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"We've had pizzas on our roof. We've had pizzas on our driveway; pizzas until we're sick of looking at pizzas," Fran Padilla told NPR in March. Later in the interview she added, "I'll sit outside with a shotgun in a rocking chair. You know, like Granny from 'Beverly Hillbillies.'"
Padilla and her husband, Louis, have this unique pizza problem because they happen to own the White family home from the show "Breaking Bad." The Albuquerque, New Mexico, house -- which they've lived in for over four decades -- is perhaps most famous for the time a frustrated Walter White improbably threw a whole pie onto the roof.
Padilla's comments came a few days after show creator Vince Gilligan popularized their problem on a "Better Call Saul" podcast, warning fans, "There is nothing funny or original or cool about throwing pizzas on this lady’s roof."
"It is just not funny," Gilligan continued. "It’s been done before. You’re not the first." Tough guy-playing actor Jonathan Banks followed up, saying, "If I catch you doing it, I will hunt you down."
Now, two-thirds of a year later and curious if the warnings had been heeded, The Huffington Post followed up and found that pizzas are still being tossed onto the Padilla house.
Banks may have to follow through on that promise.
Jackie Sandoval is the co-owner of "Breaking Bad" RV Tours, along with her husband Frank. The couple is close with the Padillas and it's been Frank's job at times to scrape and scrub the unwelcome pizzas. "Frank had to remove three pizzas off of their roof that some teenagers had thrown on it a few weeks ago," Jackie Sandoval said.
A longer interview with her is forthcoming as HuffPost continues a retrospective on "Breaking Bad," but it seems especially urgent to stress that the Padillas' problem hasn't stopped.
"As far as Vince's warning goes, it's working for the normal fan base, but what we've found is that the younger crowd are the ones doing it, just for kicks," she told us. "There have been at least six instances since Vince put the warning out."
At the height of the show's fandom, around 200 people would pass by the Padilla household every day to gawk at the real-life White residence. Now that number has come down, but fanatics continue to make the pilgrimage. Jackie says, "We also put up 'Stay Off Property' warning signs in her front yard to detour people."
If you're a real fan of "Breaking Bad," don't be the one who knocks on the Padillas' door and certainly don't be the jerk making a mess on their roof. Breaking rules is only kind of cool -- perhaps ignoring all the murder -- if it leads to you becoming a multi-millionaire kingpin. In this case, you're just wasting perfectly delicious pizza.
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Whether you love or hate daylight saving time, one fact remains true: you get one more hour of sleep this weekend. Hooray! So what better way to spend your time right now than by looking at photos of deliciously cozy, utterly comfy beds.
Sweet dreams!
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I was recently working at a coffee shop when I couldn't help but overhear the conversation going on at the table next to me. The ladies caught my attention because they sounded like me -- stressed, tired and trying to figure out how to get it all done in the quickly passing hours of the day. That is, they sounded like me a few years ago before I quit writing to-do lists.
To-do lists are seemingly innocent, designed to help you be more productive. But it turns out to that writing these lists -- which had become an obsessive daily ritual -- was having the opposite effect. They were stressing me out. And as soon as I quit them, I began to regain a feeling of peace. And with that I found I was a whole lot more productive.
Yes, I realize this sounds like nonsense -- and even corny. And I realize that not everyone who writes to-do lists is compulsive about it. But I was -- and these women at the coffee shop were. And if this sounds like you, then read on.
Here are six reasons to give up to-do lists -- and become more productive and even a little happier.
1. To-do lists are designed to make you feel like you've failed the day. Most of the time, we put more on our to-do list than it's humanly possible to achieve during our 16 waking hours. And seeing on paper what you didn't get done only makes you feel like you're not doing enough. (Trust me, you are.) And feeling like you're not doing enough is the fastest way to lose your motivation to keep going.
2. The process of writing a to-do list sometimes tempts you to add more items to your list than are actually necessary. Taking the time to write a list gets your brain thinking of what needs to be done, and when it can't think of anything else it will gladly come up with new items that could be done. And this just isn't helping anyone. Remember, just because you wrote it down on a list doesn't mean it will get done. It probably means you'll freak out about how much you have to do.
3. Being faced with a long to-do list is almost guaranteed to make you feel stressed. And out of time. And maybe even panicked. You may find yourself attending each task with haste, urgency and probably just want to get it done. This isn't a pleasant way to go about life.
4. If you're trying to quickly get something done to attend to the next item on your ever-growing to-do list, there is a chance you won't complete that task well. And then, you might have to redo it at a later point. This is just making more work for yourself. If you don't have a list reminding you of everything else that needs to be done, you can attack each task with complete attention and a calm that will allow you to clearly think through what needs to be done. It lets you be more productive and is also kind of an enjoyable way to get things done.
5. Not writing lists makes it more likely that you'll only remember to do what is absolutely essential. All the other stuff that isn't really important will just be forgotten, and then you'll have so much more time to do other things ... like relax.
6. If you replace the time you'd spend writing and thinking about what you have to do with meditation, you'll be hugely rewarded. This is really hard to do, especially if you're someone who feels like you just don't have time to get things done, but this practice will help you more than you can imagine. It taught me to attack a task with intention and attention because through meditation I was learning to focus on one thing at a time. And more importantly, it taught me that what I can get to in one day is enough -- even if that means not having done a thing I would have previously thought super important.
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Two-year-old Libby and her pet pig Pearl are bringing some coordinated cuteness to Halloween. From detectives to bunnies to pink flamingos, their costume game is on point, and it's seriously adorable. Feast your eyes on the dress-up magic!
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