gainers

my mom and i were just watching 'the biggest loser' while eating blizzards

20/20 does not equal 9

it is not 'the nine' right now. it's 20/20. that's just wrong. they're mean fibberheads.

the library's better now

the computer let me watch 'the nine' and the 'the office' deleted scenes. so i'm happy now.
and tonight is a new 'the nine' and tomorrow is a new 'the office' so i'm happy now.

the mouse had a brother

go nursing home hottie (not me)

our assisstant administrator is really good-looking and super nice and just a great Christian guy (married, though). we all think so. so today i looked out in the hall and saw this young guy and thought 'ooh, who's that?' and then i realized it was him - oops. about 3 seconds later i was giving one of the ladies a ride in her wheelchair and we passed him and she said,'ooh, that one right there. he's the one i call the tall, dark and handsome one.' and then apparently she was talking about him again later to one of the nurses. and i know i've seen one of the other ladies watch him walk by. go him. i'm thinking i need to meet his brother.

i am so anti-leg shaving

i swear i cut my ankle off on saturday

library computers

they're not letting me watch the deleted scenes from the last 'office' episode! what's with that? i can't watch last week's 'studio 60' either! how rude. i haven't tried last week's 'the nine' yet cuz i won't have time to watch the whole thing, but they better let me watch that tomorrow.
oh, but on the plus side, they got that fine thing figured out and i only owe $1.

i don't really have anything to say. just wanted more pictures.

the botw that i just might marry

John Krasinski

I am so madly in love with Jim from 'The Office.' He's like Mary Poppins - 'practically perfect in every way.' And Jenna Fischer, who plays Pam, says, 'John is a sweetheart. He is both outgoing and a little shy - kind of like Jim. He makes the crew laugh more than anyone else. He's really good at doing impressions and that always gets us going,' and 'he is cute, sweet and funny in real life.'

John was born in Newton, MA on Oct. 20, 1979. He has two brothers and a sister-in-law and a niece and nephew. "The wallpaper on my computer is my niece Hannah. She just turned 1, and has an older brother who's 2 1/2. It's my favorite thing in the world to go home and see them." Aww... He obviously likes kids, and I bet he's good with them (he was on one of 'The Office' episodes anyway.) He's 6'3". I should so marry him.

He graduated from Brown University in 2002 as an honors playwright, which is perfect cuz I come up with great ideas for movies and stuff, but couldn't write one to save my life. So he and I can work together, which would look cute in the screen credits.

Both last year and this year, John has made it to the 'Sexiest Man Alive' issue of People. And of course I must agree. See? Nice guys don't finish last. Girls find them sexy. He's also gonna be Sir Lancelot in Shrek the Third, and since Lancelot is supposed to be the sexiest knight of all time, the casting director obviously saw something in John, too.

And my brother must see something in him, cuz he says that every time he watches 'The Office' he thinks that Jim Halpert is the kind of guy I would like.

John is Polish, and I've been to Poland, so I'm sure that means something. He's probably never been there and I want to go back, so we can do that after we're married.

He was raised Catholic, so there's hope for him. I should at least be able to get him into a church.

Hmm...unfortunatelies...are there any? None that I can think of, except for that whole he needs to go to church thing. But I've got that covered, so it's all good! I can not only marry him, but also have him as my botw!!!

(I would so put more pictures on here, but it's not letting me. I guess I'll have to add more later! :) Oh, and most of the pictures I got are from http://www.mmt.just-once.net. Just thought I should give them props.)

the other story

jamie wrote an animal story, too - it's just not thanksgivingy. but it's good, too, so here you go.

Dogs and puppies are killers. Their sharp teeth can kill people and things. They may look cute, but they're not.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

i suppose i should've gotten permission before i published this, but i just had to share it, so yeah. if she hates it being here i'll remove it.

animal story, by emily
(she originally, unintentionally, read it in a film noir kind of way. i think that style works best, so read it like that):
One day, there was a turkey named Horton. Horton is a nice turkey, but the only problem is that it's November and you know what that means. Thanksgiving.
So one day, he was in the woods and he saw a hunter. The hunter was looking for a turkey for Thanksgiving. When Horton wasn't looking, the hunter shot him.
The hunter had a nice Thanksgiving. But Horton's family did not.

i rock

i am the best wheel of fortuner ever.

category: tv

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category: on the map

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YAY!!!

