Movie Girl

2010-02-22T23:03:00.001-08:00

2008-03-11T23:39:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Matthew Good on the success of the Accoustic Tour 2007-2008

Matt is in L.A. tonite on the U.S. leg of his Accoustic tour (Woo hoo L.A. he's arrived!!!!!!!!). I saw him In Vancouver last September and am so excited we get the band tour this year (June).. One of my faves from the accoustic tour is in the link below... "Suburbia"..

As most of you know, I got to meet him during the tour.... He's really great with meeting fans after the concerts, signing whatever you need signed, etc... Can't wait to meet him again this year!!!!

Cheers to an awesome show tonite in the City of Angels, Matty boy!!!

Photo by Dan Lilly

http://youtube.com/watch?v=b8zYYMt87SI&feature=related

2007-07-22T14:45:00.000-07:00

MATTHEW GOOD: HOSPITAL MUSIC IN STORES JULY 31ST (LISTEN TO IT NOW)

Hey guys, for those emailing me on Facebook asking how you can listen to it before next Tuesday, go to this link to stream it now...... I couldn't wait another week, so I listened today .... It was so awesome, it seemed like it ended before it began......

http://www.matthewgood.org/hospital-music/

also for those asking where I get those funny pix of Matt and his family check this out: http://www.flickr.com/photos/unicornsof911/

2007-07-19T20:58:00.000-07:00

Today is Matthew Good Day. (because I won't shut up about the man)

Here is a cute pic I found of Matthew on his my flickr site.....

They are playing the new single "Born Losers" on the Fox so my obsession is growing once again!!!! What is wrong with me?

Isn't he cute?

2007-07-08T09:12:00.000-07:00

I'm Lovin My New Olay Self Tanning Lotion

I've been really skeptical since the 90's about self tanning lotion but I FINALLY found one I looooooooove...

It says it takes a few days but after a few hours I really noticed a difference AND it's not streaky or orangey. Thanks Kara for finally getting me to put the stuff on after having it sit under my sink for almost 2 months. I LOVE it..

2007-07-02T22:19:00.001-07:00

FUN TIMES AT T'S WHILE THE BOYS T OFF, IN WHISTLER.

On Saturday, Kara and Kris came over.... Both are from highschool... we all got back in contact again on Facebook and go waaaaaaaaaaaaay back....Kris I hadn't seen each other since 96 and Kara and I have been hanging again for a couple months now....... Many martini's and tons of nostalgic reminicesences later and it was 4am... yay i'm cool again... 4am.!!!!!! Fun times girls!!!!!!

Kara and Kris

K Ho

Kara and me

Kara, Kris and our friend the martini

2007-07-02T21:47:00.000-07:00

Die Hard 4 = FUN

Saw Die Hard 4 last week!! Fun times...... I loved his sidekick, (actor Justin Long).. funny movie.. We laughed our asses off most of the time.

SIZE 4 AND SO MUCH MORE (SHE KICKED BRUCES AAAAAAAAASS)

2007-05-27T18:54:00.000-07:00

Import to Facebook

Matthew Good In-depth Biography
The Vancouver, Canada, group called the MGB, or the Matthew Good Band, formed in 1995 and quickly began stirring things up in the Canadian world of music. By 2000, they were further set to do a little stirring in the United States. The band walked away with a number of awards and nominations over the years, such as Best Male Vocalist, Best Live Performance, Artists of the Year, Best Group, Best Album, Best Video, Best Single, and more. The group's list of hits is growing just as fast. Members of the MGB are frontman Matthew Good as vocalist and guitarist, Dave Genn on keyboards and guitar, Ian Browne as drummer and percussionist, and Rich Priske as bassist.

When Matthew Good first formed the MGB, it was kind of by accident. He was recording a few songs he had written and called some musician friends together to help out. The name Matthew Good Band was just something he came up with, something he meant to use for a while until he could think up a better name. Fate happened to step in and take over. That first album, Last of the Ghetto Astronauts, an independent release, did better than any of them ever dreamed. It even earned the MGB Most Played New Artists for 1996. In 1997, a sophomore album, Underdogs, was recorded in Canada under the Darktown Records/A&M label. "Hello Time Bomb" was the first single released to the United States audience. It landed on the Billboard charts almost instantly. The single was followed in 1999 by another album, the accomplished Beautiful Midnight, completed on the Atlantic Records label. It was released in Canada first, debuting at number one on the Soundscan chart there, going double platinum, and then hitting the States for January 2000. Some of the other tracks from this first full-length offering to cross the border are "I Miss New Wave," "A Boy and His Machine Gun," "Running for Home," "Let's Get It On," "Failing the Rorschach Test," and "Strange Days." The Matthew Good Band released another album together, 2002's The Audio of Being, before Good began issuing material under just his name, beginning with 2003's Avalanche. His White Light Rock & Roll Review followed a year later, with the compilation release In a Coma: 1995-2005 appearing in the fall of 2005. ~

2007-05-09T10:11:00.000-07:00

After reading this story in The Province today, I wanted to stand up and yell "HALA FREAKIN LOO YA"........

Bout time someone is finally getting pissed at the kids!!!!!

Grieving father takes son's tale, urn to school

Greg Drew tells kids they aren't indestructible
Kent Spencer, The Province
Published: Wednesday, May 09, 2007

A Langley father who speaks about the horrors of car crashes is being allowed to tell his message to students after years of being shunned.

Greg Drew said he still breaks down and cries over the death of his son, Jay, four years ago.

That is the message he wants to give to high-spirited teenagers celebrating the end of school.

"Jay's death is just like it happened yesterday. It doesn't get any easier," Drew said yesterday.

The 49-year-old Surrey fire captain calls himself "Captain Angry." He's rough around the edges.

He is not allowed to speak to Langley schools because of a run-in with an employee. And ICBC rules say approved RoadSense speakers must have an "appropriate style."

Drew is in-your-face. In the past he has cussed, but he knows that had to cease if the word was to spread.

"Everything is sugar-coated for kids these days, except me," he said. "I'm a pretty passionate guy. I come out sounding pissed off."

The door is opening for Drew at some Lower Mainland schools.

He spoke at Fleetwood Park in Surrey yesterday and is scheduled at Centennial in Coquitlam today.

"His talk was captivating," said Fleetwood vice-principal Mike Stickley. "Grade 11s are a tough sell. They were dead silent.

"He is raw and compelling. A tough-love guy who wears his emotions on his sleeve -- and the kids feel it. He is not a professional speaker, but it is better that way.

"We took a chance. We thought his story needed to be told. I haven't seen a speaker make that kind of impact. He touched a lot of kids," said Stickley.

The mangled wreck of Jay's car is still at Drew's Fort Langley home, complete with a running shoe wedged beneath the gas pedal.

Jay's death in Langley at 17 was blamed on street racing and the "Superman syndrome" of feeling indestructible.

"You don't get 10 lives. You get one," Drew tells his audiences. "There is a thing out there called consequences."

The urn with Jay's ashes is brought out for shock value.

"I've had 40 to 50 kids bawling their eyes out," Drew said.

Last year, he spoke to schools in Cranbrook, Kimberley and Fernie. He would like to spread the word full time.

He hopes more schools will allow him to present his graphic and horrifying message. It would include showing the wrecked car.

"If I can get a kid to think differently, I'm a success," he said.

2007-05-08T13:34:00.000-07:00

New David Lynch Film? Inland Empire (2006)

Well, I must get to the bottom of this. Like alot of David Lynch films, alot don't make it to every theatre... (ffffffffff)........... If anyone has seen this, please comment, I hear it's similar to Mulholland Drive. yay!!!

Justin Theroux of Mulholland Drive Fame!!!! Who is in the new movie. eeeeeee!!!

Nope, this isn't a summary for Mulholland Drive:

Inland Empire:

A blonde actress is preparing for her biggest role yet, but when she finds herself falling for her co-star, she realizes that her life is beginning to mimic the fictional film that they're shooting. Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed Polish production, 47, which was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy. Written by Ted

2007-04-30T18:21:00.000-07:00

Admitted Facebook Addict!!!

Hey guys, alot of asked why I never blog anymore....

I have a new drug!!!!!!! Facebook!!!!

Alot have probably already gotten my email asking to join... come join.

Also, alot of people are asking what is Facebook? It's sort of the newest version of Classmates.com or Gradfinder.com but with profiles of each person!!! It's also like the newest version of myspace and SO MUCH MORE USER FRIENDLY!!!!!!

So, yeah, just to answer a few of your questions.

So, if there are alot of people you lost touch with and are wondering what they are up to these days, check out Facebook.com and see what everyone's up to!!! It's fun!! and addicting. :o(

2007-04-25T09:18:00.000-07:00

(my two picks were for Sisely or Chelsea)......

A Great and Hilarious Sum up of The PUSSYCAT DOLLS SEASON 1 (see below Utube link).

Who is this guy? I LOVE HIS VOICE; I LOVE HIM; I LOVE HIS ESSENCE. GET A ROOM.

My pic early on was his pick: Sisely. Then later on all the way till the end it was Chelsea.. Oh well... congratulations Asia!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia2m8AIMEtI&mode=related&search=

2007-04-17T19:36:00.000-07:00

HOLY HEATNESS FACTOR

SAW THE MOVIE 'PERFECT STRANGER' ON WEEKEND....... IF YOU LIKE CSI, THIS WILL BE YO CUP O TEA!!!!! HALLE AND BRUCE WERE AWESOME BUT THE ONE I WANTED IN EVERY SCENE WAS DEFINATELY MR. GIOVANNI RIBISI.... THERE IS SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT THAT BOY. THE ENDING IS ONE OF THOSE ENDINGS YOU TOTALLY DID NOT SEE COMING AND WILL SHOCK YOU!!!!!

HOTTIE HALLEEEEEE BERRY

http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=info&id=1809354903

2007-04-13T16:07:00.000-07:00

BABY CANUCK

Rebecca and Mike came for dinner last night with baby Canuck Nathan.... I just loved his Canuch Jersey!!!!!

Gooooooooooo 'Nuckleheads.

2007-04-10T13:42:00.000-07:00

"Told Ja So"

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a0T0QSo5wC0E&refer=u

Better Days

And you ask me what I want this year
And I try to make this kind and clear
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days
Cuz I don't need boxes wrapped in strings
And desire and love and empty things
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days

So take these words
And sing out loud
Cuz everyone is forgiven now
Cuz tonight's the night the world begins again

And it's someplace simple where we could live
And something only you can give
And thats faith and trust and peace while we're alive
And the one poor child that saved this world
And there's 10 million more who probably could
If we all just stopped and said a prayer for them

So take these words
And sing out loud
Cuz everyone is forgiven now
Cuz tonight's the night the world begins again

I wish everyone was loved tonight
And somehow stop this endless fight
Just a chance that maybe we'll find better days

So take these words
And sing out loud
Cuz everyone is forgiven now
Cuz tonight's the night the world begins again
Cuz tonight's the night the world begins again

- Goo Goo Dolls -

2007-04-01T18:38:00.000-07:00

About a Boy Named Marky Mark.
Helloooooooooooo hottie

Last night, we saw Shooter with Mark Wahlberg and a new guy on the scene, Mike Pena. I'm guessing movie awards, best onscreen duo... it was actually really fun, this movie..... Loud, yes, but fun..... Definately recommened, since it was partly filmed here in Vancouver (grouse, etc).... Watch for the scene in New West where his car goes overboard into the river by the New West Quay... Nope, you're not seeing incorrectly.. That is definately Patulo bridge and the sky bridge in the background, but also they computerly enhanced(is that a word?) and added a bridge from Philidelphia to make it look like that's where they were.... aw, movie making at it's best, yep!!!! Good movie.....

view theatrical trailer now: http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/shooter.html

2007-03-27T22:48:00.000-07:00

Dawn and Paul
Bear Creek Park
March 2007

2007-03-13T14:12:00.000-07:00

Uh Oh, My Obsession Starts Again

Rockstar Supernova's Headspin video is finally released, yay!!!!

http://video.sympatico.msn.com/v/en-ca/v.htm?g=66ba2a49-78d4-4cfd-b0ab-80d781afcb5c&f=imbot_en-ca_m_3549&fg=rss

2007-03-12T23:26:00.000-07:00

Before the hair came down, we have 'the ponytail'....... and a very big arm?

2007-03-12T23:12:00.000-07:00

Nikki and I having a photo shoot in the park while one kid falls face first down the slide and another runs far far away.... I wish someone would tell me I look like Drew.

2007-03-12T23:05:00.000-07:00

Tanya and Nikki March 12, 2007

I feel this is art. Share, can you draw this? I want money. I wanna make a million.

2007-03-04T16:58:00.000-08:00

Don't Cha Just Fantasize A Little About Being A PUSSYCAT DOLL?

I think this starts this week sometime. Be the next Pussycat Doll!!!!!!

Yep, now I know what my next guilty pleasure will be until Summer now that The O.C. was cancelled.

Come on admit, don't cha wanna watch it? Aren't cha countin down till it starts?

The unusual suspects: (there are 9)

2007-02-28T14:16:00.000-08:00

Why Celebrities Get Misquoted

Ha ha ha, in the midst of my obsession with the Anna Nicole Smith case, I googled the latest and for some reason a Britney Spears link appeared...... After reading the following, I actually almost sent this to all my friends, who in turn would have sent it to their friends and so on and so on.... And realized why half the celebs out there say: I never said that....... It's our fault!!!!!!!

Britney Spears Confession: 'I'm the Father of Anna Nicole Smith's Baby!'
Written by kgramone
Story written: 27 February 2007

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Adding to her recent legacy of acting like a complete idiot, Britney Spears announced today that she is actually the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby daughter Dannielynn.Spears, who recently made headlines for being a drunken slut and for shaving her head to get attention, told the National Requirer in an exclusive interview, "I'm the real father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby. Anna and I were very close, we were lesbian lovers, and I'm the father of Dannie-jim. You go ahead and do a DVD test; you'll see."Many have come forward to make such a claim since Smith's recent death from excessive vomit intake - celebrities, such as Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband Frederic von What's-His-Name; lawyers, such as Smith's legal representative and friend Howard K. Stern; paparazzi, such as L.A. photographer Larry Birkhead; a former bodyguard, Alexander Denk; and former child star Gary Coleman (rumored but unconfirmed).But Spears is by far the most high-profile candidate to enter the Dannielynn sweepstakes."I've pushed out two kids myself, so it's not like I'm firing blanks here," an obviously inebriated Spears told the Requirer while taking repeated drags on a GNC menthol cigarette. "Anna and I were very close when we were Mousketeers together, and that's when our hot, passionate relationship started. We always talked about having kids together, because we were lesbian junkies in love, but we thought it was impossible. Then we realized anything is possible with drugs and celebrity. Just ask Paul Lennon. Burp.""It is biologically impossible," said DNA expert Dr. DNA Expert. "We can do DNA test after DNA test and the result will be the same - two female humans cannot breed together. Britney Spears is merely trying to steal more headlines, and you idiots are facilitating her narcissism by printing this rubbish. And for god's sake, don't quote me in your story!"Birkhead, after hearing of Spears' proclamation, started crying like a little Nancy-girl. "Everyone knows Dannielynn is my baby," he said, wiping tears from his cheek and moaning softly. "I don't want the money, I just want Dannielynn. And the money."
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2007-02-25T23:47:00.000-08:00

Reese Bounces Back, baby!!!!

