Chelsea Handler

This is Chelsea Handler. She is the most unfunny "Funny person" on television today. Why does this woman have a Comedy Central TV show? She's obnoxious. She's boring. She's not funny.

The Devil Wears Prada

The Good News:

1. Meryl Streep needs to be nominated for her role as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada. She steals every scene as the Bitch-from-Hell Boss. She speaks softly but would just as soon slit your throat rather than look at you. Exxxxxcellent. I love Meryl.

2. Stanley Tucci. What role hasn’t this guy excelled in? He’s such fun to watch.

3. Emily Blunt. WTF is Emily Blunt? I don’t know, but she was great as Miranda’s put-upon assistant. When she and Anne Hathaway share the scene, you look at her, not the star.

The Bad News:

1. Who cast Anne Hathaway as heroine Andrea Sachs? Do you believe she’s the “ugly duckling”? Do we believe her when Miranda calls her fat and ungainly? Not just no, but hell no. The whole cast was believable but her. It’s not her fault---she just shouldn’t have been cast in the first place.


This movie was both fun and funny but it had a predicable ending. Still, I’d give it an A-

 

Pajama Gnomes

Orbie made my day!!! She sent me PJs with these BEAUTIFUL GNOMES on them! Orbie, you are wonderful, thank you so much! LP was in the kitchen with me when I opened the package. He said, "What the hell? You ordered THOSE? You've gone too far!" hahahaha he's always saying I have too many gnomes (is there such a thing?)

All over the PJs are gnomes in various states of travel....with a poodle . . in a gondola . . . with a camera . . . in a cab . . . by a bull in Spain. They are beautiful. Orbie: Thank you thank you thank you.

 

 

Harper Lee

1. Harper Lee wrote an article for Oprah's magazine describing how she became a reader.

Story

2. LP starts Summer School today. Don't ask me why they start on a Thursday, but they do. He's less than thrilled about getting up early.

3. We had hail yesterday. It was tiny pea-sized. When I told a group of people that it was pea-sized hail, one smartass asks, "Petite, baby peas or those big generic Aldi peas?"

4. At lunch we were bitching about the Human Resources director . . about how anti-human he is. Look up the word "asshole" in the dictionary--there he is!
One of my sisters told me she once had a HR director who had countless shoplifting arrests, but still stood up in company meetings and preached integrity, morals and ethics. She said a friend of hers went up to him after such a speech, looked him straight in the eye and said, "Among all the speakers today, you STOLE the show!" LOL. She said he got her meaning.

Hello Dear Reader

I'm trying a new template.

Put on your shades

I don't know why my blog went white yesterday. Maybe I posted too many pictures, or took up too much space. Shrug.
Anyway I'm wearing a new shirt today. I look like a Hawaiian tourist.

The Doors

Remember the game Crimson Room? If that one drove you nuts, here’s another one to try. I finally had to email some chick for the solution. Click on the link then scroll down to the bottom, and click on The Doors.

The Doors

 

 

 

 

 

Damn I take purdy pictures

 

Monday

Good article about Rainn Wilson who plays The Office’s Assistant (to the) Regional manager Dwight K. Schrute in this week’s Entertainment Weekly. He’s as quirky in real life as he is in his roles. His wife, Holiday Reinhorn, is a writer. Here is her book.

Nesta was lost yesterday. LP looked for her. I looked for her. We finally found her in my bedroom (which is off limits to the cat) curled up in my closet sleeping on my holiday wrapping paper plastic tub. She’s a certified cat—she sleeps most of the day these days.

Yesterday I watched a good special on CMT on Johnny Cash. What a man.

Meal plan

One of my sisters is an RN. For health reasons her doctor put her on this Meal Plan (instead of "diet") In solidarity (and because my favorite pants are too tight) I went on it too and actually it's a pretty easy plan to follow. I think the key is eating every two or three hours so you won't feel deprived. She's been on it about five weeks and has lost 12 pounds. She said the first eight days were easy---the second & third weeks were the hardest. We'll see.




Breakfast

1 skim milk product
1 ounce of protein
3 grain products
1 fat


Snack

2 oz protein
1 skim milk product


Lunch

3 ounce of protein
1 skim milk product
1 fruit
2 vegetables
2 grain products


Snack

½ serving of nuts
1 grain product


Evening Meal

2 ounce protein
2 vegetables
1 fruit
1 grain product
1 fat


Snack

1 fruit


My sister's comments:

Other tips—you cannot eat after 7:30 at night (reasoning: the body only burns 60 calories each hour (after 7:00pm))—so any calorie on top of that—will go directly into fat cells. Not eating after 7:30 at night will ensure a weight loss of five pounds each month.

Check the calorie count on things—I eat apples because a nice size apple is only 60 calories versus a small banana at 120 calories. Grapes are great because a cup is only 90 calories plus grapes will raise your blood sugar slowly—which avoids the yo-yo’ing of craving something sweet “chocolate” then something salty. I eat grapes as an afternoon snack or my evening snack.

I eat every two to three hours at 8AM, 10AM, 12PM, 2PM, 5PM and 7:30 PM. Your body needs fuel to burn fat—if you starve yourself—the body holds onto every bit of energy source—usually the pockets of sugar in fat cells—so eat every 2 to 3 hours and your body will begin burning extra unwanted calories through metabolism.

You must avoid any sodas—tea and coffee is okay, but no sugar or cream—and water (at least 64 ounces a day).


My comment:

I saw this "Miracle Tea" recipe in a magazine. I don't know if it's a miracle, but it's damned good:


Brew three green tea bags and ten whole cloves in four cups of water and let steep for four-five minutes. Fish out the bags and the cloves then add 1/4 teaspoon of both cinnamon and cardamom. You should drink the four cups throughout the day.

Storms and BB

Man, we had an hellicious storm yesterday afternoon. We all gathered at the windows at work and watched the black clouds roll in from the west. The winds were bad—straight-line, in fact.
I called LP at home and told him to get Nesta and go to the basement. He told me that BP had already called him and said the same thing. I don’t know whether or not he went—sometimes he gets so macho about stuff like that.
Anyway, the storm and winds only lasted about an hour and moved on out of the area. Trees and limbs down but no other big damage.
I’m glad it’s Friday. But unlike blu, who should be in the DR this weekend, and Schell who will enjoy being with JJ (and Keith—heehee), I have nothing fun planned besides mowing the lawn. :::rolls eyes:::
For you Big Brother fans, go to www.CBS.com and vote for the "all stars." I am voting for HOWIE, KAYSAR, JANELLE and NICKOMIS, I could give two shits about the early BB people. All the sudden Latina crazyass IVETTE has denounced The Friendship Alliance. Too little too early, Bitch.

My sister Connie brought this impatiens plant to us when LP was in the hospital. It loves in on the shady side of the porch