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Thursday, December 24, 2009
Monday, December 7, 2009
Police light, switchblade knife, hand cuffs.....
Elvis's lungs
Well, not really that odd i suppose. I mean he did have a wonderful pair. Its just that some of the stuff dosn't seem particularily genuine or in the case of Dottie Wests dress "not applicable"
Las Vegas 09
Heres Dottie Wests dress. Now why would it be in with Elvis's stuff?either blogger isn't co operating or i dont know what i'm doing. My opinion is: i don't know how to do this! Pics and a little lable or title.....frustratinggg! I can't figure out how to make posts archive correctly. So annoying.
OK. Calm down.
Trying again.
Heres some of the more odd things in the Elvis museum
the city that never sleeps
I can't sleep when i'm in Las Vegas; its just too exciting being there. Also, i forgot to bring my pillow, other hotel guests were loud as they walked by our room, chambermaids were noisy in the early am's and a sound like sawing wood kept me from my beauty sleep.
Not sure if we'd stay there though as we checked out a few other good places as well. Treasure Island has a good buffet and casino as does the Paris hotel. But the place we liked best was Planet Hollywood....that will be home next time. Great casino and a "miracle mile" long fabulous shopping mall and great shows too.
Then of course theres the Wynn, Venetian, Belagio etc etc. but no time to go there. We had planned on the buffet at the Wynn for our 50th wedding anniversary dinner as we heard they are the very best. But 4 days in L.V. is just not enough time to pull it all together or to do all you want to do. Showtimes didn't jive and anyway, i haven't got the energy for all the moving around no how!
We saw the Cirque du Sloeil show Mystere and it was awesome, then a show of great pretenders; The Platters, The Coasters and The Marvelettes. Blasts from the past that were fun and entertaining to watch. Some of these old guys and gals have lungs in 'em you wouldn't believe! They had the whole room just a bopp'in.
Afterwards dinner at a sports bar in the mall in front of a water fountain show. Part of my order was a side of sweet potato fries....i was surprised that they served them with honey.....now i really don't get American food; this just dosn't work with me! There was ketchup on the table so i tried that, but alas, it wasn't Heinz; it was some kind of hot ketchup....i was puzzled. Whatttt? No big 0 sauce in the U.S.? And speaking of doing without - whats with Pepsi being everywhere but no Coke? I love my diet Coke and Pepsi just dosn't cut it. OK ok, it was better than the water!
Back to gaming and more bitching.
It seems that all poker slots in L.V. now are set to a 5 credit max.....i hate that being as i'm used to playing 10 credits here at home which gives you a decent prize when you win. It hurt to get half of a jackpot! The only way around it is to play for dollars which means $5. per hand. Thats a little too steep for this gal so i played their stupid 5 credits $1.25 and when i hit on the 4 wild deuces i got a miserly $250.instead of $500.
A lot of machines have multiple choice games and bets and its all tickets now; no sounds of coins anywhere; no more dirty hands or little old ladies with white gloves. Canadian casinos have long since gone this way as well, so i'm used to that and its actually a good thing on several levels. Las Vegas has really gone wild with the penny and 2 cent slots and i see that trend is also being followed here.
This was the view from our room.
We stayed at the Imperial Palace for the last time. No, no, never again. This hotel used to be ok and we stayed there many times in the past. Its got a great location on the strip but generally it hasn't aged well although our room was upgraded and was nice enough (mirror over the very ornate bed and big love tub) Lousey lousey terribly tight casino slots and lousey, lousey, really lousey yet expensive buffet food. They do have a $25. eat all day ticket but its not worth it to eat that crap, or to hang out there all day or to return from a better place just to get your 3 squares in.
The best thing about the I.P. was the water pressure.....didn't expect to get that in a water starved city; the shower was soooo invigorating, just like a good massage. And oh ya, some of the dealertainers were pretty good esp Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe. This hotel used to be a Canadian favorite but now, well, they don't show Canadian football in their sportsbar and nobody there has every heard of hockey?!?