Reese was adorable tonite at the Oscar awards, looking so confident when she walked out to present the award for Best Actor. She's totally inspired me to keep growing my hair. I'm half way there (again), and aint giving up, this time!!!

2007-02-25T23:42:00.000-08:00

Oscar Fashion Dont's

This thumbnail on the Oscar fashion website is really funny. Roll your mouse over top of each picture and it has a funny saying pop up about what fashion 'don't' the celebrity commited. lol

http://oscars.movies.yahoo.com/photos/gallery.html;_ylt=AntsVuxYz4jKsoECy60WAzt2VLcF?id=40&type=secondary&curr=1

2007-02-25T22:16:00.000-08:00

Best Picture: The Departed

Best Director: Martin Scorsese!!!!!

yay, probably my favourite movie of last year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

view theatrical trailer: http://thedeparted.warnerbros.com/

Extreme honourable mention alert!!!!:

Mark Whalberg: Best Supporting Actor nominee

2007-02-16T18:26:00.000-08:00

I'm no movie critic

I obviously do not watch enough tv, because I never saw a preview for 'Running with Scissors'. Last night Rayna and I had chick flick night, because she never had school today...

Running with Scissors = not a chick flick. She picked it.

I love my niece, she is a sucker, just like I am, for the mind screws (the week before we saw Little Miss Sunshine - she picked it - I love her!!!).

I decided while watching the movie, that I loved it even though my jaw was on the floor almost the entire movie. I also decided I loved how the characters evolved.. Then, this morning, read a review for it online saying the characters never grew, and I decided forget it, I'm not reviewing movies anymore. Besides, hello, how often do I see movies in theatre?

Duh, why didn't anyone say anything?

I'm reviewing a movie that came out in 2006? No mo movie reviews.

However, view the movie trailer and know this: it aint nuttin compared to what you will see when you watch the whole thing: FREAKING, NUTTIN!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439289/trailers-screenplay-E30627-10-2

2007-02-14T14:44:00.000-08:00

Did you buy into the "no more late fees" at Rogers?

So did I.

We did some digging. No one told me at the store when I said 'what's the catch'... the lady just said 'you will get annoying phone calls from us if you don't return your movies'...... bullsh**. It's a full on money grab, read the fine print...

Q: When will you start charging me for movie rentals not returned and how will you calculate that amount?

A:If a rental has not been returned by the 8th day following its due date, your Rogers Video account will be updated to change the amount of the rental to the amount of the movie’s purchase price (either the retail price for New Releases or, if available, the Previously Viewed selling price). This purchase price will be shown on your membership account as an actual sale if the movie rental has still not been returned within 30 days after the original due date.

2007-02-09T17:44:00.000-08:00

Oh, I love articles like this through MSN today. Girls, do you seek advice columns to find out what yer man is thinkin, too?! tee hee

Things men want to tell women but don't, PLUS a look at the female perspective, too.

by Natalie Bahadur (canadianliving.com)
Related Content- 7 ways to break free of bad relationships - Quiz: Are you a good partner? - More What do you want to tell your partner but don't? Chat about it in our forums!We all know that while relationships can be incredibly fulfilling, they aren't always easy. They're hard work and require oodles of love, patience and, well, sometimes the ability to know when to keep your mouth shut! We wanted to know the things that men are dying to tell us gals, but don't! Here, they reveal the things that drive 'em nuts! Listen up, ladies! (And don't forget to take a look at the female perspective in She said, he said.)
Some things men don't tell women"I am fairly easy-going and not a lot bugs me. But one example of what bugs me and I don't say anything about is the constant need for a woman to stay in touch with us -- several times throughout the day, for no reason other than to say hi. Can it not wait until later? Ninety per cent of the time it's "Hey, how is your day, what's up for later, are you done yet?" It drives me crazy. If I say I am golfing on Sunday and should be home around 4 p.m., that means that if plans change, I will call. There's no need to try and reach me during my game to ask how the game is going. It would be much better if you weren't bugging me..."--Adrian Needham, 37"My wife is very spend-happy. She loves to shop and I think it's excessive. But I no longer say anything because when I have in the past, it's always ended up in a big, blowout argument. Her need to spend and my need to save makes us butt heads all the time but when I think of the options, I'd just rather keep the peace instead of engaging in fight after fight. If shopping makes her happy, I can tolerate it -- as long as it doesn't put us in the poorhouse!"--Mark Miller, 32"The obvious things one cannot tell one's partner is that they need to lose weight or that the clothes they have on look awful. Closely related to that is the desire that most men have that their partner look sexy. Try telling your wife or girlfriend to show a little more of her assets the next time you go out. You may get a slap or a dirty look at a minimum. If you happen to be married to a career woman you will also find it hard to give them advice about what to do at their place of employ. I do it anyway but it is with genuine trepidation!"--Paul Jacobelli, 42Visit our forums to chat about relationships with other Canadian Living readers!Page 1 of 2Further in this article2. More things men don't tell womenAll rights reserved: © Transcontinental Media G.P.
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2007-02-07T22:17:00.000-08:00

Maybe I Just Have No Sense Of Humour BUT :

Is it just me, or are there actually people out there that think they really needed to read this in the MSN News Today?

Sorry pals of mine, but are there any of you that still dream of winning an Oscar some day?

What a waste of time, I can't believe I read this entire story:

Your Oscar speech: How not to blow it
Adrien Brody chose to kiss Halle Berry before his speech
The main thing to remember when you win your Oscar (and you know you will win your Oscar one day -- admit it, you've even practiced your acceptance speech) is that you are immediately faced with 45 seconds during which you can either display grace under pressure or make a complete ass of yourself.

Contrary to Academy legend, Sally Field did not do the latter when she gave the most parodied and ridiculed acceptance speech in Oscar history in 1985. "I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect," she said. "The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!"

Now, that last part, which came out a bit squeaky, wasn't as bad as many later made it out to be. It wasn't, after all, "You like me! You really like me!" My theory is that the repetitive phrase was memorized in advance (it sounds a bit canned) and that she simply oversold it in the excitement of the moment. Instead of making it sound more spontaneous, her delivery underscored (genuine though the sentiment might be) that this was, in fact, another performance, which felt kind of embarrassing to watch. And audiences can really resent it if you embarrass them, to the point where they respond defensively with scathing sarcasm and mockery.

Don't let this happen to you. Here's some advice for giving your Oscar speech, when the time comes.

1. Get a Grip
Why is it that the only people who really appear to lose control when they accept their statuette are the actors? Why don't the art directors and sound editors sputter and wail as if they'd just been spared from lethal injection? If anything, you'd think the actors would be better able to control their emotions than most people.

And you'd be right. You see, actors dig emotional meltdowns, on screen and off. It's almost a form of noblesse oblige -- a generous Acting Gratuity (more than 20 percent), if you will: "I will now treat you to an extraordinary demonstration of how deeply I am moved!" And, at the same time, it's a form of grandiose self-inflation and self-abasement: "I scrape and bow to acknowledge how much you have honored me!"

Of course, Gwyneth Paltrow (Best Actress, "Shakespeare in Love," 1998) just stood there and squeaked like a broken drip-irrigation node, but at least she had the decency to be horrified and humiliated about it later, claiming she'd put her Oscar at the back of a bookcase because it brought back painful memories of her big, pink weep-down.

One of the most divisive Oscar speeches of recent years (some were moved, some were appalled) was the tornado of tears Halle Berry whipped up around herself when she won Best Actress for "Monster's Ball" in 2001. Berry's Interminable Moment-of-Special-Pleading was a gale-force ego storm that threatened to suck up the entire universe. It was like the Big Bang in reverse: "Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I'm sorry. This moment is so much bigger than me," blubbered Berry, trying desperately to make the moment big enough for her.

"This moment is for Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll," she continued, in a name-dropping paroxysm that cried out, instead, for Lloyd Bentsen. "It's for the women that stand beside me, Jada Pinkett, Angela Bassett, Vivica Fox. And it's for every nameless, faceless woman of color that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened." Yes, because now all nameless, faceless women of color could grow up to be Best Actress Oscar winners, just like their universal idol, Halle Berry!

"Thank you. I'm so honored. I'm so honored," Berry further honored herself. "And I thank the Academy for choosing me to be the vessel for which His blessing might flow." Which brings us to our next piece of advice ...

2. Don't Assume That God Voted for You
No incarnation of the Creator of All Things is registered as a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and nowhere on the Academy ballots is there a category for Best Vessel Through Whom God's Blessings Might Flow. (There remains some question, however, about whether Jesus Christ personally chooses the Grammy winners.) Winning an Oscar does not make you a special agent of God's will or the divine favorite over your fellow nominees -- or, for that matter, over the lepers in your category who must suffer the enduring shame of not even being nominated. (Didn't Jesus say that the un-nominated would inherit the earth?) Do not demean the concept of the Almighty by implying that either you, or the members of the Academy who voted for you, are somehow helping to implement God's Mysterious Plan so that you all can bring about the End Times. Even if it's true, don't. It's just bad form.

3. Brevity Is Good
Do you want to be remembered for making everyone resent that you won? If so, be like Greer Garson (Best Actress, "Mrs. Miniver" 1942), who took the stage at approximately 1 a.m., blabbered on for a record five and a half minutes and whipped up a room full o' hate that made her the butt of long-winded jokes for the rest of her career.

Otherwise, you could let your filmed performance speak for itself by graciously refusing to hog the spotlight. Like Clark Gable (Best Actor, "It Happened One Night," 1934) who said, memorably: "Thank you." Or Joe Pesci (Best Supporting Actor, "GoodFellas," 1990), whose entire speech was: "This is an honor and privilege. Thank you very much."

4. Prepare
You're not fooling anyone. We all know you've been hoping, fantasizing, rehearsing. Winners who get up there and say they didn't prepare anything because they didn't expect to win should be yanked offstage and whisked by limo to the nearest Jamboree, where they should be forced to write the Boy and Girl Scout motto 1,000 times on 1,000 separate cue cards until they've memorized it: "Be prepared." (If you're a gay man, the Boy Scouts wouldn't allow you at their Jamboree but, if you're out, you already know that nobody would believe you hadn't prepared an Oscar speech, anyway.)

Picking up the award for Best Director (for "A Beautiful Mind" in 2001), Ron Howard confessed: "I'm not a good enough actor anymore to be able to stand up here and make you believe that I haven't imagined this moment in my mind over the years and played it out over a thousand times." If Opie isn't a good enough actor anymore, then neither are you -- even if you win an Oscar.

For those genuinely "unprepared" Oscar moments, when you really didn't think you were going to win and suddenly you do, see Joe Pesci's ideal speech in the previous item.

5. Don't Overprepare (In Other Words: No Lists)
All persons entering the Kodak Theatre should be frisked for 8 1/2-x-11-inch sheets of paper. Nothing larger than a 3-x-5 card should be allowed into the auditorium. If there's anything worse than a "spontaneous, unprepared" acceptance speech, it's a monologue delivered, head down, by someone (say, Jennifer Connelly?) who probably couldn't even read convincingly off a teleprompter. At most, your index card should have three items on it. For example:

1. One-liner joke
2. Suck up to X (director, studio exec, casting agent, soon-to-be-ex-spouse -- choose ONE)
3. Thank Academy

At least when Maureen Stapleton (Best Supporting Actress, "Reds," 1981) proclaimed that she wanted to thank "everybody I ever met in my entire life," she had the decency to refrain from mentioning them by name. Not even Cuba Gooding Jr. cited everyone he loved individually. If you know people who want to get mentioned on TV, tell them that's what your local news is for. Tell them to send in a digital photo of their cat or commit a mass murder and your local FOX channel will probably say their name on the air. And there's always call-in radio. But not at the Academy Awards, please.

Next year nobody will remember that you won an Oscar, anyway. If you want to make sure that nobody remembers it tomorrow, just start reciting a bunch of names most of your listeners don't know. Every time somebody starts thanking their agent and their lawyer and their illegitimate offspring, the water pressure in major cities drops precipitously from all the flushing.

6. Enough With the Flowery Speechifying
Too many actors think they can write. And too many of those who think that think "writing" involves grandiose rhetoric. One of the worst speeches ever was Laurence Olivier's 1979 honorary Oscar acceptance, which began:

"In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosity, this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it -- the prodigal, pure, human kindness of it -- must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth and the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow."

That's two firmaments in one sentence, which is at least two firmaments too many. Cut to 18 years later and the insufferably calculated ebullience of Roberto Benigni, who bounded over the seats and seemed to crib from Olivier's English-as-a-Second-Language soliloquy: "I feel like now, really, to dive in this ocean of generosity. ... I would like to be Jupiter in the firmament ... lying down and making love to everybody. This is something I cannot forget from the bottom of my heart."

Even famous Regular Guy Tom Hanks went all firmamenty when he accepted his first Oscar for Best Actor in "Philadelphia" in 1993: "I know that my work in this case is magnified by the fact that the streets of heaven are too crowded with angels." (Precisely how many angels can crowd the streets of heaven to magnify Hanks' work has yet to be determined.) "We know their names. They number a thousand for each one of the red ribbons that we wear here tonight. They finally rest in the warm embrace of the gracious creator of us all, a healing embrace that cools their fevers, that clears their skin and allows their eyes to see the simple, self-evident commonsense truth that is made manifest by the benevolent creator of us all." Beautiful sentiments (I think), but the overwrought language and self-important delivery made many of us cringe, momentarily longing for the tiresome, moronic "Brokeback Mountain" jokes of the future.

7. If You're Going to Make a Joke, Make It a Self-deprecating One-Liner
When George Burns won the Supporting Actor award in 1975 for a Neil Simon movie ("The Sunshine Boys"), it was not one of the Academy's proudest moments, but 80-year-old Burns cut to the heart of the matter when he said, "It couldn't have happened ... to an older guy." (Indeed, it hadn't.) Contrast this with, say, James Cameron, the director of "Titanic," who awkwardly and unconvincingly exclaimed: "I'm the king of the world! Woo-hoo!" Not self-deprecating enough, really.

Stubby songwriter Paul Williams (star of Brian De Palma's "Phantom of the Paradise") actually got an Oscar in 1977 for penning some of the worst lyrics ever in "Evergreen," for Barbra Streisand's "A Star Is Born": "Love, soft as an easy chair ..." He almost made up for it by quipping: "I was going to thank all the little people, but then I remembered I am the little people." I'm sure it worked just as well when he used it on "Hollywood Squares."

