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Canceled but Classic

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This week's prompts: Writing Prompts: 1.) A list of 10 old TV shows you’d like to make a comeback. 2.) A post your mom would write if your mom wrote posts. 3.) Do you love it or hate it? An open letter to your child’s latest obsession. 4.) We just celebrated America’s Independence! Write a poem about what freedom means to you. 5.) It’s hot, the kids are home and crazy, our pets are panting, the days are long…share your number one Summer Survival Tip. This week's blog is sponsored in part by prompt #1 I must have horrible tastes in television shows, because most of the shows I love, end up cancelled. Seriously, if I get  whole season, I am a happy camper. Of course there are some obvious ones like Firefly and Arrested Development that immediately come to mind, but I have some other ones too that are worth mentioning.   I'm not sure some of these count as "old" but lets run with this and see what we find. Veronica Mars: I really did like this show. I think i

Sometimes You Just Aren't Feeling It

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Who doesn't love the Fourth of July? For years it has been my second favorite holiday (after Halloween of course). It brings up memories of a house full of cops/friends, the smell of french fries, being able to hear the band in the beer tent from my front porch, rides that always made me sick (I rode them anyway), mom's cooking, the beer tent, and of course the fireworks and Roger Weber's soundtrack we've been using since the early 90's. I love it. Seriously, give me a bucket of Frank's french fries (from the top of the hill), an elephant ear (from the vendor about 6 spots to the right when you get to the bottom of the hill) and a pitcher of beer. I'm set until we go to Jo Jos (or I have to walk home to use the little girls room). Even if the band sucks, the people watching is AMAZING. I seriously saw the whitest and drunkest Cupid Shuffle ever there last year...and I work for P3 so that is saying something. I'm related to one in the middle and

Because I'm A Slacker: Days 7 and 8

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Day 7: Favorite movies In no particular order Dark Crystal Emperor's New Groove   28 Days Later Psycho (the original...not the remake) Vertigo The Crow (guaranteed to make me cry *every* time) Empire Records (judge me as you will) Alice in Wonderland Dream for an Insomniac  The Nightmare Before Christmas Day 8: A place you've traveled to USVI: St John My sister and I went to St Thomas last fall, and while we were there we took a morning trip to St John for shopping and mimosas...and to be chased by wild chickens. Okay...maybe we weren't chased by wild chickens. They are all over the island though. It was a nice place to spend our morning!