Dave Grohl vs. the Philadelphia Flyers

Dave Grohl vs. the Philadelphia Flyers

I have partial season tickets to the Philadelphia Flyers this year.  I absolutely love it.  

So far this season, I have managed to take 4 out of 5 ppl to the games. I'm going to take my mother to a game on her birthday, it will be her first hockey game and even cooler is that the Flyers are playing the Boston Bruins:)

Now, as most of you know, I'm a HUGE, Foo Fighters fan.  I have been teasing the children the next time, the Foo Fighters tour the area I would take them to a concert, however I lied-because the tickets were too expensive, way too expensive!!  

My little one #4 since she could talk could sing any of the Foo's songs, she is absolutely the cutest thing and talks about Dave all the time and she is only 5.

Last night while I was at the Flyers game, my Otherhalf put her on the phone and she told me she doesn't want to go to a Flyers game, she wants to see Dave and the Foo's----how sweet!!!!  

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Starting another job too!

Yes, I'm going to start another job too!

It's bad enough I have like a million jobs already, why not add another....thanks to this Wonderful economy....I'll be sure to keep everyone updated, with the new impressive ramblings a of a completely pissed off nurse....with 4 kids, one Otherhalf and another job to boot!!


Oh yes, and Thank You Dave Grohl and the rest of the Foo's----my anniversary to the Otherhalf is November 11th.....and I can not Thank You enough for coming to Philadelphia, the closest city to which I live for your tour which is on November 10th, hopefully I can remain sane until then..........your friend PSO(purplestinkyonion).

Sunday Stealing-Happy Easter!

Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim's post. (It's our way of saying "Thanks!") We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to select that meme's best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior featured meme. Let's go!!!


Today we ripped off a blogger named Mejis from the blog Southern Discomfort. She explains the she was tagged for the meme from Miss Angie over at My So-Called Chaos. But, it was probably stolen there as well. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Tracing back our theft's thieves might take some time. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!


Sunday Stealing: The "It's All About Four Freakin' Things" Meme

Cheers to all of us thieves!


Four Places I go:

1. To Bed, of course

2. To the Bathroom, like who does not!

3. To the Kitchen

4. To work

Four Crushes I Have:

1. Dave Grohl

2. The OtherHalf, nothing like a FireFighter in uniform, yummy!

3. Eric from True Blood

4. The Foo Fighters

Four Smells that I Love:

1. The perfume-Lavanila

2. The smell of chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven

3. Opium perfume

4. The smell at Christmas Time

Four Favorite TV Shows:

1. True Blood

2. Nurse Jackie

3. The Borgias

4. Burn Notice

Four Favorite Movies:

1. Home for the Holidays-nothing like someone else family being just as screwed up as your own

2. Ethan Frome

3. Elf- I tried to stick to the four basic food groups: candy, candy cane, candy corns and syrup, (LOL)

4.

Four Recommendations:

1. Get an iPod

2. Purchase Plants vs. Zombies, it's addictive

3. NEVER fall on out-stretched hands, you may have such an impact and break your elbow-see previous post, I'm speaking from experience

4. Do something that you have enjoyed from the past

Four People that I'd love to read their Fours:

1. Bud

2. Harriett

3.

4.

Four Things about me that you don't know:

1. I'm not currently working outside the home

2. I have brown hair, and green eyes

3. My first child was born at 29 weeks, he is now 12

4. My in-law irritate the heck out of me, oopppss, maybe you already knew that one

Four bands that I love:

1. Foo Fighters

2. Led Zeppelin

3. Nirvana

4. Beatles

Great Performance!

Loved SNL last night with the Foo Fighters, it was a great performance!

Now, onto other news .......... a topic dear to my heart.....Congratulations to The Philadelphia Flyers for clinching the Atlantic Division. It's been a little crazy during your past few games but you'll be fine.....stop putting all your hope in Pronger and his return, he may be good- okay maybe great, but he is a complete butt-hole. I have no tolerance for self centered jerks!!!!

Make due with what you have, everyone do their job, chins up and smile---LET'S GO FLYERS!!!

A Foo-tastic 5 days

Yes, indeed kiddo's we are in the mist of a fabulous 5 days of Foo. We will be Foo fighting here on the East Coast why you ask? Tonight we got to see the Foo Fighters Back & Forth on VH1, tomorrow we have the pleasure of watching the Foo's perform on SNL with the lovely Dame Helen Mirren, only to be followed up by watching them perform yet again on David Letterman Tuesday Night. What else could be better?? Oh yes, having a Foo Fighter weekend on 93.3 WMMR all weekend long! Okay kiddo's it does not get any better than this......

Enjoy,
PSO

Best of Luck to the Philadelphia Flyers:-)

Foo Fighters

Wow, am I sorry I do not live two hours closer to where the new Foo Fighters movie was released and the fact I could not find a babysitter to watch all of the kiddo's. Hopefully someone will get it on YouTube.

