Yummy!

I made a kickass salad - black olives (the kind of dried in olive oil type not the canned type), mixed greens, orange bell pepper (if it's orange it's good), dried blueberries, feta cheese with lemon and garlic with Paul Newman's olive oil and vinegar salad dressing dosed up with balsamic vinegar. It's totally yummy. Walnuts would have been a good addition.

Good news! I found a PINK DOT APPROVED MOTORCYLE HELMET!!!
I've been wondering where my scooter cover seat is as I ordered it awhile ago so I was checking out scooterseatcovers.com to see if there was anything on that but there isn't.

Kathi and I went to see Brokeback Mountain. She thought it was too long and boring and I thought it was a beautiful love story. I also thought Heath did an excellent job. I heard absolutely no trace of an Aussie accent and man, did he look good in those jeans. I might go see Casanova just to see Venice. It's such a beautiful city.

I'm going through WOW withdrawal having played a lot in the past couple of days. I need to level up my (princess) warrior. I got Lirael up to a 19 finally and took her on an extended journey and explored a lot. I need to get her a dagger.

Sigh.. long 12 hour plus days. Friday (today), Saturday and Sunday. It's really almost 2006.

At some point here, I'm going to have to bitch and rant about my mother. It's good that she and my father are around as my kids get to see what I had to grow up with. They appreciate me more and maybe, maybe are sympathatic. She seems to do things not because she wants to help or wants to but because she feels like she has to. When I am a grandmother, I am going to help my kids out whenever, however I can and not give them a bill - which is basically what she did. Maybe she just wants to be thanked and thanked and thanked and thanked.

Neurotic, obsessive compulsive me..

AARGH. Why am I being so frigging negative today? I am so good at thinking the worst is going to happen. I worry, worry, worry. I love my boyfriend.

Snap out of it Sara!

Happy Birthday to Gerard Depardieu him of the really weird nose and great acting skills. My favorite movie with him in it is Les Comperes. Pretty funny movie.

I need to listen to some music.

Today I have learned

That no matter how much I plan it out, I still won't get enough sleep.


That the 10 year old actress (Georgie Henley) that plays Lucy in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, hadn't seen the set for Narnia before she went through the wardrobe so when she comes out in all that snow, she's not really "acting" in awe, she was/is. This I learned from my new Premier magazine.


Peter Jackson the director of The Lord of the Rings, and King Kong is going to be the producter (or it is director?)for a movie about Halo, the game and The Hobbit and The Lovely Bones. Wow.


I am very, very tired and am thinking I will go sleep in the car on my break. The way things are going, Casanova will play in Boulder before Brokeback Mountain. Sigh.

required reading

1) Happy Birthday Jake! Ok, I know he is only 25 (born in 1980) but DAMN, babe!





2) this link- there will be an essay test on this afterwords.

Tell me why I don't like Sunday's

All apologies to Sir Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats but that's what been going through my head.

I finished the trashy romance/soft(very)porn romance novel I started yesterday. I swear this is the plot. Big, hunk of a man, always extremely well hung meets (in this case) virginal, unexperienced woman. Then comes some sort of rescue or good vrs. evil subplot to keep you semi-interested inbetween the fabulous sex the hunk and virgin are having. In other words, like, totally, real world. Oh and let's not forget that they fall in love and decide to get married and have babies as well.

Can you imagine what would have happened if Jessica had a baby while she was married to Mr. Lachely? The horrors.

I've already taken a short nap and yes, woke myself up with a snore/snort. I finished one movie magazine and am looking forward to receiving Empire and Premiere again. I guess two movie magazines will be enough. I played a bit on the Hollywood Stock Exchange and moved some $ around there. I put Burt's Bees lemon butter cuticle creme on and some La Roche-Posay hand creme (with shea butter) on my hands. I've read lots of comics and checked out CNN about 5 -10 times already. I applaud the choice of Bill and Melinda Gates as well as Bono for Time magazines' Persons of the Year. As much as I do not like windoz, the Gates' have been very very generous with their money and actually have brains unlike Ms. Hilton (who is not even really worth a mention in my blog).
This is my absolute favorite movie studio (Studio Ghibli) and Princess Monokoke is wonderful. I have to check and see when Howl's Moving Castle comes out on DVD. March 2006 according to Amazon. Must be time to go drag my ass down to the gym and lift some weights with my Ipod. I love my ipod.

