Who told him he could make videos while I was away?!
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Welcome to Seaside, let the dark clouds roll in
As has been documented here, the last 2 years, my trips to Seaside Park NJ have created some not so great memories. On Thursday of the 2009 trip, I was hit with possibly the worst ear infection of my life. Then last year, also Thursday, we the horrendous car accident that literally was inches away from taking my life. Needless to say, I was not looking forward to Thursday but, thanks to weeks of prayer and a sedative I was able to make the trip relatively calm.
First the good news: Thursday went off without a hitch.
Now the Bad news: My mother’s car ended up needing a new alternator when we couldn’t start it up on Tuesday. Whatever shit happens…
Lastly, the catastrophic news: The first night we were there, Lauren’s mother called informing us that our friend Christopher had died in a fire that afternoon. We had actually seen the fire on the news, noting that it was on Chris’s block and had taken (false) comfort in the fact that the dog being carried out was not Chris’s beagle Lucky. He was 37 years old and one of those people that everyone should be lucky enough to know at some point of in their life, but sadly, many are not. He spoke his mind, and didn’t care who it offended, but if he liked you, you were golden. Lauren had known him, probably all of her life. I met him during High school when Lauren brought me along when he was cutting her hair and subsequently, he did my hair exclusively until I had graduated college. He got me through a few hair emergencies, recommended styles that I always loved, and always made me feel better about myself but the thing I loved most about our visits were the hours (oh yes, for a hair cut with Chris, you needed to clear the day) we spent talking; I could’ve listened to him forever.
This is a picture I dug up of him from Myspace
After Lauren’s mother went to the wake, she reported that his nieces had gotten him flowers shaped as THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD from THE WIZARD OF OZ (he was obsessed) and that unfortunately, his beloved Lucky had to be put down due to smoke inhalation. This might sound odd but I found comfort in this because those two loved each other so much I couldn’t Imagine Lucky’s life without his Daddy or Chris’s afterlife without the dog he constantly told everyone who listened, “You have no idea how much I love this dog.”
LUCKY
It just happened that Amy Winehouse died the same day, which led me to the thought of the two of them in the beyond and Chris, in his typical outspoken manner, telling the REHAB singer, “Not for nothing, you said of said ‘yes yes yes’ to rehab.”
First the good news: Thursday went off without a hitch.
Now the Bad news: My mother’s car ended up needing a new alternator when we couldn’t start it up on Tuesday. Whatever shit happens…
Lastly, the catastrophic news: The first night we were there, Lauren’s mother called informing us that our friend Christopher had died in a fire that afternoon. We had actually seen the fire on the news, noting that it was on Chris’s block and had taken (false) comfort in the fact that the dog being carried out was not Chris’s beagle Lucky. He was 37 years old and one of those people that everyone should be lucky enough to know at some point of in their life, but sadly, many are not. He spoke his mind, and didn’t care who it offended, but if he liked you, you were golden. Lauren had known him, probably all of her life. I met him during High school when Lauren brought me along when he was cutting her hair and subsequently, he did my hair exclusively until I had graduated college. He got me through a few hair emergencies, recommended styles that I always loved, and always made me feel better about myself but the thing I loved most about our visits were the hours (oh yes, for a hair cut with Chris, you needed to clear the day) we spent talking; I could’ve listened to him forever.
This is a picture I dug up of him from Myspace
After Lauren’s mother went to the wake, she reported that his nieces had gotten him flowers shaped as THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD from THE WIZARD OF OZ (he was obsessed) and that unfortunately, his beloved Lucky had to be put down due to smoke inhalation. This might sound odd but I found comfort in this because those two loved each other so much I couldn’t Imagine Lucky’s life without his Daddy or Chris’s afterlife without the dog he constantly told everyone who listened, “You have no idea how much I love this dog.”
LUCKY
It just happened that Amy Winehouse died the same day, which led me to the thought of the two of them in the beyond and Chris, in his typical outspoken manner, telling the REHAB singer, “Not for nothing, you said of said ‘yes yes yes’ to rehab.”
Monday, July 18, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
25 random things about me
1. 99% of the time I can state a zillion reasons why I am in no way pretty, but every now and then I will look in the mirror or at a picture and be like, DAMN! Again very rare
2. I am not ashamed to admit that I have used tummy control panties and accessories since I was in middle school, for important outfits
3. I think my hair, eyes, and boobs are by best features and have been complimented by a rock star about one of those
4. I am allergic to yogurt, always knew this but tried Pinkberry original before I found out it was actual yogurt frozen rather than fro yo which I can eat and got really gassy and sick from a taste spoonful
5. I have no piercings, not even ears
6. When I was younger I wanted a pet koala to live in my house and hang off the fridge and I wanted a lazy river that ran through my house. I’m old enough to know I can’t
have these things but it doesn’t mean I still don’t want them
7. I like to drink hot water. I'm a freak
8. Sometimes I listen to Ryan Star's 11:59 and choke up at the line "this could be the best time of our lives, roll the windows down and drive" and sometimes that line just randomly plays in my head while I’m having fun
9. I owned my first car for only 3 months
10. I have tendency to hide from people I know
11. I want to karaoke BORN TO RUN at some point replacing Wendy with a dude’s name
12. I have never owned a video game system
13. I have tendency to hide from people I know from childhood
14. I once got detention in High school for wearing Orange Socks, as you can see, I was a real problem child
15. I am a very emotional person, things tend to accelerate fast leading to over reaction, and during PMS I should probably be locked up like a wear wolf in the full moon.
