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Introducing “Nosey” Next Door Neighbor

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M.C. Nugget and I woke up one Saturday morning to what I initially interpreted as a sweet note from our otherwise nosey, busy-body neighbor. It read something like this,

“Hey guys!  I just wanted to let you know that I am a very light sleeper, so because of this, I sleep mostly in the living room!  Anyway, I will be away at my boyfriend’s through Sunday, so if MC (me — Ms Cheevious) would like to park in my space, that would be fine!”

I should have understood the undertones of this note immediately, but all I saw was the invitation to use her parking spot and I started to do a little dance.

In RE: the parking spot.

You see, Nuggie and I live three blocks from the beach.  This means that on most days parking is a very hot commodity and hard to come by.  I am a busy girl, which means I go places! I have a life! So, I have to search for parking, often many times throughout the day when I come back to our beach place. I USE to park in a somewhat-non-space in back of Nuggie’s building along with the other tenant parking.  It was sort of a half-space, but me and my little car didn’t ever have trouble getting in and out, and no one else ever parked there.  I did this, until “Nosey” dropped hints to Nuggie in her passive aggressive way that “some of the other people in the building were wondering who it was that was parking there, since everyone was only allowed one parking space”… That, in effect, ended my days of using that space in a pinch, and began the days of M.C. and I planning ahead for parking. Oy. As IF we live in New YORK or something!

The comment from her was annoying enough, but when Nuggie read the note he snapped, “Too bad!  We can’t help it if she sleeps in the LIVING ROOM!” and I immediately knew what he was talking about.  Nuggie and I returned the night before from a romantic, fun night out, and wanted to “continue the romance” if-you-will, back at home.  We stayed in the living room for the very reason that the walls in the beach palace are very thin, and well — we don’t want to have to think about waking the neighbors while we have the music on and other “stuff” going on.  So, rather than disturb our sleeping neighborsj (as the bedrooms in these places all have common walls), we took our hanky-panky to the living room.

Suddenly, I found myself cracking up.  ‘Serves her right!’ I thought.

If you’ve ever lived in an apartment complex, or even a tightly knit neighborhood of homes, you’ve known neighbors who don’t know how to mind their own business.  Oh, sure, they justify their nosiness by saying they just “care” about you and your well-being, while they make sure you know they see and hear everything you do.  It reminds me of Mrs. Kravitz from the TV Show Bewitched.  If you’re too young to have ever seen Mrs. Kravitz (I can’t imaging why you would be, since the show is still all over cable TV today), I’ve provided a few shots of her below:

Funny.  Some people just don’t have a life.

Stay tuned everyone – as next I’ll be sending you my REAL, and TRUE Costa Rican Vacation video!  Yippee!

Have a great day and make someone smile because you are MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS!

Love you people!  Mmmmmmphhhhuuuuhhhh!!!!

xoxo,

Ms. Cheevious

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The Great Costco Food Sample Incident

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I’m going to share with you a little incident that ACTUALLY occurred at my friendly neighborhood Costo recently.  The names and characters’ names have been changed – only because I don’t know them. If I did, these slime balls would be listed right here with mug-shots, their phone numbers, emails and home addresses (just kidding… but a girl can dream).

After patiently waiting to get a hot tasty morsel of free food at Costco (from one of the sample cart people),  and,  after waiting through the first whole batch the woman had produced, because the line was THAT long, (and also because in the previous batch, certain SOMEONES ran up to the front of the line, just as the samples were coming out, IGNORING the long line formed by we POLITE folks, and grabbed up all the yummy stuff)… After all that, while I STILL waited patiently in line, some sneak-meister lady came up and began chatting up our sample lady!  I knew immediately what this bitch was up to.  She was hungry, like all the rest of us, and yet, rather than wait in line – LIKE ALL THE REST OF US, and LIKE GOOD PEOPLE DO – she thought she’d put on a little side-show to distract the cart lady, and somehow thought this would fool us.  She probably did fool a few of the people in line, sadly.

Which begs the question, “Why was I in line with fools?” and then the question,  “Why are they fools?” Well, I was in line because the cart woman had been polite enough to say she was sorry we waited in line and the first samples ran out, and that more would be ready in a jiff.

By acknowleding that we’d been there waiting in line, she immediately made STANDING IN LINE imperative.

