Frogify!

This is Nick's new kitten: Elly (Elhaym Van Houten).



( She likes to read... )

Screw it. I'm going home.

I have work to do, but no desire to do it...ugh...so here's the music list again. Try to guess the song with not one but TWO lines of lyrics.


Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Bold/Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly. [Note: Guess the name of the song. Artist/source only if you feel like it.]
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING.

( I hope this is the last time, because I'd never say no to you... )

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 50 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing.
Step 3: Bold/Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly. [Note: Guess the name of the song. Artist/source only if you feel like it.]
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING.

( Come and go now as you please, your actions write the melodies... )

Holy Cow Thunder Hail and Lightening, Batman!!!

Guess I will be working late tonight after all...even if my manager did give me an umbrella, I still have to walk a half mile or so home...

I have decided I do not like dango. Blech!

Iron Man - 7/7

Ok, so maybe it's "just a superhero movie." However, Robert Downey Jr. pulled off a realistic superhero transformation by actually reacting to and experiencing the character's distress and circumstances rather than just doing an "ok, I was once a misled playboy and now I'm a super good-guy" routine. Gwenyth Paltrow made Pepper Potts a very awesome assistant and love interest (again, reacting instead of just taking things in stride) without going over the top or being too cookie cutter and lovestruck. She sees Tony Stark's good and bad qualities. I particularly loved the scene where she had to play "Operation" because that's just how I would have reacted. Rhodes was awesome... The writing was awesome. The special effects weren't too over the top. And best of all, I didn't notice time going by so the movie ending came almost too soon.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall - 3.5/7

It was ok. It had some funny bits. The movie suffered from a dragging script, a flimsy plot, and too many full frontal nudity shots. I kept wondering, "why is this scene in this movie," "why is this character even here," "is it over yet" or "why would they do that?" Many of the jokes were cliche. Plus, as Nick pointed out, "it was a movie of awkward moments." I have enough of those in my life, thank you.

Woot! An A+, an A, a B+, and a B! I'm golden...granted my GPA went from 3.79 to 3.76...but oh well. ^^;

PS: If I ever go back to school, I'm majoring in math or business. I'm so sick of writing BS essays...

I'm not one to post random conversations from IM, but this was hilarious.

( I KNOW THINGS I CAN NO LONGER UNKNOW!!! )

( even the chubby dude was pretty )

EDIT: Everyone wants to be pretty!

EDIT: Skit link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-pHstttCig

Ok, I have watched all of Pushing Daisies and Robin Hood. I now need a new TV show to watch when sewing. Preferably in English (so, anime tends to be out of the question as is anything else with subtitles or really bad dubs) and preferably something that isn't so complicated that I have to pay attention to every word said. Any suggestions?

I have recently and inadvertently become hooked on the TV show "Pushing Daisies." I had not heard much about it outside of "It's good" and "It has Kristin Chenoweth." (I also happily discovered it has the woman who played Hermia in the recent "Midsummer Night's Dream" with Kevin Kline and the man who played Vogler on "House." The man who played Peewee Herman also has a recurring role as a smell expert. ^^;) I decided to watch it on a whim while I sewed as none of my other DVDs were calling to me. It is hilarious, wonderfully filmed (compared often to Tim Burton's style), and thought provoking.

The plot centers around a pie maker, Ned, who has the ability to bring dead people back to life for one minute by touching them, after which someone else must die in the original person's place if he has not touched them a second time (which permanently kills them). He has taken advantage of this gift by helping out a private investigator with unsolved murder cases. All goes well, or at least decently, until he brings to life his childhood sweetheart, Chuck (Charlotte)...then doesn't re-dead her. Hi-jinks ensue. My personal favorite parts (outside Kristin Chenoweth) are those involving Ned's un-dead and very smart dog as well as Chuck's aunts.

I watched as much of the series as I could until I got to episode 9 and found that, due to the writer's strike, there was no more until next year.

I decided to look it up, and found out that it was created by the same man who made "Dead Like Me." No wonder I'm so amused.





PS: Pictures of sewing later. I'm still wrestling with boot covers and a migraine (not a good combination...I may settle for just wrestling with the migraine and going to sleep).

PPS: Our doorknob broke. We cannot leave our apartment unless we jump out a window.

PPPS: A plumber came by, since the locksmith went home to Worcester 2 hours ago, and jimmied the door open. We now have taped and sealed the door so that it can still lock via deadbolt, but we can get out in the morning. Go us.

Today in my Italian class, a student felt the need to prove that the xkcd comic here applies to tiny dogs as well. She brought in a 5 month old dachshund. The professor spent most of the class time playing with the puppy while everyone else watched. Hooray for no work.

PS: His name was Marcello (based on the movie Under the Tuscan Sun).

There is suddenly so much snow outside, I feel like I'm in a snow-globe!

EDIT: Not 15 minutes later, it is happy and sunny again....

This was sorta fun...

1) Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The article title is the name of your band.

2) Go to http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The final four words of the last quote on your page are the title of your album.

3) Go to http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The FOURTH image on the page is your album cover.

4) Design your cover. Layout and presentation are up to you.

5) Post your cover, along with these instructions.

6) In the comments your friends will tell you what kind of music you play and the name of the album's single.

( woo, dead babies! )

I don't know about you guys, but I always begin to get to the point where I have a bunch of random groceries from random recipes lying around. Short of buying enough ingredients to make a whole one, I tried my hand at making a pasta dish today with leftover stuff. It actually turned out pretty well for once.

( Italian Sausage and Pasta a la Mel )

Now, I am not the world's best cook. Not at all. But I made this recipe last night, and it was fantastic. It's easy and quick (well, after you cook the sushi rice which apparently needs to be washed, dried for 30 minutes then sit in water for another 30 minutes before you can even think of putting it over heat), and yummy.

( Making Soboro Donburi (rice bowl)/ Bento (lunch box) )

EDIT: It's rather scary how many random Japanese words and symbols I've picked up over the years...now if only I could get grammar and pronunciation down. I keep wanting to stress certain syllables in high-pitched, anime-girl voices.

I don't want to reflect on this year. I did not do anything of note. My resolution is to do better next year. Or at least do more.

I went to Yoga for the first time in a year today. May I just say "ow"?

Also: Buy my stuff or advertise for me? ^_^