Back in high school, I had a nice watch. It was Indiglo and my love for it was such that I wrote a speech about it in the 9th grade and won the speech award due to its brilliance. Sadly, the indiglo did not last too long. I’m tough on watches and they never seem to stay around as long as I’d like.
Due to this fact, I stopped spending more than $10 on watches. I would only buy them from Target or Wal-Mart and even then they wouldn’t last for too long. In example: senior year of high school I am at Mindy’s house with her nieces, Abbey and Emily. Without my knowing it, Emily puts chocolate candies in my pocket. A few hours later when I go to give them a bath, I take off my watch and put it in that pocket. After the girls go to bed, I go to take my watch out of said pocket and instead of a watch I get a chocolate covered ball of watch. Yes, I ruined a watch with chocolate.
Years have passed since then and I have refused to buy a nice watch. This has been made ever so much easier since moving to New York City. All of my watches since moving here have been $5 watches from China Town.
The glimmer of hope in my wach tale is that I have had my current watch from China Town for an entire year. On top of the fact that this is a miracle of cheaply made China Town goods as most of them only last a few months if you are lucky, it has given me hope that perhaps I am adult enough to have a big girl watch.
And thus, I did it. I bought a new big girl, adult watch. I spent more than $10 on a watch for the first time since 9th grade. Meet my new watch. She’s a Fossil and she’s beautiful.
So, here’s hoping that I can manage to keep her around and not lose, break, injure or melt anything to her!
I was (am) obsessed with The Gilmore Girls. Amber and I loved this show when it was on and love it still. When it ended, I cried like a little girl. A little girl who has fallen down and broken a bone while watching someone kill her puppy on the day a family member has died. Yep, that was me on that sad, sad May 2007 day. So, understandably, when we saw a movie with a cast member from Gilmore in it the other day, Meghan asked me “are you okay with this?”. This question leads me to explain my view on celebrities and their parts.
While my love for Lorelai Gilmore is all consuming, I don’t see her as Lauren Graham. And while I like Lauren Graham a lot, I don’t see her as Lorelai Gilmore. To me, they are two separate people. Sure, they look a lot alike, but are not one and the same. Crazy, but true. It’s how I see her. I also see Sidney Bristow and Jennifer Garner as two different human beings.
This theory of separation, however, does not extend to minor General Hospital characters. While I’m able to see the main characters as actual people, I often forget that the minor characters are not who they play. The waitress at the local diner, Malili, to me is an actual waitress. The bodyguards of the mob boss are actual bodyguards. It’s an odd system and there really is no rhyme or reason.
The point of the blog is that Yes, Meghan, I am okay with seeing Lauren Graham in a movie. Thanks for asking.
Friday afternoon, we all bought pumpkins and had some pumpkin carving fun! Kyle and I made some vast improvements over last year.
In the photo above on the left, Kyles pumpkin was the candle holder. It started as something else and ended up as a bowl. This year he made the vast improvement of ending the carving with most of his pumpkin intact and it has a definate face. Well done, Kyle.
My pumpkin from last year appears above Left. He and I were both shocked by how good he was. But this year, I took it to a whole new level. I went from traditional pumpkin carver to pumpkin carving artist when I created the beautiful tree pictured above Right. Yes, I know, impressive. Thank you.
This is all of our pumpkins after we were done. Meghans is the little one with the face. Lisa did the NYC skyline which looks not bad here, but looks awesome when projected onto the back wall. Nice work, everyone. Pumpkin carving rocks!
Okay, so Meghan has posted on her blog about the pumpkins we carved as well. In addition to photos, she has posted a poll that you can vote in for your favorite pumpkin. I am asking you all to go to meghans blog (you can link there on the side of my blog) and vote for my pumpkin as the winner. If you are going to vote for someone elses pumpkin, then don’t vote. Thanks.
In case you are wondering what I would get for the win: The Satisfaction of Winning which is Priceless!
One of our favorite things to do is to see two shows (on Broadway) in one day. This is a rare and special (Expensive) event that we only do on special occassions. So, the other day we decided to do a poor mans two show day. We saw two movies in one day.
First we saw Eagle Eye in IMAX. Lisa and I have decided that no matter what the movie is, we are going to see it if it is in IMAX. IMAX rocks the house. This movie was quite good but just renewed in me my fear that one day the robots and machines will take us all out and rule the world! Scary stuff.
Then Meghan and I met Zak for dinner (drinking) and then on impulse, bought a Wii. Yes, we were talking about it to Zak at dinner and mentioned how we wanted to get one but that they were sold out. He then asked us if we had checked the Nintendo store. As we didn’t know there was a Nintendo store in NYC, we had not. So, he called the store and they had them in stock and we headed over to get one. On our way there we got lost in the Rockefeller Center area so Zak called again and the woman who answered the phone says to us “I can see you from where I am”. How she knew who we were is still a mystery to us all, but she came outside and met us and led us into the wonderland that is the Nintendo store, so we weren’t as creeped out as you might think. She was awesome and super helpful and we loved her.
