Rosie Colored Glasses

When I found out Rosie was going to have her own XM radio show, I put into motion the effort to get a receiver that I could actually record her show on. Lo and behold, I found a Skyfi3 on e-bay for $19.99. It was refurbished, but I took the chance, seeing as they are somewhere around $200.

I got my radio in awesome condition and then realized I needed the cradle for it. Mine in the car wouldn't fit and the new one had fancy buttons and such.

Back to e-bay!

I actually found a single cradle auction for $5.99! Plus you got the wall adaptor. Such a deal! I downloaded the instructions from online, as the refurbished receiver didn't come with anything other than JUST the receiver.

I found I needed a memory card to keep the recorded shows on.

Back to e-bay!

I found an auction for a 2 gig card...$8. When I got it, I kept getting an error message when I tried it out in the computer. After telling the seller, he sent me 2 more cards. Some mistake in the shipping request sent out more than normal, but not a problem, "enjoy". So I get 3 mem cards for the low, low price of eight smackers!

A co-worker who has Sirius informed me that his boombox he bought for his unit to play at home, worked great at work. Our building was "conducive" to getting the satellite waves. (I now pictured NASA peeping into the girls bathroom for some reason) He also said that for portable receivers like mine, there was headsets with antennas built right in!

You got it......eeeeeeeee-baaaaaaay!

Got myself a pair of headsets AND an arm band carrying case for $12. Seriously!

I ended up getting like a $300 package for under $50!! I totally ROCK and I'm totally ready for Ro!

I know...you're waiting for the other shoe to drop. This is where you want me to say that I couldn't get a signal or things didn't work. Oh but it does. Like buttah! I've been happily listening to my Rosie Radio at my desk, after I record it in my car. (one thing didn't quite work smooth...the antenna works everywhere in the building BUT at my freaking desk)

She's awesome! Free-wheeling through topics and sounding very comfortable on the air waves. I've been following her blog for sometime and trying to keep up to date. I've been a fan for a loooong time.

It's not often a woman of a certain body type gets face time on TV. When I saw Ro on VH1 I fell in love! There 'I' was; big, funny, loud mouthed girl staring back at me. I still have the collage I made of different pix of her. It hung in my apartment after I moved out from home, a shrine of sorts, that big grrls can make good.

Tucked behind that picture, still, is an email.

Way back in the day, when AOL was something you used for chat rooms and to cuss at, due to crashing all the time, I had heard Ro was a fan. She too would lurk around cyberspace way before it was the thing to do. So in my profile, my hobbies were listed thusly: Music, Movies, Art and searching for Rosie.

Profiles were a big deal back then. You could search profiles for key words, looking for folks with similar tastes. I'm guessing that's what happened when I got an email, late one night, from a yabadabad0: "Why?"

I answered back smartly..."why not?"

"No....why are you looking for Rosie?"

"Cuz she is awesome. Cuz she is funny. Cuz folks say I'm a lot like......her......"

GULP! I had also read that Ro liked to use zeros in her screen names. And while the screen name seemed like gibberish when I first saw it, it was finally dawning on me.

She had just done the Flintstones movie. HOLY CRAP!

"You would freak if you knew who I was right now." came the next email.

"Oh....I think I got it figured out."

"The things you said.....I can't tell you how happy that made me. Big smiles over here"

I mentioned something about everyone wanted me to do stand up. She mentioned that it's in your blood or don't bother. She also told me to stay in school. I had to break the news to her that I was well above school age.

And she was gone.

I went to a lecture, recently, where the speaker said to pick 5 famous people and get in contact with them. Create a goal list. Achieve that contact.

Well since that "contact" on AOL when it was but email in diapers, I've been on Ro's blog, a picture of me holding a "bring the troops home sign" in her PEACE shirt. She answered my blog request to stop by Rain Lounge the next time she's in town performing at the Turning Stone Casino.....maybe....with her new call in show, that contact is closer than I think.