{"id":154,"date":"2010-05-31T01:21:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T07:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.muckleroy.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2010-05-31T01:21:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T07:21:28","slug":"more-internet-fun-memorial-day-and-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muckleroy.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"More Internet Fun, Fixing the Family a meal…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Alison<\/a><\/dt>\n
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend – Family<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Today started off pretty uneventful.\u00a0 I woke up at the crack of 9:30 AM stayed up for a couple of hours, then laid back down and slept till 1 PM.\u00a0 First things first. \u00a0I know Alison Rosen (Alison Rosen Is My New Best Friend<\/a>) was having her show today, just not sure when.\u00a0 She is in California for the Memorial Day weekend visiting her parents.\u00a0 So this show would be extra special since it would, or should, have her parents on the show.\u00a0 I follow Dr. Rosen (Alison’s Dad) on Twitter and I was anxious to put a face with the person I had been exchanging bad jokes with.\u00a0 It was great.\u00a0 It was really funny watching him and Alison interact.\u00a0 As I suspected her gift of gab sure appears to have come from him.\u00a0 Alison’s Mom was very nice, as you would expect and very youthful in appearance.\u00a0 Tobey was more interested in being entertained that entertaining.\u00a0 I grabbed this shot near the end of Alison’s show.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Simple Meal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u00a0Shortly after Alison’s show ended I went downstairs to fix a Sunday evening dinner.\u00a0 I had gone to the store earlier to pick up a few items.\u00a0 My wife often tells me how impressed she was that I fixed her a meal some eighteen years ago when we were dating.\u00a0 I just thought I was fixing something to eat didn’t think anything of it being anything special\u00a0but it was very special to her.\u00a0 So I told her this past week I would do it again.\u00a0 I waited to late in the day Saturday to do it then, so it was do or die Sunday.\u00a0 I had been looking for a good Mexican Chicken Tortilla recipe.\u00a0 Everything I found seem to have “Cream of Mushroom” soup in it and that didn’t sound very Mexican-y to me!\u00a0 I finally gave in and fixed a good old stand by, fried chicken, smashed potatoes and green beans.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

I was very surprised to hear comment from one of my teen aged girls indicating her surprise that I had fixed a meal.\u00a0 I guess we all get used to our same family members providing for us and have a tendency\u00a0to forget just how long they’ve been there taking care of us.\u00a0 I’ve always been blessed with the feeling that I can do anything I want to do, of course wanting to do it has always been the biggest problem. \ud83d\ude09\u00a0\u00a0 After doing a bit of clean up after the meal I came back up stairs.\u00a0 I just wanted to sit down.\u00a0 My legs were uncomfortable from standing for, I guess a couple of hours.\u00a0 It sure felt good to sit\u00a0\u00a0down.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Alison<\/a>
Alison Rosen Tweet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u00a0I was checking my various Internet avenues of entertainment when I noticed this “tweet” from Alison Rosen.\u00a0 Alison had been on Olivia Wilder’s show<\/a> a few weeks ago.\u00a0 Olivia’s show is very much like a radio talk and viewer\u00a0call in show, but it’s 100% Internet.\u00a0 Alison was her guest and Olivia asked questions and the audience could call in and speak with Olivia and Alison.\u00a0 I did my typical thing, hang out in the chat room making observational comments that at least I thought were funny.\u00a0 Turns out some on this “new” chat room did as well.\u00a0 So when Alison posted this tweet, I was happy to give a listen and see if the one show I had heard before was a fluke, or it was good because Alison was the guest. \ud83d\ude00\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u00a0I clicked on the link in Alison’s tweet and after a few failed attempts to sign on I was into the chat room.\u00a0 Olivia was talking with\u00a0Manouschka Guerrier.\u00a0 First off I’m horrible with names and if it isn’t a common name well forget it.\u00a0 This certainly wasn’t a common name, at least to me.\u00a0 Through listening to the program I found out that Manouschka was on the Food Network show “Private Chefs of Beverly Hills<\/a>”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This was my first time hearing Manouschka Guerrier, so I didn’t know what to expect.\u00a0 She was very funny, very talkative and just plain fun.\u00a0 It wasn’t very long before I found out she was reading the posts in the chat window as she made comment on something that I had\u00a0said.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\"Manouschka<\/dt>\n
Manouschka Guerrier<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Fortunately she found it funny and it was a positive comment.\u00a0 This was bad, very bad, I now knew two things.\u00a0 One, she could see what I was typing.\u00a0 Two, she thought what I was saying was funny.\u00a0 So for the next almost two hours I entertained myself by enjoying the interview, and interacting with the guest and the host.\u00a0 Manouschka is a name I now remember, but don’t ask me how to spell it just yet.\u00a0 I am having a very hard time understanding how I could be entertained by sitting in front of a screen watching a one sided interview!\u00a0 It still happens but being able to interact with the participants is a much richer experience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Internet is going to change everything in our daily lives.\u00a0 It is ten times more fun interacting with people that I would have no chance doing so otherwise.\u00a0\u00a0I am also finding out first hand how many truly talented people there are out there.\u00a0 It really is a crap shoot as to who is placed before us for our approval, or sneers.\u00a0 The Internet not only gives us a voice that can be heard by hundreds of millions, and soon billions, but it also allows us to find these people like Alison Rosen, Manouschka Guerrier, and Olivia Wilder.\u00a0 It is true that both Alison and Manouschka can been seen on Television, but I love the detail of a person’s personality that you only get when you spend hours with them and with the exception of the movie “The Truman Show” TV doesn’t show hours of one person.\u00a0 I never thought I would enjoy reality shows, but in a way that’s exactly what I am doing.\u00a0 I am finding people that are fun, funny, and interesting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During\u00a0Olivia’s show Manouschka had mentioned that Private Chefs of Beverly Hills\u00a0had just started, so after\u00a0Olivia’s show ended I\u00a0rushed downstairs and put the pay TV on the Food channel.\u00a0 I went to my wife and when Manouschka appeared on the screen I said “I was just chatting with her on line!”\u00a0 Something a\u00a0spouse always likes to hear! \ud83d\ude00\u00a0 I told her about\u00a0Olivia’s show and some of the shenanigans that had\u00a0gone on.\u00a0 She laughed and I enjoyed the rest of Private Chefs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can follow Alison Rosen on twitter http:\/\/twitter.com\/AlisonRosen<\/a><\/div>\n
You can follow Manouschka Guerrier on twitter http:\/\/twitter.com\/singleserving<\/a><\/div>\n
You can follow Olivia Wilde on twitter http:\/\/twitter.com\/OliviaWilder<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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