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[Hawleys]

Trouble is, going back in agai to Greenfield doesn't guarantee that I will get that survey again or any survey from them. Some days I don't get anything from them. So that 80 cents would have brought my total earnings up to $12.56.

Anyway, I guess this is a common situation - of surveys not crediting? Or just Greenfield?

Oh, by the way, I saw Hawleys over there in the forum. I didn't say anything because I was just popping in and out quickly to see if I could find threads about anyone else having trouble with Greenfield, and I saw that Hawleys had posted a couple of threads!! Hi, Hawleys!!

Hi Sherry!
Sunshine Rewards has been good to me so far, only one survey has failed to credit. But I certainly understand your frustration at having spent a good chunk of time working on a survey and not getting credit. Sometimes the pre-qualifying questions take 10 minutes and it sucks when you don't qualify. But then I've gotten a couple surveys which take 5 minutes so I guess it all balances out in the end.

It seems to be hit or miss whether I can get a survey through SR from any company on any day. Sometimes I get one on the first try, sometimes I try 10 times and get nothing. I kinda feel like a rat in a science experiment. The rats are trained to push a button to get a food pellet. Then the scientists dispense the pellets only after some random number of button pushes to see when the rat will give up. Most rats will push the button indefinitely. That's me.

For what it's worth, I still cannot get the Greenfield surveys to load on my computer. That limits me to only four surveys to try in a day which is probably a good thing as they do take time. Work has been slow right now so it's not a problem but when things pick up again, I know I won't get through so many.

Nice to see your balance inching up. How many gingerbread cookies at holiday time is that?

 

[DizNee Luver]

I forget - where else are you going? You're doing the Soda Fountain and Studio Store in Hollywood, the Farners Market/Grove and where else? Are you going to the Studios in Burbank?

All correct!! Breakfast at Krispy Kreme, drive to Burbank to snap pics of the studios, lunching at Bob's Big Boy, drive back into Hollywood & get pics of historical landmarks, maybe drive by the LaBrea Tar Pits, head back to the Soda Fountain for mid-afternoon snack & then over to the Farmer's Market. Estimated time of arrival......4pm-ish

 

[Sherry E]

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[DizNee Luver]

Laurie - if you are doing both Farmers Market and the Tar Pits, you should probably hit those one after another, as they are closer together. You could take Fairfax down from Farmers Market, turn on Wilshire and pass by LACMA and the Tar Pits. Or you could take La Brea down from Hollywood Blvd. (after the Soda Fountain), turn on Wilshire and pass the Tar Pits, LACMA, and then turn on Fairfax and head back up to Farmers Market. It won't make much sense to drive to the Tar Pits, then all the way back to the Soda Fountain and then back to the Farmers Market. I still think you are squeezing a lot into one day that may be tough to finesse and fit in once you get underway - and a lot of eating!! - but hopefully it will work out well!!

Have a hot fudge cake at Bob's for me!! I have not eaten one of those since childhood, but, wow, those were good!!

Ok, thanx.......I'm going to try to keep people from getting ice cream/shakes etc at Bob's so they have room for the stuff at the Soda Fountain....but who knows. We might just end up going to the soda fountain to look around & not get ice cream......but I do have 3 grown boys that can eat non-stop!!!

 

[bumbershoot]

Greenfield *might* be taking a long weekend, and therefore might not have paid for surveys today. Remember, they don't credit over weekends and usually not on holiday Mondays.

We used to have a post about survey issues, but then people were getting WAY too specific and it's very easy to get over the top in complaints (or you get pollyanna types who feel that ANYthing is overly negative and we're all supposed to be chipper and happy even when we take an hour to answer everything and get nothing for it), and the last thing was that the survey companies were watching that thread and made Tricia shut it down. And that's why you see locked threads after questions are asked and answered about surveys.

Greenfield also sometimes is paid by the company doing the survey much later, and you'll find a credit in your account.

If you ever get a big error in a survey with GF, fill out the problem reporting thing on that page, and you might get credit a month or so later.


With ANY rewards site there is always the possibility that things won't credit. So you don't ever want to waste more time than you have, or do something that you wouldn't otherwise have done (purchases, etc), because you want to be happy and pleased with yourself and your actions, for those times when something just doesn't track correctly.

(that said I haven't had hubby stay at Marriott since they said that his credit tracked to another rewards site, when I hadn't done a single thing on any other rewards site or link other than SR and Marriott's site!)

