I am feeling on top of the world! Ok, so it’s only the junk mail world but I am feeling so FREE! I have been imprisoned by junk mail. A pile of it is delivered to my mailbox daily. To protect myself from identity theft or fraud, I must spend time opening each piece and then sending anything with identifying information through the shredder. When the shredder container is full, I put the shredded paper into the recycling bin to rid myself of any guilt for trashing paper in the garbage instead of giving it new life as, how about toilet paper? Yes, how fitting, junk mail recycled as toilet paper. Oh, wow, now I’m not only feeling liberated this morning, I am feeling empowered!
Such elation only took one telephone call to 1-888-567-8688 to stop the credit card solicitations from coming for five years! While I was at it, I stopped my 22 year-old daughter’s and my soon to be in college-age daughter’s credit card solicitations too. They don’t need the temptation and I don’t want their junk mail.
After making the call, I thought, Why stop here? And went online to stop the Val-pack coupons. In the future, if I need my carpets, windows washed, or windshield tinted I can ask a neighbor for their junk mail or help myself to their recycling bin. There is always the option of the telephone directory or the Internet for business searches.
If you are feeling bogged down today, do something you’ve been procrastinating and check it off your list!
Many people are voicing outrage over China using a young girl to lip-synch at the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, while the real singer, Yang Peiyi a seven-year-old was heard but not seen. Is there a difference between pretending you are really the singer and when an actor pretends to be the character?
Years ago a friend of mine wanted to present her husband with a unique anniversary gift. With the help of her sister turned-amateur videographer, their midnight shooting location was the Texas State Capitol. Kaylee wearing a black leather jacket, fishnet hose and knee-high black boots lip-synched “If I Could Turn Back Time.” I suspect the paint peeled right off those state cannons as she rock and rolled Cher-style. Who needs an aircraft carrier when the Capitol grounds have plenty of military props? Kaylee didn’t have thousands of screaming sailors in her video but she did have a captivated audience of curious Asian tourists. Hopefully for her sake, by the time her kids discover the video the format will be so out-of-date it’s unviewable. On the other hand, her professional singing may impress them.
I have a confession to make. I lip-synched “Johnny Angel” when I was seven years old. Yeah, and I also sang “To Know Him is To Love Him” – that was my favorite. The real voice of Shelley Fabres and of the Chordettes and my record player were out of view. I am sure the audience sitting in the grass of the Conner’s front yard thought is was really me. I was a rising star dressed in one of my sister’s former prom dresses. It never occurred to me that it might be deceptive.
While writing this blog, I searched the Internet and found a juke box of 1950’s and 1960’s hits. I may have lip-synched as I wrote.
