Youtube Tuesday

Seriously - I have no idea how Tuesdays should go except the intent being to share a youtube video with you.

If I knew you turds would play along, I'd do a poll and you could decide for yourselves.

But since you only comment on the posts where I'm not asking for your opinions (which I find totally fitting), we can skip that dumb idea and accept that this won't be a democracy.

If it sucks, it can always be changed to somethingelse Tuesday.

We're still in beta testing, right?

Plus, Tuesdays are the redheadedbastard stepchild of the week anyways.

So....here we go. Ready?? Enjoy.

Movie Monday - Insidious

We went to see this flick last weekend but since we were out being damn dirty hippies this weekend, I saved it for today and the first movie Monday blah blah blah.

Being a massive horror fan, I'm always slightly skeptical of the PG-13 flicks that show you all the cool stuff in the trailer and the rest of the movie turns out to be lame.

So, I wasn't really too excited to see it until I'd seen it was getting decent reviews.

A fresh tomato even!!

I didn't know anything about the movie going in and was just hoping it would make us jump a few times.

We walked into the theater and there was a good crowd...more people = more chances of screaming.

First let me say - the opening credits were great!!

Old school black & white haunted house type images with a giant title in creepy font with loud scary screeching violin noises.

Perfect way to set the mood at the beginning.

Without giving away anything - I thought this movie was super fun.

Reminded me of being 11 and watching Poltergeist again with my BFF and we'd hide our faces in pillows and scream during the scary parts.

Lots of good jumps and some creepy ass images.

Like this one which caught me off guard and made me shut my eyes:

Watch out, Nite Owl - he's right behind you!!

Great movie for fun jumps and screams.

Also, a good one for trying out the popcorn trick.

I give this movie 4 out of 5 scary red demon faces.

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There were a couple of groaners - (1) the 2 ghost busters that get called in for comic relief were kinda dumb, but still a nice nod to movies like Poltergeist, and (2) The gas mask thing & the dream realm called "The Further" was a tad silly but easy to get over once the demons came out and scared the shit out of you.

Sunday Confession

I hate no-see-ums and mosquitos.

And this stuff because it did absolutely nothing.

Suckit Saturday???

Haven't decided what to do on Saturdays yet, but it'll be whatever I want it to be dammit.

We're headed out to Sebastian Inlet today to go camping, so here's a photo of the neighborhood hens I'd posted a message about on facebook after that crazyass storm we had on 3/30.

Karen Stephenson

And now the neighbor ladies (hens) are out surveying the damage.

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    Erika Hudson Juliano love the hens! so busy and nosy!

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    Tom Mehegan Our neighborhood "think tank" is at it as well.

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Snoop Dogg-Doggumentary

Welcome to the first Friday Jams!!

Here's the damn deal.

I pick an album to rock out on a Friday with & my favorite song from that album will be linked to at the beginning so your earholes will be just as entertained as your eyeballs as you keep reading.

Consider it interactively multitasking.

You're welcome.

When I post one of your favorite albums - post your favorite song from that album/artist in the comments.

Cuz sharin' is karen and in a year we'll all have a badass playlist that we all contributed to.

Shut up, it'll be fun.

Now that all that crap is out of the way....

I can't stop bobbin' my head to this damn album lately.*

Which is perfect because of last summer's addiction to old Snoop & Dre while sitting around the pool or going to the beach.

Now there's more to add to that for this summer.

And this new one flows really nice with the old stuff.*

Plus, there's Willie Nelson AND Bootsy Collins and there is no possible way on this greenish,blueish,brownishEARF that you can keep from smiling when you hear Boosty say in his Bootsy way "baby" or "mama" which usually sounds like it starts with "b".

Its fuckin' Friday, baby.....and happy hours are only hours away, bmama.

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*There is one exception. The Kanye song made me stop bobbin' in my head bobbin' tracks. It was so bad my neck was confused. Also, it does not flow nicely with the old stuff. His sound is too emo to blend with gfunk.

Neither does Wet. So that's 2 exceptions. whatever.

And Willie (Not Nelson) - as far as the RKelly song goes: Yeah, its RKelly & a stupid song but the beat is pretty bangin'.

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ALSO: I dare you to listen to any Snoop Dogg song while looking at this face and fail to understand why his name is Snoop.

BadA$$ 4Life.

A Very Special Thanks Goes Out To

The two treadmill ladies who talked through almost the entire second half of Megamind in the cardio theater at the gym the morning of 4/13.

Nevermind the fact that there's a whole massive EMPTY gym *points with an exaggerated flail* OUT THERE that ISN'T watching a movie where you can talk and talk and talk your little old hearts out without forcing a small room with a handful of people watching a movie to listen to your droning on.

But, seriously, thank you Loud Ladies Gabbington, for telling me & the 3 other people in the theater where all of your jewelry is in your closet & catching us up on the past week of your lives.

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ps. Welcome To Thursday ThankYous, chumps!!

Back To Normal, I Guess & Other News

You may or may not have noticed that we're in mid April and I haven't blogged much.

Pretty sure you didn't care.

But I'll tell you why anyway.

DAY JOB!!

There's a funny little phenomenon that happens in the corporate/sales world every 3rd month.

Its called End of Quarter or EOQ.

During the last 2 weeks of every 3rd month, everyone in sales & sales operations runs around like bees are chasing them as they try to scramble & close their larger deals that have been rotating in the sales cycle for months on end.

If we get these deals in just before the buzzer on the final day - it makes people look like heroes.

If we get these same sort of deals in at the beginning of the quarter, people don't make as big of a deal about it.

I don't know why this happens - but it does.

Consistently.

Every.

Third.

Month.

So, between March 21 & April 1, I worked damn near close to 160hrs.

There's not a whole lot to talk about when one is working that much.

All work and no play makes Karen a BoringAssBitch.

The only fun that was had during the weeks in there was a dinner date to see Animal House outside at Enzian (& not counting weekend funs like Playlist Live, etc).

Then we had a crazy ass storm that knocked our power out for 2 or 3 days and the crazy ass hours I would've spent working from home, I had to work at the office.

*huff*

So last week, when the dust was settling from EOQ.....I started to get sick with a head cold.

Lots of sleep and chicken soups later, I feel much better & can finally breathe through BOTH of my nostrils. Although, this phlegm is STILL annoying the snot out of me.

....haha....snot, get it?

With us now caught up....I've recently been brainstorming about how fuckin' rad it would be to blog more consistently and thought it might be easier if it were mapped out.

Such as:

Sunday Confessions.

Movie Monday.

Youtube Tuesday.

Current Event Wednesday.

Thursday Thank Yous.

Friday Jams.

Saturday-day off?? or something completely random.

Haven't quite decided yet but that's what I've come up with so far and it may or may not start tomorrow.

Only one way to find out how it'll go, you know.

The suspense has GOT to be absolutely killing you.

If it goes well & I can keep up with it, this may turn into a vlog.

HOLY CRAP - YOU MIGHT GET TO SEE MY FACE!!

....maybe....

We can cross that bridge when we get to it.