Songs That I Am Liking

Crash Years by The New Pornographers......has a upbeat pop sound and cute and colourful video.


The Rabbit By Miike Snow gets me groovin' with its catchy choruses.


Sarah McLachlan new single Loving You Is Easy is a departure from her usual sound. While I like the tune the official video bugs me for some reason. I much prefer her live rendition here.


Fire with Fire By Scissor Sisters is n uplifting, euphoric, anthemic, true-to-life tale about rising up against the odds and fighting "fire with fire".

Kids Movies That I Could Watch Again & Again

As an adult, you may enjoy kid movies for different reasons than you did as a wide-eyed youngster, but that just proves their timelessness.

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Back To The Future

Where The Red Fern Grows

Big

Elf

Home Alone

Mary Poppins

The Lion King

Up

Adventures In Babysitting

Toy Story

Karate Kid

Matilda

Holes

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

My New Favorite Blog:Stuff No One Told Me (but I learned anyways)

I love this blog by illustrator Alex Noriega.

Song Of The Day: Your Love Is My Drug By Ke$ha

I have to admit it.........I like this song. It is my guilty pleasure.

Around The World In 80 Seconds

This is cool but a bit of a visual overload.

Happy Fathers Day

Did you know that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the first Father’s Day? According to the YMCA, the very first Father’s Day was celebrate at the Spokane YMCA in Washington on June 13th, 1910. Of course, today it is celebrated worldwide in more than 80 different countries.
Out of the mouths of babes......I can relate to may of these children as they share what their dad means to them.

I often feel like I am the luckiest person around most days. On Father’s Day & Mother's Day it especially hits me. I have 2 beautiful daughters and a husband who couldn’t be a better a father to them. I love to watch him with them..... he loves to play with them, snuggle with them, help them clean their bedroom and playroom (ok well maybe not that… let’s not get carried away right?) He is loving, caring and always supportive of their needs.

Then there is my Dad… I again feel so blessed to have him in my life and have him be such a huge part of my daughters lives. I cherish the time we are all together and love to watch every minute of it.

Happy Fathers Day. I love you both.

30 Questions

1. It’s 2AM and you are not home. You are more than likely:
Working

2. What’s the last thing you spent more than $100 on?
Kurig Coffeemaker

3. What do your bank checks look like?
They are conservative and plain.

4. Where did the shirt you are currently wearing come from?
Roots

5. Name something that will be on your Christmas wish list.
A sewing machine


6. What color is your toothbrush?
Red and White

7. Name something you collect and tell us about it.
Do sunglasses count? No, seriously, I don't currently collect anything.

8. Last restaurant you ate at. Who were you with? How was it?
Hancs. I was with family and neighbourhood friends. I had Chicken Parmigiana. It was PHENOMENAL. How can anything with cheese be bad?!

9. Who was the last person you bought a birthday card for?
Brooke

10. What is your worst bad habit?
Potty mouth.

11. Name a magazine to which you subscribe?
Shape

12. Your favorite pizza toppings?
Bacon, Tomato Slice, Pineapple, extra cheese.

13. Whose number were you looking up the last time you used a phone book?
Watson Farms.

14. Other than family, who is the person that you love most?
All my friends.

15. What is the last thing you cooked?
Tortellini.

16. Name something you wouldn’t want to buy used?
Underwear

17. Which shoe do you put on first?
No preference.

18. What is the last thing you remember losing?
Other than my mind? Umm, that would be my car keys.

19. What is the ugliest piece of furniture in your house?
A floorlamp my husband bought.

20. Last thing you bought and ended up returning?
I don't usually return things.....so I can't remember.

21. What perfume/cologne do you wear? If none, why?
Right now, it's primarily Shower Fresh By Clean. Sometimes I wear Adidas Natural Vitality.

