Empress Sassy

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 26

I had my own version of the Last Supper this evening?  No, I didn’t have a religious experience, OK well maybe a “Come to Jesus moment!” but I had my last supper in the sense that I’m a Walrus!

Well maybe I’m not as big as a Walrus because I did see one at the Indianapolis Zoo this summer and I think he did have a few pounds on me, but before they ask me to come swim next to him its time to diet.

All I’m saying is that I have noticed my summer clothes are a little tight and I FEEL like a big walrus so its time to start the dieting and the exercising.  It’s not that I can’t do it and I won’t do it, it’s just taking the first step onto the treadmill and doing the first sit up.  However, tomorrow starts the first day.

Yep, this is me, getting in that mode and I’m announcing it to the world.  (Yes, it could be the world, I am on the world wide web people!).

So, this is me just putting it out there and if I appear to be cranking in the next few days, weeks, whatever (yeah I can hear you now, “how could we tell a difference, blah, blah, blah), but I am just putting it out there.

And so it begins……………

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 25

This is Monkey and I found out tonight his real name is George.  Before his surgery we took some time to get to know him and ask a few questions for our viewers:

Name:  George the Monkey

Favorite Food:  Bananas

Favorite Dessert:  Banana Cream Pie

Favorite Snack:  Fried Banana Sandwiches

Favorite Pastime:  Swinging from anything that will hold me!

Favorite Person:  Noah

Dislikes: Broccoli, Orange Juice, Strawberry Jelly and Onions!

Favorite Cartoon Character:  Grape Ape

Favorite Movie:  George of the Jungle

Favorite Color:  Orange

Comments:  I love road trips with my new family, I love Noah and I like to hang out in the stroller and do fun things.  I have a crush on one of Noah’s Aunts, but I’m too shy to say which one!  I think she likes me too! 

Favorite thing to say:  Just a swinging!

This is me hanging out on the couch watching TV.

This is me hanging out, chillin’ by the fan.  Yep, I just hang out wherever I can to get cool and feel good!  Sometimes I get yelled at when I hang on things I’m not supposed to hang on, but for the most part I’m a pretty good Monkey!

Catch ya later, just a swingin’ somewhere!

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 25

For those of you that know and love Monkey, he had surgery tonight.  Actually multiple surgeries to close up several gashes that he apparently received during his recent, wild trip to Tennessee.

For those of you that traveled with him, you know he had a wild and crazy time.

If you don’t know Monkey, I will be adding a special entry that introduces him to you right after this one.  He is a special Monkey in our family and Noah loves him very much.

I will tell you that he was very brave during his surgical stitch up and he is recovery very nicely.  Noah held his hand through most of it.  Please, no gifts or cards, just a nice shout on on the blog will be fine!

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 25

OK so we take this tram up this mountaintop…………………..WAY up this mountaintop.  The guy giving the tour said our highest peak was elevated like 2000 feet or something……I stopped listening, but all I know is that we actually saw the entrance to the Pearly Gates (they looked really nice from what we could see just so you will know). 

So anyway, we get up to this mountaintop, as if that isn’t scary enough that we are on top of Tennessee, looking over the entire state and what do we do–we take a chair lift even higher to fly down this:

This makes us total idiots right?  Oh, and they told us earlier they had shut down this slide for about an hour because they killed a venomous snake!  Jerry freaked out over that story as he had just went down it!

Yeah well we get even more stupid.  Because we have a 3 year old that we can’t say no too– he says, “Oh mamaw look a water ride, I want to go down that.”  Now, because I’m the one that rides all the rides with him, I walk my sad butt up about 900 steps and slide down this big, scary, water slide, that sits on top of a mountain top.  Yep, I was scared.  You don’t get wet on this ride, it’s freaky.  You are thinking too, it won’t be that bad right, people aren’t getting wet - Shut up - this thing flies; I wish you could have seen Noah’s face on the first trip. I was freaking and I know he was too.   Of course, after the initial shock he immediately said, “I want to go again.”  And we did, about 15 times.  Thank goodness Uncle Sean and Aunt Kari took a couple of turns on the steps, they were killing me.  Check out this slide:

Again, how stupid do you have to be to ride up a mountain as tall as you can get and then climb up this thing? 

Yeah, I need to learn to say NO!

             This was really a cool place if you ever get to go to Gatlinburg, it’s called the Ober Tram at the end of the Street in Gatlinburg. 

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 25

                  VS.

