Empress Sassy

posted by EmpressSassy on Oct 7

I am not normally a person that votes, nope I don’t!  Carrie, I know, don’t even start the lectures!  You know my Ken Doll theory, so I just figure it will all work out and if I don’t vote, then I can crack on AND complain about whomever we place in the Oval Office,

That being said, this year is different for me.  When McCain decided to add this woman as his running mate (sorry Carrie, I called her “that woman”) I had to step up and register.  This year has actually made me pay attention and, dare I say it, oh I have to………pay attention to politics………OK Carrie that was painful!

What I still don’t like is the mud slinging that begins to happen in October.  I’m not going to say who started it first, but she (oops) shouldn’t have started it.  We don’t need ugliness at the end.  I don’t think we need name calling on either side.  Can’t we just keep it at the debate level and let the votes fall where they may?  The name calling, the silly ads on TV, it only demeans the candidates and wastes our time.  Craig Ferguson was discussing it last night on TV and made very valid points about how it’s senseless.  We don’t need them to drop to the grade school level in the last month.  Just stay focused but every October it’s known as Surprise October and all the gloves come off and we have to suffer through the crap.

That being said, election day is supposed to be huge so they say if you are going to vote, go early and they are actually having early voting days.  I was given an early voting schedule at the parade on Saturday.  I think you can look it up on the web. 

Good luck to all and may your candidate do well, as long as it’s not McCain!  ha ha

posted by EmpressSassy on Oct 6

Yep, it’s true, the big J.C. was in our Harvest Homecoming Parade.  Now for you doubters I have witnesses.  Many saw him and some even waved to him.  I can not believe I did not have my camera, although my father does have it on film.  Although freaks that we are we discussed it may not show up on the film unless he WANTS us to see him!!!  (yes we discussed this!)

It was right after about float 99 and we were looking down the street to see what was next.  Low and behold a church float comes by with Jesus right up front, waving and smiling at the crowd.  He had a very nice robe on and he seemed to be in good spirits for the day.

My cousin seemed to think his hair was awful, but I told her not to be hatin’ on the “Big Man’s hair.  If you had been around that long, you might have a bad hair day once in a while too, that’s all I’m saying.  The other people on the float didn’t seem to be in awe of the man, that kind of freaked us out, but we just went with it.  They were singing church songs so that was nice.

I thought Dan Quayle in tennis shoes being in our parade a few years back was huge, but I don’t think we can top the big J.C.  Nope I think we have peaked beyond a point of no return. 

Another thing we noticed is that he was doing the “princess” like wave, but we guessed maybe he had observed this from above and decided to go with this type of wave. 

Anyway, just wanted to state, share, maybe even brag to others from various counties, cities, areas that we had Jesus at our Parade.  I don’t think we can be topped.  Aaaahhh New Albany…………can’t get any better than this!

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 23

  Everyone has them and refer to them as comfort foods.  Some have many and some have just one!

I was driving home trying to decide what to eat for dinner and I was thinking about my true food indulgences. 

I’m not a sweets person in general, but everyone once in a while I have to have chocolate cake with white icing!  That is my favorite.  What is your favorite comfort food?  Is it expensive dining?  Is it a basic candy bar from the store?  Is it a crazy thing you’ve made up on your own?  Here are some that I know my friends like:

• Raw Cookie Dough
• Pizza
• Chips and Salsa
• Chips and Dip
• Fudge
• Homemade Cobbler
• Banana Pudding
• Rice Pudding (you know who you are!)

What is your favorite indulgence when you want to have a pity party for one?  We all know about my Taco Doritos and I also love my Chicken Nachos.  I think the chocolate cake is my worst.

Do you admit to White Castle cravings?  What is your most fattening restaurant craving?  I think White Castle and Taco Bell HAVE to be the worst! 

What is your food indulgences?

posted by EmpressSassy on Sep 8

We had our first Book Club meeting at a local Coffee Shop in our town tonight and it was a really good night.

We will be reading “Main Street” by Sinclair Lewis.  The atmosphere in a coffee shop is pretty electric isn’t it?  People talking, studying, working on their laptops, talking on their cell phones, meeting at tables like us, but you have no idea what people are really discussing.  It just appears to be important; I mean come on they are at a coffee shop and this is what trendy, smart people do.  ha ha.

