Mama B. Blog

Random musings from Mama B, mother of three. All sorts of useful and useless information for ANYONE interested in whatever strikes my fancy - from art to parenting issues to celebrity gossip etc. Check in to MamaB Blog every day for multiple updates. It's never dull here!

Monday, October 30, 2006

Is this sexy?




Really? Have girls forgotten what it means to be classy and sexy or is it all about being trashy now?

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

The Beckhams on Ali G

This is a hilarious spot. You can't believe what Ali G says!!! He is great! And Becks is a babe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdjOuXMaba4

Friday, October 20, 2006

As a kid of the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s or 70s...


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking .

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......


WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!


We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem .

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 1 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents .

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned


HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Dalai Lama Does the Body Good



In a shocking turn of very serious events, Elle Macpherson has dropped a law suit against Heidi Klum for using her nickname "the Body". Macpherson brought the suit up due to Klum's use of the nickname in a Victoria's Secret commercial. After a Time magazine article that was printed in 1986 coined Macperson "the Body", she felt it was her nickname and no one else's.

There may be millions of people in the world who happen to have bodies, but in her mind, she is "THE Body". So, anyway, it seems the supermodel of the 80s saw the light when she heard the Dalai Lama's teachings. Now, she doesn't seem to think it is a big deal. So, she dropped the suit. Good choice, Elle. You wouldn't want to look like an egotistical spoiled model or anything.

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Break Dancing RULES!

Okay, I have to admit it, the fact that this video is totally cool has to do with the fact that this bacon can break! Want to learn some new moves on the dance floor? Eat a good breakfast, not for the nutrition, but because it might stand up and do this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yreDqMQKTIU

Friday, October 06, 2006

Is It Still Worth It George W?

As of today, October 6, 2006, in the Iraq war, the Iraqi civilian body count is between 43,000 and 48,000.

The total US troops lost = 2,737.

2,973= confirmed deaths from 9-11 World Trade Center bombings in 2001.

I am not a huge Bush fan, but you won't find me marching in any protests either. There comes a time in any situation where you must step back and look at the big picture. What is going on here in America? What is going on in Iraq? Does anyone know anymore?

If you look at the numbers here, Saddam Hussein is not looking like the bad guy anymore, because he is not holding the strings. Bush is. And Bush needs to figure out how to get us out of this mess without creating anymore damage. So, when Bush leaves office, what's next? Who is going to clean this up, Hillary? Doubt it. Why can't Colin Powell run for office? I know he doesn't want to put his family through the meat grinder, but what about his country? I can't look at any of the possible candidates for the next election and see a front runner that seems like a noble leader. John McCain? Sort of scary. Gore? Certainly not. Who the heck is going to save the United States?

God help AMERICA!!

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Ponderisms

I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die
of natural causes.

Gardening Rule: When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing
a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the
ground easily, it is a valuable plant.

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a
replacement.

Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.

There are two kinds of pedestrians: the quick and the dead.

Life is sexually transmitted.

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.

Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for anything, but you
still can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of
nothing.

Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks
about seeing UFOs like they used to?

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to
criticism.

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is
weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a
whole box to start a campfire?

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze
these dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out?"

Who was the first person to say, "See that chicken there? I'm gonna eat
the next thing that comes outta its butt."

Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer?

If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him?

If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup?

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at
you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the
window?

Does pushing the elevator button more than once make it arrive faster?

Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?

Unknown author.

Worth $1 Million?





I don't mean to be cold or rude, but for some reason, I don't think Anna Nicole has kicked her reported methadone habit. Here is her big day. A wedding in the Bahamas to her "long time love" and lawyer, Howard Stern. What I want to know is what is HE getting out of this? A big, fat, trashy, crazy, drug addicted media whore. Sorry, that's just the way it is. I'm sure she is really nice, but seriously... This would be a great halloween costume though, and not too difficult to achieve the look! All you need is an XL wedding dress, a blond stringy wig, some huge fake eyelashes, some bronzer, a fat suit and some baby oil smeared all over your face!

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Speed Reading

This is one of the many tricks to speed reading. They teach you to look at the frsit & lsat letetr of a word and your brain will fill in the rest.
Pretty cool.

If you can read this, you have a strange mind too. Olny 833 plepoe can to this point. Can you raed tihs?

I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy. It dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Lucy turned 5 today! Happy Birthday Luigi!!!

Goldfrapp
Stict Machine.

Great video!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzQy8fl2uYo&NR