I have had several topics to write about, whirrling around in my head. I even wrote one out, added some nice pics, and flop. deleted it right off the computer. I felt so defeated after that, I just shut her down and went to bed. But…I thought I’d just throw out what I’ve been chewing on and can munch on it later.

1) T.R. Knight. What an amazing actor. When someone has to work with opposition, such glaring and disgraceful opposition, and the work itself is graceful, and full of quiet dignity it is a true testament of his skill that I forget about the nasty. I watched the scenes last week, when Burk and George are discussing George’s father in detail, and Burke mentions that now is the point where he needs Faith. If needed, Burk would send up a prayer…..and it was beautiful. But deep inside, this actor if full of hate and disgust. And I know Isaiah Washington has apologized and is now in counseling. We’ll see. So many people just hop right into the therapy/counseling/rehab bus after they screw up, it’s like absolution. Maybe it’s my turn for a little faith? eh?

2) Saw two fabulous movies last weekend. Little Miss Sunshine and The Queen. Run, don’t walk to your nearest rental place and get LMS as soon as you can. Get the biggest spoon, and just scoop it in fast fast fast. It’s that good. Really. I could go on and on, but just see for yourself. Nice Hooray out to Abagail Breslen for her Oscar nom as well as the others that the movie picked up. As far as The Queen. . . A. Maze. Ing.
Truly amazing. One forgets it’s not really Her. She’s totally taking home the golden naked guy. My money is on Helen Mirren. Delicious.

3) Weight Watchers is going quite well. Down 6.5 lbs. Happy for that.

4) Heading to L.A. on Sunday. Well, to Santa Monica actually. Studying for a whole week at the Vidal Sasoon Academy. Creative Cuts. 9-5 Monday thru Friday. Our hotel is right on the beach, let’s hope for nice weather as I am just dying to start my mornings with a beach walk. Sigh. However, I’m totally not geared up for it yet. Shopped a bit last night, haven’t packed anything. Can’t get the software loaded on my laptop to enable me to function wifi style. I’m desperate for that so I can update and email all week. ugh. Still working on it. Either way, I’ll let you know how goes it either during the week, or when I get home. There are bound to be some stories there!

5) Very excited for the 4th Traveling Pants book. Bought it at the Target last night. Annoyed, though that this one is hardback. For craps sake. If ALL the others are tradepaper, then just keep it up!! For those of us OCD enhanced book collectors out here….that really jacks us up.

6) And Lastly….I would like to go on record as saying that my favorite Japaneese actor was ROBBED of his Golden Globe last week. Just Robbed. I know Jeremy Irons is fabulous, bla bla bla. But this guy, I love him. It’s a great show. Finally something new, different. Check it out. Yatta!!!!!


That’s about it. Will check in when I can. Happy weekend’s to all.
Ciao

HOT! HEAT! HOT HOT HOT!!!
Good GAWD we have heat. finally. I came home from working out and did the Happy Dance for the heat! We’re all singing praises to the heater and to the vents. The cats have found warmth on top of the microwave (yeah. i’m going to have totally retarded kitties) and Stormy decided to lay his fatass out on top of the computer, just as I was finishing up an email to DD. Silly boy.

Tomorrow I have appointments!!! And I have evening plans!!! Movie club with MLynn and Nan. Very excited. It’s looking like Dreamgirls for us. Huzzahh.

Happy happy end of week, from this very warm and cosey house.

This is my forecast for this weekend. Do you see that? Do you SEE that we are expecting to get up to 8 inches of SNOW?!?!?!?!?!?!? On top of the massive glazing of ice we still have. This is the channel that’s lowballing it. The other two are up to 10″. REALLY????

Oh yeah. And the heat in my house is still GONE. (more later)

Even Malibu is getting snow.