And now we have a Wii which I will blog about extensively at another time.
Then we met Lisa again for a late night showing of Flash of Genius. It was also good. I recommend both of these films and also the experience of two in one day. It’s a good time for one and all.
On Thursday, Kyle and I went to the American Museum of Natural History.
There was a special butterfly exhibit going on with an area with actual butterflies flittering happily about foliage and occassionally landing on people. It’s like a butterfly fairy land. With real butterflies.
Sounds pleasant and innocent, right? Not at all scary? I agree. Most people would agree. Unless of course, by most people you mean Kyle, in which case I am sad to say that you would be wrong. Yes, friends and relatives, Kyle is deathly afraid of butterflies.
Yes, that was butterflies. Not butter knives or butter hives, but butterflies. Ahhhh!!! Watch out, one might land on you as it did on Kyle and gently wave its wings before it sweetly flutters off. NO! Can you think of anything worse? Kyle can’t.
I wish you could have seem him all jumpy and freaked out when they would fly by his head. It was pretty darn funny and I am sad that I was the only one who got to enjoy it. Maybe next time.
Kyle and I saw Blindness the movie the other day. This was far and away the best movie adaptation of a book I have ever seen. I love reading (in case you are new to the blog) and I almost always like the books better than the movies.
This movie kept almost every moment from the book. The dialogue, the moments, important or otherwise. It was very well done. The only things left out were so small that I didn’t realize until later that they were left out. Well done, screenplay writers of this movie, well done.
Truthfully, while I would never typically say this, I would recommend watching this movie rather than reading the book. That’s how good a job they did with this.
In case some of you don’t know, my least favorite age group of them all is 13-18. Meghan and I call this group the “pre-teens” even thought they aren’t actually the pre-teens. Oops. But, we’ve been calling them this for so long that it would be confusing to change the name now.
Their irritating traits are endless but include:
1. extremely loud talking and laughing and throwing of things in movie theatres
2. use of the phrases “OMG!” and “WTF!” (translations-Oh My God and What The Fuck) instead of the actual words
3. spending hundreds of dollars of their parents money on clothes to make them look like they dressed themselves in discarded pieces of clothing they found on the street.
4. screaming when they see one another (and you know they just saw one another the day before)
5. And the point of this blog: The Texting! Oh the Texting! Shoot me in the face with your cellphone if I ever take to texting the way they do.
This has come to my attention most particularly this week due to the visit of my brother, Kyle. I’m pretty sure that he could take a medal in the texting Olympics when they start those up. It’s day. It’s night. It’s all the time. It’s walking down the street. It’s in the house. Not a minute passes when he is not texting. All the time. We cannot walk down the street without needing to tell some friend or other about it. Uh, for serious?
This ties in with a complaint I voiced last week to Meghan that I fear that the constant text messaging of todays teens will one day lead to the use of “u” as an acceptable spelling of “you” on school assignments. What if one day I read it in a book? What if instead of using actual phrases, everything gets shortened to what the teens would use in a text message? AAHHHHHHH!!!!! My fear of this outcome grows by the day as I am surrounded by evidence of it everywhere I go.
What happened to the good old days when men were men and you called your friends? Or, saw them in person. What happened to the good old days of texting with whole words and not abbreviations of whole phrases? What happened to the good old days of walking down the street without having to be on the phone or texting someone? Can’t we just enjoy our stroll? Can’t we just tell someone that thing later? Please?
A few Sundays ago, we were playing a new game called “Would You Rather?”. It give you options like “would you rather eat a bottle cap or a spider the size of a bottle cap?”. It led to many interesting and revealing conversations. For instance, given the choice between not showering for 6 months or not brushing your teeth for 6 months I was the only one who chose to not brush my teeth. Everyone else thought that not showering would be better. What? There is gum and mouthwash, but is there anything that can take the place of a shower? No! We had many interesting conversations of this sort.
In order to win the game, Lisa had to win a challenge. The challenge was to smell and identify two of the many yucky smelling things that we all got to pick for her to sniff blindfolded.
Rotten squash
Old Mayo
Yucky cheese that Meghan likes but the rest of us think is gross!
Thumbs up to Lisa for winning the game and for being a champ with the smelling. It was fun for the rest of us to watch.
Yesterday we celebrated that great American Canadian holiday, Thanksgiving. We had all the traditional thanksgiving food and ended our dinner by playing a Canadian card game, just like the Canadian pilgrims did it.
We were thankful four our bountiful harvest this year and for Zaks sweet potatoes and white gravy and stuffing. And for Lisas kick ass bread! Nice work, all! I hope you all had a lovely Canadian Thanksgiving! Oh, Canada, thanks for this excuse to eat Thanksgiving food one more time in a year!
