I couldn’t go the day without saying “Happy Anniversary” Sesame Street. 40 years ago today (November 10, 1969) one of the most creative shows started. Not only creative, but a show that is so well scripted and it’s only goal is to enrich the lives of children. I remember watching as a child and being totally entertained without really knowing it was an educational show. Later on I still enjoyed watching it with my children. Now no offense to Mr. Rogers but I always thought that show was so corny…Sesame Street was more “real”, even with a big yellow talking bird.
Speaking of Big Bird, can you believe the same man, Carroll Spinney, has been playing him along with Oscar the grouch for all 40 years. Jim Henson personally chose Mr. Spinney when Sesame Street began. Jim Henson; now that’s a life I was very sorry to see go so early. I can only imagine what his genius mind would be doing now if he was still alive.
Did you know that Sesame Street is the most researched show in TV history. Independent researchers have done more than 1000 studies on the program. On test showed that teens who watched SS in preschool had higher grades and spent more time reading then teens that missed the show as a child.
I remember one part of the show I loved. They would randomly pick a number each show, for instance – 4. It went like this – 1, 2, 3, 4…….4,4,4,4 lets sing a song of 4…how many is 4. Then they would show you 4 dogs and then 4 balloons or 4 trees. C’mon, does anyone remember that??
Well anyway, happy 40th Sesame Street…keep on counting! (one of my favorite clips)
November starts the “Christmas” ads that start filling up your daily paper…you can put your weights away and just lift the Sunday paper. I had to laugh yesterday though…I’m not sure I would buy a mattress from Ortho. They actually advertised that they were “extending” their Halloween sale and they had pics of jack o lanterns in the ad. I assumed that their entire advertising department was all laid off so this was their desperate attempt at “creativity”. I mean c’mon…do these Ortho people not know that Veteran’s day is this Wednesday. Do they have something against veterans or will that sale be the next weekend?
I started to look at the catchy phrases that stores are using to lure us in this holiday season-
Sears – Life. Well Spent
Home Depot – More saving. More doing
Walmart – Save Money. Live Better
Target – Expect More. Pay Less
If I was a company this is what my slogan would be – Spend what you can afford. I think that’s awesome! Remember Miracle on 34th Street when Santa would send the customers of Macy’s to Gimbel’s (the competitor) and people then loved Macy’s because it showed “they cared”. Well my slogan says I care.
One more note on Sunday’s ads…can you believe at Toys R Us that you can buy Candy Land for $3.99 with a $2.00 rebate. I think Ortho should have had kids playing Candy Land on one of their beds, saying something like – Candy Land, $1.99. New Mattress, $499. Kids being happy…priceless. Oh wait, that’s been done. But it’s still better than an after Halloween sale…LAME.
I’m a little under the weather so don’t expect much of me today…this post may not be as fabulous as all the others!
Yes, we all know the Yankees won the World Series…congrats. But I learned something very interesting last night while reading my Prevention magazine. Who says the DD isn’t informative…no really, who says that. My tip for the week is this…
Michael Jutt (the the brilliant researcher) found out that none of their shampoo’s removed an experimental styling material. We all know that some styling products will stick to your hair very tightly and can build up overtime (well, most of us know that). Well (here comes the interesting part…don’t fall asleep yet) one day in the lab someone accidentally used conditioner to wash and then corrected her mistake by washing her hair with shampoo. And guess what; the hair ended up much cleaner. The buildup of product gets trapped into the conditioner and then both get washed away by the shampoo. Is this news old? Well if it is then I’m canceling my subscription to Prevention.
Hey, I’m trying it and I would bet that one of my readers will try it too. Please let me know. And for insurance purposes, if you do try this and your hair falls out the DD is not libel.
Not sure who this guy is...and I don't really care
Let’s see…the score is 3-2 in the World Series with the Yankee’s leading. Can you tell I don’t have much to talk about since I brought up baseball. Yawn, snore! Even though I don’t like sports I am rooting for the Phillies since they are the underdog (did I spell rooting correctly…it doesn’t look right). So who is A Rod dating these days…now that is more my style. I believe it’s Kate Hudson?
Not only will I talk about baseball but now I will bring up football. Wow, 2 sports mentioned in one post. Watch below as Leonard “tries” to talk football but then he learns a FATAL truth about the game! God I love this show.
So, have we all survived the time change? Have we stopped saying “well technically it is an hour later so it is really blank o’clock now”. I actually said it this morning when I woke up so I’m not quite done yet. I personally don’t mind the changing of the clocks; now my boyfriend…that’s another story. He whines and complains for days on how depressing it is. He actually just told me it took him longer to change the clock in my car this morning then to drive his daughter to school. Now he’s looking at clocks and wondering if they have been changed yet uttering, “ it really that time or is it an hour later”. I told him to simmer down. Now at 5:00 tonight he will turn into the Daylight Savings Monster…”why…why must we do this horrible thing”!
All I know is that I don’t like waking up in the dark…I really don’t care about it getting dark early. It is not natural to wake up without sun. This is why I don’t ever see me getting a job that starts before 6 a.m. so I guess the morning news anchor position is not an option. My question is why don’t Hawaii and Arizona have to do this? I find it odd out of 50 states that only 2 of them have decided not to change their clocks. Here in California is up to Arnold or who is it that decides. Well we know if it was up to my boyfriend it would be an hour later right now!