People, this sucks. Remember all those summers that we’ve had and the elders get around the checker table or say, the bar and mumble, “it so hot that means we’re going to have a HORRIBLE winter.” Then winter would come and the same group of elders would forecast,”we haven’t had so much as a few hard freezes, no snow, nothing to kill the bugs. Allergies and garden are going to be HORRIBLE this spring. Spring is going to be just disastrous.” So spring meanders in and we get nary a thunderstorm, nor hail, not an inkling of a tornado. But we do get bugs. Roly Polys and crickets and all kinds of nature that want to eat my garden. Then another year rolls around and summer is hot. Damn hot. And the elders would again foretell “this means we’re really in for a baaaaad winter.”

Well those fools have sat around drinking and playing checkers for just enough years that they’ve conjured up a HORRIBLE winter for my state.

assholes.

So. Like all good people who are looking at another weekend housebound, I’ve made the grocery list. I’m making a liquor store list (we can’t buy liquor or wine in the Kroger here. Hell, we don’t even have a Kroger here) because I’m NOT going without my provisions.

If it’s really just snow, and that’s it, we’ll be able to get around in that. A little traction….Good to go. If I got nothing else out of my Michigan stint, other than the best friends a girl could have, it was learing about living and dealing with weather.

At least the heat in my house will be fixed. $300.00 later. WHAAAT you say? But you rent? Why doesn’t your landlord fix this?

Because I have contraband kitties. And Phil is determined to do it this way. And I’ve said all the obvious arguments, “move the cats for a few days. Lie and say we’re catsitting. bla bla bla” Done it. Whatever. I don’t care at this point. What I do care about is that it won’t be 50 degrees in my house again until August, when I’m doing it on purpose! To bed I wore wool socks, flannel pants, a long sleeved tee shirt, a sweatshirt over that and my winter had. Four blankets and three kitties. Phil brought home some dinky ass space heater that he SWORE was a “good one”. Right. These things burn up more homes every winter than anything else. I plugged it in for a bit to warm the bedroom, three coils don’t work and the plug itself was warm when I unplugged it.

I’ll show him a good one.

Do I seem cranky to you?

I tell ya people, if I had to be Pioneer Woman, and settle this land…We’d all be SCREWED. Royally screwed. And speaking with a British dialect.

SO, I think I need a list of movies to attempt to rent. I don’t netflix, so it’s either EOD, or Blockbuster. And any other ideas besides cooking, eating, and drinking to spend the time this weekend!

It’s 56 degrees in my house. I am wearing wool socks that I think I stole from Kizz when we lived in Michigan. shoes. flannel pants. sweatshirt. fuzzy hat. pashmina scarf. I’m wearing this all RIGHT NOW. it’s 8:29 in the freakin a.m. and I’m dressed for a trek to the tundra.

Obviously, my heater is broken. Brokeback heater. Screaching, and thumping, and scratching and screaming like the lost souls of the damned are trapped inside. Well. I want them to STAY!

Call the landlord you say? Duh. One would think that would be the perfect solution! That’s what They are for, yes?

But I have a housefull of contraband kitties.
and the landlord gives me the willies.

Good news! Just talked to my heat-repairing friend. He’s sending someone. Hopefully this a.m. I have rescheduled my one appointment for an hour later…hope against hope that this will be fixed. and soon.

I am FREEZING MY BIPPY OFF!!!

This is what happens when there is about 50 inches of ice on the ground, and there’s an entire salon of hair stylists who are bored.

I’m lovin’ it…new do for my trip to Santa Monica in two weeks. Going out to Vidal Sassoon Academy for a week’s training. gulp.

Way To GO Ugly Betty! Way to GO America Ferrar! This is a beautiful show, showcasing one of the best new talents to come along. She’s amazing. If you’re not tuning in…..you’re sorely missing out!

Ok, here’s to learning new things. For awhile now, I’ve been wanting to be able to link to other sites within my blog. Being absolutely blog-stupid it hasn’t’ happened in my feeble attempts to do so. SO….What does one do? Kizz!!! She’s amazing. Her blog is witty, funny, pretty colors, great photos, prolific and more importantly, she has those highlighted little words that take you places! So with a quick email this morning and a beautifully descriptive answer

You add the http://www.somekindofwebsite.com Then click the add or link or whatever the
button is in there and it inserts a bunch of html gobbeldygook around the
thing you’ve highlighted

Here I am.

