Bask in the glory of her eccentricity. Does anyone know where I can buy this movie on DVD? It's such a classic and I've love to see it again. The next time I go out somewhere where dancing is involved, I am going to dance like this.
Does anyone know if you can have items from Amazon UK shipped to the States? I MUST have the Little Miss Jocelyn Video.
Picture from my trip to Philadelphia last week. This one was taken at Monk's, a Belgian cafe type of place. Very rude bartender and hostess. We waited over 2 hours for a table before just going over to the White Dog Cafe instead. Fun city, but incredibly dirty. I had forgotten how dirty it is.
Video: Show us a video that makes you want to dance.
One of my favorite Jeff Buckley songs,
Nicole decided to fly down for the weekend to visit us. It was a last minute keep of thing. We're looking forward to it and are busy cleaning the house right now to prepare for her arrival. While she's here, I'm going to try out a new recipe, cardamon lime sweet rolls. Like cinnamon buns, only with different flavors. It looked good in the magazine, so we shall see.
Exactly one week from today, I'll be in Philadelphia visiting Andrew and Chad. Yay! If only I could drive. I love driving and can drive about 10 hours in a day. I hate flights. Getting to the airport on time always makes me so anxious...and then you just sit around waiting for hours and it's all stuffy and it smells like nasty airport food. No fun.
Time to finish cleaning...
Yeah, so I'm on Facebook now. I've actually been on it for a few months, but just last night I got my act together and made a profile and all that good stuff. Check out my page, add me, internet stalk me, whatever.
I perforated my eardrum. It sucks. I have an appointment with an ENT today. Blah.
We saw "Juno" last night. You should all go see it-- it was sweet, tender, and surprising. The chick in it reminds me so much of my friend, Kelli. Also, Allison Janney is hilarious in it.
I guess I should shower or something to get ready for this appointment.
I love love love corny 80s music. It always stabs at my heart and reminds me of being a teenager and listening to "total eclipse of the heart" over and over again in my bedroom. Ha! I heard this gem on XM the other day. I had totally forgotten about it, but now it's in my head in a continuous loop.
The video sucks, but what can you do.
I'm cooking curried zucchini soup in my new crockpot. It smells oh so good.
One of my 2008 resolutions was to drink 8 glasses of water a day. So far I've been succeeding, but I have to pee a lot. Eh. I've also given up soda, which causes me to have horrible caffeine withdrawal headaches in the afternoon. I'm hoping those will subside.
Deanie out.
Happy New Year and all that. I hope you all have a fabu-fabula 2008.
I, for one, am happy to put 2007 to bed. To bed, I said!
Now it's off to shower, pretty up, and go out for an enormous dinner and some carousing.
XoXo,
Adina
We are sitting in bed. I am mooking on the laptop, S is reading. The cats are doing their evening crazy rounds. I am tired and I have a headache.
I hate how dry the air gets in the winter. I have the humidifier on, but I swear it makes no difference.
S had the day off today, and I had some free time, so we went to lunch in Germantown. We had a lovely time, and we were in the car, getting set to pull out from our parking spot on the street, when some crazy old woman hit my car. Seriously, I think she was about 75% deaf. When I got out of the car to make sure that she and her posse of old lady friends were ok, none of them could hear a word I was saying to them. They INSISTED that we call the police, even though everyone was fine and both cars simply had scratches on them. It was more annoying than anything else.
So now we are going to have to pay the deductible on one of our cars for the third time this year. I don't know what is up with the drivers in Nashville-- this is the third accident (all not our fault) since we moved here. Neither of us had ever been involved in any accidents before 2007. Oh well, at least the damage is minor. It may even be less than the deductible, who knows.
I have a Dr.'s appointment next week and I am so excited! I'm nervous though, because this is the first time I'll have been to the Dr. in over a year. I miss my doc in Baltimore: he was so nice and never made me feel bad for not listening to him. Haha. I have S to take care of me though, so I don't feel too bad about not seeing a primary care doc in a while. I think I may get those allergy shots. I was going to do them last year, but put it off because it was such a time commitment, but I definitely think my allergies are only getting worse. I am so not made for this world.
I want to go on vacation. Like now.
Sleepy time now.
2. Did you keep your new year's resolutions, and will you make more for next year? The only resolution I made was to keep up with my Photo A Day blog, and I have done so. This year I plan to add more resolutions to the list, some big, some small.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Nope.
4. Did anyone close to you die? My oldest friend's mother died and while I wasn't close to her at the time, there was a time when I lived with them and considered her to be like a mother to me. I was very thankful for the way she treated me and admired her a great deal.