22. Your favorite board game?
Trivial Pursuit.

23. What was the last board game you played?
Scrabble

24. Where did your vehicle come from?
Japan

25. If a movie was made about your life what would the theme song be?
This is a tough one.



26. You’re sad, who can cheer you up easily?
Alley


27. What was the color of the bridesmaid dresses of the last wedding you went to?
Black

28. What house cleaning chore do you hate to do the most?
Cleaning the fridge and oven

29. What is your favorite way to eat chicken?
Catalina Chicken


30. It is your birthday. You hope the cake is?
White cake with Seven Minute Icing. I also hope the middle is filled with a strawberry glaze or a pineapple upside down cake.

Favorite Magazines

Sometimes I am in the mood to peruse through some magazines. Here are a few of my favorites.

1.) Shape

2.) Real Simple

3.) Fitness

4.) Budget Travel

5.) Taste Of Home

6.) Prevention

7.) Toronto Life

8.) Womens Running

9.) More

10.) People

Good Summer Camp Movies

1.) Indian Summer.......I actually attended this camp when I was younger.
2.) Meatballs
3.) Parent Trap
4.) Dirty Dancing
5.) Friday The 13th

Song Of The Day: Arkansas By Damion Jurado

Damien Jurado is an indie rock singer/songwriter from Seattle, Washington. He is signed to work with the Indiana-based label Secretly Canadian.

Cool Paper Dolls

Paper Dolls used to keep me entertained for hours. I love the Spiderman one.

Mary Tyler Moore

Claire Huxtable

Rosanne Barr

Clay Aiken

Tobey McGuire as Superman

Elvis

Song Of The Day: Holiday By Vampire Weekend

Although the video and sound of the song are cheery, once the lyrics are examined it appears to have a deeper meaning, possibly an allusion to the Iraq War.

Lets Be Thankful For Mr. Wind

What a great concept for an advertisement.

Song Of The Day: Alive By Goldfrapp

I like this infectiously happy song.

Soccer Players Flaunt Their Stuff

While I am not a die hard fan of soccer and the World Cup I am a fan of Annie Leibovitz who photographs some of the reigning gods of the stadium.

Let's Move To Iceland

If this is, in fact, an accurate representation of life in Iceland....I love it. What a great travel ad.

I Love 'Jays STAT'

Want to know how the Toronto Blue Jays did last night? Who performed and who didn't? You can check the boxscores if you want to. Or, you can visit Jays STAT. With a quick glance, you know the score and you know who to praise or who to blame. STAT. Sooner Than Already There. Lens flares? Yeah, we got 'em. Happy cat? Yeah, we got him too. Don't forget the Angry Little Girl. If we see her less that 80 times this season, consider 2010 a success.

Breathe, Pause, Relax

My father recently sent me a sweet Email noting the fact that my blogging was on the decline........


"Hi Jill,
Is your computer broken? (if it is you wouldn't see this anyway). You haven't put anything on your blog in over a week. You have never gone this long before I think. I even phoned Garth the other day and he said that you were just busy. I miss it.
Love, Dad."

Lately I have felt like I have so much coming at me, so many possibilities, so many self-imposed “commitments” of things to read, listen to and watch. Then there are people in my life that I want to be familiar with....to interact with however the quality of relationships and activities has the potential to suffer when I spread myself too thin.
Being a nurse means that I interact with people approximately 40 hours a week and then there is the family time and social activites I engage in. I sometimes begin to feel overwhelmed and it is during this time that I tend to disconnect. I try to manipulate my envionment to carve out some Solo time.

Even during these time of solitude I tend to make mental lists of all of the things I can and should do..... laundry, clean, weed the garden, read a book, blog, do nothing, do everything. The choices themselves then begin to overwhelm me.

Lately I have been doing what is most beneficial for me. I have been spending time unplugged and away from the computer. I have been spending more time outside in my lounge chair daydreaming.....resting my mind and body. Taking time to pause, to breathe, to sit and just be.

Breakfast At Gingers

Mood Music

Thanks to inventions like the iPod, we have the ability to compose our own personal soundtrack for everyday life. But for those of us who don’t have the time to create separate lists for every feeling or activity, there’s StereoMood, which provides excellently created and free playlists that should suit just about any mood you may be in (or hope to be in).

