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Ready for your 15 minutes of fame? Desperate to claim it on the Reality TV Circuit? You’re not alone – and here’s your chance! Here’s a listing of some of the upcoming open casting calls:

Solitary 3.0
The humdaddy of intense and unusual reality competitions ever, FOX Reality’s Solitary 3.0 is looking for new castmates ready to meet Val and put themselves through the ultimate torture test to win $50k in version 3.0. Click here for more info.

What Not to Wear
Desperate for your chance at a fashion makeover with Stacy and Clinton to give style advice – and the all important $5000 cash for a New York Shopping spree? They’re looking for self nominations of fashion disasters for the upcoming season! Find out how to nominate yourself here.

Cook Yourself Thin!
What to eat your favorite foods without the high calorie counts? Right now they are casting women to be on their new healthy cooking show for a major cable network called Cook Yourself Thin. So if you’re hoping to lose that last 10-15 pounds through healthier cooking, click here.

NOBODY PUTS BABY IN A CORNER!
That’s right – it’s a hot new casting call in LA for people who want to be part of the dance competition based on Dirty Dancing. INORITE? This makes me all kinds of giddy! Lionsgate and the producers of Hell’s Kitchen are looking for fresh new dancers to play Johnny and Baby and is seeking dancers of all styles who appear between the ages of 21 and 27. 9 men and 9 women will pair up and compete together. The first open casting all is July 2, 2008 so click here for all the info and be sure to check that link for more calls in Chicago, New York and Miami.

Janet Jackson’s Prodigy
Janet Jackson and famed choreographer Gil Duldulao will be kicking off a nationwide search for performers with raw talent. This competition reality TV series is open to males and females at least 18 years old who appear to be between 18 and 22 and who exhibit superior talent in combined singing and dancing. Click here for more info!

The boy has missed his shopping trip with nana and papa for a couple weeks because of work, so they decided to grab him after he got off this afternoon for dinner. About an hour after they left, this happened via text:

From Boy: HELP ME!
Me: hahahahahha.
Boy: grrr.
Me: You’ll survive.
Boy: Nooooooooo!!

From Papa’s Phone: The Boy is being mean to us!

At which time I started laughing hysterically, because it amused me so.

Then my phone rings, call from Boy – I let it go to voice mail, because I was call him at the same time – voice mail is: “She put me on hold. ON HOLD!” with Nana and Papa laughing in the background “I’m gonna get you when I get home…”

Then I call them back.

Nana: The Boy’s being mean!
Me: You know, if you three can’t behave, I’m going to have to go along and chaperone the next time…
Nana: Tell the boy!
Me: (Repeats.)
Boy: Aw HELL no….
Nana: GASP! That’s the SECOND time he’s cursed in front of me. Bring the soap!

Then, when he got home (ice cream and cookies in tow! Yum!)(Yes, I know that I said I don’t have a sweet tooth, but these are double stuffed oreos with PEANUT BUTTER. Which is totally different. They’re not sweet. Nope.) he tells me this:

Nana can be DIRTY mom! See, I stole papa’s magnifying glass, and he said that’s how we make Nana’s boobs bigger, and then Nana stole it and put it at his GROIN and said “A girl can dream” and did I mention this was in the CHECKOUT LINE AT THE STORE and the workers were all laughing and OMG MOM!

Apparently he expects such comments from Papa, but Nana fighting back is mortifying. *snicker* I offered to go along and chaperone again and he said no way – because Nana and I and Papa together would be SURE to embarrass him! HAHAH!

Don’t you wish you had MY family?! You know you do. It’s ok to be jealous. *grin*