So here's the gift I'm crazy-in-love with, right now. I got my daughter, Cara, a Kindle for Christmas (no worries -- she knows! I let her open it to make sure everything was fine, and so Cara could change the registration to her own name and Amazon account, so she did that, today, and started to download some books onto her new Kindle for Christmas Morning. I was looking at the Kindle, tonight, and it is, bar none, the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I'm gonna get one for my Mum and Dad, too (also, not to worry -- they don't read my site! haha!). Did you know you can download up to 3,500 books onto Kindle?? And there are 16,000 books available FOR FREE (if you know me even a little, you'll know I loove the word, 'Free'!! haha! You know how people winning awards always say, 'You had me at 'Hello'??' haha! Well, for me, 'You had me at 'free'!! lol! And Cara was telling me that Amazon releases 40 new books per month, boks that you would normally buy, so you don't have to pay for those ones, then they put up a fresh new 40 books each month... hmmm. I think I shouldn't have taken dat cough medicine before started writing... that last bit seemed a bit odd, but now (or poorly worded -- sowwwy!!), but I'm far to lazy/tired/stressed out about work to go back and fix it... I knows fer sures me favourite Computer Friend (dat YOU, babycakes!! haha!) can figure me out... chances are high that you mightta taken a little something, yourself, before you turned on youse computer, too! hahahaha! (Oh, you know that makes me laugh!)(and that's not just the cough syrup talkin', neither!! lol!)
Man, I had a direct link for you to get to the Kindle, too, but I canny remember what I did with it.. I thought I put it on my books page, because I was making reference to Kathy Griffin's hilarious book, and the links were connected to that... ah, well. I'll find it one day... maybe tomorrow! Oh, and did you know you can turn the Kindle on it's side (I'm not clear on this, so this I need to investigate/see it for meself) and make a magic wish, and the Kindle will read the book out loud to you!! Oh My God. That is the COOLEST thing, ever. I teach Special Education, and this would be amazing for them -- any book they would like to read is now at their fingertips -- that's a total miracle! And if you are driving, and want to have a book read to you, you no longer have to enlist some boring friend to read it out loud to you! hahaha! Oh, and get this... the Kindle has a built in dictionary, so when you're reading along and come to a word you're not sure of, you click on the word and the definition comes up -- OMG!!! Say it ain't so!! It's an English Teacher's DREAM!! It's anyone who loves to read, or has ever opened a book (!)'s dream!! haha! It feels great in your hands, too -- they must have worked soo hard to make it feel like a regular book reading experience -- sooo cool! The Kindle is the coolest thing out there! Cara's been making her own Kindle Covers, too -- they're really easy to make... a nice little project you can try when you get your new Kindle!! haha!
After you get your Kindle, it is sooo much fun to browse through all the books... there are soo many books for FREE (yippee!), that you can download right onto your Kindle from Amazon. One of my favorite things is this 'Sample' section, where you choose any book you might like to have a wee look at before you buy it... soo much fun! You get the first 5 - 10 pages (I think the author might decide.. who knows this sort of technical information -- clearly, no' me! haha!).
Anyway, last night, we were playing around with Cara's Kindle, and she put it on 'Text to Speech', where the Kindle will read out loud to you -- hilarious! Of course, I chose a male voice to read a female author's book (yep, that's what I'm like... anything for a laugh!), so I was listening/reading the Sample of You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning (funny!), by Celia Rivenbark.. oooh, soo funny! She is an hilarious writer, and new for me, so all very exciting to discover a new funny person!
You can listen to pretty much any book, though... don't wait 'til you're in the car, driving to nowhere, just so you can listen to your new Kindle! hahaha! (this is something I would be likely to do, but the chances are high that I would 'accidentally' be driving to Vegas! hahaha! What, how did I wake up in Vegas (again?? hahaha!)
Have fun with your new Kindle!! Your Friend in Kindle, Ailsa xox!
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Survivor Nicaragua: Jane Voted Out!
