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22 December Cheapness vs. Holiday Cheer - Round 1I refuse to "sink" $7.00 into a shovel so I can consider clearing my parking spot or even my building's sidewalk
but
I happily spent $12.50 on a light up, tinsel covered, moving PENGUIN
to put on my balcony.
(hopefully pics to follow at a later, but near date.)
Ding Ding
Winner = Holiday Cheer!!
More story to tell. But only if Ifinish wrapping all my presents so you get an adorable picture of my tree floating on boxes of lovely gifts.
 Meanwhile, enjoy my new song on the site, and after you've enjoyed htat
enjoy these videos of the best Christmas songs ... EVER! Ha!
17 December Perspective updateSo, I talked to mom tonight for awhile and she told me how Melody's been doing and I realized you might like to have an update. So, the latest is ...
She's doing VERY well!!
She's been getting an anti-nausea medicine for awhile ... or at least a couple of times, and now she can eat!! Almost whatever she wants. No-peek chicken, potato soup, beef stew ... those are just the things mom has taken over to her. Mom said she doesn't cough nearly as much as she was. She doesn't have someone staying with her at night any more. And, last Saturday (not yesterday, last week) she went back to Froedert to get back into the clinical trial she was in.
So, she's fighting. My mom has mentioned multiple times now that maybe it was my prayers that are essentially bringing her back. I do not take credit for this but I do not discourage her nor discount the very real possibility. The phrase that keeps replaying in my mind is "the prayer of a righteous man availeth much." Now, I would generally hesitate to call myself righteous, but maybe the shoe fits for this instance. Regardless, continued prayers are appreciated. She is DEFINITELY not willing to give up or simply go quietly into the night. So, thank you for your prayers. 15 December The Price is RightMy mom has been complaining that Drew Carey has ruined The Price is Right for her. He has messed up her whole morning routine. She can't stand him. I'm dog sitting for a guy who has tivo and I set up one (he has 2 tv receivers!!) of the tv's to tape it to see Drew in action for myself. On the one hand I can see why my mom doesn't like him, but on the other hand I think this is the FUNNIEST Price is Right I've ever seen. I can't decide if this is the day that all the wack jobs showed up just to make me laugh or if it really is this funny all the time. Following are the examples:
1) A girl from Curves was on and even said she was with a group from Curves for Women! Woot!!
2) Drew walks out, says thank you and launches immediately into "Rich What's our First Item up for bid today??" Bob always seemed to chit chat. Then that first prize was a pool table. The girls racked up the balls and with one hit knocked all the balls into the pockets. Which Drew pointed out ... and then says "They've been working on that all afternoon." Just a bit amusing there.
3) The last girl to bid on that pool table bid ... Ten Hundred. Everyone else was bidding Eleven Hundred etc and I think she just got confused. Drew says What and she changes it to ten thousand ... then drew checks do you mean A thousand? yep. Then he randomly shouts out Eleventy Twelve!
4) this lovely older lady named margaret came up with a shirt that says "I've been LOOkin for You Drew" And the OOs are googley eyes. Drew notices and says "oh, you've got little funny eyes on there, that's hilarious. ok, what's the next prize?"
5) they bid on this watch and Margaret wins. But the guy nextto her, Ralph, decides he is the winner and jumps up running up to the stage, elbowing Margaret out of the way, loses his shoe on the steps and drew has to say "No, it's margaret ... margaret, margaret, margaret, margaret!" Then she is so excited she starts dancing and running around and he dances with her etc. Very amusing. You can tell he's not very good at directing people.
6) Margaret gets to play the Stirke Game to try winning this Lincoln MKZ car. She is SOOOOOO not good at this. She picked out a 5 and puts it in the first slot, 50,000 for a lincoln!? She ended up walking over to the game to point at the box on every one. She picked out a 4 at one point and then again later and chose the same box for it both times! Drew mentions that the price stays the same ... Then he starts talking about how the game is going to take forever because she keeps picking wrong boxes but not any strikes so "this game is gonna take ... we'll never get to the noon news. we'll see you guys at the weather." The whole thing was very amusing.
7) next item up for bid is this huge 8x11' cable rug. Drew asks whatthe bids are and then says "that is one nice rug ... i'll leave it for that." The girl first to bid says "I can't breathe." Drew says "Well good. Ha. Hope there are some paramedics in the crowd. No, seriously, it's ok. It's ok Melissa, you're only on national tv with all your friends watching."
