Author: Angie World

I’m sitting here catching up on my Sunday night television, watching The Rookie and who do I spy, Harry Tang! From Chuck! Love it when the actors from a favorite show pop up on another show I like.

I will watch anything Nathan Fillion is in, I have loved him since his Joey Buchanan days on One Life to Live. My favorite roles he has played would have to be Mal, the Preacher and Castle, Officer Nolan is still growing on me.

This episode had Pete Davidson on it, I am not a huge fan, granted his humor and comedy is geared toward a younger audience. I really enjoyed his acting in this episode, I hope he does more roles like this one.

A friend of mine always says she can see me with a Nathan Fillion type over a Dean Cain type. I say she’s crazy but she says my humor matches NF more. Of course that is only based on what these famous people let us see of them. Never forget, we don’t really know them, we only know what they allow. Which is a good thing. People need to keep part of their souls to themselves. Can you imaging giving every single part of who you are to the general public? I can’t.

On a food note, I have been craving eggplant Parmesan for the longest time. I do low carb, dirty keto, so the real thing was out of the question. I looked up a recipe online and decided to make it. Then I came home from work yesterday and decided to improvise because I was tired. Spring forward, oxymoron. Spring exhausted. Anyway, I sliced up the eggplant and then layered it with sauce and mozzarella and topped it with Parmesan. It was so good! I used Rao sauce, it is the lowest in added sugars. I’ll be making it again, super easy, low carbs, tasty and healthy. A giant win all the way around.

Ok the countdown is on for the Dallas Fan Expo and seeing DC again and Terri Hatcher for the first time. Wash your hands people, I will not allow some pandemic to come between me and my fun.

Just so you know, I listen to a lot of the Dateline podcasts. I listened to one that made me completely disgusted. Not with the perpetrator of the crime, but with the mother of the victim.

Ok, so the victim was the son, he was getting married and asked his mother for a ring his dad gave her. She said oh I gave that to your sister. She’s on vacation I have the key to her house. I’ll just go over and take it from her and you can have it.

What the heck! Who does that? What kind of mother does something of this nature??? To add insult to injury the son just wanted the diamonds out of the ring. So he replaces them with cubic zirconia and says oh sis will never notice. She does.

Chris Matthews interviewed the mom and asked if she regretted doing such a thing. Nope. No regrets at all. Of course it caused a huge rift in the brother/sister relationship. Mother didn’t care. She even told the police her daughter probably killed her brother. What!!! Are you kidding me?? Completely shut her daughter out at the funeral. Wouldn’t even look at her. Turns out her perfect son was dealing illegal steroids. His business partner killed him and his wife.

Mother has no regrets her son died before he and his sister could make up. None.

She is literally the most odious woman alive, what kind of mother goes into her daughters home and takes her things.

Once you give something to someone as a gift it is no longer yours. It belongs to them, the mother is a thief, I want the daughter to press charges. I hope her daughter has a dozen kids and never lets her mother around them. What a horrible human.

I’m not a perfect mother, but that is something I would never do. If one of my children wanted something I had given another. I would tell them they needed to speak to their sibling about that. I would be totally out of that conversation.

On an up note, Tess and I went to the movies yesterday evening and saw Onward. Excellent movie, it was so much fun, then we came back to my house and she wanted to watch Revenge of the Sith.

So a perfect evening, this morning was blue pancakes with green swirls. All in all a really good weekend.

I saw Austin, TX cancelled SxSW, I’m going to be really angry if the Dallas Con is cancelled.

That’s all I have for now folks, I hope your weekend is amazing.

Ok, so, a friend of mine at work gave me the challenge of writing down 20 of my favorite words. These are not in any particular order. Buckle up, here we go:

1. Delicious. Try it, say the word. It just feels good in your mouth.

2. Mom. The word itself has so many meanings for me. I adored my mom and I love being a mom.

3. Jesus. The word brings up images of my salvation. I don’t like to think of what my life would be without that word.

4. Super. I love how a plain day can become a super day, how something cute could become super cute. It lends a little extra.

5. Vegetable. I can’t say it correctly but I love the word. I like saying it.

6. Breakfast. I just like the way it feels saying it.

7. Friendship. Such a simple word to express so much.

8. Bargain. Who doesn’t love that word! it says so much more than simply sale.

9. Investigation. It’s complex and so much is conveyed in one word.

10. Freedom. It invokes a feeling that is larger than I. The minute I say it I see eagles, American flags and for some reason a lake.

