Yes, friends, I have hit the jackpot, the Pant Jackpot! Is there a pant jackpot? I think there must be. I recently bought a new pair of knit black pants and they are rocking my world. They are so super-duper comfy and just plain awesome. I want to wear them all day every day and may just try to do it and see how long I can do it before people start to mention it.
As I was pondering the glory of the pant, I was lead to thinking about a similarly awesome pair of black pants that I wore in college. I wore them all the time and they were the best ever.
Casual pumpkin carving? The black pant. Nursing convention? The black pant. Yes, they were great and I have found their 2009 clone and I am pumped.
For example, since getting the 2009 pair, I have worn them with a fancy black shirt to go out with friends and just yestarday with a long underwear shirt to do my taxes and other causal and un-fun stuff. Black pants of ole and new rock!
I am happy to report that according to a National Survery, brunettes make an average of $8,400 a year more than blondes.
When I read this I thought, oh, that’s so great for me and my non-blonde friends. And then I thought, do I have any blonde friends? Um…no. Autumn’s hair is red and Mindy is currently blonde but I don’t count it because that’s not her natural color.
Is this a blonde prejudice that I have? Well, let’s be honest, probably. Most of my favorite people, both real and fictional have brown hair. And even if they sport yellow tresses now, they are natural brunettes and thus dont’ count toward my blonde tally. Let’s make a list:
1. Friends: Maren, Amber, Zak, John, Lisa, Erica, Meghan-all brunettes
2. Fictional Friends: The Gilmore Girls, Lucas from Empire Records, Elizabeth Bennett
3. People I’d like to be my friends: Ben Roethlisberger, Phil Mickelson, Chris Confessional
Yep, I’m anti-blonde. What can you do? Rock on fellow richer brunettes!
Yesterday I had a triple feature movie day.
1. My Bloody Valentine 3-D with Zak. To say this was badly awesome would be an accurate statement. It was exactly what you would expect a 3-D horror film to be an it was so great. Zak and I loved it and within a few moments of the beginning of the movie declared it “the best movie ever made”. See this if you are under 30, with a friend and in the mood to laugh at gore.
2. The Reader with Meghan. This movie was really great. Nothing bad about it. I read the book on which it is based a few years ago and loved it and was nervous about the movie. However, there was no need. This was one of the best ever book to movie adaptations I have ever seen. Well played, producers. I recommend this for most people unless nudity is a problem for you and then I’d skip it.
3. Push with Zak, Meghan and Lisa. This was a default choice as our dinner took longer than we originally planned. It was an action movie with Dakota Fanning. She did a good job, the rest of the cast, not so good. I don’t recommend this one.
I did have a great day at the movies and went 2 for 3 in terms of good movies, so who could ask for anything more?
Yep. I did it. It’s 2:04 and I finished it. And then, just because it was the right thing to do, I rewound and watched and sang along to the opening song one last time.
Was there crying? Obviously. Did I wish Amber was here to watch it with me? Obviously. But I did it. And do you know how I did it? I did it because I’m a big girl. And I know that I’m a big girl because that’s exactly what I said out loud for all the living room to hear right before I watched the last episode when I was thinking that I couldn’t do it.
Please, hold your applause.
Bon Voyage is the name of the series finale of the Gilmore Girls. I am telling you this because is 1:13 am and I am about to watch it. Yes, Meghan, I am home alone and about to watch something that left me in my infamous and never before or since rivalled hysterics that you still talk about to this day with fear in your voice. But don’t worry. I feel good about it. I think it’s going to be okay. Will I cry? Obviously. But I don’t think I’ll need the hug and comforting (yes people, it was that bad) that I needed last time.
So, here I go. Wish me luck and I’ll let you know how it goes.
I was thinking yesterday about what Amber and I used to do when we found bugs in our apartment in college. In Oklahoma there are a lot more bugs running around houses than here in the city. Spiders, crickets and the like are much more likely to set up shop in OK that here. I almost never see a spider in New York and I think Oklahoma might be the capital of Spiderdom.
