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Who Isn’t Just A Little Bit Julie and Julia?
I just finished reading Julie and Julia by Julie Powell. I have heard some readers did not enjoy it, regarding Julie as whiny and self-indulgent, but I get her, I really do. Because what better illustrates the dark underbelly of the American Dream than Julie slogging her days away at a grunt job while saving her […]
Transformers: My Five Questions
1. Why is a robot wearing a scarf? 2. Why can I never tell the decepticons from the autobots when they battle. They need to wear Jerseys. 3. How does Carly have unlimited wardrobe changes regardless of the perilous situations she finds herself in. 4. And about her car, c’mon! No one saw that coming? […]
Why Apple is Awesome
Went to the apple store at the mall. K dropped her touch in a clean toilet last week and it hasn’t functioned since. We took it to the Apple store. It was packed, which is what you would expect of a store full of expensive merchandise in the Rust Belt during a recession. We had […]
Vans Warped Tour at Darien Lake
Warped at Darien Lake – always a great show. This year it was unfortunately a little heavy on screamo and light on ska. I didn’t count, but there were supposed to be 70 bands on 16 stages. It was really hot, but there was s decent breeze which kept it from being miserable. There were water refilling stations […]
Doghenge
My dog is very old, very lethargic and very sedentary. She is mostly blind, completely deaf, arthritic and lumpy. Her favorite activities are sleeping, sighing, panting and nudging your elbow until you pet her. But late in life, she has discovered shenanigans. Every morning when we leave for work, leaving her alone for the day, […]
Social Networking Your Way to a New Job
So, this is what I have been doing with the bulk of my free time the last few months (when I am not playing cello!). I was hit by the layoff shoulder tap twice (!) in the last two years. Each time I found a new job reasonably quickly and a big part of that […]
Tie-Dyed Hair? Yes, Please
Saw this shared on Facebook this morning as the latest hair trend. If I wasn’t 107 years old, I’d be all over it. Tie-dyed hair from Lauren Conrad Here is the post on the technique from The Beauty Department
Carmageddon in Toronto
I spent 45 minutes stuck in 2am traffic last Friday and I was about losing my mind. I can’t imagine what LA drivers will be going through next week when the 405 closes down. I only had to drive in SoCal once and while it was not nearly as daunting as I had heard it […]
Guilty Pleasure: Big Brother 13
Big Brother 13 starts tonight. Big Brother is our family show in the summer. It’s total trash TV, but it’s fun to watch the challenges and their antics. I could never deal with being on that show. I could never stand being cut of from the world, I would go nuts not reading, I get […]
The Giant Hogweed That Ate New York
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/06/hogweed_alert/ I was looking up Google top trending searches and apparently Giant Hogweed is a big concern in NY. It’s a six foot plant with flowers 2 – 3 feet high that can cause blindness(!) Wait- what? According to the article linked here, SWAT is on standby. For a plant. I swear this is not […]
Ooh Something Shiny! 