As of 12:00pm today it's Christmas!!! With the arrival of the Macy's Santa came the official start of the Christmas season! So Merry Christmas to all and to all a goodnight! :)

ewan is using his charmingness against me

i was gonna get a new boyfriend today. but then i turned on my computer and ewan was looking at me all cute-like, and i just couldn't bear to dump him knowing that owain got just over 2 weeks and this is just over 1 week. and yes, i know - michael cuddyer got only one week. but part of that was due to the need to have a hobbit to go to the lotr symphony with. but i guess this next boyfriend will have to wait til fri or sat (obviously can't be thurs, and i don't know if i'll have time tomorrow). and i know this next one will probably go over the fortnight limit. but after that i'll try to get it back to 1 week. you girls should try having botws sometime. then you'll know how impossible this is.

my screen 2

k, i restarted my computer and i'ts back to blue

my screen

the right side of my screen is kinda greenish. it's nerve-wracking and slightly hard on the eyes, but i don't feel like restarting my computer. but it's really annoying, so maybe i will.

further woes of speech pathology

this weekend is asha. so now i have no friends. :(

ice cream conspiracy

'member when a long time ago i said that i wanted cookie dough ice cream and didn't get any? well, last week i babysat at my aunt's so i was all geared up for cookie dough ice cream once the kids went to bed. but my uncle came home early so i didn't get any. but i thought 'hey, it's ok. i babysit here again next week. i'll get it then.' well, my aunt stayed home to help cuz she had so many munchkins at her house, so i still didn't get any. and i still haven't gotten any.

library fines

why do they sometimes say that you didn't turn something in when you did? i returned two dvds yesterday, but then realized this morning that i had forgotten that i had also checked out a video. so i went online to renew the one i forgot so that i would only have to pay for it being one day overdue, as opposed to returning it now, when the library is closed and getting charged for the whole weekend. anyway, so i went to the screen where you renew it, and it said that the other two aren't turned in! um...yeah, they are! don't even think about charging me for them, you shiftyheads.

the mouse is dead :)

and oh yeah. this picture needs to be on here cuz i like it. it makes me smile cuz he looks so nerdy (in a good way). can't help but love him.

ewan

he should do another musical. i enjoy his voice. and i enjoy him.

nature still hates me

there's a mouse at work. it charged me yesterday. not anyone else in the kitchen. just me.

go figure

so i'm at the library cuz cable internet is faster than my dial-up (and i simply had to watch the producer's cut of 'the office'). but when i post my posts it takes longer for them to post. what's that about?

i think i'm the old one

i was babysitting last night and stood and held a baby for about 15-20 minutes, and now all day my back has felt like it's gonna fall off. yup. i'm the old one.

yay!!!

i have every weekend off for the rest of the year! i'm so excited! i don't like working weekends. and now i get them off at Christmas time, which means i get to go to church at Christmas time! and do whatever else Christmasy i want! yay! and it means that i can go to des moines the first weekend of dec. to see linda and michelle and whomever else might be there. yay! i love not working weekends!

i can't decide if my dad's old or if i'm old. when my grandpa was all old and sick and all that, my mom took him to appointments and did handwork while she waited. now my dad can hardly move cuz he majorly threw out his back, so on friday night i took him to an appointment and knitted while i waited. scary.

dumb retailers

i was at party city today and they were playing Christmas music. why do these stupid retailers push it on us? Christmas starts the day after thanksgiving and end's new year's day. duh. (i know - they've had their stuff out for a couple months - the point is that it's just wrong. they should not be allowed to ruin my Christmas by making it all about sales.) but anyway, my complaint for the moment is that now i have 'simply having a wonderful Christmas time' stuck in my head. hello! i don't want it there yet! maybe two weeks from now, but not today! ugh!

BOTW time!

owain ended up with a little more than a fortnight. oops.
anyway. i have finally found my newest boyfriend of the week! here he is!

Ewan McGregor

Ewan was born March 31, 1971, in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland. Yay for another boy with an accent! And hey, this one wears a kilt!

And he is so a man after my own heart. When he was 6 he started doing Elvis impersonations for his parents and their friends - dance moves and all! (This of course is perfect seeing as I had already cast him to sing 'Viva Las Vegas' on Tuesdays with Celeberties on my all musical tv channel. Long story. Maybe I'll have to explain sometime.) He also used to re-enact 'Grease' with a friend of his on the playground. How great is he? He plays the french horn and the drums, too, and, of course, sings! As I said before, music is so sexy. Ooh, and just last year he played the part of Sky Masterson in 'Guys and Dolls' on stage. Would've loved to hear him sing 'Luck Be a Lady.'

