Home Again

So Her Royal Highness is now home again with me. No more "Madame Zara." Her footloose and fancy-free gypsy lifestyle -- gone. No more "Lady Zaza." Celebrities, paparazzi and luxury -- gone. Reality rules once more. Cold, hard reality.

HRH is finding it hard to adjust. She pouts, she demands, she gets worked up. Tantrums occur. Then she mopes. But what can I do? She must re-learn what it means to be an ordinary suburban kitty.

Here's a typical day --

In many ways, it's like having a teenager around the house. *sigh* I hope she settles down soon.

Versatile Blogger Award!

Thanks so much, Inannasstar at Ramblings of a Domestic Goddess and Cora at The Postulations of an Iconoclast, for giving me a Versatile Blogger Award! Both of you are such versatile bloggers yourselves -- covering all sorts of interesting topics and viewpoints -- that I'm especially honoured to receive this from you!

The rules are:

1. Thank the person(s) who gave the Award to you and link to their blogs.

2. Share 7 things about yourself that others may not know.

3. Nominate up to 15 other versatile bloggers who you recently discovered and who you think are fantastic (and link to their blogs too).

4. Let them know about the Award!

(Rules are flexible, in case you're not good with rules!)

So, seven things about myself . . . hmmm . . . okay, here are seven favourite things of mine (at the moment):

1. Movie (freely admitted): Casablanca -- "The Germans wore grey. You wore blue."

2. Movie (shamefully admitted): You Don't Mess With The Zohan -- I despise Adam Sandler in every movie but this one.

3. TV show (freely admitted): Kingdom -- from Britain, starring the fabulous Stephen Fry.

4. TV show (shamefully admitted): Judge Judy -- I love it when she rips people a new one.

5. Movie star (freely admitted): Meryl Streep -- who doesn't love her?

6. Movie star (shamefully admitted): Keanu Reeves -- I honestly do think that he's a good actor!

7. Comic (both freely and shamefully admitted): Stephen Colbert -- even though he called Canadians "maple syrup sucking ice-holes."

Whew! Now here's my list of versatile and fabulous blogger nominees. All of them I have just recently (or fairly recently) started reading so if you're looking for some good new blogs, check them out!

Brahm at Alfred Lives Here

Annie's Hearth at Annie's Hearth

Beadwright at Beadwright

Ricky Shambles at Cause for Concern

City Wiccan at City Wiccan

Rayna M. Iyer at Coffee Rings Everywhere

Twain12 at Eye in the Sky

The Frog Queen at Frog on the Pumpkin

Melita at Gussying Up The Tuttle

Little Messy Missy at Little Messy Missy

Donna B at Mystical Journeys

RA at Sagittiferously Yours

Snap at Tales From Twisty Lane

young-eclectic-encounters at young-eclectic-encounters

"Come As You Are"

Hey, here's the French McDonald's ad that has caused Bill O'Reilly of Fox News to get his knickers all in a twist! "Do they have an al-Qaeda ad?" he asked. Moron.

French McDonalds commercial - "Come As You Are" @ Yahoo! Video

Of course the ad has been subtitled in English for our viewing pleasure. But it's interesting that, right at the end, the background music is revealed to already have English lyrics (!) although the idiom is not quite right and the words are sung in a French accent -- "I'm going on my road." Maybe fake English lyrics make the commerical extra chic in France, I don't know?

(Plus, sometimes another commercial creeps in at the end. I'm not quite sure how that happened? They keep changing too. Oh oh.)

Ooops, who HASN'T this happened to?

Have a great weekend, everyone! *wink*

Cutie Pie!

Well, I'm one already and let me tell you -- YES, WE ALL LOOK THIS GOOD AT 50! Or at any other age, for that matter.

Yes, We ARE Everywhere!

And don't for one minute think we aren't, because we know better!

June is Pride Month!

My favourite time of the year is here -- GLBTTQ* Pride Month! Time to celebrate All Things Queer! Many of my posts in June will be dedicated to a light-hearted celebration of Pride, so woo hoo! Get out your rainbow paraphernalia and let the party begin!

*Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Two-Spirit Queer, for those of you who read that and thought of another set of initials --WTF? -- instead.