Monday, January 11, 2010
Happy New Year (Sorry I'm late!) Fudge ContestHeya folks. I've been incommunicado a lot lately because of health and computer issues, both. I'm guessing most of you have forgotten about me completely.
In personal news, I had throat surgery in September. I haven't done much since then except surf netflix and qvc--which is a wicked swamp for women like me. I get mired down and can't seem to click the channel to get away from it. It's not like I'm even buying from it. I just zombie watch.
Am I the only zombie watcher in the world?
I'm supposed to finish some edits but my leg's been killing me and painkillers and muscle relaxers are doing enough, so my computer time is very very short. My laptap crapped out and we can't find the reload disks, so most of my personal email addies were in that. Feel free to email me and see if it comes through!
Now, do me a favor, tell me how things are with you, and what you're hoping to do in this fine new year. I'll tell you now, my plans to start a diet on the 1st was shot in the foot. To console myself, I tried to make some fudge for someone else but it failed and no one else wants anything to do with it. I know... dump it in the trash fast, girl!
But nope, it tastes good, and I'm kicking my holiday depression by feeding it spoon fudge. I need a good fudge recipe. I can do the one with the chocolate chips but I wanna do it the old fashioned way. What IS the trick? I'll give a ten dollar gift certificate to anyone who can give me a fudge recipe without chocolate chips that works for ME. And I will try them all, even if I get a bunch. After all, if I'm not dieting, why let a friend suffer on nothing but salad?
Labels: contest, diet weight loss, fudge, recipes
1 Comments:
HI
I stopped checking you web site..I was worried about you, I still pray for you..I was on facebook and click a wrong button and it brought up your site. So I think I was a sign.. sorry about your health issues. I have some of my own. I have diebetes now. I just knew it as coming with my wieght problems and family history.. I went to the Dr todAY FOR a 3 month checkup and things are better.
Rob and Becca got married here at our house in Oct. I know it is hard to believe.. Family is doing very good. Only hope it stays that way..
I use my Mother in laws fudge but it is made with choc chip but it is great......Take care and glad you are back
Friday, January 02, 2009
Shorter posts (from me) resolution and CONTEST WINNERS!Happy New Year. I've already messed up on the resolution to post on my blog every day. Sigh.
Another, more important resolution is to make shorter posts. I went over the posts I made this last month and went "HOLY COW! I gotta do the blog diet thing." You know, post more, but less at a time.
I've been watching E's countdown on the 100 greatest celebrity slim downs, so I've got diet on my mind. I don't really understand how they decide which one ranks higher. Makes no sense to me.
Of course, I've resolved yet again to get thinner and in better shape...and messed that up too. Ate some Reese's peanut butter cups. However, I learned from a few of the slim downs that many people switch to peanut butter as a high protein snack, so maybe I'm not really messing up. What do you think?
I saw this site and thought you might like the tips, and especially the "how many calories should you eat for your height and weight calculator."
http://www.nowloss.com/best-way-to-lose-weight-fast.htm
Hope it helps ya!
CONTEST WINNERS:
I was surprised, actually, that Brenda and Sue A. didn't win another drawing. Good news to Debby (posted Dec. 9) and Cynthya (posted Dec. 18th) for winning in my New Year's contest/drawings for gift certificates. Please select an online vendor like one of my publishers, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Ebay, etc...a place that's easy for me to purchase and send it to you via e-certificate, therefore easy for you to use online, as well. Congratulations! Email me at jennifer248@centurytel.net. Put CONTEST WINNER in the subject line. Thanks!
Brenda and Sue, I'll be sending the GC's via email soon. I forgot to mention ebay/paypal which is a cash deposit. If you prefer that over Amazon, please verify with me. I'm hoping to take care of all these between now and the next time I post on this blog.
Labels: amazon, barnes and noble, contest, diet weight loss, ebay, gift certificates, winners
1 Comments:
I finally got my Romantic Times and guess what your Deadknots book was rated in the new one..You got a 4 star and said that you and CJ Winters were very talented... I knew that.
I thought I would let you know.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Happy New Year's Eve! Contest!It's nearly 1 p.m. here in the Ozarks. I have no idea what I'm gonna do for the ticking down of the year tonight. I'm afraid I'm remarkably predictable on the "falling asleep early" thing.
My husband and I talked at his break and he asked me what I had planned for tonight. I let out one of those gasping laughs. I mean, really...I'd like to have something whiz-bang up my sleeve, but invariably, it will be the one night I fall asleep early without a sleeping pill. I have no control over that...unless I'm out listening to a live band or something.
But the night life in our area, uh, kinda sucks. We live next to Branson. It's a town famed for its g-rated entertainment. Wayne whatshisface (Newton) came from Vegas, started a show, and they sent him packing. Told him to cover his show girls or take it back to the strip...which he did pretty quickly.
So, what's offered here? We got us a Baldknobbers show. It's out by 10. There's a band called Big Smith, not too bad, if you like jazz and horns. (I do. I like everything but mariachi and screaming guitars.)
I really want the warped tour to do a show here on New Years. I could stay up for that.