He rides motorcycles. That's sexy. He races them, too, though, which is a bit scary.

While he dropped out of school at 16, I still get the feeling that he's a bit geeky. I don't know that he necessarily is, he just has that bit of dorkiness to which I can relate.

He's 5'10 1/2". Could be worse. At least that's taller than me.

Unfortunately, he's married. And has 3 daughters. At least he named them well (Clara and Esther - the 3rd was adopted from Mongolia when she was 4, so I don't know what her name is), and is very protective of their privacy. But he also smokes. (Seriously, is that gonna have to be an unfortunately for all my botws? They need to all just stop.)

But he's way adorable anyway, and he sings and has an accent, so what could I do? I just had to have him as my botw.

beef stroganoff

we have a lady at the home who constantly clangs on her coffee cup cuz she always thinks she needs something or thinks she needs to complain (and i think she also thinks that she's the only one we have to deal with). we're all supposed to drop everything and jump to her aide. today, though, she flagged me down (so much better than the clanging) and asked me if noodles have any nutritional value. i assured her they did, and she was happy.

i can not do paragraphs on this blog for the life of me. it makes it all one clump no matter what i do. ugh!

how did young sexy marlon brando

become 'the godfather' marlon brando?

Movie Review - Guys and Dolls (1955)

I like this movie. Musicals are just great. I think we all should just break out in song and dance every once in awhile. It would make life so much more interesting.

Anyway. 'Guys and Dolls' is about Sky Masterson (Marlon Brando), a gambler who bets Nathan Detroit (Frank Sinatra) that he can get any woman Nathan chooses to go to Havanna with him. The woman Nathan chooses is Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons) who, of course, is an uptight prudish Save-a-Soul mission (like Salvation Army) missionary. (I liked this movie before, but when I watched it this time, I had to laugh because I am sure that this is how the cook at work sees me, and I could see shades of him in Sky.)

The songs are fun. 'Luck Be a Lady' was on AFI's list of top 100 movie songs. I remember when I was watching that countdown that Barbara Streisand said that she likes this movie and when she first saw it she was thinking 'yeah, this is good,' until Marlon Brando came on singing that song. All of a sudden she was a lot more interested - this man had such a sexy voice. I remember thinking, 'sexy voice? his voice is not all that.' But then I saw it in context. And yeah - wow is it sexy! I had heard Sinatra's version, and it is good, but Brando's version has a lot more urgency and pleading, which is perfect for this song.

Sinatra wanted the role of Sky but I cannot picture that. Brando was great as Sky. But more than that, Sinatra was perfect as Nathan. While it is hard to picture anyone else as Sky, it is impossible to picture anyone else as Nathan. He was brilliantly cast.

I do not, however, care for Jean Simmons. For one, I did not like her voice (nasal and often flat), and for two, (though it was not completely her fault - the script is also to blame) I felt she made Sarah too uptight at the beginning to make any interest in Sky believable. (I hope I did not just ruin it for you.)

But it is still good. It has a Broadway feel to it. Oh yeah, and one more thing I like is that the guys do not use contractions. It is quite amusing.

And oh yeah, one more reason I probably like it is that I find gamblers sexy.

professor henry higgins

i must be missing my major. i had a dream the other night that the community ed brochure thing came out and it had classes, not in correct english pronunciation (which i don't think there are anyway), but in each sound. there was a class for /h/ and /kl/ and /s/ and everything, even non-english sounds. i love phonology, but dreaming about it? what's that?

ps to that last one

he has a girlfriend and meant it facetiously. but still. it sure makes me sound good!

nursing home hottie

me apparently. chris, the good looking maintenance guy, told me that someone had told him that i liked to salsa and swing dance. then later he asked me when we were going dancing. i told him to pick the date and i'd be there. he asked if i like salsa or swing better, and i said i don't care. i just want to go.

scary boy

won't bother telling you the whole story. suffice it to say that when i talked to him at work today, he said he didn't know what he had said wrong. i tried to fill him in (but there were people around, so i could only say so much) and told him he was trouble and i'm not enough trouble for him and that the virgin mary thing was more like it. i got home and turns out he had called me at 5:45am to say that he hoped i would be at work and that he maybe would get a hug and a kiss! hopefully he's there tomorrow and i can see him alone for 2 seconds so i can tell him i'm not interested and he better leave me alone and that he's close to harrassment. ish. he's scary.