Yes, these are corny jokes, and they are obviously prepared in advance. But they work to relieve the tension in the audience, caused by everyone's nervousness that you're going to get up there and make us all suffer by forcing us to watch you behave like an imbecile

2007-02-05T20:15:00.000-08:00

OH MY GOOD GOD IT'S REALLY TRUE

David Lee Roth Reunites with Van Halen

After weeks of rumors, a Van Halen reunion tour is now official. David Lee Roth will join his former bandmates Eddie and Alex Van Halen to perform in 40 North American cities starting this summer. Original member Michael Anthony (bassist/background vocals), however, will not be part of the tour. Instead, Eddie’s son Wolfgang will fill his spot.According to an exclusive statement Eddie made to MTV News, “Playing these timeless hits only works with Dave. After one rehearsal, it was pure magic.”Eddie’s right, of course. His and Alex’s musical virtuosity mixed with Dave’s raw, in-your-face charisma is one-of-a-kind. Not only was their partnership among the most exciting in rock history, the Van Halen formula was the most imitated blueprint for success in the '80s. Most of their pop metal successors had either a lightning quick, finger-tapping guitarist, an over-the-top, macho frontman, or both. Plus, the band released five unique, landmark albums (and the intriguing half covers/half originals Diver Down) from 1978 to 1984. When Sammy Hagar replaced Diamond Dave, the band continued to release quality albums and maintain their lofty levels of success. It was never the same, though. The band lost much their edge and wrote more and more love songs, as opposed to the sex romps of the past. In 1996, we were teased with two new David Lee Roth/Van Halen songs on Best of Volume 1. “Can’t Get This Stuff No More” and particularly “Me Wise Magic” proved the chemistry was still there. These tracks were accompanied by the announcement of a reunion, but the plans were quickly canceled due to Eddie and Dave’s inability to get along. The failed return of the true Van Halen was heartbreaking for a life-long fan. You hoped they could check their egos enough to realize that they were made to make more music together.After all these years of bad blood between the Van Halens and Dave, the quotes from Eddie above are a shocking admission. His statement doesn’t suggest, however, that the band could get along well enough to write and record any new material. He only suggests that they’ll rehearse long enough to be prepared for a tour where they play all the old classics. Of course, a lot could go wrong between now and then. On March 12th, Van Halen will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Sammy Hagar will be part of the induction, as will, of course, Michael Anthony. We should expect some tension and drama with all the former and current members present. If the reunion tour plans are still intact after that night, I’ll really start believing it could happen. Despite all the excitement surrounding the announcement of this tour, the news is bittersweet. Yes, the most important factor is that Eddie and Dave are on stage together. Without Michael Anthony, though, we will not see a truly reunited Van Halen and we will not hear his signature background harmonies. I’m sure Eddie and Wolfgang will do a decent job with the vocal duties, but Michael’s absence will be felt. The summer is a long way from now, so I’m expecting this tour to fall apart. We’ve been teased and disappointed before, so I’ve got to keep my expectations low. If this version of a reunited Van Halen can hold it together, though, it will be magic, “Me Wise Magic.”

2007-02-05T11:31:00.000-08:00

Weekly Weight Loss Walk Of Shame? um nooooooooooo

Well, the last week was pretty busy. With feeling better since finally not being sick anymore, I went for it, baby. Painting the bathroom, getting out more, etc etc etc... Also, Saturday was Jen's party and E's parents were coming over to look after Markus and so I went hard cleaning all day (I find when my house is messy, it's uninviting).... Show's how lazy I have been, because I cleaned for over 4 hours. M's bathroom was like a storage closet, that took over an hour to clean... so many other areas, then when I thought I was done, I forgot the basement, which the whole downstairs is also a storage free for all; and that is where E's parents were sleeping that night. So, another hour down there. Definately not a low intensity exersize type of day.

Today's weekly weigh in:

151

I got a very encouraging note pop up on the screen when I entered my new number, but since I've logged off, I can't get the message back. It was really cool though. Something about when excellence is achieved, it becomes a habit, or something like that. I'm inspired.

p.s.

This is Tina, Jenn's friend (who also lives in my area and will hopefully be a new walking partner for moi). You can't really see her jeans but she is wearing Silver Suki's. They are awesome. I think I'm finally ready to reward myself with the expensive kind of jeans!!!!! In Tina's words: They have stretch are made for curvy booty!!!!! woo hoo.

2007-02-04T12:12:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Jenn and Erin!

Last night, Jenn and her roommate Erin had their First Annual Bday celebs!!! Erin's friend Cindy (above, left) baked 2 cakes, one for each gal!! They shared, yay!!! But not until we found some tea-lights (oops, no candles!!!!!), and sang Happy Birthday!!

Love the shirt, Jenn!!! Tee hee

2007-02-02T00:11:00.000-08:00

Matthew Good: I love love love love loooooooooove this MAN!!!

My god, it's like moving earth and water to find pix and websites of Matt G online.. Then tonite, poof, I found a link on another site to his personal pix on yahoo and to his blog!!!, complete with comments from fans and responses by the man himself... oh, I should be so lucky if I got a comment on here from him. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I found this pic on his pic site. I think he took it of himself because all the other ones in there were taken by him with his camera. This is a beautiful picture. Matt, I hope you don't mind that I stole your picture!!!!!!!

K, since becoming a mom, I've been out of the loop for a loooooooong time on him and whether he's working on a new album but judging by his site, I think he's in the process?!?!?!!?!!?? Will have more info for you guys soon!!!!! Finally will I see this guy in concert? Can you believe I have never seen him? Hello, Been a fan since the freaking 90's.......

Either I dreamed it or I read it some site yesterday, but I think I read he will be doing only acoustic next time he performs? Could have been old info.

Hold please.

2007-02-01T21:28:00.000-08:00

Diary Of A Mad White Woman

Mad at my stomach, that is.

Well, since I am no longer sick, I came to accept today, that it was time to get my ass to the gym again. Yeah right!! If anyone knows me, they know my gym is non existant. lol..... If I do any kind of exercise it's for half an hour of high intensity on the hills by my house...... getting me out there 5 days a week is another story...... It's January, so I've given myself a break and the weather has sucked, so yeah, I earned it!!! Whatever T, time to hit the slopes again.... er hills.... oh I also have some awesome workout dvd's but I find I get so bored of them that I usually pull those out when I've hit a plateau..... hmmm, guess that time is now!!!!! Major plateau since Halloween. ouch.... so yeah, in actuality, I need to do the hills and my dvd's!!

Today I found a way to get out of exercising.... While E was at work and M was at my moms overnight last 2 nights, I decided to finally paint over the disaster we call our ensuite... I got an awesome colour paint that I found on Behr dot com.... Awesome site, you should check it out sometime... It's great for exploring colours. BUT - ALWAYS TAKE A SAMPLE HOME AND PUT IT ON YOUR WALL FIRST!!! I got this colour I found really calming and spa like, called 'Pebble Path'... It was anything but peddly or pathy... The result was friggin pea soup.

So, we had some leftover paint from when we, er I painted our bedroom. The colour is from Debbie Travis' line and I figured I was pretty safe with a colour called 'Chai Latte'.. yep, love the colour. I call our room the 'paper bag' room though, although it definately reminds me of a mocha or something from starby's.. but I'm really into paper bags right now so decided to fish out the can and see if there was enough for our bathroom!! yay, enough paint!!!

4 hours later of hard labour, from 12-4 and the room was done!! My spa bathroom at last!!!!

Also, I was so busy, I never ate after I had my cereal (3 points - shredded wheat) which is always a problem for me, being a stay at home mom now... So, yay!!! And I stayed within my points range, although I definately never had enough water today or fruits or veggies.... staying within the points system is still better than bingeing (sp?)

So many more rooms to paint in our house so I may actually be getting out of a few more weeks of exercise!!!!

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As hard as this is to do, I feel I have to do this. I find I do best with motivation.. So comments are always welcome and inspiration. I also hope I can help others too as you read my entries and see my weight going down. Also for some odd reason, and it's kinda stupid, I feel like by sharing my story with you guys, I may actually work harder because I will be exited to post my weekly weigh in weight with Weight Watchers and will inspire you to get in shape, too.

Weight on Monday January 29th 2007: 153

ouch!!!

Better luck next week?

Hey, thinking of losing weight online? check out this article... they have a write up on WW, the program I'm on..... yep, I joined online, no walk of shame in front of strangers every monday.. I weight myself at home and enter online what I way.. I either get a yay, you lost a pound or a 'hey fattie, you gained, get to the gym'http://weightlosschallenge.sympatico.msn.ca/Slim+down+online/Home/ContentPosting.aspx?isfa=1&newsitemid=236750&feedname=TRANS-HOMEMAKERS&show=False&number=0&showbyline=False&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc

2007-02-01T11:46:00.000-08:00

I love the stories on MSN Today, each morning. This one in particular made me raise an eyebrow and made me think maybe one day I will tell you what I weigh. (I started a new blog called T's weight loss journal but it's having problems so I think I might scratch it and just post my stories on here, once a week and post the weekly story from weight watchers dot com; I know a few of you have said they may feel inspired from hearing how I did it).. I still love food but I'm eating less portions now... Things are going ok... But now that I'm no longer dealing with this Cold, it's time to get exercising!!! update ya'll in a week........ hopefully the scale will start going down faster, now!!!!

I've always been extremely private about my weight, but it's time to get over it. I'm going to do the unthinkable and tell you how much I weigh. But then I'll have to kill you.
Lifting a 22-pound baby is a workout in itself!
I have a theory, and my theory goes like this: All women lie about their weight. And if they don't, they're skinny you-know-whats, so who really cares what they weigh anyway? The only person besides me who has ever really known how much I weigh is my doctor, and I only have to face him once a year. But here's the deal. If I tell you how much I weigh, you are never allowed to use it against me or for the purposes of a backhanded compliment. These rules apply whether you are my friend, foe, or family - by marriage or otherwise.
Deep breath, drum roll please...
My weight at the beginning of the challenge was 172 pounds. As of this morning, I weigh 165.5 pounds. I would ideally like to weigh 135-140 pounds, but as my personal trainer, Paul, points out, the number is not as important as how I feel, and how I look, and how I feel about how I look. I may get down to 145, be completely toned and say, "That's good, I'm happy with how I look," and not lose one more pound. I may get down to 135 and say, "I think I could lose another 5 pounds". We won't know until we get there, so I just need to keep an open mind and continue working at it.
But wait, there's more!
My body fat at the beginning of the challenge was 31.5%. So, I am 1/3 brains, 1/3 awesomeness, and 1/3 FAT. A healthy body fat range for women is 20-25%. If I can get down to 25%, that would be great. I've always been on the curvy side and I don't expect that to change even when I do lose the weight. My measurements were 40.5 – 37 – 42.5. I do believe this shape is referred to as "barrel". By the end of this challenge, I expect to have hourglass measurements that will blow your mind - and hopefully my husband's, too.
I hope that being honest about my weight is helpful to all of you out there staring down at your bathroom scale in horror and disbelief. You are not alone, and I'm not ashamed to admit my weight because I know I will never weigh that much again. If I can do it, you can do it too.
So what am I eating?
Here is my menu for this past week. I am also taking a multivitamin and fish oil to supplement my diet on a daily basis. I use olive or walnut oil and balsamic vinegar to dress my salads, stevia (a sunflower-based sweetener) to sweeten my tea and coffee, and a little bit of butter on my sandwiches. Oh yeah, and I gave up my beloved Coke Zero (at the request of my nutritionist, Lilian). More on that later, but let's just say aspartame is not your friend. I know this looks like a lot of food, but it's working. 6.5 pounds down, who knows how many to go!

2007-01-30T22:39:00.000-08:00

Blood Diamond A Far Cry From BrokebackFor the last 4 weeks I've been obsessed with Brokeback; whenever it comes on the movie channels I am glued to the tv, I can't get enough of Brokeback. Tonite we saw Blood Diamond. During the mountain scenes there were times when I thought of Brokeback for the reason that there were no guns, no wars, no blood (well, not the war kind). It was hard to watch. But it is real what went on there until 2003 with the conflict diamond wars, in Sierra, Africa. Their own people killed each other for the sake of the Blood Diamond. Both Leonardo and his costar (above) Djimon Hounsou are up for Oscars. They are already saying the same people that won at the Golden Globes and Sag awards (identical winners) will most like win the Academy. Well, I hope they watched all the movies and are fair. I haven't so I can't really say much, but I can say that Leo and his costar broke my heart in a million pieces and won me over. And of course I'm a sucker for the relationship, too. Him and Jennifer Connelly and their scenes were definately something to remember. It is hard to say I loved the movie because it's hard to love wars that sometimes happen every day in parts of Africa, but there is so much beauty in Blood Diamond. The way everyone evolves as the movie comes to a close. It made me realize people do change in some ways.

2007-01-29T14:14:00.000-08:00

Yeah, What's so CIVIL about WAR anyways?

Civil War -

(Slash / McKagan / Rose) - GNR

"What we've got here is failure to
communicate.
Some men you just can't reach...
So, you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it!
Well, he gets it!
N' I don't like it any more than you men." *
Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they've always done before
Look at the hate we're breeding
Look at the fear we're feeding
Look at the lives we're leading
The way we've always done before
My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can't deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars
D'you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said "Peace could last forever"
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can't trust freedom
When it's not in your hands
When everybody's fightin'
For their promised land
And
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we're spilling
Look at the world we're killing
The way we've always done before
Look in the doubt we've wallowed
Look at the leaders we've followed
Look at the lies we've swallowed
And I don't want to hear no more
My hands are tied
For all I've seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
'Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars
"WE PRACTICE SELECTIVE ANNIHILATION OF MAYORS AND GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS
FOR EXAMPLE TO CREATE A VACUUM
THEN WE FILL THAT VACUUM
AS POPULAR WAR ADVANCES
PEACE IS CLOSER" **
I don't need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
And I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
I don't need your civil war
Your power hungry sellin' soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain't that fresh
I don't need your civil war
I don't need one more war
I don't need one more war
Whaz so civil 'bout war anyway

2007-01-16T11:47:00.000-08:00

Drew Barrymore: I love this woman!!!!

Googled last night right after the Golden Globes finished and found these pix of Drew from the event..... I thought she looked so beautiful in what she was wearing. And she gets better looking as she gets older!!! I'm her biggest fan!!!!!

2007-01-12T22:40:00.000-08:00

http://www.ifilm.com/video/2811872

Bad acting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or, was it real?

"It's off Dad" cracked me up, sooooooooooo bad.

Anyhow, check it out.

It's so funny how spoiled rich girls act. just hilarious, man. Hilarious all the way to me dropping kicking their ass. Just kidding, but I do feel like smacking this girl. lol

I wish we got to see the brother. Maybe we'll see him on Jay Leno next week admitting he's sick of his spoiled brat sister. lol

2007-01-11T19:25:00.000-08:00

This O.C. Show Is Serious Business, baby!!!!!!

minutes after I posted my last entry, about the O.C. being cancelled, I had 5 comments on my blog. Still trying to figure out how it happened so fast.. This was the first comment.. If you wanna save the O.C., see below.

