Top Ten Reasons to watch Strangers with Candy

I love Strangers withCandy. These are my top ten reasons why you should watch Strangers with Candy. 

10. To see what Guy Blank does next and see if you can catch him move or breathe. 

9. Because it is hilarious and it has Amy Sedaris. That rhymed. 

8. So you can understand my SWC tweets and know about the liberty bell. 

7. You wanna know if Jerri Blank ever makes it out of high school. 

6. Because you will want to join Safe Trap House and sit at the Welcome Table one of these days. 

5. To see what Steven Colbert in the beginning stages of his fame. 

4. To see if Jerri ever does the right thing. 

3. Because you want to know what the Flat Point marquee says and learn those lessons only Jerri can teach you.

2. The awesome dance sequences

1. Because if you don't you will have an evil curse on you where all your children and grandchildren will look like and act like Jerri Blank. 

Have you ever watched Strangers with Candy? What do you think of it?

Noah's Award Winning Week

Noah has had a big week last week.  On Friday, Noah won two awards at school. They had an awards ceremony with the Principal and all. I love his school. Everyone is so nice and wonderful.  Noah won a Perfect Attendance Award for not missing a single day in the first quarter. That’s pretty awesome because only three kids in his class including him received it.  He also received and outstanding reading award.  Noah is in kindergarten and he is an awesome reader. I am so proud of him. He also received some prizes for his perfect attendance. A free admission to Astroskate, two free games of bowling and probably his most favorite a coupon for free breadsticks to Dominos. His school has partnered with Domino’s for fundraising too which I think is really cool.

Not only did Noah get his awards, but he also received his report card. Well since he is in Kindergarten he isn’t really graded.  The report card was very different than the ones I received when I was in Kindergarten, they didn’t use the normal letters they use points. It was kind of difficult to decipher.  Luckily Noah’s teacher called me Friday night and she made me understand it more. She said he is doing great and that he is really excelling academically.  I am so proud of him. We also hit another huge milestone. Noah had a loose tooth. He couldn’t resist wiggling it, even though I told him not to.  He said it hurt to eat until he figured out not to chew in the front.  Did you know that most kids lose their teeth in the order they come in? I didn’t. Noah is in the majority.  After messing with it for two days, Noah decided to help it out and pulled it out. It was really loose though. It was kinda just hanging there.  He was so excited to show me his tooth. I am happy he lost it at home and not at school. I will admit I was a little sad that he is growing up so fast. I tweeted about Jerri Blank coming to my house last night because Amy Sedaris is the Tooth Fairy on Yo Gabba Gabba. We also watched her on Youtube.

Noah is scared of the Tooth Fairy. Last night I went to sleep with his tooth under my pillow. He didn’t want to see the Tooth Fairy. There was also a series of notes from him to her. Asking her not to take his tooth but give him a prize to telling her it’s gonna be fish. I tried to explain to him how busy the Tooth Fairy is and that she doesn’t have time to go shopping.  He also put my Tic Tac’s under my pillow, so if the Tooth Fairy wanted one she could take one. He asked me where she gets the money and I said the Tooth Bank. It worked. This morning Noah’s tooth was still here, and I put it up in a safe place, she took a red Tic Tac and a white Tic Tac and left him some money. He was so excited that he squealed with joy. I had to remind him not to take the money to school because it would get lost and that too is in a safe place to pick out something the next time we go to a store.

How old was your child when they lost their first tooth?

I Got Something to Say

The title of this post is a quote by the character Jerri Blank from Strangers With Candy. I feel like I should share with my readers some things. I wrote a post a while back called When Blogging Relationships Go Bad about my horrible experience with a company I worked with on my blog. You can read the post here if you are not familiar with what I am talking about. The long of the short of it is, I was working with a company that promised me a full sponsorship to BlogHer in exchange for advertising, posts and even a Twitter party that ended up being a nightmare. I turned and looked the other way while she bashed other bloggers and even a NASCAR star. I did think it was wrong but I didn’t stick up for my fellow bloggers. I feel bad because I should have been the voice for the masses;I thought that she was being mean and rude. I regret that.

