the fUnKy fevah March 12, 2008

poor drowsey monkey.  she’s got the funky (cabin) fevah up in ole canada (KEN-uhduh! LOL…).

(hmmm, wonder if witchypoo, JD, and robert all up in KEN-uhduh got the fevah, too? teehee.) 

anyhoo, she’s even scarin her cats blastin and jammin her funkified grooves…tryin to get outta her funk!!  but really, who wants to get outta the 70s FUNK?? hehe

so, in celebration of her fevah and IMHO, her awesome musical tastes , AND because of the fact that i, too, am afflicted with with some MAJOR winter blues here in WI…here’s my fave song by Earth, Wind and Fire from 1978!!

(you may need to pause the vid and let it load.  it took a while for me!) 

this is a totally freakadelic vid!

and please, dont bother to tell me about my taste in music. (but i bet you want to get up and dance, hey?? LOL!!) 

awww yeah, way to beat the funky (cabin) fevah!!! 

LOL!

hope you all have a whirl of a wednesday!!!

~jos~ 
 

the fUnKy fevah March 12, 2008

poor drowsey monkey.  she’s got the funky (cabin) fevah up in ole canada (KEN-uhduh! LOL…).

(hmmm, wonder if witchypoo, JD, and robert all up in KEN-uhduh got the fevah, too? teehee.) 

anyhoo, she’s even scarin her cats blastin and jammin her funkified grooves…tryin to get outta her funk!!  but really, who wants to get outta the 70s FUNK?? hehe

so, in celebration of her fevah and IMHO, her awesome musical tastes , AND because of the fact that i, too, am afflicted with with some MAJOR winter blues here in WI…here’s my fave song by Earth, Wind and Fire from 1978!!

(you may need to pause the vid and let it load.  it took a while for me!) 

this is a totally freakadelic vid!

and please, dont bother to tell me about my taste in music. (but i bet you want to get up and dance, hey?? LOL!!) 

awww yeah, way to beat the funky (cabin) fevah!!! 

LOL!

hope you all have a whirl of a wednesday!!!

~jos~ 
 

finally, my own album!! February 7, 2008

 

YES, i am back once again

here’s another quickie meme that i got a TOTAL gut-busting laff from.  you’ll see why when you read on.  

and i promise, i didn’t cheat!!

a while back, olga tagged me with this one.  i’ve seen a lot of folks do it and they’re usually dang funny!  here’s what i got.  interesting how in my last post i was just talking about my uh, singing/musical hobby…LOL!!!

 

 

 

and if its true about the universe drawing you to certain things or vice-versa…why did i get the SHORT BUS? LOL!!!

anyhoo, that was fun and easy!!  you wanna play??  here’s how—just follow the steps by clicking the links and read the instructions below.  let me know if you did it!!

 

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3

The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/

The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result as a comment in this post.

 

 

have fun!!! and sing along with short BUS next time you’re in the tub! hehehe!!  

~josey~

helllooooo!! (((echo))) (((echo))) January 29, 2008

hehe, HI!!!

now dontchoo go thinkin i’ve ditched my blog!!!   (remember, i PAY for my hosting services. HA!)

january’s been a bizzy month.  not only that, i needed some time to get off my butt and get my nose out of my blog and get back on the track of life.  i have work and goals and stuff and a house to clean and manage (5 pets and a husband…haha!)…and it just wasnt getting done. hehe!  i’m sure you all understand—balance and moderation!!!

im feeling a bit more motivated, energized and HAPPY.  i’ve been exercising consistently for over a week—a HUGE accomplishment for me—and its helping me sleep sooo much better, and my mood has evened out nicely. whew!

i do have to thank my good ole buddy amy for her motivation and encouragement!!  we check in with each other every day and have our geekynerdy excel spreadsheets we share with each other with our daily goals and stuff.  its awesome.  i love the accountability!  thanks, amy!!!!! (who btw, has lost 3lb!!  go tell her you’re proud of her at her quest blog!!)

i’ve also been very active in my sparkpeople team for folks from Wisconsin.  they are a HOOT!  we’ve got people trying to lose 10 pounds, and people trying to lose well over 100.  but ya know, we’re all in the same boat really.  its great to mix it all up! 