I’m not a coffee shop kind of gal, I have to be honest, nor am I a “smoothie” drinker, however I do enjoy the hustle/bustle atmosphere. 

We had some good conversation and I can see that this group has great potential and I KNOW that none of them are shy so we shouldn’t have any issues discussing a book  - likes and/or dislikes.  We’ll probably get asked to leave the dang shop!

Anyway, I’m excited and I only see success with our club. Thanks to all who came out and for those that couldn’t make it; we look forward to seeing you next time!

posted by EmpressSassy on Aug 27

If you’re reading this blog, and you’re one of my friends you will understand the need for this entry as I know we’ve had this conversation many times.  In society there are rules of etiquette, unspoken rules that if you are a normal, decent person you just know how to follow them.  You follow them because you were what we called, “raised right” by our parents.  Unfortunately however, there are the ones that were not raised right and follow the “trash” rules of life.  I loathe this way of life and I stay clear of it as best as I can.  There are many classes of life as well, upper class, middle class, and lower class, but here is my point, just because you may be a little lean in the pockets does not give you the need to act like trash.  Yes, I said it; you can be less fortunate and act with class.  AND, sadly there are those that are just your common, every day people that are middle and upper class that act as if they are from the depths of Trashville, USA.  What is that all about, can anyone tell me?

Who the heck raised these people to teach them to do the things they do?  Do we really HAVE to go over these rules again?  OK, I’m a good sport so I will help out again.

• Do not yell at your child in the middle of any store, bank, or restaurant at the top of your lungs and/or slap this child.
• Do not yell at anyone in your group in the same places.  Can it not wait until you are in private?  Seriously!
• Do not air your dirty laundry sitting at your desk cubicle to anyone that will listen.  Even though someone IS listening to you, for the love of Pete so many more DON’T want to hear it.
• Do not make personal phone calls if you do not have an office and yell into the phone about personal things.  Again, we don’t need to know these things about you.
• Do not discuss your finances and let people know your salary.  This is so unprofessional, not to mention grounds for dismissal at so many companies.
• Full length mirrors, but I digress on this subject matter don’t I?
• Help yourself if you want others to help you.  Until then, stop whining about how unfair life is in your world.
• Stop having kids when you obviously can’t take care of the ones you currently have.
• Do not write a check if you are not certain there is money in your account.  If you do and it bounces; this is your fault, not the banks fault.  End of story.
• Do not spend money you do not have, pay your bills first and foremost.
• Do not abuse customer service, store managers, and restaurant managers over petty issues to get attention and free items.  Most of the time they know you are scamming them and everyone around is embarrassed for you.
• Stop the pattern with the wrong men/women in your relationships.  Take care of yourself and have some pride.

Yes, these are harsh rules of life, but they should be unspoken rules.  If you were sadly uneducated it’s never too late to start now.  Read them, learn them and put them to memory. 

posted by EmpressSassy on Aug 26

I’m putting the Link back out on my site (under Interesting Sites) for the Cornacopia Farm.  It’s located in Scottsburg, IN and it’s a little less commercialized that Huber’s Family Farm. 

We have gone there for the past few years to get our Pumpkin and to hang out for the afternoon.  It’s owned by a single family and they do a great job offering a variety of different things for the kids and family to do. 

They have a great slide for the kids (see picture), they have a giant corn maze, a little hay maze for the little ones, petting zoo, tricycle bike path, corn hole, pumpkin tractor rides out to the patch to get our own pumpkin and much, much, more. 

It’s a very nice place and again, it’s family owned so put check out their link and get them on your calendar for the Fall season.  I wanted to put it out there early so hopefully everyone might try to visit them.  We talked to the owner last year, Kevin Baird and he was so nice that I told him I wanted to try and get the word out to as many people as possible.  He was such a funny, good-natured guy on our pumpkin, tractor ride.  We had a blast riding out to the field to get our pumpkin.

Check it out and I hope you make time to visit their farm. 

posted by EmpressSassy on Aug 14

These are his comments: 

“I felt 38 today,” Favre said Wednesday after New York’s morning practice. “I’m not going to lie to you.”

“I didn’t throw the ball that well this morning, underthrew some throws,” Favre said. “No pain, but I’m 38 years old. It’s going to be fatigued a little bit.”

