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Kay - Tonight Voiced by Sarah

risI was informed tonight (or more made aware) that when I am saying something that my mother (dear Kay) says, I use a certain voice (mostly nasally, very southern) and make a face (perhaps squishing up my nose[?].) This is nothing that my mother sounds like. Kay sounds more like Kristin Wiig's character Aunt Linda from SNL. She uses the phrases "Gaah" and "Oh Brother!" and often asks me (in a nasal, southern accent,) "Sarah, have you seen (fill in the blank with the movies RV, Over the Hedge, etc.)? It is so funny!"

The voice was perfected through my college years. My friends and I have made each of our parents somewhat like characters. We refer to them by first name, have voices for each and overly exaggerate their characteristics (i.e., Kay and Bob are rabid MSU fans. Debbie got sloshed on mimosas at a wedding shower thinking she was drinking just orange juice. Delaine and Donnie just sit on their porch and let their yard boy (a 60 year old man) do all of their work.) These are grossly exaggerated characters, but aren't they much funnier this way?

I think secretly our parents like us having this perception of them. Who wouldn't? I only hope my children mimic me in a high pitched, nasal, ultra-southern accent. It would be a dream come true.

GAAAAHHH!!!!

I may be losing the blog war but I'm feeling very fierce

My Fresh Food Dilemma

Dear Chiquita,

I've been eating a good amount of fresh fruit and veggies this week (i.e., carrots, apples and grapes.) I wish that I ate fresh things everyday, and I could get fresh groceries everyday.

But I digress...The point is that I love grapes. The seedless green ones are my fave. I can't handle seeds. However, I'm needing to know if grapes make anybody else's hands smell weird? The odor is almost enough to ban me from the fruit.

Love the headdress,

Sarah

A Chat between Future Amazing Race Contestants

Sarah: What are you doing?
Erin: Reading screenwriter's blogs
Sarah: Ber told me to ask
Erin: Why?
Erin: She can't ask me?
Sarah: From Ber - She found all these alarmist online in Bham that were freaking out about the storm and she said she was in Hoover and saw a tornado touch down and some girl responded with "Me too! I'm so scared!!"
Sarah: That's what berge said.
Erin: I was doing that.
Sarah: HICKS!!!!
Erin: haha
Sarah: That's why they shut down schools...because of you!!!!
Erin: No no.
Erin: They were shut down before me.
Sarah: Unreal!
Sarah: America's children are going to be a little stupider because of you.
Erin: I don't carry that particularly large burden.
Sarah: Whatever helps you sleep at night!

Admission of Guilt

I, Sarah, downloaded the Jordin Sparks song "Tattoo" to my MacBook on 1/7/08. I realize this was a ridiculously strange thing to do. However, if you could take one word out of a song to make it a fantastic one, it would be the word "tattoo" in this one. I realize this would leave the song nameless, but hey, isn't that better than no song at all?

Rob and Big, Season 3 comes on tonight on MTV at 9:30. If you love it, you'll appreciate my reminder. If you don't love it, you will.