Remember Saturday Mornings as a Kid?

It's Saturday and it's 8:15am according to my laptop clock.  Due to some cosmically weird circumstances, neither my husband nor my son are home this morning.  It's just me and the cats, and it's weird to have the morning to myself.

When I was a kid, I got up Saturday morning, and I watched cartoons.  Tons of Bugs Bunny, of course, but also the Smurfs (did you hear they've made a Smurf MOVIE???), and other silly things like the Gummi Bears (who makes a cartoon about candy???), Superfriends, and I can't even recall what else.  This was long before cable was around, so I had three glorious channels to choose from (ABC, NBC and CBS) and I would flip between them picking out the best cartoons until Bugs Bunny came on.  I think that was 90 minutes long and it was great!

Now it's 2010, and we pay for something like 90 channels.  (Most of which are a big disappointment, and I'm still WAITING for the cable companies to get their acts together to provide me with an ala carte choice...DO YOU HEAR ME????)  Let's start wth the three channels of my youth.  What's on right now?

NBC: News
ABC: News

CBS: Doodlebops (ACK, Don't ask if you don't know), then Strawberry Shortcake (I'll have to check into this to see if it's a cartoon, or CGI, or what), and then News starting at 9am.

Let's include Fox, since now it's "the big 4" channels:

FOX:  News

I know, you tell me that they have whole channels now dedicated to cartoons.  Right now Cartoon Network is showing the "boy" lineup of cartoons:  Ben 10, Generator Rex, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Hot Wheels, Bakugan Battle Brawlers, Johnny Test....  Nickelodeon (which we watch a lot of!) starts with Back at the Barnyard, Fairly Oddparents, and Spongebob.

Yes, those are cartoons, and I do love Spongebob.  But what happened to getting up and watching some great cartoons in the morning?  What happened to Bugs Bunny?  When did it seem to be a better idea for a seven year-old to watch the news rather than Duck Dodgers in the 24th and a half Century!  (And if you don't know what I'm talking about, you're not a Bugs Bunny fan.)

I guess I'm feeling a bit sad about it.  Those were some of the best cartoons ever created and no one shows them.  They're not even from my generation!  Maybe they're buried somewhere in a cable package that would add an extra $100 to my bill.  No thanks.  I don't want to pay another $100 for one channel.

When I was in college, we had movie nights at the auditorium.  What did they show before the movie started?  Cartoons - Bugs Bunny cartoons.  And when those came on, thousands of college students cheered, and as the cartoon progressed, thousands of college students recited the lines.  Good times, good times...

We're raising our son to appreciate those gems of the past.  He loves Tom and Jerry, the Three Stooges, and the Muppet Show.  He finds Road Runner cartoons on You Tube and likes to watch those.  This Christmas, (shhh - don't tell), we're going to buy this, along with the rest of the Golden Collection.

Yeah, you might say I'm clinging to my past, and I need to enjoy some of the good cartoons that are out there now.  And I do.  Besides Spongebob, I'm a huge fan of Total Drama Action/Island/World Tour.  (which really isn't a kids' show)  But I just want to bring back the basis for what all the new cartoons steal from or give nods to.

If anyone reads this, let me know about your favorite cartoons of the past.  My favorite character is Daffy Duck.  "I'm a greedy slob.  It's my hobby!"

I don't know how to blog

One of my clients wants me to blog for her business.  But I can't.  I mean, I've tried.  I have at least a dozen blogs I've written that she hasn't used.  She says they're too personal.  I felt kind of wounded by that.  Of course they're personal.  I'm writing them.  I'm writing about my businesses experiences, and I'm writing in a way that tells a story, that hopefully will endear people to me - and that means to you, and your business.

I don't know how to write for business.  Because business in general, textbook fashion, is boring.  Giving someone the step-by-step "how to" for acquiring a client, buying product or making a sale is outright BORING.  But giving someone a life experience that reflects that step-by-step - well, that's interesting.  At least it is to me.

But maybe that's why I'm not a millionaire business mogul living in New York.  Because I don't get it.  I'm too personal.   But I just don't know how to be any other way.

Where are my glasses???

I've developed an annoying little habit as of late.  I've been "losing" my glasses.

Now, I have worn glasses since...well probably 7th grade.  Maybe 8th.  So somewhere in the mid-80s.  They are just part of my everyday outfit, like putting on underwear.  So they're always with me.  I've never even tried contacts because I'm too lazy.  Glasses are easy.  They're on; they're off.

When I don't wear them, things start to get fuzzy at about 5ft.  I mean, I could still drive down the road and not run anyone over, but it would just be a little fuzzy.  So I need them for distance vision.  That means when I'm on my laptop - which is A LOT - I don't wear them.  My eyes get tired and sore if I do.  So I take them off.

(At this point you're probably thinking that I should invest in some bi-focals.  Shut up.  It has already crossed my mind.)

Anyway, losing glasses is a bit of a bitch.  Because you need glasses to find the glasses you lost.  It's a Catch-22 situation.  But there's an even bigger problem with where I'm losing them.  Lately, like some OLD person :) I've been sliding them up onto my head.  It seems to be a convenient place to keep them.  No.  It isn't.  Because when you keep them up there for so long, your old brain forgets that they're there.  And so I end up wandering around the house asking my son if he's seen my glasses.

It's silly, actually.  I'm wandering the house in a frantic search for the glasses that are perched an inch about my worn out brain.  So I either have to force myself to remember to touch the top of my head, or I will eventually make it to the bathroom where I can see myself in a mirror and see my glasses.

I think I'm going to have to get a chain for my glasses.  But they're going to have to be cool.  So if anyone has any recommendations - maybe some Etsy artist has something neat - let me know.