We had this debate while we were in TN so I’m putting it out there.  We rode the Aerial Tram up the mountaintop to an amusement park and then took the chairlift (further up to the Alpine Slide).  Now I was freaking out over the Tram because I called it a death trap.  Then they asked me how I could get on the chairlift and not be as freaked. Check out the pictures here is my thoughts:

The Aerial Tram hangs suspended in mid air, high above the mountains and you are in this plastic tram with a maximum of 120 people.  If this puppy decides to break you have 120 people panicking and you know that no one is going to listen!  IF it falls you are going to plummet to your death.  You will die!

Now if you look at the chair lift photo (sorry its the best I could find) you are hardly, ever, that far from the ground.  If your chair would begin to fall, you could at least try to hold on (you are in control) and if you had to jump at least you would fall to the ground and you would have a chance of living since it’s not that high up.  You might break something, but you have a chance of living.  I had Noah with me and I could have possibly saved him too! 

These are my thoughts.  I’ll take the chair lift over the tram! 

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 25

VERY HIGH TODAY!

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 25

I don’t push music on people, but we all know I’m an 80’s girl and ultimately Billy Joel is my man.  I also have a thing for Maroon 5, but lately I gotta tell ya Rascal Flatts is just in my CD player and on my Ipod all the time.

These guys ROCK!  They can sing an upbeat song to make you sing along in the car and at the same time they can sing a love ballad that makes your heart break every time you hear it.  I love these guys.  I don’t think they are capable of singing a bad song. If they do I haven’t heard it yet.

There are just some artist that you can sing along with and this is one of those groups.  Reba was always like that; you can sing with Reba. I love to sing with Reba.  My sister likes to sign along with Sara Evans.  Everyone has their people or groups.  I also sing along with Billy Joel.  I also sing along with Neil Sedaka (yep, I do!)  He is just fun! 

Who do you sing along with in the car, shower or at home?

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 24

I don’t usually talk about movies BEFORE I see them, but I am really excited about this one.  This is a movie based on a book by Nicolas Sparks (he also wrote The Notebook) and this looks to be another great love story.

Diane Lane and Richard Gere have amazing chemistry.  They have starred in The Cotton Club and and they were also in Unfaithful, which was an awesome movie.  (If you haven’t seen it I suggest you check it out).

This movie looks to be just an intense with their chemistry.  It’s about a woman getting over a cheating spouse who wants her to reconcile and a man who is about to reconcile with his estranged son.  They of course meet and have an encounter.  I can’t wait to see the movie and fill in all the details.  I also want to read the book after I see the movie. 

I haven’t read a book by Nicholas Sparks that I didn’t like.  Anyway, the film comes out this Friday and I MUST find time to go see it. 

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 24

The car show was going on during our recent trip to Gatlinburg and I was amazed at the people that just sat in chairs and watched the traffic go by, or sat in chairs and basically did nothing unless someone walked up to ask them about their car.

Yep, this was their weekend.  Chairs were lined up for about 5 miles in Pigeon Forge and all they did for the rest of us was jack up traffic at night.  The thing is the people with the “classic” cars didn’t even cruise.  It was the idiot people in the regular cars slowing down to look at the cars in all the parking lots causing the traffic to slow down.

Once again all the “car people” just sat in chairs all weekend and pretty much didn’t do anything else.  You did see a bunch of guys looking under hoods and you did see a bunch of women in clothes they should NOT have been in.  I saw this one woman and I couldn’t get a photo.  She had on a tank top and short, in the middle of the day but it was completely made out of black sequins.  NICE!

This guy is my favorite and I hate that this isn’t a close up.  He was just basically naked except for blue jeans shorts and the man-boobs were a complete turn on.  He had a beer in his hand and he was just hanging out with his car buddies.  If we hadn’t been headed to some place for dinner I probably would have stopped to get his number!

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 24

I’m not usually this hateful of a person, but this proves my point of a full length mirror.  Let me preface this entry that I’m not knocking the girl for being heavy set, as that is her business, but this picture, unfortunately doesn’t do this little bikini justice.

This is not a sports bra folks, this was a bikini top.  She was on our trolley in Gatlinburg, TN and she was sitting in front of my niece.  Now, again, had she maybe checked her full length mirror before she left the hotel she “might” have gathered that the bikini top was a LITTLE too small for her frame.

This top was just lost in her and it was like a train wreck; I couldn’t look away.  Yes, I took a photo, but for everyone else on the trolley, they thought I was taking a picture of my nephew.  Again, I’m not normally this mean, but I’m on this trip, I don’t feel all that well and COME ON, can we get real………..it’s a bikini!  Give me a break!

This is Monkey, he traveled with us and let me tell you he was just overcome with shock over the girl on the trolley!  He couldn’t even look, it was embarrassing!