Love at First Sight

Hello I am Ava Aston and I am addicted to Vitamin Water.

It all started one day as I was walking through the hot New York City streets on my way to a Law & Order audition.  My throat was parched and I had just realized I left my bottled water in my car that I just parked 3 blocks away.  Like any other blonde-greek girl I was running late and had to decide, do I go back or brave the heat? But knowing how important it was to me to be hydrated I had to do something.  Then I noticed one of the most amazing signs of my life.  It read, "Vitamin Water".

Hello???  As you all know, vitamins are like one of the most amazing things God has ever made and I am stuck on them like white on rice. So the thought of vitamins infused into my water was like a no-brainer.  So I stormed into the store, not sure what to expect as I raced past a screaming kid begging for candy and an old man scratching his lottery ticket.  Then I arrived.  I felt a cool chill flow over my skin as I peired through the frosted glass at what would soon become my now favorite beverage of choice.

The glass door squeaked open.  Time began to slow down.  A breeze from the back of the cooler wafted my sweat laiden brow.  I reached in and took hold of the cold plastic bottle.  Then without skipping a beat as I let the door slam closed I twisted the cap and poured the sweet Vitamin water aka nectar from the Greek Gods across my lips and down my throat.  And yes, I let out an audible sigh of relief. "aaaahhhh"!  It was love at first gulp.

So I strode up to the register passing anyone in my way.  I handed the clerk a half empty bottle of Vitamin Water.  He looked at me like I was deranged.  It was either he didn't know why I was buying a half-empty bottle or that I looked like one of those girls in a Clairol commercial where you have your own luminous glow and a perfect grin as your hair flows arbitrarily around for no explainable reason.  So I slapped the $5 bill on the counter, accepted my change and raced out the door.

The rest of the day was a blur but I was in love and I was hooked.  The only problem was it was the only thing I wanted to drink.  This sent my head spinning.  So I had to do something to avoid paying $2 for each bottle.  This sent the Greek girl on a hunt that turned up a goldmine solution.  I found a local distributor who agreed to sell it to me for $.80 per bottle if I bought 10 cases or more.  So, I did.  Now because I am a little Greek Girl I didn't want to go alone, so I hauled mom along for the ride (just in case), because no one messes with my mom.

We arrived at the distributor out in the middle of nowhere in my Volkswagon.  The Vendor was looking at me like I had a hole in my head.  I told him I had a hole in my heart and that only Vitamin Water would fill it.  By the way, I don't think it's a coincidence that two of my favorite things in the world both share the same initials, "VW".  Just sayin'

This is a never-before-seen image revealing my secret stash. Sssshhhh!!! Don't tell anyone!!!

Since then I have continued to hunt out deals.  I also must add, that I have since switched exclusively to Vitamin Water Zero.  Even though, they have to date not broguht my absolute FAVORITE flavor in the world "Energy" to the Zero line yet... It was so bad at one time I literally traveled with a case in my suitcase wherever I went.  This was in case I couldn't buy it at my destination.  Then one time I actually bought 20 cases before moving to Los Angeles and loading up the back of my Penske truck with them.  That is a story for another day.  Trust me you want hear that one.  Until then, drink up my friends! Drink up & get your glow on!

Love, Blessings & Music,
Ava xo

www.avaaston.com

Is Your Ring Tone Appropriate

Rings Tones Are A Reflection of Our Personality

Imagine this:

You are in line at the Piggly Wiggly picking up the gallon of milk that your sweetie just texted you to pick up on your way home from work when you notice the lady in front of you is buying a large bag of pork rinds, a bag of circus peanuts, some licorice, a king-sized Reese's Peanut Butter Cup candy bar, taco chips with hot spicy cheese sauce and chile, and a super sized mega fountain drink when  all of the sudden her cell phone goes off.

Her ring tone: Let's Get Physical - Olivia Newton John
A more appropriate ring tone:  I like Big Butts - Sir Mix-A-Lot

Imagine this:

You are in the stall of the bathroom. Someone enters the stall next to you when all of the sudden their cell phone goes off.

Their ring tone:  Taking Care of Business - BTO
A more appropriate ring tone: Boom Boom Pow  - Black Eyed Peas

Imagine this:

It's been 5 years since you had a new driver's license and so you pack a lunch, some bacterial wipes and head to the DMV for the long boring wait to renew your license. You are scanning all of the employees trying to figure out which one you will get.  You are next in line and you do not want the older lady on the end with the tattooed make-up and ill fitting wig because she is slower than a turtle and has been averaging one customer every 1.2 hours. Before she could call your number her cell phone goes off.