What sort of music do you like best? (Remember, responding by posting just about anything on this blog gets you entered into the next drawing or two.)
For years, I would fall asleep listening to Dick Clark's countdown at Time Square, and wake up to my husband's sweet lips kissing me, like Prince Charming leaning over Sleeping Beauty. It was very romantic, and dreamy (from my viewpoint, anyway.)
I remember when I was a little girl, my mom went to bed early and my dad stayed up with us older kids. He taught us the silliest thing ever, I think. He convinced us that it was an old American tradition to take a spoon and beat a metal pan out the door, so others in your neighborhood knew you were ringing in the new year.
Year after year, my older brother and I carried on this stupid tradition. One year, right before midnight, we were ready and set with pans and spoons in hand and I said, "You ever think about the fact that Dad was raised on a farm and never had neighbors close enough to hear him beating on pans?"
He chuckled and said, "Yeah. And notice no one EVER beats on pans besides us?"
We felt pretty ridiculous, knowing we'd been had. Not once or twice, but several years in a row. It was just about that time that Dick Clark (always Dick Clark!) did the countdown and, while we were standing there staring at each other over the whole thing, lo and behold, some other poor sucker beat a pot with a spoon as hard as they could, yelling "Happy New Year!" as we had done for the last few years.
With glee and giggling, we started hitting our pans with gusto, yelling louder than ever before.
Dad, who was getting too old to stay up, I guess, was sent to hush us up. By mom, obviously.
He came out of the bedroom and said, "I thought you kids would have figured out my joke by now."
But the funniest thing was his expression when we stopped beating the pans and he could hear our neighbor really "ringing it up."
We all laughed.
The next school day, I mentioned to my brother that I'd told people all over school that it was a HOOSIER tradition and that we were probably the only ones still doing it. Just us and one other person in our whole neighborhood had true hoosier spirit. (I was born and raised in Indiana.)
The next year, I swear, there were a lot more than two or three of us ringing in the new year poor boy style.
Now, I have carried the tradition on with my kids but they came to a point where they, too, realized I was putting them on. And that it was a bad joke straight from their silly grandpa. He's a total "Inspector Clusoe type of humor" guy.
His idea of a joke is..."You hear about the serial killer? They caught him." (pause) "He was easy to recognize. Had a Cheerios box on his head and a spoon in his hand."
Yeah. That's what I grew up with.
So, when my daughter Cheyenne told me the joke, "What's brown and sticky?"
The answer being "A stick. DUH."
I laughed and laughed.
I was warped by my dad. What can I say?
Anyhow, I think I'm thinking about him because his birthday's coming up, January 2nd. And he actually called me for Christmas to tell me he loved me. And before he hung up, he mentioned that he figured he had to get going so he could call the rest of the kids. Which means he called me first.
It's silly to let that cheer me up, and make me smiley, but hey...we get what we can out of whatever is offered. Right?
Okay, so back to the other story. My dad taught me the pan beating thing. Some things you're taught never seem to slip out of your memory. I'll probably be senile and alzheimered out one day, but remember I should be beating on a pan with a spoon in the middle of the night...for some reason that will elude me completely.
Anyhow, as you know, I have four girls. They set me straight one year when I tried to get them to sit like roosting hens in a neat little row, ready by the door with their pots and spoons.
"Uh uh," the oldest (smart aleckiest one) said. "The real tradition is kissing someone when it turns midnight. Dad does it all the time. This pot and spoon business is just your way to keep us from going out on New Year's or watching the action...which we think is almost creepy when you two do it, by the way."
I had my defense.
"It's a scary night to be out. Crazy drunks are everywhere. You're lucky this is all we do."
I still believe it's better to beat a pot and pan and look silly out your back door than be out in the melee.
I once spent New Year's Eve on Fremont Street in Las Vegas before they put the Fremont Experience overhead light deal up. I remember standing under the canopy of the Gold Nugget with the rest of the crowd surging forward to watch fireworks overhead.
Some dumb nut brainless wonder threw his damned beer bottle over us. Just slung the thing. It flew in slow motion, spewing shook up beer in a shower, and I swear...it came down with a clunk and a bunch of us squealing versions of "Look out!"
A woman was hit in the head. Next, blood spewed everywhere. Nothing bleeds like a head wound, except a main artery.
We decided to get out of the crowd and head to our car. My husband always chooses to beat the crowd to the cars or sit them out and be the last one to leave the parking lot. On this night, he was hiking fast. Traffic had been blocked off for several city blocks and we went hot footing it to the car--in time to see a couple guys taking swings at each other. Drunken, loud mouth taunting stuff...it was silly foolish. Swaggering like John Waynes, throwing out "I'm gonna kill yous," before it was a felony anger management charge.
Cops were circling but not interfering, since they had those scary beer bottles in hand. New Year's in Vegas used to allow booze carrying down the street WITHOUT a bag. I dunno what you can get away with there now. Anybody know?
Now, I'm not saying people shouldn't enjoy a New Year's night out, or have a bit of bubbly (or another favorite beverage) to help the evening seem a little rosier. BUT, I say watch out for yourself. Be responsible. Get a designated driver, if you're under the influence and need to get from one point to another. Call a taxi. Call a church. Pull out your cell and dial a non drinker. A lot of places do the "free ride home" thing for the inebriated on holidays like this.
