Wednesday, January 31, 2007

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNA!

Today's post is dedicated to a loyal reader - Miss Anna.
WELCOME TO THE CLUB! Its all downhill from here but I tell ya, its one of the best rides ever (ok, next to the zamboni)!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine

Saturday night, I was still recovering from Friday night. Recovery is also known as pajamas by 6pm and watching a movie in my hood- damn I'm getting old.

My friend and I decided to watch Little Miss Sunshine and boy it was worth the effort of pressing the "BUY" button on the OnDemand screen. I had heard lots of good things about this movie and have been wanting to watch it for a while now. This movie made me cry (which frankly isnt that hard to do), laugh (ok, not hard to do to either), and, well, I lost count the times either one of us said "I cant believe they did that!".

The best scene of the movie is at the end, when they finally arrive at the Little Miss Sunshine pageant and Olive is going to do her "talent". If you havent seen the movie - go get it and watch it, it worth it. If you have seen it, you know you want to see this again.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Harry Freakin' Potter!




Thats who I thought of when I woke up the other day and found this on my forehead.



I feel like i should be on my toes waiting for Voldemort to show up and terrify the bejesus out of me.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Speechless - yea me, speechless

So Knuck sent me this and I finally got around to watching it today and words cannot describe what I saw. Let me just state that 1) these gals REALLY needed Cirque de Soleil and 2) they either were freaks or really popular with the boys.





P/S I dont know if I would really like the talent of being able to touch my ass to my head - would be interesting though.

Monday, January 22, 2007

Yeah baby - a FEATURED profile

Dont burst my bubble on this!

I have posted before about JOBSTER - which is this networking site that was launched last year. I've had a profile on there for about a month and today my friends, I have arrived!

I'm a Featured Profile!

Feast your eyes on this!

Ok - so you cant see it very well, but I'm the 2nd from the right on the 2nd line.

Scott said this was better:

The one of a kind Scotty-poo helped me with this. And when my curiousity asked "How did you do that?" His response: Can a beautiful sunset explain how it is? It can't its just a gift from God, like me, I am that awesome.

Its no wonder we are friends.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007

What to blog about today?

Since I havent posted in a while, I wondered what the hell I was going to talk about.

1) My lack of tv viewing?
2) My wonderful eggplant parmagiana that I made on Monday night?
3) My crappy little car that needs its tags renewed?
4) My kid that is obsessed with the Dreamgirls soundtrack (just as I am)?

No no...I'm going to talk about the book I finally got around to finishing in the wee hours of the morning. That book is The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Holy crap people! This is one of the best books I have ever read. I actually got this book during my long layover in Atlanta during Thanksgiving weekend but I havent found the time to actually dedicate to getting lost in the pages of the story. Last night, I opted to get in a few chapters in the hopes of at least getting out of the page 300 area and I got sucked in that I finished that 500ish page novel by this morning at 7am.

The Shadow of the Wind is the story of a boy named Daniel who is taken by his father, who owns a bookstore, to a place called the Cemetery of Books. The legend is that the book he choses is the book that will be a part of his soul. He finds a book called "The Shadow of the Wind" by Julian Carax and after staying up all night reading it, he has to find other books that Carax has written. The digger he deeps, he realizes that something beyond him is going on. Slowly he finds that all the books that Julian Carax are being systematically destroyed leaving Daniel with the only copy of the author's work. With that, he also gains a mysterious figure who watches him and threatens him - going by the name of a character from the book who is the devil in disguise. Not only that but as Daniel looks into Julian's past, he cant help but notice the similarities between his life and Julian's.

OOOOOOOOOO - I know!

Its even better than that! The characterizations are wonderful and unforgettable. A little more history of this book is that it was originally published in Spain and it was such a big hit over in Europe, that they brought it over to the US. A couple of my coworkers recommended it to me and when I got to a major plot twist I literally screamed "SHUT UP!" and Jacob being the only person in the room with me thought I was yelling at him. I had to explain that I was talking to the book and that only got me a roll of the eyes. Since I didnt have any of my coworker's numbers, I resorted to calling the only person I felt would understand - my dad. He just laughed at me and asked me how long until I was done. My dad has been waiting for me to finish it so he can properly steal it from my apartment...just like he did "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time"

Friday, January 05, 2007

If Anna wont listen to the IM....

Maybe she'll listen to the blog.

Sign up for JOBSTER - its the new myspace!

Wednesday, January 03, 2007

WOOHOO!! I WON! I WON!

I was on KROQ this morning! Scotty poo heard me!

I won tickets to the Kings game this weekend!

But I cant go!

And I'm still using exclaimation points!