Most of us got eaten alive this weekend . . . TRY THESE  10 weird ways to repel mosquitos NEXT time!

Weird MosquitoTip #1: Drink Lots of Beer
Rumor. The rationale behind this gem isn’t to have a good time, but that the alcohol and yeast are not appealing to a mosquito. Actually, the opposite is true. A mosquito actually prefers the blood of a beer-drinker over anyone else. You can try to trick them by leaving out open cans of beer around your yard, but it’s more likely that Uncle Kenny will just drink the buggy brews instead.

Weird Mosquito Tip #2: Fire Up a Bubble Machine
Real. Though I suspect that this tip was actually submitted by a 5-year-old who desperately wants to improve their bubble output tenfold, mosquitos have been found to be repelled by soap solutions. So it’s less about bubbles and more about the suds.

Weird Mosquito Tip #3: Mix Up Some ‘Dew
Real-ish. Someone suggested mixing Mountain Dew and dish soap, then leaving the solution out in cups around the yard. Again, the mosquitoes were probably repelled by the soap rather than the soda. So save it for the refreshment stand and swap in water instead.

Weird Mosquito Tip #4: Wear Only White
Rumor. The thinking is that bold and dark colors absorb heat, which raises your body temperature, turning you into a buffet for bugs. But if it’s hot out, you’re going to have a higher body temperate no matter what you wear.

Weird Mosquito Tip #5: Rub Chives On Your Pulse Points
Real, but gross. Mosquitos hate the scent of chives, but so does everyone else around you.

Weird Mosquito Tip #6: Eat Plenty of Garlic
Real, but also gross. Points to the reader who painted a terrible picture in my head by writing, “Eat garlic until it oozes out your pores.” Lovely. But if you happen to be eating a garlic-leaden meal, great news, mosquitos hate you.

Weird Mosquito Tip #7: Vacuum Them Up
Real. Of course, if you have the reflexes and the eyesight to be able to vacuum a mosquito mid-air, then I suggest you try out for the next “Karate Kid” movie.

Weird Mosquito Tip #8: Try This App
Real, but with reservations. There’s a few iPhone apps on the market designed to emit a noise that repels mosquitoes. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work on all varieties. And, it drives cats and dogs nuts.

Weird Mosquito Tip #9: Rub Yourself With Fabric Softener Sheets
Real. It goes back to tips #2 and #3, mosquitoes just don’t like the taste or scent of soap. But use caution, since this idea just sounds irritating to the skin.

Weird Mosquito Tip #10: Spritz with Mouthwash
Rumor. A popular email forward from a few years back states that if you spritz yourself with a 10 to 1 mix of water to Listerine, you’ll repel mosquitoes. While the menthol and eucalyptus doesn’t appeal to the critters, the dilution won’t be enough to make much of a difference. (And directly applying Listerine to skin will just dry you out.

After an awesome weekend, I love being back in radioland. I refuse to pull the trigger of a multi purpose cleaner again for atleast 2 days. I took Friday off and did some serious cleaning before we had a ton of guests over the course of the weekend. I really couldn’t have asked for a better weekend . . . it was totally fun filled and great. Friday night, Boyfriend and I went to see The Hangover 2. It was good, but definitely not as hilarious as the first one. (As most people expected) Saturday, Boyfriend’s parents came for the night and we had a really good time cooking out and playing Rummy 500. Sunday, we had a bunch of friends over for beer pong, bbq, and drinks! Hopefully wherever you were, the weather held up, because we were blessed with sunshine and very little cloud cover. It was a fantastic weekend that ended with some paintball shooting, a lesson at the driving range, and hitting some balls at the batting cage. Man, golf is SO underrated. My back is SO sore from swinging OVER and over again yesterday. It’s amazing what happens when you stay focused and follow through with all of the steps though . . . head down, arms straight, feel shoulder wdth apart, knees bent . . . whenever I remembered to do all of those things at once, I made solid contact with the golf ball. I have a feeling I could get addicted to the driving range. Weird.

A bunch of my cousins posted this video on facebook this morning and after watching it, i’m not only crying, i’m ridiculously paranoid and making a dermatologist appointment that i’ve been putting off for a while. I found a mole a few months ago appear where there wasn’t one before. It gradually grew and turned different shades of color and I just never made the appointment. After watching this video, I definitely am making the call today. 

