Monson's husband is Cirque du Soleil band leader Paul Shihadeh -- they met in a green room -- and she says their two sons have a "crazy life" due to the scheduling challenges of their work.

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Online, I wrote for the Huffington Post, Crazy Sexy Life and more blogs than I can count.

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It also gives your TV a social life, letting you watch crazy stuff your friends are sharing on Facebook and Twitter.

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You can read more about her life in her book, Crazy Love.

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"We tried to get them to look at the television and they just sat there looking at us as if we were crazy and then went on with their normal doggy life, " she laughs.

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That book delineated her childhood and the nomadic life of her semi-homeless, semi-crazy parents.

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His phone numbers and e-mail address are ever-changing, and he can drive the people around him crazy with his elusiveness and his propensity to mask details about his life.

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Sounds crazy, but it gets the word out there about what you want for your life if you are no longer in the position to tell people directly.

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But also, a lot more of them would help to reduce crime and reducing crime would then increase the amount of time they get to spend working with community people on some of the day-to-day issues that drive people crazy in different neighborhoods, some of the so-called minor crimes, quality of life.

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Trudy, a crazy bag lady, has taken upon herself the task of showing visiting extraterrestrials the variety of life on earth.

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