Amy Currioman takes aim

I’m sure everyone remembers how Jay Leno announced that he was going to retire a few years ago. He was handing over the reins of the top late night spot to Conan O’Brien, who had paid his dues and deserved a shot at the big time. But after a short while Leno changed his mind and came back to the show, kicking Conan to the curb. I was so angry that Leno was allowed to do that – I decided then and there to not ever watch the Jay Leno show again.

Now Leno has announced (again) that he is retiring. This time, Conan has moved on and has his own show on a different cable network. So the heir to the late night throne is Jimmy Fallon. Now, that is good news! Jimmy Fallon is a wonderful talk host and a really funny guy. I hope you remember him from Saturday Night Live, years ago.

From what I can tell, they are sending Leno out to pasture some time next year and giving Fallon a lot of leeway. He is moving the show back to the East Coast instead of hosting it in Los Angeles. That is a HUGE change! I am surprised the network is letting him do that. The show has been in L.A. for a very long time, and Letterman is based in New York, so I would have thought they would want to pull from a different talent pool.

Fallon is also getting his old buddy from Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michael, to produce the new Fallon show. Now, that is exciting news! I am looking forward to some really good shows when Fallon takes over the Late Show.

Most days I wear my regular makeup, along with a daily shade of lipstick and it goes with just about anything I wear. I don’t worry about red lips not matching a red dress. But i do have a couple of tubes of lipstick that I bought to match certain outfits. I do have a fancy red dress that I wear on special occasions, and this lipstick that I bought at Macy’s matches the dress exactly.

Well, I needed to wear the red dress for a special event at the Elk’s Lodge. They were having the installation of officers, which is a very special, dress up event. I put on the dress and found my Macy’s lipstick and put it on. There was an immediate burning and itching on my lips and I had to wipe off the lipstick right away. It was burning my lips! I guess that means that there was bacteria left on it from the last time I used the lipstick, and that I should have thrown it out a long time ago and replaced it with a fresh tube.

Back when I was a young adult, I was thinking about starting my own business of showing and breeding keeshonden dogs. I had purchased a few show-quality dogs, and even had shown one up to the breed standard’s championship! I was certain that I could make some money by breeding show-quality dogs! So I went out and hired a graphic artist to design a logo for my business – it was a wonderful logo, and I ended up having it printed on business cards, note pads, and even had it printed on letterhead stationery! I even went so far as to have T-shirts printed with the kennel name and logo on it!

The sad thing was, the business never got off of the ground. So I had invested a lot of money on marketing items and it all went to waste. Nowadays there are so many wonderful options to the young entrepaneurs that they don’t have to invest a lot of money to get all of those marketing items lined up. You can easily find places online to order cheap letterhead stationery and business cards, and custom made t-shirts too! When I think of how much time and energy the Internet has freed up for the small businessesI have to say that I am quite curious to see what the future has in store for us too!

When I was a new mother, the products for sale in stores for baby proofing were largely play pens, outlet covers and baby gates. The world pretty much wasn’t interested in keeping babies safe!  I can remember how discouraging and difficult it was to try to make our home safe for our babies. Between my first child and second child I found baby-proof cabinet locks for sale in the hardware store and I was totally delighted! I made sure to keep one cabinet unlocked and full of plastic storage containers and wooden spoons and old pots and pans for the children to play with, but all of the others had locks on them. What a blessing those locks were!

Now new parents just have it made as far as keeping their babies safer from regulare household hazards. I’ve found a website that has a plethora of child safety products. Corner guards, toilet lid covers, door knob covers, refrigerator safety latches (I just bought some of those for my problem refrigerator mentioned in a previous post!) and even toilet paper roll guards! I think that would be a great thing to have with pets in the house!  No more unrolled toilet paper strewn around! I’m sending the link to this website to my pregnant niece -she is going to need a lot of these great safety products!

Living in horse country, I frequently see people running their errands around town in their riding clothes. I have to say that there are some young ladies that I see dropping into one of the local grocery or department stores and they are still wearing their ladies breeches and riding boots. Their hair is disheveled, they smell of fresh horse sweat and I feel very sad that I never had the chance to spend much time learning how to ride horses. I think that I’ve reached that point in life when I start to see young ladies in their glorious twenties and I find myself very melancholy, wondering how and why I aged so fast, and how I’ll never be that beautiful and lithe again. It’s enough to make me go eat a hot fudge brownie sundae, but I won’t……