Thanks,
PSO

sunday stealing

Sunday Stealing: The Threesome Meme

Cheers to all of us thieves!

1. At what time of your life were you happiest and why? I was the happiest in the 90's>

2. Where and when did you meet the love of your life? I met my husband in college in 1989

3. Favourite item of clothing ever or most treasured possession? Any jewelry from my mother, grandmothers, father, husband or from the children is precious.

4. Must-have makeup or beauty item? Mascara, even if they decide to incinerate me....I had better be wearing mascara!!!

5. What do you think is your worst vice or fault .. honestly? Cursing on occasions

6. Would you tell your friend, if you knew her husband/wife was cheating on her/him? Sorry I can not go there, I do not even like to think about it.

7. What ambitions, wishes or desires, for your life, do you still hold close to your heart? To have a happy and healthy well adjusted family, other than that learning how to play the piano well, publishing a novel, and learn how to do an axel in ice skating.

8. Where do you see yourself five years from now? Hopefully the other half will finally have a new contract with the city, he has been working without one for almost two years, and in that contract we will not have to live in the city anymore:)

9. If you had the choice of any talent with the penalty that you would lose a talent in exchange, what would you want to gain, and what would you be willing to loose? I would like to be a famous author and you could have my talent of being a nurse and acting like a give a damn.

10. Name three things that you do want completed in your life before retiring? Winning the lottery because I really want to call out RICH, not SICK, I would like to go to work just one day, and not have it be more stress than the previous shift and have the other people I work with actually do their job.

11. Of all of the people out there who would have been your fantasy date? Date, not romance...Dave Grohl, of course:)

12. Google put another spell on you, you have just changed genders for 48 hours... what are you going to do with your 2 days? Pee outside, scratch myself in public, and of course pleasure myself at least once:)))

13. If you owned your own island, and got to make it your own country, what would you call it? And why? Jenny 867-5309.

14. If you rubbed the lamp and got 3 wishes, what would they be? Win the lottery, move far, far away and buy a huge piece of land , so my in-laws could never find us!

15. What is your earliest memory of puberty? OMG, the TALK from my grandmother no less, oh my! My ears are burning right now.

16. If you got banished to your Island alone and could only bring 5 things, what would they be? A wind mill for electric, Iphone, one charger, mascara, and sunscreen.

Really?? Are you sure?

So this has been my life for the past 6-7 weeks.......

As some of you know, my father recently passed away.....I was finally able to make it back to California, mostly to get away from all the insanity in my life, cleaning out my father home, fixing the property up, putting it up for sale, and coming to the realization and sadness that he is never coming back:(

The Otherhalf had an entire tour to be on vacation and the kids were still in school, he said leave, go away, clear your head and relax, do whatever you need to do, but come back.

He was willing to stay behind--- still cleaning out my fathers house, even he didn't like to go there he is almost as sad as I am/ and have been.

I do not think he has ever trusted me to go by myself to California and now with my fathers death, turning the big one and knowing how much the being a Firefighter in the city of craziness and insanity is...HE Knew, I was already looking for the home in California, I already applied for my nursing license to be granted through reciprocity and had multiple homes I was interested in viewing.

For as much as I hate the fake people in LA etc and that TMZ shit...I like southern California. I just love it, It's warm, NO humidity, thank goodness...it's like spring everyday or at least all of the times we had visited. I would move in a heart beat and the other half knows this!!!

So, I purchased round trip airfare, packed my ice skates and left for one week. I planned on visiting family but my cousin was deployed to the Gulf for that oil spill and it sort of changed a few things.

First my dad was a Marine Corps Brat(Semper F)i, he was born in California, so I was looking forward to visiting family---getting as close to the naval base he was born at and let some of his ashes go......the naval base closed in the 90's.

I ended up doing nothing but sleeping, ice skating and laying by the pool, it actually was sorta great. No kids, no family commitments now just me and my thoughts.....

My dad won a Porsche 911, drag racing for pink slips in the late 70's....oh now, how much I miss that car looking back and the way it sounded, all the work, time taking to rebuilding it to his liking, I remember to way it hummed and when to shift gears just from the sound.

I rented a Porsche Boxster for the week, I couldn't afford to rent a 911 for a week but the boxster worked out amazingly....they say they can go up to 255 mph, but It got once over 100mph---and I thank the lord I didn't get caught.

Because when I get pulled over in this city. I get let go, something about when the Otherhalf Officially worked as an administrator for our Police Dept.(as he has said himself he hired, fired and retired cops, oh yeah helped push through all of there promotions for 10 years), before he jumped ship and decided to become a Firefighter....pretty much our name is notorious in this city of Brotherly love.