 

[Sherry E]

Ok, thanx.......I'm going to try to keep people from getting ice cream/shakes etc at Bob's so they have room for the stuff at the Soda Fountain....but who knows. We might just end up going to the soda fountain to look around & not get ice cream......but I do have 3 grown boys that can eat non-stop!!!

Laurie - That's so true! Men are non-stop food machines, basically. So your boys may decide to snack at every stop you make!!

Greenfield *might* be taking a long weekend, and therefore might not have paid for surveys today. Remember, they don't credit over weekends and usually not on holiday Mondays.

We used to have a post about survey issues, but then people were getting WAY too specific and it's very easy to get over the top in complaints (or you get pollyanna types who feel that ANYthing is overly negative and we're all supposed to be chipper and happy even when we take an hour to answer everything and get nothing for it), and the last thing was that the survey companies were watching that thread and made Tricia shut it down. And that's why you see locked threads after questions are asked and answered about surveys.

Greenfield also sometimes is paid by the company doing the survey much later, and you'll find a credit in your account.

If you ever get a big error in a survey with GF, fill out the problem reporting thing on that page, and you might get credit a month or so later.


With ANY rewards site there is always the possibility that things won't credit. So you don't ever want to waste more time than you have, or do something that you wouldn't otherwise have done (purchases, etc), because you want to be happy and pleased with yourself and your actions, for those times when something just doesn't track correctly.

(that said I haven't had hubby stay at Marriott since they said that his credit tracked to another rewards site, when I hadn't done a single thing on any other rewards site or link other than SR and Marriott's site!)

Molly - Well, I did finally get the 80 cent credit over 24 hours after I took the Greenfield survey, so I imagine that it was a glitch in the system somewhere along the line. Although, you raise a good point - because of this holiday weekend, if I do any Greenfield surveys over the next few days, it may take a while to credit.

I always assume that there is the possibility of something not crediting or going awry - technology deos fail - so it wouldn't shock me if that happened, but, of course, it's no less frustrating if you just spent 45 minutes on a long, boring survey about government policy or car manufacturers and don't get those points!!

As Hawleys said, I guess it all balances out. Some surveys are agonizingly long and redundant - even if the topic itself is interesting. Other surveys are just a few minutes!! I took 4 surveys from the Daily Surveys on SR yesterday, and the SSI one was literally 3 minutes. And I still got the 60 points for it!!! I've stopped doing all the Survey Spot surveys that come from SSI directly to me. I can just do one a day on SR and get points/money for it, whereas if I take a survey from SSI that they send me, I could literally do 75 of those before ever getting any points! Why waste my time? There's not enough time in the day for that.

The only thing is - even though I am making great strides towards my first Disney gift card from SR, and will probably reach that $25 amount very soon, I can't cash out the points until I've been a member for 45 days, which is a long way off, and after that I have to wait until possibly as late as early October before I receive the gift card in the mail. It's not a fast process, that's for sure. It's slower in cashing out than other places I belong to. But, still, I am racking up the points quickly, so it's good to be on the right track.


Meanwhile, still no sign of any Disney Visa Rewards in my account other than the mysterious 39 cents. I have more than exceeded the required amount to get $1, and maybe even $2. And I am eligible for the $25 activation rewards too, but I guess it takes a long time to show up.

Molly (or Marie, or whomever can answer) - do your Disney Rewards points only have an expiration date when you transfer them to an actual Rewards Card, or do they also expire if you just leave them in your account for a while? And how long until they expire? It takes a while to receive the Rewards Card once you order it, correct?

 

[Sherry E]

Hawleys - if you haven't done so already, try signing up with QuickRewards too. I took Marie's advice and signed up (and she is not profiting or benefiting in any way from my joining QR, nor will I benefit in any way if Hawleys joins QR ) and while the survey issue could be a bit confusing because they have surveys from many or all of the same places that SR offers surveys from, in certain ways I like QR better. These are a few reasons:

1. First of all, if you do a Greenfield survey (I know you can't get those to load on your computer), you get 90 cents at QR, as opposed to 80 cents at SR. If you do a SurveyHead survey, you get 75 cents at QR all the time, as opposed to the usual 60 cents at SR (not counting this weekend when SurveyHead went up to 75 cents on SR just for the holiday). Some of the QR surveys pay less then SR's surveys, but some pay more, so you have to kind of compare.

