Empress Sassy

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 24

 OK people we have them on the car for a reason so use the damn things alright?  This is a huge pet peeve of mine and I’m over it when I’m driving in a lane and some idiot just comes over in front of me. 

It’s not like I wouldn’t give them room and let them over; for the most part I’m very good about letting people in the lane, but they need room to do so and I hate when they just swerve over and jump in front of me.  If I have to hit my brakes so you can jump in front of me I’m going to be pissed.  If we are driving 60 MPH down the highway why would we need to use our brakes?  It just pisses me off.  Why, because you can’t wait to get a little bit ahead of me, flip your signal and get over.  Nope, you have to just swerve over and get in front of me at that VERY SECOND.

Idiots, that is what kills me and I like the ones that are dying to get over and refuse to use the turn signal.  Those are the ones I DON’T let over because do I LOOK like a mind reader?  How do I know you want over if you don’t give me a signal?  Some stupid chick jumped in front of me this morning and of course we were doing about 60 so I had to actually put on my brakes.  I wanted to run her over.  I had that thought, “If I only had a monster truck, her car would no longer be running at this very moment.” 

Just use the damn turn signals people, I’m pretty sure they build them into the car for a reason.  Crazy but true.

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 22

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These are photos of my new shower curtain and accessories.  Yep I’m liking them and wanted to share.  Very Paris, very french and very girlie……..all not me, but I was in a mood.  Loving the little pink soap dispenser! 

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 22

  HAPPY EASTER TO ALL MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 22

I was so anxious to watch this movie for various reasons.  The actors alone are incredible based on their past movies, the trailers led me to believe I would love it, and it is a romance, what more could I need.

I have to say up front that to rate this movie I have to take away the ending up front.  Anyone that knows me well, understands that an unhappy ending effects my better judgement.  This is truly a good movie.  Can true love come from one moment in time?  If you believe this, then you will want to watch this movie.  It’s also about one person’s injustice toward another and how it changed the course of his life and effecting so many others.  It was  a misfortune that never rectified itself.

Despite the ending which I can’t give away, the movie itself  is one of true love and desire and of course sucked me right in.  James McEvoy is just as heartfelt as he was in Becoming Jane.  I’m loving this man as an Actor.  I hope he continues to make movies just like these.

I would recommend this movie if you like a true love story.

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 22

Aaaahh Shopping……….for me it’s one of THE most therapeutic things a girl can experience.  I just hadn’t exactly had a great week, I’ll be honest.  Work, men, personal life, things in general have just been kind of blah………..but you have one good day shopping and it just makes the world a better place.

A couple hours in Bed, Bath and Beyond can change your life.  I went in for a shower curtain and came out with an entire new bathroom.  Omigosh, the BEYOND section ROCKS.   I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that store.

Then my sister and I hit the mall and we didn’t look back.  We are quite dangerous together.   Her husband even commented that he was scared that we were going to be together so long on Good Friday, alone, shopping!  Later in the evening we picked up my mom and sucked her into our madness and assisted her in buying an Easter outfit, which I might add was quite sassy (Polka Dots are in for those of you that didn’t know, my mom says so!).

We started ast 2:00 PM and ended around 9:00 PM and all in all I came home feeling rejuvenated and my week had definately improved.  I have a couple of things to take back today that I changed my mind on, but for the most part, my purchases have satisfied me quite nicely.

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 20

Easter is this Sunday, March 23, and it’s early this year.  Now for some, it’s a lovely day filled with family and great food.  For our family it’s just a stressed filled day and it cracks me up every year. 

First of all it’s early this year as I mentioned so we have to discuss the clothes.  What should the toddler wear?  Don’t dress him too springy, he might get sick, but don’t dress him too wintery, he’ll look silly.  Make him look nice; and do you want me to iron his clothes so they’ll look nice? (as if I can’t do it right, just say it already!).  What are you going to wear, make sure it’s ironed, after all you are coming to my church!  (Nice comment huh?)

