This is just a short note to let everyone who reads or follows this blog know that I’m leaving the blogosphere for a while. I don’t know when I’ll be back.
Blogging has been an adventure and an exciting experience for me. I’ve met many great blog friends, and I shall always remember each one of you. I shall treasure our blog chats and our exchanges of ideas through our posts.
Take care. Love and hugs to all of you.
Tasha
Monday, May 18, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Pick-Me-Upper-Kind-of-Music
Everybody has gloomy days, right? And, that includes me. After a time of feeling down and lousy, I tell myself, “It’s time to get out of this rut.” However, it’s not that simple. There’s no magic wand that I can just wave in the air and, voila, I’m cured of the gloom and doom disease. First, I have to battle those voices inside my head. The voices are giving me conflicting messages.
One voice, the optimist, says, “I’m tired of feeling miserable, so, do something about it, will ya?”
Another voice, the pessimist, says, “I feel lousy! I still want to feel lousy and miserable! I don’t want to get out of this rut I’m in, so, just leave me alone!”
“For crying out loud, grow up and get over it!” the optimist admonishes the pessimist.
I don’t like those two voices to keep arguing and wasting more of my energy; therefore, I ultimately take control of the situation. What made me feel blue in the first place?
“You idiot, if you hadn’t been listening to those sad songs you wouldn’t have gotten us into this,” the optimist scolds me.
“Okay. My bad. You’re right!” I say.
“Play the upbeat music. It works every time,” the optimist says.
“No! Don’t you dare!” the pessimist says. “I’ll try to behave. I promise to not bother you anymore. Just don’t play the upbeat music, please? Pretty please?”
“Duh! The only way you leave her alone and not bother her is when she’s happy. And guess what helps her with that, huh?”
“Okay, enough of your arguing, you, two!” I finally say. With that said I queue up my pick-me-upper-kind-of music and crank it up.
Here’s my Pick-Me-Upper-Kind-of-Music playlist. I hope it has the same effect on you as it has on me.
One voice, the optimist, says, “I’m tired of feeling miserable, so, do something about it, will ya?”
Another voice, the pessimist, says, “I feel lousy! I still want to feel lousy and miserable! I don’t want to get out of this rut I’m in, so, just leave me alone!”
“For crying out loud, grow up and get over it!” the optimist admonishes the pessimist.
I don’t like those two voices to keep arguing and wasting more of my energy; therefore, I ultimately take control of the situation. What made me feel blue in the first place?
“You idiot, if you hadn’t been listening to those sad songs you wouldn’t have gotten us into this,” the optimist scolds me.
“Okay. My bad. You’re right!” I say.
“Play the upbeat music. It works every time,” the optimist says.
“No! Don’t you dare!” the pessimist says. “I’ll try to behave. I promise to not bother you anymore. Just don’t play the upbeat music, please? Pretty please?”
“Duh! The only way you leave her alone and not bother her is when she’s happy. And guess what helps her with that, huh?”
“Okay, enough of your arguing, you, two!” I finally say. With that said I queue up my pick-me-upper-kind-of music and crank it up.
Here’s my Pick-Me-Upper-Kind-of-Music playlist. I hope it has the same effect on you as it has on me.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
It Has Finally Happened to Her!
The truth revealed. For such a long time, she'd been pampered, sheltered, and shielded. Her business and public relations manager, Mr. Mattel, kept showing her ageless body and perfect figure to the world. No one has really seen her in public for a while. A chatty and disgruntled personal assistant of hers had told the world some juicy stuff about the most famous dame.
"After her boyfriend dumped her, she was crushed and depressed. She took solace in binging to console her aching heart. She behaved just like so many women have done in a similar situation. No one could talk her out of it. I couldn't stop her, either. Her perfect figure that many women around the world idolized is ruined. For those of you who have been jealous of her all this time, jealous, no more. For the longest time, I was jealous of her, too. There was a time that I prayed that she'd get fat, just so she'd get off my case. Now, I pity her. When I told her how sorry I was that my prayer had been answered, she went berserk and fired me. That ungrateful SOB fired me! Can you believe that?! For thirty years, I was her subservient assistant...."
"Ms. Tattle, since you're telling this after you got fired, how do we know it's the truth and not some made up story, just to get even? Do you have proof to support your story?"
"Yes, I do. I brought a picture to prove it. Here it is."
"Woe!" The audience chorused.
"She's definitely not the same woman." More audience reaction.