anyhoo, last friday i did a natural resources program with 35 inner city 4th graders.  you wanna talk about wild!  we had a blast.  they were split up into 3 groups and everything was running quite smoothly until they were all in one group…in the SAME ROOM. heh.  then the behavior went out of control! :-O 

i’ve done this type of thing before in the same manner, but with different teachers/chaperones.  but this group of leaders weren’t quite as competent; you could tell the kids didn’t respect them.  and it didnt help that one of the chaperones was literally screaming her head off, rudely scolding the kids…it just riled them up more!  ah well…hopefully she was stressed out enough that she wont come back with another group. teehee!

everything else is just dandy here!  we’re gearing up for another freakish weather change tonite.  a week ago it was in the single digits, today it was 44…and tonite it will be -4.  its currently sleeting and we have a winter storm warning for overnite.  ahhh the joys of the upper midwest! hehe!

i hope i havent lost all my readers and that you’re still lurking about!!  i’ve been reading your blogs, too, just not commenting much for now.  i would like to consistently check in here a few times a week—we’ll see if i can get my blog-groove-thang back. haha!

have a SUPERB tuesssdee evening!

~josey~ 

p.s. oh and here’s a little giggle for ya…anyone who has cats has experienced this! i know i have! LOL…(only my cats will knock the boxes on the floor, open them and eat the pizza!)

 

helllooooo!! (((echo))) (((echo))) January 29, 2008

hehe, HI!!!

now dontchoo go thinkin i’ve ditched my blog!!!   (remember, i PAY for my hosting services. HA!)

january’s been a bizzy month.  not only that, i needed some time to get off my butt and get my nose out of my blog and get back on the track of life.  i have work and goals and stuff and a house to clean and manage (5 pets and a husband…haha!)…and it just wasnt getting done. hehe!  i’m sure you all understand—balance and moderation!!!

im feeling a bit more motivated, energized and HAPPY.  i’ve been exercising consistently for over a week—a HUGE accomplishment for me—and its helping me sleep sooo much better, and my mood has evened out nicely. whew!

i do have to thank my good ole buddy amy for her motivation and encouragement!!  we check in with each other every day and have our geekynerdy excel spreadsheets we share with each other with our daily goals and stuff.  its awesome.  i love the accountability!  thanks, amy!!!!! (who btw, has lost 3lb!!  go tell her you’re proud of her at her quest blog!!)

i’ve also been very active in my sparkpeople team for folks from Wisconsin.  they are a HOOT!  we’ve got people trying to lose 10 pounds, and people trying to lose well over 100.  but ya know, we’re all in the same boat really.  its great to mix it all up! 

anyhoo, last friday i did a natural resources program with 35 inner city 4th graders.  you wanna talk about wild!  we had a blast.  they were split up into 3 groups and everything was running quite smoothly until they were all in one group…in the SAME ROOM. heh.  then the behavior went out of control! :-O 

i’ve done this type of thing before in the same manner, but with different teachers/chaperones.  but this group of leaders weren’t quite as competent; you could tell the kids didn’t respect them.  and it didnt help that one of the chaperones was literally screaming her head off, rudely scolding the kids…it just riled them up more!  ah well…hopefully she was stressed out enough that she wont come back with another group. teehee!

everything else is just dandy here!  we’re gearing up for another freakish weather change tonite.  a week ago it was in the single digits, today it was 44…and tonite it will be -4.  its currently sleeting and we have a winter storm warning for overnite.  ahhh the joys of the upper midwest! hehe!

i hope i havent lost all my readers and that you’re still lurking about!!  i’ve been reading your blogs, too, just not commenting much for now.  i would like to consistently check in here a few times a week—we’ll see if i can get my blog-groove-thang back. haha!

have a SUPERB tuesssdee evening!

~josey~ 

p.s. oh and here’s a little giggle for ya…anyone who has cats has experienced this! i know i have! LOL…(only my cats will knock the boxes on the floor, open them and eat the pizza!)

