Tuesday, February 9, 2010

40 Days of Winter

Sometimes, rarely but it happens, I get a hankering for lo mein.

Tonight was one of those nights.

I stopped by my local China hut and got some lo to go from crooked finger.

Tastiness.

The mailbox was generous tonight. Waiting for me was 500 Days of Summer. It's not as good as I remember it to be. I think it's one of those theater-good movies. You know the ones - it's the experience of seeing it at the theater, an actual night out, that makes it better.

What I think the real problem is, this movie needs different leads. I think John Cusack and Ally Sheedy circa 1988 would have done the characters justice.

Interesting day at work - I didn't get done everything I had hoped to accomplish, but yet learned a lot. Not a bad day after all.

The first 40 days of 2010 have been fraught with endings - some of my own doing, some smacked me like I needed a V8. The ones I instigated were a long time coming, cathartic to enact, and healthy. The ones that weren't within my control are actually healthy also, but it took some time for the bruised ego to heal. And that, dear readers, is my lackluster attempt at forming a positive outlook on a collective bummer of situations.

Monday, February 8, 2010

How To Report The News

This was forwarded to me by a coworker - good for a Monday.

New Favorites

I meant to post this yesterday, but just got busy NOT watching the Superbowl.

As the months creep by, every day I am attempting to live in the moment while planning for the future. Difficult to do for most people, but as I'm a Gemini, the duality is natural for me. I savor the little things when I remember to, revel in the minor moments, and deepen my connections with the world around me.

In doing so, I've found that I can't limit my favorites to one in each category, i.e., one favorite song or one favorite food. So, I am creating a major list of favorites based on randomness - my favorite song for a Sunday night, or my favorite food at Ventana.

Because I've incorporated randomness into my faves list, it's seeing tremendous growth. See below:

Favorite song for a pre-snowy Sunday night: The Church "Under The Milky Way"

Favorite February cold weather comfort food: Tomato bisque

Favorite hot drink from Thanksgiving through March: Chai Tea Latte

Favorite comfy brunch: Nadoz

Favorite hangover brunch: City Diner

Favorite dirty brunch: Soulard Coffee Garden

Favorite new cookie from Aunt Debby: orange with regular frosting

Favorite zombie movie 2010: Zombieland

Favorite weekend shoes: Purple Chucks

Favorite new clothing store: Skif on The Hill

Favorite new T: Vintage "Give A Hoot, Don't Pollute"

Favorite new album of 2010 (so far): Spoon "Transference"

Favorite Fountain On Locust drink: Chocolate covered banana martini

Favorite sleepwear: Oversized T (this hasn't changed in 20-something years)

Favorite weekend movie to sleep on the couch by: Shawshank Redemption

Thursday, February 4, 2010

Botox

What the hell happened to Rosanna Arquette?

I'm catching up on my dvr recordings and she's a guest star on Private Practice (yes, I watch the show, I have a bit of a girl crush on Amy Brenneman).

She hardly looks like herself - her face if kind of like a jigsaw of weirdness. It's lopsided. ???

I'm thinking she had a lift or two, some filler and botox.

Botox creeps me out - there are enough people in the world who choose not to move their facial muscles (Tobey Maguire) and injecting something to paralyze places on your body so you don't get wrinkles....bizarre.

RICK SPRINGFIELD!


Yes.

I get to see Rick Springfield next Friday at the Liver Foundation Boogie Ball.

My most awesome boss's boss scored tickets for she and I. I turned her on to Californication this year while we were on a work trip to Seattle, and Rick had a special guest-starring role. We both think he's H-O-T. For a 60-year old guy, he's still got it going on.

Jesse's Girl was the first song I ever ice skated to with my little 3rd grader boyfriend. That makes me a multi-decade fan.

Wanna know what's even better? The attire for the Ball is 80's themed.

SCORE!

I am planning my outfit now.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

A craving for swan

The title has nothing to do with this post - I'm currently re-reading the book by Andrei Codrescu and it sounded good.

Right now I am listening to Piers Faccini (and my loser neighbor badly pound out a baseline to a Chili Peppers tune). I am more moved by his music every time I play it - Piers, that is. The song playing now is "Uncover My Eyes" and it has some Scottish drumming near the end, with what I think might be the underlying sound of breaking waves. Beautiful. I'd like to see him in concert - perhaps I'll jet over to Belfort to attend the Eurockéennes festival. Right....my hope is that he drops into the Lou, or somewhere within five hours driving time. I will go that far for him.

I added more movies to my Netflix queue - some I've seen at the theater only but have been jonesing for another look, others will be brand new:

Let The Right One In (seen it)
Gloomy Sunday
Timecrimes
The Baader Meinhof Complex (seen it)
(500) Days of Summer (seen it)
Law Abiding Citizen (new, and needed because I haven't gotten my Gerard Butler fix in awhile)

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Concert Alert

The Dead Weather will be at the Pageant on Saturday 4/24.

Right on. I get to see my Kills girl Alison Mosshart. And my Jack.

Tix go on sale Friday at 5:00.

Be there.