that last post

technically it is not black. it is really dark green. it just looks black. just thought i should clear that up.

botws

so far 33.3% of my botws are welsh. that's pretty darn good for such a small country. no wonder i so want to go there! and look - 'botw' - that even looks like a welsh word. crazy.

but botw probably should be changed to 'boyfriend of the fortnight.' they seem to last longer than one week. but then sometimes i get distracted and want a new one sooner. so i guess i'll keep it as botw. i'd rather have them last longer than they should than have them be all sad if i dump them early. so botw it is.

margaritas

sometimes it is so annoying that with my medication i can only have one drink. sometimes i just plain want one more. sometimes i just want to get tipsy. and i can't. i guess that's a good thing. and before i was on these meds i only ever had one drink at once. but the thought that it's forbidden is just so not fair. one of these days i'm gonna not care and i'm gonna risk it - i know i am.

'Don't give me no rules. All I got are rules.' - Walk the Line

elvis

he is great

Movie Review: Failure to Launch

It was ok. I liked the premise, and of course, I love Matthew McConaughey. It had moments when I gave a little laugh outloud. But I think it was lacking in character development. I think that's what my problem with it was. I just didn't care about the characters that much. It was an hour and a half long, and maybe it shoulda been 2 hours long to give them a chance to flesh out more. There were some bits of humor, too, that felt a bit out of place, like maybe they were supposed to go into a Ben Stiller movie, but missed and ended up here. I liked the friends. One of them was the guy who played Riley in 'National Treasure,' and that's a great movie, and he's great in that, so it was fun to see him in something else. And this movie has Matthew McConaughey without a shirt a few times, so that's another happy thing about it.

sorry, didder, that was long again.

unfewph!!!!

ah! he was there this morning. just for an hour or so, but that was (more than) enough. i got there and passed him on my way to the elevator to punch in. i did and was getting back on the elevator and turns out he came down to ride up with me. ok dorky, but whatever. i said i was tired cuz amanda and i got together last night and he said, 'yeah, i knew you were a party girl.' i said, 'no, i'm really not. we weren't out late or anything. i'm just tired.' and he said, 'yeah, i know you are.' and i said, 'no, i'm really not.' and he said, 'when i talk to you they give me looks like i'm messin' with the virgin mary or jesus' sister or something, but i knew you were a party girl.' i wanted to tell him to go to the kitchen and ask the cook what he thinks of me, but i didn't. i just told him i'm not again. then later he asked why i hadn't called him and i said because i didn't have his number, to which he replied that he thought everybody used caller id. i honestly hadn't thought of that (and when i told amanda that he had asked why i hadn't called, she said the same thing i did).

so then later (this is why i said 'more than' earlier), i was setting tables and i thought i saw him come into the dining room, but then i didn't see him go through it. so i kinda looked around, and there he was, leaning on the counter. 'are you watching me work?' 'yeah,' he said. i said, 'you must be really bored. you need to find something to do.' to which he replied, 'i'm watching your dimples. and your hips.' then he paused. then, 'and i'm gonna grab 'em.' what the heck? ohmigosh! what did he just say? he did not honestly just say that. 'oh. no you're not.' then i turned around and went back to setting the tables, very thankful that he was way on the other side of the dining room.

what the heck? what am i supposed to do now? he called and left a message on my voicemail saying he's gonna call me so we can talk about a couple of things. (and of course, my voicemail is elvis, so hot guy said, 'i don't have to be lonesome tonight if you don't want me to be. i don't have to miss you.') thankfully my phone has caller id. :) but seriously, it's not like i can completely avoid him. he will still sometimes come work at the home. and if i avoid him completely, it will be awkward when he is there, but it really would be easier to avoid his calls and talk in person. or not talk. he could just not come back. that would be nice. how quickly the tables turn. 3 weeks ago i was blissfully unaware that there was anything more to him than occassional eye candy, and i wanted him to be there more often. now i just want him to go away. i told him 2 weeks ago that he was trouble. see? there is such thing as feminine intuition. can i please have my number back now?

fewph

mr. hottie hasn't called. fewph.
why do i always do this to myself? i'm the queen of getting myself all worked up and worried over nothing. i need to stop doing that one of these days.

formal apology

i am evil. i am worse than evil. i spoiled 'lost' for my sister. so here i issue a formal apology.

dear didder, i am truly sorry that i was a 'lost' spoiler. please forgive me. you may spoil it for me sometime if you so wish. and then you will have to buy me ice cream, as i will buy ice cream for you now. my apologies.