Ellen and How She Brightens My Day

You know... I really really love the Ellen show. I mean love it.

I am not necessarily a talk show fan. I DVR Oprah now every day but then I just click info to see if it is something I would enjoy learning about or reflecting on. So 50% of the time I just click delete. The other thing is --- often Oprah is pretty deep philosophically speaking; which I will be honest, I love that. My head is usually interested or there... but sometimes... you just want the fun, the light hearted fluffy stuff that takes you away from wondering how to improve your life.

I had enjoyed Rosie O'Donnell's talk show for the years it was on. But the main reason I enjoyed it was because she seemed like a real person. Someone you could relate to. She would often be starstruck sitting there interviewing someone. (I did not enjoy her on the View the couple of times I saw that with her on it!!!! Argh! who was that person?)

Ellen never seems starstruck. I miss that...

oops, I digress. Please accept my apologies.

Back to Ellen.

From the moment her monologue begins... which isn't that awesome!!! Right away, within moments of tuning in, you get bang for your buck. Like way to go Ellen! You know we love you and we wanna laugh dammit and so you bring it! day after day! gotta love it!

and then, the dancing, gotta love that too! Even though that guy, I honestly forget who, did a spoof on his show re: the dancing and said she prob. does it as a time filler... he said it jokingly. But I love it! you have just been given joy from the monologue and then there is energy! she has this energy and the audience is charged and there is just this great energy that somehow comes across to those of us sitting on our butts at home.

And you know... Ellen is pretty real and relatable herself. She gabs away to her guests like they are all real people who deserve her complete attention. Whether a Mega-star or a person from Youtube or an audience member. When she plays games or attempts cooking (LOL) or when she shows us her heart by sharing her feelings about animals or something else that disturbed her. I love her all the more when she shows that side.

You gotta watch this! It rocks! So funny... just click these words I have hyperlinked them to the vid of her demonstrating the below.... I laughed SOOOO HARD and I was crying too... :)

I laugh every single day with her. But this week... I could not stop laughing when she was in the Hawaii Chair... oh my god did I laugh! and damn if they aren't going to sell some of those chairs as a result... because as stupid as it is... and when she poured the water and talked on the phone as well as interviewed her guests in it... it's ridiculous-ness was so apparent... it looked so friggin' fun. Honestly! I wanted one or better yet to try one. (and no! I will not be ordering one!)

Anyway, I had to blog about her show and her as well. She brightens my day! and she makes each crappy winter day just a little bit brighter. My hubby, my kids and myself: all Ellen fans and proud of it!

keep it up Ellen! :)
xoxo
(yah, I know she won't be reading this but I can send the love out dammit! don't criticize me, eh?)

job description

so January is continuing... in all of it's lovely glory... friggin' freezin' temps, melancholy, and a desire to get things done... but lacking the energy to accomplish much...

Apparently the melancholy is due to a lack of Vitamin D... or so it seems according to a recent episode of Oprah... there was a wonderful doctor on and women could ask any question they wanted... and they did... all kinds of female question... but one was about how we get so depressed in winter and apparently we just need a Light Box which are readily available?

http://www.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200710/tows_past_20071016_b5.jhtml

(p.s. how do you put a link there with a different label?)

So the weekend included: getting two kids ready for a birthday party, chauffeuring them to the party, then mall crawling nearby which is something I rarely do as I never get to a mall (I did pick up two cute tops majorly on sale!)

I contemplated a toy box for my youngest child's bedroom as a possible solution to contain the continual mess which requires my perpetual bending over... I realize I can't heft this around the mall alone... so I take a pic with my cell phone and move on.

Then I see a present for my youngest for the next occassion... well she might see it in the car so I whip the cell phone out again and take another pic.

Then I am in the dollar store with some stationery in the cart needed for the office but realize that they don't take debit so snap another pic is taken.

Then a feeding frenzy of ppl over suitcases in Bentley and I browse for the perfect purse makes me wonder what is going on until I see the sales tags and then the sign that says "Buy One, Get 2nd 1/2 off lowest price". Awesome deal! The entire store was on for this!