If I'm stopped by a cop who is new to the force---I go through the crap of you need to contact your commanding officier, the otherhalf is a fiefighter and I'm a nurse....and you know you burn in hell if you give a nurse a ticket, pretty much....always works, that and dude I have a horrible case of the shits if you want to follow me home and wait until i go to the bathroom and then give me the ticket as NEVER failed!!!!!

So, after looking at house number 12 or so, I take a wrong turn get completely f-ing lost, even with the gosh darn GPS and tumble into a nice neighborhood . I see a home for sale, google the information, get out of the car and walk up to the home, find the current owner after 20 minutes of searching between the people help cleaning it out etc...

I take some amazing views but the money I'll have to sink into it is going to be crazy....I have 4 kids, need to relocate 2,685 miles, so the owner and I talk for an hour or so, I take some pictures, ask about 90 million questions, call my realtor and then ask to me, "The most important question".

I do not want my young children being exposed to any celebrity like figure or so, no Lindsey's, no Nothing!!!!!!! Just everyday life, go to work come home and be quite!!!

So, what is the million dollar question???? Is there anyone anywhere around this neighborhood that would be considered famous, popular, no one get photographed no cameras, no nothing, right???

The owner says, "Well the family who lives over there, up there around that way, "He's the lead singer of Nirvana", I was like WTF??? Nirvana?? What? He says, "Yeah, yeah, Nirvana!" In his slightly broken english.

I said sure, "I bet so does Jimmy Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Janis Joplin". The comment flew over his head & I hauled ass out of there as fast in my little Boxster could get me, I was still lost for an hour or so.

I returned home within a week, puppy sat my best friends 20lb. 7 month old baby f-ing beagle--the fucker got out of our fenced in yard and ran like frogger into two way traffic----I ran after him tripped and fell broken my left elbow in 2 places, managed to take most of the skin off the other side of my body like I was dragged by a truck for 4 blocks.

yes, I caught him, finally...and i will not say anything else other than that and we are still friends with the owners:)

Needless, to say I have seen 3, yes 3 Ortho specialists, had 2 MRI's, have to go to physical therapy 5 days a week and to top it off now have Frozen Shoulder Syndrome due to being in a sling...................and the Director of Shoulder, and Elbow services stated that if my elbow isn't working better in 2 weeks now, he's going to do it for me---how you ask--surgery, yeah I don't think so...good luck in two weeks I'm going to The Outer Banks, N.C., good luck finding me!!

Celebration of my BIG one!

So, I recently turned the Big one---yes, 33 again and it was beautiful! The Otherhalf took me on a world-wind weekend vacation to Vegas, someplace I had absolutely no desire to EVER go...but after all it was the thought that counted. We stayed at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and got to see a really good band play...Them Crooked Vultures in the best VIP seating! I was so happy not to only see Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and of course the legend himself John Paul Jones it was all a girl of my young age could ever ask for.....Thank You, Thank You!

The Foo Fighters Return to the Studio - Spinner

The last few months of my life has truly been horrible with the passing of my father, the latest news has lifted my spirits:

Foo Fighters Return to the Studio - Spinner

Foo Fighters Return to the Studio - Spinner

I'm thinking road trip in the next year:)

Change is good right?

So, I decided to change a few things on this blog. Why not, right? What do I have to lose.

I'm sick of my job almost everyday I work. I really and truly thought the transfer to a new unit would be great, and in all honestly it has not been. It has been quite depressing to say the least.

While we were told, we would be the first ever of it's kind....and we are, there is so much more despair than any of us could have imagined, death and lack of hope, human experimentation in my book all in the name of research, well thats just my opinion.

I've come to realize in the past 2 years, we have lost OVER 9 employees, doesn't that send a red flag to administration that something is wrong? It's not getting much better, just busier.

We are at our wits end, we lost HOPE, it doesn't live here.

From your employees.......

Other news....I'm getting old....Seriously, I am...I was planning a trip back to California--hopefully, but that has been knocked down....trampled on-- no less!

When are the Foo Fighters getting back together and touring? I need a fix. Turning older really sucks for sure and seeing them would just make this year a little brighter.

If anyone out there is reading this from Southern California and you want to send me a burger from Carney's--send me an email, Okay!

School officially started yesterday am, well at least for my oldest 2. #3 starts his first full day in the morning and is scared out of his mind, you can just tell. Of course the old two are telling him wild and crazy stories about taking the bus---but I guess that is just what older siblings thrive on:)

Number 4-started preschool 3 days a week for 6 hours, she is also nervous, and is just starting to give up her, "baby"-- Baby is a small , and at one time flurry stuffed animal Grover- now his fur is matted down- she mostly carriers him. by one leg, now that leg is 1 inch longer than the other. Over the past year, because she loves Dave Grohl/Foo Fighters, she has started to call him Baby Dave Go-Go and occasionally will say, "baby Dave Do-Do:)).God Bless her little heart

Hope all the other mothers are surviving the start of school too.

