I may be a New Englander, but this shit is getting tired real quick.
I may be a New Englander, but this shit is getting tired real quick.
Anyway. The result of 2 days housebound is that you get a snow picspam. I can tell you are excited. I know I am.
( Snow, snow, snow )
And finally, one last kid pic (of course). Presenting... the Potter kids!
( Click here for 2 of the 3 kiddos... )
So, Happy Birthday, Jarrett!! I hope you have a great year at 9. And I hope it doesn't go by so fast that we miss it.
(This is Jarrett in the big snow we had in Dec. which may be the small storm of the winter.)
Oh, also -- they are predicting we will get 2 feet of snow tonight/tomorrow. There goes the weekend. I foresee many backaches from shoveling. Urgh.
(ETA: I cannot get the LJ cut to work at all. My apologies.)
I think this is the first time I’ve seen Lady Gaga’s face without glasses. Weird.
How can Taylor Swift still be surprised to win these awards? I mean, I guess it’s kind of cute, but it also seems a little disingenuous.
Was going to do a post on KBell and Josh D., but I’ll just do it here – I loved VM and Josh was fairly charismatic in Las Vegas, I think they are fairly likeable in general, but they don’t seem to be picking the best movie projects. This last one is getting awful reviews, which I don’t think is all their fault, I mean, the poster is horrific all on its own. I guess some actors/actresses have to be those actors/actresses who are in the just sort-of-okay projects, but it’s kind of sad for these two, I guess.
Beyonce covers Alanis. Huh. Has she done this before? What’s with the crazy hair interlude?
Is Pink doing this again because she thinks not enough people saw the MTV awards? I thought her trapeze act was amazing then (especially since she was obviously singing live), but this is very similar. Still a great show, though. What an outfit! And how does she sing while spinning? How did she get wet? Is everyone under her getting wet too? (ETA -- I heard later that they were and they were not amused.)
Something happened to my thoughts on Jamie Foxx. It was along the lines of “Could there be more Auto-Tune on this song? Who is that short, rather heavy woman dancing around? And now Slash? WTF?” I’m not sure if other things went missing as well. Seems like it, but I’m not sure how or what they were about. Huh.
I do not like this “Fairytale” song. It also seems like Taylor’s voice is a little bit flat, or something. Stevie Nicks? Good grief. It’s like that “Crossroads” show on CMT. But I guess Taylor’s shirt-thing goes well with Stevie’s style. And then they made Stevie sing that horrible “You belong with me” thing about the bleachers. Taylor is basically too old to be singing that song and Stevie is totally wrong for it. Was the band supposed to be that quiet? It was not doing anyone any favors.
I feel I’m missing something of this MJ song/tribute without the 3-D glasses, but such is life. Celine’s dress is kind of horrible, but Carrie’s is kind of awesome. Is the celebrity audience all wearing 3-D glasses? Beyonce is, but no one around her. Different parts of the audience are different, apparently. And some people may have brought their own glasses.
I heard they are re-recording We Are the World after the Grammys. It has great potential to be either awesome or a huge mistake.
How exactly can people still vote on the song for Bon Jovi when they’ve already started playing? I guess if you’ve played a song enough, you can launch into it basically immediately. Did they say earlier that Bon Jovi has never played at the Grammys before? That just seems wrong. Oooo – going old school with the song.
What is Mos Def wearing? What is with this pairing anyway? For the Rap/sung collaboration? Yeah, because Rap and Opera is the collaboration they are talking about. Who’s the little person going with Jay-Z? Is that Beyonce’s nephew or something?
That organization guy talks too much.
Ricky Martin rises from the dead to come on the Grammys with Lea Michelle. And Beyonce beats out Taylor again. Kanye is getting no chances to interrupt tonight. But B’s earrings are over the top. And how does that dress not get caught on everything she walks by or sits on?
Maxwell with short hair – I’m not sure I would have recognized him.
Russell Brand needs to button his shirt just a smidge. Somehow the singing on this Les Paul tribute seems a little bit out of synch with the singer and the sound. It’s something to do with the background track?
Quentin Tarantino’s “accent” is ridiculous. Maybe he should have been a circus ringmaster. Did anyone else lose the sound during Lil’ Wayne’s bit? Oh, and now Eminem. Is it some sort of censoring of the language?