Honey, trust me... there are MANY of us out here who feel your pain!! But some of us are not sitting idly by -- while it may not work, what have we got to lose by continuing to sign the Save The OC petition at www.fox.com/oc/savetheoc, and by posting comments on the CW poll board (the poll part is closed but you can still leave comments) at http://blogs.trb.com/network/cwsource/2006/12/rumorville_the_oc_coming_to_th_1.html . We're also emailing www.feedback@cwtv.com, which is The CW's address. We've heard from good sources that there is still a slim chance we could get more OC ... but not unless we all take some action!

2007-01-11T18:58:00.000-08:00

Benjamin McKenzie

My Favourite Show, The O.C. Got Cancelled

Urg, I hate that!!!!!

Whatever will I do without my Benjameeeen? My Ry Guy. What am I goona do with myself now?

Do you ever feel like it's the end of the world when your show gets pulled?

Just wondering whose all going through withdrawl.

7 more episodes to go.

me sad

Taylor and Ryan - stay tuned!!!!!

Recaps: http://www.fox.com/oc/recaps/409.htm

2007-01-08T19:02:00.000-08:00

I Love Dr. Oz

Can't get a picture gallery off google of Dr. Oz but alot of you already know who he is if you watch Oprah.

http://www2.oprah.com/index.jhtml

Today your most embarrassing questions were asked to Dr. Oz... If you missed it today, tape it tomorrow at 9am........ it was such a good show today... ESPECIALLY THE GERM TOPICS....... Everytime I watch Oprah's germ shows with experts coming on saying the world will combust if you touch a door handle or sit on a public toilet seat, I feel so disgusted these people get paid for what they do. Or someone saying our laundry soap will give us cancer? Hello, i've been alive since the 70's, and have sat on toilet seats from here to Finland without seat protectors. gimme a break.

Dr. Oz to the rescue..... I just laughed at the looks of woman in the audience cringing watching the toilet topics and the germs on door handles or 'stuff' I won't mention ending up in someone's drink at a bar(f)... ew, yeah, it was gross what these people found, BUT IT WON'T KILL US, SAY'S DR. OZ.

2007-01-07T17:56:00.000-08:00

Be An After, Stay An After

If Jenny McCarthy Can Do It, So Can We!!!!!

the commercial that made me join:

http://www.weightwatchers.com/templates/marketing/Landing_1col_nonav.aspx?PageId=1039731

Thanks for the inspiration www.lisasdiet.blogspot.com and for getting my ass in gear.

Did you all get on the scale after Christmas and gasp!!!, way higher than you thought!!!!!!!! I never recovered after Halloween; the holidays are always really hard for moi..... I love fooooooooooooooooood.

Funny how on the first page of alot of flyers this week, it was Slim Fast all the way. I did Slim Fast before Maui, it worked but it's only temporary... was perfect for fitting into my wedding dress, then bam, you know the rest. lol.

After getting through all the flyers consisting of Slim Fast bars, drinks, etc., all the work out machines on sale this week, etc etc, I saw a commercial with Jenny McCarthy for Weight Watchers......... she sold me... I had no idea you could still have all your favourite foods, but within the ww guidelines and points system..........

Did you know you could do Weightwatchers online? I had no clue until I went online to just check it out and see what it was about.. Then, I saw 'join online'... no way!!!!!! Did all the payments online, etc and there is a tracking system on the site and I love going on there whenever I have a question about food calorie value, etc. Every day you punch in what you ate and it tells you if you went over your limit... I had Dave's Butter Freaking Chicken for dinner.... 8 points!!!! eeeeeeeeeeek... but I ate good all day and I only had 1 cup of the high phat, fat meal.

In the early days, Lisa used to blog about what she ate and said the point value. I looked forward to it every day......... I tried to copy what she ate all the time but I ended up eating more.. It was fun......sort of. lol..... now that I've paid money, I'm more serious now.

Food rocks. Food will always rock.

2006-12-31T12:52:00.000-08:00

Don't Cha Wish Your Kitchen Was Dirty Like Mine?

A cute pic of Shalon and Markus from last night

2006-12-31T12:22:00.000-08:00

Stop The Clocks, Is 2007 really here?

Happy New Year, Peace Out!!!!

Hope you guys all have a safe and happy new year.

Thanks for all your comments and support about my movie blog. As you all know I'm my worst critic and in all honesty feel I've done my time in blogger land.. And contrary to what it may seem, I honestly do not like the sound of my own voice.

Plus my new years resolution is : Listen More Talk Less.........

So, I may just turn this into a photography blog, but you all know how often I get out, so pix will be few and far between... and how many more pix of Baker can we handle? lol.

Last words:

Movies seen over the holidays:
The Lakehouse: I hate movies that end at the beginning or begin at the end... but I still liked it. Keanu is a good actor, I won't listen to anyone that says he isn't, so there. mlllllllaaaaaaaa.
You me and depree: looooooooved it............Matt Dillon though: not in enough movies.
Taledaga Nights, ballad of Ricky Bobby: Good soundtrack... next.
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN: aaaaaaaaaaaaaw, I loved it... and I appreciate Jake Gyllenhaul so much more now..... what an amazing actor... Heath? goes without saying...... excellent movie... Michelle Williams: I knew we would see her in more stuff after Dawson's Creek... I can't wait till her new movies come out... I only wished she was in Brokeback more..... she was AWESOME!!!!
Click: Good movie; I totally got the message: right after the movie ended, our garborator broke and Erik lost it.... I told him to watch the movie again......... poor E... he'll get it soon enough.
LIFE IS TOOOOOOOO SHORT.

Capote: I get it now why PSH won the Oscar... TOTALLY GET IT!!!! Well, I always knew he rocked, but yeah, TOTALLY CONFIRMED WHY.

There are a couple more but I forget now.... we saw about 7 movies............

Cd reviews: Erik got the new Oasis, Chilli Peppers and The Killers for christmas... best of the 3: Oasis Stop the Clocks... if you are a true Oasis fan, pay the extra $2 and get the cd with the movie trailer and interview with the Bro's Ghallagher... There are subtitles!!!!!!! lol....... A very rare interview with the brothers Ghal, and it's definately apparent the love they have for each other...... aaaaaaaaw, how sweet it is. I've watched it twice now. see ya soon, bro's.

last but not least:

Egg Nog:

This morning I made a homemade egg nog latte... I finally figured out the portions..... 3 part egg nog to one part coffee.. sooooooo yummy.

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!

2006-12-24T10:35:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Back in the new year, guys!!!!

It just got craaaaaaazy around here....

bye

Happy New Year!!!!

2006-12-23T11:08:00.000-08:00

Gene Simmons Family Jewels

I can't get enough of this show. It's the Gene Simmons marathon on A and E until 1pm today....... Even Erik watches it........ while I type, he watches... if you haven't checked it out, see the link and decide... some really cool pix of the family......... I love Nick, their 17 year old son... He's like a mini me of Gene!!!

http://www.aetv.com/genesimmonsfamilyjewels/index.jsp

2006-12-21T16:21:00.000-08:00

Jann Arden Loses Part of Herself, (sort of).

Was grocery shopping with Rayna last night when my jaw hit the floor... Jann Arden shed 50 pounds........ I rarely buy magazines, because if I bought a magazine every time I wanted to, Markus' college education would be paid for in 5 years or less..... ("Find your latte factor" - David Bach)....... right, back to Jann....................

Well, I BOUGHT THE MAGAZINE WITH JANN ARDEN ON THE COVER THIS MONTH... I couldn't resist. Chatelaine Magazine..... The picture at the top is a full, extremely attractive body shot of Jann, inside the magazine and let me tell you........let me tell you................. the girl looks pretty amazing for almost 45. Way to go, Jann!!!!! Love ya.

T's favourite Jann Arden song,

(and probably one of the only songs I've never been able to sing out loud)

Good Mother:

I've got money in my pocket,

I like the color of my hair.

I've got a friend who loves me,

Got a house,

I've got a car.

I've got a good mother,

and her voice is what keeps me here.

Feet on ground,

Heart in hand,

Facing forward,

Be yourself.

I've never wanted anything.

No I've, no I've,

I've never wanted anything, so bad..(so bad).

Cardboard masks of all the people I've been

Thrown out, with all the rusted, tangled

dented God Damned miseries!!

You could say I'm hard to hold,

But if you knew me you'd know,

I've got a good father,

And his strength is what makes me cry.

Feet on ground,

Heart in hand,

Facing forward, Be yourself.

I've never wanted anything,

No I've, no I've,

I've never wanted anything so bad..(so bad).

I've got money in my pockets,

I like the color of my hair.

I've got a friend who loves me,

Got a house, I've got a car.

I've got a good mother,

and her voice is what keeps me here.

Feet on ground,

Heart in hand,

Facing forward,

Be yourself.

Heart in hand,

Feet on ground,

Facing forward,

Be yourself.

just be yourself.

Feet on ground,

Heart in hand,

Feet on ground,

Heart in hand....

2006-12-21T14:48:00.000-08:00

Regifting Advice..... Since a friend and I were just talking about this exact subject.

(Confession: I have re-gifted items that I received after my kid was able to fit them and didn't have gift receipt, nor did I know where the person bought the item, but that is it, I promise guys!!!!!)

8 simple rules for regifting

How to master the etiquette of regifting -- without getting caught or looking bad.
by Natalie Bahadur (canadianliving.com)
Related Content- Top 10 gifts for him - Holiday craft: Easy-to-make gift bags - More Are you a regifter? Talk about it in our forums!Is regifting rude? We know we do it -- or have contemplated it -- but is it wrong? Tacky? If you're filled with guilt every time you sheepishly hand over a secondhand gift, you need to know what the experts say. We spoke to Louise Fox, director of Protocol Solutions and The Etiquette Ladies, to school us in the ways of regifting. According to Fox, regifting was once considered rude and unacceptable under just about any circumstance. Is it an acceptable practice today? Not entirely, she says. "As with most other areas of etiquette, it can depend on the situation. Regifting gets a bad rap," she continues, "because at times the regifter is thoughtlessly unloading something he or she doesn't want, to someone who doesn't want or need the item, either. Done thoughtlessly, often the feelings of the original gifter and the regiftee are irreparably hurt."
When is regifting OK?How do you avoid unintentionally hurting a friend or family member with thoughtlessness? Fox says there are guidelines to follow and that regifting should only be done on rare occasions when certain criteria are met. Here, the etiquette expert dishes tips for doing it right:1. The item must be brand-new. Not last year's brand-new, this year's brand-new. It should be unopened, never played with, never worn, washed or tried out. It should be in its original undamaged packaging. All the bits and pieces must be intact, including the guarantee, if there is one. If the recipient or the regiftee returns it to the store, he should not be told, "We haven't carried that model in years."2. Be sure the person who gave you the gift doesn't know (or know of ) the person receiving the gift. If it is an unusual item that could easily be identified, you shouldn't regift it unless the receiver is on another planet. The more unusual the item, the greater distance there should be between the giver and the regiftee. 3. Never regift something you've had in your closet for a few years or lying in the basement unused. If you've had an item for some time and you know it happens to be something your friend really wants or needs, give it to them. But don't wrap it up and pass it off as a gift you just purchased for them. 4. The regift should not be something horrible you're regifting just to get rid of it, or to avoid spending money on the receiver. Unless the item is something you would actually buy the recipient, you shouldn't give it to them. Remember, what you give is a reflection of you and your taste. Keep in mind that homely gifts you received for wedding presents can come into style years later or be future candidates for Antiques Roadshow. 5. Never regift items someone has hand-made for you. Those items are heartfelt and should be always be kept. In such instances the hurt feelings of the maker far surpass the value of the gift if you were to regift the item and it was discovered. 6. Take the time to rewrap the gift and attach new bows or ribbons. Always be sure you have removed any original gift tags or cards.7. Can you regift, and announce it as a regift? Yes, when regifting adds value. For example, regifting a family quilt to your daughter-in-law, a family heirloom to another family member, your wedding dress to your granddaughter, your mother's engagement ring to your fiancée, and similar situations.8. Only you can decide whether to regift something you have received. The basis of good manners is respect, care and consideration for others. Think through the circumstances and if in doubt, don't do it.

2006-12-19T20:47:00.000-08:00

Little Women (the version with Winona Ryder), My Favourite Christmas Movie

Well, I'm not sure if it's a Christmas movie, but it's my fave all time movie to watch at Christmas time...

This was the only pic I could find online that even comes close to Winona's absolute goregousness in the movie... Plus I loved their mailbox (so cute), so I had to post this pic.........

We only own 2 dvd's - Gone in 60 seconds and this one...... So, yeah, if it's not in my favourite movies, I guess I will have to add it... Saw it onsale at London Drugs and couldn't resist.

None of my favourite shows are on tonite, so I think I will watch this right now....

night.

Plot Summary for Little Women (1994)
With their father away fighting in the Civil War, Joe, Meg, Beth and Amy grow up with their mother in somewhat reduced circumstances. They are a close family who inevitably have their squabbles and tragedies. But the bond holds even when, later, men friends start to become a part of the household.

view trailer and cry: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110367/trailers-screenplay-E10634-10-2

2006-12-16T23:26:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Gene!!!!!

Forgot to bring my cam tonite to G's partae, surprise surprise!!!!!!! So this awesome pic of him from Brad's wedding will have to do!!!!!!!

Ahem, could there be a hotter pic anyways? Helloooooooo hotties.

Yes, ladies, the boy is single (I think?!!!!!)

Have fun at the game, boys.....

Canucks 2-1. yay.

No I didn't see you on T.V.

Have fun at the Roxy.

Night. I'm crashing.

Fun times tonite!!!!

2006-12-11T22:57:00.000-08:00

My favourite pix of Mt. Baker so far

I know this pic looks like the other ones, sortof? But it was actually taken exactly one year ago. Was just going through my pictures and finally getting them all organized and found this and 2 others I couldn't take my eyes off.

Oddly enough, it was taken on December 9th, 2005, our 4 year anniversary of living in our townhome.... even odder, I still remember waking up to a beautiful sunrise on December 10th 2001, but had no digital yet, so no pix.... but I was mesmerized by the sunrises all that December.

November, 2005

M used to look out the window while it took me an hour to wake up some mornings.... Love ya kid....... Thanks

2006-12-10T19:10:00.000-08:00

Religion and Jumpin on couches aint got nuttin to do with anything (nor does it make you a terrible human being of our society - wake up America!!! - Tribe T-Lee has spoken).

I love days like today; we went nowhere..... I loooove not having to go somewhere on a Sunday, and honestly can't remember when the last time was that I had a day like today.

We were sitting around bored and loving it, when at about 2, Inside the Actors Studio came on... It was Tom Cruise!!!!!!!! I sat for 2 hours watching him go through movies in his career and be interviewed about his life.... It was from about 2 years ago because it was around the time of the screening for Last Samarai. I had no idea he had 3 sisters, or that his parents divorced when he was young, because of something bad his father did, or that they had no money after the divorce (father was dead beat dad that never supported them? he never went into detail), or that when is father was dieing he had nothing but compassion for him even after what he did and that he really loved his father.........

