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April’s Biggest Fool

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I woke up this morning and I remembered that today is April Fool’s Day. Oh there will be no fooling Angela Calderon today. Ha…

I have my website email routed through gmail as a backup so that I can access it anywhere at anytime. So I noticed at the top of my email log in there was something that talked about back dating emails. I read it and though, oh my goodness this can’t be good, people can lie about sending emails then send it back dated and it will show up earlier in the inbox. I immediately was worried about what would happen if someone did this and I didn’t happen to check that far back to when they back dated it and I would miss the email.

SUCKER. Score 1 for Google for fooling me first thing this morning. Of course the testimonials clued me in to it being a prank.

Then I got a email from a friend who has been looking for a new car and she said that she had decided to go totally green and just get a top of the line bike instead. I asked her how in the world she was going to manage a commute from Manhattan Beach to Irvine everyday and she said, well I guess I’ll just leave early.

SUCKER. Score is now 2 for the pranksters and 0 for me.

Oh boy, yeah it gets better.

I was reading my friend Deanna’s blog and she was talking about how she was not going to be a photographer anymore, I was feeling so sad and upset because she is such a wonderful photographer, then I got to the part where she started getting silly with her prank and thought, ok I am going to Texas and kick her butt! Deanna you are a brat and you know it!

SUCKER. Score is now 3 for the pranksters and 0 for me.

I had to get gas on my way home from the office and the man behind the counter tells me that my card has been declined and that he is going to have to cut it up because of the code that came up as he processed it. What? This is my new replacement card I just got last week, has someone drained my checking account, OMG.

SUCKER. Score is now 4 for the pranksters and 0 for me.

Didn’t I say that I *knew* it was April Fool’s Day when I woke up? The man at the gas station said he had been pulling that joke all day long on the “regulars” that he normally sees. Ha ha very funny.

When I got to my daughter’s preschool I saw one of my friends leaving with her son, she had this awful look on her face and I asked her what is wrong. She said, they didn’t call you? I said no, she said well Morgan has paint all over her hair. WHAT? We just had to get it all cut off yesterday, what happened? Her reply….GOTCHA.

Final score: Pranksters: 5 and a big fat zero for me.

Apparently I have turned in to the world’s most gullible person today.

So have some fun and check out the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of all time. Oh and if you want to know how this all got started go here.

Oh and I have to share a photo that blog reader Jaime shared with me after she read my story from yesterday about my daughter cutting her own hair. Her sweet little four year old daughter decided to cut her own hair back in August and she cut it in the front. Jaime says she is proud to report that her daughter is getting closer and closer every day to having a cut little bob after this tragic hair experience. She said her hair used to be down to her shoulders before she cut it. Silly girls cutting their own hair! Looks like Miss E was going for a full on mullet! Still a cutie pie though!

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Jayme Tighe - April 2, 2008 - 4:53 am

Deanna got me too!! I just about died when I read she was going to put her kids in modeling to make some money!! HA!!! Of course I didn’t even “get it” until she fessed up in the end…. that’s how gullible I AM!!

Deanna - April 2, 2008 - 10:06 am

HAHAHAHAHA

Little boxes of evil

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It’s that time of year. I avoid them as much as I can, but this year, they are resorting to methods that you cannot get away from. Who am I talking about? GIRL SCOUTS! Now I have nothing against Girl Scouts, I was a Brownie and then a Junior Scout back in the day – woohoo go Troop 848 Cumberland Valley Council, Nashville, TN. But you know what it is, those darn cookies. I swear they put something highly addictive in them, and they call my name when I see the boxes. I can run but I cannot hide, they taunt me with “we’re only here once a year Angela, come on you know you want to buy some.” I even sold the most boxes one year for my troop, so yes I am a reformed cookie pimp. I know all their tactics, smile sweetly and tell people how it helps you go to camp.

Just who are these “Little Brownie Bakers” and what goes in to these cookies? I swear they are evil in a box with photos to distract you. Sure Vons & Ralph’s grocery stores carry generic versions of them year round for a few bucks cheaper, but it’s just not the same thing. Nothing compares to the real deal of Tagalongs & Thin Mints. I bet right now some of you have Thin Mints in your freezer, because that truly is the best way to eat them, when they are super cold with a big glass of milk. Tagalongs combine peanut butter and chocolate, come on, does it get any better than that?

