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How Do You Feel About This?
I’m sure that by now anyone who cares knows that there’s a Sex and the City film in the works…that the salary negotiations for Kim Catrall were finally worked out, the script long finished, schedules cleared, and the film is currently in production. This knowledge pulls me two different ways. 1st off, YAY! I love the girls, I love the relationship between the four of them, I love their friendship, the writing, the stupid situations they get themselves into, etc. However…I kind of liked how the series was tied up into a pretty little bow. They were all happy. Charlotte had Harry, and had her baby on the way. Miranda…
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Mawige*…
A random train of thought that started out with me thinking about my new glasses went on to my contact lenses, and somehow derailed into coworkers from 15 years ago, and then took a surprising turn and ended up with me thinking about divorce. Specifically, I was thinking about this coworker of mine way back in the early 90s, an older guy who was on his 4th or 5th marriage. He met this woman, fell in love with her, and they zoomed up to Tahoe to get married, post haste. Those of us who were a bit younger thought that was kind of strange…what’s the big rush? His reasoning, though,…
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Links of Love
(This picture is of Shrimp Paulista, the last link of love today…enjoy!) Once in awhile, it’s fun to point people to some blog posts that they might not otherwise see…so, because I love you all, here are a few that I enjoyed this week (and maybe one or two from last week…): Py Korry bought a fancy space-age type turntable and rooted through our album collection, starting a new feature on his blog called “I could give a rip”, in which he rips a hard-to-find song from LP to MP3 and uploads it for your downloading pleasure. The debut song is one of my old school faves, “Some Girls”, by…
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Update
I’ve gone from rated “G” to rated “PG-13”, considerably upping my street-cred. Oddly enough, it wasn’t for calling our fearless leader a fuck-up in the last post… This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words: dangerous (8x) hurt (3x) pain (2x) suck (1x) Whatever.
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The Moaning Meme
Ally Bean tagged me for this meme, one in which you don’t learn my favorite anything…it’s one for complaining a bit. Nice idea, huh? I’ll self promote and say I had a similar (though still different) idea awhile ago. 5 people who will be annoyed you tagged them. • Maya’s Granny • ML • Beenzzz • La Luna • Py Korry (I tagged all family this time! If anyone else is interested, tag yourself, it’s a good one!) 4 things that should go into room 101 and be removed from the face of the earth. • George W. Bush • Osama bin Laden • Dick Cheney • Eating Disorders 3…
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MA!
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Big Love
All of you fancy HBO-having people are probably already watching Big Love, and just snicker behind your backs at those of us yokels who have to wait and Netflix it…And well you should, except for the snickering part…because Big Love is one darned good, smart, well written, well acted show. If, perchance, you’re NOT one of those savvy folks who have HBO, or if you DO, but you don’t watch Big Love, you might want to give it a shot…it’s the story of Bill Henrickson, the owner of a small chain (2 branches, at this point) of Home Depot type stores, and his three wives, Barb, Nicki, and Margene. You…
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Wordless Wednesday – Gross Edition
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Blonde Jokes
Way back when I was 16, I worked first as a hostess, and then as a waitress, at the local Mr. Steak. I worked there for about 2 years. The first year I was there, the owner had a Christmas party at his house, and there were awards given for the person deemed to be the most this, best that, whatever. Guess who was the only blonde working there? Me. Guess who was voted ‘biggest airhead’? That’s right, me. The blonde. The blonde who was working and going to school and getting decent grades and had plenty of brains AND common sense, thank you very much. That really, really hurt,…
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Ice Cream Stories…
I saw over on Is My Blog Burning? that one can participate in the For the Love of Ice Cream Challenge, over at YumSugar. You can then blog about ice cream stories, ice cream recipes, favorite flavors, etc. I like ice cream. It’s probably my favorite dessert, in many forms. I like it much better than cake, often more than brownies, and sometimes even better than pie. Actually, I like it WITH pie, but that’s another story. So, here’s my submission to the challenge. Always looking for blog fodder, and being more willing to humiliate myself in my old age, I will confess to you a tale of my questionable…
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If You’re Not Pissed Off, You’re Not Paying Attention
I saw this headline the other day: al-Qaida Has Rebuilt, U.S. Intel Warns The summary is that despite our efforts in that area, “al-Qaida has used its safe haven along the Afghan-Pakistan border to restore its operating capabilities to a level unseen since the months before Sept. 11, 2001.” And, of course, Bush is going to use this report to bolster his argument that we need to stay the course in Iraq, because it is a hotbed of al-Qaida as well. Um, excuse me fuckhead, WHO MADE IT ONE? Iraq was NOT a hotbed of terrorism before we attacked, before we went in and made it a poster crusade for…
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Crapicola
That’s what I’m thinking. Crapicola. Sounds like a weird deli meat, but it’s one of our ways of swearing around here. Why would I be swearing, you might well ask? Because at Maya’s orthodontist appointment the other day, we discovered that she’s going to need a second round of braces. Can we all say it together this time? “CRAPICOLA!!” 1st, $4,000 is a lot of money. I mean, we paid it the first time, and now to have to pay it AGAIN blows. 2nd, I had braces, and it hurt like hell (personally, I think it’s worse than childbirth, because with childbirth, you don’t have to go back every few…
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Six Degrees of….nothing really
I was watching Sex and the City the other night, and I was remembering the first time I saw Kristin Davis, aka Charlotte York…which would be on Melrose Place, where she played the ill-fated and psychotic Brooke, who married Billy, who was played by Andrew Shue, who was the brother of Elizabeth Shue, who was pretty darned good in Adventures in Babysitting and Leaving Las Vegas, which are two movies that are about as different as they could possibly be. But I first saw her in one of the lamest movies EVER, Cocktail, in which she played Tom Cruise’s idiot girlfriend/wife. Idiot because she loves Tom Cruise, really, who I…
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Winging It…
Last Monday, Cherry and Eric decided they’d rather have dinner at our house than be on their honeymoon in Hawaii. OK, maybe that wasn’t EXACTLY how the decision was made, but nonetheless, we invited them over for dinner, and they said they might come…Cherry was feeling a bit puny, and wasn’t sure that she would be up to it. So, what to cook? We were out and about, and needed to get groceries before we would know the answer. If they could come to dinner, we would want a lot of filling food, because Eric has a super fast metabolism. Also if they could come, we should make something with red…
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Birth Order & IQ
A study came out a few weeks ago, claiming that firstborn children are smarter than their younger siblings, by an average of 2 to 3 IQ points. One factor, the study’s authors concluded, was that firstborn children (and only children) tend to receive more of their parents’ attention. When siblings come into the equation, the amount of time and attention that is available is divided, and therefore, the less attention each individual child receives. So an eldest child that is an only for awhile has more of an advantage than an eldest child whose younger sibling follows closely. And an only child has the benefit of never having to share…