2. Also - and this is a BIG plus in QR's favor if I read all the verbiage correctly - you can cash out at any time, and there is no minimum for PayPal cashouts. In other words, you don't have to wait until you have been a member for 45 days to get what you earned, and you don't have to wait until you get to a certain point level. Maybe Marie can confirm that and set me straight if I am totally incorrect, but the way I read it on QR's site is that, essentially, if you have already earned $1.00 on QR, you can have that sent to PayPal right away. If you want a gift card, you have to make it to a certain number of points, of course, but if you just want to accumulate bits of money in your PayPal account, you can do that as many times as you want, as you earn it. There is no minimum amount. And, if you get a Disney gift card from QR, there is no 44 cent fee like there is on SR.

3. There are many more daily 'paid click' options on QR. You can get 1 cent for every click and there could be up to 16 or 18 of them daily. Plus, they send you paid emails to click on as well. Also, you can answer trivia questions and get cents for those too. I've done all of those.


So I am going to spend more time on QR and start depositing any tiny bit I earn into PayPal, since there is no minimum amount required. If I earn 50 cents, I will send it to PayPal. Life is too short to wait for the money!! The world could end tomorrow and if so, I want my 50 cents now!!

I am going to continue with SR too, but I have to juggle the surveys carefully because of the duplicate issue. I don't want to burn any bridges and make anyone think I am intentionally taking the same survey twice, but it gets so confusing because sometimes you can't tell where the surveys are coming from right off the bat. It may say "United Survey Router" on QR when it actually means SSI, and SSI is on SR. If I do Greenfield on QR, then I won't even bother with that on SR. Same with SurveyHead.

 

[Hawleys]

Hawleys - I forget how much the gingerbread cookies cost!! I think they were something like...hmmm...maybe $4 or so? I have completely blanked out on the price of those cookies!! In any case, yes, the first Disney gift card that I plan to earn from Sunshine will go to some part of a DLR trip - it may be used in tandem with other gift cards to by an AP, a Hopper, part of a DLR hotel room, a meal at Goofy's Kitchen, etc., etc.

Yea for APs! I hope things work out so that you can get one. I'm not sure what my first cash out will be for. We currently have no plans to go back but I'm angling for a holiday trip. Your other thread piqued my interest. We have a friend who will be moving to Pasadena and she has expressed interest in doing a DLR weekend with us.

What's funny is that I went back over to Sunshine's site at about 2:45-ish, and the missing 80 cents from my Greenfield frozen yogurt survey was suddenly there!! So it took over 24 hours for it to be credited!! It must be a specific issue with Greenfield.

I vaguely remember reading that Greenfield surveys usually take 24 hours to credit so maybe amount of time is not that unusual? Bumbershoot will know more. Glad if credited! BTW, I finally got the Greenfield site to load. And then I failed to qualify for every survey they had available. Who knows if there will be any new ones up this weekend bc of the holiday....

So I was up to $12.56. And then I took 2 more surveys - a Sci-Fi/Fantasy survey for AMP

So jealous! That sounds fun.

 

[Sherry E]

For some reason, I have been watching a lot of the Food Network lately. I think that we can all agree - there is something inherently fascinating about all-day Food Network TV. Even if I'm not watching it and I just have it on that channel as background noise while I am doing other things...it is oddly comforting. I can't explain it, but it is a source of comfort. I even enjoy watching the non-cooking shows like Chefs vs. City and Best Thing I Ever Ate. Sometimes I stray over to the Travel Channel to indulge in its special brand of comfort, but food-oriented TV is a winner!

Some of the hosts are very engaging (the Neelys and Aaron McCargo Jr.), and others are annoying as heck (Giada DeLaurentiis, who slips in and out of an Italian accent). Some of them are also boring and bland, and I don't understand why they have a show, let along won Next Food Network Star (Melissa D'Arabian).

So now I am watching Claire Robinson on 5 Ingredient Fix. She is a host in more of a Rachael Ray-I can chug beer and hang with the boys-kind of way. She's not Southern charm personified like Paula Deen, and she is not all 'edgy-TV-chef' like Guy Fieri and Ann Burrell.

In any case, I take issue with Claire's show today. She is making something called Minted Cherry Pudding. She introduced this recipe by waxing poetic about the lazy days of summer when she drives past the fruit stands or farms and wants to jump out of her car to buy fresh berries. Yes, fresh berries. Berries. Fresh.

So...after telling us that little tale of the allure of the fresh berries, what is Claire using to make her minted cherry pudding? Frozen cherries!! Where are the fresh berries? A) Cherries are not berries; and B) Frozen is not fresh out of the fruit stand or farm!!

We were misled! We were bamboozled! This woman is a fraud!!!! Remove her from Food Network at once!!