I love Tom Cruise.......

Sorry to anyone that doesn't like him or disagrees with his crazy ways....... Tom is not a bad person. He jumped on a couch on Oprah because he was crazy in love, and he studies a religion that works for him and many others, a religion none of us care to talk about but just say 'it's like he's part of a cult'... WHATEVER!!!!!

The question that stood out the most was when he was asked 'what profession would you never want to do'. he answered 'phychiatry'..... think...... Brooke Shields......... it makes sense why... it's complicated.... and I guess he feels drugs complicates things more?!?!?!!?!? He just generally cares for people.

I wish people would give Tom a break.....

It's definately Tom Cruise day today, man........ Top Gun is on....... Hold please, I'm WATCHIN TOM!!!!!!!!!!! He's friggin hot.

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Sunday T.V. is getting good again....... Beverly Hills 90210 is on again............. Remember Dylan? hellooooooooooooooooo..... today was definately 'sizzlin Sunday'

2006-12-09T21:09:00.000-08:00

He's Bringing SEXYBACK - To The Mountain

E finally tried out his new Burton snowboard and boots at Cypress on Sunday...... Since he knows I like scenery pix, he took my camera!!! Thanks Babe.

2006-12-07T19:21:00.000-08:00

Am I The Only One That Isn't On The Etnies Bandwagon?

I took Rayna to the mall tonite and bought her these shoes as an early Christmas present..... All the kiddies are wearing. Am I the only one that has never heard of Etnies? That is the name brand... really cute stuff, man. ..... The T-shirts are insanely priced though. Don't even get me started on the shirt Rayna got on clearance/final sale for 25.99:

2006-12-07T18:56:00.000-08:00

All that I am

All that I ever was

Is here in your perfect eyes

They're all I can see

snow patrol

RKS

2006-12-04T22:19:00.000-08:00

Slowly walkin down the hall, faster than a cannon ball

Where were you while we were getting high?

2006-12-03T18:32:00.000-08:00

Before Sunrise

Sunday December 3rd - 7:38Am

Besides my first cofee, this is the only other reason I love being woken by Markus, at 7:30.

No, your eyes aren't playing tricks on you... There is life below all that fog.

2006-12-03T00:52:00.000-08:00

Did I Not Say 'One Tree Hill' Was Getting Good This Season?

I was sick on Wednesday and crashed before I saw this episode......... holy mother, I missed a good one:

November 29, 2006 Some You Give Away Haley is hit by a car and Lucas collapses! previous episode back to the One Tree Hill episode guideWhat's the drama:There's no way that the Ravens should lose the state championship to Pontiac. Everyone's revved up -- except Nathan. He's got to throw that game, and he tells Lucas as much. And Lucas tells his brother that he's going to do all he can to stop him. He and Skills devise a plan to freeze out Nathan during the game -- they still want to win.Rachel doesn't learn anything from Tutor Girl. But she does learn that Haley has the key

to the drawer that holds all of the upcoming tests and offers

her much-needed cash for a little preview. But unlike her husband,

Haley has enough integrity to turn down the easy money.Karen tells a reluctant Deb that she's going to drive her to the big game. Unfortunately, the woman can't go an evening without the pills -- even for her son.What's up with Peyton:Peyton tells Brooke that she finally told Lucas that she loved him and he doesn't want to be with her. She told him she loved him and all he could say was "oh."What's up with Lucas:In an effort to up his game, Lucas doesn't take the pills that are supposed to slow down his heart before the big game.What's up with Haley:Haley collapses in the bathroom in pain right before the big game. The cheer squad rushes Haley to the hospital where she discovers that she's okay and the sex of her baby. They even make it back for the second half.What's up with Nathan:Despite the fact that Lucas and Skills keep the ball from Nathan, when he does get the ball, the guy turns it over to the other team. Nathan and Skills even get into it on the court and they head to the lockers at halftime, trailing Pontiac 21 to 36.What's up with Whitey:At halftime, Whitey plays a tape from a game that was lost 18 years ago -- when the Ravens came apart at the seams. The old coach encourages his team to have some pride. And as Nathan walks back to the court his wife tells him that he'd better play well or he'll have to explain the ugly loss to his son one day. Nathan returns to the second half a man inspired. He tells Lucas that he wants to win and they begin to take the game back with what Mouth calls the best comeback in the history of Tree Hill.What's up with Karen:Karen takes a short detour to the game and drops a passed out Deb off at a chemical dependency program. Then, Karen arrives just in time to see Nathan pass the ball to Lucas for a three-pointer that wins the game. The entire crowd rushes the court.What's up with Dan:Dan is hugely proud that his son did the right thing, but he knows that they'll be trouble with Dante now. Nathan actually apologizes to Dan for not being able to throw the game. But Dan tells him that he's proud of him and he'll deal with Dante.What's up with Brooke:After she bonded with Peyton at the hospital, Brooke actually encourages Lucas to go after her ex-best friend. He takes her advice and tells Peyton that she's the one he wants by his side when all his dreams come true and they share a kiss.What's up with Rachel:Rachel admits to Brooke that she's only getting tutored by Haley to get the keys to the test drawer. Brooke is actually the one flunking calculus and if she wants to graduate, she'll get busy cheating.How does it all wrap up?After the game, Nathan tries to tell his wife why his game was so bad at first. But he doesn't get the chance. As Nathan and Haley walk home that evening, Dante runs Haley down in the street and then crashes into a barrier as he attempts to get away. Nathan pulls a passed-out Dante out of the car and begins pummeling his face but Dan stops him. He realizes that Dante is dead and says that Nathan killed him. He tells his son that his wife needs him and prepares to take the fall for the murder.Meanwhile, Lucas runs out to attend to Haley and passes out. It's full cardiac arrest. The EMTs rush both Lucas and Haley to the hospital.

Chad Michael Murray (Lucas)

2006-12-02T09:27:00.000-08:00

I Miss Mischa (Marissa)

So, I decided to see what she's been up to (besides boyfriend swaping with Paris, that is):

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0059215/ (looks like the girl won't be missing The O.C. much)

Mischa gets Punk'd:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZc7ig-Xgvo

Can Marissa Be Replaced by:? Autumn Reeser (Taylor)

She's growing on me; I'm liken her.

Your Weekly O.C. Review

405 - "THE SLEEPING BEAUTY"Aired: 11/30/06
Seth finds Ryan sitting on the couch at 2:30am watching some Bollywood hits. It seems that Ryan hasn’t been sleeping much lately. Can’t sleep is maybe more like it. Breakfast comes around and so does Taylor Townsend. All glammed up. As if she’s trying to impress somebody. She then volunteers to bring Ryan his morning coffee. She thanks him for saving her from a life of loveless French marriage, then offers him anything he wants as a thanks. Anything. Okay. Well…bye.
Julie wakes up with some young buck in her bed and tries to rush him out of the house before Kaitlin finds him. Naturally, Kaitlin is already downstairs having breakfast and spots the latest beau du jour as he tries to sneak out. Later that day, Taylor drops by the comic book shop looking for a favor from Seth. But Seth is already all too aware that Taylor is looking for some help with catching Ryan’s eye.
So Seth calls Ryan at El Pavo Guapo, which is only three doors away from the comic book shop. He asks Ryan if he’s ready to date again, and Ryan, confused by the question, says he doesn’t know. Seth reports back to Taylor that Ryan is a mess right now. If anything, this makes him even more appealing to Taylor.
In Providence, Che and Summer walk into a biology lab posing as janitors. Che lifts a key from a hook and they get out of there before a student scientist can get too suspicious. In sunnier climes, Kaitlin is enduring a tennis lesson with her hunky instructor, Spencer. She asks him out and Spencer reminds her that she’s 15. Then Julie shows up, clearly intrigued by Spencer, who’s clearly intrigued by an older woman. And Kaitlin has to stand there and watch all of this while trying to not hit somebody with an overhand smash to the head.
Meanwhile, Sandy drops by the shiny new offices of New Match, where Kirsten is setting up shop. Unfortunately, the woman who’s retiring her high-end dating service in Laguna got a higher offer for her client list than Julie and Kirsten gave her. And the gals don’t have enough to match it. Sandy suggests a meeting with Gordon Bullitt, an oil tycoon recently freed from jail after serving time for tax evasion. Sandy’s playing golf with him tomorrow to help land donors for a public defender’s office benefit Sandy is putting together. Kirsten’s a little reluctant, but desperate to get her business off the ground, agrees to meet him.
Che and Summer slip back into the lab after nightfall and begin freeing lab rabbits from their cages. In Newport, Ryan gets a late night call from Taylor. Seth told her about Ryan’s sleep problems, an area she’s an expert in. Like every other area. She’ll be glad to help him get some rest if he meets her at the diner tomorrow morning at 8.
Morning comes, as it often does, and Taylor finds Ryan at the diner. When he explains that this all started after Thanksgiving, after Volchok turned himself in, Taylor has his answers. Ryan fell asleep every night thinking about finding Volchok the next day. But now that that’s over, Ryan has nothing to look forward to, and nothing to wake up for the following day. Ryan leaves and Taylor is super excited about her breakthrough.
On the course the next day, Sandy finds the perfect opening to pitch Gordon Bullitt on backing Kirsten’s business. Gordon can talk to her tomorrow at the benefit. Well, problem is, Bullitt’s date for the benefit just went back to her husband. Well, isn’t that a coincidence?! Kirsten’s business is a dating service! And her partner is newly single! Man, sometimes things just work out perfectly in Newport Beach.
Taylor swings by El Pavo Guapo to pick up Ryan’s keys to the Cohen house. She needs to specially prepare his room as his official sleep therapist. Seth, standing nearby, yells at Taylor for turning his info about Ryan’s sleep problems into a seduction tool.
Summer returns to her dorm to learn from her roommate Amber that the word about Operation: Bunny Rescue is out, there’s a bunny under her bed and Summer got a call to appear in the Dean’s Office tomorrow. Che pops in with word that he got a call as well. It seems the student scientist picked them out of Facebook. Too bad those janitor costumes didn’t come with masks. Summer starts flipping out, but Che assures her that everything will be fine. And he’ll be with her until the end.
At the country club, Kaitlin has a new plan for Spencer: let him see her in a bikini. It’s a fine plan, except with Spencer making out in a court with Julie, he has his eyes closed and misses the suit. Kaitlin slinks off in shame.
Ryan comes back to the pool house to find candles, relaxing music and Taylor in pajamas. She claims that most people sleep better with a warm body beside them. Ryan, finally catching on, asks Taylor if she likes him. She assures him quite plainly that she does not. So how about a massage? Or perhaps a mixed message?
The next morning, Seth brings in the café and sees Taylor in the pool house. But no Ryan. He went out for a run after staying awake all night. Again. Taylor thinks about how to adjust her plan for tomorrow, but Ryan says he probably just needs to work things out by himself. A temporary setback for Taylor’s plot.
Summer faces the dean’s board. Before they can even start, she admits to freeing the cute little bunnies. But she won’t say who else was involved. She can’t betray the new her. Elsewhere, as Kaitlin readies herself for the charity ball, she notices Taylor pouting on her bed. Taylor asks what to do when you already pitched yourself at a boy, but he doesn’t even know you exist. Kaitlin’s advice is basically to get all dolled up, go somewhere you know he’ll be and start vamping away. Works every time!
And now the benefit is officially underway. Ryan stands by the bar, lost in his thoughts, when Taylor struts up to him in what one might call a stunning red dress before asking him to dance. Then Kaitlin shows up with Spencer. Whose last name, incidentally, is…Bullitt. On the dance floor, Ryan and Taylor are having a nice close dance and things are going well. Ryan retires to the bar to fetch them a drink, and Seth, now into the idea of Ryan moving on after a chat with Sandy, asks Ryan what the deal is. Ryan scoffs at the idea and says, quote, “Dude, just forget about it, okay? I’m not going to date Taylor.” Which is fine, but…Taylor was standing right there and overheard him. She rushes out on the verge of tears.
So Ryan chases after her, seeing as how she’s now a female in distress. He tries to explain what he meant to her and Taylor says if he would just give it a chance, maybe he could be happy for once. She thinks about him and knows what he’s feeling. Before Ryan can say he likes her as a friend, Taylor walks off in shame.
Julie angrily pulls Kaitlin out of the ball to harangue her about the stunt with Spencer. They argue about competing for men and Kaitlin being forced to watch men sneak out of the house while she’s eating breakfast. It makes her want to barf! Julie says…that Kaitlin actually has a very good point there. Julie’s been acting horribly lately.
Summer anxiously waits in the hallway as Che testifies about the night in question. Che admits that he basically blamed her for every suspicious pro-environment crime that Brown has endured since the semester began. Even though he’s the one responsible for all for them. You see, he’s incredibly important to the protest movement at Brown. And since Summer was going down anything, he might as well blame her for everything and get totally off the hook. Summer idealism comes to a screeching halt.
Back at the ball, Kaitlin convinces Gordon Bullitt to invest in New Date. And possibly to marry Julie for fun. It’s not every day that a 15-year old outsmarts an oil tycoon. Seth comes home from the benefit and finds Taylor in his bedroom again. She has some tea for Ryan. It worked for her once when she had trouble sleeping, but she’s too embarrassed to give it to Ryan herself. Seth expresses some surprise that Taylor is rolling over and giving up this easily. And even though Taylor knows Seth is trying some Jedi mind tricks on her, she agrees to give it another shot.
Taylor takes the tea down to Ryan. He thanks her, tells her how wonderful she is and apologizes for not feeling anything. So she orders him to kiss her. If he doesn’t feel anything, her pursuit is over. Okay. One kiss. She kisses him and…maybe there is something there after all.
Seth comes down to the pool house to talk with Ryan and…he’s sleeping. And not because of the tea, either.

http://www.autumnreeser.com/

2006-11-30T22:59:00.000-08:00

Do you ever wake up some mornings, and this is all you see out your bedroom window? It's sunrise but there is fog EVERYWHERE....... The sunrise kept progressing (look carefully for the actual sun peeking through, in all the pix) and eventually the fog burnt off. Also you could see some of the sunrise through a haze but eventually you finally got to see Mt. Baker Watch how it unfolded

2006-11-28T21:06:00.000-08:00

Images from last years snowfall... I find the snow so much neater this year. the way it has stayed on the trees very thick.. on this day, it was starting to get warmer so the snow was falling off the trees, but in looking at my pix from last year to this year, it's so cool, the difference the way the snow sits depending on the temperature. I won't even bother posting my last year pix, they don't even come close to the vividness of the snow this year. If that makes any sense.

2006-11-27T23:06:00.000-08:00

I went out at different times today and took pix of the same things and thought it was so cool how things changed from 20 minutes to the next. I love winter for the first time in ages......

2006-11-27T20:56:00.000-08:00

Froze My ASSets

trying to get the perfect snow pix, today.

Oh well, it was worth it.

