Hi Robyn- I know you don’t do this very often – but can you help me find someone who taped the “Top Superbowl Commercials” that played on Saturday night before Superbowl? We forgot to tape it as we had a BB game we had to go to (my daughters). I have not heard the end of it……still! My husband is a whining and with his birthday coming up in March – I thought I could shut him up if I could find someone who had taped it. I am willing to pay for the tape and postage plus a little extra for thier time up front).
If anyone can help out, please email me or leave a comment, would you? Thanks!
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Readers, I know you’ll be able to tell me this: how do you pronounce the name “Sia”? I can’t imagine how on earth it’s pronounced, and it’s driving me nuts!
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I walked into the bathroom the other morning, and glanced into the tub on my way to the toilet. And then I stopped and thought “What on god’s green earth is all over the inside of the tub?” And I peered closer and thought about it, and I thought “Huh. It kind of looks like sawdust. What the hell?” I couldn’t think of why sawdust would be all over the inside of the tub, and I pondered it while I was on the toilet, and pondered it some more while I washed my hands and put it in my contacts and then I peered closer with my contact-ed eyes, and still couldn’t figure it out. So I was going to call Fred and ask him what the hell it was, but the instant I walked from the bathroom to the bedroom, I completely forgot about it, and went to get dressed and came downstairs to exercise and eat breakfast and all that.
The next time I saw the tub was a few hours later when I walked through the bathroom… on my way to the toilet (WHAT? Shut up, I drink three liters a day, so I pee a lot. You just wish your bladder was as overworked as mine.) and I looked at the tub and I thought “This is ridiculous. This will drive me crazy all day (except that I think we all know that I would have forgotten it the second I sashayed back through the door to the bedroom), I MUST FIGURE THIS OUT.”
So I peed and washed my hands, and then I stood over the tub, and I pondered. Was it the remains of something the cats had found and killed? Because that Tommy likes to hang out in the tub. But then, he also likes to chase his tail while he’s in the tub, so perhaps he’s not quite together enough to kill a small creature and leave its remains all over the tub. Was Fred doing construction somewhere in the house to surprise me (perhaps a small outside enclosure where we could put the litter boxes, which he is doing an admirable job of keeping clean(ish), but which still can stink up the upstairs like you would not BELIEVE)? Probably not, because (a) he’s not really a construction kinda guy and (b) I would have heard the saws running, since I’m pretty much in the house 24 hours a day.
I looked around and Sugarbutt twined back and forth between my ankles, stopping occasionally to lick the top of my (besocked) foot, because the cat will lick ANYTHING. Last night Fred had to tip the couch onto its back to look at something, and Sugarbutt jumped atop the couch and licked furiously at the fabric for no reason I could think of. Finally, I looked up by Fred’s sink, and the light dawned.
When Fred takes a bath, he sits in the tub and does
Sudoku puzzles. And sometimes he has to erase things, and so he sits in the tub and madly erases. And what was all over the inside of the tub was the eraser leavings he’d brushed off his Sudoku puzzles, and which apparently floated around in the water until he pulled the plug, and which gravitated to the sides and bottom of the tub.
Mystery solved. Just call me Nancy Drew.
It was a Ivana Milicevic kinda weekend for me. First, Friday, I caught up on the two DVR’d episodes of
Love Monkey I hadn’t seen yet, and she’s in that. Then Saturday night Fred and I started to watch
Slipstream (we didn’t get that far into it before we turned it off), and she’s a major character in that. Then I watched
In Her Shoes, and she plays the mother in that (just in pictures). THEN I watched
Just Like Heaven on Sunday, and she was in that, too.
It’s been a busy year for her, I’d say.
Aside from the above-mentioned movies, I also watched
Elizabethtown on Sunday. It wasn’t too bad – though Kirsten Dunst gets on my nerves – but I should point out that the majority of my attention was on what I was cross-stitching rather than on the movie, so maybe that made a difference. Same with Just Like Heaven – I was cross-stitching through it, and it didn’t seem to bad to me. Whether that’s because it really isn’t a bad movie or rather because I wasn’t fully paying attention to it, I’ll let you decide.
In Her Shoes was really, really good; I recommend it!
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Heading outside (but not for long – it was COLD!)
“NO, Dad! I don’t WANT the collar! Oh, PLEASE don’t put the collar on me!”
Writhing around on the floor in protest of the collar.
