Corey Haim : Dec. 23-1971-March 10, 2010

What's the proper process when an 80s star dies? Do you put your neon colored leg warmers at half staff? Do you caress a slinky? Pour out some Kool-Aid? Use too much hairspray? Practice french kissing a poster of him like you used to do in 1988, umm, that wasn't me. I hear some people did that. I didn't.
Moving on.
I don't know what you do, but i know that yesterday i hung my head low when i got news that my former crush, Corey Haim, died of an overdose.
Was anyone surprised? No, i mean, didn't the dude try to sell his tooth on Ebay (or was the Screech?), but i was still sad.
There's no denying that License to Drive was one of the best movies! And i have 3 words that describe the awesomeness that was Corey Haim: The Lost Boys. Shut the front door Twilight. The Lost Boys is what a vampire movie should be. Not only did it make me want to be a vampire and marry Jason Patric, but it also gave you a double dose of the Coreys!
Here is my tribute to you Corey:

Census Smensus

I was kind of excited when i saw the census letter in the mailbox. For some reason, i felt more grown up that i was getting to do the census. the last time the census came i was a teen living at home, but now i'm a grown lady!

I grabbed the letter and a pen and prepared to do what the gov't has been telling us for weeks: fill it out and return it.

But when i opened the letter i was disappointed in not only its contents, but also our government. There was no census form in that envelope. It was just a letter from the head census guy reminding me that i will be getting the actual census in a couple of weeks and that i should fill it out.

Umm, ok. Aren't we in a recession? So isn't it a waste of money -- and trees -- to send out millions of reminder letters, especially considering every time i turn around i hear something about the census either on TV or on the radio. How many jobs could have been created, or mouths could have been fed with the money used to create and mail those reminder letters? I know, i know, i sound like Rush O'Reilly, but seriously gov't, this is ridiculous.

I can't promise that I will be as excited when the real census comes. No promises that i'm sending it back either. What's worse than the boy who cried wolf? The gov't who cried census.

Words from mama

I'm a Quilted Northern girl.Always have been. So when James suggested we buy the Wally World brand toilet paper, i'm almost flipped my lid. My mama passed me down many words of wisdom and one nugget of that wisdom was this:

There are two things in life you don't buy generic of, deodorant and toilet paper.

My mama was a wise woman.

Hey Oscar, i've got some suggestions

Like any normal person, i keep a list of the changes i'm going to make when i'm president/world dominator. And last night the Oscars inspired me to make some additions:

• The televised portion of the Oscars will only include the following awards: Best Actor/Actress, Best Supporting Actor/Actress, Best Director and Best Movie. Yeah yeah, i think the score, editing, and all the other jazz that makes a movie cool is important and all, but not 3.5 hours important. Come on peeps. You know what we are tuning in for, and in case you don't, here's a clue: it ain't to see who wins best foreign film or best lighting in a documentary.
  
  
• There will be a horror category that actually gets Oscars. Last night the show had a little clip tribute which made me realize that the creator of Child's Play deserves an Oscar b/c i'm sure after 20 years i'm still freaked out by that little doll and redheads in general. Now, that's what i call impact.
  
  
• If y0u can't recall the last movie and actor/actress was in, then they have no place announcing a winner or nominees at the Oscar's. Don't get me wrong, i love me some Demi Moore and MaCaulay Culkin, but why are they at the Oscars.
  
  
• If you die under freaky, kinky circumstances (i'm talking to you David Carradine and maybe a little to you too Brittany Murphy) they you don't get a shout out with the other actors/actresses who left with grace like my boy Patrick Swayze.
  
  
• If you are gonna set a 45-second time limit on speeches, you need to stick with it.
  

The Oscars also left me with some questions:

• Who is that lady who seems to always be on the stage with every winner? Is she related to Oscar?
  
  
• Was George Clooney drunk, or is he really just over being George Clooney?
  
  
• Who are some of the random folks in the audience who you know aren't related to anyone at the Oscars or stars? How did they get in?
  

Potluck Friday

Whoo hooo! It's here. We made it. Potluck Friday!!!

1. First let me say hello and thank you to all the new readers of my bloggie blog!!! Thank you so much for putting up with my hot mess.
   
   
2. Ok. So here on my thoughts on the air traffic control dude who let his kids shout out some commands: not that big of a deal. Ok, so yeah, it would have been a big deal if something bad would have happened, but it would have been a big deal if something bad would have happened and no kids were involved at all. Yeah, maybe he should have just let little billy and sarah color while he worked, but they sounded like they were doing a pretty good job. And i'd take little billy and sarah any day over the the kids i've seen in the workplace who are just running all around and annoying you. At least these kids were working. And honestly, they are way better than some of the other folks who work in the aviation industry. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a kid who let the underwear bomber on the plane this past Christmas. I say hire those kids to work security.
   