"Well, at least now we know why they keep showing us the same pictures from way back when," a woman in the back commented.
"She finally has some meat on her," a short, heavy-set woman with black hair said. (I think, I just described myself. Hee, hee.)
"I didn't like her when she was a toothpick. But now, I'm in love with her. I'm going to marry her and make her the happiest woman. On second thought, I'm not going to do that because if she's going to be happy, then she'll be a toothpick again," Mr. Butthead said, shaking his head. He feels torn and doesn't know what to do. He's obviously very much in love with the woman in her present condition. I can see his dilemma, can you? What to do? What to do?
"Okay, show us the woman's darn picture, Tasha," you're saying impatiently, right?
"Okay," I say. " I just need to upload it from my picture file."
"What?! You mean to say you're going to put us through, yet another, suspenseful event before we can see the woman's picture?"
"Yessm."
"Why, you...."
"Okay, okay. Here she is. Enjoy."
"After her boyfriend dumped her, she was crushed and depressed. She took solace in binging to console her aching heart. She behaved just like so many women have done in a similar situation. No one could talk her out of it. I couldn't stop her, either. Her perfect figure that many women around the world idolized is ruined. For those of you who have been jealous of her all this time, jealous, no more. For the longest time, I was jealous of her, too. There was a time that I prayed that she'd get fat, just so she'd get off my case. Now, I pity her. When I told her how sorry I was that my prayer had been answered, she went berserk and fired me. That ungrateful SOB fired me! Can you believe that?! For thirty years, I was her subservient assistant...."
"Ms. Tattle, since you're telling this after you got fired, how do we know it's the truth and not some made up story, just to get even? Do you have proof to support your story?"
"Yes, I do. I brought a picture to prove it. Here it is."
"Woe!" The audience chorused.
"She's definitely not the same woman." More audience reaction.
"Well, at least now we know why they keep showing us the same pictures from way back when," a woman in the back commented.
"She finally has some meat on her," a short, heavy-set woman with black hair said. (I think, I just described myself. Hee, hee.)
"I didn't like her when she was a toothpick. But now, I'm in love with her. I'm going to marry her and make her the happiest woman. On second thought, I'm not going to do that because if she's going to be happy, then she'll be a toothpick again," Mr. Butthead said, shaking his head. He feels torn and doesn't know what to do. He's obviously very much in love with the woman in her present condition. I can see his dilemma, can you? What to do? What to do?
"Okay, show us the woman's darn picture, Tasha," you're saying impatiently, right?
"Okay," I say. " I just need to upload it from my picture file."
"What?! You mean to say you're going to put us through, yet another, suspenseful event before we can see the woman's picture?"
"Yessm."
"Why, you...."
"Okay, okay. Here she is. Enjoy."
(click on photo to get the full effect, I hope)
Barbie, in all her glory at 50. I know how some of you have been wondering if Barbie will ever grow old like most of us do. Well, wonder no more. When I received this from my sister-in-law today, I had to share it.
(Actually, I look more like fat Barbie, only with black hair. LOL.)
Thursday, March 19, 2009
BROTHERS at WAR
Hello everyone. I stumbled upon this documentary titled “BROTHERS at WAR” while surfing the internet. It is about this man named Jake Rademacher who, as a civilian, embedded himself with his brothers’ platoon, risking his life to film a documentary about the life of his soldier brothers. Captain Isaac Rademacher and Sgt. Joseph Rademacher were serving and risking their lives, as well, while fighting the war in Iraq. This movie shows, first hand, what his brothers and their fellow soldiers lived through while at war. Whatever your feelings are about the war in Iraq, this movie is not to glorify that war or to support any political position. From what I’ve gathered so far, this movie was made on a personal level, for Jake to understand what his brothers do and why they do it. In this movie, Jake portrays the human aspect of the American soldiers by showing us Captain Isaac Rademacher’s, Sgt. Joseph Rademacher’s, and their loved ones’ pain and hardship during their military tours and after coming back from the war. I’m writing this post in support of our troops and of this movie. When I read the teasers about it, I was hooked. Now I'd like to see it. Unfortunately, it’s only being shown in limited theaters due to the prohibitive cost of advertising. However, if you’d like to see this in theaters near you, there’s a way to make that happen. Click on this link to find out how you can do just that! Also, If you'd like to support this movie and would like to write a post about it in your blogs, go ahead. Any publicity for this movie is very much appreciated, I'm sure. And if you can talk anyone into sponsoring the viewing of this movie in your towns and cities, by following the instructions in this link, the better! I'd like to make a special mention of Mr. Gary Sinise, the star of CSI: New York, because he plays a big role in producing this movie. He's also a huge supporter of our military men and women. He and his Lieutenant Dan Band, many times, have gone (and still do) to different military bases, entertaining the troops, under the auspices of the United Services Organization (USO).
