Holidazzle Memories - Minneapolis Christmas just is not the same.

Long ago and far away we used to have a Christmas parade in Downtown Minneapolis called Holidazzle - they now have a market they call the same, but it's not. 

Here take a look at one from 2009

In honor of The White House "Rick-Roll"

In honor of the "Rick-Roll" by The White House Twitter Account - I re-post this Friday Video for you from July 30th, 2009 - ironically when we were also on our way to Breezy Point and where I am right now!



Enjoy your week kids - we are off to Breezy!
p.s. I created this post Thursday night and came into work to publish this a.m. But, the Doctor beat me to the pop-culture reference!

Who's gonna drive you home, tonight?

Its kind of a strange video, but it was the 80's and a time when MTV played all the videos. You had to do something to get noticed!

What I love most about this video is Benjamin Orr's voice.

He obviously did not sing all of The Cars songs, but he sang some of my FAVORITES.  I will put up my absolute favorite next Friday.  Today you get Drive because I asked @BarbAbney to play it for Tonal Recall on @TheCurrent.

Happy Friday My Designated Drivers.

Mastercard needs a new ad agency...

Seriously?  This commercial is BUGGING ME SO MUCH.  I couldn't find the US version, but the Aussie version is basically the same video with different voice-over.

Why on EARTH Mastercard would you want to have commercial that showed a guy buying a toothbrush "just in case" for a FIRST DATE?!?!?!?!

No, I am not a prude and I realize that people have sex on first dates sometimes...but really Mastercard?  Do you have to go there?  And if you are going to "go there" where were the condoms he should have purchased for this first date?  Hmmmm?  Too MUCH for your television audience Mastercard?  Then DON'T have someone buying a g-d TOOTHBRUSH "JUST IN CASE" for a FIRST FREAKING DATE. 

If I were that girl and found out he did that...it would have been OVER right then and there. 

*clears throat and steps off soapbox*

Enjoy your weekend and don't forget to brush and floss peeps.

Happy Home (Keep on writing)

I hope this song makes you feel special today.

I chose it for two reasons:

1) I want to keep life exciting
2) I want to not kill my hubby while we paint this weekend.

Happy Friday Peeps!

I want my MTV...well, circa 1990

I have a friend, let's call her "Hot Fresh Nug", and she posted a little Facebook discussion that started like this...

Someone wrestle the remote from (..her husband..). He's making us watch Biodome with Pauly Shore.

And instantly I was transported back to the days when you had no one to be responsible for but yourself - class was something you tried to get to - Jenny McCarthy was paid to punch guys about the head and chest - and a great movie had absolutely no.point.at.all.



Thanks Lisa - Lisa - the Gurl I a-DORE!

We should have been invited because we are birthday twins!

Born June 21, 1967

Boy at the top? Born June 21, 1982

Girl in center? Born January 9, 1982

Born January 9, 2006

Psst.  Don't tell @ThePeteBye about this post...he is sick of hearing about "The Royal Wedding" already.

The day this was filmed was about 90 degrees...

We could use some of that heat....

I let YouTube decide...

The wind was howling in the just budding spring trees.  It heralds the wintry blast we face this weekend her in the land of sky blue waters. 

I snuggled into my husband's fleece jackent and jumped into the car headed toward the Y.  I was going to lift weights again today - but I am so tired.  I made it - and chatted with Marvin a bit too about the bike trailer he converted to haul his dogs around Palmer Lake.  Marvin is the old guy who knows EVERYONE and has a bunch of little dogs and a wife who puts up with him...

I decided that today's Friday video would be YouTube's decision. 

I logged in and the veryfirst recommended for ME video was this.



I am still unclear how YouTube recommends a Korean Boy Band for me, Booger Pizzabuns, but I liked it anyway.

FYI - I tried to look them up and I found out the had a "come back" album last year.  Like, you know, because they are old and washed up.  ;P

Via tokyohive:

Korean boy band BIG BANG has just revealed that they will release their second Japanese album in May!

According to the new banner at the top of the group’s official Japanese website, their next album “BIGBANG 2″ will hit stores on May 11th. This will be their second release of 2011 as a group, their first being their Korean comeback mini-album.