Just don't put your own life, or someone else's in danger. I don't have enough fans, friends, family, or flyby readers to lose one of you for something like dui.
Did I mention that 90% of all fatalities in Missouri come from people crossing the center line? THIS is not the night for people in Missouri to press their luck.
And no. I haven't taken up preaching, what with the political rants of this last week and this DUI discussion, I'm sure you're wondering. I'll get over all of it when the holidays pass. Seriously, I only handle a couple of options during the holidays--get depressed and think about alternatives to living, or bother the people I care about over issues they don't really want to hear me talk on. Sorry. It's this or talking about depression, shelters for abused women, separation, divorce, and the damned four letter word we all hate-- DIET.
I'm more interested in you being around to enjoy the gift certificate I'm going to pull this evening, or the one I'm going to draw tomorrow.
Just chip in a HI, or a "Hey, what's up?" Or a real comment to something I've rambled about here. Anything will get you into the drawing. Feel free to email me with your choice of where you'd like your gift certificate to be from. Must be something that is online and easy for me to send you an e-gift certificate, so you can order from the convenience of your home. I'm not making anybody go out for this win!
And one last question, if you had to pick the perfect song besides Auld Lang Syne to ring the New Year in with, what would it be? And if you were gonna be kissing somebody, who would it be?
I'm going traditional. I'd pick my husband, Tony, and play our song (which he picked after years of me saying, "Can't you think of one song that is perfect for us?)...which is Alison Krauss's When You Say Nothing At All.
Labels: allison Krauss, auld lang syne, celebrating, certificate, contest, dui, gift, New Year's Eve, when you say nothing at all, win
4 Comments:
I love the oldies from the 50's,60's and 70's. But I found a new group, I guess they aren't new. IL Divo, they are 4 men from 4 different countries. They are opera singes. Here is a link to a utube video. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YtrnB4FZ-yc&feature=related. They are singing Amazing Grace.And it is amazing. Makes you want to cry..
I like Michael Bolton, Barry Manilow, Kenny G and Air Supply.
I know Kay loves the Eagles.
I can't think of any song for New Year's Eve.
An old neighbor used to bang pans at New Year's Eve and we hated it.. We were asleep. So you and your family are in the same league with her. We didn't like her so much. She was a very nosy lady..UPS delivered one of our packages to her by mistake..She opened it, It was some french condoms and other sex toys from Adam and Eve's.. I hope she got her eyes full. She also would go out and start scooping snow as soon as it starting falling.. We had gotten several inches and David went out to clean the driveway. She came out and said it is about time. DAvid put down the shovel and never cleaned the driveway again.
Have a good night and I will be kissing my husband. He is the very BEST.
Carys, it's great that you have traditions for the New year no matter how crazy your daughters think they are now. Because at least your girls will remember them and have stories to tell later in life. Our family had no traditions and I have no memory of New Years as a child.
Good luck keeping the girls in on New Year's Eve, it sounds like you're in for a fight with each passing year. Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year's Eve celebration!
P.S. I'll sent you an e-mail so you know where to send the GC to me. Thanks again!
I love the Eagles. Always have.
I won an Il Divo cd in a basket at RT a couple of years ago. I had never heard of them until then.
As for your neighbor, I had to laugh. I'm assuming she brought your sex toys over after she got done making mental notes?
Dare I ask...was your New Year's Eve kiss...great?
I always say, "Survived another year. Hope the next one will be better." Always doing the neverending resolutions, you know.
And, Sue...it IS good to have traditions and memories that make you laugh, or roll your eyes and wince, maybe. Since I was raised with two sisters and two brothers, I had way too many of the latter. Do you have brothers and sisters?
Brenda? Kay? Vickie? Regina? Do you have sisters or brothers?
Did the rest of you get great NYE kisses?
By 
CarysWeldonblog, at
8:24 AM
The Kiss was great, they always are. It's hard to believe it will be 39 years this May. It seems like yesterday.
I have 2 1/2 brothers and one sister.. Yes, I know 1/2 brother, my mother was married before my Dad married her.. And the 1/2 brother and his three sons could be on the Jerry Springer Show..
Yes, my neighbor returned the package and everything was there.. We got her back..When we sold our house to move to where we are now, we used a different real estate person than her husband.. He had his sign in front of his house and we had a different real estate sign.. He removed it soon after we had our sign put up. He was a very nice man. I know we are terrible.. But I am a change person now. HAHA!!!!!
We are still babysitting the grandkids. David is ready to past the torch.The kids will be back in school next week.. Hurray!!! I love them but 12 hours a day for 3 full days.Need a break. I am trying to work on computers also.
Well back to work.
The title of your new books sounds great, "smooch".