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I hope that this movie will reach great success in order for it to be shown across the country and not just in limited theaters. This will give those of us who'd like to see it a chance at watching it on the big screen. If you have any questions, you may contact Samuel Goldwyn Films at info@idpfilm.com or log on to: http://www.samuelgoldwynfilms.com/Friday, March 13, 2009
My Wild Side
Hello everybody. Do you remember reading the post where I wrote about me listening to my mellow music while fishing at the lake? Well, the music was so relaxing that it literally put me to sleep. In order to combat my sleepiness as I drove home, I had to listen to rock and roll, at full blast. I’m going to share my playlist with you. I only hope that it will come through to my blog.
I believe that there’s a wild side in all of us. You can tell by listening to this playlist that I definitely have a wild streak in me. My wildness doesn’t end there, though. Oh, no. I have to be humming, singing along if I know the words, or bobbing my head back and forth like a maniac. Have you ever seen people doing that in their car? If you don’t hear their music when they’re acting that way, they look pretty silly, right? Well, that’s how I’d look if you could see me—pretty silly.
I usually have a real difficult time waking up after I get out of bed. So, I often listen to the same rowdy music while I’m getting ready for work. I’ll be swaying side to side or dancing in place as I brush my teeth or curl my hair.
Okay, I’ll wrap this up so that you can enjoy listening to this music as you go about your weekend activities.
I believe that there’s a wild side in all of us. You can tell by listening to this playlist that I definitely have a wild streak in me. My wildness doesn’t end there, though. Oh, no. I have to be humming, singing along if I know the words, or bobbing my head back and forth like a maniac. Have you ever seen people doing that in their car? If you don’t hear their music when they’re acting that way, they look pretty silly, right? Well, that’s how I’d look if you could see me—pretty silly.I usually have a real difficult time waking up after I get out of bed. So, I often listen to the same rowdy music while I’m getting ready for work. I’ll be swaying side to side or dancing in place as I brush my teeth or curl my hair.
Okay, I’ll wrap this up so that you can enjoy listening to this music as you go about your weekend activities.
Friday, February 20, 2009
FEELING MELLOW
Many times my mood dictates the kind of music I listen to. However, it also works the other way around. Music is a very big part of my life. I listen to music while I'm working, blogging, getting ready for work, driving, or just chilling out. Music affects my mood in many different ways.
Today, I'm feeling a little mellow as I'm listening to my mellow music. I decided to make a playlist of the music that's affecting my mood today so that I could share it with you. Besides, I need more music to listen at my place of employment.
I used to listen to this particular music playlist on my IPod while I was fishing at one of the lakes outside of town. I'd set my chair up by the bank of the lake, cast my fishing line, and then watch for fish. Most of the time the fish wouldn't bite, so, I'd watch the gentle waves of water, rippling accross the surface of the lake, instead. Also, I'd watch the geese, ducks, and birds fly over and all the while would be listening to my music. The music relaxed me, allowed me to imagine things and be transported to other places as well. I'd feel the soft warm breeze touch my face. I'd see the water glistening from the advancing sun above me. I'd close my eyes and then sway my body to the rhythm of the music. So now, every time I listen to this music playlist, I'm reminded of the times I spent at the lake.
Today, I'm feeling a little mellow as I'm listening to my mellow music. I decided to make a playlist of the music that's affecting my mood today so that I could share it with you. Besides, I need more music to listen at my place of employment.
I used to listen to this particular music playlist on my IPod while I was fishing at one of the lakes outside of town. I'd set my chair up by the bank of the lake, cast my fishing line, and then watch for fish. Most of the time the fish wouldn't bite, so, I'd watch the gentle waves of water, rippling accross the surface of the lake, instead. Also, I'd watch the geese, ducks, and birds fly over and all the while would be listening to my music. The music relaxed me, allowed me to imagine things and be transported to other places as well. I'd feel the soft warm breeze touch my face. I'd see the water glistening from the advancing sun above me. I'd close my eyes and then sway my body to the rhythm of the music. So now, every time I listen to this music playlist, I'm reminded of the times I spent at the lake.
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