Update : earliest appointment I could get isn’t until July. I took it. I feel better already that I made the leap to make the appointment. It’s scary to think a little mole could be something so serious. Use sunscreen, friends! Don’t be afraid to SPRAY tan!

Okay, I seldom put random videos in my blog but this one I just couldn’t resist. This is Nicole Sherzinger (aka – Pussycat Doll, newest judge on X-Factor, DWTS phenom) covering Adele’s “Rolling In The Deep”. Everyone’s always saying that Nicole can’t sing – I would like to offer this up as proof positive that she CAN! Eat it, haters!

I think sometimes people (read: mostly other women) like to insult good looking girls because they don’t wanna believe that somebody can be SO hot and also SO good at something. I’ll say it: we get insecure. Ladies, if there was ever an emotion we need to get better about hiding – it’s this one. Not attractive. Example: when the original lineup of “Girls Next Door” was on, everybody made the obvious jokes about all the girls at the Playboy mansion being bimbos. Now SOMETIMES (sorry Kendra), it’s true. But SOMETIMES (as evidenced by Bridget’s Masters Degree and Holly’s business savvy), that’s just simply an incorrect assumption.

We don’t wanna believe that chicks with such banging bodies can also be quality people because somehow that makes us feel less cool about ourselves. Why? My thighs still look the same whether Playboy bunnies are splitting the atom or spitting up on their bibs. It has no bearing on me. Ironically, the only thing that could make me look bad is my negative comments about another woman, thus revealing my inner player hater. Hmmm……

Why can’t we all just be encouraging to each other? I think it’s a step backward in the whole feminist movement when any of us act jealous. You wouldn’t see Susan B. Anthony getting her pantaloons all in a twist because she wasn’t good at poetry like Emily Dickinson, would you? NO! Of course, that’s probably partly because they were both too busy trying to avoid death via smallpox and men who wore “breeches & waistcoats”…. but STILL…..my point is:

Yeah, sometimes it’s devastating to look at a girl like Nicole and realize that no matter WHO our boyfriend is at any given time, he’s probably always gonna answer “yes” whenever she sings “dontcha wish yer girlfriend was hot like me?” Um…yeah.

It’s also very freeing! Nobody’s the best at EVERYTHING! There’s always somebody who’s better than you and there’s always somebody who sucks worse than you. Write that down. Kinda takes the pressure off a tad, doesn’t it? I mean there’s probably even somebody that makes Nicole herself feel inadequate (although after pondering this for the past 15 minutes and I can’t seem to generate even ONE concrete example of who that might be…….). It’s freeing because when someone (like a boyfriend) points out any of our shortcomings we can be like “Well what the hell do you expect? I’m not freaking Nicole Sherzinger!” Ahhhh, the sweet release of mediocrity.

Who cares?! We’re all good at stuff and we all have the capacity to care for other humans – isn’t that what life’s REALLY about? (Insert obligatory “awww” followed by barf sounds). It’s like Keri Hilson says “jealousy’s the ugliest trait….do the pretty girl rock”…..GIVE PROPS to other women! This is the first step to transcendentalism, people. Ask the geniuses at Playboy. They figured it out yeeeeears ago!
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I am so filled with gratitude today! Two fun surprises for me this week: my girls at the dance studio got me this BEAUTIFUL necklace to commemorate my Zumba certification and my awesome friend Crystal from Michigan sent me this super sweet card that totally made my day!

Serenity Wellness and Dance Center in Luzerne has become my home away from home since I moved here a year ago. Jen, Arlene, Jenny, Lacy, Becky, Donna, and ALL the students there feel like family. They accepted me right away. Even when all I could do was the running man. So when I showed up for class on Tuesday they gave me this GORGEOUS necklace to celebrate my Zumba certification. They also doled out several hugs, which, as you know - Lissy likey! And of course, I’m a big wussy….so I started crying. Not buckets, but not just a sniffle either. Somewhere in between. I love them so much!

Then I went to get my mail and I opened this card from Crystal (I miss her like crazy)!  The front says “You always make me smile…” and then she wrote this big long note inside about how she misses me, how I make her laugh, how she’s so proud of me……..WOW!!! More tears.

I really do have amazing people in my life – I’m so lucky! So that’s what I’m dwelling on today. All good stuff.