The DMV employee's ring tone: Bad Day - Daniel Powter
A more appropriate ring tone:  Wake Me Up When September Ends -  Green Day

Imagine this:

You decide to do the right thing and go to church on a nice spring Sunday morning. You are about to participate in Holy Communion when all of the sudden the man sitting in the pew in front of you has his cell phone start ringing.

His ring tone: What The Hell – Avril Lavigne
A more appropriate ring tone:  Jesus is Just Alright -  Doobie Brothers

Imagine this:

I am skyping Mr. Bricks and his circa 1978 cell phone goes off in the background and guess what his ring tone song is???

• An Ava Aston song
• A Buck Owens/Porter Wagoner duet
• A Broadway show tune
• The McDonald's Jingle
• Mr. Bricks cell phone is too old to be able to download ringtones

I really don't think I need to provide the answer on that one, I think it is obvious.

Blessings,

Ava

xox

Blog Year In Review

With a candy cane dangling from mouth I was trying to think what topic I wanted to write about in today's blog when I realized I should take you on a trip down memory blog lane and share with you a bit about how some of my more popular blogs happened.So without further ado, here are my personal favorite 5 blogs from 2010 and what inspired me to write them. You can click on the title of each respective blog to take you to it so you can read the full blog.                    Eggnog: The Rocky Effect

I received a lot of emails about this blog.  Possibly more than any of my other blogs. Most of the emails saying that it was very inspirational to them. That's not a huge surprise to me because as I say in the blog I love Rocky and it is a huge inspiration to me as well.

Help!! I'm in lockdown and my Mom doesn't care!

This blog was a once in a lifetime moment where I think I was actually peeing my pants as I was writing the blog. I have a voice for all of my dogs and they actually "call" my Mom from time to time. I had just hung up from Punkin calling my mom and I thought, well if Punkin can call my mom maybe she can hijack my blog as well. This was by far the most popular blog I wrote in 2010

A God Wink

The title just sums up this blog. Many nights when I prepare to write the blog I sit down and have absolutely no idea what I am going to write about. No shocker there, huh? I just always trust that God will inspire me. So this blog was just acknowledging the times in my life I feel God is looking down upon me.

Saturday Morning Cartoons
aka: "Ava Wants A Record Deal"

Doing the saturday morning cartoons started by accident.  I had stumbled upon the website Xtranormal.com where people were making videos and I thought it might be fun. I made a really short one and sent it to Mr. Bricks saying, "I want a Record Deal." He encouraged me to expand on that idea. Growing up I loved watching cartoons every saturday morning. Making the cartoon is fun for me because it's not really me, it's a cartoon character of me. The character is a total diva and I'm so not like that. Really, I'm not! Since I started doing these every saturday morning they have kinda caught on with my fans. I'm glad you enjoy them.

It's official....Muckery is my new favorite word!

This will always be a very special blog posting for me because it was my very first one ever on September 30, 2010. One day I was talking with my manager Mr. Bricks about something and explaining how muckery sort of followed me in my life. He always laughed at my daily episodes and suggested that others might enjoy hearing about them as well. So Mr. Bricks suggested I start a blog called Ava Aston's Muckery... and the rest, as they say, is history.

Blessings,

Ava

xox

Melancholy

I'm kinda feeling a little melancholy as I sit here writing and addressing my Christmas cards. The fireplace is crackling and filling the room with warmth and the smell of freshly split pine. Jingle Bell Rock and other Christmas tunes fill the house with the proper sounds to keep me in the spirit of the season. My four little doggies are slumbering at my feet with visions of rawhide bones dancing in their little Pekingese noggin. The aroma of freshly baked cookies is coming from the kitchen... well ok, I lied. Not so much on the cookie smell, since I don't bake and there is actually no yummo freshly baked cookie smell in the house. But the rest of the sights and smells have me in this very melancholy mood.

Before I named my post Melancholy, I decided to makes sure I was using the word correctly. It appears I have a large following of school teachers who are keeping me on a very short leash grammatically. I should be offended, but I'm not. I know they just want me to look my best on my blog. Although I must admit that sometimes when I get an email from them correcting me, I do feel like I've been sent to the principal's office - just sayin'.

So I looked it up at dictionary.com and this is their definition of melancholy:

mel·an·chol·y

[mel-uhn-kol-ee] plural -chol·ies, adjective

–noun
1. a gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual or prolonged;depression.
2. sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
3.Archaic .
a. the condition of having too much black bile, considered in ancient and medieval medicine to cause gloominess and depression.
b. black bile.
Ewww...OK, not sure what the color of my bile has to do with feeling a little depressed -- but I will just roll with it because, well, because I'm feeling melancholy. See how this melancholy thingy works? Oops... the teachers don't like me using the word thingy -- Sorry. My bad.