 

space cadet! January 15, 2008

i’m sitting here staring out the window.  there’s a frito lay truck…now an “eggpress lane” mcd’s one…a van with a pig picture on the window…yikes, there’s a huge flatbed tow truck carrying two crunched up SUVs…

*sigh*  yep, im spaced out.  i’ve pretty much been like this the last week.  i wanna chatchatchat on my blog but i just cant seem to coagulate a cohesive post into something interesting to read.  

ever since my detox has kicked in, i feel like a robot.  one that’s malfunctioned. LOL!!!  i just sleep, eat, sit at the puter (not being productive), stare out the window, hurt and feel dizzy off and on.  bleh!!

my house is a mess, my plants need watered, my hair needs washed (LOL), my poor dog is bored out of her puppy mind.  some days i wonder how my sweet hubby puts up with all this junk i’m goin thru.  (i’m so thankful, tho!)

i have, however, managed to do some laundry at least!  woohoo? hehe.   

yep, im whining.  i dont do it here much—i mean, who wants to read whinewhinewhining?   but, hey, im human and i’m not ALWAYS sillygolucky. 

i suppose there’s really not much more to say right now.  i just wanted to check in with all you folks who stop by to see me   i’m here, not gone forever, just floating around…LOL…we all have times where life just calls for more staring out the window than blogging  

i’m sure you know what i mean! 

 

*lonnnggg pause*

 

*battle in brain*

*guilt*

 

GAHHH! okay, i cant do it!  i just cant do it!  i cant sign off on a blog post where the happiest thing i say is that i did a load of laundry! ROTFL!!

so here, here’s a picture of my cat, snax.  i have 4 cats, if you didnt know.  i love them ALL very much!  but, shhhhhh…she’s my fave.  she’s just special.  she’s gotta silly attitude and she’s really smart.  she likes to run from you and act like she doesn’t love your attention.  but then, at other times she swishes her tail around and wiggles her kittybutt back and forth and loves on you…and snuggles and purrs soooo loud…and her fur is satiny soft…!

snax, one of my kitties she always makes me feel better!

and by this pix, she seems to have the right idea, hey?  just chillin!  takin life one day atta time…and sleepin thru it if necessary LOL.

(yep, that’s a box on my desk…she sleeps there a lot and she’s right at my disposal for petting all day long. haha!  oh, and we call her “snax-in-the-box” all the time…cause she’s ALWAYS in boxes!  way more than the other cats. hehehe. click on her pix for more!) 

 

 

 

 

baby crazy snax i bet she’s butt-wiggling in there, preparing to SPROING!ohhhh and here’s another one i just found…just a kitten! hehe!  can you tell she was getting ready to SPROING out of that box? LOL!  look at the wild eyes. HA! 

i love pets—they make me smile!!  i hope you did, too! =D

 

 

okay, i am now concluding my cheesey-happy portion of the post!

oh wait, since i DID use my cat cadet’s name in my post title, i’ll at least give him some credit.  click HERE! (do it, you’ll crack up!) 

talk to you soon

~josey~ 

i’m never gonna stop the rain by complainin’… January 11, 2008

heya!! 

just wanted to drop in and share a lil somethin with ya before the weekend!

its been a lil bit of a rough week for me, and yesterday while i was out driving around i heard this song on the radio.  i’ve always loved it—it just makes me happy   reminded me that tough times will eventually pass!  and i’ll be stronger for it after it’s all over

yes i know, you’re thinking OH, NOES! :-O  here she goes again with her cheesey, sappy, old-fashioned music!!

YEP.  arent you used to it by now?  dont you love it?  arent you converted yet? LOL!!

i found this vid and not only did the song make me happy, but the vid made me giggle.  there’s just something so funny about bj and glen…hmmm…well it just made me giggle. *teehee*  i wont go into details.  maybe you can elaborate in your comments! hahah!

in the meantime, chew some bubblegum and bop your head back and forth and just be happydappy, dangit!  for me, otay??  OTAY! =)

(i do have to say, i enjoy BJ’s solo version better tho!!)
 

 B.J. Thomas and Glen Campbell.  Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head.

i’m never gonna stop the rain by complainin’… January 11, 2008

heya!! 

just wanted to drop in and share a lil somethin with ya before the weekend!

its been a lil bit of a rough week for me, and yesterday while i was out driving around i heard this song on the radio.  i’ve always loved it—it just makes me happy   reminded me that tough times will eventually pass!  and i’ll be stronger for it after it’s all over

yes i know, you’re thinking OH, NOES! :-O  here she goes again with her cheesey, sappy, old-fashioned music!!