 Hey, if you’re out later, I’m at Mulligan’s in downtown Wilkes Barre from 10pm to midnight! K-Mak (our KRZ overnight guy) just graduated so there might be some celebratory shots going around! Then on Saturday probably a matinee of Hangover 2. Sunday & Monday – my entire “to do” list consists of friends and food. Hope yours does too!

Enjoy the weekend! Talk to you Tuesday! Go do the “running man”…..

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Crystal's card and my beautiful necklace from the dance crew

Where were you when the storm hit yesterday? We’ve experienced some pretty intense Thunderstorms when we were in Florida and even tornado-like conditions while we were living in Colorado, but these were nothing compared to yesterday!

That was some heavy duty s*&% falling out of the sky.  While I was running around shooting video I got hit in the shoulder by one of those things.  Wow!  It was like my neighbor threw a rock at me.  No worries though, I stunned me, but I didn’t drop my beer.  WNEP said some of the hail stones were as large as baseballs.

Quick…get a rocks glass.  That’s some good ice falling out of the sky.

If you have any pics of the storm, send them to:  rockyandsue@985krz.com and we’ll post them here.

Hopefully no more craziness on the long holiday weekend.

Have a good one!

~Rock

Former American Idol judge KARA DIOGUARDI was on Lopez Tonight talking about the time she stayed at Paula Abdul’s house. She got a case of the late night munchies and wolfed down 6 brownies…6 POT BROWNIES!!!

Kara tells the story at about the 4:30 point of the video. Weeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Some of you might be shocked that i’m about to say this . . . but . . . the AMERICAN IDOL finale was a little TOO SEXY if you ask me. A large portion of their audience are TEENS and here Beyonce is singing a song called MAKE LOVE TO ME and Lady Gaga is ALL over a man who had no shirt on. Lady Gaga was pretty incredible, but all of the booty shaking, JLO dancing all kinds of sexy . . . I don’t know, maybe i’m being nit-picky, it just seems like American Idol was trying so hard to WOW everyone, that they just sexified the show. Overall, it was a great show . . . and did anyone else blurt out “DID THEY JUST . . . oh, they DID, they just kissed” when Scotty was crowed the winner and he and Lauren Alaina TOTALLY had a moment. He’s telling the media he’s single, she says he might be her boyfriend. He better not break my girl Lauren’s heart, I enjoy her.

Did anyone see MODERN FAMILY’s finale??? Freaking CLAIRE opened a bottle of wine with a SHOE! I was AMAZED! Apparently people know about that party trick. I’m sooooooooo trying it.

Today is my Friday! Woooooooo!  I took tomorrow off to finish unpacking all of my stuff. It totally stresses me out living out of suitcases and things being cluttered. I’m determined to get it all done tomorrow – unless it’s really nice out and doesn’t rain .  .. then I may just have to find a better way to use a gorgeous day off!

Today on the show - we invited a guy in who is an ADULT BABY. Yeah . . . you may have seen the National Geographic documentary on INFANTILISM recently and this guy, who wants to be called Baby Andy, lives this lifestyle too . . . and he’s local. I’m VERY interested in picking his brain . . . and finding out who changes his diapers. So far, all we know is that he’s married, he’s 32, and he goes into baby mode 2 days a week. Tune in today around 5:30 to learn more.

If you didn’t see the National Geographic documentary – watch this!!!!!

One picture, one video – that’s all you get for a blog from me today. Cuz these both make me smile. The photo is from Sunday (Ben & I). We were with his mom Sara at the flea market and I showed him this Spiderman lamp because his dad (my brother) is a total comic book freak. Ben seemed relatively indifferent to the lamp but I think that’s only because he could sense it doesn’t use high-efficiency lightbulbs. And he simply won’t stand for that…..

The video is me singing the National Anthem yesterday at a Memorial Day Veteran’s Celebration and I felt honored that they even asked me to do this. I was a little intimidated to be singing THAT SONG in front of so many veterans, but those guys were AWESOME – they acted like my Grandpa! Haha….They hugged me when I was done singing and told me to make my generation proud – awwww……I’ll try, guys. I hafta believe my consistent use of a blinker when I’m merging in traffic is a good start.

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Aunt Lissa: "whaddaya think, Ben?" …….Ben: "Ummm….I think we just discovered why you don't have a boyfriend. Put down the Spiderman lamp. Seriously."

…you get a car!

Here’s a special video salute to the Queen of daytime TV, Oprah.