Why were the other people in line with me fools?  Well they would have been if they just stood there and did nothing while they were about to be taken for a second time. I know some of you.  You’re sharp too, and you’re thinking ‘why fault the bee-otch for thinking outside of the box and getting the food before it was all gone again?’  I’ll tell you why.  BECAUSE I DID WHAT I WAS SUPPOSE TO DO and this goombah butt-ugly chick was threatening to prove ONCE AGAIN that it DOESN’T PAY to follow any sort of social graces!  If everyone did what she did, we already know what would happen: only the stronger, nastier, fatter (there is almost ALWAYS someone fatter), meaner, more-muscular people would survive.  They’d claw and climb their way to get the freebie, simply because that’s the way it was done, leaving the elderly, frail, young, short (there is almost always someone shorter), light-weight, kind, polite people behind in the dust.

But if everyone would just stand in that line of  – oh – what – FIVE FRIGGIN’ PEOPLE – then everyone would get their little tiny bite in due time. But NOOOO.  And THAT, my friends is the reason everyone in this FRIGGIN’ COUNTRY IS OBESE!  But I digress.

So, what did I do?  I’ll tell you.

I stepped out of that line and LURCHED at that woman.

I THREW my overly strong and large-for-my-size hands  (I know this because my piano teachers all said so) around her Baptist looking neck, and I SQUEEZED  — HARD.  I clenched my teeth and said as I felt the air trying to pass through her neck, “Feel free to chat this woman up as long as you like.  But if you think you’re getting one of those samples without waiting in line, like all these other good folks have been doing, well, I’ll snap this pretty little neck of yours in two seconds.” Immediately, the people in line began to clap and cheer.  They chimed in with things like “YEAH!” “THAT’S RIGHT!” and “YOU GO GIRL!”  I even heard a “That woman did NOT just DO THAT!!”

I continued as I regained my composure, released the woman, and stepped back in line, ” We complain that the kids in this country are getting worse – more and more violent, indecent, stupid – whatever – as each year passes… and we wonder why? It’s because of LOW LIFES like you who think they’re the only ones that exist on this planet, and selfishly take-take-take, regardless of who else was ahead of them! You teach kids that everything they’ve been taught, including common decency, isn’t NECESSARY! Well, I’M here to tell you that it IS!”

More “Yeah!”s and “That’s Right!”s from my little line gang before I continued, “YOU are the reason our country is in the PISS poor shape it’s in, lady.  So GET A CLUE, GET IN LINE or go live somewhere else.”  I breathed in as the cheers, pats on the back, smiles and women waiting for me to hold their babies continued… before…

It was back to REALITY.

What actually happend was, I simply said loudly, “I HOPE she doesn’t think she’s getting a sample ahead of us without getting in line?  Does she?”  Turning to my other line members. One supported me by rolling her eyes in the woman’s general direction for all to see, another huffed and shrugged, and one very brave lady chimed in “I sure HOPE NOT!”  That was really all we needed.  Oh the joy of being heard, and oh how great it feels to instill FEAR into the heart and mind of a perpetrator!  HA!

So let this be a lesson to you:  Step outta line (in more ways than one) around Ms. Cheevious, and you WILL suffer the consequences. You have been warned.

But honestly people, it’s just WRONG to conduct ourselves so EGOTISTICALLY, as if we are the only ones affected.  Everyone else suffers when we do. What you do affects others.

THINK ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU DO and adjust your actions so others (we) don’t have to pick up your slack.  Would ya? PRETTY PLEASE?

If you do, you’ll feel better as you come to realize — ‘GEE, I WON’T DIE IF I MAKE OTHERS MY EQUAL & BEHAVE GRACIOUSLY’… and it will sure as hell make the world a better place!

That’s it for now peeps!  Now go out there an make the world a BETTER place!  Would you please?

