King of Pop

I really can't say that I've been a fan of Michael Jackson's antics later in life, but I have always loved his music. I still do. His music was always great, no matter how many plastic surgeries he had or didn't have or whatever other kinds of legal drama was going on. It was always just good music.





I remember as a kid, the first RECORD (yes, an actual record) that I ever bought with my own money was Michael Jackson's Thriller. It came out in 1983, which would have made me 7 years old. In those days I was probably getting like $1 a week allowance, so it probably took a long time to save up the cash to buy the darn thing. I remember loving the album. I believe it still holds the record for the best selling album of all time.

I also remember going to my grandparent's house to watch MTV because we didn't get that channel on our cable. I remember seeing the Thriller video for the first time. It was epic. I remember thinking it was really LONG (which it was, of course). I loved Vincent Price's narration... what a spooky voice! I remember I didn't like seeing the zombies (never liked horror movies and still don't) that much, but was impressed by the way they danced all in unison! I remember for YEARS to come (and maybe even still now if/when MTV actually plays videos...) Thriller always being the #1 video when MTV would do a countdown show of the best videos of all time.

I used to love puzzles and get them often for my birthday or Christmas. One year, probably the same year or close to the year Thriller came out, I got a puzzle with a picture of Michael and his chimp, Bubbles. I remember thinking, "how cool is that, to be able to have a chimp as a pet?!"





I'm pretty sure I had a poster at one point that hung on my bedroom closet door of probably the Thriller cover or something... I know for sure I had one of those cheesy small vinyl purses with basically a string strap that had a screen print of MJ on the side. I think mine was blue.

I remember when things started happening that were a little weird... him grabbing his crotch at the end of a video, marrying Lisa Marie Presley, kissing her awkwardly at the MTV Video Music Awards... maybe it is MJ, the first celebrity that I really knew who he was, that got me into the whole celebrity gossip following. It seemed that there was a different story on him all the time to follow.

Anyway, despite his faults and eccentricities, I wish him a peaceful rest.

Happy Father's Day!!

To all the dad's I know... I hope you have a wonderful day today... HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!

To my FIL: I'm sorry we weren't able to come out to see you today, but enjoy your porterhouse dinner tonight! :)

To my own Daddy: I love you 1,000 dumptrucks... where do I get all that love, you may ask?? "from my little heart" :)

I love pierogies!

No matter how long I've been away from Pittsburgh, I will always love pierogies :) My favorite way to eat them is pan fried, then a bit of butter over them and a dash of salt! Mmmmmm :)

My lovely lunch hour while working remotely...

...I was working remotely today (meaning, working from home). I went into the kitchen to grab something for lunch about 20 minutes ago. When I walked in, I noticed that Mrka had dark smudges on her fur around her neck area like she was rolling in some dirt or something. She LOVES to roll in stuff. I got a pet wipe and started cleaning off what I at first thought was dirt/mud, only to find that it was poop. And, it wasn't just on her neck area, it was all over her body and completely mashed all into her LEATHER collar too. GRR. Then, I look at Bauer, and he too has sh!t all over him. WTF?

I'm thinking this may have been a result of this morning's VERY EARLY escapades. Around 4:00 AM this morning to go to the bathroom, and when I get up, Bauer will usually get up and follow me. Sometimes he'll also run downstairs and go outside to go too. Well, when I finished in the bathroom I started to hear barking. Concerned about the early hour, I ran downstairs to shush the dog. I couldn't get him to come into the house! Chris finally got up too and brought a flashlight and started looking in the backyard. I didn't have my glasses on, so I couldn't see very well. Turns out there was a possum or something in the back yard that must have crawled under the fence and that's what Bauer was confronting. We finally got the dog in the house, while also keeping Mrka and Al at bay. We then slid the panel into the doggie door so that whatever that was couldn't get into the house. When we got up this morning, our visitor was gone.

Anyway, my guess is that our little "visitor" left droppings that were then found by Bauer and Mrka (my precious Al was poop free). Poop and dead things are apparently irresistible to both of those guys, especially Mrka. So, I spent my lunchtime bathing all three dogs (they were due, so Al got a bath too). I also had to get the tags off of both Mrka and Bauer's collars and threw the collars away. Thankfully I have some (albeit ugly) backups that they'll wear until we can get them new (more fashionable) styles. So much for having an early lunch!

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