Then there is the dinner at the parent’s house.  What are we serving, well don’t ask me because I don’t care, I don’t eat it anyway.  Oh, but they ask me anyway.  Here is the thing; I’m 40 and I haven’t ate a vegetable since I was forced as a child, but still I get the question from my mother…..”Do you want corn, broccoli or green beans?”  It cracks me up every time.  I always say, “I don’t care, I don’t eat vegetables”.  Every time the response is, “Yes you do!”.  Moving on………

Then the actual get together……….All of us in one house trying to get the meal prepared, sit down to eat, yell over each other and remain calm.  To date, I have never seen this happen in an orderly fashion in my life.  It’s just who we are, you’d think we were Italian the way we carry on with our loudness and craziness!  Daughter’s fighting over who is going to take items out of the house after our parents are gone, nieces fighting over attention from the toddler, everyone fighting over who can be the loudest (no one EVER wins!), Men telling jokes that are so corny you have to laugh.  It’s just  two hours of loud, stressed out, familiness and then we all leave; exhausted and wondering how long until the next family get together!!  Oh and God forbid if someone brings anyone new, that is just an ordeal.  I always pity the new guy/girl.  It’s just brutal. 

We do behave in church (for the most part) except for the occasional eye roll or whisper because lets get real, we are not saints and the people at this church are 100 years old and its too easy not to make fun of things there!  My mother gives us the “look” as if we are still 12 and we get quiet again.

Easter………..another day for our family to realize how insane we really are.

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 20

 This was a very, cute, PG-13 movie.  I only watched it to see Patrick Dempsey!  I would recommend it for the young girls that love the Disney Princess movies.  I have to admit though, it did sort of suck you in at the end and of course, being the romantic sap that I am, I did find myself tearing up at one point when he needed to kiss the girl at the end! 

McDreamy has the most amazing eyes that you can just melt into and there is a dance scene that just makes you want to be a princess for a moment with that man.  I gotta tell ya, he could be my Prince anytime!

It’s a cute film but nothing to get overly excited about at the box office or anything. Oh, Susan Sarandon does a great job as the wicked Step-Mom in the movie; she is always fabulous in my book!

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 19

(Sorry for the icky picture) However, I have this issue when it rains and I know all about the Circle of Life, but still……………..

It has rained for 48 hours here in our area and when you walk outside there are fishing worms all over the sidewalk.  You almost can’t walk without stepping on one of them.  Now to most this isn’t a big deal, but to me it just bothers me.  I don’t want to step on them; it’s just mean.  They are washed out and forced to fend for themselves it the down pour and they are trying not to drown. 

Then when you think it can’t get any worse for them it does. The rain stops, the sun comes out and as they desperately try to get back to the grass for shelter they begin to dry up and can’t make it.  What a horrid way to die.  If that isn’t bad enough, they also have birds to swoop down and eat them (although that is a much swifter death them dying in the sweltering sun, slowing, painfully!). 

Yes, this has bothered me for quite some time because it just seems a horrible way to die.  OK, so this is my thought for the day and I feel for the pitiful worm drowning in the rain and then left to die in the sun.  And you think you have a bad day when it rains?  I don’t think so!

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 18

 BUNNY OUT!

posted by EmpressSassy on Mar 17

We recently taught out three year old how to play hide-n-seek and there is nothing more fun than watching him learn the concept.  The counting is the best part.  Somewhere between 4 and 10 you lose a few numbers and then you’re off to find the people.  He is so elated to find the missing people.  Then when it’s his turn he leaps out in anticipation, too excited to wait for you to find him.

I wonder how many kids still play these old-fashioned games.  Hide-N-Seek, Frozen Catchers, Red Light-Green Light???  I will show him all of these games, as they are a part of my childhood.  With computers, TV, cartoons and technology as it is today there seems to be no need for kids to leave the house, but I truly believe kids need the old-fashioned, imagination games to experience youth.  I hope parents out there feel the same way.  They are classics, but they build imagination. 

I remember playing Cowboys and Indians and gathering play food from the woods, I never see kids just playing in the woods anymore, they barely play in the yard anymore.  We couldn’t wait to play outside when I was a kid.  You had to drag me in at dark and I begged to stay out just “one minute longer”.  Building up a child’s imagination “outside of the computer” is such a good thing and I hope more kids get this in today’s world.

I know one three year old that will spend this summer playing frozen catchers, riding a big wheel, running through the sprinkler and playing in the backyard with the family.  Hopefully it’s not a thing of the past!