Love you people!!! Mmmmmphuuuhhhh!!!!

xoxo,

Ms. Cheevious

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Irish Whiskey A Go Go

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Or should I say – to go – go. I was recently visiting my home town of Albuquerque, New Mexico. With that trip came a few facebook posts and emails from old friends who wished to reconnect while I was in town. One of those was my old friend, and former jazz (everything) guitarist / accompanist Strings McGillicuddy (for you newbies, I change the names of all my peeps to secure their privacy – and hide their Shenanigans too! But in case you want to hire him to play at your establishment or event in or around New Mexico – well his real name is TIM – ha ha. But for the purposes of this blog, He’s STRINGS baby). Strings had recently connected with me on Facebook and seen a posted photo of a glass of Jameson’s Irish Whiskey (one of my favorites).  When he found out I’d be back in town, he challenged me to a blind taste test of Irish whiskeys. So we did it.  We met at Two Fools Tavern – known (according to Strings) for it’s wide selection of Irish Whiskey, and also known for having food that is not your ordinary Irish Pub food.  Better.

Well, you KNOW I said yes – and – well –  BRING IT ON.  Here’s the video (oh!  and one of Strings M’s songs is the soundtrack for the video!!!):

And here is the link:  http://youtu.be/zTjUbX3OqWc

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That’s it for now!  The video speaks for itself!  Be sure to read all the credits to see the wonderful people that helped make the video!

Have a wonderful week everyone!  We’ve got some great footage to edit of our Costa Rica trip – and you won’t BELIEVE what happened!  HA! That’s coming soon.  Stay tuned…

Love you people!!!  Mmmmpppphhhuuuhhhh!!!!

xoxo,

Ms. Cheevious

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What the Heck is This PLANKING Thing?

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Inquiring minds really do want to know!

So – I took a look online.  A quick google search – oh – say about two weeks ago (you’ll note the video I’m about to share with you was produced within that time frame) revealed PLANKING to be:

The lying down game (also known as planking,[1] or face downs) is an activity, popular in various parts of the world, consisting of lying face down in an unusual or incongruous location. The hands must touch the sides of the body, and having a photograph of the participant taken and posted on the Internet is an integral part of the game.[2] Players compete to find the most unusual and original location in which to play.[2] The location should also be as public as possible, and as many people as possible should be involved. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_down_game)

Then I saw images like this:

I was understandably appalled at first, given the fact that I am a professional whose daily activity is to foster and promote positive images of my clients, which raise awareness about them – in a positive light (unless of course they are trying to foster a bad-boy or bad-girl image). So, naturally my first thought was ‘I’m glad none of my clients are doing this.  OY. What a ridiculous activity.  What will they think of next?’ and ‘Just how bored ARE people, and how much time do they have on their hands??’

But then I started seeing some of my clients making fun of it in video, and posting funny comments about it.  One posted how hilarious it was because she saw the director of the film Bridesmaids on a national morning news show PLANKING for all to see.  My interest was peaked.

It was particularly interesting to me for the use of at least one of my BLOG’s characters.  They are ALL in fact, characters, deserving of participation in fun and exciting activities, especially those in mainstream pop-culture. So, being the astute and well-read human that I am, I decided to produce this video of my man, M.C. Nugget doing some mean, lean, CHICKEN planking. Here’s what we came up with:

If your browser does not show you the video above, please please please go and watch it (link is also below) – and don’t forget to post comments and subscribe to my youtube channel (you can make it so you don’t get an email every single stinkin’ time I post a video, but subscribe, and you’ll be glad you did)!  You can see the video called Planking: Chicken Planking, on my channel here:  http://www.youtube.com/iammscheevious

But I can’t just end this here.  The reason I mentioned the dates of my research, is because just today I noticed a post on Facebook about Planking.  Here is what it said:

Planking – slavers stacked slaves on plank beds face down,hands chained 2 their waist & called it planking the slaves” Know your history before you play this ignorant ass game

Well imagine my knee-jerk reaction at first.  ‘Holy Crap, I’m promoting racism and slavery!!’

But then I began my own research.  Everything about the ties PLANKING has to slavery on my GOOGLE search, comes up as posted after June 23rd or so (not exact dates, of course, nor the results of an exhaustive search).  My client’s video, other client’s funny posts about the Bridesmaids director, as well as MY OWN Ms. Cheevious Planking Video — all done prior to these posts that showed up on Twitter, blogs and all over the internet starting around June 23 or later…

I even found a blog that had some really great insight about the issue, describing things in very sad and gruesome detail.  But no one seemed to be citing any credible sources.  I wanted someone to cite a history book, or something credible.  I wanted to be sure about it before I decided for myself.