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010... Wow, canny believe it's the 15th, already -- only 10 days 'til Christmas!! Yahoo!!! Are you all set? Got all your gifts?? I always get to the point where I make the declaration to everyone, 'That's it! That's too many gifts! No more Gifts!! I'm not doing ANY more shopping!', then the next thing you know, I'm in yet another store, finding 'the perfect' gift for Cara! haha! Aidan (my wonderful 11 year old son) is waaay less likely to get an impromtu gift from me, because, for the life of me, I cannot tell any of his toys apart... they all look the same to me. He is crazy about Lego, loooves Video Games, loves Wii Games... poor Aidan -- even his books seem the same to me! I have to take Aidan with me to pick out most of his own stuff, since he can remember the tiniest detail of every single toy he owns, and find one with a slight difference... and the Lego is hilarious, because he's desperate for the new Lego, and the big boxes of Lego are, like, $84.99, if you're lucky, and he has the whole thing done in under an hour, then it's carefully put away, where he will occasionally look at it, but he loves it just the same...
So here's the gift I'm crazy-in-love with, right now. I got my daughter, Cara, a Kindle for Christmas (no worries -- she knows! I let her open it to make sure everything was fine, and so Cara could change the registration to her own name and Amazon account, so she did that, today, and started to download some books onto her new Kindle for Christmas Morning. I was looking at the Kindle, tonight, and it is, bar none, the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I'm gonna get one for my Mum and Dad, too (also, not to worry -- they don't read my site! haha!). Did you know you can download up to 3,500 books onto Kindle?? And there are 16,000 books available FOR FREE (if you know me even a little, you'll know I loove the word, 'Free'!! haha! You know how people winning awards always say, 'You had me at 'Hello'??' haha! Well, for me, 'You had me at 'free'!! lol! And Cara was telling me that Amazon releases 40 new books per month, boks that you would normally buy, so you don't have to pay for those ones, then they put up a fresh new 40 books each month... hmmm. I think I shouldn't have taken dat cough medicine before started writing... that last bit seemed a bit odd, but now (or poorly worded -- sowwwy!!), but I'm far to lazy/tired/stressed out about work to go back and fix it... I knows fer sures me favourite Computer Friend (dat YOU, babycakes!! haha!) can figure me out... chances are high that you mightta taken a little something, yourself, before you turned on youse computer, too! hahahaha! (Oh, you know that makes me laugh!)
(and that's not just the cough syrup talkin', neither!! lol!)
(and that's not just the cough syrup talkin', neither!! lol!)
Man, I had a direct link for you to get to the Kindle, too, but I canny remember what I did with it.. I thought I put it on my books page, because I was making reference to Kathy Griffin's hilarious book, and the links were connected to that... ah, well. I'll find it one day... maybe tomorrow! Oh, and did you know you can turn the Kindle on it's side (I'm not clear on this, so this I need to investigate/see it for meself) and make a magic wish, and the Kindle will read the book out loud to you!! Oh My God. That is the COOLEST thing, ever. I teach Special Education, and this would be amazing for them -- any book they would like to read is now at their fingertips -- that's a total miracle! And if you are driving, and want to have a book read to you, you no longer have to enlist some boring friend to read it out loud to you! hahaha! Oh, and get this... the Kindle has a built in dictionary, so when you're reading along and come to a word you're not sure of, you click on the word and the definition comes up -- OMG!!! Say it ain't so!! It's an English Teacher's DREAM!! It's anyone who loves to read, or has ever opened a book (!)'s dream!! haha! It feels great in your hands, too -- they must have worked soo hard to make it feel like a regular book reading experience -- sooo cool! The Kindle is the coolest thing out there! Cara's been making her own Kindle Covers, too -- they're really easy to make... a nice little project you can try when you get your new Kindle!! haha!
So they finally voted Jane off on Survivor, tonight... but did you happen to see the little blurb at the end, when they show who voted for which castaway?? Jane voted for SASH, after everything Jeff Probst said about having a 3 - 3 tie... now that was more telling for me than anything have seen Jane do throughout the game, and no wonder Danny and Fabio still went ahead and put her name down... and I'm pretty sure Chase will be safe enough to return home to North Carolina, even if he DID write Jane's name down... it's a GAME... but I loved when all the loved ones came on the show -- Fabio (now we know his real name is Judd -- had completely forgotten that! haha!), loooves his Mom, so we love him even more, now, and really want him to win the million dollars, but I looved it when Danny's son kept kissing his Dad. That was soo sweet. Now I don't even mind if Danny wins the million dollars!! haha!
