Archive for August, 2010


Contribution by Archie Watts

I’ve always loved watching dramas and reality television because of how exciting they are. There is an adrenaline rush when someone gets voted out of American Idol. Since Ellen Degeneres became a judge on Americal Idol, I decided to check out her talk show on satellite TV packages in California I got.

Let me tell you, I have never been interested in any talk show before. Like I said, I was only checking it out because of my love for American Idol. Ellen’s show is a classic! She always has a smile on her face and she is ready to make the audience laugh with her wit and dance moves.

It seems like all of her guests are really interesting people. Sometimes the AI contestants that have been voted off even come onto the show. Those are some of my favorite episodes. It’s kind of funny that The Ellen Degeneres show is now one of my favorite shows of all time. I wouldn’t miss it for the world.

Now that I watch her talk show, I sometimes tune in to other talk shows to see if they are as exciting and inviting. I still haven’t found one that I consider on par to her show, but there are some that are decent enough.

Always be on the lookout for newer shows that you might not think are interesting. Some can be really great!

Casey and Leslie are friends who live in Nashville. They are both songwriters and singers. Casey has played with and written songs for over 100 artists.

Casey’s Number One songs include:

  • “Anyone Who Isn’t Me Tonight” (Grammy Nominated) by Kenny Rogers and Dottie West,
  • “Soon” by Tanya Tucker (Grammy Nominated),
  • “Somewhere Down the Line” by T G Shepherd,
  • “The Cowboy Rides Away” by George Strai

I like watermelon a lot! This is a baby after my own heart!

I’m always looking for smart storage ideas.  I’m a pack-rat, and I admit that I have a hard time throwing things away.  But often times the things that I want to hang onto have no real value other than sentimental.  And that is a real problem, because I’m a Virgo, and I need to be practical in everything that I do.

And I suspect that no matter how large a house I had, I would still fill every nook and cranny up with more and more “stuff.”  I just hope that I don’t end up on some reality television intervention show like “hoarders!”

Having said that, I’ve been thinking about using some glass racks in my kitchen to help me to better utilize my kitchen storage space.  I’m thinking that I could put a stemware rack on the underside of one of my cabinet shelves and then store platters underneath the glasses.  And I’d like to get a wine glass rack to organize all of my wine glasses. It seems that too often I am pushing them around in the cabinet to find something else, and then one of them falls out and breaks.  Then I end up with a bunch of mis-matched glasses, which annoys me to no end!  After all, I am a Virgo!

I spent well over an hour cleaning out my refrigerator this morning. A jar of pickles managed to tip over some time ago and has been leaking, the trickle down effect, big time. So I started just trying to clean up that mess and ended up cleaning the whole darn thing. Don’t get me wrong, it was in need of a full pledged cleaning, it’s just that first thing on a Sunday morning it’s the perfect time for me to tackle something like that.