One blog (http://www.courtneyluv.com/planking-is-related-to-slavery/) had an interesting array of comments, but the one that helped me decide, said this:

Everything comes from somewhere so that means every single slang term or fad will now be examined and the negative will be pulled out of it. If thats how you feel then you should get mad at black people when the say they just “hanging”. Dont be so quick to crucify something or someone for having fun. If this wouldve been something a rapper came up with you guys wold be all over it.

I say BRAVO to that poster.  SO TRUE.  I understand if something is your mission, and your aim is to educate people.  But reacting or responding to something so harmless as planking for fun – well it’s a little asinine.  Now, if I were standing over anyone that was not my nationality, REQUIRING them at the threat of DEATH – that they play this stupid game – well now, THAT’S HORRIBLE.  On so many levels.

I have to add here, that I DID conduct a search of Google Books that mentioned Slave and “Planking” in the same context, and I was able to find some reference to the claims.  It was a common practice, apparently – although I didn’t find anything that said it was called “Planking the Slaves”.

So I say lighten up and ENJOY life people.  If it is your goal to educate, well, try to do so without ostracizing the people you are trying to educate.  Good educators find the right approach, making it the most effective.

All I know is I think that what WE KNOW TO BE PLANKING TODAY in 2011 – well, it’s funny. Just be safe, so you don’t die like the Australian dude that fell several stories to his death trying to plank on someone’s balcony railing.  ‘Nuff said.

Now go watch my video.  More to come.  That’s not a THREAT.  It’s a PROMISE.

Have a fun, magnificent weekend people (FIREWORKS! YAY), and ENJOY EVERY STINKIN’ MOMENT!

Love you people!!!!  Mmmmphhhuuuhhh!!!

xoxo,

Ms. Cheevious

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Such a Tease

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Yes I am!  And PROUD OF IT!  Ha ha!

I’m sorry!

I’ve just not had a single chance to get the final footage (and fun, loopy moments with my cast of characters) storyboarded, coordinated, filmed and edited to fill in the blanks on my REAL Costa Rica video… soooooo, here is the teaser – or trailer…

Please share, post comments, subscribe, everything!  Who knows… maybe there is a little somethin’ somethin’ in it for ya… but JUST DO IT.  🙂

Did you watch it?  Whaddya think?  Ready to see another appearance by the all-talented Alexi Faharazachikn (aka MISHKA) as a Costa Rican Woman – or maybe a tourist?  Or how about a new couple-o characters??

Stay tuned….  coming soon, I promise!  You will laugh out loud at what we’ve got brewing.  Promise!

Have a fantastic weekend you gorgeous humans!

Love you people!!!! Mmmmmmphhhuuuhhhhhhh!!!

xoxo,

Ms. Cheevious

www.MsCheevious.com

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Gotta love the Dog

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Before I begin I don’t wanna hear anything about how NON Ms. Cheevious this post is, unkay? Trust me. I’m still creating fun, pleasure, frivolity and the enjoyment of life for all around, whenever humanly possible.

But Ms. Cheevious is entitled to have a heart too – so today I wanted to share this pic of me n my puppy (he’s ten now) Puggy.

Guess what breed he is? Ha! And, yes, my son, then six, named him. He was really bought for my son, but I arranged for the training and participated heavily (and of course, managed the puppy’s entire upbringing in his (and my younger son’s) formative years). Puggy became a part of our lives and our family, and we loved (and still do love) that snorty, spunky, squirrely little creature! I cannot recall a time in life with my son in first-fourth grade without Puggy jumping around when we walked in the door, or hiding because he’d torn apart the trash, or some other quirky behavior. Shortly after that Puggy went to live with my son’s dad because my work schedule made his alone time far too unfair to him.

He was recently diagnosed with skin cancer (or so my son says – he lives with my son and his dad out of state in NM now), so while I am here in NM visiting, I took some time to let the animal with the BLUE RIBBON stinky breath lick my arms and hands and face. Ew. But it was worth it.

Love the creatures and humans around you, people!  They are who/what make us the beautiful people we are!

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That’s all I got for now. Hope your week has been great and you continue the work of creating beauty, fun and yumminess all around you!

Love you people!!!!

Mmmmmpppphhhuuuhhhh!

XOXO,
Ms. Cheevious

www.MsCheevious.com

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