   
3. I will never again let James go to the Red Box alone. a few days ago he returned with a movie called Extract. When he said: "It has Jason Bateman in it!" i should have known it was gonna be bad. No offense against Bateman, but he's not exactly "ooh i gotta see that" quality. yeah, i liked Teen Wolf II, but still. Any whoo, it was terrible. But that's to be expected when you have a movie about a guy who makes flavored extracts and who is hiring a gigolo for his wife and fighting off a lawsuit from a worker who lost a testicle in an accident gone wrong, while also trying to sleep with a kleptomaniac who in real life dates the kid from Home Alone. Yep, that's Extract in a nutshell.
   
   
4. I'm so glad Jermaine got booted off of Idol last night. That crooked bow tie he was wearing was making me mad. He needs to realize that he's not Will.I.Am. I don't know what makes me more mad: his bow tie or how he butchered a great song, "What's Going On?"
   
   
5. What's ReRe jamming this week? It's called "Nothing on You" by B.o.B. featuring Bruno Mars. Me loves this!
   
   

ReRe vs. The Girl Scouts

Is it just me, or have Girl Scout cookies got exceptionally small this year. I understand we are in a recession and all, but damn Gina! How you gonna charge $3.50 a box and bug me every time i go in and out of Wally World, then the least you could do is give me a cookie that's not bite size. (the cookie to the right is the actual size. that's sad).
When i pulled out a Caramel Delight (i refuse to call it a Samoa) the other day, i was floored by its tinyness. James said it was because my hands were smaller when i was a Girl Scout. Yes, this is true. But i'm pretty sure my hands were this size last year and the Caramel Delights took up WAY more room in my palm.

I already have some beef with the Girl Scouts anyway, so this shrinking cookie mess has just put me over the edge. What could Re possibly have against the scouts, you ask?

• Selling cookies outside of Wally World. This is just plain lazy. Yeah, yeah, door to door is dangerous -- but you're a scout, live on the edge, use your scout skills to fight off freaky folks. And there are tons of other ways to sell cookies besides door to door and Wally World. Whatever happened to making your mom or dad bug their co-workers? No one at my job ever brings any order forms. Well, a few weeks ago i sponsored a co-workers kid in Jump Rope for Heart -- but i can't eat that.
  
  
• Changing the names of the cookies and confusing me. Back in my day there were: Thin Mints, Shortbread, Peanut Butter Patties and Caramel Delights. But now the only name that remains the same is Thin Mints. One of my friends told me the names changed based on what region the scouts are in. That's the dumbest thing i've ever heard. That's like buying Oreos in Oklahoma and Cream Buddies in Texas. STUPID! A Carmel Delight is a Caramel Delight. I REFUSE to buy Samoas.
  
  
• The price always goes up. I guess a $1.50 increase since my days as a Scout is not that big of a deal, but increasing the price of Girl Scout Cookies is just UnAmerican.
  
  
• Not selling them often enough. Sometimes i get a hankering for a Thin Mint in July, but i have to hold out my cravings until this time of the year. That's not fair. Why can't there be a Girl Scout cookie section at the grocery store? The money could still go to the scouts and i could eat a Thin Mint anytime I wanted?
  
  
• Green. I've just never been a fan of the shade of green the girls wear.
  

Remember when CDs were just a 1 red cent?

I had a blast from the past a few days ago when Mary J. Blige's old-school jam "You Remind Me" came on the radio. That was one of the singles from her 90s album What's the 411? That album was one of my first CDs. I got that CD and TLC's Ooooh on the TLC Tip in the mail -- FOR ONE PENNY!

Remember when you could order like 12 CDs for a penny? Those were the days before iPods and MP3 players. I think my family is the reason why they quit selling CDs for a penny. We would order them in every family members name. It's sad when you are ordering items in the name of a 2 year-old -- but it's also sad when your light bill is in your 12 year-old's name, but that's a different post.

When the CD company would contact us about buying more CDs at full price, we would tell them they had the wrong address and that we didn't buy any CDs. Yes, we lied. But can you really fault us? I mean, these folks were selling CDs for a penny -- A FREAKING PENNY! You'd be a fool not to partake in that idiotic deal! If it weren't for that deal, i wouldn't have got to "buy" such wonders as:

• Keith Sweat -- the CD with the song "Twisted"
• Shai -- If i ever fall in love
• The Lion King soundtrack (don't hate, you know this was the jam!)
  
• Tevin Campbell -- Can We Talk

Am i the only one who lived for penny CDs?