 

[Sherry E]

Yea for APs! I hope things work out so that you can get one. I'm not sure what my first cash out will be for. We currently have no plans to go back but I'm angling for a holiday trip. Your other thread piqued my interest. We have a friend who will be moving to Pasadena and she has expressed interest in doing a DLR weekend with us.

I vaguely remember reading that Greenfield surveys usually take 24 hours to credit so maybe amount of time is not that unusual? Bumbershoot will know more. Glad if credited! BTW, I finally got the Greenfield site to load. And then I failed to qualify for every survey they had available. Who knows if there will be any new ones up this weekend bc of the holiday....

So jealous! That sounds fun.

I think the fact that I'm a big "Lost" fan is what qualified me for the Sci-Fi/Fantasy survey!!

See, with SR, at this rate I might not receive (meaning holding it in my hand) my first gift card from them until late September or even early October, because I have to wait until I reach the member-for-45-days status, and then I have to order the darn card, and then wait X number of months or weeks for it to be sent out. It's not a fast process. So, at this rate, if I wanted to make a HalloweenTime trip in September, I probably wouldn't even have that card in my possession to use yet.

...Which is why I am going to be spending more time on QR. At least that way I can start building it up in PayPal right away and I don't have to wait to get the money. I will still cash in my SR money for a gift card when I have reached the time where I'm allowed to do so, but at least, with QR I can actually get some of that money (in tiny bits) set aside right away.

The Christmas thread is addictive, isn't it? I hope you get to go to DLR for the holidays!!

 

[bumbershoot]

...and others are annoying as heck (Giada DeLaurentiis, who slips in and out of an Italian accent).

OK first, Eamon wants to marry Giada. I have tried to reason with him, explain that it would be better to set his sights on Giada Jr (don't know her DD's name), but no, it's Giada or no one. He gets this dreamy goopy smile when we say Giada.

Second, I have several friends who are first or second generation something-American, and they do the SAME thing with the language of their parents or grandparents. So it barely even registers with me when she does it.

Now, if she started to make up Italian words, I might notice...I have a friend whose grandmother was from Mexico, and by the time my friend had come around, her grandmother and mother had started coming up with Spanglish words...like instead of alquilar for "to rent", they had..."rentar". As in "yo rent un apartamento" for "I rent an apartment". Hilarious ladies, they were....

 

[kaoden39]

OK first, Eamon wants to marry Giada. I have tried to reason with him, explain that it would be better to set his sights on Giada Jr (don't know her DD's name), but no, it's Giada or no one. He gets this dreamy goopy smile when we say Giada.

She has a line of pasta sauces at Target that are wonderful. Even my picky eaters enjoy it.

 

[bumbershoot]

She has a line of pasta sauces at Target that are wonderful. Even my picky eaters enjoy it.

Yes, and her picture is ALL over the kitchen department. Had to nearly drag the kid away from her pictures! He lurvs her...

Good to know her line of sauces is good!


The other amusing things in kitchen departments is Paula Deen. When he sees her pictures on her pots and pans, he says "oh, there's the drunk lady", because he's heard me and Robert say that sort of thing while watching her show. Whoopsie!

And on a related note, just b/c it's amusing and not because I think I'm in my OWN trip report, the other day he told me that I was "addicted" to beer because I have one "almost every day". He said it loudly and clearly, and there were others in the aisle.



Sherry, make me start doing surveys again! I'm entirely overhwhelmed by the 6 on SR, and I've quit. I don't want to quit, I want to make money for Disney! I'm 17 bucks away from another $250 giftcard, and Robert has no trips (for me to book a hotel for credit) planned at the moment. I need to do surveys!!!!

 

[kaoden39]

Oh how funny. I would have wanted to die. My kids have done things like that.

 

[bumbershoot]

Oh how funny. I would have wanted to die. My kids have done things like that.

I think most kids have! But wow at the moment that doesn't help, does it?

I remember a very unflappable, unembarrassable, friend being thrown by her little bitty daughter talking about "Mama wine" as we walked through the beer/wine section of the grocery store. She made it sound like that's ALL her mom drank, though of course the friend only called it that to differentiate the daughter's drinks from the mama's.

 

[kaoden39]

I think most kids have! But wow at the moment that doesn't help, does it?

I remember a very unflappable, unembarrassable, friend being thrown by her little bitty daughter talking about "Mama wine" as we walked through the beer/wine section of the grocery store. She made it sound like that's ALL her mom drank, though of course the friend only called it that to differentiate the daughter's drinks from the mama's.