16. I love David Cook but my God some of his fans can be the most annoying people in this universe
17. I have a fear that I’ll never be what I want to be when I grow up
18. One of my best friends in this world is not even two years old
19. My favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate marshmallow
20. If my feet wouldn’t fall off I would wear flip flops every day of my life
21. I have outlandish dreams almost always but sometimes, in the middle of the craziness, there is a prophetic message in it
22. I don’t believe everything I read
23. I read the book THE PRESTIGE in one weekend in college (while I should have been studying) and couldn’t wait to see the movie. Then ended up so disappointed (Luckily Nolan and Bale made it up to me with THE DARK KNIGHT)
24. I stare at my dog sometimes just wondering what goes on in his fluffy little mind. Did this with DJ too
25. I rate Starbucks coffee brews
2. I am not ashamed to admit that I have used tummy control panties and accessories since I was in middle school, for important outfits
3. I think my hair, eyes, and boobs are by best features and have been complimented by a rock star about one of those
4. I am allergic to yogurt, always knew this but tried Pinkberry original before I found out it was actual yogurt frozen rather than fro yo which I can eat and got really gassy and sick from a taste spoonful
5. I have no piercings, not even ears
6. When I was younger I wanted a pet koala to live in my house and hang off the fridge and I wanted a lazy river that ran through my house. I’m old enough to know I can’t
have these things but it doesn’t mean I still don’t want them
7. I like to drink hot water. I'm a freak
8. Sometimes I listen to Ryan Star's 11:59 and choke up at the line "this could be the best time of our lives, roll the windows down and drive" and sometimes that line just randomly plays in my head while I’m having fun
9. I owned my first car for only 3 months
10. I have tendency to hide from people I know
11. I want to karaoke BORN TO RUN at some point replacing Wendy with a dude’s name
12. I have never owned a video game system
13. I have tendency to hide from people I know from childhood
14. I once got detention in High school for wearing Orange Socks, as you can see, I was a real problem child
15. I am a very emotional person, things tend to accelerate fast leading to over reaction, and during PMS I should probably be locked up like a wear wolf in the full moon.
16. I love David Cook but my God some of his fans can be the most annoying people in this universe
17. I have a fear that I’ll never be what I want to be when I grow up
18. One of my best friends in this world is not even two years old
19. My favorite ice cream flavor is chocolate marshmallow
20. If my feet wouldn’t fall off I would wear flip flops every day of my life
21. I have outlandish dreams almost always but sometimes, in the middle of the craziness, there is a prophetic message in it
22. I don’t believe everything I read
23. I read the book THE PRESTIGE in one weekend in college (while I should have been studying) and couldn’t wait to see the movie. Then ended up so disappointed (Luckily Nolan and Bale made it up to me with THE DARK KNIGHT)
24. I stare at my dog sometimes just wondering what goes on in his fluffy little mind. Did this with DJ too
25. I rate Starbucks coffee brews
Thursday, July 7, 2011
25 men I've crushed over
**After thinking long and hard, there actually aren't 25 (yet) but i figured I'd put the list all the same
1-Should really be no surprise but David Cook.
2-Derek Jeter
Long before DC hit the stage, DJ owned my heart. I was just entering puberty when the now legendary shortstop was first putting on his pinstripes but I was already reasoning how small our twelve year age difference would be when I was in my twenties. Sadly, our marriage doesn't seem as destined as it once did as the closest we've come to meeting was his tire running over my foot while leaving a parking lot but I will always hold a place in my heart for # 2.
3-Tommy the Power Ranger.
Oh yes, I love me some dress up, and always have, but I used to moonlight as quite the little tomboy. I spend many days of recess reenacting Power Rangers with the little boys. I had the weapons and the props but deep down the girly girl just wanted Tommy to scoop her in his arms and carry her away (which happened when my parents hired him on my 9th birthday.)
4-Heath Ledger
5 through 9- members of MONTY PYTHON excluding Jones.
Cleese: just for talent
Palin, Gilliam, Idle, and Chapman obviously talented but also, at some point I've thought to myself, "oooh" while looking at them.
As for Jones, he is just too pompous and not nearly good enough at anything to back it up.
10 and 11- Matt Damon and Ben Affeck
12- Josh Heartnet
13- Colin Farrel
14- Major Anthony Nelson
JR Ewing might have been Larry Hagman's most memorable role but I was a big I DREAM OF GENIE fan.