There are certainly lots of options, as the site goes beyond basic emotional states (though it does include the requisite “Happy” and “Sad”) and into specifics, like “Feel Like Crying” (a 260-song list that includes Tom Waits, the Pixies and Blonde Redhead) or “Hopeful.” It also supplies lists for particular occasions or activities, like “It’s Raining,” and “Spring Cleaning.” So just sit back and let the site program the day’s soundtrack for you.

Television Oldies

My Dad sent me the most interesting link that is too good not to share.
Here you will find a collection of some amazing old stuff such as......

JACKIE GLEASON ON THE ROCKY MARCIANO SHOW THE MAIN EVENT(1960)
Jackie recalls his early days as a night club comic in Newark, NJ (and the brawl);
also, Jackie receives a humanitarian award from Rocky and salutes sidekick Art Carney

JAMES DEAN: HIS FINAL TV APPEARENCE (1954)
Rebellious trait obvious, James Dean talks about car racing and safety on Gig Young's show;
Walks off set a mention of speeding; eerily, Dean was killed days later in a tragic car collisiom.

ELVIS SINGS BLUE SUEDE SHOES (1956)
Elvis Presley debuts on "The Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey Show."

A TRIBUTE TO ELVIS PRESLEY, THE KING OF ROCK & ROLL (1959-62)
Clips of The King from his early days to induction into the Army, see The King's mom, dad & Col. Tom. Hear Elvis' first #1 1957 hit for RCA, Heartbreak Hotel.

THE EDSEL INTRODUCED ON NBC (1957)
Ford paid the network big dollars (in those days) to run this filmed The Edsel Show promotion. Ford canned the car shortly after; it is today a revered automotive classic.

BOBBY DARIN'S "MACK THE KNIFE" (1959)
Bobby opened his first of hour variety shows performing his biggest number one hit.

WESTINGHOUSE DEBUTS HI-TECH "ADVANCED TV" (1951)
Show the kids hi-tech video blossoming before anyone heard of cable, satellite or HDTV. They may chuckle. The "one knob-no antenna-black matrix pix tube" had viewers in awe..but it was a technical disaster.

BLOOPERS FROM THE HONEYMOONERS (1957-58)
On live TV: Audrey misses her entrance cue, Jackie's fly is open (watch how brilliantly he improvs).
Jackie slips on the set (happened again at CBS, where he broke his leg)

THE CENSORED JERRY LEE LEWIS HERE UNCENSORED! (1957-59)
Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls Of Fire! The' "Killer" smooches his child bride cousin on a filmed news interview
on stage, he goes wild performing (looks like today's metal rockers). The networks nixed both.

The original FAMILY AFFAIR (1966)
Brian Keith & Sebastian Cabot sin the last of the sentimental family sitcoms (despite failed 2004 remake.
An affluent bachelor and his butler suddenly gain custody of adorable orphaned nieces and nephew.

ALAN FREED'S BIG BEAT DANCE PARTY DANCERS (1959)
Local NYC Ch. 5 Freed show regulars dance and post-payola Alan Freed's parting statement plus Dick Clark's rigid payola statement to an angry Senate investigator

THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW (1957)
Steverino's classic rock and roll poetic hate reading of Be Bop A Lula, no apology to Gene Vincent. Steve snubbed rock, had no rock acts on his show, but then booked them on his shows to get ratings

PETTICOAT JUNCTION (1962)
Bea Bernadette and Edgar Buchanan bring up three perky teenage countrypolitan girls in Hooterville, at the Shady Rest Hotel; this show was the precursor to Green AcresToot toot!

THE HONEYMOONERS ...IN COLOR! 1969
Ralph & Ed are jailed in Paris, accused of counterfeiting. Ed's escape plan backfires with hilarious results. Gleason wanted the show taped by Wometco TV in Miami, Audrey Meadows & Joyce Randolph had NYC commitments
Shiela Macrae & Jane Kean played wives Alice & Trixie; TV audiences didn't accept the change.