Kody once asked me why a little boy had a tail in front when she saw him getting his diaper changed.

 

[Sherry E]

OK first, Eamon wants to marry Giada. I have tried to reason with him, explain that it would be better to set his sights on Giada Jr (don't know her DD's name), but no, it's Giada or no one. He gets this dreamy goopy smile when we say Giada.

Second, I have several friends who are first or second generation something-American, and they do the SAME thing with the language of their parents or grandparents. So it barely even registers with me when she does it.

Now, if she started to make up Italian words, I might notice...I have a friend whose grandmother was from Mexico, and by the time my friend had come around, her grandmother and mother had started coming up with Spanglish words...like instead of alquilar for "to rent", they had..."rentar". As in "yo rent un apartamento" for "I rent an apartment". Hilarious ladies, they were....

I forget the name of Giada's daughter, but, yes, E might be better off going the younger woman route rather than the Mrs. Robinson route!

There's just something about Giada - and Michele and I discussed this over on Facebook quite a while back - that is irritating to me. Maybe it's the way she enunciates or kind of clenches her teeth when describing everything. It annoys me! Paula Deen, on the other hand, seems like she would be delightful to just hang out with because she would keep me laughing in the kitchen all day.

Rachael Ray, oddly enough, is known for being so perky and bubbly but in the last year or two, I have felt she wasn't that happy on 30-Minute Meals. She looks like she would rather not be there some of the time, like she is not really into it. I have a hunch she is bound to a contract on Food Network that she would rather get out of. I also get the feeling that things are not as wonderful at home with Rachael and her husband as she makes them out to be, either.

They're all frauds! First, Claire Robinson is yammering on about using wonderful fresh farm-picked berries in a pudding, only to reveal that she actually uses frozen cherries, and then Rachael Ray is keeping up the happy act when inside she is probably suffering on the inside!!

She has a line of pasta sauces at Target that are wonderful. Even my picky eaters enjoy it.

I bet her food is good - I don't doubt that her pasta sauce is yummy. I just don't want to watch her describe how to make it because she will get on my nerves.



But I love me some Food Network! "Chefs vs. City" is a very good show. And who doesn't love "Next Food Network Star"?

Yes, and her picture is ALL over the kitchen department. Had to nearly drag the kid away from her pictures! He lurvs her...

Good to know her line of sauces is good!


The other amusing things in kitchen departments is Paula Deen. When he sees her pictures on her pots and pans, he says "oh, there's the drunk lady", because he's heard me and Robert say that sort of thing while watching her show. Whoopsie!

And on a related note, just b/c it's amusing and not because I think I'm in my OWN trip report, the other day he told me that I was "addicted" to beer because I have one "almost every day". He said it loudly and clearly, and there were others in the aisle.

Sherry, make me start doing surveys again! I'm entirely overhwhelmed by the 6 on SR, and I've quit. I don't want to quit, I want to make money for Disney! I'm 17 bucks away from another $250 giftcard, and Robert has no trips (for me to book a hotel for credit) planned at the moment. I need to do surveys!!!!

Molly, weren't you talking in your TR about that weird diaper commercial with the adults staring down the baby? It may have been someone else who mentioned that but I thought it was you. Anyway, I saw that commercial earlier today. Very odd, indeed.

Oh, that E! It's funny in a way (just 'cause kids are funny) but also horrifying that he is shouting out for others to hear that you are "addicted" to beer!!! I can just envision that. I've heard kids say things in stores before that I'm sure made their parents want to crawl under a rock!!



Molly, do you know if the Chase Disney Visa Rewards only expire once you put them on the Rewards Card (and how long until the expire) or will they still expire if you leave them in the account and don't put them on the card yet? Not that I have any rewards showing yet...just that puzzling 39 cents that is a really random number...but it would be good to know for when my rewards finally decide to appear.

Well, I don't blame you for not wanting to take on the 6 daily surveys on SR. It's tiring and boring. But you're so close to $250 - you should at least go back to SR just to make that $250 amount and then be done with it.

I think I am going to work on QuickRewards a bit more than SR so I can get my little pocket change right away - it's much faster than SR will be for me, and I can have it all go directly to PayPal, whether it's 50 cents or $50. It's going to be a while for me before I ever actually hold a Disney Gift Card from SR in my hands - at least late September, if not later. I just have to be careful that I don't repeat any surveys or take more than one from the same place in a day while juggling SR and QR - and that can be hard to decipher.