One second you’re laying on the floor, enjoying your life…
And the next, you’re getting your ass kicked by your big brother.
All of today’s uploaded pictures are
here.
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Yeah Kirsten is on my list of actresses that annoy, the movie was ok as was Just like heaven. Definitely “renters” not buyers.
I love that last pic! When did Mr. Booger’s get so big! And Sugarbutt too! Sniff. They grow up so fast!
Wouldn’t ‘Sia’ be pronounced like ‘Mia’ or ‘Tia’ or the tour guide I had on a high school trip to Italy years ago named ‘Peea'(and yes, we giggled our fool heads off…)
Su-do-ku…I hate it soooooo much.
I’m pretty sure that “Sia” is pronounced “Shea.” But I could also put up a good argument that the earth is flat, so what do I know?
So when are we going to see the video of Sugarbutt get the zapping collar O’doom where Fred giggles like a girl? Hmmm?? I am waiting!
Super Bowl Commercials: http://video.google.com/superbowl.html
There is an artist Sia who sings “Breathe Me”…a song they played in the finale of Six Feet Under.
She pronounces it See-ah.
This reminds me of the movie, “The Opposite of Sex” where Lisa Kudrow’s character pronounces her name–Lucia–“Loosha” instead of “Lu-chi-a”.
Which just goes to show that anyone can pronouce their name anyway they really want, no?
Robyn—Rob-ine, Robe-n’, Rob-whyn
=)
You said Fred was doing a PUZZLE in the tub, and I’m thinking “What a freak – wouldn’t all the pieces get soggy?”
Yeeeeeeeeeah.
That last picture is classic!
My guess is Sia is pronounced with the long “I” as in
“Sigh-a” Just a guess but its pretty either way.
I used to work with a girl named Sia. Her family was Hmong, and her name rhymed with Mia, like “see a.”
I too watched In Her Shoes on Saturday and Just Like Heaven on Sunday. I liked both quite a bit, laughed out loud a few times with JLH.
In regards to Love Monkey I just read on E-Online that it’s been put on hiatus. But the inside scoop is that it’ll be canceled. Sad, it’s a good show.
Niki P: Sadly, he’s already been zapped, and we didn’t have the camera out! Maybe we’ll be able to get him again in the future. 🙂
Clarise: Or like Andrea Zuckerman on 90210, who insisted that her name was pronounced “An-DRAY-uh”. I actually had a manager when I was a teen working at McDonald’s who called me “ROW-byn”, just to be funny.
Kat12: Oh, I’m sad to hear that! It’s a really good show, and it figures just as I get into it, it goes on hiatus!
I like the look they get in their eye just before the ass kicking. I also like the look our kitten gets just when she realizes the adult cat’s gonna do it…very deer in the headlights, “Oh shit, I should run”. 🙂
Lots of great action shots! Especially that awesome last pic.
Hi Robyn
Sia is a Greek name I think, I know a few Sia’s cause there are a lot of Greeks here in Melbourne, Oz! It’s probably short for something else, but here it’s pronounced Sea-a.
Cheers
Tania
I know a girl named Sia – and she pronounces it like most people guessed…See-ah – just like Mia or Tia…
I think her name is short for something else though…
“Breathe Me” by Sia is SUCH an awesome song. Maybe you’re already familiar with it and that’s why you’re asking….if not, you’ve gotta listen to it!
Also, “In Her Shoes” – GUH. The first time I saw it, I BAWLED uncontrollably. I called my little sister and I was crying so hard, she thought something horrible had happened. Hahaha, the sister stuff just really got to me, I guess. 🙂
I thought I’d read that CBS was cancelling Love Monkey. yeah they did, perhaps they’re just airing the rest of the episodes though.
Hi, Robyn!
I got the very cute! card in the mail today. Thanks, that MADE my day — I’m definitely in your cheering section.
Hi Robyn,
You always take the best pics. The clarity is awesome. I am looking into buying a new digital camera. I currently have an HP and the delay is way too long. I believe it is a good 3 seconds or so. So by the time the bugger actually takes the picture, the baby is not doing what I wanted to get a picture of. *sigh* Could you please tell me what kind of delay yours has, or anyone else who has a good camera with little or no delay.
Thanks in advance for all of the help!!!
Pronouncing Lucia /loosha/ is not that unusual (I’ve known a few). It’s the American way of pronouncing it. Same way that in the US we don’t call Paula /POW uhla/ the beautiful way they do in Italy.