Lady Gaga’s outfit is hysterical!! And Taylor wins. Not totally surprising, but she beat some pretty stiff competition. And is Colbie Callait the only guest on the album, because she got some billing too.
And it’s over. Whoo!
What was the #1 song the day you were born? Search the date and then post your #1 song on your LJ - preferably with a Youtube vid if you can find one!
So, to show how old school I am -- Roberta Flack -- Killing Me Softly with His Song.
I do not know how to embed YouTube videos, so here is the link for Roberta singing the song many years after my birthday:
Well. That made me feel old. Off to watch some TV!! In a minute. Warning -- spam coming your way.
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Exhibit B: Leverage needed more... levity, maybe. ( Read more... )
TV has just not been thrilling me lately. That does not make me happy. TV is supposed to be my main escape from the mundane that is my life of work and kids and laundry. Something is definitely off.
Life Unexpected -- ( Read more... )
Human Target -- ( What show does this remind you of? )
Bones -- ( A few spoilers...maybe. )
I did have an IMdb moment when J and I were discussing Mr. White and he thought he might have been Robin Wood from Buffy, and I said no, he was on Judging Amy, not that J would know him from that show. I didn't even watch Judging Amy. How do these things stick?
Modern Family -- I do like this show. This is the one comedy I have added this year and I like it. It's just so well done and the throw-away things are amazing. Phil I could kind of do without, but what can you do?
God, what else have I watched? I don't know. That would seem to be enough, and yet... I have a bunch of stuff on the DVR still to go -- not including the Dollhouse stockpile. Two episodes each of Grey's and Private Practice (which I still can't believe I still watch -- it's like an illness), a Numb3rs, last night's Leverage, another Human Target, the Mentalist. Thursdays are a bitch, I tell you.
Oh, anyone think that that Deep End show is any good? Everything I've seen about it says that Tina Majorino is too good for that show. That makes me sad.
( Very mild spoilers. Very mild. )
So, there you are. It actually kind of gave me a headache. Well, I need to run off to bed -- I am actually getting a 3 day weekend and I don't have to wake up in the dark, but I shouldn't get greedy.
Also, HIMYM was fun. ( Minor spoiler thingy... )
Last, how cool was it that ( Another minor spoiler thingy about TBBT... )
Okay, off to bed. Two meetings in a row tomorrow AM, and something to get done by 10. Plus a party surprise to set up by 11. No pressure.
Right now, my mother's work life is getting totally screwed over and it is pissing me off. It's making her really sad, but it's pissing me off. And my dad feels responsible.
( Cut for my ranting to get this out of my system. Click if you feel the need to read about small town mechanations. )
My mom is coming for a visit next weekend to see the new house and I will give her a shoulder to lean on, yet another reminder that I am a grown up.
Well, I am off to make lo mein for dinner -- I went to the Asian market yesterday and bought some roast pork and baby bok choy, so I am going to enjoy dinner. Even if the kids hate it. Phooey on them! I'm the grown up! I will dictate the menu! I dictate so little else around here, sometimes.
ETA: Okay, so I'm obviously not paying attention -- Just found one of the Quinn songs. Although, I think I like the Madonna one better.
One last thing: your kids can always surprise you. And sometimes in a good way. While we were at my parents', Jarrett (8) and Elliott (5) were sitting on the stairs while the grown-ups finished dinner and griping at each other about something. When asked what Elliott was doing that was causing Jarrett's problems he replied that Elliott was being "obstreperous." There was a beat, and then I looked around and said "Did he really just say that?" And apparently, I was not hallucinating. Where he learned it, I don't know, but apparently he also knows the correct usage. Huh.
I am not really one for resolutions just because the follow-through is pretty rough, but I think I have a few that hopefully aren't too ambitious:
1) Try to maintain the weight loss I had this year (kind of in the hole already thanks to the holidays, but I hope once I'm back into regular life that I can rebound).
2) Try to make connections for my kids with other kids in the neighborhood -- have more playdates.
3) Try to stay connected with my hubby and maybe even find a babysitter that's local so that we can have a night out now and then.
There. That seems relatively do-able. Fingers crossed!
We made the drive okay, but if anyone can explain to me why Waterbury, CT is allowed to be a traffic nightmare for decades on-end, I'm ready to hear it. I cannot stand driving on I-84 through CT. I think I may have an alternative, but we'll see.