11. Empress. So much more than a mere queen. There is power in this word.

12. Whedon. The mere mention of this word invokes so many of my favorite escapisms.

14. Redemption. We all need redemption from one thing or another and we all strive to redeem ourselves.

15. Gigi. It’s the word that is second sweetest to my ear.

16. Love. There are so many types of love. Romantic love, which has never been directed towards me, unrequited love, which I have for Dean Cain, unconditional love which I have for my children.

17. Ubiquitous. It just feel delicious in your mouth. Say it out loud.

18. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Because the sound of it is simply quite precocious. We had to spell that in the third grade. I’ve never forgotten it.

19. Hello. It’s a beginning and there is nothing better than a beginning.

20. Evidently. I just love the way it sounds. With the right tone it can convey so much.

There you have it, my top 20 words. I would add one more, whatever. I can do a lot with that word.

What are some of your favorite words?

When I was three years old I decided I didn’t want to touch anything that wasn’t red. Red clothes, red plate, red utensils, red rocking chair and even a red teddy bear.

Not just any red, it had to be crimson, I’ve always been drawn to dark colors. Dark red, dark purple and so on. Fast forward to today, my living room is crimson and cream and my bedroom is dark purple and silver grey.

I am telling you this as a backstory to what happened a few weeks ago. I decided to get a new comforter, I had a dark purple summer quit and thought oh I’ll get a grey comforter and put purple accessories. Instead of the dark purple comforter with my silver grey accessories.

I buy a new comforter every year, I allow my pets on my bed and it just wears out the comforters. So I order what looks grey and it comes, I wait a while to take it out of the packaging. It looked grey in the packaging. The week before my trip I strip my bed, put the new purple sheets on and eagerly take out the comforter.

It’s not grey it looks baby blue, so blue I went back through my order history to see if I had inadvertently clicked the wrong color. I did not and I have waited so long I can’t return it.

I decided I need to use it until a replacement can be found. I find one quickly enough but it wouldn’t be here until after I got back from my trip. Not a problem I thought, I can do this, I could not. I very literally could not sleep under that baby blue monstrosity.

Is anyone else like that? If the bedding isn’t right you can’t sleep? Please tell me I am not alone in this.

Thankfully the new comforter came Tuesday, I immediately redid my bed and a good nights sleep was had. The new comforter is the most delicious shade of dark purple and all is right with my world once again.

Perhaps I should go to a brick and mortar store next time I decide to try a grey comforter. Next winter. We’ll see.

Have a great weekend, Dean Cain is on Fox and Friends tomorrow morning. I’ll have to set my DVR because I’m not waking up that early on a Saturday. Not even for Dean.

We finally made it to Arizona, our final destination, see what I did there. First of all Arizona is beautiful and I love how they did the architecture, it blends so well with the natural beauty of the surroundings.

We decided on an Airbnb instead of a hotel. This is the first time I have ever used Airbnb, I wasn’t disappointed, it was in a good location and clean. It also had a full kitchen and a laundry closet.

Stormie and I went for a walk every morning, she loved it and I loved the scenery. The one thing that struck me was all of the orange trees, they were everywhere. The homeless there just grab and go, orange peels everywhere. At least they won’t have scurvy, also the enormous aloe Vera plants everywhere, I wanted to dig one up and bring it home with me.

Why Arizona you ask. Well, I’ll tell you, Shay’s oldest son and his wife live there. They were having their first child together. Shay asked if I wanted to go on a road trip with her to see the baby. I said can we stop in Roswell? She said yes, I said I’m all in. So that’s how it happened, her sons call me Auntie, so I wanted to go anyway.

We also went on several adventures to see the area we were in. Hiking and nature are a must in such beautiful surroundings. Stormie loves it and she loves all humans except for one.

My nephew has a bonus daughter from this relationship as well. She is adorable and couldn’t say my name, it came out Aunt Barbie. So I taught her the Barbie World song. Her parents can thank me later.

I loved visiting but no way could I live there. The heat would absolutely kill me, I don’t care that it is a dry heat. It is still heat and I hate the heat. So, Montana and Alaska still in the running, along with Florida. I know it’s hot there as well, but I seem to tolerate it better in FL.

I hope everyone has had a great week, it’s been rough getting back in the swing of things but I have persevered and today is my Friday. I hope you all have had a great week and have a fantastic weekend.