15- Fr. Ralf from THE THORNBIRDS
16- Brad Pitt in MEET JOE BLACK
17- Hugh Jackman
Now I couldn't care less when we pass on the street but for in first half of the last decade he was something worthy of my time.
18-Anderson Cooper
The perfect combination of beauty and brains, he can laugh at himself, joke about the world around us, all the while being a defender of all that is good. A real life superhero.
19- Andrew Garfield
20-Gale Harold
21- Johnny Castle (Patrick Swezy) in Dirty Dancing
I was a little girl and I dreamed of running up that auditorium and doing the jump
22-Dark Knight’s Joker
Ok yes, I realize Ledger is on the list and that should count all of his characters and it does but Joker needed his own. I get that he is a homicidal sociopath in clown makeup but he does it so sexy!
1-Should really be no surprise but David Cook.
2-Derek Jeter
Long before DC hit the stage, DJ owned my heart. I was just entering puberty when the now legendary shortstop was first putting on his pinstripes but I was already reasoning how small our twelve year age difference would be when I was in my twenties. Sadly, our marriage doesn't seem as destined as it once did as the closest we've come to meeting was his tire running over my foot while leaving a parking lot but I will always hold a place in my heart for # 2.
3-Tommy the Power Ranger.
Oh yes, I love me some dress up, and always have, but I used to moonlight as quite the little tomboy. I spend many days of recess reenacting Power Rangers with the little boys. I had the weapons and the props but deep down the girly girl just wanted Tommy to scoop her in his arms and carry her away (which happened when my parents hired him on my 9th birthday.)
4-Heath Ledger
5 through 9- members of MONTY PYTHON excluding Jones.
Cleese: just for talent
Palin, Gilliam, Idle, and Chapman obviously talented but also, at some point I've thought to myself, "oooh" while looking at them.
As for Jones, he is just too pompous and not nearly good enough at anything to back it up.
10 and 11- Matt Damon and Ben Affeck
12- Josh Heartnet
13- Colin Farrel
14- Major Anthony Nelson
JR Ewing might have been Larry Hagman's most memorable role but I was a big I DREAM OF GENIE fan.
15- Fr. Ralf from THE THORNBIRDS
16- Brad Pitt in MEET JOE BLACK
17- Hugh Jackman
Now I couldn't care less when we pass on the street but for in first half of the last decade he was something worthy of my time.
18-Anderson Cooper
The perfect combination of beauty and brains, he can laugh at himself, joke about the world around us, all the while being a defender of all that is good. A real life superhero.
19- Andrew Garfield
20-Gale Harold
21- Johnny Castle (Patrick Swezy) in Dirty Dancing
I was a little girl and I dreamed of running up that auditorium and doing the jump
22-Dark Knight’s Joker
Ok yes, I realize Ledger is on the list and that should count all of his characters and it does but Joker needed his own. I get that he is a homicidal sociopath in clown makeup but he does it so sexy!
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
25 movies I can watch over and over
In honor of my 25th birthday on the 8th, I have decided to make some lists of twenty fives, starting with this one. These aren't necessarily the best acted films or the greatest plots I've seen, because let's face it sometimes a movie is so amazing you only want to see it once. Rather, these are the old reliables, or at least some of them.
1. THE DARK KNIGHT
2. THE LIFE OF BRIAN
3. IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS
4. THE BROTHERS GRIMM
5. TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
6. THE BIRDCAGE
7. IT'S MY PARTY
8. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
9. ENCHANTED
10. THE SOUND OF MUSIC
11. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
12. JEFFREY
13. THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
14. SUPERBAD
15. MAJOR LEAGUE TWO
16. FOR LOVE OF THE GAME
17. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
18. BEACHES
19. SINGING IN THE RAIN
20. THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN
21. GRANDMA'S BOY
22. SLEEPING BEAUTY
23. CASANOVA
24. THE UNFABULOUS LIFE OF ETHAN GREEN
25. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (NOT REALLY JUST WANTED SOMETHING UNEXPECTED) ACTUALLY THE WIZZARD OF OZ
1. THE DARK KNIGHT
2. THE LIFE OF BRIAN
3. IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS
4. THE BROTHERS GRIMM
5. TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU
6. THE BIRDCAGE
7. IT'S MY PARTY
8. UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
9. ENCHANTED
10. THE SOUND OF MUSIC
11. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
12. JEFFREY
13. THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE
14. SUPERBAD
15. MAJOR LEAGUE TWO
16. FOR LOVE OF THE GAME
17. MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL
18. BEACHES
19. SINGING IN THE RAIN
20. THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN
21. GRANDMA'S BOY
22. SLEEPING BEAUTY
23. CASANOVA
24. THE UNFABULOUS LIFE OF ETHAN GREEN
25. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (NOT REALLY JUST WANTED SOMETHING UNEXPECTED) ACTUALLY THE WIZZARD OF OZ
Monday, July 4, 2011
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