Before we broke down and got a landline (well, cable phone) last spring, our cell phones had been our lifeline to the world for more than five years. I grew accustomed to life without those pesky telemarketing calls, especially during meal time.

When that first salesperson called within hours of Time Warner installing our system, I didn’t know what to do. I sat there listening to their spiel and even threw in some “uh-huh’s.” My adept skills of quickly cutting in, politely saying “no thank you,” and then hanging up without a second thought were MIA. It was a combination of skills I learned over the years from my Italian, raised-in-the-Bronx, no-nonsense mom and my dad’s sweet (as in nice and ice tea) Southern roots. Luckily, it didn’t take long for me to slide back into my old ways. Read more…

I have loved movies since I was a kid. Some of my best memories are going to the local video rental store – Take One – with my dad and stocking up for the weekend. There were four I always begged to get: Star Wars (the original), Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Hobbit and Watership Down. To this day, they remain some of my favorites.

In the past couple of weeks, I have talked Steve into watching three movies. To many people, this is normal. Not in our household. Steve has a hard time staying still and not talking for 1.5+ hours. Read more…

5.
5 dollar.
5 dollar foot lonnng.

I can’t get this song out of my head. Sometimes, I even do the hand motions. Subway’s advertising agency is probably trying to convince them that it’s a good thing? But since they started this ad campaign, have I eaten fresh? Nope. In fact, I haven’t been to a Subway in months, and I certainly don’t want to go now. So how effective is this ad?

Probably the worst “jingle” award, though, should go to Toyota for “Saved by Zero.” Just when I had forgotten that one …

What do you think? Am I leaving out a really bad one?