Oh, I found your book, plan on reading it this weekend. It wasn't in the trailer but in my bookcase of to be read books in the basement. Thanks to Kay and Rt I have a to be read bookcase full of books. Never had that problem before Kay came into my life.. She is such a good friend. I thank God for the good friends I have in my life now.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Post on this blog and WIN a gift certificate! Contest winners announcedI pulled a name on Christmas Eve, as I promised. Sue A. won that. I pulled a second name on Christmas Day, and Brenda won that. So, girls, tell me where you'd like your gift certificate. Amazon, Barnes and Noble, at one of my publisher houses? Any place I can purchase online, so you can be sent an e-gift certificate. That makes the giving and using easier for all of us.
I probably won't send them until after I pull the New Year's Eve and New Year's Day names, too.
So, anyone who wants to be in THOSE drawings, please make a comment on this blog between now and the end of New Year's Day. I will be doing another drawing on February 14th (Valentine's Day!!!)
I see from the lack of responses that politics don't really stir the readers into commenting a lot. Thanks to those who did, though.
NEW QUESTION:
What's your favorite tv show and why?
I really enjoy NCIS. I've always been a Mark Harmon fan.
I also love Chuck.
I hate it when the seasons end.
One thing that never seems to end are the wedding shows. Bridezilla enthralls me for some ugly reason. I just can't imagine people putting up with so much crap. I mean, some of them, I can see why the brides are hard to deal with. But most of the time, I think...how on earth can a woman get away with treating people like they are all peons?
I think we should show respect to all individuals, even if we think they are doing some job we would never personally want to do.
Every time I go to a gas station at 5 a.m., I walk out and send up a prayer of thanks for the person who works behind the counter when most of us don't even want to be out of bed. There are so many people who do jobs that are hard, or that some would consider demeaning, that just need to be appreciated more.
Think about the janitor at a hospital or school. Any janitor. I hate to clean the toilet and bathroom at my own house, let alone after a never ending stream of people. I am continually horrified by the things people do in public bathrooms.
Nothing ticks me off more than walking into a stall and finding out that somebody peed on the toilet seat and didn't have the decency to wipe it off. I mean, geez, you don't want to sit on it, obviously---but making it even worse for the next person? I send up curses on the women who do that. How hard is it to glance at the seat and wipe off something you've put on it?
Or FLUSH?
Or, for men, to put the seat down? Fall in a toilet with the seat up ONCE in the middle of the night and you'll get anal about it.
The word anal brings me to a billboard (hoax picture probably) that I recently saw. It was an ad for KY jelly that said "We can't think of another use for it either." I saw it days ago and I'm still grinning when I think about it.
SECOND QUESTION:
What uses can you think of for KY jelly? ANYTHING besides sexual lubrication?
Labels: anal, certificate, contest, favorite, gift, jelly, ky, lubrication, sex, show, tv, win
6 Comments:
I hope that your Christmas was Merry..It was a very nice Christmas here.
MY favorite Tv shows are Clean House and CSI. It is hard to decide which one is my favorite.
Clean house is a program where the show goes to a really terrible messy house..You would not believe these houses and you wonder how these people could live like this.. But My mother is one of those people. She keeps buying stuff and never throwing anything away.She stills has my baby clothes and my brothers and sister's, I am 57..Anyway these people have to give up things and they have a huge garage sale and they are given $1000 also.It is amazing to watch what most people don't want to give up.Dumb stuff. But they must.. The show comes in cleans and buys some new furniture, paints.It is wonderful to see the results and the faces on the people. Most are crying they are so happy. They had one show the messiest house of the year. That was really bad not only cluttered but dirty also. They went back to this house in a yeat and they were already starting to mess it up again..
CSI the orginal one is the best. DAvid and I love to try and figure out who is the killer. I will miss Gil, the main man is leaving soon.
About KY Jelly, I can't think of any other uses.
About the poor people who do jobs I wouldn't like to do. I do respect them and the jobs they do. I agree about the cleaning toilets, I hate doing that except when we were cleaning them this summer in the campground.It was fun then..Go figure.....
I would like an amazon gift certificate. I don't post to win only to be able to talk to you thru the blog. We love you so much. And you have really changed my life for the better. I don't think you realize how much you have done for me as well as my family. Because if I have a better outlook and feel better about my life and self then they feel that also.. So Thanks again for your help.
I could talk about politics forever, but WTF! LOL It's the holidays, forgive and forget for a while. Like you I love, love, love Mark Harmon and have since Summer School and his ratty old dog, LOL! And my husband who hates anything with commercials says the only things I watch are cop shows where they are killing someone, finding out who killed someone or something like that! ; ))Anything with CSI in it as well as the new show Life. And I do miss Saving Grace, she was bad to the bone and didn't care and Supernatural, those guys are Hawt!!! Good thing I have DVR and I still don't have time to watch them all unless I stay up half the night, cuts into my reading time, LMAO
By 
, at
10:56 AM
Carys thank you so much! And congratulations to Brenda too (well deserved)!
I"m not sure if you wanted me to post my pick here or not, but here goes.
I choose: AMAZON.COM
Carys,
Wishing you and yours a healthy, prosperous and Happy New Year!
I have a lot of old favorite TV shows like LOST, CSI, HOUSE, NCIS ...
But I also have a new favorite in FRINGE!
I googled the KY jelly and found this.