So I thought I had successfully avoided the cookies this year, ha ha yep you aren’t going to get this sucker. Yeah, well not so fast. Friday I had to go to the ATM to make some business deposits and what do I see… what is that? A pack of Girl Scouts with a table set up next to the ATM selling Girl Scout Cookies. Man, why didn’t we think of that when I was selling them 200 years ago….oh wait, I don’t think we had ATM’s back then, were there ATM’s in 1980? So of course you can’t say, sorry I don’t have any cash, because well the cash is just a few pin numbers away. Darn it and then I thought, well maybe they will be out of Tagalongs and Thin Mints and the others, well I could care less, but nope, they had just opened a fresh cash. So before I knew what was happening I was buying a box of each. Samoa’s are good too but I was a good girl and didn’t get those.

All I’m saying is no one can eat just one. Girl Scout Cookies are meant to be eaten in pairs, or maybe three’s and sometimes fours if no one is watching.

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Meggan - March 10, 2008 - 11:36 pm

OH! Those are my FAVORITE two types of GS cookies! Hubby came home with a few boxes of TM and needless to say they are nearly gone. “little boxes of evil” LMAO.

Karen - March 11, 2008 - 12:04 am

Add me to the list, I bought 5 boxes of thin mints and they are in spare freezer in the garage, I’m hoping they last a while.

Jayme Tighe - March 11, 2008 - 4:41 am

I bought 4 boxes of thin mints and have already eaten 2!! You’re right…. outta the freezer!! Yum! But…. I HAVE TO BE IN A BATHING SUIT IN ONE WEEK, so what the HECK am I doin’?? Yikes!

Lisa - March 11, 2008 - 7:21 am

HAHA!! The Samoas are my weakness.

Someone was selling them at my GYM the other day! Can you imagine!?

Kimberly Hill - March 11, 2008 - 7:37 am

Sing it, sister! Though I’m a Thin Mint and Samoa girl. Love the “little boxes of evil”

Marla Carter - March 11, 2008 - 10:21 am

So are they Samoa’s again. I hated when they changed the name to caramel delights. Made it seem even more evil. Samoa’s sound much healthier!

Deanna - March 11, 2008 - 2:21 pm

or…a you could eat an entire box of them after a really bad day. (did I just say that outloud)

Theresa - March 12, 2008 - 12:00 am

*sigh* So I read your post this morning and I go to Target and ‘lo and behold there they are! So yes of course I had to buy a couple boxes. And yes a box of thin mints is in my freezer right now. Evil evil things!

Jennifer - March 12, 2008 - 7:25 am

OMG they are my weakness forsure, Back about a month ago I was begging for some girl scout cookies and then the other night my hubby comes in with a boxes of them, boy did I have a field day with them!

Krista - March 12, 2008 - 9:10 am

Girl Scout Cookies are named differently depending on what area of the country you live in and what bakery your local GS Council uses.
There cannot be a monopoly on GS Cookies, so there is 2 different bakers (ABC and Little Brownie Bakers).
ABC has Peanut Butter Patties, Shortbread, Caramel Delight, Lemonades, Thanks-a-Lots, Peanut Butter Sandwiches, Cinnaspins and Thin Mints.

The Little Brownie Bakery makes the Samoas, Tagalongs, Do-si-Dos, Lemon Chalets etc…

Same basic cookie. Different bakeries. Different names. Same yumminess. Same calories.

I’m a GS Leader and our troop has sold over 5000 boxes of those little boxes of evil this year already!

ashley mcnamara - March 12, 2008 - 3:03 pm

oh no WAY!!! That is brillant! haha

Say What?

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I love music, I probably love it as much as photography. I sing in my car, in the shower, in my head, yep all the time. One day I was driving on the freeway and my cell phone rings and I hear – what in the world are you singing? It caught me off guard for a minute, then I hear laughing and a honk, I look over and one of my friends was on the freeway right by me. That day I was Mariah Carey and apparently I was putting on quite a concert in my car (shhh don’t tell anyone but I’ve been known to even hold a hairbrush aka microphone while I’m singing….err driving). I’m sure dogs were barking somewhere, I *so* do not have a good voice.

I will go ahead and admit that I quite often just make up words when I have no clue what is being sung. Remember that song that was big about 10 years ago called How Bizarre, yeah well in my world it was How Was I. That song called Can I Graduate, mhmm nope in my world it was called Can I Gravitate. Maybe I should have my hearing checked?

So this evening I was reading a magazine and my daughter was sitting next to me on the bed and she starts singing. Which of course I think my kids have the cutest voices ever so they could sing anything in the world and I would think it was super cute. So this is what she sang to me:

STOP…. and hug all of us….
before you take the bus…

say what? Morgan what are you singing? She then tells me she’s singing “Stop and get on the bus”. Hmm… Morgan can you sing it again?