I think this hotels likely gonna to go down soon; its a wreck and nobody cares.
So we found ourselves next door at Harrahs buffet which was great. I finally found out what crawfish are....too picky to peel the shell off then such a little bit of protein that was too hot for me to handle....and i always wondered what grits were, now i know but didn't try - it looks like Cream of Wheat cereal! Harrahs slots were looser as well and theres fun and excitement in the air in their casino.
The best thing about the I.P. was the water pressure.....didn't expect to get that in a water starved city; the shower was soooo invigorating, just like a good massage. And oh ya, some of the dealertainers were pretty good esp Michael Jackson and Marilyn Monroe. This hotel used to be a Canadian favorite but now, well, they don't show Canadian football in their sportsbar and nobody there has every heard of hockey?!?
I think this hotels likely gonna to go down soon; its a wreck and nobody cares.
So we found ourselves next door at Harrahs buffet which was great. I finally found out what crawfish are....too picky to peel the shell off then such a little bit of protein that was too hot for me to handle....and i always wondered what grits were, now i know but didn't try - it looks like Cream of Wheat cereal! Harrahs slots were looser as well and theres fun and excitement in the air in their casino.
Not sure if we'd stay there though as we checked out a few other good places as well. Treasure Island has a good buffet and casino as does the Paris hotel. But the place we liked best was Planet Hollywood....that will be home next time. Great casino and a "miracle mile" long fabulous shopping mall and great shows too.
Then of course theres the Wynn, Venetian, Belagio etc etc. but no time to go there. We had planned on the buffet at the Wynn for our 50th wedding anniversary dinner as we heard they are the very best. But 4 days in L.V. is just not enough time to pull it all together or to do all you want to do. Showtimes didn't jive and anyway, i haven't got the energy for all the moving around no how!
We saw the Cirque du Sloeil show Mystere and it was awesome, then a show of great pretenders; The Platters, The Coasters and The Marvelettes. Blasts from the past that were fun and entertaining to watch. Some of these old guys and gals have lungs in 'em you wouldn't believe! They had the whole room just a bopp'in.
Afterwards dinner at a sports bar in the mall in front of a water fountain show. Part of my order was a side of sweet potato fries....i was surprised that they served them with honey.....now i really don't get American food; this just dosn't work with me! There was ketchup on the table so i tried that, but alas, it wasn't Heinz; it was some kind of hot ketchup....i was puzzled. Whatttt? No big 0 sauce in the U.S.? And speaking of doing without - whats with Pepsi being everywhere but no Coke? I love my diet Coke and Pepsi just dosn't cut it. OK ok, it was better than the water!
Back to gaming and more bitching.
It seems that all poker slots in L.V. now are set to a 5 credit max.....i hate that being as i'm used to playing 10 credits here at home which gives you a decent prize when you win. It hurt to get half of a jackpot! The only way around it is to play for dollars which means $5. per hand. Thats a little too steep for this gal so i played their stupid 5 credits $1.25 and when i hit on the 4 wild deuces i got a miserly $250.instead of $500.
A lot of machines have multiple choice games and bets and its all tickets now; no sounds of coins anywhere; no more dirty hands or little old ladies with white gloves. Canadian casinos have long since gone this way as well, so i'm used to that and its actually a good thing on several levels. Las Vegas has really gone wild with the penny and 2 cent slots and i see that trend is also being followed here.
This was the view from our room.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Nancy Grace fan?
OMG! this woman drives me so crazy! But......its fascinating watching her and her dramatics, don't you agree? I just cannot NOT watch her.
Yesterdays show was extremely horrific and sad. It was re 5 yr. old Shaniya in N. Carolina who was found dead after being missing for about a week.
On the show Nancy was particularily active and livid with her antics; angrily bawling out Ray Judichay or whatever his name is along with the rest of her panel. I mean the woman actually gets really really mad at the people on the panel; really really mad, and then she goes into her speil (speal? speel?) comparing her children with whatever child is being spoken of. ok i'm doing bad grammar and probably spelling too. And sentence and paragraph structure but i'm trying to condense.