J is off with the boys to see the "squeakquel" to Alvin and the Chipmunks. Better him than me. But we are going to get to go out to dinner tonight. Just us. Can't remember the last time that happened! I'm looking forward to it.
I have eaten way too much this past week, though. I'm going to have to be very vigilant when I get back to real life. My parents even said something complimentary about my weight, which is virtually unheard of. Wow.
My dad's retirement from being CEO of his agency is effective on Jan. 1, so that is a big deal. He's been trying to clean out his office and not feel too badly about all the changes that the new person seems to be rolling out that he disagrees with. He'll still be working part-time with the agency on some special projects, so I think it might actually be worse for him than a clean break, but he wouldn't know what to do with himself if he quit cold turkey.
Well, there's the brain dump of the day. Gotta run and actually participate in life not on-line again. Ta!
I did pretty well today, myself. I got a new massive jewelry box, which I needed to help alleviate the clutter of the top of my dresser and accommodate some of my grandmother's jewelry I inherited. I still am using my old box and have things which didn't fit, but it's a definite improvement. I also got the Cake Wrecks book. And if you haven't seen the blog, you must! (Go, now! Come back later. I'm fine with it, I promise!) I also got Glee CDs and my best gift was probably J's gift of Season 1 of FNL (I know!!) and the promise that HE WILL WATCH IT WITH ME! This is huge. We hardly ever agree on TV and he hasn't ever watched with me, but I still gushed to him anyway. But, Season 1, people!! Whoo-hooo!
And I think the best part of this year was that my boys actually had their own ideas of what to get their parents and their siblings for Christmas and they were appropriate and thoughtful for the person receiving them. Amazing! Elliott decided he wanted to get his dad a shirt for his favorite football team (which sucks this year) and Jarrett -- and Jillian, although she had no knowledge of it -- went with the theme. And Jarrett saw me surfing the web one day looking for a specific piece of clothing and remembered it for x-mas. And both boys got their sister something she really likes, as well as something for each other that was not just based on their own likes. Again, amazing! Sometimes your kids can really make you proud.
Well, tomorrow is packing day. Wish us luck. The weather on Sunday is supposed to be pretty good, so we have our fingers crossed that it won't take forever to get up the East Coast. Hopefully, we'll be able to connect up in NH and my web time won't suffer too much. Just in case, Happy New Year, everyone!!
I did manage to get out today to go to the White House. I had somehow gotten a ticket through a lottery at work to see the Christmas decorations and I decided that since I had never been, and the Metro was running again, and I wasn't even missing work, I needed to go. Especially since my co-worker who was supposed to go with me got snowed in and couldn't make it. I did run into a friend and her husband when I was there, so it was kind of nice and non-lonely after all. Here are a few pics:
( Click for a few pics from my trip today... )
I still am not done shopping for J and I need one more thing for my dad (I did buy something small today while I was out, and then totally left it on the train coming home. Urgh!), so I will hope that the streets are even better tomorrow night when I will have to go out and about to try to finish my shopping. And of course, the mailman hasn't been since Friday, so all my x-mas cards are now late. Why are holidays so stressful?
ETA: Oh!! I almost forgot!! Happy Birthday to
- Work has sucked way too much for only 3 days and shows no signs of improving. I really am beginning to hate people. Not so much with the holiday spirit.
- I have gotten bad health news about 2 people in my life this week -- one close and one removed, but anytime you hear bad news about a childhood friend, it makes you feel just awful, I think.
- My Christmas shopping is stuck and not improving, but hopefully, tomorrow I can make a dent in it. Thank goodness Toys R Us is open till 1 AM. Sheesh. If only Jay was more into toys.
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You know, I am not sure how I feel at all about the Will/Terri/Emma things. I think I would do just fine without that aspect of the show, actually. I am sad that the show won't be back until April, though. Now, I can totally look forward to watching Bones tomorrow!! Yay, Christmas episodes! Yay, ( Oh, just in case you haven't seen the previews.... ) I have my fingers crossed that it will live up to my hopes.
Wheee!!! I love it when I am loving TV!!
Glee: ( Read more... )
Bones: ( Read more... )
Grey's: I just wanted to say that I am now caught up and watching the last two episodes did not make me cringe. Huh. I am really not sure what to do with that, but I was definitely surprised. The older episode did make me realize that my work-wife and I have had to separate because she is now my boss. *sigh* The sacrifices we make.
