Posted under Entertainment by The Blonde Diaries on October 7th, 2008 1:02 pm
I’ve been tagged by my friend Kimberly at All About Kimberly in the latest internet/blog questionnaire game. Normally I delete them but since it is only five questions and about Halloween I could not resist! I absolutely love Halloween as it is so much fun to dress up and either collect candy or pass candy out to visiting goblins and ghosts. So here I go.
1. What were your favorite games to play when you were a kid? Do you remember the rules? Share them here (bored kids grounded from video games will thank you):
I am a huge Candyland fan which is pretty fitting considering the holiday we are about to celebrate. I hated getting sent back to different lands though when I was almost to the end. Oh did that make me mad. Other fun games were Mall Madness (I started shopping at a young age) and Life because I use to cheat to get 2 cars full of kids for the money you could collect at the end.
2. Did you go trick-or-treating when you were a kid? What was your favorite costume ever?
Heck Yes! I can’t really remember a specific costume though. Lots of times I would just recycle the previous year’s dance costume to be my Halloween costume. On my Disney trip this year, Mike and I dressed up like Mousketeers from the Mickey Mouse Club in the 90s so that was a fun costume.
3. How old is “too old” to go trick-or-treating?
I don’t have a particular age in mind. I guess it depends on the situation. My friends and I stopped around 12 though because it just wasn’t “cool” to do anymore.
4. Do you remember any silly or gross songs or rhymes from your childhood (like, “Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts”)? Share them with us!
Oh how I wish I did. I can’t remember any right now.
5. What is your favorite Halloween memory?
Growing up my elementary school use to have a fall fair that would fall on Halloween weekend. I use to love meeting my friends up there and going through the trick or treat lines, playing carnival games, and then going into the “oh so scary” haunted house. It was so much fun growing up even though it was so cheesy. The hayrides were a lot of fun too.
6. What goodies do you hope to find in your treat bag this Halloween?
I’ve already done my trick or treating and I was so hoping to receive the Ghiradelli squares that were being given out at the Disney Halloween party but I didn’t get any. Maybe next time.
Now it’s time for me to tag you: Sunni/Marilyn. Anyone else out there that reads this….consider yourself tagged too!! Here’s the link with instructions of the game, but what it comes down to is that you’re it so get out there and tag someone!
Posted under Entertainment by The Blonde Diaries on October 5th, 2008 4:05 pm
Kimberly over at All About Kimberly posted the results of an iVillage quiz she took the other day and was asking her readers to take the quiz as well. Well, I am all about online quizzes because they can be so silly yet fun to take. Off I went over and the topic of this quiz was “What is your e* personality?”
*Since I am family friendly around here I’m changing that e word to behind closed doors since it essentially is the same thing lol.
So my quiz results have left me with this personality to ponder for the rest of the day. It leaves me wondering where along the lines I became “princess” like - before or after the Disney trips began. lol This quiz has me thinking that I have bought into that whole Princess marketing they have been throwing at us females for the past few years. The description below has me thinking Cinderella waiting for the handsome prince to come along and rescue me from my boring and quite lonely life (in my case just rescuing me from work is good enough). Take the quiz and let me know what you find out.
The Romantic
The Romantic can think of nothing more e* than being saved by someone. You aren’t necessarily helpless, but the thought of being rescued makes you feel desirable and sexy. You need to feel sought-after and practically worshipped before anything else can be on the agenda. You prefer partners who not only make passionate love to you, but also who’ll know how to please you without any instruction whatsoever. Your lover’s sexual finesse inspires you and heightens your own capacity for sexual pleasure. You’re especially fond of people who can read you and deliver the sexual excitement you secretly desire.
Posted under Disney, Entertainment by The Blonde Diaries on October 2nd, 2008 4:23 pm
Mike and I like to make lists of things. Recently on our Disney trip we had a few mental lists going - characters we wanted to see from previous trips, characters that we missed last trip and were bound and determined to find, and characters that are “rare” but we would still look for just in case they made an appearance. Oh! We also had a list going for Mickey in his different outfits. Apparently there are over 80 different costumes Mickey can appear in!
