Wicked Attitude

In a fight to the finish against Fit Club favorite Tina Yothers, Willie Aames came out as the big individual winner for this season’s CFC.  He did undergo a great transformation and as he promised Harvey, he got a bulldog tattoo on his leg.  The disturbing part…it has what is supposed to be Harvey’s face on it!  I say “supposed to” because it looked nothing like him and I actually felt bad he’s going to have that on his body the rest of his life but whatever floats your boat.

In a slightly controversial move, the blue team won a challenge which earned them the prize of 5 “fit factor” points.  This prize had not been offered in any other challenge during the season.  This of course was the deciding factor in the game with the blue team taking the grand prize.  The blue team consisted of Tina Yothers, Somorre (some comedienne?), Brian Dunkleman (who was apparently on the first season of American Idol) and finally the reason I can no longer enjoy my guilty pleasure show Saved by the Bell, Dustin Diamond.

It was a different, if not slightly boring season given there were about 3 people that not many had heard of.  The one people are likely not to forget is former Happy Days star Erin Moran who effectively shat on her Joanie Cunningham persona and personal reputation which made many question her mental stability.  After getting her undies in a bunch over being upstaged by camera hog Toccara hula hooping at a bar, faking an orgasm that people will need shock therapy to have the image removed from their psyche and admitting she flat out had no interest in losing weight but did it for the money, Moran was often referred to as “crazy” by her fellow Fit Clubbers.  She mentioned how she did signings the week before the finale saying again how she needed the money.  I guess Happy Days residuals aren’t so lucrative.

Want to see the worst of the worst of Erin Moran, click here.

So I thought I’d make a better food choice by getting the baked talipia dinner at Long John Silvers.  I wanted to try it to see if it would be a new healthier option when dining on the run.  I get a piece of over-spiced talipia on a bed of bland rice, a veggie medley of some kind of unidentifiable yellow thing, green beans and carrot slices swimming in butter and spices and a dry corn cobbette.  I had to put ketchup on the rice to make it palatable.  I ate the green beans and carrots and immediately regretted it because the butter sauce made me queasy.  The fish was okay…not the best I’ve had, not the worst either.  Then there was the breadstick.  Now I’m a carboholic, if there’s bread to be eaten, I’ll eat it.  I took one bite of this breadstick and immediately put it back in it’s paper sheath.  How do you screw up a breadstick??  It had NO flavor and I’m talking if you’d been blindfolded you may not have been able to identify it as bread.  It did however have an aftertaste of fried LJS fish.  Yum…not. 

I should’ve known when I not only couldn’t find this dishes nutritional info on their website but the dish period on the menu that this probably wasn’t a good idea.  I only hope it vacates my system asap.

I was watching a Quizno’s commercial and it was for their new Lobster salad sandwich.  Well if you look at the bottom in the small print at one point it says “contains 51 percent lobster.”

This begs the questions…what’s the other 49%?  Just sayin’.

Last night I was watching a rerun of the Conan show.  It was the first show with the writers back after the strike.  They played a montage of all of these things they did to fill the first 20 minutes of the show, where the monologue would usually be.  Wow…talk about bittersweet.  I hadn’t laughed at Conan’s show more than when his writers were away.  The things he did were outrageous, original and downright funny.  From turning the studio into a “German nightclub” with lasers to putting a replica of his desk on a forklift and driving it around the studio to saving Abe Lincoln from the night at the theater by ziplining down the studio audience in smoking boots and an Oscar Mayer helmet…it was all just funny because you didn’t know what he was going to do next!

Since the writers have been back, I’d say 9 out of 10 jokes barely get more than a sympathy clap or two.  They just need to add cricket noises to complete the feeling you get watching it.  Maybe they need to get back whomever was thinking up the stuff he was doing when the writers were gone and add them to the team.  I shudder to think that he may get even more tame when he takes over for that tool Leno in the 11:30 slot.

Back in the day, I was a big time Poison fan.  I mean LOVED them.  C.C. was my man of choice.  What can I say, I liked guys I knew I could share make up with…I was also a Nick Rhodes fan from Duran Duran so me and the Maybelline men go way back.  So of course when Rock of Love came along I had to watch despite the train wreck of boobs, airheads, booze and vomit just to see how one of my favorite band members was faring 20 years later.  Good Lord.  My imagination gave him much more intelligence and maturity than reality TV has shown his true nature.  Not sure why this wasn’t named Rock of Lust but I digress.  I had to tune into Season 2 because…I don’t know, I’m apparently a glutton for punishment.

So we were down to Ambre, my pick because she seems the least slutty, closer to his age and mature which I pray rubs off on him.  Or we have Daisy “De La Hoya” who claimed she was Oscar De La Hoya’s niece (she’s not and I don’t know what she’d have to gain by lying about it given the last time his name was big it was because he was cross dressing in a fishnet catsuit).  She has the IQ of a carrot, huge on board airbags, looks like someone bike pumped her lips, apparently needs her hands in order to attempt to speak.  I say attempt because half the things she says are slurred and I feel myself getting more cerebrally retarded as I hear sounds spew from her face.

So who did he choose? Holy crap the man grew a brain cell and chose Ambre!