Otay, I gotsta bounce, baby! Enjoy the after-affects of whatever you've been up to!! lol! And dinny forget to watch the Season Finale of Survivor on Sunday night.... and Bridal Plasty is on that night, too, so that gives me something sweeet to look forward to! (get past my particularly horrible week... but soon I feel like I will be free, myself, and I think the first thing I want to do is build a nice, pretty, two-storey house in Canada... Belleville, Ontario, Canada, to be exact. I used to think I wanted to re-build the house on this website (it's all mine, baby...!!), but I think if I want to go back to being a house builder (which is a shame, in a way, since I loove teaching, but I can't deal with the politics, any more.... it's killing me. My heart is racing, I spent a good portion of today in tears -- and I'm not paid enough to even cover my regular expenses, so, you know, it's hard to justify it, any longer... what happened to the days when teachers were treated with respect? When did it become such a political mess?? Man, there's soo much training to become a teacher (I've been a teacher for 26 years, now, yet am still only 32! haha! I kid! I'm 47! Silly! I just like to look like I might be 32, if, say, you took your glasses off! hahaha!), but they should tell you the students are the best part, and the politics of teaching can be a total nightmare... Night night!! Nighty Night! You know you're my favorite!! Ailsa xox!
Sunday, December 12, 2010
#Bridalplasty... Wait, Pump Your Brakes, Biitches... #Weddings #Marriage
Man, I laughed my way through Bridal Plasty, tonight... just soo many crazy girls, and everyone sayin' some serious sh*t... I loved when Allyson tells Jaime she and her 'fiance' had a Wedding Budget of $25,000! hahahaha! Come on -- don't you have to have a job to plan a big-asss wedding like that?? Puh-leeease. Don't tell me they got to the first $100 and couldn't resist blowing it all on a brand new ... tattoo!! hahaha! Oh, soo classy. Classy lady.
And I loooved it when Kristen excitedly goes off to get her 'new boobs', and the doctor is playin' with them during surgery, to see if they're 'just right'! hahaha! Man, this stuff was made for TV! I'm lovin' it! And I loved when the doctors did a fist bump, right before Kristen's surgery... so that's what doctors do to signal they're ready to start, uh, pumping you up.... maybe that's what Netty means by 'pump your brakes'... maybe she meant to say 'pump your boobs'... and hilarious that no one seems to ever refer to their breasts as 'breasts', only boobs.. oh, so refined. Such delicate, lovely ladies... :)
I felt soo sorry for Cheyenne, clearly suffering with her new nose.. man, that looks insanely painful. Every time I look at Cheyenne wincing in pain, I think of the vivid description of rhinoplasty in Kathy Griffin's book.. sounds horrific (not the book -- it's hilarious... the nose job, baby!). But what I don't understand, is why do people, any people, have to endure pain, any more? Don't we have all sorts of pain medicine available? Why not just dope yourself up for a week, or so, until the pain goes away... you'll sleep for a week, wake up with a new nose (and maybe even a new attitude, but, dammit, probably the same fiance! hahaha! --me own private joke! lol!).
But I've gotta say, my favorite two crazies in the house are Janessa and Alexandra... man, that Alexandra is a really pretty girl, until she opens up her mouth... puts her foot right in it... she's soo mad that she might be voted out, she's gonna quit... yes, that's brilliant. Good Plan! What a good thinker! She's soo furious that "there is only 7 more chances to win, and all the times I skipped drinking for this"... sooo unfair!! Did you hear her?? She skipped drinking for a few days!! Omg, they should just let her win, right now, goddammit! What's wrong with these other girls (who "are making me look like a bitch", says Alexandra!), who appear to ALSO want to win da big prizes... it's the one show where you want 'big slashes' in your prizes! har, har! Oh, man, she's an angry girl.. you gotta love that! Oh, and when Alexandra was all full-of-herself, parading down the runway in her wedding dress, thinking she was all that, and Phillip, the judge, says, 'oh, you remind me of someone', and Alexandra pipes in, without missing a beat, "Eva Longoria??" hahaha! Uhh, nope. The Phillip says her dress looks like crap from the front, but from the back even worse. Priceless!
