Premieres

Here is another cheat sheet of television premieres

Rogers Introduces Free Karaoke On Demand

The new service is free on Rogers channel 100 and the company says consumers can look forward to new songs each month. When my parents lived in the Philappines a few years ago, my baby brother and I flew over to visit them for a few week and they had these karaoke channels available on their television networks 24 hours/day. I hope the song selection is less cheesy than I remember.

Clever Ad Campaign

I really like the concept of this ad campaign by Sprint but I am a skeptic for many of their claims such as the quick peel egg one.

Trailer: Juno

Another movie that looks interesting. Apparently it is the 2nd movie from the young director of Thank You For Smoking, Jason Reitman.

Movie Trailer : Run, Fat Boy, Run

This movie looks like it might be good. It was directed by David Schwimmer.

Release Date Set For Sex & The City Movie

Got your calanders handy? May 30, 2008 is the date. Why do I feel I am going to be disappointed?

Another You Tube Treat Sent By My Dad

Tonight is my daughters first night back at dance for this year. I wonder if they are learning this?

A Visit With Jimmy

My kids were entertained alot this summer by friends while Garth and I spent time in TO for treatment. One of my friends writes about his adventures with my girls here and has an eerie photo here. There is even video footage here.
This friend of mine is a generous spirit and also took my girls to the drive-in one evening. It was their first time at an outdoor theatre and they had a great time and talk about it still. Even my little Alley who apparently had a head injury that night off the teeter totter. You can read about it and other embarr"assing"stuff here.

My Hoover Sounds Like Chewbacca

This made me laugh

Sexy Mama

Kelly Ripa is featured in this magazine and I must say for a mother of 3...she looks pretty hot.

Recovery Is A Slooowww Process

I finished my last radiation treatment on August 31st. It was a Friday. I met with my radiation oncologist that day and I remember feeling proud.......I had made it through 7 difficult weeks. She told me I looked remarkably well and that over the next 7-10 days it would get worse before it got better. I don't think I believed her. I had just finished 7 gruelling weeks of treatment. I felt great. Nothing was going to break my stride.
I went home. I started making all these plans in my head of the things I wanted/ needed to do now that I was on the road to recovery.

During the 1st week home my throat was intensly sore and felt like it was on fire. I was unable to eat or drink anything and when I tried it felt like I was swallowing shards of broken glass. I was also being troubled by thick saliva which would set off my gag reflex in my throat and had me vomiting........phlegm and blood.

I soon became quite dehydrated and had to be taken back to PMH. They kept me in for hydration therapy and to monitor my vital signs. I then went home to receive 3 more days of intravenous fluids by the community nurses. At the end of the week I was feeling much better.
During the last few weeks of radiation and week 1 of recovery it was also very difficult for me to speak on the telephone. Conversation quickly became quite painful and extremely frustrating for me.
My sleep is broken and it is rare for me to get a full nights sleep. I am usually asleep no later than 10 or 11. I sleep until 1:00am if I'm lucky. I wake up from dry mouth, coughing, hunger, nausea or ??????. I spend about half an hour in the bathroom trying to treat what has ever woken me........I try the “magic mouthwash” they gave me to protect the throat. I try to drink some bottled water. I make myself something to eat and try to eat it without throwing up. I brush my teeth. Sometimes I just sit until I feel tired again. I may resettle by 2:00 and sleep until 4:00 when it is time to try to fix whatever has woken me again and on and on it goes..............
Last night was one of my worst of nights. I was up at 01:30, 02:30, 04:30 and 05:30. I’m starting to feel the same sleep depravation I remember from when the girls were babies.
The basic senses have been affected (taste, smell, hearing and sight) My taste sensation is at 20% and I am nervous about how much more I will aquire during recovery. I cannot taste sweet foods at all or else they leave an awful taste in my mouth. I am down 30 lbs since the beginning of this ordeal and am being told I need to STOP losing and try to gain..........now that is a first. I have been actively trying to eat more but this can become a full day exercise which leaves me feeling depressed.
My sense of smell actually seems to be improving slowly as the inflammation from the radiation to the left side of my face gradually becomes less.
I have lost the hearing in my left ear and having a conversation with me is like having a conversation with a senior citazen. High pitch sounds cause discomfort. It is difficult for me to enjoy television, movies or music anymore.
I have blurred vision in my left eye and it is quite reddened and irritated. Again it makes it difficult to enjoy movies, television or reading.

This recovery time is providing me many moments where I am learning life’s little “lessons” in surviving this.
It is probably my inability to just stop and breathe for a while that caused my body to go out of whack like this. If I could do it over again, I would have taken more time to just relax over the years. I’ve spent most of my life scurrying towards my goals. I’ve been so busy trying to cram two lifetimes into one, and rarely took any time just for myself. I use to fight sleep as I thought it was a waste of time and there was still so much to do.
Why was I doing this? What part of me felt this insane need to be in constant competition with myself? Why couldn't I stop running long enough to even get a decent night’s sleep?
I never realized how hard it was for me to do absolutely nothing. Seriously! Not working, not cleaning. not playing on the computer, not cooking, not speaking, not even listening to music or watching television. ........just breathing.

Back To School Pictures

For you Mom.....

How To Spot A Fake Rolex

My friend Sheila and I know a particular lad who claims his Rolex is real. I am very doubtful and forever trying to find signs of it being a knock off but honestly I have no idea what I'm looking for..........until now.

The image to the left looks like an ordinary picture of Marlon Brando from The Godfather but.......... it is created entirely with the scripts of the movie and is completely handwritten. All words are completely legible There are even easily identify favorite lines from the film
Click to see in details.

Link Of The Day : Cannon Fodder

Play here. I like the graphics.