More reptiles! Freud would have field day with me...

Hmm.. I'm wondering. I'm both scared and fasinated with snakes. The bigger the better it seems but when I'm at the zoo it is the Black Mambo that I'm really scared about or the little ones that are super poisonous.

Anyway, while searching for hoaxes and falsities on the internet, I came across these interesting pictures. Seems a python ate an entire Impala and then was too fat to slip under the electric wire fencing. The thought is that it became pissed off at the fence and bit it, thereby electrocuting itself.


If you follow the link, you will see the Impala inside the snake after they cut it open.

A girl has got to do what a girl has to do ..

I'm feeling much better after going down the hallway and getting on the leather couch and taking a nap. Except I'm fucking freezing in this building. It could be that I just ate a bunch of mostly frozen mango chunks and that made me cold but combined with all that it is fucking freezing in here and is every winter. I slept like shit last night, starfcks doesn't open until 6 a.m. on Sunday (normally they open at 5 a.m)so I haven't had any coffee and wah, wah, wah. Being a single mom is still not easy, my kids drive me up the wall, are pro's at laying guilt trips on me (thank you Max!), want want want and do nothing to help around the house.


Get this. On the US CNN home page there is NO mention of the political protest going on in Hong Kong and on the BBC news (which I listen to on NPR on Sat/Sun a.m. when driving to work) it was the lead story. I personally think they have about a chance in hell to get the Chinese to let them have diplomatic freedom. That would be a first. I do however, wish them the best in their endeavors.


I guess it's about time for a report on the use of my light. I love it but I don't think it has given me more energy. I do think it's made me in a better mood though. I currently have it set to start getting lighter 1 hour before I have to get up.


I have my hat on now. I also have a long sleeve t-shirt on under a sweatshirt and a scarf on and my jeans and socks and tennis shoes and I'm drinking warm black tea with lemon now.


Last night when I picked Kathi up, I stopped in liquor Mart and bought some "down and dirty" martini mix (which was right next to all the olives so I'm hoping it is olive juice), a little CU shot glass (shh, it's a present), a HUGE bottle of Baileys, a six pack and some little airplane size bottles of booze oh yeh, and a pre-mixed bottle of Jose Cuervo gold margs (yum).


This week I have to: pack, get stuff together for trip, clean up my room (really, really, really), go to PetSmart (kitty litter, water filters for their water fountain, toys, treats) go to PC's, take the dogs to the vet, get a manicure and pedicure (applying hand creme at the thought of hands right now), go get my legs et al waxed (the better to eat you my dear), get and put up the xmas tree, wrap some presents, etc, etc. I'm sure there is more but I can't think of it now.



Celebrity news!

• Gwenyth Paltrow Martin is pregnant with baby #2
  
  
• Jennifer Garner finally did have her baby and she was induced (leading me to have to retract my previous statements that she wasn't following the trend of babys on demand). So far, Violet seems to be the name.
  
  
• Brad Pitt wants to adopt Angie's kids. What a good guy! Listen ladies, when your guy says he wants kids, he frigging wants kids and NOW. Julia Roberts and Benjamin Pratt, break up and he had two kids before she has her twins and now Brad and Angelina. On the other hand, if he says he doesn't want kids, he doesn't.
  
  
• Athina Roussel (daughter and sole inheritant to the Onassis fortune) got married. I truly wish her and her husband a wonderful life.

I think today I'm going to watch, The transporter, even though it probably sucks.


Peace, out - Sara