So then I get the kids from the party, and Liskie's dress is all unravelling at the bottom. They are stoked and excited and the party was still going with 21 kids in attendance. My hat goes off to the mom and dad.

We head back to the mall so the kids can choose suitcases for themselves and of course then pull them themselves as I could not balance it all. Before I pay, Lisk announces she really needs the bathroom, I tell the clerk we will be back and we negotiate the mall for the nearest bathroom... all the while Liskie's dress is trailing along. Once there, I have to hold the poufy party dress up and around her, and the second she finishes peeing she hops down. "Lisk, you drip that way. You have to get dried off while still on there. Now your legs are getting dripped on." Women's laughter erupts from the other stalls. I heave a big sigh as I am exhausted from the running around and the g/d winter. Winter just takes it out of me. So then after the wiping, she hauls her pretty pink pantyhose up and yes, over her poufy dress. So now I explain how you have to ensure that your dress is out and over your panties and pantyhose... and now the entire bathroom again erupts in laughter. Great! I am at least interacting with grown-ups! Although they are not within eyesight... but hey, it is almost a conversation.

As I drive home, with kids giddy from loot bags, Disney's Soundtrack from Enchanted belting out on the speakers and breaking up the occassional bickering over a treat or two, I ask myself... did I get a copy of this job description?

Not a problem I tell myself as I launch into the songs with them at the top of our lungs together. I didn't get a copy but I am signed off for life and 99% of the time, I love every second. or at least it is best to tell myself so... LOL... j/k.

What the Hell is it With January?

What the hell is it with this month anyway?

I mean... I know we all want to start the new year feeling fresh and new and alive and brimming with resolutions and posibilities... come on!!! you know you want to... you know you think it... some of you while getting quite inebriated during New Year's Festivities... slur your words with excitement... you expound on how 2008 will be the year of this, that and the other thing... the best is of course... "This year WILL be different!" and then... January begins...

January has to be a statisically bad month for depression...
some reasons for this:

• it is in the heart of f*#$%$~ winter which is a season which includes shovelling and this particular winter too god*&^% much snow.
• you wake up on the first work weekday after New Year's Eve and think... I promised myself to change what? how? what the heck was I thinking?
• not one bloody friggin holiday or long weekend anywhere in the whole g/d month
• shitloads of people around you are beaming with positivity and energy and diets and good intentions
• there are smiling xmas decorations all over your house and you have to haul up the boxes from the basement and cram all the tacky smiling crap into them without breaking the stuff and somehow haul it back downstairs with the aching back you have due to overindulging over the holidays and also the g/d shovelling
• the bills from Christmas begin to drift in through the mailbox slot and now that the pile of shiny presents are no longer visible... you think... oh my god... how could I have possibly charged this much? I must be a victim of identity theft somehow... someone has my credit card and is scandalously charging stuff! you run... check your wallet... dammit... the card is there... am I possibly responsible for this bill?
• gym joining... the january question... to join or to not join... that apparently is the question
• new t.v. shows on t.v..... that look like they were written by monkeys... NO! I must not insult monkeys
• did I mention it is in the g/d season of winter?

so I write this as I nurse a tender, sore back that is being aided by Aleve and arnica. My hubby's back is currently so messed up he can barely move. Our 5 yr old is on her second case of tonsilitis in 6 weeks.... and I am surrounded by boxes of xmas stuff which I want to take downstairs... oh and videos... a pile of them... exercise ones.... mocking me... while by butt is in the chair at the computer getting wider by the keyboard stroke...

I think longingly of February...

I CHALLENGE THEE TO COMMENT... TELL ME

• HOW WRONG I AM ... HOW WONDROUS JANUARY IS
• HOW YOU AGREE AND ARE EQUALLY DEPRESSED
• HOW YOU ARE COMING TO TAKE THE BOXES DOWNSTAIRS FOR ME
• HOW I SHOULD SUCK IT UP AND PUT THE VIDEOS IN AND EXERCISE
• HOW I SHOULD BURN THE EXERCISE VIDEOS AND HAVE SOME FUDGE SHOULD SOME BE HIDING IN MY HOUSE

cheers!