There is one thing that amazes me about “the change”. It takes me a good week for my body to get use to it…and it’s only ONE hour?? For some reason it’s easier when I fly back east to adjust to the 3 hour difference then it is to adjust to Daylight Savings.
Happy Halloween to everyone….just a few of my thoughts for you.
Let me just ask…was I the only kid that thought every year the Great Pumpkin may show up for Linus? Seriously, I would hope each year, just like Linus, that THIS would be the year the great pumpkin would appear. I’m not sure how old I was when I finally figured out that Charles Schulz was not going to change his mind.
Then the other night I watched Halloween for like the 20th time. I know when Michael is going to jump out and kill the next babysitter but yet I still scream. Why?
I have noticed that some adults enjoy Halloween just as much as they did when they were kids. I grew out of it and wonder why?
In all my years of trick or treating it NEVER rained…how lucky was I!!! What do people do when it is pouring outside?
I bought a Halloween decoration this year that says “trick or treat, smell my feet”. Who originated that saying?
Back to Peanuts…why did everyone give Charlie Brown a rock when he went trick or treating? He had a costume on so no one would have known it was him.
Does anyone else remember the Happy Days episode where Mrs. Cunningham made Joanie wear a coat over her costume because it was too cold outside?
Do they still sell those masks with the rubber band on the back?
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again…WHY for Halloween do all girl costumes become slutty. I don’t see guys wearing a Slutty Policeman’s costume.
I usually do my movie reviews on my “REVIEWS” tab but thought this one was worth the front page.
As soon as I saw the previews for this movie I knew right away I wanted to see it opening day…Michael Jackson’s This Is It. This is definitely it…the movie to see on the big screen! From the moment it started till the credits ended my eyes were focused on the true talent of MJ (as they sometimes call him in the movie).
Now put aside all your negative thoughts on what people accused him of (my gut still insists he is innocent) and just focus on his “good”. You can see in the movie the love he has for music, giving his fans a great show, the planet, his crew which he calls his family and just people in general. I have never been able to see MJ in concert so this gave me the feeling closest to what I unfortunately missed while he was alive.
What was my favorite song in the production…that’s like asking me which of my children I like the best. He has so many great songs and the execution of them all is just as wonderful. During the movie my boyfriend leaned over and whispered “he sure doesn’t look sick” which makes his death that much sadder because it was a “mistake”…his energy level was that of the MJ we knew in his 20’s.
So I would definitely recommend this movie…to all. My boyfriend is not a huge MJ fan but he is very glad he went to see this. After the movie ends there is no way in hell you will say “that’s 2 hours of my life I’ll never get back”. Instead you will say “that was 2 hours of pure genius”.
My final grade is an A (and my boyfriend gives it an A too).
Yesterday my boyfriend and I were talking about how this year will probably be the last year his daughter (8th grade) goes trick or treating. We both agree that when you’re in high school you should be done with the door to door ritual…time to move on. Just hours later we were reading the paper and a woman wrote in to Dear Abby saying how the high school she works for was telling the kids that they are too old for trick or treating and to “get a life”. This woman disagrees and thinks it’s Ok for teens; they are having a good time.
Well, Dear Abby agrees with this woman and sees nothing wrong with teens trick or treating. If that is the case then what is the age cut off…20? I don’t know what makes me say that high school should be the cut off, I just do. I didn’t even want to trick or treat in high school…I grew out of it. I know as the “adult” handing out the candy I only enjoy the little kids coming to my door. Teens barely even utter the words “trick or treat”. They ring your door bell (usually in a lame costume…some not really even in costume) and stand there with their bag open…like you owe them. They have Halloween “tude”.
So I have to disagree with Abby on this one and I agree with the school…8th grade is a good cut off. What do you think-
This past weekend I heard my boyfriend’s daughter in her room with her friend giggling and giggling and then giggling some more. I was quite envious in a way; thinking back and missing those days of laughing at everything imaginable with my best friend. It seemed like anything could be funny when sharing it with your best pal. And yes, I think girls giggle more than boys…but maybe that’s another Daily Dalia topic.
About an hour later they wanted to share with me what they had been doing in her room. When I walked in I was “wowed”. They had made a whale with Sponge Bob sitting on top out of the coins in her jar. My first thought was how impressed I was that the imagination was used; something that I think is lacking in kids today due to video games. This whale started out as a debt of .75 cents owed to a friend then lining up the coins on the floor and wah-lah…a 7 foot whale! And can I ad that as they lay the coins one was heads up and the next heads down…and so on, and so on. How cool is that!
I know when I was a kid my imagination was used to the hilt…pong didn’t come out until later and even then it wasn’t that exciting. Remember that scene in Miracle on 34th street where the little girl had to be taught how to use her imagination because she didn’t know how to be a “monkey”. I bet lots of kids today could use that same lesson.
Halloween isn’t far and I need to know what candy to buy that will be a hit (and hopefully on sale). Last year I did a “favorite candy” poll but I have some new readers and want to know once again what your favorite candy bar is? Last year Reese’s Peanut Butter cups won. Even if you voted last year, please vote again.
Did you know that Sesame Street is the most researched show in TV history. Independent researchers have done more than 1000 studies on the program. On test showed that teens who watched SS in preschool had higher grades and spent more time reading then teens that missed the show as a child.