YEP.  arent you used to it by now?  dont you love it?  arent you converted yet? LOL!!

i found this vid and not only did the song make me happy, but the vid made me giggle.  there’s just something so funny about bj and glen…hmmm…well it just made me giggle. *teehee*  i wont go into details.  maybe you can elaborate in your comments! hahah!

in the meantime, chew some bubblegum and bop your head back and forth and just be happydappy, dangit!  for me, otay??  OTAY! =)

(i do have to say, i enjoy BJ’s solo version better tho!!)
 

 B.J. Thomas and Glen Campbell.  Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head.

i’m never gonna stop the rain by complainin’… January 11, 2008

heya!! 

just wanted to drop in and share a lil somethin with ya before the weekend!

its been a lil bit of a rough week for me, and yesterday while i was out driving around i heard this song on the radio.  i’ve always loved it—it just makes me happy   reminded me that tough times will eventually pass!  and i’ll be stronger for it after it’s all over

yes i know, you’re thinking OH, NOES! :-O  here she goes again with her cheesey, sappy, old-fashioned music!!

YEP.  arent you used to it by now?  dont you love it?  arent you converted yet? LOL!!

i found this vid and not only did the song make me happy, but the vid made me giggle.  there’s just something so funny about bj and glen…hmmm…well it just made me giggle. *teehee*  i wont go into details.  maybe you can elaborate in your comments! hahah!

in the meantime, chew some bubblegum and bop your head back and forth and just be happydappy, dangit!  for me, otay??  OTAY! =)

(i do have to say, i enjoy BJ’s solo version better tho!!)
 

 B.J. Thomas and Glen Campbell.  Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head.

copycats! LOL :) January 4, 2008

hey YOUS! LOL

so the other day, for the heck of it, i googled sillygolucky.  i saw me…meee…meeeeee…and, more me. LOL.  so i’m the ONLY sillygolucky ever??  i actually thought of it first??

NOPE.  

finally, on page 3 of my search results, i found a website in Japanese featuring sillygolucky.  “wow!” i thought, “they love me in Japan??”

LOL.

NOPE.

i did a little research… 

which led me to discover that in Japan, sillygolucky is a comedy sketch show, like SNL or mad TV!  KEWL!!

which then…led me to learn of an apparently famous song which originated from SGL.  it’s called Yatta!, sung by  Happa-tai (a made-up comedic Japanese boy band in SGL…and apparently these men are famous comedians in Japan as well). 

oh, and “yatta” is a japanese exclamation that means “it’s done!” or “i did it!”

anyhoo, here’s the group in all their “leaf squad” glory.  (happa-tai translates exactly as leaf squad, however they all themselves the “green leaves.” LOL!)

 

interesting crew, dontcha think? LOL!!! 

these guys do, however, serve a bit of a “purpose.”  here’s a blurb from the wiki link:

The sketch is a strongly ironic commentary on attempts by the Japanese government and others to maintain optimism in the face of Japan’s severe economic troubles, depicting men impoverished to the degree of having no clothing but the figurative fig leaf (though in this case the leaves are attached to the men’s briefs) yet maintaining an irrational, irrepressible belief in their own potential for success. The sketch satirizes many of the stereotypes of Japanese pop culture, including such tropes as a romantic interlude during the song’s bridge that takes place on a city street filled with floating sakura blossoms.

so then i thought, well, why not watch the video if it’s so famous?

 

so THEN…(yes, there’s MORE!)…that led me to watch a flash animation called Irrational Exuberance, which, as you’ll recognize, utilized the quite catchy disco-y tune of Yatta!.  (click the link—no You Tube this time.)

(WARNING: this flash contains a small amount of foul language and pixelated pictures not suitable for children or those who may take offense!!  i do not in any way endorse these portions. LOL.) 

and, if you can stand it, you really need to watch it 2 or 3 times to get all the funny pop culture references.

*BLINX*BLINX*  *giggle*

i’m kinda freaked out.

i actually. kindasorta. enjoyed. that video.  it got me giggling, especially when i saw PaRappa the Rappa, Colin Mochrie and “i cant believe its not yatta!”!  hahaha…

it reminded me of these (what i thought were) workout videos they always show on E’s The Soup.  now i’ve learned they are actually videos to help Japanese folks learn English.  HAHAH!!  they make me laugh!

 

some people really do have WAY too much time on their hands.  but sadly, its sometimes entertaining. hehe! 

and i cant get Yatta! outta my head!! 

ROTFL!  

happy weekend!!

~josey~