I thought it would be fun to share with all of you my top 15 favorite Disney Characters and see who was on your top 5 list to see how many we had alike! Here is my Top 15:
Minnie
Mickey (of course)
Tinkerbell
Marie from The Aristocats
Princess Aurora aka Sleeping Beauty
Belle from Beauty and the Beast
Oliver from Oliver and Company
Daisy Duck
Cinderella
Buzz Lightyear
Dopey
Snow White
Genie from Aladdin
Fairy Godmother
Alice from Alice in Wonderland
Looking at that list there are only two of those characters Mike and I didn’t see in the Disney Parks last week - the two cats! How awesome is that!
You actually don’t have to go to the Disney Parks to see your favorite characters. In fact, you can see them every day through the Disney Bingo game brought to you by Screen Life Games who also bring you Disney Scene It! Disney Bingo is a fun interactive game where everyone can play because the numbers are called from a DVD you insert into your DVD player. Each number includes a Disney character, many of which are on my Top 15 list and probably yours as well! The game is on sale at Amazon.com and Drugstore.com so if you want to get a head start on your holiday shopping this would be a great item to pick up. Check out the video below which describes the game and how to play it.
Posted under Entertainment by The Blonde Diaries on August 7th, 2008 11:19 am
I have never been one for playing lots of video games. The controllers have just become too sophisticated and have too many buttons, joysticks, etc on them that I have given up. But then came along Guitar Hero (It is my duck hunt from back in the day) and now the Wii. I never knew too much about the Wii until my family spent some time in Circuit City and Best Buy last Saturday night while my dad shopped for a new tv. I just love that game console. I like how you can interact with the game and you don’t have to worry about too many buttons and such on the controller. So now I want a Wii!
So I am now signed up for WiiAlerts so I can hopefully find one before Christmas and I am looking for games to buy. I found the Order Up! Trailer on YouTube. Order Up! is a new game coming out where you will start off as a lowly fast food chef and work in the kitchen making your food and recipes and hopefully move up to become a world-class chef! I absolutely love the idea of this game as I love all things cooking and it seems so easy to play and I think you will get to interact with the game a lot and go through the motions of cooking - mixing, beating, combining ingredients - which will be fun.
Check out the trailer and if you have a Wii drop a comment to let me know what you think about the game and the Wii in general. i can’t wait to get mine!
Posted under Entertainment by The Blonde Diaries on July 15th, 2008 10:29 pm
Mike and I are Guitar Hero junkies. We absolutely love playing this game. We were hooked last fall while watching an LSU football game with some friends of ours and have since purchased the Play Station 2 version of Guitar Hero 1-3. Of course with the timing of the latest release, Guitar Hero Aerosmith, I was able to purchase it and give it to Mike for his birthday last weekend
I hadn’t read any reviews online after the game came out, just the speculation and small leaks before the game came out so I was expecting Aerosmith to be the main focus of the game and only have their songs on the game. What I quickly learned was that it isn’t set up quite like that which is probably good for regular Guitar Hero fans who are not crazy about Aerosmith. The game seems very much like Guitar Hero 4 which comes out this fall. You have your “venues” and levels with 3 songs, you have to pass 2 to unlock your first challenge song which is an Aerosmith song and that is where you play with Aerosmith. For some reason you are suppose to have 2 Aerosmith songs (which we did see) and you only need to pass 1 to get to the next level but for some reason Mike would have to play and beat both to move on. Tucked in throughout the game are tidbits about the band and interviews with the members of Aerosmith. So if you are a fan there are some fun extra features you won’t find else where. Overall I’m not disappointed in this game and I think it is a lot of fun and builds off of Guitar Hero 3. I can’t wait to see what Guitar Hero 4 will bring!
