Traffic Lights and Bowls

Some days you hit all the greens. :) Today is one of those days. Happy Friday.

WAAAHHH!!!!

First, I just want to say that Star Wars: The Force Unleashed is an AMAZING game and I love it. It’s just too bad I can’t play it for a while because my Playstation DIED last night after I had my new game for like an hour. I am so sad, you have no idea. No Blu-rays, no games…. My weekend is fucking shot. :( But absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? So when we get the PS3 back and in perfect working order I’m sure we’ll appreciate it more and take better care of it. You know, not run it for hours on end. Lol When we first got the PS3, I saw this exhaust fan for extra ventilation and I was thinking “Are you serious? We don’t need that.” Now I really wish we had gotten it. :( I read in someone’s blog that they measured the temp behind their unit and it got up to 120 degrees!! I believe it, though because I was standing next to my wall unit and I could feel the heat radiating from all my electrical components and I was thinking. “Um, it’s a little warm back there, maybe I should turn everything off…” I should have. Sigh…. Oh well.

**UPDATE** Instead of sending it back to Sony, we just replaced the hard drive. We now have 250G of space on our PS3. The important thing is, I get to play Star Wars some more... I'll give it a proper review when I've passed a few levels... :D

Hell Yes

So my husband pulls $60 from the sky and says that I can go buy Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, today. YAY!!!! I can't fucking wait to get out of work and go to my friendly neighborhood Gamestop! If you are a Star Wars fan, hell, even if you aren't a Star Wars fan I recommend you at least check out the demo version of this game. If you are unfamiliar with the premise of this title let me fill you in. FUCK I'M SO EXCITED!!! Okay, okay. So, it's a one person RPG and you are Darth Vader's Apprentice; and while I usually favor co-op battle games like Star Wars: Battlefronts and The Return of the King (if you didn't know I am a nerd before, you know now) I played the demo and fell in love. I can see myself losing hours of sleep to this game. :) You can rest assured that I will have a lot to say about it once I get to play the full version. Until then.........

$19 Bill

So I had a weird dream last night. I was trying on my old band uniform. (that's right, I was in band. Wanna fight about it?) and I found a whole bunch of money in the pockets. My real uniform in high school didn't have pockets, but my dream uniform did. Anyway, I pulled out a couple 20s, a ten, two ones and a freakin' $19 bill. What does that mean?

Seasons Change

Here we are, the end of Summer and beginning of Fall. It's bittersweet, really. Time to say goodbye to the people we’ve seen every week for the past few months, and reconnect with the ones who have been missing. That’s right. I’m talking about Prime Time Television. Here’s the rundown from my favorite shows:

Last night was the season finale of Wipeout, a show I didn’t think was that great at first, but still scheduled it on my DVR and watched every single episode. lol The BEST moment in my opinion was when contestant Jim Wakefield told Jill “I’m going to try not to poo in my wetsuit.” That shit was hilarious! Not quite MXC, but amusing nonetheless.

Monday, Weeds ended with Nancy avoiding certain death AGAIN. Shane follows in the family business selling pot to his middle school buddies. Silas finally turns 18 and Andy struggles with loving Nancy. And he gets to see her boobs.

Intervention had a special “After Treatment” show, I don’t know if that means they are wrapping up this season or what… I think they showed a new episode this past week. Chad was by far my favorite, followed by Dillon who ultimately said “Treatment is not for me.” I’ve got to be honest, he seemed like a well put together addict. His mom seemed like a bitch.

The Shield just aired episode 3 of what is supposed to be its “last season.” Yeah. They said that three seasons ago when Glen Close was still the Captain. No matter how bad I think the first couple episodes of the season are, or how terrible their choice in music is, I STILL get sucked in by this show. Why? “I got a listenin’ problem!” (if you know where that’s from I give you props. Lol)

Next Monday, Heroes: Villains begins and I am so excited to see who is good and who is bad. It’s like Xavier vs. Magneto. When this show first started, I was worried that they would take the comic book inspiration too far, but I like what they’ve done. I like that Hiro can bend Space/Time. He’s my favorite. I think it’s cool that some of the original Star Trek cast is part of the show. Congrats to George Takei for marrying his long time partner, Brad Altman. May they live long and prosper.