PSO

Happy Birthday Grohl!

Okay, for those who do not already know...I sorta-like the Foo Fighters.

And on that note, today is Dave Grohl's 40th Birthday,...Gosh, where the heck has the time gone?

Stop over at Sweet Paramania and check out of some of the birthday wishes and stories. These pictures are from Leecy with the help of her friend Kevin.

Our Trip to California

I wanted to write so much, after our trip to California but did not have the time, then it was back to work, back to the same old stuff.

So here it is in a nutshell.

When I was younger, living with my Grandmother, she always told some weird stories about when she lived in California, so I never really thought I would like it. I did spend a short amount of time there waiting for a connection after coming back from Tahiti, so that experience never really counted.

Now California is a place, I may like to live, perhaps even retire! The weather of course was beautiful, warm or hot during the day and cool at night - almost reminded me of the Pocono's during the summer.

Everyone, and I mean everyone was ssoooo nice to us. From the family at Universal Hollywood to the Love Ride. We ran into a lot of "transplants" from the East Coast, and this nice young couple, the gentleman grew up in Wildwood Crest- imagine that! I vacationed in Wildwood Crest, every summer as a young kid.

We drove all the way to Carney's to see if, it was true about the Hot Dogs and Burgers, and yes, they are pretty darn good!

The only complaint was driving on those freeways! Even if we drove 80 miles per hour, we were being passed by, like we were not even moving, it was a pretty scary thought! It made driving on I-95 like a good thing.

We really needed to getaway, since we NEVER have anytime to ourselves, and the fact we never see each other, hence the fact we have been married so long. Make me wonder, where all our kids came from!?

The Tubes and Foo's put on a great concert, sort of didn't see much of the ZZ Top, but heard they were fantastic.

Well, that is it in a nutshell....Oh Yes, I'm working again tonight-imagine that not 12 hours, but 13 plus...I swear I have to plan it better...I think I have worked every Daylights savings time in the fall for the past 15 years! Go Figure.

Dave Grohl

Well, here is one of many photos taken from Love Ride 2008. We had a great time. I still can not hear out of my right ear, once again the aftermath effect of seeing the Foo's. I have so many things to blog about from our trip, once everyone is settled down, I'll post more!!

Theme song??

For some reason, I can not get the Foo Fighter's song, DOA out of my head and if you read any of my posts below, you will know why.

Everytime I go into work, I'm thinking about this song...I'm considering making it the theme song for my new Unit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2_0Rx780Uk

Part 2 Dave Grohl/Foo Fighters Friend or Foe?

......Part 2

Dave Grohl/Foo Fighters (Friend or Foe)?

Yes, this past week totally sucked, why you asked?

What's up with the Foo's taking a long break?

Sorry to hear that, I definitely believe everyone deserves a break, but 10 years??? Seriously take some time off.

All the Foo's should focus on side projects, family and friends but please do not let it be 10 years!! Please NO!

A Really True Friend!

So, I really wanted to see the Foo's this past year and unfortunaly, was unable to see them in my home-town.

I wanted to travel by myself to Indiana and see them but the Other Half was not to keen on that idea, so The Other Half agreed, to go a see them with me at the Meadowlands..................and the rest is history.

Prior to us going to see the Foo's at the Meadowlands.......

I had to work fast to bring The Other Half up to speed. For 2 months before the concert it is the only thing I would play--in the house, in the car...pretty much everywhere and anywhere.

From our vacation in Virginia to four minutes before we entered the Izod Center.

The Other Half was quite impressed, so many of the songs, he already knew and that he enjoyed so many of them too.

So, there we were @ The Meadowlands and he had a Religious Experience and now he is a total convert. Now, how to I know this?

The other day, upon telling him about the long break the Foo's where going to have..he said, "WHAT!?" "F#&!" Spoken just like Dave Grohl would!

Then, he mentions again, "Is there anyway we can get out of going to your cousin's wedding, then we could go to Vegas to see them?"

Well, if looks could kill he would be dead, and that was an understatement!

"Well, is there any other shows we could see them at?", he asked.

Well, LOVE RIDE-HERE WE COME!!!

From the City, we call home to California, only about 2,688 miles.

**This is the reason I'm married to The Other Half.**

Listening to the Foo Fighters way too much lately?

So, how do you know when you have been listening to the Foo Fighters way to much lately?

Early last week, I asked the two year old for something...I starting saying, "Over There" and pointing---which turned into, "There, There", when she started in her adorable Minney Mouse-high pitched voice and began to sing, "Dere dogoes my Werooo." Translates to,"There Goes My Hero".

She had to whole clan crackling up- wish I had my camera on to record it!