Anyway, when a bug would stroll into Casa Brianne and Amber we would trap it under a cup and then wait for a boy to come and take it outside. Sometimes we would carry it out ourselves but only as a last resort and only if it had been under the cup for a long time and we were worried about it suffocating. I remember sometimes you’d come home after school and there in the middle of the livingroom floor would be an upside down glass and you never questioned it or looked underneath, you just made sure not to kick it over. Ah, great times.
We always did this with one notable exception. When I lived on Davis with Mindy there was a GIANT spider near the wall. We didn’t try to trap what I think was surely the leader of the pack trying to scout our house for a possible re-enactment of Arachnophobia. Instead, we pulled out the following items for its slaughter:
1. lysol
2. a giant bread knife
Yes, we lysoled and bread knifed a giant spider to death. Ah, the memories.
There was this great Rick Reilly (see my other RR post to hear me proclaim the glory that is him) article on the back page of ESPN the magazine talking about all the coaches being fired in professional sports in the last year and how he thinks they are all being too gracious about it that I found pretty funny and quite accurate.
“Most of these guys didn’t even deserve to lose their jobs, and they’re acting like they just got handed a freaking fruit basked. Me? I’d go triple Sean Penn! I’d scream! I’d sue! I’d tear paintings off walls! I’d race into the GM’s office and spit on his wife’s photo! I’d snatch the owner’s toupee and set it on fire!
But listen to Tommy Tuberville. He was forced out of Auburn with an 85-40 record in 10 seasons, including seven wins over Alabama. Afterward, he issued a statement that read, “I”m going to remain in Auburn and help the Auburn family however I can.”
If I went 85-40 and got axed, this would be my statement: I’m going to remain in Auburn and watch mailment deliver the $10,000 of porn I’ve ordered on your Visas to all of your homes. You’re going to regret this until three weeks until after you croak. And just try to mess with my pension. I have the Christmas party video.”
Yes, I love Rick Reilly.
Oops! I forgot that yesterday was Friday the 13th. What an awesome day. Our random facts calendar hit us with a great one for the day:
“In the nineteenth century, the British Navy attempted to dispel the superstition that Friday was an unlucky day to embark on a ship. The keel of a new ship was laid on a Friday; she was named HMS Friday, commanded by a Captain Friday, and finally went to seaon a Friday. Neither the ship nor her crew was ever heard of again.”
That’s awesome!
I hope everyones scary Friday was great. That perhaps you were attacked from behind by a masked invader and triumphed over evil while a great rock ballad played in the background. Isn’t that the dream?
Oh, P.S., Happy Valentines Day!
The recent random information that we have enjoyed for your learning pleasure:
1. Influenza got its name from the fact that people believed the disease was caused by the evil “influence” of stars.
2. Abrahan Lincoln’s mother died when the family dairy cow ate poisonous mushrooms and Mrs. Lincoln drank its milk.
My question about the second one is why did just the mom die? Was she the only one who drank the milk? Did she test the milk before giving it to her kids in case of a case of poisonous mushroom-tainted milk? Oh so many questions.
So, the movie Lisa and I saw on Tuesday was Taken with Liam Neeson. This movie was great. It’s about this super spy dad and the ass kicking he does after his daughter gets taken. Don’t worry, that’s all in the preview. This is definately something to go see. Especially if, like me, you are a little burned out on all the Academy Award dramas and ready for something that doesn’t involve too much life-changing thinking.
I’d like to take a moment to give a special shout-out to Maren who has now taken to reading the blog almost daily after her previous near-boycott of it. Perhaps it was the blog dedicated specifically to her. Welcome, Maren, to the readership. And I’ll try not to be offended that when I said that I was excited she was reading it she responded with an oh so flattering, “I’m bored”. Thanks, Marmen.
In the spirit of helping Marmen with her boredom, I am going to list for her some things she can do to keep herself entertained:
1. download super mario brothers 3 onto the wii and rock it!
2. read Lord of the Rings (all three)
3. take up knitting
4. watch all 7 seasons of the Gilmore Girls (which you should have done by now anyway)
5. straighten your hair everyday (it takes up a good chunk of time)
6. write a letter everyday to Canada asking them to air Sportscenter
7. learn to tap dance
8. teach yourself to play piano