“My arm, for the most part, has felt great,” he said. “Legs, a little bit fatigued. You’ve got to figure I’m a little bit behind some of these guys. I’m a little bit surprised that, up to this point, I’ve been doing OK.”

Now, watch and see after his first pre season game what happens.  If he does bad, he won’t say much else excect the same garbage, “Hey, I’m older, I need to still warm up, get used to the team.”

But if he does good, wait and see where all these “old man” comments go……..straight down the drain.  He’ll be all, I’m good, I’m ready, I’m going to be a Jet. 

I also love the “joking” comment about how they sold 3000 jerseys on his first day traded and he said, “that’s all”.  Yeah, and he has no ego?  We are supposed to think he’s just kidding, but come on, this is what you say when you’ve just been traded and they’ve bumped a guy from the team like he’s yesterday’s news?  Nice.

This guy slays me.  OK, I’m done.  Moving on to better things………

posted by EmpressSassy on Aug 12

I have always had this goal to read the 100 best Novel that were on the 100 Best Novels List before I die.  I have read some of them of course, but not nearly all, and of course they change through time depending on whose list you review.  Here is one sight that was published and it’s pretty good and then it has a Rival response list, which I like of course.   The only thing that bothers me; no Jane Austen.  I know I’m a fan, but come on, she was a great American Author and they can’t give her 1 out of a 100 of her 7 novels.  Kind of ticks me off.

Anyway here is the sight.  Anybody have any thoughts, comments, additions?

100 Best Novels      Rival List

I seem to have read more on the Rival List, go figure.  Stephen King’s “The Stand” gets a lot of attention, has anyone read this book?  I normally can’t stand his work and he is just too weird for me.  I might give it a glance!  Anyway, There are the list if anyone wants to feel a little more studious during this “get back to school” time frame!   

posted by EmpressSassy on Aug 7

Meet Brett Jetson……….Poor guy they are already making fun of him on the radio talk shows about how he only has three weeks to learn the Jet plays and their play book is off the charts.  They were saying he isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed and it’s not like home in the Cheese Capital of the World where he called all the shots.  Here it will be different, in New York it will be their play book and their rules.  They are expecting him to fall on his butt.

I was hoping for Tampa, but now the dork is in New York so we are still stuck with him.  I guess the only upside is that if he does make a fool of himself, we’ll get to see it more often.  At least the drama is over. O-V-E-R and we can move on to the preseason and get on with football. 

Now we can be overcome with the Manning commercials, as I see they have already begun.  Yes, even I think they will overdo those this year.  Although I find Peyton to be a funny, entertaining guy, his brother just doesn’t cut it for me in the humor department.  I don’t think I can endure an entire season of them trying to be funny together.

Oh well, the good and the bad……………..we have to take it all.

posted by EmpressSassy on Aug 4

Am I the only one that could care less about Hulk Hogan’s Family life?  I thought we had hit rock bottom when we had to hear about Paris Hilton, but this family takes the cake.  To top it off I was flipping channels last night and now Pam Anderson has a “non” reality show too.  What is this world coming to?

I’m so over hearing about Hulk Hogan and his family that I could scream.  How come Dr. Phil isn’t reaching out to him?  All he does is cry on the radio and the TV, you’d think he would want Dr. Phil to help him.  This is classic for Dr. Phil to get involved.  ha ha.

I admitted my one weakness and the was the Gene Simmons Family Jewels.  Only because I was so impressed with the way they had raised their children so normal and how they are teaching them to be respectful of money and the real world.  KISS freaked me out when I was younger so I don’t know much about the group, but Gene Simmons as a person is interesting to me.  He is a heck of a business man and Shannon appears to be a solid, strong, family, mother and I admire that based on Gene’s lifestyle.  I got sucked in after just one show.  I don’t watch it faithfully, but if I flip channels and it’s on I will stop and see what’s going on.  They just impress me.

Anyway, if I have to hear one more news story on Hulk Hogan I will scream.  Come to think of it, Pam Anderson and Hulk Hogan would make a perfect, tanned, bulked up couple.  Someone should “hook them up”.  Reality TV is just trash isn’t it?  America just loves it though.  The more they throw it out there, the more America turns it on. 

Please bring on football, I need to get away from the trash TV!