Source:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/781139/7_alternate_uses_for_ky_jelly_you_probably.html?cat=7
1. Make Fake Glowing, Green Blood
1987 sci-fi movie titled "Predator", the Predator "bleed" glowing, green blood - the liquid from a Glow Stick was mixed together with K-Y Jelly
2. Remove Tight or Stuck-On Rings
Use to remove tight or stuck-on rings from your fingers.
3. Lubricate Sticky Zippers
Dab onto sticky zipper on an article of clothing, on a sleeping bag, or even on your purse?.
4. Loosen Sticky Price Tags and Product Labels
Cover the tag or label with a light layer of the lubricant and let it set for a few minutes. Then, peel it right off!
5. Untangle Knotted Jewelry Chains
Dab on to loosens up knot and you can pull the knot apart.
6. Lubricate a Fishing Rod Reel
Applying a light oil like K-Y Jelly to the working inner parts. K-Y Jelly won't damage plastic or nylon gears, and other parts too.
7. Shine Your Patent Leather
If you need a shine in a hurry, K-Y Jelly can come to your rescue. A dab of K-Y Jelly and a soft cloth can clean and shine your shoes, bags and belts, et cetera, in no time at all!
Okay I won't ever be using tip 1, but tip 3 & 4 would come in handy for me.
Hi,
I just want to wish everyone a Happy New Year. We will be babysitting tonight.
We both went to the Dr yesterday for a check up.. The Dr is changing my choesteral sp medicine.. She also wants me to exercise. Right. Really I am going to try to ride my bike in the new year. I lost 3.6 pounds, for the past 2 weeks. So I have lost 9.4. in 3 weeks. I know that from now on they will be smaller losses. I do feel better, I hope that I remember this feeling.I might have lost more if Becki hadn't brought sugar cookies and David's mom hadn't brought homemade candy. I love sugar cookies and Pepsi's. And I haven't had a Pepsi in 3 weeks.
Enjoy the night, I will be asleep before midnight.......
For those who won in the Christmas Eve and Christmas day drawings, email me with the email address I can send the gift certificate to, so I am sure to have your most current address. You can email to JENNtheRICHwriter@centurytel.net. I'm not sure if the Carys@carysweldon.com is clogged up again or not.
Special thanks to Sue for posting those alternative uses for KY. LOL They all make sense, but I never would've thought of 'em. Thanks.
And, Regina and Brenda, I like all the shows you've mentioned. I learn some good cleaning tips on the clean house shows, and I'm constantly amazed at the houses people let them show on tv. Even if they're giving you a free cleaning job, and gifts, I dunno if I could air my dirty house on television.
It's sort of like the Jerry Springer thing. Even if I did have cousins that frog gigged, and cross dressed, and dated transexuals, and slept with other relatives (which I don't think any applies in my family thank God), I don't think I'd tell it on tv.
Kinda funny since I pretty much tell all here. I guess it's another thing to get your face on television.
Oh, yeah, Brenda...I know that you post because you enjoy the blog and interacting. I LOVE that, and you and everyone that participates and lets me know I'm not talking to the wall. So, no worries. The drawings aren't rigged. They are honest name pulls from those in the hat. I'm gonna wait to send the certificates because who knows, you girls may win in the next two drawings. After New Year's Day drawing, I will dump the deal and start fresh for the Valentine's drawing.
Honestly, I type fast. I don't realize how LONG my posts are until after I post and go to view the blog. SORRY I'm so wordy folks.
Going to work on my sf novel now. *Smooch*
By CarysWeldonblog, at
11:58 AM
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Contest reminder! Air Heads and other Retro MoviesOdds are very good that Brenda is going to win something in my ongoing contest. Let me remind everyone else...every single post to this blog will get your name in the pot for four drawings. All of them are for gift certificates and you can choose where yours is from: Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble...any place I can do an online e-gift so you can get it right away. So, my comments and posts are meant to stir up some sort of comment, even if you disagree. Please state your opinions! And explain why you have them.
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In other news, my oldest daughter has come to visit me! Lalalalala! I love having her home.
She's introduced me to Netflix. I'm not an adventurous sort with all the new "order something here" programs. I didn't know that you can get into your Netflix account through xbox 360 online, and watch movies on your tv in an instant that way. How convenient! Especially right now when we have snow and I'm too lazy to go outside, up town, 9 miles to the closest movie rental store.
We are watching AIR HEADS this morning. An older (1994) flick staring Brenden Frazier, Adam Sandler, and Steve Buscemi. Too funny.
I forgot the line where Adam Sandler says something about a guy being tased until he went bald. That always makes me laugh out loud.
Hanging with Casi is a fun mix of blasting into the past and learning what's new and cool now and recognizing I need to catch up!
Anyhow, the movie's on, gotta go watch it. What retro movie do you keep revisiting? Any faves? I gotta admit, Raising Arizona is one of my all time favorites. I loved Nicolas Cage before he was "famous".
Labels: Adam Sandler, Air Heads, Brenden Frazier, contest, Nicolas Cage, Steve Buscemi
2 Comments:
MY favorite movie from the past is Dirty Dancing, I saw it 3 times in the movie threatre.. Once they had 24 hours of the movie on TV and I watch it 3 full times..