So we're down to the last couple of weeks of 2010 and I always hate to see the year end because I know there are always things I wanted to do but just never got around to it.

On the other hand I had some tremendous things present themselves to me this year giving me opportunities that I could have never dreamed of happening. When I was sharing this with my manager Mr. Brick's yesterday he said, "I know what you mean Ava." Mr. Bricks went on to say, "In my wildest dreams I never could have imagined that McDonald's would bring back the McRib. It just made me giddy as a young school girl?"

Ok that is just scary to me that a grown man can get giddy as a school girl over a fake processed pork sandwich. There's something just a tick off with him. Mr. Brick's is not right in the head I tell you.

Although I didn't start writing this little blog until October, I'm still feeling melancholy about it because just like with my song writing, I started writing it as a way of expressing myself -- and now I will soon be writing my 75th blog post.

I can reflect fondly over all of the blog stories about my obsession with sneakers, my Greek heritage, Mr. Brick's obsession with McDonald's, my non stop working out, eating healthy, daily 5 mile runs (weather permitting), my acting auditions, my love of Greek diner food, my Cd's sales, The Tea Party Patriots, Punkin, BoBo, Pookie and Itty Bitty, The Kardashians sisters, the pitfalls of living in New York and all of the day-to-day muckery in my life. I know its all good because it allows everyone to log on and read what-a- reality-show-waiting-to-happen my life really is.

So I'm going to spend a little more time sittting here in my melanchony mood and just smile. I realize I am truly a blessed Greek girl and God is an awesome God!

Blessings,

Ava

xox

Slippery Roads

I am calling my post today Slippery Roads. The words I write, my blog per se, may not make you chuckle, but that's Ok because I found this hilarious picture to go along with whatever muckery nonsense I do end up writing. This picture just cracks me up!

No - it's not a picture of my manager Mr. Bricks slipping on the ice outside a McDonald's. It's a polar bear -- although for you farsighted folks it might be hard to distinguish between the two. You have to get up real close to be able to tell the difference between Mr. Bricks and a polar bear. They both have very coarse hair all over their body, they both have a certain pungent smell about them, both are clinically overweight, they both could use a pedicare and manicure, and they both could slip on ice and end up on their back and not be able to get up.  The only real difference is, one lives in the zoo. -- Guess which one? I'm not telling! Sometimes I do crack myself up.

As winter starts to settle in, many of us who live in colder parts of the country will soon find ourselves driving again on slippery roads. It's what we must put up with when we choose to live in a place that has cold frigid winters. Like clockwork, after the first snowfall every year the local TV news highlights all of the accidents from the first winter storm. The smarmy weatherman warns about the dangers of driving on slippery roads.  Blah, blah, blah - we get it Mr. Weatherman. Eventually we all do quickly re-learn the art of driving on ice after a few days and for the most part we still get to where we are going, we just realize it takes longer.

Living our life is a lot like driving on slippery roads.  (That was a nice blog segway for a blonde rocker chick, huh? ) You can live your life  slow and cautious in everything that you do. And in the end you will be where you wanted to be and most likely have a life full of proud accomplishments for your efforts. On the other hand you could speed through your life recklessly not caring about yourself or others and most likely you will end up dead in a ditch somewhere.

To further illustrate my point. When the roads are slick out there on the highways and byways, there always seems to be one yahoo travelling 20 - 30 miles over the posted speed limit as if it was a nice hot summer day! They don't care about themselves or others. This person just wants to get where they are going and they want to get there now! In reality they are driving/living on thin ice, literally and figuratively! This is most likely the same person who talks out loud throughout and entire movie. It is the person who has a basket full of groceries in the 10 items or less lane. The world is full of a bunch of knuckleheads I tell you.

This person thinks they are in control -- but somewhere in life or perhaps somewhere on the highway, they are going to unexpectedly hit a patch of black ice and lose control. The sad thing is, they usually end up causing harm to other people when they go out of control because of their carelessness.

I say, what's the rush? Enjoy the journey, whether it be your weekly journey to the mall to get new sneakers or on your journey of life -- be safe, go slow and watch out for the slippery roads!

Have a great day!

Blessings,

Ava

xox

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Ava Wants a Record Deal

Here is a Saturday cartoon for you!

Blessing,


Ava
xox