This is at 3:40 today. Sunset, pretty much.

2006-11-27T18:36:00.000-08:00

Do you see what I see?

Meet our latest addition to the family.

Our Very Own Tree Witch.

2006-11-26T12:18:00.000-08:00

"You Can't Always Get What You Want", Or Can You?

Yeah huh, on November 25th I got my "Satisfaction"!!!

'May The Good Lord 'Shine A Light' on you', you amazing creatures of our time.

No 'Sympathy For These Lil Devils' Necessary - "Pleased to meet you".

Rolling Stones Playlist from Vancouver - November 25, 2006 (as requested)

1. Jumping Jack Flash - Erik said to me when Mick hit the stage - 'Why is he so skinny'? lol. As the concert goes on though, you become less concerned for this man that weighs probably 20 pounds less than me, and realize he's so much larger than life and he just blows you away.
2. It's Only Rock n' Roll - Row 12 Floor -can't get any better than what the song quality did for me.
3. Oh No Not You Again - From Bigger Bang, first time hearing it, not bad.
4. She Was Hot - Lisa Fisher, who I've seen 3 times now with the Stones was HOT.
5. Shine a Light (with Bonnie Raitt) - I can't believe they sang this song. I have their 'Stripped' album and this whole album is all very 'Sweet Virginia' esque... blues blues bluuuuuuuues. Love Mick as a Blues Boy, he's soooooooo good.
6. Streets Of Love - A new song I have never heard before, I think it was from the movie Alfie and Mick gave me shivers singing this song. I just loved this song, it went on forever, and forever wasn't long enough.
7. Midnight Rambler - Lisa Fisher, the backup singer who was out there the entire night made me realize why I love to dance...... she was soooooooooooo good. Good song, too. Loooong awesome song.
8. Tumbling Dice - "you've got to roll me" , and more so they did.
9. You Got The Silver (Keith) - He joked about his 'brain damage' . Halfway through the song Erik said 'Mick is a better singer' - my answer "his profession is he's a guitarist"..... but you gotta give him credit, that Keithy boy, he's so cute and I love his smile. LOVE YA KEITH.
10. Slipping Away (Keith) - My favourite Keith Richards song, I think I was the only one that new the words to the whole song. lol
11. Connection (Keith) - I love this man.
12. Miss You (stage moved to the other side of the arena at beginning of this song). This song always rocks in concert.
13. Get Off Of My Cloud - had to go to the washroom, not a fan of this song.
14. Start Me Up - AWESOME! FUN!
15. Honky Tonk Women (stage moves back to front) Fun party song. Sexy!
16. Sympathy For The Devil - wicked wicked wicked performance Mick, love ya.
17. Paint It Black - ok
18. Brown Sugar - never been a fan of this song, but IT ROOOOOOOOOCKED.
19. You Can't Always Get What You Want (encore) -Erik loves this song and wants the album it's from. He wasn't a Stones fan till last night.
20. Satisfaction (encore) - Freaking awesome extended ending.

A very old pic of Keith Richards, my favourite Stone.

"Just as you have touched my heart,
Babe, I wake and We're apart" - Keith Richards - Slipping Away

Thank you Mick, Keith, Ronnie and Charlie for changing my life forever, starting 17 years ago and last night.'Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Me Away', you will 'Not Fade Away'.

T's Two Fave Stones songs (as requested):

ALMOST HEAR YOU SIGH (From Steal Wheels)

(M. Jagger/K. Richards/Jordan)

I can almost hear you sigh

I can almost hear you cry

On every crowded street

All the places we would meet

What will I do without you

They say that life goes on

I'm feeling sorry for myself

I can't believe you're gone

You acted much too calm

You turned on all the charm

You had a cold look in your eyes

I can feel your tongue on mine

Silky smooth like wine

I'm living with those memories

That's all that's left of you and me

I can almost hear you sigh

Almost hear you cry

When you made sweet love to me

And you turned on all the charm

Acted much too calm

You had a cold look in your eyes

Did it mean nothing

Was it all in vain

Was I just your fool

Or was the pleasure pain

Have you set me free

Or will I wake up In the morning

And find out it's been a bad dream

Come on, I beg you

I want to be your main man

I can almost hear you sigh

Almost hear you cry

When you make sweet love to me

Almost see your smile

It stretched half a mile

You had a stone cold look in your eyes

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"Out of Tears" - From Voodoo Lounge

The Rolling Stones

I cant feelFeel a thing

I cant shout

I cant scream

Breathe it out

Breathe it in

All this loveFrom within

I wont cry when you say goodbye

Im out of tears

I wont die when you wave goodbye

Im out of tearsOut of tears

I wont drink

I wont eat

I cant hear

I wont speak

Let it out

Let it inAll this pain

From withinAnd I just cant pour my heart out

To another living thing

Im a whisper

Im a shadow

But Im standing up to sing

I wont cry when you say goodbye

Im out of tears

I wont die when you wave goodbye

Im out of tears, yes I amI wont cry,

I swear my eyes are dry

Im out of tears

I wont cry, Im going to tell you whyIm out of tears

Out of tears

Let it out

From within

Some you lose

Some you win

I can drift

I can dream

Til I floatOff your screen

And I just cant pour my heart out

To another living thing

Im a whisper

Im a shadow

But Im standing up to sing

I wont cry when you say goodbye

Im out of tears

I wont die when you wave goodbye

Im out of tears

Out of tears

I wont cry, I swear my eyes are dry

Im out of tearsOut of tears

I wont cry, Im going to tell you why

Im out of tears

Out of tears

2006-11-25T08:06:00.000-08:00

Do you know where the Rainbow(s) go?

The other day, after all the bucket loads of rain, I saw two rainbows side by side.... never seen anything like that in my life, by the time I got back, one of them had disappeared. Did anyone else see Double Rainbows a few days ago?

2006-11-24T21:46:00.000-08:00

The Bond Girl Speaks.

But first: James Bond and Billy Talent? who knew.

Just kidding, for some reason, after viewing the following James Bond Interview, a block of Billy Talent videos come on...... one of them being the new 'Red Flag'... love that song.

I just realized why I like this James Bond - he fell in looooooooove........... It's all in the interview: see link...

http://video.sympatico.msn.com/v/en-ca/v.htm?g=5DD33EE3-A3F9-4730-8224-23A3507D199F&f=http://sympatico.msn.ca/&fg=copy

2006-11-24T18:07:00.000-08:00

Well, I guess it's time to confess

ie. Oprah's Boot Camp Update

Note to self: Take the Loser Cruiser more often and don't buy Halloween candy so early in advance. ooops me bad?

Ha ha ha, yesterday I had to take 2 buses and the skytrain to work in Burnaby. But I wanna be a princess.

Most of you all know the hill in our complex leading up to our house.

Ever try walking down that hill? Just as brutal. Especially in really cheapo boots... Never again in boots, dumb. I'm in so much pain today.

Erik had no sympathy for me, he's been doing the hill up and down for 3 years now.

I have been doing the opposite. June 2003, at 170 lbs, I stopped the whole bus system completely, had Markus 3 months later and 1 year off. woo hooo. When I returned to work in 2004, I got spoiled with an awesome temp job on the hill where I live, which I drove to, 5 minutes up the road (Thanks Laura, LOVE YA, OWE YA). The temp job has lasted me 2 years now and within the same department I go to other places, but I drive..........

I took buses for yeeeeeeeeeears and remained a healthy 129 until I got prego. Before we left for Maui to get married, I had the saying in my head 'no one likes a fat bride' , so I walked from Coquitlam bus loop to home (hello, yes, I DID JOHNSON HILL FOR 5 MONTHS) every day after work from January till May..... 35 minutes. For the first time in my life, I felt cofident telling people 'feel my ass'. YOU'VE SEEN THE HILL RIGHT?

I didn't have a kid yet and had time to exercise. Oh how I miss hill days and just saying "i'm going for a walk; I'm doing the hill"

Yesterday, it became very obvious to me why I can't lose 20 pounds. I stopped taking the LOSER CRUISER, which in the past has kept me a very healthy weight. I'm now one of those people that actually DOES have to workout. urg how I hate working out.

I think it's time I became a 'Loser' (cruiser) again... Then I might actually LOSE (weight).

To people who wanna lose weight: BE A LOSER, TAKE PUBLIC TRANSIT, I did it for the first time in 3 years, yesterday and my ass and legs, effen KILL......

To all that already take the transit system to and from work, be happy, you are probably very healthy people.

Now, if I could just find the clubhouse where I live. I heard there is an eliptical down there...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

FEEL MY ASS........... NOT......... YET.

Imagine them trying to lift me now? 'no one wants to lift a fat bride'.

Dreaming of skinnier and warmer days.

2006-11-22T20:38:00.000-08:00

I'm Tellin Ya Loosen Up My Buttons Babe, Uh huh

There's Something About The Bond Girl

As requested, I looked for more pix of the bond girl (in less clothes), not mentioning any names. lol

Not alot of pics of this girl on the web, but can guarantee, we will be seeing alot more of her in the future.......

Eva Green

view tons of footage from the movie here: http://movies.aol.com/casino-royale-james-bond/exclusive-video-features

I loved this scene..... this is where I really realized this is my favourite Blonde, er Bond.

view movie trailer here: http://us.video.aol.com/video.index.adp?pmmsid=1704501

2006-11-21T23:06:00.000-08:00

Blonde Bond, James Bond

Movie Review: Casino RoyaleEva Green, The Bond Girl

That dress, omg. Boys, you know what I'm saying.

MOVIE REVIEW: CASINO ROYALE

Finally saw the movie tonite: This movie has been in theatres for what seems like an eternity...... I couldn't get to this movie fast enough.......... Daniel Craig really grew on me. I looooooved him. At first I thought it's not possible, but yep, it's official: he beat out Pierce Brosnon in the hottness factor.. yeppers.. he was way more believable, especially with the girl and the falling in love and all that stuff...I just loved the love story... looooooooooooooooooved it.

Now, THE BOND GIRLS!!!!!!!!!! Eva Green (26) as Vesper Lynd, Daniel Craig (37)as James Bond and Caterina Murino as Solange (31)in MGM/Columbia Pictures' Casino Royale - 2006 - gasp both girl are younger than me. :o( I'm officially old.

The wife of a terrorist that Bond gets involved with. If you could see the whole dress she is wearing, omg I want this dress in every colour of the rainbow (well, ok, maybe just black, figure of speech). It is a beautiful dress...... It just flows and it was so beautiful on this actress.Caterina Murino

Eva Green: I have never seen her in any movie before but I really liked her alot. She's THE GIRL.

a very bad girl! Actress Ivana Milicevic.

2006-11-19T21:53:00.000-08:00

Happy Belated Birthday Shaunda!!!!

Shaunda and her friend Jag. -

I have known the cutie pie on the right, for 9 years now - Her, me and E all used to work together, where E still works, when Shaunda just got out of highschool.!!!!!!! This is her 27th birthday pic. We were chatting on msn tonite when she sent me this pic and said it's from her birthday... gasp! I forgot your birthday this year, Shaunda. Will make it up to you!!!!!!!........... hope you had fun!!! Love ya. p.s. you are forever young, I have decided; you never change - just get more gorgeous every year, but still look young!!!!!

p.s. YES BOYS, THIS CUTE BLONDE IS SINGLE. :O)~~~~~~

2006-11-19T09:34:00.000-08:00

Weekly O.C. Recap:

T note: I didn't see it coming (the Taylor and Ryan stuff). Jaw dropped on floor after that kiss Ryan gave her........