Anyhow, at one point she went off the deep end re: the mother re: what her daughter was wearing when she went missing. The mother was a little vague, and Nancy quickly snatched the opportunity to tell us exactly what John David and little Lucy were wearing when she left them in the morning.
Are you sick and tired of hearing her constantly change the subject to HER kids? Its kinda amazing that its so predictable you can see it coming. And i always wonder why does she do that? I'll answer that question - because its HER show? oops thats another question.
I mean at least half of the time shes comparing her 2 yr olds with older kids, sometimes much, much older kids. And so, it dosn't even make any sense at all, especially with her knowing this would be a question asked. Nancys no dummy, she comes prepared for things like this.
And then someone phones in with a really good question and Nancy cuts them off to have a commercial. She's done that so many times to pitch her book also. Its maddening.
Alternately she asks a member of the panel a question but when they try to respond she goes "Whhhooaaa, whoooaoao, whhhhoooa" to repeat what the person said, and then accept what they said using slightly different words.....omg! its so trying because often the person then dosn't get a chance to finish because they're now behind schedule and shes gotta cut him off for another commercial!
And then we get to see the most recent photos of Nancys children......to cheer us up?
Whatever. She is one mean lady with a lot of fans who love and respect her. Sometimes its hard to understand, guess i just don't get her. But i watch anyway, just to see her put on her kindness cap and hear her gently say "goodnight friend"
Well, the subject matter was extremely hard and stressful to hear and watch and you know i'm not minimizing that. Just needed to get crabby ol' Nancy off my chest.
Goodnight friends.
Yesterdays show was extremely horrific and sad. It was re 5 yr. old Shaniya in N. Carolina who was found dead after being missing for about a week.
On the show Nancy was particularily active and livid with her antics; angrily bawling out Ray Judichay or whatever his name is along with the rest of her panel. I mean the woman actually gets really really mad at the people on the panel; really really mad, and then she goes into her speil (speal? speel?) comparing her children with whatever child is being spoken of. ok i'm doing bad grammar and probably spelling too. And sentence and paragraph structure but i'm trying to condense.
Anyhow, at one point she went off the deep end re: the mother re: what her daughter was wearing when she went missing. The mother was a little vague, and Nancy quickly snatched the opportunity to tell us exactly what John David and little Lucy were wearing when she left them in the morning.
Are you sick and tired of hearing her constantly change the subject to HER kids? Its kinda amazing that its so predictable you can see it coming. And i always wonder why does she do that? I'll answer that question - because its HER show? oops thats another question.
I mean at least half of the time shes comparing her 2 yr olds with older kids, sometimes much, much older kids. And so, it dosn't even make any sense at all, especially with her knowing this would be a question asked. Nancys no dummy, she comes prepared for things like this.
And then someone phones in with a really good question and Nancy cuts them off to have a commercial. She's done that so many times to pitch her book also. Its maddening.
Alternately she asks a member of the panel a question but when they try to respond she goes "Whhhooaaa, whoooaoao, whhhhoooa" to repeat what the person said, and then accept what they said using slightly different words.....omg! its so trying because often the person then dosn't get a chance to finish because they're now behind schedule and shes gotta cut him off for another commercial!
And then we get to see the most recent photos of Nancys children......to cheer us up?
Whatever. She is one mean lady with a lot of fans who love and respect her. Sometimes its hard to understand, guess i just don't get her. But i watch anyway, just to see her put on her kindness cap and hear her gently say "goodnight friend"
Well, the subject matter was extremely hard and stressful to hear and watch and you know i'm not minimizing that. Just needed to get crabby ol' Nancy off my chest.
Goodnight friends.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Casey Anthony
The latest news in the Casey Anthony case in Florida was the release of evidence found at the scene of her dead daughter Caylee. This definitely looks like the smoking gun cuz it probably has moms fingerprints all over it. See ya on the chair Casey!