Yes, I think your daughter and my daughter would hit it off and she buys all of the Dvd's of Strawberry Shortcake. They are of course for her 3 daughters.. Right... Rob was a big He-man person, he had all of the figures including She-ra. When I call David a wimp he replies no I am He-Man. I also took Rob to see the Movie,, it was Bad..I think I might see if I can get the movie from Netflix. I love Netflix, you will learn to time sending your movies back so you can get the new releases on Tuesday.
I lost 5.8 pounds this week at WW. And I even rode on the bike 3 times for 15 minutes sach time..That was the most exerise for me in years.
Later.
Brenda
I'm enjoying all the old Christmas movies, especially the black and white ones. I can't imagine wanting to watch any movie every year except for these holiday movies. I think it isn't really about the movie but about marking the passage of time and bring up memories of times from the past when our family gathered together to watch them.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Eating Penis, Christmas Contest, and Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!I had a whole post written here and, believe it or not, my dog did not eat it. She erased it, though!
A week ago, I got a 2 1/2 lb yorkie. We call her Pixie. She is tiny. Her paw barely covers my escape key. Her weight is just enough to trigger it, I guess. (No. Not kidding.)
So, I'll try this again.
I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving week/weekend/holiday. What were you thankful for? I was grateful that two of my kids were with me, and sad that the other three chose to be elsewhere. But c'est la vie. That's life once kids grow up. Right?
I did a Rachel Ray take, and got some boneless skin-on turkey breasts from my butcher. They cooked in an hour. We had no carcass to pick apart afterwards. So, that was good.
I also tried the Stove Top cranberry turkey stuffing. I also made the regular, which is always good. However, if you ate that AFTER the stuff with cranberry in it, it seemed blah. Who knew a few cranberries could perk up the palate so well?
I'm sure you're more interested in the EATING PENIS topic than a holiday dinner prep.
I have been searching ebay for Christmas gifts that are affordable. When you have five kids, you always need to seek bargains, and I'm not really up to a lot of on-foot walking.
Anyhow, I came across some chinese herbals. Always interested in that sort of thing, and lookin in particular for weight loss help, I read the fine print, and try to discern what ingredients are really supposed to do. I always cross research and double check.
For example, I think I already mentioned that the diabetic (and weight loss help!) drug Metformin is derived from Goat's Rue. And that can be gotten in pure form.
So, I'm reading CODPAWN's items for sale. CODPAWN is a seller on ebay. He has a wide variety of chinese herbal products from an acupuncture store going out of business.
I emailed to ask what each of his items were for. The reply? Mostly weight loss.
I, of course, know the one called alopecia is for hair loss.
The most intriguing of all, I suppose, is a listing that includes BULL OF PENIS. To see it for yourself, just go to ebay and type in: 13 BOTTLES BA ZHEN WAN CHINESE HERABL DIETARY PILLS Item number: 390013489054
This item drove me to my ever faithful search engine. I typed in Bull of penis chinese medicine is good for...
It took me to this site: http://www.rawmeat.com/link.php?id=7996
Where, apparently, the penis emporium (a restaurant in China) is reviewed. Go ahead, check it out. Be wary. Picture of penis/penises/peni? are displayed. The entire topic is penis. So, if that offends you, don't go. And why are you reading this now?
LOL
To my utter surprise, Penis of russian dog is on the menu. So is Tiger penis. And we all know that is illegal. Tigers are endangered everywhere, aren't they?
The reviewer mentions that to the server, who, at the emporium of penises, is referred to as a nutritionist because they are well able to explain the purpose of eating EACH type of penis.
The server, er, nutrionist waiting on the reviewer smiles weakly (I suppose) as she mentions that they, of course, do not hunt the animals and that most of their penis served is from old and already dying livestock.
Yeah, that's a comfort, huh?
I hear women (and a few gay guys) everywhere yelling "Goddammit! We want our penises young and strong and virile and potent!"
After all, what's the point of eating penis if it isn't healthy?
Which is a commentary that all MEN should want to comment on. I say, go ahead. (I know this could degrade quickly. So, should I apologize before it does? Nah?)
Women, I dare you to put this to the men in your life. Take them to the website I've listed. Read aloud the story. Then read this column and ask them to defend the need to eat penis, even if it isn't young and virile and still potent. I'm sure every man out there will have an answer.
Like...semen is all protein, and good for your hair, nails, and skin...whether you rub it on or swallow it. (How many times have I heard that?)
But where is the scientific study on that? Anybody got a website to point us to? One that is NOT a porn site?
I'm all for talking about sex and willing to point you to other websites that do, but not really into aiming you at out and out porn sites.
Anyhow, I obviously need to get to writing while THIS IRON is hot.
I've wasted a lot of time today. I watched the movie version of The Ideal Husband, which is based on an Oscar Wilde play. I've seen it before, but like the ins and outs of his work. Always a good turnabout.
I have a raging headache. Perhaps brought on buy thinking too hard about eating penis so early in the morning.