 

[mariezp]

Hi Sherry! Sounds like you are really getting the hang of SR ands QRs! I may have to start coming to you for tips! Bummer about the 45 day waiting period at SR! Not real sure if there are minimums for cash out at QR. I just cashed out my $31.41 that I earned since 6-13. Not too bad in just about 3 weeks. I went ahead and cashed it so I could add it to Paypal to go with my big $3 from Pinecone. Then I will transfer it to my Disney savings fund. We had an account left over from when we built out house 7 years ago that had a measly $26 left in it. I decided to put that to use because it is the only account we have that none of us would be likely to touch since the bank is out of town.

You mentioned that you have the Paypal debit card. Do you ever have any problem using it anywhere? Wonder if it would be a good choice to use at DL? Speaking of Paypal, you should be able to link your bank account so that you can transfer money out. On your account page there is a withdraw tab which should allow you to Transfer to Bank Account. If it's not there perhaps you have not verified your account?

I do not think I've had too many instances where surveys have not credited but then again I probably do not keep track with them as much as I should. I had one today that gave me as error at QR. I sent an e-mail and she checked back with me ASAP to make sure I got credit. They have always been very good about taking care of problems at SR too. Glad the Greenfield credit finally showed up!

When you get a Disney gift card with SR there is no tax but they do charge .44 for postage. Disneystore does not charge for postage.

All this survey talk.... Molly's being drawn to the dark side! The surveys are calling you!!!!

As best as I can remember, my Disney Reward Points have always expired in December of the year that I transferred them to a card. I believe I read that the points themselves do not expire for 5 years unless you transfer them to a card. Pretty sure you need to allow 3 weeks for the card to arrive. Just thinking..... your rewards may not show up until the end of the month when you get your statement.

I hear you on trying to get friends on board so you can make trip plans. I am not sure I mentioned to you yet but I guess I have lost my mind again! For my DS, I invited some friends to go along with us again this year. I bet you are probably laughing right now after how I have said how much trouble we have had over the years BUT what do you do when your kids think traveling with others makes the trip just that much better? Anyway, I put the invitation out there. Now we will see if they ever mention it again or if I am left wondering if they want to go or have forgotten all about it. Here's hoping we both have success with our invites.

If I were out there I would head with you to Catalina Island! I would love to go again someday. The sharks don't really entice me all that much but I did find the place to be charming. I'd love to do some more exploring!

I hope your problem client straightens his act up. I understand being a few minutes late or maybe even an hour but that is just a total lack of respect when he shows up 6 hours late.

 

[Sherry E]

Kody once asked me why a little boy had a tail in front when she saw him getting his diaper changed.

Oh, I see that Marie just posted while I was posting the last thing - I have to go back and read it and reply, but I just had to offer up a to Michele!! And Marie answered the question about the Disney Visa Rewards, which is great because I was curious!!


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Also, I just watched an interesting trilogy of movies today. I have been glued to the PC all week long, trying to make money, so I had to take a break and watch something entertaining.

First, I stumbled upon a really bothersome movie called "All About Steve," with Sandra Bullock. It was pretty dumb, but I had to watch it all the way through because Bradley Cooper is in it and he is super mega molten hot!!

Then, I stumbled upon a romantic comedy called "I Hate Valentine's Day," with Nia Vardalos and John Corbett from "My Big Fat Greek Wedding." I had to stop and watch it because John Corbett is hot (I've always liked him).

Then, there was finally a good movie - a poignant, sad type of film called "Elegy," with Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz. He plays an old womanizing geezer/professor who falls in love with his 30-years-younger student, Penelope Cruz, and then proceeds to screw everything up with her. Ben's character has a wise-cracking friend/geezer/sidekick played by Dennis Hopper...and there is a painful Dennis Hopper death scene in the movie...which was kind of eerie given recent events.

And I was staring at the screen, wondering who the old woman was who was playing Dennis Hopper's wife in "Elegy." The face looked vaguely familiar...and then it hit me! DEBBIE HARRY!!! Of Blondie fame. The former siren who used to pout and strut to songs like "Rapture" and "Heart of Glass," and "Call Me" from "American Gigolo" (ahhhh...a young Richard Gere....). Now...Debbie is just...old...and she is playing Dennis Hopper's wife!!! So, in turn, this made ME feel old because I remember singing along to "One Way or Another" when I was a kid.

And believe me, it's not age that makes a woman 'old' so much as way of living. I guess the days of partying must have taken their toll on Debbie Harry because there are certainly ladies well into their 50's and 60's who look much younger. Not Debbie, though!

 

[Sherry E]

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