Moms homemade chloroform, made from a googled recipe, in a syringe, in a plastic bag, stuffed into a Gatorade bottle and tightly capped. Also found in the concoction steroids! Now why in the world....? No need for a brand new syringe, just use any old one, dosn't matter, shes gonna die anyway!
Now who might have been into injecting steroids and supplying the syringe....
Ok, lets look at brother Lee and maybe a few boyfriends of the accused. Quite a few, evidently. And a girlfriend or two or 3 as well. This pot headed party girl wasn't smart enough to pull this off all by herself, obviously. She had to have had help to hide the body for several months, then help to have the stinky thing moved. I figure early on when her car got so smelly from the decomposition going on in the trunk even Casey couldn't handle it. She had to get someone to help her remove the body and hide it for a while. Later, it would be moved for a second time.
I bet the loss of the use of the car really pissed her off too; dam that smelly snotty-nosed little brat.
I'm thinking thats when Casey began to really hate that kid. I mean she was such a bother and now this! She smelled so bad that she lost any or all connection to her. After all, Caylee, or maybe she thought of her as IT by then . And IT was ruining her life.
The fact is the body of the baby was moved from the car to another location then to the place where it was found in the woods after Casey was arrested. Yes, she was tucked away safely in jail, whaddan alibi!
So....who put the body there?
I'm betting on brother Lee, arogant and devious son-of-a-gun, always acting so secretive while dropping mysterious little ditties that could be clues. And with him being as simple as he is would have placed the body at their old playground, just a few blocks from home.
Not counting grandma Cindy or grampa George out though. Could very well be they helped, after the fact. I mean, c'mon, they listened to Caseys "shes with the nanny" excuses for a whole month!
Now, they're presently enjoying life cruising in the Bahamas financed by pics of Caylee sold privately to a magazine for $25 grand.
Disfunction wasn't invented until this family came along.
I'll likely get it on sometime with chatter of Jon and Khate, maybe the Heenies as well as my beefs of Nancy Grace and others too so stay tuned.
Moms homemade chloroform, made from a googled recipe, in a syringe, in a plastic bag, stuffed into a Gatorade bottle and tightly capped. Also found in the concoction steroids! Now why in the world....? No need for a brand new syringe, just use any old one, dosn't matter, shes gonna die anyway!
Now who might have been into injecting steroids and supplying the syringe....
Ok, lets look at brother Lee and maybe a few boyfriends of the accused. Quite a few, evidently. And a girlfriend or two or 3 as well. This pot headed party girl wasn't smart enough to pull this off all by herself, obviously. She had to have had help to hide the body for several months, then help to have the stinky thing moved. I figure early on when her car got so smelly from the decomposition going on in the trunk even Casey couldn't handle it. She had to get someone to help her remove the body and hide it for a while. Later, it would be moved for a second time.
I bet the loss of the use of the car really pissed her off too; dam that smelly snotty-nosed little brat.
I'm thinking thats when Casey began to really hate that kid. I mean she was such a bother and now this! She smelled so bad that she lost any or all connection to her. After all, Caylee, or maybe she thought of her as IT by then . And IT was ruining her life.
The fact is the body of the baby was moved from the car to another location then to the place where it was found in the woods after Casey was arrested. Yes, she was tucked away safely in jail, whaddan alibi!
So....who put the body there?
I'm betting on brother Lee, arogant and devious son-of-a-gun, always acting so secretive while dropping mysterious little ditties that could be clues. And with him being as simple as he is would have placed the body at their old playground, just a few blocks from home.
Not counting grandma Cindy or grampa George out though. Could very well be they helped, after the fact. I mean, c'mon, they listened to Caseys "shes with the nanny" excuses for a whole month!
Now, they're presently enjoying life cruising in the Bahamas financed by pics of Caylee sold privately to a magazine for $25 grand.
Disfunction wasn't invented until this family came along.
I'll likely get it on sometime with chatter of Jon and Khate, maybe the Heenies as well as my beefs of Nancy Grace and others too so stay tuned.
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