Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Dear NBC,
What were you thinking?!?!
Fools. You MUST be fools to let Conan O'brien slip through your fingertips as you did. Do you not understand who your target market has become? With shows like Parks & Rec, Community, The Office and 30 Rock you have really built some especial clientele. Even Oprah's poll showed that 96% of voters are siding with Conan. NBC, your audience is much younger and hip these days. Good job getting there, but you're losing them quickly.
My husband and I like going to bed with the ridiculous cares of the day swept away. It's important to realize that life can't be taken too seriously all the time, or we'll never get a good nights rest--- and Conan gets that. He's in tune with the world today and is an expert at bringing a light hearted happiness to a time full of continual disaster and discouragement. What we all need is a little more laughing and a little less stressing. At the end of the day we should be able to lay down our heads with a big smile on our faces, realizing that the things that happened today are not important enough to ruin us from being a happy people.
Conan did his job well, and he loved doing it. The only crowd who disagrees are the 68-and-over Jay lovers who are likely to die off soon. Ok maybe that's a little harsh but Conan's sense of humor is youthful and refreshing. The viewers of this generations late night talk shows are getting younger, and whether or not you like it NBC, the times they are a changing too. Conan understands what can and cannot be avoided in today's mess of society and he creates the best out of ugly situations, all the while giving us the belly laughs that we need.
It has been most enjoyable and comforting to turn on the box in our living room for the past 7 months and watch The Tonight Show with Conan O'brien. I am currently going through withdrawals-- seeing as it was a nightly ritual for us. Or depending on our busy schedules, it was the next mornings ritual watched on Hulu (which we have learned HULU does not count for ratings, and all current computer literate people are using it!) I'm pretty sure Jay Leno's hearing aid has never even been strong enough to pick up the words Windows 95. Let's face it NBC, Jay has been done for a while. He puts me to sleep.... and not in the kind of way where I want to watch him every night right before I crawl into my big comfy bed to dream of dancing sugar plums. He's old and outdated. He's boring and retired. And if he knew what was good for him he would stay retired. Although.... it might be just as satisfying to me to see him bomb after this wildly second chance.
Fools. You MUST be fools to let Conan O'brien slip through your fingertips as you did. Do you not understand who your target market has become? With shows like Parks & Rec, Community, The Office and 30 Rock you have really built some especial clientele. Even Oprah's poll showed that 96% of voters are siding with Conan. NBC, your audience is much younger and hip these days. Good job getting there, but you're losing them quickly.
My husband and I like going to bed with the ridiculous cares of the day swept away. It's important to realize that life can't be taken too seriously all the time, or we'll never get a good nights rest--- and Conan gets that. He's in tune with the world today and is an expert at bringing a light hearted happiness to a time full of continual disaster and discouragement. What we all need is a little more laughing and a little less stressing. At the end of the day we should be able to lay down our heads with a big smile on our faces, realizing that the things that happened today are not important enough to ruin us from being a happy people.
Conan did his job well, and he loved doing it. The only crowd who disagrees are the 68-and-over Jay lovers who are likely to die off soon. Ok maybe that's a little harsh but Conan's sense of humor is youthful and refreshing. The viewers of this generations late night talk shows are getting younger, and whether or not you like it NBC, the times they are a changing too. Conan understands what can and cannot be avoided in today's mess of society and he creates the best out of ugly situations, all the while giving us the belly laughs that we need.
It has been most enjoyable and comforting to turn on the box in our living room for the past 7 months and watch The Tonight Show with Conan O'brien. I am currently going through withdrawals-- seeing as it was a nightly ritual for us. Or depending on our busy schedules, it was the next mornings ritual watched on Hulu (which we have learned HULU does not count for ratings, and all current computer literate people are using it!) I'm pretty sure Jay Leno's hearing aid has never even been strong enough to pick up the words Windows 95. Let's face it NBC, Jay has been done for a while. He puts me to sleep.... and not in the kind of way where I want to watch him every night right before I crawl into my big comfy bed to dream of dancing sugar plums. He's old and outdated. He's boring and retired. And if he knew what was good for him he would stay retired. Although.... it might be just as satisfying to me to see him bomb after this wildly second chance.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Luna Lovegood
Everyone at school says
that I sound like Luna Lovegood when I talk....
I can't even fake an English accent
so I don't know what they're talking about.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
*WARNING* This post is JUST FOR GIRLS
Let's have some girl talk. And potty talk. Now I don't know if I was taught wrong when it comes to using the bathroom-- I think my mom had a pretty good handle on it. And she taught me to always use a toilet seat cover, or at least rip off a few squares of toilet paper and line the seat. Who knows whose booty has been on that thing!
