Death Metal for Kids

Fine, I admit it. I listened to Death Metal. Occasionally I still do.

As my husband is fond of saying - "You can take the girl out of Tampa...".

A while back I asked a good friend of mine to make me a mixed cd of songs for kids. ( I have a point here, I swear) and I was not at all surprised when my son decided he loved this song.



The Thunderlords bill themselves as The First Metal Band for kids. They might be right.

And nobody asked me to write this or gave me anything for free (except Erin, but that is different and it was also several years ago) but I have suddenly become popular with the under 5 car pool crowd and I thought I'd throw the rest of you a bone.

Because I rock.

*flashes you all the devil horns*

Searching and Winning

If you read my regular blog you may be aware that I am hopelessly addicted to search engines where you can win stuff just by searching.

I use blingo and winzy and several others, but I just came across a new one called swagbucks.

Here is what I like about swagbucks:

1) It is actually a pretty good search engine. It gets its results from Google and Ask.com. Sure, Google is still better, but you can't win any prizes or money searching on Google.




2) I win relatively frequently. I rarely won anything on Blingo or Winzy but I usually win at least one or two Swagbucks each day. Then you can buy things with your swagbucks.

Cool, huh?

This Is SO GOOD!

If you like Dogfish Head 60 Minute IPA (and I do) you may also really, really like:

Sierra Nevada Extra IPA - they call it The Torpedo.

And no - Sierra Nevada neither paid me to say this nor gave me free beer, but they should strongly consider it in the future.

Get Game Smart

I love my XBOX 360, but sometimes I worry that I let my kids have too much "screen time". Fortunately the people selling us the video games are worried about it too.

Do you want to learn more about parental controls? Do you want to win some prizes while you are at it?

Check it out.

Is This Thing On?

It is national delurking day. That pretty much means that I am asking you to come out of the woodwork and leave a comment just so that I know I am not talking to myself.

Or am I?

Win Super Bowl Tickets

If you want a shot at winning tickets to Super Bowl XLIV (for those of you not fluent in Roman Numerals that is next year's game, not the one in a few weeks) check out the Prilosec website.

Then if you win the tickets you can take me to the game. Deal?

Sarah Reviews: Garden State

I realize that the movie "Garden State" was actually released in 2004, but I just saw it for the first time yesterday.

Sure, people had told me that I should see it - that I would love it but I was reluctant to watch it.

Why?

Because I have issues with Zach Braff.



It isn't personal and it isn't really his fault.

I just loathe "Scrubs". I don't know why people think that show is funny. It is pandering. It is humor for stupid people.

This being the only place I had ever seen Braff I was not in a huge hurry to watch "Garden State".

You know what? Shame on me. It was an excellent movie. Zach Braff wrote and directed it and I think he did a fantastic job.

If you like dark humor and/or independent films you've probably already seen this anyway, but if you haven't I recommend it.