When Janessa was sitting in the room, talking to Alexandra, looking like complete hell... you're on TV, on a show specifically designed to improve your looks, wouldn't you want to try to look your best? Oh, so funny. This is not the time to 'fugly' yourself up, right in front of the cameras! haha! But Alexandra goes ahead and spills the beans that she's there to get the plastic surgery, not the wedding --- hmmmm, who saw that coming? These girls are mental wizards, I tells ya! It's a shame, though, because soo many of the girls are there mostly for the wedding, since they are really lovely, pretty girls... but crazy that Jaime was upset about being voted off (no one RRSP'd to her 'wedding' hahaha!), when she's already married, with children. No. what's this business about having to have a million weddings? I know a girl who had yet another wedding, but has been married for years... and these idiots expect you to bring a gift every time they 'get married all over again'.. no, that's called an anniversary, and you don't get any presents from every person you ever met for that. Just go have dinner, get home to the kids! lol!
Poor Kristen. Some people still ask her for her ID, on account o' her .. small breasts? Smallish brain?? I loved it, when she's all done with her surgery, watching the RRSP vote, finally beginning to see some sort of... pattern... in how the girls vote. Why, it's like the girls have formed some sort of... alliances... and didn't it look like her new 'boobs' are right up by her chin?? Is hilarious! Omg, what a great show!
And now Bridal Plasty has come down to The Good Girls vs. The Bad Girls, and the Queen of the Bad Girls is Janessa... who refers to herself as the puppet-master... man, you can tell this show is unscripted, 'cause you couldn't write this stuff, or get any respectable actor to say the lines... lol!
We watched the Season Finale of The Amazing Race, too, and those toothy doctors, Nat and Kat, won... ugh. I hate when wealthy people win big money prizes. But I'm glad the A.D.D. girl and her fugly sidekick didn't win... I liked Jill, the hair dresser (she looked like she'd have enough money to make it on her own, dump her arrogant boyfriend... lol! See how I think?? haha!)... then we watched the preview for the next Amaziong Race, and it's just all the people who didn't win, from before... ugh. I hate that, too. (Really, I'm jam-packed full of hate, for really important things, like TV shows, 'n such... lol!) Let new people have a chance... and I can't stand ADD girl -- man, can you imagine being stuck in a room with her, bouncing off the walls? Or her fugly sidekick, with nothing to say, except for the occasional put-down for the Jumper? Or maybe, 'My face still hurts...' I don't know which one I disliked, more... but I didn't think we'd have to see their faces on TV, again.. and were those the easiest 'final tasks' you've ever seen? Looked like stuff you'd pay to do... bungee jumping in Long Beach, putting some flowers in a vase in Pasadena, playing a quick Match Game with Bob Eubanks... sounds like a great day, to me!!
Cara and I watched Kendra, too... she's on her own, now... yep, sure looks like she is... doesn't it look like Kendra and Hank are completely separated, now? Poor girl. We really like her. Hank, I'm not so sure of... he seemed kind of controlling in some of the episodes (you married a PLAYBOY girl, so why would you expect her to turn into your mom?? And why does he call her 'mama'?? Yuck! A sure recipe for disaster, when a couple (especially a young couple) call each other mom and dad... eeewwww. No. Keeps your roles straight. The children call you mom and dad, you call each other by your given names, or a sweet name (okay sometimes there's a slight slip and it's a not-very-nice name...), but never, mom and dad... yick! So it's not looking good for Hank and Kendra, but man, that baby is sooo cute! Will be fun to see how this season plays itself out.. :)
Okay, you can see I have had a very, very busy night of continual TV watching -- me favorite! haha! Yours too, maybe! I hope you had a great night, too... and have many s'mores! See you soon, Ailsa xoxI hope you're having THE best week, ever! Ailsa : )
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