to have this moment of delightful awkwardness captured for all eternity. I rather like it! (Notice: Mom's awesome glasses, Kimmy's dress with the collar, my "get me out of here" expression, and Dad's attempt at a smile. Love it!)
Warning: Unlike my typical filming, today's vlog involves lots of strong language and cursing! As a matter of fact, my swear jar is now filled to the top! Yup, I'm that fed up. This early in the morning, I am doing good and practicing quite a great deal of self control only choosing to curse instead of using this alarm as target practice!
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The Some Detector from HELL!
Fire Alarm, Fire Detector, Smoke Detector...whatever you like to call it, lets preface this by saying: I am at my wits end!
My realty company has yet to fix this issue, the alarm is on a vaulted ceiling that my 4'11.5" self is nowhere near the capabilities of reaching, and I have thrown everything (phone books included) in an attempt to silence this defective piece of crap into submission. NOTHING has worked! I've even stood on a step ladder and beat it with a Louisville slugger and a grabber thingy. Not only was I unable to make it quit chirping, or knock if off the wall to silence it....it is apparently ATTACHED to the blasted wall and wired quite intricately into a system throughout the entire house. Just peachy! No matter how much you beat it with a baseball bat, it still keeps on truckin! Nothing I've tried is working to silence it. This fire alarm is like the Energizer Bunny....it just keeps going, and going, and going! Well, I've had enough! As far as I'm concerned, this alarm can just chirp its merry way straight to hell this morning!
My swear jar is overflowing. I have Pleurisy. I haven't slept in a week. My dogs are going crazy from the chirping. And this STUPID alarm will not shut up! Ladies and gentlemen, I'm only moments away from quite literally turning this thing into range practice if this alarm won't quit squawking!
This reminds me a bit of the episode of "Friends" when Phoebe has a similar predicament with her smoke detector.
Maybe, at least one of you will enjoy a laugh at my expense and find a bit of humor in this, since I am all out of ideas on what to do! At this point, I've decided that my next step will involve calling the fire department (non emergency) to see if they will come out fix it if this isn't resolved today. My realty company is absolutely on the "naughty" list this year! This incessant, ear-piercing chirping has gone on for nearly a week. Did I mention that I've had an ear surgery on both ears and that high pitched noises absolutely pain me? Yup! I am NOT in a peachy mood this morning. I have turned in a written notice for repair that the realty company has yet to respond to. I've also called every single day to check on the status of getting a repairman out to fix it....nothing, no response! So I've devised a plan that I will implement later today if this is not resolved asap. I've decided that if this isn't repaired today, I will be calling and emailing the realty company EVERY SINGLE TIME this thing chirps. EVERY SINGLE TIME! Then maybe, just maybe that will light a fire under their tails and make them send someone out to fix it.
On a more serious note, not only is this annoying, it's also dangerous and a safety hazard to not have a working fire alarm.
So, that's how my morning's started out so far. I'm thinking a little retail therapy is in order later today to calm my nerves! ;) Hope you are all having a bit of a better morning than the one I'm currently experiencing. Have a great day, my lovelies!
Every time I watch a Jenna Marbles video, I tend to laugh so hard that I cry! I thought her new video this week would make for a great "Funny Friday" addition! I especially find it hilarious that every single topic she mentions, sums me up exactly.Especially when it comes to lip gloss, "goo hoarding", and purses! (I have yet to count all of my lip glosses, but I have a strong feeling that they would outnumber my eye products. That's saying a lot! ;) ) And the purse topic....oh...lets just not even go there!
Sometimes, I feel like life presents me with a bit too much awkwardness on a fairly regular basis.I'm always THAT girl who bumps into things, walks into walls, laughs/smiles when I'm trying to keep something a secret, drops things, and so on. Yes, sometimes grace eludes me! Take last night for instance: after grabbing a late dinner with my best friend, I came home to walk my dogs and then decided to go to the gym for a bit. Why did I want to go that late at night? Well, I think part of the notion for me was just the idea that I COULD if I wanted to. (Yep, I'm one of "those" people!) So, I hoped in my car and off I went to get a little cardio in. Once I got back home, I walked my pups and then got my things out to take a shower. No sooner had I turned on the water and changed out of my clothes, than ALL of the power went out in my house. (Cue creepy slasher music!!!). It took me a few minutes (and a few bruises later) to find my towel and flashlight, but eventually the dogs and I made it to the window to see that all of the power was out throughout our entire neighborhood. Since I do not fancy slasher films or cold showers in the dark, I decided to wait it out a bit until the power came on. Needless to say, I was waiting ALL night because it didn't come back on until this morning. I'd also like to add that while my power was out, my smoke detectors decided to beep every few minutes throughout the night, thus alerting my dogs...who in turn alerted me that they didn't care for the high pitched noises! So needless to say, tonight I'll have some catching up to do in the sleep department. But, I was quite thankful this morning when the power came back on! Sometimes, it's the little things like utilities that we take foregranted! :) Now, if only I could get my cable to reset without having to make an awkward phone call to Xfinity to fix it every single time my power goes out....
