Wish You Were There
This is where I’m not on vacation this week. I spent 12 hours Monday on the set of a movie. Tuesday, I recovererd from that. Today, I’m pouring concrete. Any suggestions on things I can do that remotely feel like I’m on vacation?  Hurry! There’s not much time left!Â
June 11th, 2008 at 10:58 am
I suggest the boyfriend take you somewhere you could relax
June 11th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
go to home depot. buy a bag of playground sand. pour it in your shoes, hair, and any suitcase you have laying around. pile damp clothes in the suitcase. dress out of the suitcase for the next few days. go to the tanning bed and spend 30 min and get good and painfully red. go t-shirt shopping. congratulations !!! you’ve been to destin for a week. relaxation ensues!
i’ve done many days on movie sets and 12 hours is the norm. every time i do it i swear ‘nevermore’. but its like sleepin with a fat chick…..when they call you always say yes.
June 11th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Mix equal parts orange juice, creme de coconut, and pineapple juice. Then add vanilla rum…as much as you like. Voila, you’re drinking a NILLA KILLA! These are served at the Soggy Dollar Bar on Jost van Dyke, BVI. Not as popular as its cousin, the Painkiller, it is much smoother and more flavorful! ENJOY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 11th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I forgot…grate nutmeg on top. Apparently that makes it Caribbean!
June 11th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Come on down to my ghost hunting walking tours of the West Edge of Shreveport. We do them on the weekends. I’ll set you up with a couple of free passes if you just email me you’re coming. Bring your camera because we go through Oakland Cemetery and there’s photo ops galore. Have you been to the new film center? It rocks. Also there’s hot jazz on the patio of the Barnwell tomorrow. Fine tunes and watching the Red River roll by…life is goooood in SB Land.
June 11th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I like Tommy’s idea.
But my favorite thing to do is spend the night at the casino and act like you’re out of town. You’ll be surprised how much you can do without ever leaving! You can visit the spa, gamble, have a great dinner and stay in a freezing cold room with a giant bed!
You could also go to all the local places you tell vistors to go see but haven’t been to yourself. The Robinson Film Center is definitely cool and there’s that biker bar across from Ernests that has steak night!
June 11th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
When we were kids and couldn’t afford a full vacation, Dee would take us to nearby hotel for the night and we’d use all the tiny soaps and shampoos and order takeout and stuff. It was fun and just like a real getaway, even though we were usually within 10 miles of our house.
That was fun.
June 11th, 2008 at 6:38 pm
These are awesome suggestions!
Molly, long before you were born, your mom used to babysit us. She always came up with the most fun, creative things for us to do. Once, she took us to a hockey game in OKC, where we stuck our cotton candy in women’s big beehive hair dos.
June 11th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
cbp, that should be our state drink!
June 11th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
Sherri is right. Aunt Dee was sooo much fun when she took us out. She was the only cool influence in our lives as young kids. Everyone needs a cool aunt Dee to escape the horrors of your parents every once in a while.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Two Things:
1) Do what I do…put out an inflatable pool in the front yard, put on a speedo, get hammered drunk, and see what your neighbors have to say about it.
2) Get a bottle of Jack Daniels and invite a bunch of fat chicks over…then just come back to work and tell everybody you went to Gatlinburg, TN.
God…I’ve got to stop going to family reunions.
June 12th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Sherry, you could help Gerry. I’m kind of worried about him lately. He’s been acting uppity and I think the stardom has gone to his head. Have a talk with him and tell him we’re not all out to get him and that he can be a star and still treat us like humans in the newsroom. How can I do the weather when he’s over there looking in the mirror and smiling at himself like Bogey in Casablanca? It’s getting tense Sherry, so please have that talk with him, will you.
Joe
June 12th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Aunt Dee was awesome! She once gave us a tree full of walnuts that was painted white for Christmas. Inside the glued together walnuts was money!!! I will never forget that!
June 12th, 2008 at 10:06 am
We need an Aunt Dee blog!
June 12th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Oh yes Susie I remember that. Your Mom talked about it and said you were spoiled to death.
June 12th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Just want you to know that the commenter on this post by the name of JHaynes is NOT our meteorologist Joe Haynes, but rather, a commenter who goes by many names on many of the KTBS blogs. You might recognize his comments as containing much racist and anti-Jewish sentiment.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
I knew it couldn’t be Joe becasue he spelled your name wrong “sherry.”
June 12th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
The real Joe H ain’t been right ever since that big gator showed up in his yard a couple of weeks ago.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
About the “jhaynes” commenter: I’ve seen these types before. They suffer from tiny penis syndrome and are just trying to compensate. Have a little compassion.
June 12th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Only a certified goober would post using someone else’s name.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Pouring concrete…who did Hazel and Jimmy knock off this time?
June 12th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
And anyone who knows my mom and how she raised me would definately say that I was NOT spoiled. Now however, is a different story!
June 13th, 2008 at 10:27 am
So who is spoiling you now Suzie?
June 13th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Yeah, Suzie, who is spoiling you now?
June 13th, 2008 at 10:46 am
JHaynes isn’t the only name he’s hijacked. He’s also done EMoore, Gerry and myself.
Oh, and Fat Albert, too.
June 13th, 2008 at 10:52 am
I removed the EMoore comment that obviously wasn’t from EMoore about anti-Jewish sentiment. jchristie, let me know if you’re misrepresented on this site and I don’t catch it.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:05 am
…..for a future vacation you could go canoeing with your boyfriend….he might even paddle the canoe with his shirt off.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Don’t worry about me, Sherri. I’m more concerned with the damage done to the reputation of the real Fat Albert.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:17 am
floating in cool waters of a lake or river sure beats pouring concrete!
June 13th, 2008 at 11:28 am
JAY, stop hitting on my sister.
June 13th, 2008 at 11:36 am
HRB …you need a vacation, i hear the wombats are few on the beaches of Destin ,anybody got any recent stories from the white sands of the gulf?
June 13th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
I think Sherri should sit on the couch and drink wine while Jay cook’s her dinner.
June 15th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
So, what did you end up doing all week?