404 - "THE METAMORPHOSIS"Aired: 11/16/06
Summer begins seeing a therapist at Brown to get through her grief over Marissa’s death. The sessions are obviously having an effect, as Summer blitzes through the five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance – in one short week. She wonders if this now means she can get back to being her old, shallow self. The therapist warns her to just take it slowly.
Seth, however, is not taking it slow. He’s jetted to Providence to make a last-ditch attempt at keeping his girlfriend. His old girlfriend. As soon as she sees him, she nails him with a big kiss and it would seem that all is happy again.
On the other coast, Ryan has become a bit of fitness maven as he recreates Rocky’s beach training scenes. No awkward hug with Apollo, though. Sandy, who’s at the beach to surf, tells Ryan he looks great out there. And with his job at the taco shop starting soon, and his acceptance to Berkeley valid for next year, maybe Ryan can start getting back to his old self.
After an afternoon delight, Summer apologizes to Seth for turning into a liberal zealot to distract herself from her own grief. But now, the old Summer is back. So she’s pretty excited when Seth pulls Season Three of The Valley out of his backpack.
At home, Sandy is lamenting to Kirsten that suddenly he has no guy friends left. Jimmy left – twice – Caleb died and Neil Roberts is out of town. He has no males to bond with! Kirsten suggests he give Jason Spitz a call since he’s always saying how funny he is. But…Sandy has no idea how to set up a guy date.
Julie gets off the phone with Dr. Roberts and informs Kaitlin that he said they can stay in the house as long as they want. Kaitlin assures her mother that she shouldn’t worry. She can probably find another old guy to pay for all of her stuff and then cheat on her in no time. Surprised and upset that she’s teaching her only daughter such cynicism and materialism, Julie vows to change. She’s giving up men. So the Cooper women make a bet. No men for Julie, no trouble for Kaitlin.
Ryan is bussing away at El Pavo Guapo when he sees Taylor strolling through the mall looking for Seth. With Seth away, she decides to talk to Ryan instead. Because, you see, she needs a favor. Her French husband, Henri-Michel, is coming to Newport to talk his American bride out of divorce, so she wants a Yankee buck present for support. She fears his sensual powers influencing her in a bad way.
In Providence, Che comes by Summer’s dorm with a flyer for the next rally. She has a confession for him. The person she really is. She shows him her collection of leather, suede and calfskin shoes, her celebrity gossip rags and a photo of Marissa. Then she explains that her activism was just an attempt to run away from her pain over Marissa. Seth comes in and when Che finds out Summer has a boyfriend, Che’s only regret is that he didn’t make Seth a bracelet as a welcome gift. Decent guy, that Che.
At work the next day, Sandy asks Jason Spitz if he wants to do…uh…something. If he’s free, you know? Jason asks if he can get back to Sandy on that one. Across the country that night, Seth and Summer are watching The Valley and flipping through gossip rags. Summer pulls Che’s latest flyer out of her garbage and Old Summer and New Summer commence battle in her heart.
Ryan and Taylor wait for their morning meeting with Henri-Michel. But there’s no Henri-Michel. Just his lawyer, who announces that there will be no divorce and he would like Taylor to return to France. According to French law, there is no divorce without mutual consent. Unless, of course, one party has been unfaithful. Holding Ryan’s arm, Taylor asks the lawyer how he can be sure about her fidelity. The lawyer doesn’t believe her.
Julie and Kirsten meet for lunch and Julie promptly announces that she’s off men. Now she can set a good example for Kaitlin and develop her career. That is, if Kaitlin will still have her back at the dating agency. Oh, come on, Julie. Of course she will! Just then, Sandy calls with the news that he and Jason Spitz have a man date planned. At the same time, Julie is off talking to Taryn, who seems to be recently divorced. But she won’t need their dating service, as she’s having plenty of fun as a cougar these days. Young guys just want to have fun!
Over at Harbor, Luke’s twin brothers approach Kaitlin with a plan for procuring fake IDs. Kaitlin balks at first, mentioning the bet she has with her mom. But the twins say dude enough to convince Kaitlin to go along with their plot.
That night at El Pavo Guapo, Taylor has one more favor to ask of Ryan. She just needs his signature on some French legal document. Oh, don’t worry about what it says. It’s just standard boilerplate about her character. Ryan is simply a witness to it. Before leaving the document with Ryan to sign after work, she asks one more time if he speaks French. Assured that he doesn’t, she takes off.
In Providence, Seth is chatting with Che about his relationship when they overhear Summer leading a rally. She vows to lead a revolt against the school until they put solar panels in all of the dorms. Seth shakes his head at the return of New Summer.
The next morning, Ryan is trying to read Taylor’s document with a French/English dictionary when Seth calls with his worries about Summer. Summer overhears him worrying that he doesn’t fit in her new life and she assures him that even she is into green living these days, she still loves her boyfriend.
Sandy and Jason “Spitzy” Spitz are out playing some golf when Spitz gets a call. Spitz confesses that his wife was calling to make sure he was having a good time. Spitz, you see, doesn’t have that many guy friends any more. Everything is so difficult these days. Man, oh man, can Sandy ever relate to that!
Julie and Kirsten are working on the dating service when Kirsten mentions that she’s all alone tonight and asks Julie if she’d like to do something. Julie thinks that would be a great idea…until she gets a call from Taryn asking if Julie will be joining the cougar pack this evening. You see, even with elective surgery, Julie won’t be this hot forever, so she’d better have fun while she still can. Persuaded by that shallow logic, Julie announces to Kirsten that she needs to cancel tonight. She’s suddenly not feeling so hot.
Kaitlin and the twins meet up with their fake ID connection. Julie and Taryn get to the club. It seems that the Cooper bet is a tie. At the same time, the much more wholesome Taylor catches up with Ryan and asks about the document. Oh yes. The document. Well, Ryan spent all day translating it and he learned that it’s an affidavit that he and Taylor have had sex approximately thirty times. She begs him to sign the papers so she won’t have to return to France, and he objects that he has enough on his plate as it is. Taylor confesses that she turned to him because she had nobody else and…Ryan’s defender instinct kicks in. Oh no! It’s a helpless girl! Ryan must intervene! Except…he doesn’t.
Che arrives at the solar power board meeting with a new recruit. Seth. Of course, since Seth doesn’t attend Brown, security doesn’t allow him into the meeting. Summer doesn’t want to go in without him, but Seth points out that everybody in there is counting on her. He’ll be fine for a few hours.
Sandy and Spitzy arrive at El Pavo Guapo just as Ryan is punching out. Sandy asks Ryan if he wants to join them, but Ryan passes. So Sandy pulls Ryan aside to make sure he’s doing okay. Sure. He shows up to work, goes home and does it all over again the next day. Sandy reminds Ryan that he can’t check out like that. He needs to help people. It’s who he is. Seemingly affected, Ryan tells Sandy he has to go help somebody out at that very moment.
Kaitlin uses her new ID to get into the club. That wouldn’t happen to be the same club Julie is at, would it? Of course it would be! And it doesn’t take long for the Coopers to spot each other. Luckily for Kaitlin’s sake, Julie wonders if it was a drunken mirage.
Ryan the Defender finds a tearful Taylor meeting with the lawyer at The Yacht Club. Ryan apologizes for being late and gives Taylor a passionate kiss before asking if he needs to sign some papers. The French lawyer says he knows true love when he sees it. He’ll inform Henri-Michel the wedding is over. But what’s just beginning is Taylor’s crush on Ryan and his soft, soft lips.
So later that night Taylor finds Ryan at the pool house. She baked him a peach torte to say thank you for everything.

2006-11-18T18:43:00.000-08:00

Official Website for Rockstar Supernova (The Band) - (not the show)

Just came across this site today. Their official site:

Have you seen anything so cool? wait a second once you've logged in. You will see something really cool happen.

Also, click on each of their names and each person will walk onto the screen.

http://www.intothesupernova.com/

2006-11-18T15:14:00.000-08:00

Listen to Rockstar Supernova's album debut:

(Yep, the entire album) ...... I'm lovin it .......... so far............... haven't heard it all yet!!!!!!

Album release date: November 21st.

Quote from RM: "Good call on the Lukas winning thing" ........... yep, I so called it, baby. I so called it. uh huh.

Luuuuuuuuuuuukaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssssssssss Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

............ and.................. "It's all Love" , baby.

http://entertainment1.sympatico.msn.ca/Music/Artists/Articles/rockstarsupernova

2006-11-18T15:05:00.000-08:00

Fun Photo Shoot

eeeee Rayna is so cute.

Was trying out a new Sepia setting on my cam. My beautiful niece, Rayna, was my little model.

I think she looks like me, abit. ?

Miss you R.

xoxox

2006-11-18T14:45:00.000-08:00

Check Out What Rayna's Shirt Says

I'm not sure she has any idea what it means. But it won't come true, if I have anything to say about it.

2006-11-17T18:03:00.000-08:00

This is what happens when your kid gets bored while playing on the living room ottoman and moms on the computer all day.

2006-11-15T20:34:00.000-08:00

Rachel Ray Inspired.

I decided I was feeling cheesy the other night so googled cheesy recipes with chicken and brocoli.

Do you ever get really horrible recipes off google? I've decided 'i give up'... I use google for inspiration but cook the Rachel Ray way... ie..... never measure and add your own stuff. Get creative like the naked chef guy does.

I have to share with you a new family fave:

K this is what I googled:

Broccoli Rice Casserole
From Diana Rattray,Your Guide to Southern U.S. Cuisine.FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!
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INGREDIENTS:
1/4 to 1/2 cup chopped onion
1 tablespoon butter
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/2 small jar Cheez Whiz(TM), about 1/2 cup
1 cup cooked rice
1 package (10 ounces) frozen broccoli, cooked and drained
PREPARATION:
In a skillet over medium-low heat, sauté onion in butter; add rice and broccoli. Heat soup over low heat; add Cheez Whiz. Combine all ingredients; pour into buttered casserole. Bake casserole at 325° for about 20 to 30 minutes, or until thoroughly heated.Serves 4.

Sorry Dianna, but jar cheez whiz? yikes.

This is what I added instead:

I added 1.5 cups of milk to the mushroom soup, 1.5 cups of cheddar cheese, 1 package of Ikea cream sauce mix (i was feeling creative), 2 packages of KD cheese sauce mix, 2 tblsp curry.

Cooked cut up chicken breasts separately in oil after first coating the chicken with flour.

Also instead of frozen Broc, I used 'real' broc.

If you like White Spot "Chicken brocoli and cheese", this tasted very similar, but abit different due to the ikea cream sauce package and more curry taste.

yuuuuuuuuum

another option I will try later is bread crumbs on top like how White Spot does it.

Bon Appetite.

2006-11-14T12:20:00.000-08:00

I feel so important: Rolling Stones Access Cards? who knew.

Today Canada Post just delivered these right to my house. eeeeeeeeeeeeee

Yay, now we all can walk around like on Wayne's World flashing these at everyone.. Only dif is 'no backstage access'. :o(

Oh well, we're goona be so close, it won't matter.

I had no idea we would need these hot little items along with our concert tickets.?!?!?!?!?!?!

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, fingers crossed no more postponements...... i'm freaking out.

2006-11-13T23:09:00.000-08:00

Can I be Electric Too?

It's the end of Part 1 for Oasis, as quoted by Noel Ghalagher. Hilarious interview on Much the other day. Definately the funniest quote was - 'We will always be around unless I throttle Liam before that'. lol!!!!!

Their greatest hits album will be released very soooooooooooooon. I'm so excited.

Then we can expect the new phase of Oasis to begin. yay!!!!!

see live footage here: http://entertainment1.sympatico.msn.ca/Music/Concerts/oasis

My fave Oasis song is Don't Look Back in Anger, but if anyone has never heard 'Electric', it's on one of the best albums ever made: 'what's the story morning glory' it's hilarious: too bad it was never a single...... I wanna be Electric too. pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease.

She's electric
She's in a family full of eccentrics
She done things I never expected
And I need more time
She's got a sister
And god only knows how I've missed her
On the palm of her hand is a blister
And I need more time
And I want you to know
I've got my mind made up now
But I need more time
And I want you to say
Do you know what I'm saying?
But I need more ....
Coz I'll be you and you'll be me
There's lots and lots for us to see
There's lots and lots for us to do
She is electric, can I be electric too?
She's got a brother
We don't get on with one another
But I quite fancy her mother
And I think that she likes me
She's got a cousin
In fact she's got 'bout a dozen
She's got one in the oven
But it's nothing to do with me
And I want you to know
I've got my mind made up now
But I need more time
And I want you to say
Do you know what I'm saying?
But I need more ....
Coz I'll be you and you'll be me
There's lots and lots for us to see
There's lots and lots for us to do
She is electric, can I be electric too?

2006-11-12T07:17:00.000-08:00

Movie Review: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

I've been wanting to see this movie for a while. Jeff at work said to see it, months ago; he seems like a good judge of character! He was 'BANG' on. Both actors, Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer are 2 of my faves, so not sure why it took me this long to see the movie. E was at the hockey game and M fell asleep at 5:30 so I had alot of time on my hands last night. Checked out movie central and it was on!! I love nights like that when something comes on you have never seen. HOWEVER the movie was half over. :o( But I loved what I saw.

I just saw the movie preview below (see link) and it looks hilarious......... k now I HAVE to see the whole movie...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kiss_kiss_bang_bang/trailers_player.php?IGNMediaID=1243279&playerType=videolarge

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kiss_kiss_bang_bang/about.php - what the movie is about.... plus other stuff (the 'mistake' section cracks me up). I wish I had the time to see the 'mistakes' in movies... the only time I noticed anything was in Terminator 2 when the semi goes over the bridge and lands in that L.A. water duct (where the movie Greese was filmed during the car race scenes) and the window that was once broken off of the semi was in tact again. That's all I have ever noticed in a movie EVER.

Anyways, I hope RD jr. is a reformed man and finally happy and better, now that he is married and stuff, and we will see him do movies like this again and again and again.. Val Kilmer, I have given up on expecting a movie out of him every year, these days...... He definately will never sell himself out, that's for sure... I just look forward to the days when he does finally come out with a movie..... he's not in enough of em in my opinion!

2006-11-09T20:43:00.000-08:00

Mayne Island, BC, Calvin and Sharon's Wedding Location
On the ferry ride home from Victoria, on the weekend, I noticed from a distance, the place Calvin and Sharon got married, 2 years ago. What a beautiful wedding spot!!! Mayne Island (one of the Gulf Islands).

Here's remembering and saying "Happy Belated 2 year Wedding Anniversary, Cal and Share".

2006-11-09T20:12:00.000-08:00

You have to get one of these!

Watch a movie, read the paper, drink your coffee, talk to a friend all at the kitchen table.

You have to get one of these!

I never thought I'd find use for this portable DVD Player other than long trips in the car to Kelowna, Furry Creek or Whistler, watching Baby Einstein and Disney movies with Markus, but I actually have watched 3 movies at home on this already. Watched Butterfly Effect 2 other day. When it seemed boring, and the phone rang, I talked to Nikki and easily turned volume down. Sat at table, read paper, had my morning coffee(s). Cool little item I have here..... With kids, it's hard on your hydro bill to watch a really big tv. On the portable, it took me 3 hours to watch Alot Like Love with Ashton Kutcher few weeks ago. On the big TV that is alot of hydro. So, has alot of really awesome concepts, I feel. Markus and I also watch it at night a couple times a week at his bedtime and he falls asleep to it.... (can't wait to hear all the comments from the moms on that one!!! lol. who cares, whatever works, i say) .

They are cheaper now. We bought this months ago when they were still in the $200's :o(.... saw one at Best Buy last night for $98... come join.

2006-11-07T21:10:00.000-08:00

Two movie reviews for you guys, tonite!!!

Yay, I know it's been a while. I'm so excited. I actually saw 2 movies today!!!!!!! Things are lookin up!!!!!!!!!

Butterfly Effect 2:

I rarely say baaaaaaaaaaad. But this movie was just soooooooo baaaaaaaaaaaaaad. I can't believe it made it to even video. It was rediculously stupid. I rarely like part 2's but there have been times when part 3 is better (not in the case with the Scream Triligy. I loved part 2 and did not like part 3 at all), AND, it seems to me that there will be a part 3 of Butterfly Effect ...... Still, nothing could compare to the original with Ashton Kutcher, mr. charisma!!!! That said, if he was in part 2, I'm pretty sure he'd be embarrassed. Ouch!!!!!!

The movie centered around all new characters (so the Ashton Kutcher character is now retired?!?!?!!?!?). I think even one guy went to my school that was in this movie. It was filmed in Vancouver so I know there were alot of canadians in the movie.... The original Butterfly Effect really moved me. There was something about the movie. Rebecca and I couldn't stop talking about it for MONTHS!!!!!! Oddly enough, the endings we were talking about were 2 totally different endings....... She had no idea what I was talking about and I had no idea what she was talking about which made me want to see her version that much more. When E and I rented it, we accidentally chose the 'alternate ending'.... When I stumbled accross the orginal theatrical release on Movie Central months later, I realized the reason Rebecca was so confused. The version she saw was soooooooooooooooooooo different and still so moving..... Anyways, now I am rambling about Butterfly Effect again which means I will probably end up buying that movie (and I never buy movies) because we never got to watch the deleted scenes when we rented part 1 and I'm now realizing I still haven't gotten this movie out of my system. Anyways, If you haven't seen the original, get on it and let's talk after. I love Amy Smart, too!!! I love her fate in both endings. And it was all because of Ashton and his love for her. What a guy! So beautiful!!!!

The Departed: Saw it tonite in theatre,

I still haven't come down from this movie, we just got home from seeing it. Never has Martin Scorsese made me so uncomfortable. Probably a good thing, because this movie will stay with me for a loooooooong time, kind of like when I saw Lucky Number Slevin. This movie is not for everyone. I definately won't be telling my mom to see it. She loves Jack, but not in this one, especially the seen in the porn movie theatre. ew yuck!!!!! There were surprises around every corner. Amazing cast of actors. The movie centers around the Southern Boston Mafia. The police force is trying to take down organized crime. Undercover Cop Leonardo DeCaprio is assigned (by head chief of police Martin Sheen and Mark Whalberg) to find the inside mob guy -played by Matt Damon (posing as a cop who went through all the training to become a cop but is working for mob boss Jack Nicholson's character).

I rarely do this, but I couldn't help but think Matt Damon and Mark Whalberg should have switched roles. But either will be type-cast after this movie, that's for sure.

