MIMOSAS FOR ONE

i can't eat junk food for days like i used to. it really effects the way i feel now that i am an old fogey. i'm on detox. i saw inside man last night, and i have just one thing to say : clive owen is 50 ways to HOTT! before the movie my friend and i stopped by the new city library to check it out. very nice! there are lots of reading corners and an internet cafe. my attempt to aquire a new card was temporarily foiled however, because of $16.40 in back fines from 1999. i paid them like a good girl, though. so far, the favorite of my new checkouts is the soundtrack to monty python's spamalot one of these days, i'm going to go see a show on broadway. it's thursday kids. don't worry, we're almost there ;)

i still remember the day of my twelfth birthday. i was miserable, so i threw a huge temper tantrum and pouted by myself outside, playing the new gameboy my parents had given me. what i brat i was. my family hadn't forgotten. they didn't ignore me, or refuse to celebrate. In fact, we had a big party that day....but, it wasn't really for me. That was the krux of the matter. I was miserable and threw a temper tantrum because ever since the morning of march 28th 1992, i have shared my birthday with my niece, cristin. The day in question was actually Cristin's 1st birthday. The day she was born, i couldn't have been happier. i really felt like i got the neatest birthday gift ever. However, her 1st birthday was a different story. a child's 1st birthday is a big deal . i realize that now. time goes by so quickly. cristin is 14 today. she is a teenager. she is going to high school next year. i used to think about this day when she was a baby. i am 25 today . it feels so...

like most women, i'm a sucker for romance. over the years televison has provided it's viewers with some great love stories. Here are my top fiv-er-i mean six: 1) roseanne and dan Conner (roseanne): the perfect blend of humor, romance, and passion (both blissful and combative) make dan and roseanne a love story for the ages. 2) lucy and ricky ricardo (i love lucy): a firey redhead, and a firey cuban? their legendary love story was of the 5 alarm type both on and off screen. While their marriage may not have lasted, lucy refered to desi as the love of her life, and spoke with him on the phone every day until his death in 1986. 3) david addison and maddie hayes (moonlighting): hot, hot, HOT!!!! These two were each other's perfect foils. their witty banter, heated arguments, and crazy adventures running the blue moon detective agency, make these two irresistible to watch. what makes it more interesting is that allegedly bruce willis and cybill shepherd couldn't stand each o...

a couple of months ago, my friend, insurgentmuse , who also happens to have been one of my college roomates, gave me this great idea to take pictures of the addresses of the places i have lived in my life. so far most of my moving took place during college at humboldt state. i moved 7 times in 5 years, including moving back to san jose twice. when i visited my sister in february, i went to all of these places in the order in which i lived there. it was both nastaligic and cathartic. i told all the stories of living there to my friend, emily, who had accompanied me on the trip. for more in depth descriptions and more pictures, go here .

i love my ugg boots. i know they are passe, but i didn't buy them to be fashionable. i bought them to be comfortable, because i am so lazy, the thought of just slipping my feet into something, sans socks meaning even less effort, sounded very appealing. They honestly have been one of my wisest investments. i have had them for a little over 2 1/2 years, and during that time i have managed to get them drenched, stuck in the mud, and set on fire. however, they continue to provide my feet with a warm, dry, and comfortable place to hang out. i have walked them all over humboldt county, and now all over san jose, yet they remain durable and totally intact, save from the small piece at the top of the left foot which was burned off during a druken halloween bonfire. long story short, i believe in the power of the ugg boot. i am now a devotee for life.

bat shit crazy cruise has struck again. he forced comedy central, whose parent company is owned by paramount, the studio producing mission impossible 3, to pull their re-run of the "trapped in the closet" episode of south park wednesday night. he basically threatened not to do any press for the movie. you would think the producers would thank their lucky stars he wouldn't be opening his pie hole, but alas, they too fell victim to the brainwashing and his psyscho demands. at first comedy central said that trey parker and matt stone weren't allowed to talk about it, but in true fashion, the boys stuck their middle finger in the air anyways releasing this statement: " So, Scientology, you may have won THIS battle, but the million-year war for earth has just begun! Temporarily anozinizing our episode will NOT stop us from keeping Thetans forever trapped in your pitiful man-bodies. Curses and drat! You have obstructed us for now, but your feeble bid to save humanity w...