No. Wait. That probably isn't the cause. ;)
In any case, I shall try to revive this blog with more drivel of the same ilk. I hope you'll tune in, and comment. As this is the beginning of the month we celebrate Christmas, and some celebrate Hannukah and whatever else goes on this time of year, I now open my Christmas Contest. Every comment here, or even via private email to me, will get your name put in the hat. I'll draw one on Christmas Eve, another on Christmas, another on New Year's Eve, and yet another on New Year's Day. FOUR gift certificates will be given out.
Now, say something!
(And have a great day. I swear, share the penis commentary with your romantic interest and you WILL start something that will make the world blush...you know, if you were to talk about it.)
Labels: contest, eating penis, ebay, penis, sex
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Hi Carys,
Funny you should bring up penises. I saw a special on the Food Network where they served this. I believe it was also in China. It was a smorgaasbord at $500 a plate!
Anyhoo, here in Florida we have Boiled Peanuts. When my mother was telling her sister about these, it sounded like she was saying "oiled penis"! We all cracked right up over this.
That's one restaurant I wouldn't want to go to!
Eating penis,, I couldn’t believe it.. I have heard it all now…I couldn’t do it. I have eaten bull fries.. And they were good.. After you take the first bite and get past the thought of eating bull balls its not so bad.. So I guess eating a penis isn’t much difference???
I have been battling a sore throat, fever, messed up nose and just a I don’t feel good feeling.. I still don’t feel real good yet..
I was ok on Thankgiving and started feeling a little bad on Friday.. Thanksgiving went ok..We had lots of fun with the kids.. The food was food was good. I made it all but dessert. David’s brother Steve didn’t come until late afternoon and we entertained his two families. His daughter came late and when she left she wanted to take some home with her.. What can you say, but I didn’t get unset until later.. When everyone was leaving Steve said when are we having Christmas??? We need to know.. David and I looked at each other and said we don’t know. Rob doesn’t have the kids and Becki is spending the day with her family only this year. Steve said I think we shouldn’t have to adjust our plans for every one… What is the hell is he talking about.. It is our family, house and food , we will do what is best for our family not his…I feel sorry for him but he has been thru 5 wives and sorry his is alone but still he shouldn’t make plans for our house and meal.. I am not mad just a little put out.. I think we are going to have a small meal with Rob, David, me and his mother on Christmas We don’t want to have David’s Mother alone on Christmas. David is going to tell Steve is invited but not his whole family. We would like a nice quiet meal without kids. We will have our Christmas on Friday with our two kids and son in law and 5 grandchildren on the day after Christmas. If he wants to have a family get together with his family he can do it on his own..
I hope you get to go to Rt in Orlando… Remember you can always room with Kay and I. We would love to see you. The convention is in Columbus, Oh in 2010.. Kay said she could drive it from here in Illinois.. I don’t drive much, no one wants me to drive either. I only side wiped the house, backed into a dumpster in the driveway, hit a couple of cars and a light post. So what is the problem, I ask. HAHA!
I will have to tell you about a new game we played with the grandkids on Friday ( no parents)
Throwing empty pepsi cans at each other...
Later, Brenda
That man my children call daddy, that's his Indian name, says that semen is a natural antibiotic. So every time I'm sick he shoves that dried up old penis in my face.
That's not fair. It may be getting older but it's still just as pretty as it ever was, and it's like an all day sucker, it last as long as you're willing to lick it.
But that's another story.
I just read an article about pine nuts being a great appetite suppressor. Now I've got pine trees in my front yard and they produce pine cones. But how and when do I harvest the nuts? Exactly what do pine nuts look like?
Coz you know what the nuts I see dangling in front of my face, every time I have a cold, look like. So it's hard for me to distinguish one nut from another these days. (cough, cough)
Any who. Love the old penis jokes and glad to hear you had a good Thanksgiving even if the whole brood wasn't around. I had to work. But Ian lazed around on the couch all day and Myriah came down from
Grove to spend the holiday with her future in-laws, which means she spent most of the time at my house.
Did I tell you I'm gonna be a Grannie? I am. Don't know if I'm ready.
Miss ya, love ya, can't wait to hug ya. Are you coming to OWFI this year? Are you coming anywhere around us between now and then?
Say hi to the Tonys and the girls.
vck
By , at
8:52 PM
Why do Men want sex when we are sick and down???? My husband, David always said you need some of Dr. David's "root injection" to make you feel better..Right!! I never felt better but he did..
I don't beleive I will be taking
any of those chinese herbs or eating penis. I don't even eat mountain oysters. Just can't get
past the thought if you know what
I mean. LOL.
By , at
1:53 PM
You know they say you learn something new every day. I had no idea! lol From "old and already dying livestock", yuk! I think that's something I can live without ever trying.
Boiled peanuts and when to eat pine nuts. Too funny, girls!
I actually know about pine nuts because we ate them out in Nevada. We'd go up in winter and pick them. Now, in Missouri, we can buy them at the health food store, but they don't taste as good as the ones you gather yourself. (I dunno why that is.)