I left Rosie alone for a few minutes tonight, and came back to find her in the living room floor...gnawing away at a bottle of Hpnotiq. I may need to check her into Puppy AA....
I thought this post would be appropriate since I'm going to get my hair done later today! The sweet girl I normally go to was booked solid when I called their salon well over a week and a half ago trying to make an appointment. So, I decided to try out another salon my friend recommended, that is actually closer to me! Please say a little prayer that they do a good job! (I just want more highlights and my layers redone...nothing crazy). I'm always a little bit leery about letting new people touch my hair, so I'm hoping this goes well! (My friend's hair always looks amazing, so I trust her recommendation!)
Why did I want that appointment so badly? Well you see, my birthday is on Sunday. Even if I can't do a darn thing about getting older, I can still make sure I look nice! I refuse...REFUSE to turn 27 (ahh I feel ancient) looking anything less than fabulous! I truly believe that women should be classy and beautiful at all stages of their lives! I don't know about you lovelies, but one thing that always makes me feel beautiful and happy is getting my hair done once in a while!
There are several other members of my family that also LOVE getting their hair done too: My Australian Shepherds. Yeah, you read that correctly....my dogs are FREAKS lol! They LOVE bath time, they LOVE hair dryers, they LOVE getting their fur brushed....Love it! (Ranger even enjoys having his nails trimmed and dremmeled smooth! (Mykelti has ticklish feet, so that's the only grooming thing she despises...even the new puppy is better about having her nails done!) Ranger and Mykelti always come running up to me anytime they hear me break out the hairdryer to style my hair....they LOVE the hairdryer! Mykelti is especially enamored with the hair dryer and will pester me incessantly until I blow dry her fur too! (She does the same thing with lip gloss, body spray, makeup, and so on. Anything that I, she wants to be right in the middle of the action too! If I put something on, she hounds me until I let her see it or put a pinch on her. She's such a little ham! I know she's a dog, but if it's possible for a dog to be a "girly girl", Mykelti is one!) Even Rosie is now showing interest in the hair dryer since she's seen how into it the Aussies are lol.
Here are two video clips of my weird dogs and just how enthusiastic they are about hair dryers!
(The song starts off a little loud, but listen closely to the lyrics: Hilarious!)
Ranger equally enjoys the hair dryer! I've linked a video below of him being goofy while I was grooming him before a therapy visit. I'm not sure why my Aussies enjoy the hair dryer so much, but it definitely makes life easier on me when it comes time to groom them for therapy visits and special events! Rosie seems to be following in their footsteps too...hopefully she will be an easy dog to groom as well! :)
Today's blog post is about Groucho Marx...or rather, how the bastard pretty much ruined my childhood with his popular rendition of a particular song! It's been a while since I've had anyone obnoxiously sing the song, "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" to me. Much to my dismay however, it happened again on Sunday while I was out running errands. You lovelies have no clue how close I was to slugging the daylights out of a boisterous old man with my massive purse, when he erupted into that song! As soon as he saw my first name on my card when I went to pay him, his eyes had a disturbing gleam to them and then he just erupted into song! The song that tormented me throughout my entire childhood. The song about a tatted up lady who happened to share the same name as me. I was THISCLOSE to boxing him upside the head with my purse for that impromptu serenade! However, since my purse weighs more than most toddlers, I decided to spare the old guy a concussion and practice a little bit of restraint instead.
I don't get it! Groucho Marx and his infamously creepy mustache passed away in the 1977, and I was born in 1985. Why are people still singing that horrendous song to me?!?!?!?!?! It is not what I would quantify to be a timeless classic by any means!
Screw you Groucho Marx, and your stupid song too! I am not the tattooed lady! (For the record, I don't even have one tattoo!) It was bad enough as a child that people would CONSTANTLY ask me if I had seen "Beetlejuice", and make references to that movie because of the lead female character, Lydia. This obnoxious song always topped that though! We're talking traumatizing, scar me for life, here folks!
If you have a name that's in a well known song, I'm sure you can relate to my frustration when people, even total strangers, constantly sing it to you!
(Remember to pause the music in the right side bar before playing this video)
In a random aside, I think the main reason that I love the movie, "Office Space" so much is because of the Michael Bolton character, and how he constantly gets asked about the musician that shares his name! Needless to say, I feel his frustration!