STOP…and hug all of us….
before you take the bus…

LMAO oh boy, my baby girl has inherited her Mom’s bad mislyricitis (I made that word up feel free to use it in your daily conversation). So I’m sharing the video below so you’ll know what song she was actually singing. One of my friends in high school always thought that song called My Kinda Lover was My Candelabra. Who the heck sings about their candelabra? I don’t even own a candelabra, but maybe she did. Check out the Archive of Misheard Lyrics website for more silly replacement lyrics that will crack you up!

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Theresa - March 5, 2008 - 5:14 pm

That’s hilarious!! Have you seen that movie “27 Dresses”? It has a scene in a bar where they try to sing “Benny and the Jets” and I haven’t laughed that much in a movie theater for a long time.

Wyndee - March 5, 2008 - 5:24 pm

OH, my gosh! That is THE CUTEST!!

A - March 8, 2008 - 4:23 am

HAHAHA

Jen Lane - March 8, 2008 - 10:58 pm

Hahahahahahahaha! I love it. Totally cracking up over here!!
Two summers ago I heard Molly (then five yrs old) singing “shake it like a polar bear pincher”. Ah, yes, someone has been in dad’s car, where the grown up driving forgets to change the inappropriate songs like “Shake it like a polaroid picture”. LMAO. Kids and music, what could be better?!

ERika - March 17, 2008 - 3:39 pm

LMAO, that is hysterical!!! I can so relate. My bestfriend in high school always made fun of me because I could never get the lyrics right. Till this day, still do that. Recent one…shake it like a polaroid picture…in my mind was shake it like a polaroid dancer. I knew it didn’t make sense, but that that’s why they were saying! Thanks for the good laugh!

Like A Rock Star…

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As I mentioned in my last blog entry, this weekend I was in San Diego helping out at a photography workshop. I had a wonderful time and it’s always so much fun making new friends, we camera nerds have so much fun together and laugh and giggle about things that most people would roll their eyes about. We stayed up way too late being silly and sharing our photo secrets and learning new ones.

We stayed at the W Hotel and I think I have never felt so unhip in my entire life. That is one happening hotel with lots of cool people standing around. I was almost beginning to wonder if they had hired people to actually just stand there and look hip and fun. When you walk in to the hotel there is music playing, everything is decorated very stylish, it’s a great vibe. I was expecting the music to stop playing as I walked in the door and to hear something over the intercom like this….. we have a code 12, code 12, we’ve got a Mom in zone 4, repeat this is not a drill, Mom in zone 4. Followed by security asking me if I’m lost. Ok so that only happened in my head, everyone was *very* friendly and nice, always saying hello and asking if there was anything that I needed. I love San Diego, I really do, however the one thing that drives me nuts are all of those darn one way streets downtown. Thank goodness for my GPS.

Even though I had a wonderful time I sure missed my husband and my kids. When I came home my son saw me drive up and I could hear him happily yelling “MOMMY’S HOME! MOMMY’S HOME!” The front door swings open and my kids came running out, my daughter (who is 3 1/2) stopped just before she got to my car and starts screaming at the top of her lungs. I’m sure you’ve all seen the old news clips from the 60′s when the Beatles would be on television and all the screaming girls would be standing there crying and screaming at the top of their lungs. Yep, that’s what she was doing. She was so excited to see me and was jumping up and down screaming and crying that *I* felt like a rock star. My kids are so awesome, coming home to lots of hugs and kisses is the best thing ever.

Here are a few images from the weekend, hope yours was as good as mine.

PS – Happy Birthday to my awesome friend and fellow photographer Pam!

My friend Barb leading one of the shooting groups…

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Jaime Shrader - February 25, 2008 - 5:17 pm

hi Angela!
Since you had such a great weekend and an even better coming home I thought I might suggest you do a repeat–you sounded so happy on your blog– a getaway is always good for the soul, right? OKAY, here’s the deal- I am being selfish. Knowing that your kids probably couldn’t handle a back to back weekend with mom gone I am asking anyway. You see, you have been my inspiration for this business. My FAVORITE (you and cheryl) and I am attending the SF workshop this weekend! Oh how I would love to meet you AND see you in action!

Tonya - February 25, 2008 - 10:27 pm

You crack me up with your code 12! That shot with Barb is such a great perspective.

Pam - February 25, 2008 - 11:12 pm

Thanks for the wishes Angela! You were a fun roomie and I had a great time.

Jen - February 26, 2008 - 9:16 pm

Ah, SO envious that you girls got to party! I can’t wait for the reunion!

Beautiful images, as always Angela.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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I hope everyone has been having a Happy Valentine’s Day! The winner of the itunes is: blog reader Jeanna! Email me to collect your prize! I gave my son the task of picking the winner and he picked Jeanna’s comment number. Great song choice too – Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game.

Here’s my little one with one of the Valentine’s she made me at school today!

and check out this sweet card that my son made for my husband and I…