Thank You Elvis!

Hi Everyone!

I will be in my 2nd day of in-service meetings all day & then I am planning to head to the Bears training camp for the evening practice so I thought I would honor Elvis by posting in the evening all the tribute postings made. If you make a posting please email me & let me know & I'll add it to the list & then Friday you can come look at any you may not have seen.

Here is one from Sugar already!

Some others:

Sharlene's trip to Memphis

TVland's Special movie clips & interviews!

I just found the song I wanted to attach here...oh baby thank God I don't have a camera on my computer! HA! You should see me dancing in my chair! I'm sooo pissed my back won't let me dance to this now! I'm going to bring this song to my back doctor & tell him this is the goal...I want my hips & back back because my spirit still needs to dance to this! ;-) Oh baby...THANK GOD FOR ELVIS!



Tags: Elvis, Tributes

So Who is Flip Flopping Now?

Hi Everyone!

My sister just sent me this & I think it is just incredible! Not even making any political side here...just any politican that goes from one extreme to the other. I know Sept 11th happened & some may think then it is ok for him to change his mind but we are still basically in the shape he said we would be in so...Watch it is not very long! And much is used during political campaigns on what people said or voted for earlier in their careers and what they are professing now when really if you look at both sides, everyone does it and this is a PERFECT example!

And speaking of "flip flopping" did you see the article in the Chicago Tribune on the dangers of Flip Flops? They mention Dr. Grady....he did my foot surgery! :-)

Tags: Cheney, Iraq, flip flopping

Martian Child

Hi!

Well I made a comment on someone's journal about the movie Martian Child (view trailer) and they had not heard of it & I thought I better make a post on it then. It has been advertising all summer in the theaters by me. I thought it was coming out this summer but the release date is Oct 26th! Ugh! It looks AWESOME!!!!

It is about a boy who lives in a box & John Cusack wants to adopt him. Some definite paranoid delusions going on here...although many a time I have thought a few people just may be Martians...family members included! HA! Though they probably think I am! HA! It also gets into issues of what is "NORMAL" behavior which I love! Like the scene with him throwing plates in the kitchen...reminds me of the commercial where the boy squirts his mom with the pop & she turns on the sink faucet on him...some people just don't get life you know! :-)  

Amanda Peet is in it, as well as John's sister Joan. It will definitely be a field trip for my psych students! It looks like a very lovely movie & I think John really has wonderful potential for more serious roles in the future! And you all know from my past postings how much I'm in love with him! HA! My oldest brother looks like a blonde version of him I think!

Well, I'll remind you when it gets closer to the release date because you know I will be going that day! HA!

Tags: Martian Child, John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Amanda Peet

Perseids Meteor Shower!!

Hi Everyone!

I wasn't sure if tonight or tomorrow night was the peak of the meteor shower so Chris (new boyfriend) and I went out to look tonight a little before midnight. We saw "the most" HUGE & LONG one, it was so spectacular! Best I've seen in my life! A few little ones then after. I came home to check & the peak is actually tomorrow (really tonight...now Sun) night! Midnight central time & 1am eastern etc. Here is the link to read about it.

I'll go look again tomorrow night with my little niece because I'll be up north. Hope you see some spectacular ones! :-)

Tags: Perseids Meteor Shower

You Could Be A Winner!

Hi Everyone!

Deslily over at Here, There & Everywhere posted this also so I thought I would as well. Check out 5 Minutes for Mom and enter to win a 37" LCD HDTV courtesy of Best Buy! Just leave a comment on the blog & link to it in your blog & you may win! YIPEE!! What a lovely treat that would be!

Tags: Contest, LCD HDTV, Win, Deslily,

WKnd Asgn 178: Cool Places

John wants some photos of cool places to help us cool off a bit.I'm all for that...it has been so hot & humid here the last few days. Reminds me of when I was little. I remember days us kids would not go outside to play because it was too hot & humid. This was my niece a few years ago enjoying the snow! She's my angel!

Some neighbors of my folks got creative in the snow last winter!

Extra Credit: I believe I would rather be too cold...why? Because I could:

* put more clothes on
* lay by a lovely fire...preferably with someone else ;-)
* make hot chocolate
* wear some lovely thick warm socks
* crank up that lovely heating pad friend that women have! HA!
* snuggle up with someone & hmmmm.... ;-O
* eat some soup
* make a hot tottie!

etc! Being hot is just much more difficult to cool off. And I'm not a fan of cold showers! ;-)

Tags: Cool Places, Power of Suggestion, John's Wknd Asgn 178

Do you feel Warm?

Hey...try to catch Oprah tomorrow! Al Gore will be on with Global Warming. If you have not seen An Inconvenient Truth yet please do! My students & I saw it last semester during Earth Week (well few parts cut) and it was just so eye opening! To see what some ice-covered countries looked like before & now what they look like is just so sad! I had no idea on so much of what he presented. The DVD is at WalMart very cheap & it is very much worth getting & showing everyone you know. This is our children's planet we are saving & the animals!!! Heck, for what they are saying it may be my elderly years! Sometimes we think we are not making a difference in the world...we ALWAYS ARE! The question is...what kind of difference are you making! And everyone's small role does add up! I know the hard cold winters with lots of snow I experience when I was a kid I really haven't seen since...wonder why!? Yep...we are warming up! Now, we might have complained then but this is not what we had in mind!

What do you do to help with Global Warming? What else do you think you can start doing?

Tags: Oprah, Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, Global Warming, Planet