Since no other information has been revealed, Japanese VIPs should continue checking their website for more news on this exciting new album.

This too shall pass...

*** Zoo Machine ***

This is what happens when you eat purple cotton candy BEFORE you eat lunch...

For the girls...

I almost think that is a better version than the one we saw at Willow Creek! 

The last song of my workout today.

So its "lamenting" but such a damn fun bubble-gum sound that I dare you not to be smiling by the time you are sixty seconds into this song...



Happy Friday Peeps! 

p.s. if I read your blog and don't have your badge on my Peeps tab above - tell me to come grab it!

Mother! Mother! (you do know I am forty-something, right?)

I love love love my mother - she is my FAVORITE person to talk to about stuff.  She is the best. 

This past weekend our furnace went out.  Since I was taking @iambooboolala to a birthday party in their neighborhood I called and asked if I could borrow a space heater to help out until we got the part to fix the furnace.  (T-bone can fix things like that.  My best friend in college's mother told us, "Marry rich, or potential to be rich, or at least make sure he can fix shit around the house.")  My parents told us that they could locate one and asked when we would be over. 

"About five."
"Okay, see you then."

Driving to the party about 2pm I get a call on my cell phone.

"Lisa Ann?"
'Yeah Dad?'
"You're mother is all worried about @Iambooboolala being too cold tonight.  Do you want her to stay with us?"
"Dad, I am half-way to Chaska now and didn't bring any clothes with for her, so I don't think that will work."
"Well..."
"Dad, T-bone has the in-floor heat going and with the space heaters the house should be just fine."
"Okay, see you later."

Mothers.
Did she really think I wouldn't keep my baby warm that I spent three years trying to get, nine months growing and twenty-two months breastfeeding?

No.  She really didn't.  She was just being a Grandma.

But it made me laugh later that day when I heard this song on the radio.



Happy Friday!

I don't like spiders...

Welcome back to Friday Videos!  This is a nice clip of The National and their song Terrible Love.

"It takes an ocean not to break." 

I love that line.

I wish I could write like that.

Enjoy.

Even Ugly Girls Would Punch You In The Weiner!

Gentlemen, step AWAY from the teddy.

Okay - I found a video worthy of reviving my FRIDAY VIDEO

It matters NOT what you think of Randy Moss...this is just funny.

"Well Dick, I give it an 8 because it has a nice beat and you can dance to it."

Hey All - the MN Bloggers are getting together again - comment or email me if you want the details!!

We are fabulous!

I listen (and support!) The Current here in Minnesota - except for ONE minor detail...

please please please stop playing MIA - XXXO

if I hear it again I may XXXO YOU!  Ugh.  Bored.  Really.  It's NOT a good song...

This one is though....



Random things.

Boo Boo got up at about five am and came into my room.  She was awake for a bit and asked for cereal...she fell asleep with the bowl in her lap and didn't spill a bit!

Our cat Roofis is NUTZO.  If he hears you open a bottle he comes running to try and steal the cap - you know on water bottles or soda pops???  Yup, and he skitters them across the wood floors and carries them up the stairs to knock them down them all.  It is only funny when it is not 2 am.  He also follows me around everywhere and tries to "beat" me to the next spot - this morning it meant that he slid across the living room floor and then sat there and looked at me with a "HA! Beat ya!" look on his puss!

I am tired.  (aren't we all?) and tonight we are celebrating a friends BIG birthday at Lee's Liquor Lounge.  Again my friends attempt to make me look hip and young.... HA!

I *might* need a latte.

OH!  And do NOT forget to enter the GIVE GIVE GIVE - it is a thank you to my readers. 

drawing is Wednesday, September 15...

and, AHEM, Iris?  You did not comment to get your second entry for blogging my giveaway...get ON it.

Fabulous Friday

LOOK WHO IS FABULOUS TODAY!

My dear Boo Boo La La - found also on twitter @iambooboolala - took her very first horse ride for Miss M's birthday two Sunday's ago...she told me she was scared on Saturday evening, but the second she saw the horses in the pasture on the way up the driveway she excitedly squeeled:

"Do I get to ride the horsies right away!"

I was so proud of her...we even got video.

Now go visit my house twin.

How to keep your friends from wanting a baby,