Do, go check out my fabulous woman in NYC. She’s much better at writing
anything than I am, but I do strive to be as prolific and creative as she
is.
Someday!!

PS. For those wondering, we here in OKC metro didn’t get the nasty power outages that the southeastern part of the state got. It’s freezing ass cold, high last night was 5. FIVE people!!! That’s pretty effing cold. That’s extra blankets, flannel sheets, socks and all four cats on the bed cold! For which I crawled out of this morning to go to the Y to workout only to find that they don’t open till 7am. flop. But I digress…The roads are nasty but life is coming back to normal. Say a quick prayer for the over 100,000 people who are w/o power on a night of FIVE. Bleagh.

I’M OVER IT.
Officially, over the weather and the ice and all the crap that goes along with it. Yeah, it was fun having 4 days off of work. That was nice and relaxing. But sometime between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon that “nice” shifted into STIR CRAZY. Even the cats were worked. We went up to the bar for a little bit last night and that was nice. Felt good to get out. But I had things to do today, so I didn’t want to feel bad, so it was an early night. Anyhoo…

I get up this morning to go to Weight Watchers. It’s my first “official” weigh in and I’m ready. I feel like maybe I’ve gained because all I freakin did this weekend was eat. And drink. Gallons. Vats. Gluttony to be sure. I get up and get myself dressed, get the truck thawed out and get there. NO ONE THERE. No one. Wait around, go to the post office, still no one. Crap. Well, I’ll try the noon meeting. Nada. Flop. Zilch. No sign, no posting on the website, no smoke signals. Squat.

Meanwhile, I’m scheduled for an 11:30 massage. That will feel great. It’s been 3 weeks since my last one and I am in dire need. She calls just as I get the key in the door of the truck. Have to cancel. Still at this Dr appt. Oh well fine. Just call me when you’re done with your stuff.

anyone? anyone? That’s right. No call.

I’m so fed up and cranky it’s ridiculous!!!!!

The day has turned out ok. Went to the Y, got the workout done with plans for one in the a.m. Got stuff to make French onion soup. Yum. Golden Globes are on tonight, my absolute fave. Oh yeah, and I did get to weigh in finally.

Lost 2 lbs.

Here’s to another fantastic week. Hope yours is spectacular and you don’t have nasty IceCranky attitudes to deal with. . . And if you do, then hopefully you’ve got lots of vodka in your stash to help you thru.

Didn’t do much today, considering I drank my weight in vodka last night. But what fun can an ice storm be w/o a little tipsy to go with it? I had the cauliflower ear from talking on the phone all night long. oh well. Got up today to more ice/rain/ice/sleet/nasty. spent most of it on the couch watching food tv, some football, the lastest Harry Potter movie I had missed and the Family Stone. I LOVE this movie. It’s been out forever, but it’s on HBO about every other day this last week or so. I watch it every single time I flip to it. It’s a hard movie to watch, but a good one. I love the family. I love the house. I love the big Christmas. I love the rage and the passion of it all. I wish for that….that house full of family, bustling and fighting and laughing and loving. I love the house itself, rambling porch, spacious….it’s a movie set. true. But I love it.

Forgot to take my claritin this a.m. becuse I am totally off a schedule, so I’ve been sneezing my fool head off all day. Naps and cats and food and movies. Man, it just doesn’t get better that that.

Lewis Black.
Red, White and Screwed.
It’s ice storm historic, classic, nastyass of 07 here, so I’m drinkin my vodka drinks, and watching old HBO. GO. TIVO. DVR. do what ever the F you can. WATCH this guy. I found him a long time ago. laughedoutloud. so…..go. do what you need to do. Netflix. TIvo. COXDVR. Blockbuster. First child born. DO THAT THING YOU NEED TO DO.
WATCH THIS cross eyed, freakyJewish Fabulous man.
xoxoxo, halakaleem