8) now we're over to the wheel spinning. And, Margaret goes to spin and FALLS!! Lightly sat down 'cause she lost her balance, and then she had to spin a second time and did it AGAIN!
9) lastly, Melissa the girl who couldn't breathe got to play the dice game. First roll, a 1! Second roll, a 6!! Third roll, a 6!! Last roll, a 5!! So, drew says "We know this one's right, light it up ... we know this one's right, light it up ... we know this one's right, light it up."
Just cracked me up. Maybe those of us that like Drew Carey will start watching the Price is Right and the ones that don't like him will start to see the humor in his manner. :D The Bourne Ultimatum"No, see, that's the mistake people keep making.
A - he is really good at staying alive.
And, B - trying to kill him and failing just pisses him off."
~Pamela Landy
Sadly, this line is in the deleted scenes and never made it into the movie. I can understand why this scene didn't make it in, but it would still have been a great line to keep.
Watched The Bourne Ultimatum tonight. Gotta say ... 4 stars. No, make that 5/5 stars. Amazing action. Made even better since I am not 6 rows from the big screen. When I saw the Bourne Supremacy that's where I was. The director shoots a large portion of the movie with hand held cameras. This makes for a much more "involved" viewing experience, but trust me, you don't want to be as involved as 6 rows back requires. You feel like you are actually running right behind Matt Damon as he runs across roof tops and beats the brains out of the bad guys getting in his way.
The action sequences, as expected, are amazing. Some truly amazing coreography ... because, let's be honest, that's not fighting. True fighting doesn't look that beautiful and poetic and would be utterly impossible to capture on film the way they do in these movies. Across the board this is a great movie.
The car chases are great ... the plot portions are even fairly easy to follow. Well, except for the whole "thing" with Nicky they tried to imply. There were a few scenes between her and Jason that seemed like they were involved before he joined Treadstone or right at the beginning or something ... but they never explain it. It never goes anywhere. Then she dyes and trims her hair and suddenly it looks EXACTLY like Marie, his dead girlfriend. Threw me off for most of the movie. Waiting to see if he was going to pursue that or if she was going to say anything or if they were even going to explain it. Just seemed like there was more to it than they explained. But even with that caveat, I would highly recommend this movie. All of that aside the plot is fairly easy to follow. There is a bit of tricksy sneakery with the timeline as it would appear that the final scene of 2 shows up half an hour into 3,but who's to say? right? Makes me want to go read the book to see if I can figure some more of it out. But I read the Supremacy and was not impressed enough to want to go get the rest of them. Maybe another day.
My only disappointment is that I didn't get to watch the other two immediately before this one. I much prefer to watch sequel movies in order. Sometimes this is almost necessary to follow the current movie, but generally you can remember enough to make it worthwhile. Pirates of the Caribbean was definitely a trio you need to watch all of in order or you definitely can get lost very easily in the 3rd movie. But I digress. Then again, it is 155 am.
I watched the deleted scenes and just HAD to share that quote and my short and quick review.
And, lastly, For those of you that care ... no sex scene of any sort, no implication, no kissing, nothing at all on that front. Almost no swearing at all .. in fact none that I can actually remember at all, so it can't be that bad if any of it is in there. Even the violence isn't grotesque. Fighting, a couple of bloody knuckles and some scraped faces and bleeding noses, but otherwise nothing much to imply the level of violence that is actually going on.
Final Verdict: 5 stars out of 5. ENJOY! 10 December May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your noseI was talking to my friend, Michelle, tonight and for some reason I said "May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up your Nose." Not sure where I got this from, just one of those phrases that my family has said for years that I never knew the origins of. She has never heard this (I assume most of you haven't either). So, I checked google for it. Yep, it's there. It's A SONG!!! Jimmy Dickens is the singer. I was so amused by the lyrics that I had to see if there was a video I could share. THERE IS!! Enjoy!!!
04 December Steven Wright - NOT my original materialSome of these I'd heard before, so I took those out and left only the best ones. Have a good laugh!! Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back. Half the people you know are below average. 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. I almost had a psychic girlfriend,...but she left me before we met. OK, so what's the speed of dark? How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now. I intend to live forever......so far, so good. Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. What happens if you get scared half to death twice? 02 December Welcome to Winter in WisconsinCome see the great pics I got of the small icicles on my balcony railing. The pics are actually surprisingly cool. Let me know what you think! |
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