I have also decided (without disrespecting the amazing casting), that this movie could have been so different and not as good if Leonardo Decaprio was not in the movie... He is an amazing actor and I know he will get his so deserved Oscar some day!!!! He held the whole movie together.

Sorry Erik for hitting you through the entire movie asking 'what does that mean, why did they kill that guy'. lol......... I was confused at first because they didn't totally explain why Leo first had to pose as an ex con first, then go undercover. I didn't realize he was hired undercover. Wasn't listening properly maybe.

Click here right now http://thedeparted.warnerbros.com/ awesome movie preview. (oh and yes, that is both Leo and Matt that get the girl!!!) oh and yes, That is the Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" they are playing at the beginning of the preview and a terrible live version of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" later on. Couldn't miss the opportunity to point that out about the Stone's though. teehee.

2006-11-07T16:12:00.000-08:00

A dedication to a friend... you know who you are and are stronger than you think, babe!!!!

Bryan Adams -

The Best Is Yet To Come

Just a small town girl in the city lights
The best was yet to come
Then lonely days turned to endless nights
The best was yet to come
How were you to know
That you would be the lucky one
Ain't it funny how time flies
When the best is yet to come
You can cry yourself to sleep at night
You can't change the things you've done
You had it there then it slipped away
Yeah you left the song unsung
Even through your tears
I never saw you come undone
What's so good about goodbye
When the best was yet to come
I find myself thinkin' about yesterday
When you were and livin' in a dream
In the moment that it takes
You find you made your first mistake
Like the setting sun...
You turn around it's gone
Just a small town girl who had it made
Or so the story goes
She had it there then it slipped away
Oh - how was she to know
Even through her tears
I never saw her come undone
Ain't it funny how time flies
When the best is yet to come
What's so good about goodbye
When the best was yet to come

2006-11-06T13:58:00.000-08:00

Before The Rain ............ Rembering The Colours

On Oct 28, I managed to go on my own little treasure hunt and get some pix before the rain came.

2006-11-06T12:08:00.000-08:00

Sky Over Mt. Baker

Last week on one of the days I didn't have to work, I woke up around 6:40 and saw something reddish beaming through the blinds. This is one of the only reasons I love winter and just staying inside all day. Sitting inside and looking out.

2006-11-05T16:45:00.000-08:00

Gena and Derek's (first dance) Wedding Song

Snow Patrol

Chasing Cars

We'll do it all, everything, on our own
We don't need anything or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world

I don't quite know how to say how I feel
Those three words are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes
They're all I can see

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
I just know that these things
Will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

2006-11-02T22:12:00.000-08:00

Caught Erik Watching The O.C. Season Premiere. lol

Not sure what I was up to but I missed the last episode last year... Will the show survive without Marissa? I'm not thinking too positive on this one.

Saw the season premiere tonite... yay, I have a life again. lol...... I cried alot. Lots of Marissa memories but I'm not sure the show will survive now. I still can't wait to see all the new episodes. My old fave is back on, baby. Season 4...

p.s. should we take bets on whether Mischa Barton will be the next to pull a David Caruso?

O.C. Recap from last season:

325 - "THE GRADUATES"Aired: 5/18/06
Sandy finds Kirsten in the bedroom as Seth finds Ryan in the pool room. Seth admits to Ryan that he started the fire, but it was an accident. Sandy laments that he thinks Seth is hiding something, but after their fight earlier, now isn't the time to doubt his honesty. Seth wants to get his iPod from the car so he can listen to some mopey music, and Ryan remembers he left it parked outside of Volchok's target. Ryan heads out to get the car and that's when Volchok rushes up to him. He ditched the car and ran. He tells Ryan he needs to get out of town, but he needs some money. And if he goes down, Ryan goes with him. Who knew a few punches could get a guy so deep?
Summer, Marissa and Taylor decorate the bleachers for the graduation ceremony. Julie finds her daughter and hands her a graduation gift from Jimmy. A letter. Dawn arrives at the Cohen home for the graduation. Ryan happily hugs his mom. And Caitlin arrives home, her new home, also for the ceremony. Julie suspects Caitlin has more in mind that a simply sisterly gesture.
Seth finds his father upstairs and confesses that he burned down the Newport Group with a wayward roach. Although disappointed, Sandy understands. He's good that way. At Harbor, Marissa tells Summer what the letter was about. Jimmy is working on boats sailing to the Greek Islands and has invited her to join him for a year. She'll be doing hard work, peeling potatoes and pitting olives and such, but she thinks it'll be a good break from the hullabaloo of Newport. Thing is, she has to fly out tomorrow night to catch up with the boat in Hawaii. Summer makes her promise that she'll sail to Rhode Island one day.
Volchok hides in a van, waiting for a friend to bring him some clothes from the loft. The girl wonders why Volchok hasn't just left yet, then realizes he wants to see Marissa one last time.
It's graduation time. Before the ceremony, Marissa pulls Ryan aside and tells him about her plan. He thinks it sounds great. Just great. As long he can drive her to the airport and be the last person to say goodbye. The ceremony finally arrives and the Class of '06 is handed their diplomas.
That night, the Cohens, Robertses, Coopers and Atwoods gather for a celebratory dinner at The Yacht Club. After the meal, Marissa pulls Julie aside and mentions Jimmy's letter to her. But Julie already knew, as Jimmy called her last week for he thoughts on sailing before sending the letter. And Julie thinks that if this is something Marissa wants to do, she's happy to let her go. Julie then gives Marissa her graduation gift, a pearl necklace.
Out in the parking lot, Dawn is giving Ryan his own graduation gift. An old Toyota Land Cruiser. She's been saving up for a little while and her boyfriend Ron knows a guy who restores cars. Ryan is astounded by the gesture. Then Marissa gets a call from Volchok. He tells her that if he can't see her one last time, he's going to make life rough for Ryan. If she doesn't believe, ask Ryan about the car they stole. So she does. Ryan says he needs money to help Volchok get out of town, so Marissa gives him the necklace, figuring they're in this together.
The next morning, Ryan picks up Marissa for one last drop off with Volchok. After a pit stop at the pawn shop, of course. Marissa asks if she can come along, and Ryan resists. But he relents after saying she has to stay in the car the whole time. Elsewhere, Sandy drops by the DA's office. And at home, Kirsten hands Seth an envelope from RISD.
Ryan exits the pawn shop and finds Volchok waiting for him. The money exchange is civilized, if chilly. Then Volchok sees Marissa behind the wheel of Ryan's car. He slams on the window and begs to talk to her, but she simply drives off. Volchok screams in a rage.
Later, at home, Julie comes in as Marissa is packing to leave. On the verge of tears, Julie apologizes to her daughter for sleeping with one of her ex-boyfriends, and framing another for attempted homicide. Despite the colorful and non-traditional offenses, Marissa forgives her mother.
That night, the gang of four gets ready to say goodbye to Marissa. But before they do, Marissa has one last place for the group to visit. Sandy catches up with Kirsten and tells her that he talked to the DA, and since The Newport Group won't presses charges against Seth, the whole thing is over.
In two cars, the group pulls up to the model home that Ryan and Luke accidentally burned down three years ago. The one that was completely renovated and Marissa passed out in a few months ago. And she still wants to go back inside. The kids hop the fence and go for a swim in the pool. After some cannonballs and some laughs and some tears, Ryan and Marissa head for the airport. Volchok and his friend, sitting in his van, watch them go. Volchok takes a swig from his flask and hits the gas.
Seth takes Summer into his bedroom and shows her his mail. Although his application arrived too late for the fall semester, RISD has accepted him for the spring. He starts in January. He apologizes to Summer for screwing everything up with Brown.
As Ryan drives, Volchok rams his car from behind. He then pulls alongside and tries to run Ryan off the road. And he succeeds. Ryan barrels through a curve and over an embankment. The car rolls end over end down the hill, finally crashing on another road below. Coming back to his senses, Ryan crawls out of the car. Noticing gas pouring from the tank and a small fire, he grabs an unconscious Marissa and carries her free of the wreckage in a mirror from the time he found her in Tijuana. The car explodes and Ryan lays Marissa down on the pavement and rouses her. He tells her he's going to get help, but she begs him to stay. And then she dies.

2006-10-31T11:11:00.000-08:00

For Those That Read Blogs Before Watching or Listening To The News:

Tanya:

ROLLING STONES VANCOUVER DATE RESCHEDULED

The Rolling Stones have been advised to take four days off from their "A Bigger Bang" world tour in order for singer Mick Jagger to properly recover from recent throat problems.

This decision means that the Vancouver show at BC Place will have to be rescheduled. The show will move from Friday November 3 to Saturday November 25.

Other schedule changes: The Oakland show moves from November 5 to November 6. The Los Angeles show will move from November 18 to November 22. The Honolulu show has been cancelled.

Tickets for the previously scheduled performances will be honored at the new dates.

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2006-10-29T22:03:00.000-08:00

My Date With Slash

Last night it was the J Roe's first annual halloween partae. First time E and I have ever dressed up and gone to a halloween partae together. fun times.

Orginally E-Rock was suppossed to just go as a "hair-boy-band-rocker-of-the- 80's", then somehow he started to look like Gene Simmons, then Bob Marley (3rd pic) and in the second to last pic he looks like Ian Astbury then after I wrapped my hippie scarf around his head (like in that G n R documentary way back when), he became Slash from G 'n' R. I kept saying I wanted him to have this new look all the time now. Hellooooooooooo hottie.

Aaron and Shireen = Dr. McDreamy and the hottie nurse.

Justin = Dr. Evil (not that isn't a bald head wig)

p.s. extreme EXTREME hottie alert over at www.lisasdiet.blogspot.com for the boys (sortof). holy moly Lisa. sizzle.

2006-10-26T20:42:00.000-07:00

"Dude Looks Like A .................. Lukas?"

Definately what I wanted to hear on my way to work this morning. DEFINATELY!!!!! uh huh.

No sarcasm whatsoever..............Did I say that out loud?

I was laughing my ASS off when I heard the news this morning but was also kind of....... um........... yeah.

Ahem, Nothing.

Anyhow, see below picture and write up. And if anyone actually thinks this was planned and a publicity stunt to sell records for their upcoming album release date (November 21)... think again...... K fine, whatever, I don't know the guys personally, but I really think these were two random hotties (sort of - about the 'random' part) having (a few too many?) beers and having fun. They are very 'close', no pun intended. Seriously.

Tommy Lee and his Rockstar Supernova lead singer Lukas Rossi are making beautiful music together.
The duo showed up to Frankie J’s album release party in Hollywood on Tuesday and professed their admiration for each other by engaging in some ordinary, run of the mill, John Travolta-style man-on-man open mouth kissing. Not that there’s anything wrong with that!
Rossi even got a little touchy-feely as his hand can be seen riding up Tommy’s stomach and exposing Lee’s beautifully manscaped and tattooed lower abdomen.
This isn’t the first time Tommy has been caught making out with a fellow rocker. In July, Lee and Dave Navarro swapped spit while at a party for their CBS reality show “Rockstar: Supernova.”
While we support Tommy’s desire to express his manlove, at the same time Rossi and Navarro wear enough makeup to rival the Pussycat Dolls that we wouldn’t be surprised if Tommy was unaware he was kissing a man.(SOURCE TMZ)

2006-10-25T22:39:00.000-07:00

Colours in the Rain Today when I was leaving our complex, I noticed the colours of the trees are getting more vivid by the day (I was driving, hence the blurry pix, still some of them look neat-no I don't usually drive with my camera, but happened to have it with me. quel sapreeze). The leaves were suppossed to have fallen by now, I read in the paper, but because of the dry weather, the 'fall' is delayed. Did anyone see that pic in The Province today of the girl walking across the street totally surrounded by red leaved trees? I must find that pic online. I love that picture.

2006-10-25T22:19:00.000-07:00

Nikki's Quite the Photographer.

This is a pic Nik took in White Rock last year. I'm on a sunset and leaves kick right now so thought I would post one of the best sunset pix I've seen EVER.

Good job, Nik!

2006-10-23T22:42:00.000-07:00

Giggling over Google.

Do you ever google your faveourite movies of the past or your favourite actors or people in movies that you haven't seen in ages wondering what they might be up to these days?

Tonite Nikki and I were talking about bullying in school. Next thing you know I'm talking about how Matt Dillon was never described as a bully but in the movie The Outsiders, he was pretty much Mr. Bully on 3 accounts, that I can think of . One being when a little girl asks him for '15 cents' , he tells her to 'get outa here' in a really mean voice.......... for some reason I decided to google the movie and find out what that girl is up to these days. I thought she was the cutest little actress who deserved more screen time, which actually she did when she played as Diane Lane's sister in "Rumble Fish" later on. I remember her name was credited as 'Domino' so figured either she dropped out of site, or she changed her name to something else........... so I googled the Outsiders website, since googling Domino could give me alot of stuff.

Well, I got the shock of my life when I googled and learned that the little girl had an extremely bright future. She became a director - most noteably for 'Lost in Translation' and now the new 'Mario Anntoinette'. It was none other than: Sophia Coppola (sometimes credited as Domino or Domino Coppola)....... I love Google, and I have too much time on my hands. uh huh.

Here's my 6 Degrees of Kirsten Dunst:
Jason Schwartzman, the guy that plays Kirsten Dunst's husband in the new movie (don't ask me to spell it again) is the cousin of Sophia who is also the cousin of Nicolas Cage who is the son of Talia Shire. Nicolas cage played in the movie Rumble Fish that also Sophia played in, while Sophia was in The Outsiders in that very small part, which also was one of Tom Cruises first films. Tom Cruise also played in 'Interview with The Vampire' which also starred Kirsten Dunst.

2006-10-23T21:51:00.000-07:00

Dove Self Esteem Campaign

Not sure if anyone has watched this yet, but I've received it from 5 people so far. Check it out.

I found it creepy at first but got used to it after a couple times watching it.

side note: when the girl (without makeup) first walks in and sits down, you see her at a distance for one split second. In that second, I really think the girl kind of looks like me. I rarely wear makeup so it's mainly when I don't wear make up that I look like this. I think only people that have known me for a long time will know what I mean. And after seeing that, I realize I wear way too much make up when I do get around to applying the crap.

http://www.campaignforrealbeauty.com/

2006-10-23T10:57:00.000-07:00

Beautiful PHUKET, THAILAND.

Their own private pool, at the house they stayed at. sux

Views from their house (below/above)

Markus's cousin Amelie.

Amelie with new 'mom' Sarah, and dad Jens.

Paul Newman (not that Paul Newman), Oscar (cousin of Markus) and Erik (best man).

The chapel Jens and Sarah got married in.

2006-10-22T12:49:00.000-07:00

I love Sunrise pix in the winter.... The sun comes up right around the time I'm waking up. The summer sun blares in our room in the mornings which is nice but I love winter mornings better. These pix were taken the day E left for Thailand so I never got to download them before he left. Was a really nice day for a plane ride.