We all know its not going to last but at least they got to have…to quote Bret “hot monkey sex.”  Let’s hope she doesn’t dump him at the reunion too

When I was young, I knew that what was expected of me was that I would get married, have children and live the whole “American dream” with the 2 kids, dog, big house, minivan and whatever else the 70’s/80’s mentality I grew up with pushed.  I too thought this was how I would spend my adulthood until I met my husband.  See, I could see a future with him but when I really got into my teen years I started questioning if children were a part of the “dream” that I really wanted.  I was 17 when we started dating and literally I told him after a month that I didn’t know if I wanted kids and if that was important to him he might want to go elsewhere.  Well at 19 he was going to say when he needed to in order to get in the drawers.  That’s fine.  But this was a feeling that didn’t change in me as we dated and eventually got engaged.  He said he didn’t need kids to be “whole” and he was really supportive regardless.  What I found to be so interesting and ultimately highly intrusive was how as soon as we were engaged and well into the first few years of our marriage people felt they had the right to grill us about when we were starting a family.

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Yes, I’m one of the handful of about 20 people who watch the CBS Early Show.  Yesterday they featured a story about a bunch of flaming idiot bullies that make me weep for our future who set up a “friend” of theirs and beat the hell out of her.  There were 5 cameras catching all of the “action” so they could post it online and become internet stars.  The victim of this beating has sustained deafness in her left ear, damage to her eye and multiple bruises.  There may be more damage but more tests need to be run.  The culprits were in jail laughing about it and asking things like if they’d be out in time to go to cheerleading practice.  They showed absolutely no remorse.

The worst part of this whole thing?  As The Early Show was reporting about it, they must’ve run that footage a MINIMUM of 10x as teasers and while the poor girls parents are describing her injuries.  This fulfills the entire reason these a-holes set up this production is to get national attention and be “famous.”   Show it ONE time and then drop it for God’s sake.  Then I just flipped it on this morning and they are showing it AGAIN!!!!   I was so disgusted I had to change the channel. 

The media is half the problem in situations like this!  They talk about violence kids are exposed to in video games or movies yet they don’t stop to think of what programming they’re showing.  I went to school for broadcasting, there’s a reason why there’s the saying “if it bleeds, it leads.”  I refuse to watch the nighly news anymore.  I immediately change it.  If the local news gets too depressing, I change it too.  I find if I listen to it, it truly does affect my mood and I can feel depressed, angry, hopeless, etc after watching many of the stories on the news.  Just like after changing the Early Show this morning after seeing a nanosecond of that disgusting video, I’ve been watching old school Denise Austin workouts and laughing at her 80’s leotards because I think I had a pair just like them…when I was 10.  I’ll take that kind of start to my day than listening about the protests of China or what the youth of the nation are doing to chuck our society into the proverbial hellbound hand basket.

…how hard is your job?  I mean really.  If you’ve never been on the inside and seen what is hanging over almost every drive thru window in a fast food restaurant, it’s a plaque.  This plaque tells you that you should include things like napkins, straws for drinks, utensils for salads/soups, etc.  It seems like common sense to me but okay, whatever gets the job done.  Now I understand making people ask for ketchup or BBQ sauce or whatever because you’re cheap and want to save as many of your condiments as possible.  I’m not below asking for it, I don’t expect it to magically appear there.  However, when I ask for it, stick it in there.  Or don’t give me one or two packets for 2 meals.  I cannot count how many times we’ve grabbed something to go from not just fast food places but even sit down restaurants that give take out service and some component like the above mentioned things or crackers if you get chili are missing. 

I mean it’s bad enough you have to have a sign to remind you of the basic common sense items that should accompany an order but then to ignore it??  It’s like getting halfway home and realizing they forgot something.  (Which is why we always check)  I mean, I give you my order, you read it back, you have a receipt to follow…how do you forget to put something in the bag?  To combat the condiment issue, we always wait until they’re handing us the bag, don’t reach for it and ask for the condiments so they have to take the bag back and put it in there.  Sad you have to have a plan to get some stupid ketchup!

In our area, we’re surrounded by fast food and sit down restaurant with take out hell.  Here are my awards for the places surrounding us.

Most consistent drive thru screw ups:  McDonalds  (I bet that one’s a shocker)
Least drive thru screw ups:  Wendys
Sit down restaurant take out that has dropped the ball:  Max and Erma’s.  (What, you’re too good to give ANY condiments, napkins AND utensils now??)

So how about you?  What drive thru’s get the best/worst picks in your area?

I’ve been looking forward to seeing what this new show on MTV, Rock the Cradle would be like.  I was most looking forward to seeing my idol Olivia Newton John’s daughter Chloe.  Wow.  Inherit her mom’s voice…she did not.  Michael Hutchence had to be rolling in his grave as she mutilated INXS’ “Never Tear Us Apart.”   I really wanted to like her but not only was her voice bad but she was full of excuses as to why her performance was bad and practically rolled into the fetal position standing onstage.  The backstage piece they played of rehearsal showed her getting the shakes, not hitting it then and you could see the band was visibly frustrated with her.  I hope she’s voted off swiftly so I don’t have to see Olivia sitting there with a pained face trying to support her daughter’s pipe dream of being a musician.  (This is where many would comment Olivia is no longer capable of facial movement due to her plastic surgery.  Trust me, I’m not a fan of it either.  She’s joined the Meg Ryan trout pout club.)

I thought Crosby Loggins was really good and really hit the notes.   I’ll be rooting for him to make it far.  The best performance of the night in my opinion was Joe Walsh’s daughter Lucy who did Don Henley’s “Heart of the Matter.”  Hands down I think she should win.

The rest of them were either horrible or mediocre at best.  Maybe some of the mediocre ones can be acceptable with extensive voice coaching but otherwise, live off the trust funds kids because you obviously didn’t inherit the talent gene from your famous parent.