i love this. it combines two of my favorite things : guinness and cartoon whales. i have a pair of flip flops from old navy that have a little cartoon whale on them and i love them! so cute. happy st. patricks day to everyone. i don't know about all of you, but my family is irish, so this day is kinda big for us. my mom is making corned beef, cabbage, and red potatoes for dinner tonight, and i am sooooooooo excited. then later on tonight, i'm heading out to partake in the festivities in downtown campbell. guiness, green beer, and one (or maybe two) carbombs. i am very tired today. i didn't get to bed last night until around 3am because i was helping my friend celeste at a salsa dancing event that she hosted with her friend rob. she is supersalcera productions and he is monterey salsa. they rented out the attic is santa cruz, hosted a free lesson, and the band broken english played for the party, and what a party! so much fun. broken english is an awesome band, and everyone ...

as i was watching ed wood (which is wonderful!) on saturday night, i sat there wondering "what the fuck has happened to to tim burton?" his films used to be so wonderful. the stories were inspired, the scenery beautiful, and the characters wonderfully quirky. i really used to look forward to "a tim burton film", but now all i can think is how they used to be. i haven't seen mars attacks, but i do know that everything before it was magical, and everything after it has been crap. well, a slow decent into crap anyways. There were flashes of the old tim in sleepy hollow, big fish, and corpse bride, but for the most part, something is definitely missing. i won't even dicuss charlie and the chocolate factory, which was so wrong on so many levels it even made me kinda not like my beloved johnny depp, and that is next to impossible. i hold out hope for mr. burton to someday return to fine form, but for now here are my personal recommendations from the his filmograph...

i noticed that the hills behind my house were covered at a lower elevation this morning, and apparently, it's snowing today in san jose. the news of this sent everyone in the office running for the front door. does this mean i get to go home? i saw transamerica last night. felicity huffman was robbed! reese witherspoon should have been best supporting actress if she should have gotten a kick in the ass. also, huffman is too good for desperate housewives. before the movie started, there was a preview for winter passing with zooey deschanel, will ferrel, and ed harris. after seeing deschanel in failure to launch earlier in the week ( and believe me she is the only good thing about that stinker) i now have a full fledged girl-crush on her. plus anything with will ferrel is always good. this weekend i will be holed up in my room watching library rentals: six feet under season 2 ed wood eurotrip east of eden the phantom of the opera

the only exciting thing about a thursday is that it is almost friday. here are the thoughts currently rolling around in the old noggin: -rooting for my favorite on american idol has never been so hard. the women (with the exception of mandisa) are pretty average. however, the guys are top notch this year. my favorites are taylor, elliot, chris, and gideon. in a way it's good because i will be happy with whomever wins since it will most likely be one of these guys. i am done with seacrest, though. he is so painful in his attepmts to prove his heterosexuality (he's gone so far as to nix his famous tagline, "seacrest out!"). it's okay to be gay, ryan. embrace who you are....on second thought, the gay community may not want you, because let's face it: you're obnoxious. -chloe won project runway. i have to say i am surprised on the whole, but after seeing her collection vs. those of daniel and santino, i can see why. i actually really liked santino's collec...

"A lot of people describe me as chubby, which seems so easy, so first-choice. Or stocky. Fair-skinned. Tow-headed. There are so many other choices. How about dense? I mean, I'm a thick kind of guy. But I'm never described in attractive ways. I'm waiting for somebody to say I'm at least cute. But nobody has." -philip seymour hoffman congratulations to philip seymour hoffman for winning the best leading actor oscar for capote i highly recommend this film. i walked out of the theatre very much affected by the story and the performances of its stars. *also, as a fan of hoffman in general as an actor, i recommend tour de force performances in: love liza and flawless and small, but memorable performances in: the talented mr. ripley and almost famous and on a totally unrelated note, HOLY SHIT. I MUST HAVE THIS