After a while I tried to let it go and not let it bother me. I have received numerous requests and comments asking me to tell who it is. I have remained silent as a professional courtesy but in light of the increase of new bloggers, I have decided to break my vow of silence and share with you all so you don’t get taken as well. It was Bea’s Gift Baskets. There I said it. Like I said there are quite a few new bloggers out there and I want to warn them, I don’t want anyone to be treated like I was. It still hurts; even more so with everyone starting to talk about BlogHer and BlogHer related events like the parties. It also still hurts that I spent all that time working on the posts and twitter party that wasn’t review related. They got free advertising. I got nothing but disappointment. I am sure you are thinking well you got those gift baskets at least that is something right?

I went to the dollar store, it is kind of new and yes, it still had eau du Dollar store smell. I was browsing around by the food and I saw an item that was supposed to be “gourmet” in one of those gift baskets. I was like wow; those are the exact same chocolate covered pretzels that were in one of my gift baskets. I just thought well they could have sprung for the Flips if they wanted to be cheap. The Flips are like 3 dollars a bag versus the dollar store ones. It makes me wonder how many more dollar store items are in those overpriced gift baskets.

There is nothing wrong with the dollar store, I shop there. I love the dollar store, but if you are paying 90 dollars for something you should at least get 50 dollars worth of food, a 20 dollar basket then the company nets 20 bucks or something along those lines. Maybe 40 dollars worth of food but there shouldn’t be items that you can get at the dollar store. I just think that is unethical and deceitful. That of course is my opinion.

I just wanted to share this with my fellow bloggers and readers. Maybe even the weary traveler passing through my blog. I don’t want to see anyone taken by Bea’s Gift Baskets like I was. So, how can we prevent this from happening?

1. Make sure you get everything in writing. Granted I had everything in email and that would have been fine, but when you are dealing with something like this extra forms like contracts are a good way to go. I know she didn’t mention contracts once until after she pulled out and didn’t want to do what I consider the right thing.

2. Don’t turn the other way or put up with others that talk bad about other people. Chances are they are bad mouthing you to someone else. You should work with companies that conduct their selves in a professional manner.

3. If your gut tells you it is too good to be true, it just might be or if the person gives off a weird clingy vibe you should probably walk away. Always trust your gut and your heart.

4. If a person you are working with is lying to others, 99% of the time they are lying to you.

5. Talk to others about their experiences, I know that everyone can make up their own minds about things they want to do, but listen to what others have to say and keep it in mind for when you make your decision.

I hope you find these tips helpful and keep them in mind in the future. Thanks for reading!

Strangers with Candy

One of my favorite shows is Strangers With Candy. It used to be on Comedy Central in 1999 to 2002. I would stay up late just to watch it. It was hilarious. I have all three seasons on DVD and I have the movie too. I still enjoy watching it. I had bought the movie without watching it and I didn’t really like it for a number of reasons.

Strangers with Candy is about a woman named Jerri Blank who was a 46 year old high school freshman. She was a boozer, a loser and a user. She even stole the TV. She decided to go back to school and although the faces have changed the hassles are just the same. It is a ridiculous show that I think is so funny. It’s supposed to be parodies of those “After school Specials”. They can get pretty raunchy but I love it.

Some of the running gags are Jerri’s dad is never seen moving, when you see him he is in a weird frozen pose. The art teacher and the history teacher are secretly in love. There are always funny things on the marquee sign in front of Flat Point High. Everything is about things that teenagers go through.

My favorite episodes are the two part episodes where Jerri joins a cult. She goes to the mall with her friend Orlando and she meets this girl named Rebecca who is selling flowers. Since Jerri is a social outcast she gets talked in to going to Safe Trap House and joins the cult. At first it is really hard to break Jerri to where she accepts being in the cult but ultimately she falls under Father's spell and her friends have to go rescue her.

The idea of Strangers with Candy is based on a woman named Florrie Fisher. She looks almost identical to Amy Sedaris’ character of Jerri Blank. Florrie Fisher used to go on tours and talk to high school students in the 70’s about the dangers of drugs, and prostitution. The resemblance is pretty scary. I watched one of her speeches called The Trip Back on YouTube. Florrie Fisher ended up disappearing and never being found as did Jerri Blank.

So, if you want something hilarious to watch that really doesn’t have much of a point. You should check out Strangers With Candy. It stars Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, and Gregory Holliman. You will be entertained. I thought I was the only person in the world that loves Strangers with Candy but I found out my friend Victoria loves it too.