5. What countries did you visit? None. I hope to visit Japan in 2008.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007? More sex. A daily routine. Hopefully making sex part of that daily routine. :-)
7. What date in 2007 will be etched upon your memory, and why? March 25th because it marked the one year anniversary of my Dad's death. Also Sunday May 20th, which was the day we had my Dad's unveiling and the last time I saw my stepmother or any of her family.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Keeping my relationship together despite all the stress of the death of my father, S starting a new job, moving to the South, S starting grad school, and me starting a new business.
9. What was your biggest failure? I have let my relationships with my family dissipate a lot and I am not proud of that. This year I need to make more of an effort to keep in touch, despite the distance.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury? Well, there are the constant, chronic illnesses I have, which are always a pain in the ass-- mainly my allergies and my PCOS. But I have learned to deal with those and most of the time I forget about them completely. Unfortunately, I had an acute back injury this year too and that was difficult to forget.
11. What was the best thing you bought? My Apple purchases-- my iMac and my Macbook. I love them dearly and could not survive without them. Life is so much better now that I am free from PC hell.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? Becky and Scott got engaged and Becky handled the sudden death of her mother with grace.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? My brother's behavior always appalls and depresses me. When he told me he would help me pay for my Dad's gravestone and then never followed through, that was pretty shitty. I wish he'd grow up. Also he asked me to write a paper for him for school and when I didn't do it, he got angry at me. I could go on and on...
14. Where did most of your money go? Home improvements, as usual.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? I got super excited every time one of our friends would come from various parts of the country to visit us.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007? That Rihanna "Umbrella" song. Ugh, it's so overplayed.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Much happier, much more personally fulfilled.
ii. thinner or fatter? Fatter, due to all those goddamn hormones, not to mention sweet tea and BBQ.
iii. richer or poorer? Richer.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Making things, outdoor activities, keeping in touch with friends and family.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Sleeping, drinking, complaining.
20. How will you be spending Christmas? At home, probably doing work, because S will be working Xmas day (because hospitals never close, people). That's fine with me though because I'm really being a scrooge about Xmas this year.
22. Did you fall in love in 2007? No, but I remained in love.
23. How many one night stands? 0.
24. What was your favourite TV program? It's a tie between The Office and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Nope. I really don't hate anyone. There are just people I'd rather not be around or speak to.
26. What was the best book you read? Hmm, a difficult question. Perhaps "Jenny and the Jaws of Life"
27. What was your greatest musical discovery? Paolo Nutini, Amy Winehouse (and for the record, I liked her and had the album before they even started playing her on the radio), and Leonard Cohen.
28. What did you want and get? A cat.
29. What did you want and not get? For a while I thought we should get a cabin in Georgia, but I'm glad we didn't do it because it would be too much of a hassle to take care of. It's difficult enough dealing with one house.
30. What was your favourite film of this year? They all pretty much sucked. I liked The Squid and the Whale a lot, but I think that came out in 2006.
31. What did you do on your birthday? How old were you? I turned 25; S and Barnacle Becky dragged me to some townie bar and we all got drunk. Becky's date tried to make out with S. It was not good.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007? The same as it always has been and always will be-- comfortable, somewhat sloppy, and conservative.
34. What kept you sane? I didn't feel like I needed something to keep me sane.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Jennifer Beals, always and forever.
36. What political issue stirred you the most? Oh, there are so many. Immigration is a big issue down here and I think most people are sooo wrong about it (at least here in this red state). I've seen billboards regarding immigration that are overtly racist. Don't get me started on it.
37. Who did you miss? Baltimore, my family, my friends.
38. Who was the best new person you met? Scott. I love him and I think he's perfect for Becky.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007. You can't force people to have a relationship with you, even if they are your family (I say this in regards to my stepmother).
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up the year.
I smile when I’m angry.
I cheat and I lie.
I do what I have to do
To get by.
But I know what is wrong,
And I know what is right.
And I’d die for the truth
In My Secret Life.
-Leonard Cohen
I can't even begin to tell you how much time I wasted on Retro Junk last night.
Does anyone else remember this show? That goddamn song is stuck in my head ALL THE TIME! According to S, I sing it at home all the time, although I don't even notice it. Is it normal to sing to yourself, but not even really be aware of it?
I've started thinking about NY resolutions. I think the concepts of said resolutions are pretty gay (and I say that in the nicest way). If there is something wrong with you, you should fix it no matter what time of year it is. And if you have a goal in mind, you should go for it no matter when it came to you.
But, that being said, it is really important to me that I go to Austin and Seattle this year. Those are both places that I've been drawn to for quite some time and I need to just go. Preferably right now.
Time to get some chow.
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