Janice Manilow » Entertainment and Fun

Technology person of the family

Janice — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:06:29 +0000

Thanks for the article from Isaiah Gaines

I am the oldest of four kids. We all have our unique qualities. My youngest brother is the artsy one. He is the person you can go to for any type of art and he is able to produce it quickly. One of my sisters is the smart one. I think she could win any kind of trivia game because she knows everything there is to know about anything. I have always been the technology one. I think it will forever be my place with my family. Everyone always comes to me with any and all technology questions. Sometimes it is questions about Microsoft Word, sometimes it is questions about direct tv vs cable and sometimes it is questions about operating a computer. I am always happy to help and I love my family, but the world is getting so advanced with technology that they might need to start learning some things. My mom can’t keep calling me every time she needs to turn on the computer or open a webpage. I keep hoping she will remember, but I keep getting calls about simple things.

COLLECTING VINTAGE CHINA

Janice — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:10:22 +0000

Guest post by Jewel Cole

We looked into wireless internet service plans and found the best plan for our speed and data needs. Now, I can use the internet to pursue one of my hobbies. I love to collect vintage china. I have several patterns that I am collecting. They are antique and cannot be found at a regular retail store. I have had to piece them together by buying on-line and trading with vendors. My favorite pattern that I have been collecting since I was in my early twenties is a beautiful pattern by Staffordshire. It was produced from 1918-1938. It is called “Chelsea Bird”. It is a beautiful hand painted bird on delicate china. There are different colors of the pattern. The most that I have is of the burgundy. I have collected an eight-piece setting with some serving pieces. I want to collect the cobalt blue, mustard, and Kelly green colors too. They are more rare and really hard to track down. I got lucky on Ebay last year and got six dinner plates from a lady in Kentucky. It is rare to find so many together!

Saving My Marriage

Janice — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:41:26 +0000

Thanks for the post from Rashad Townsend

Gosh, I don’t really know what else to do to save my marriage. It’s harder to be a couple living together than I imagined it would be and I’m finding out things about my husband that I just didn’t know until we moved in together. I just can’t imagine a time when I’m going to be used to all his stubble in the sink and the way he snores at night…ugh! The worst thing is that he’s just really inconsiderate – I know that it comes from years of living alone and not having to share a space with anyone but hey, I’m his wife and I know there’s something he’s got to give to be a better partner. I asked him to go to SatelliteTVFamily.com to look into cable for the house the other day, for example, and he said he didn’t have time. Then he got all pouty a week later when we didn’t have the TV channel that carried the football game he wanted! We’ve both got a lot to learn.

I’ve never seen anything like this before!

Janice — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:04:34 +0000

I’ve never seen a dog attack a shark before! I have to wonder what kind of sharks these are, are they the kind that go after people, or are they the passive sharks? I can’t imagine that the sharks didn’t attack the dogs!

Making my movie blog bigger and better!

Janice — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:56:01 +0000

Guest post written by Trent Byers

One of my favorite things to do in my spare time is to write things for my movie blog. I’ve had it for a few years now and it’s really surprising how much of a following it’s picked up! I might just chalk it up to my good writing, but I think that a lot of it is the sarcastic approach that I take to it. It kind of makes it a little more funny to read than all of those straight laced and by the book type movie reviewers out there. Besides, it’s no fun taking yourself too seriously!

Well, I was thinking the other day that I’ve really just maxed out my potential for the blog on this blogging system I’ve been using from teh beginning, so I started looking for a place to buy up a domain name so I can just move it to my own website. While I was doing that I saw the site DomainNAMES.com and decided to use that after I read through it some.

i’m going to try and keep the look of my old blog, except add on some fun little things to it too. That way I won’t alienate any of my longtime readers or anything like that.

Having To Deal With Sharing With WaldenU.edu

Janice — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 20:41:30 +0000

I’ll be glad when my good friend is done with all of her courses that she has been taking online with very popular Walden University that has been taking up so much of her time for almost a year now. I miss her. I know it sounds crazy and even a bit selfish for someone my age to feel this way, but it has had a tremendous effect on me. We have been best friends since the fourth grade so we have a good long standing true friendship. But I’m just so tired of sharing it with WaldenU.edu.

I try not to call her too much, so I have been communicating with her mainly through emails and texting. It has been so long since we have talked on the phone or seen each other face to face that I all most forget what her voice sounds like for heaven’s sake! So I am so happy to accept an invite from her to join her to watch the fireworks tomorrow night in celebrating the 4th of July. This is something that we have done dozens of times through out the years of our friendship and from many, many vantage points all over the country, depending where we are living at the time. And I’m so grateful that we are both at least in the same state for right now anyway, but after she graduates, who knows where she will end up, it all depends where the best money is to help pay for all the education that was required for her to get into her new field of bettering the environment. Her favorite color has always been green!

I would have been there if I’d known about it!

Janice — Sun, 29 May 2011 14:06:52 +0000

I love flash mobs, and I love belly dancing! I take belly dancing classes, and I love it. So it was with great delight that I discovered that a flash mob of belly dancing had been done this past week in a place not too far from where I live. It happened on a day that I had to work (sigh) and I had no idea it was happening (double sigh) but I sure wish I’d been a part of it!

The First of May

Janice — Sun, 01 May 2011 17:50:51 +0000

I used to love May 1st. We’d have special celebrations at school where we would dance around a “May Pole” (which was normally the tetherball pole) and we would be holding ribbons, weaving in and out, while the parents watched. We would pick flowers and give them to friends and family. It was a true celebration of spring. I understand that the schools stopped celbrating May 1st that way because of the cold war with the USSR way back when. I wish that we would bring it back, now that the cold war is over.

We Rely on TV

Janice — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 01:54:28 +0000

When I was a teen, we had to go to my father’s house every Sunday for his visitation with me and my two sisters. Sometimes we went on a Saturday, too, and spent the night. But that meant that we had to sleep on the floor in the living room, and I didn’t like the way there was no privacy at all – people would walk through the living room day and night, whether we were there trying to sleep or not. But the good thing about it was that the television set was in the living room, so we could watch TV until we fell asleep, no matter what time it was.

Back then we only had ABC, NBC and CBS for channels, and they went off the air at 1:00 am. Now, we have Direct TV with over 300 channels, and they are on 24 hours a day, seven days week.

Even people in remote, rural areas have the chance to get Satellite TV and enjoy all the different channels. I have to admit that we have come to rely on TV more than we did back then. I need to get the emergency weather warnings on the TV, and I get all my news from TV instead of the daily newspaper like my parents had. Then there are the movies that e don’t have to rent, the sports that we don’t have to buy tickets for, and all the fun shows at night after dinner.

Your Last Concert?

Janice — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 23:29:16 +0000

I went to a couple of shows at a local outdoor amphitheater before the developers tore it down and built condos and a shopping center on the property. I think the last performance there was the Moody Bues – they were great.

I have no interest in going to shows at the arena or stadium. I don’t like the big stadiums, the music quality is horrible, the crowds are horrible, you can never get front row tickets and only see specks on a stage with a big screen (big deal!) and the seats are not comfortable.

I’ll stick with smaller venues and support the songwriters and emerging artists in the bars and little clubs. The big names already have enough money – they don’t need mine.