Full Episode THE LONE RANGER 1955
Hi Ho, Silver! It's the grandaddy of weekly TV western series starring oft masked Clayton Moore. The Lone Ranger was the top rated #1 of the many Saturday afternoon "thataway" exciting oaters Here is the full version of the debut episode, Enter The Lone RangerHi, Ho Silver!

THE ADVENTURES OF FLIPPER 1964
Let's get our minds off killer whales and go back to this beloved, adorable dolphin. Each week this amazing mammal fascinated kids and adults by solving mysteries!

THE ROOTS OF TV BASEBALL 1950-57
Visual newsreel memories of baseball's great early years, featuring a tribute to Jackie Robinson
So relevant now: Robinson broke the color line in baseball, Obama in the US presidency.

I LOVE LUCY 1952
Highlights from TV episodes involving the coming of "Little Ricky" that captured viewer's hearts. Ricky gets the news during his club performances, he and the Mertzes go frenetic when "it's time".

Full episode THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW 1962
You asked for it, here it is, Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore with guest Bob Crane (Hogan's Heroes . Dick is directing a community theatre show, Mary sings & dances a vampy Calypso song Ohhh, Rob!

THE BEATLES FIRST TELEVISION APPEARANCE 1963
Not yet on Sullivan or in the U.S., the Fab Four debuted "She Loves You" On The Mersey Sound

FRANK SINATRA SPEAKS CANDIDLY 1954
Would you believe, a humble Frank Sinatra? He speaks openly about the bad years,
gratitude to Bob Hope & his all time favorite movie role (can you guess which one?)

PASSWORD 1962
Allen Ludden hosted this enormously popular game show 1962 to 1971 on all 3 networks & syndication Allen vies celebs Carol Burnett and Gary Moore against contestants to win $250-big prize then

The Phenomenon STAR TREK TV ON DEMAND 1966-present
Now you don;'t have to sit up and wait until 3AM when stations run Star Trek episodes. Get them here right now!.
Watch Full Episodes of Star Trek, Star Trek:The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager, Enterprise

THE LIVE TV FRIDGE COMMERCIAL CATASTROPHE 1954
Poor Westinghouse. If their built in antenna TV fiasco wasn't enough, more flawed, chagrin causing infamy: the automatic referigerator door that jammed on this live nationally broadcast commercial. Bet heads rolled!

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS 1959
With a "good evening," came melodramatic thrillers from the Master Of Suspense, Alfred Hitchccock. The man whose big screen movies kept us on the edge of our seats brought the same to small screens

THE LITTLE RASCALS 1955
The top Saturday morning TV attraction in the 50's was the re-worked MGM "Our Gang Comedies" This favorite classic episode has Darla wooing Alfalfa rather than vice versa on Valentine Day. Of course, the other guys would throw a hilarious gremlin in Alfalfa's romantic ballad crooning.

Full episode LOST IN SPACE 1966
Danger Will Robinson! The world's first and last outer space sitcom; today, like "Trek," has fan conventions. This episode guest stars Mercedes Mc Cambridge (The Exorcist), here as matriarch of alien hillbillies who grow a "Little Shop of Horrors" intruded upon by Dr Snith (Jonathan Harris) and Will (Bill Muny)

BEWITCHED 1966
Wriggle your nose, it's Elizabeth Montgomery as that saucy, sassy, beautiful, bedazzling witch
and Dick York as her befuddled hubbie, Darren.

I DREAM OF JEANIE 1966
Out of the bottle comes that lusciously capricious Jeanie, Barbara Eden (blink-blink).
Larry Hagman is her adopted master.

MIKE WALLACE & EDWARD R. MURROW 1952-54
If you thought Mike Wallace was tough on "60 Minutes," wait 'til you see him on the fifties!.
You won't believe what he said to Steve Allen (neither did Allen, most likely), but Kirk Douglas got his say)

A Well Orchestrated Marriage Proposal

Could she really say no after all that?