We started our journey Saturday evening, I know most people start their travels during the morning hours. However, my bestie Shay, works on Saturday, so we left after she got off work. By the time she left work then got to my house and transferred her stuff from her car to the Jeep we left about 5 pm.

We made it to Lubbock, we were really hoping to make it to New Mexico but it took 7 hours to get to Lubbock and we were exhausted. We found a pet friendly hotel and stopped for the night. Have I mentioned I took my Husky with us? Why yes I did, she is officially a traveling Husky.

The next morning we drove the rest of the way to Roswell, New Mexico. This stop was for me, I have always wanted to go there because, well, aliens. I loved the show Roswell the show from the late ‘90’s early 2000’s. Not the new one, that one is a discombobulated mess. The original is best.

Roswell did not disappoint, so many places were super pet friendly. Even the Alien Museum! I was pleasantly surprised. Stormie did great, she loved everything and was well behaved. The only sad part is there is no Crash Down diner in Roswell. We were both disappointed about that.

After exploring Roswell we continued our drive and discovered a pistachio wonderland! Just sitting there in the middle of nowhere. I also found a new boyfriend. He’s very accommodating and a great listener.

After buying things that are not on the approved eating list we made our way to Las Cruces, NM. What a beautiful city! We decided to spend the night there and make our way to Arizona the next day. I hope you enjoy some pictures from our time with the aliens!

In the beginning there was a car rental place. We decided it would be better to rent an SUV instead of putting mileage on my friends vehicle or mine. Plus taking my dog we needed extra space.

Saturday I show up to the car rental place, I don’t know how many of you are familiar with renting a vehicle, what you do is go online and tell them what type of vehicle you want. Sedan, SUV, compact and so on, they do not guarantee a specific make and model. The location I went to was a satellite office. That means they had a smaller selection. I’m telling all of this to explain what happened next.

A woman, well call her Enterprise Ellie, was at the counter soundly berating the young man behind the counter. She said that he told her she could have a specific make and mode, he calmly said that he would never do that as it is against their policy. She then goes on to call him a liar and here is where she really caught my attention, she says she works for the same company that I do! So then I really looked at her and realize I know who she is. She works in the same building as I, I don’t know her name but I know who she is.

What I do know of her is she is filled with anger and hatred, I have overheard some really outrageous things from her. At times we both sit in the same courtyard here at work. She is always on the phone saying really awful things.

On this day she told the young man that he was not going to prosper and she was calling corporate and getting him fired. She also mentioned social media, she very literally would not stop. She then got on the phone and started telling anyone who’s would listen that the young man was not going to prosper and kept saying the name of the company we both work for.

I told the young man to to worry about it because I have twitter as well and I had already sent him a shout out. He was calm and collected and never rude. He needs a raise. I cannot imagine carrying around so much anger that I take it out on someone young and threatening their livelihood. Who does that?

I wish I knew this woman’s name, I would totally give it to my third line and tell him what happened.

It goes against our code of business conduct to behave that way in public while invoking the name of our company. It’s one thing to behave like a donkey it’s another to drag the company along with you.

So, Enterprise Rental, don’t listen to the woman who went to the Plano, TX location. She’s certifiable.

As usual any comments, questions or anything else can be left here or sent to me at angie@angieworld.com.

I was going to start at the beginning of our adventure, mine and my bestie Shay. However, something happened today that I need to write about. After that I’ll begin at the begun.

We decided to go hiking this morning at one of Phoenix’s parks. It was a beautiful mountain and a beautiful morning. As most of you know I have a gorgeous, lovable goofball of a Husky named Stormie.

She loves all humans and animals alike, or so I thought. We start up the trail, several people stop and tell me how beautiful she is, ask to pet her and she is very obliging. In my experience with Huskies, they love attention. Will preen and prance when they believe they are the center of said attention.

As we are walking up a woman is coming towards us, Stormie freaks out, starts cowering and backing up. She actually manages to to wriggle out of her harness. And takes off like a shot, she was terrified of that woman.

Now I may have been listening to too much Dateline, but I believe an animal when they tell me someone is evil. I don’t know what Storm sensed in that woman but she was terrified. I wanted to ask that woman what was wrong with her but I was too busy chasing a freaked out husky.

We finally got her, I jumped in the Jeep and drove to where she finally stopped. I opened the back drivers door and she jumped in as nice as you please. I have tightened her harness and that will not happen again.

Believe an animal when they tell you a human isn’t trustworthy.