ANYWAY, I'm pretty sure everyone puts the toilet seat covers down the same way, with the cover matching the shape of the toilet seat. The thing is, a lot of these new toilets are weird shaped and the cover falls inside the toilet before you even get to sit down! Well, have I got something to tell you-- next time put the cover on upside down, with the opening towards the back of the toilet and it will never fall in. Or maybe this is the way everyone else has been doing it and I, at 27 years of age, just figured it out!?
Do it like this:
ANYWAY, I'm pretty sure everyone puts the toilet seat covers down the same way, with the cover matching the shape of the toilet seat. The thing is, a lot of these new toilets are weird shaped and the cover falls inside the toilet before you even get to sit down! Well, have I got something to tell you-- next time put the cover on upside down, with the opening towards the back of the toilet and it will never fall in. Or maybe this is the way everyone else has been doing it and I, at 27 years of age, just figured it out!?
Do it like this:
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Car twins
Please tell me it's not just me.
I've noticed that something happens anytime I move on to a new car, well now new, but an old car breaks down so I start driving something different. I begin to notice every other car on the road that is the same make and model as my own. That's not the crazy part, what's crazy is that I automatically feel a connection with the person driving that other automobile. Not just a connection, but a friendship. I feel like there's a right of passage to stare at that person, to be able to honk and wave at them and have it be totally normal because they feel the same way about me and my car.
I remember feeling this way driving the Saturn, driving the Geo Metro, and now the Chevy Cavalier. This week our cavalier is in the shop so the nice guys at Absolute Automotive have loaned us a truck to use. Well, I never imagined this happening but I've felt that same connection with ALL TRUCKS out there. Big trucks, small trucks, Chevy's, Ford's, 1984 models, 2010 models, ALL TRUCKS. I feel like there's an unspoken buddy system with all the trucks out there on the road and that they will give me the same kind of respect that I give to them, being a truck and all. You know-- I wave him into traffic, he waves a thank you hand and vice-versa.
Well, let me just tell you that is not the case.... especially in Utah! I thought the big annoying trucks on I-15 were just annoying to me because I was in a smaller car or maybe because those drivers could no longer gage how fast their trucks were going because of the oversized tires. I thought I would understand what goes through other truckers heads if I was behind the wheel of a truck myself. I thought that just maybe I'd be able to gather new information on why trucks seem so difficult for these backwards hat guys to maneuver.
Have I felt that respect? Do I now understand why trucks feel the need to cut people off? Are all blinkers on all trucks broken all the time? Nope, Utah drivers just plain suck. And that's that.
I've noticed that something happens anytime I move on to a new car, well now new, but an old car breaks down so I start driving something different. I begin to notice every other car on the road that is the same make and model as my own. That's not the crazy part, what's crazy is that I automatically feel a connection with the person driving that other automobile. Not just a connection, but a friendship. I feel like there's a right of passage to stare at that person, to be able to honk and wave at them and have it be totally normal because they feel the same way about me and my car.
I remember feeling this way driving the Saturn, driving the Geo Metro, and now the Chevy Cavalier. This week our cavalier is in the shop so the nice guys at Absolute Automotive have loaned us a truck to use. Well, I never imagined this happening but I've felt that same connection with ALL TRUCKS out there. Big trucks, small trucks, Chevy's, Ford's, 1984 models, 2010 models, ALL TRUCKS. I feel like there's an unspoken buddy system with all the trucks out there on the road and that they will give me the same kind of respect that I give to them, being a truck and all. You know-- I wave him into traffic, he waves a thank you hand and vice-versa.
Well, let me just tell you that is not the case.... especially in Utah! I thought the big annoying trucks on I-15 were just annoying to me because I was in a smaller car or maybe because those drivers could no longer gage how fast their trucks were going because of the oversized tires. I thought I would understand what goes through other truckers heads if I was behind the wheel of a truck myself. I thought that just maybe I'd be able to gather new information on why trucks seem so difficult for these backwards hat guys to maneuver.
Have I felt that respect? Do I now understand why trucks feel the need to cut people off? Are all blinkers on all trucks broken all the time? Nope, Utah drivers just plain suck. And that's that.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Yeast-free food
My first attempt at making noodles out of spaghetti squash looked beautiful and it tasted alright. However, it left Jake and I missing real pasta even more than before! We were eating a flavorless vegetable topped with red sauce.
So here comes Jake who just whips up a homemade pasta recipe using brown rice flour. It was delicious and it left me completely satisfecho to put it best. Sometimes another language explains it a lot better than English. Full and fulfilled! He's made it a few more times since then and it just turns out more and more perfect with each attempt. He even bought some plumbing pieces from Home Depot and has constructed a noodle pressing mechanism. Who did I marry? He's amazing!
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