There are so many options today for home television. How do you find the best deal for you? There are a number of places that you can look. mytvoptions.com lets you enter your zipcode and television preferences and lets you know what deals are available in your area. You can compare prices with other offers that you may have heard of.

Another site to check for local deals is cox.com. While not available in all areas, you can enter your zipcode and state to find out what is available. Cox has data, voice and cable options to make choosing a package a cinch.

I would also check out timewarnercable.com. Time Warner is a cable company that offers digital cable, digital home phone and high-speed online services. Pricing bundles can be built to fit every need.

It is easy to shop for the best home television options when the information is right at your fingertips!

Do you belong to the gold collar class? It has nothing to do with the ability to buy gold but has everything to do with entitlement. I see it in today’s youth all the time. They think they are entitled to anything and everything. Those who fit is this category are usually 18-25 working adults who feel that they are entitled to luxury goods, top line electronics and pricey cars. According to the Seattle Times:

The gold collar contingent, ages 18-25, is doing its part by downing $12 Kettle One vodka martinis and sporting the sleekest rims on their Lincoln Navigators. To sustain a lifestyle inspired by rap videos and pop-culture magazines such as Us, they spend a disproportionate amount of their disposable income on expensive brand-name products and services.

Another word I learned today from the Urban Dictionary is “fat activism.” This has nothing to do with publishing weight loss success stories, but instead has to do with accepting yourself at any size. From the Urban Dictionary site:

A movement based around the idea that people can be healthy and beautiful at any size. The movement is generally accepted as having started in 1969 with the founding of NAAFA by Bill Fabrey. Noteable groups in the movement’s history include the New Haven Fat Liberation Front and the Fat Underground in Los Angeles, both of which were active in the seventies. More recently, NOLOSE (formerly the National Organization for Lesbians of SizE), NAAFA and the Council on Size and Weight Discrimination have been in the vanguard of the fat activism movement. Some important figures in the history of the fat lib movement include Bill Fabrey, Karen Scott-Jones (now Karen Stimson), Aldebaran (now Sara Fishman) and Lynn McAfee. More recent figures in the movement include Marilyn Wann, author of the zine Fat!So?, Nomy Lamm, author of the zine I’m So F*ing Beautiful, and Stacy Bias, founder of FatGirl Speaks, a grassroots fat empowerment conference held in Portland every year.

If you haven’t discovered the Urban Dictionary, then you should give it a look. Today, there are so many new words and phrases, I just can’t keep track of them all. For example, did you know that a “stealth call” is when you return someone’s phone call, but you don’t really want to talk to them, so you call when you know they won’t be able to answer the call. This way you can just leave a voice mail. Hmmmmm, I think I stealth call all the time!

You either love them or you hate them – hand dryers. You got to love them because they are so much better for the environment, but when they fail to get your hands dry, not such a big fan.

The hand dryer was invented in 1948 by George Clemens to eliminate the use of paper towels. Many modifications have been made over the years including speed and no touch sensors.

I don’t know if you have seen the commercials for the new television show Huge. It is a show about seven teens and the staff at a weight-loss camp. I don’t know if the show is going to promote how to lose weight, but the star, Nikky Blonsky from Hair Spray fan, looks like she has gained a ton of weight for the show. I just find it interesting that the show would want to have their stars gain weight, which is so unhealthy, just to make a show about a weight-loss camp. Not sure what kind of message this is sending.

It has been a hectic couple of weeks. The end of school always is! There are so many events to attend and I had to make sure that I sent out the invitations for my daughter’s 5th grade graduation. School officially ends next Wednesday so between now and then I will be posting a lot less. This summer, look for some posts about great summer movies of the past!

The second movie poster is from the great film Breaking Away starring Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern (his first film role) and Jackie Earle Haley (who definitely needs to try the best acne medication). These four friends live in a college town. It is about trying to find yourself and the obstacles that you my find. The 1979 film is one of my favorites.

The past couple weeks have been very busy for me so I haven’t had time to post. I have been helping my high school daughter with her brochure printing project and my 5th grader with her end of year projects too. I recently came across some cool old movie posters that I thought I would share. The first one is Creature From the Black Lagoon. Whenever you mention old horror flicks, this movie, released in 1954, is sure to come up. The movie was not in color, but in black and white.

When I was young, we only had one television in our house. We watched what our Dad wanted to watch. I learned to love watching sports and The Rockford Files. The dial was the old turner type and my brother actually devised a stick he could use the turn the channels while sitting on the couch. We only only had a few channels: 2, 4, 5, 7, 11 and 13. Plus there was UHF were you could watch ZOOM or Sesame Street.

Now I have a LCD TV. The picture is clearer and I actually have a remote control. Plus I have cable and have hundreds of channels. Maybe this has just made us all a little bit lazier!