Here's a good site for anyone that wants to find, eat, or buy pine nuts: http://www.thenutfactory.com/kitchen/facts/facts-pine-nut.html
By CarysWeldonblog, at
9:30 AM
I never wanted to eat penis. What woman says she did?
I had a girlfriend in high school whose father ran a sheep ranch and she talked about Rocky Mountain Oysters (sheep balls deep fried), I'm guessing those are like those bull fries Brenda's brought up.
I just gotta say...I think women would have died of starvation before she ate these things. She might have served them up to her family, but...I think a man was curious first and said, "Yeah, that'll probably give me more man power. I'll eat that bull's balls." Or whatever. That IS the traditional thinking over in China.
Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe some women are just jonesing to try all that.
(giggle) Maybe they all look up from their knees at their beloved "Dr. Husbands" waiting for their root injections, or whatever it's called, and happily except the thing as a gift.
I, personally, think of a woman's efforts from her knees is a gift to the man she "bows before."
I think the problem we have, mostly, is that men don't necessarily appreciate it as such. But what do I know?
And, really, who can keep a man happy?
By CarysWeldonblog, at
9:38 AM
Monday, April 23, 2007
Blog blog blogAs I've mentioned, I'm setting up blog accounts, trying to get a system of organization, and trying to figure out what I wanna do with each blog I have. You know, aim some in specific directions so they aren't all as scattered in chatter as I've done here.
Forgive me for repeating myself--as I try to set myself straight. My wordpress blog is for author interviews and is currently called Writer's Help. I'll be posting articles and notes about how to write, and links that will help writers.
My Xanga blog is gonna be an ongoing "this is what I've published and what I have coming up" under my real name.
My livejournal blog is a Carys Weldon deal so it will have graphic language, etc. but I intend to keep that to sexual convo and my odd little thoughts about sex. LOL As you know, those come frequently.
And now I have suddenly realized that I have blogs at myspace. DUH. I am SO myspace challenged and I'm not sure why. I think it's because my third daughter set them up and I can't ever remember my passwords.
Any thoughts on what I should do on THOSE blogs? Give me some fun ideas, if you would. I don't wanna be boring. Life is boring enough.
Who reads a boring blog regularly?
There's a lady in one of my writer's groups that has the most, uh, SLOW blog in the world. She writes children's books and, I swear, oh well, never mind. You get the point. She will not be on my round of blog posting contests, I don't think, because I simply cannot point you there. I don't even wanna go there. Ya know?
I love the Write Snark blog. It is always interesting. Visually stimulating.
Man, I want to be stimulating to my readers. ;)
If only I could figure out how to post graphics. Everything graphic that goes on here comes through my web girl at J&J Designs. They handle my other websites--not the blogs, but the prettier websites.
Ah. And my .org and .net sites have just gone down so I gotta figure out how to get those back up. I MAY have to break down and go take a webpage making class or something. SIGH.
You know, I could read history all day. And I like classroom situations usually. But I just don't really wanna be a webdesigner. I'd rather spend my days writing lies. Er, tales of adventure and romance. You know what I mean. ;)
Off to blog elsewhere...on my own blogs. If you can find them and put them on your list and say what I blogged ON, that will be extra points to you when the blog contest ends in a week or so.
Check the archives. Follow the clues. Make a list. Check it twice.
Labels: blog, contest, stimulating, website
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I don't know about Xanga, but WordPress has a pretty easy feature for putting pictures in.
I don't know if any of my blogs are interesing or not. I don't worry about that much. I try to update 'em at least once a week, though. Some are duplicates, like my MySpace and Creatif. I just copy & paste the same things there.
Friday, April 20, 2007
Blog contest cluesI haven't given up on that blog contest I'm running, in case you're wondering about that.
I set up a couple new blogs with the name Jennifer DiCamillo. One at Xanga and one at Wordpress.net and one at Livejournal. So, by all means, tune into those. I'm separating my thoughts. Wordpress is gonna be for writing related helps. I wanna interview other authors and provide helps/discussions on writing. So, if you're a writer and want to be interviewed email me privately.
Yesterday, on the xanga one, an author named Cheryl commented on my post about my first novel, The Price of Peace. Today, I went to her blog (link in her comment) and posted there. So, um, go, and see her site and put that on your list.
And somebody tell me how you post a comment that says my website underlined and then all people have to do is click on that to be taken there. I am SO challenged on stuff like that.
Anyhow, on the blog contest thing...if you check each of my blogs daily, and can put that on your list of what I talked about, I'll give you kudos or points or whatever toward the drawing at the first of May. You know, the one with the best list of blog stuff/visits is gonna get a gift certificate.
Labels: blog, contest, gift, livejournal, wordpress, xanga
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To make your website underlined, you have to use a little bit of HTML. So you'd use < a href="[your website addy]" target="blank" >[Your Website Name or addy or other text]< /a > (without the extra spaces before and after the brackets).
The part about "target="blank"" is optional. It'll make the page open up in a new window IF they don't have a pop-up blocker. Some sites (like Blogger comments) don't allow the "target" part, though.
9 times out of 10, if you see a link I've posted, it'll open in a new window.
Let me know when you get a WordPress site up & going. I'll add you to Créatif's blogroll.
