In this struggling economy, people do what they can to bring money into supporting their homes and families. This has sparked a major spark in brainstorming by those trying to come up with ways to do this. Such a thing has happened with me. For those of you who know my wife will understand my idea.
For as long as I've known her, I've noticed that she has an uncanny ability for retaining certain aspects of knowledge. She called all thus "useless information." But as the quote has taught me, "There is no knowledge that is not power." Believe it or not I got that from the video game Mortal Kombat 3....see, those games weren't completely hurtful to the youths of my time. But that's besides the point. Anyways, one particular aspect of Casey's "useless information" includes knowing major song lyrics. When we're sitting in the living room watching TV, it could be a music video, TV concert, or even a random commercial with music..........she starts singing immediately. She doesn't slur the words or make them up either, she's sings them EXACT. Before the realization of this talent of hers really hit me, we had seen a show on CMT called "The Singing Bee." If you haven't seen the show, it's basically a glorified karoke scene, but pays the winners for knowing the lyrics for random songs. Pretty interesting........I'll leave it at that. But it does look like fun, especially when you start winning. One time afterward we saw a commercial for a rock ballad compilation CD. From start to finish of that commercial when they play stipets of several of the songs on the CDs, Casey sang every word to every song, even as they immediately changed. She jumped right in. After watching her do this, that light bulb didn't just turn on in my head; it got bright enough to blind me.
Starting tonight, I will regularly be scouring the Internet to see if there's a casting call for the show. So far they're out in Los Angeles........8 months too late for us from when we were out there. But still, as soon as they're within reasonable driving distance, we'll be there. I think Casey's chances good. I know her singing might not be top notch, but neither is anyone elses on that show from what I've see. Better than my singing too. Although I have heard Casey hit some pretty good high notes. Pretty funny story about one particular ocassion. Recently, Casey had taken our dogs Sugar and Cody out to go to the bathroom, and I was inside in the kitchen. I heard a high pitched scream, and ran to the back door. My first thought was that she came across a bear since I figured we were due for a visit from one. When I opened the door and asked what happened, her response was, "There's a skunk out here!" I saw the skunk by the shed, and she was a good twenty to twenty five feet away. I started laughing. You don't scream over a skunk. You scream over something bigger than you. Am I right? I'm sure Casey will want her side of the story heard now.
Anyways, that's my master plan. Don't worry, this won't take away from the reasonable things I should be doing like job hunting, going to interviews, and continueing my little construction projects here at home to get our house sold. But still, a guy can dream, can't he? But don't worry, if Casey happens to get on the show and happens to win big, it'll be her money. She'll decide what to do with it. After we use it for what we really need, she can spend it on fun stuff for herself.........as long as she buys me something cool (saying this with a goofy smile by the way).
For as long as I've known her, I've noticed that she has an uncanny ability for retaining certain aspects of knowledge. She called all thus "useless information." But as the quote has taught me, "There is no knowledge that is not power." Believe it or not I got that from the video game Mortal Kombat 3....see, those games weren't completely hurtful to the youths of my time. But that's besides the point. Anyways, one particular aspect of Casey's "useless information" includes knowing major song lyrics. When we're sitting in the living room watching TV, it could be a music video, TV concert, or even a random commercial with music..........she starts singing immediately. She doesn't slur the words or make them up either, she's sings them EXACT. Before the realization of this talent of hers really hit me, we had seen a show on CMT called "The Singing Bee." If you haven't seen the show, it's basically a glorified karoke scene, but pays the winners for knowing the lyrics for random songs. Pretty interesting........I'll leave it at that. But it does look like fun, especially when you start winning. One time afterward we saw a commercial for a rock ballad compilation CD. From start to finish of that commercial when they play stipets of several of the songs on the CDs, Casey sang every word to every song, even as they immediately changed. She jumped right in. After watching her do this, that light bulb didn't just turn on in my head; it got bright enough to blind me.
Starting tonight, I will regularly be scouring the Internet to see if there's a casting call for the show. So far they're out in Los Angeles........8 months too late for us from when we were out there. But still, as soon as they're within reasonable driving distance, we'll be there. I think Casey's chances good. I know her singing might not be top notch, but neither is anyone elses on that show from what I've see. Better than my singing too. Although I have heard Casey hit some pretty good high notes. Pretty funny story about one particular ocassion. Recently, Casey had taken our dogs Sugar and Cody out to go to the bathroom, and I was inside in the kitchen. I heard a high pitched scream, and ran to the back door. My first thought was that she came across a bear since I figured we were due for a visit from one. When I opened the door and asked what happened, her response was, "There's a skunk out here!" I saw the skunk by the shed, and she was a good twenty to twenty five feet away. I started laughing. You don't scream over a skunk. You scream over something bigger than you. Am I right? I'm sure Casey will want her side of the story heard now.
Anyways, that's my master plan. Don't worry, this won't take away from the reasonable things I should be doing like job hunting, going to interviews, and continueing my little construction projects here at home to get our house sold. But still, a guy can dream, can't he? But don't worry, if Casey happens to get on the show and happens to win big, it'll be her money. She'll decide what to do with it. After we use it for what we really need, she can spend it on fun stuff for herself.........as long as she buys me something cool (saying this with a goofy smile by the way).
2 comments:
great job Joe but remember all funds are 50/50. Your evil mother in law.
Joe's comment to his evil mother-in-law. "you'll be lucky if it's 80-20."
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