Also on ABC, Eli Stone comes back for its second season starting October 14th. I read somewhere that Katie Holmes is going to be making an appearance. Whoopee. I actually started watching this show because it used to come on after LOST and my DVR would catch the very beginning of it. Plus I love Johnny Lee Miller. Hackers and Trainspotting are great movies. This show is kind of like Aly McBeal meets Tru Calling.

Coming in 2009, are two reality shows (gasp!) that I’ve come to love. Don’t get the wrong idea, I’m not big on reality TV, but apparently there’s a show for everyone.

Hell’s Kitchen is a fantastic show! I resisted watching this the first couple seasons, but I caught the majority of this last one. WHOA… Gordon Ramsey is out of control! But I love it. People always say “Isn’t he a dick?” YES but have you seen some of the douche bags he has to work with? It’s not like he doesn’t compliment the people who do a good job. By the time it got down to the final two, his demeanor had totally changed. My friends have asked me when I’m going to audition… HA! First off, I don’t know how to make Beef Wellington, and second I would be way too scared. I would like to eat at his restaurant, though…

Number two on my Reality shows list is a new show called Groomer Has It on Animal Planet. I started watching this show because of its ridiculous commercials, and it turned out to be more amusing than you can imagine. In the usual RTV fashion, all the contestants share a house and one by one they get eliminated….Drama breaks out over the craziest shit….oh god, it’s funny. Jai Rodriguez from Queer Eye is the host and the panel of judges (I hope they are the same next season) kind of mirror the judges from American Idol. There’s a big Italian guy who can be critical but fair, the mean skinny guy (that I love) who makes everyone sweat, and the lone woman who gives the best compliments and never gets mad, just disappointed. Watch it. It’s great.

I’m not trying to pick up any new shows this season…If it happens, it happens but I’m not going out of my way… I do have other things to do besides watch TV. Like play video games. lol I think I’m getting Star Wars: The Force Unleashed this weekend, and Guitar Hero World Tour comes out October 27th so I have my work cut out for me. ;-)

Pikachu, I choose......Daniel Radcliffe?

Let me start by saying that I am not, nor have I ever been a Harry Potter fan. It has nothing to do with the content of the stories, as I have never read the books nor seen the movies. The problem I have with the Harry Potter franchise is that when it first arrived on the scene and became enormously popular in the United States, it overshadowed a child-friendly staple that is near and dear to my heart: Pokemon. That’s right. My beef with Harry Potter is that he stole the limelight that once surrounded Ash, Pikachu and all the other lovable characters (Team Rocket included) that had occupied my after-school hours (HIGH school, by the way). Kids that once dressed in brightly colored Poke-suits on Halloween now donned stripey scarves and geek-glasses on their Trick or Treat excursions. sigh…

For many years I refused to even acknowledge Harry Potter. I had friends who read the books and saw the movies. They’d try to get me interested and I would REFUSE, declaring my allegiance to the Pokehood. I am a die-hard would-have-Pikachu-tattooed-on-my-ass Pokemon fan. I have all million and one episodes on DVD and have spent countless hours having Pokemon-a-thons with my husband and sister-in-law. I know all the words to all the theme songs, and I even saw Pokemon: The First Movie in the theatre. {The part at the end where Ash turns to stone and the Pokemon bring him back to life with their tears STILL makes me cry. lol}

I have recently come to grips with the fact that Pokemon was a fad, and even though its popularity has waned, there are many true fans, like myself that will help it live on forever. {In July, my husband had a migraine that led us to the ER early in the morning and in the waiting room were two youngsters each equipped with a Nintendo DS talking about battles and evolving. I smiled at my husband and said “They’re playing Pokemon!” It isn’t dead after all.}

Still, I haven’t checked out a single Harry Potter book or movie. I feel like it’s a little too late to recant my previous hatred, but today one VERY interesting thing caught my attention: The coming of age of Daniel Radcliffe. Holy Statutory is he one good-looking kid! I was reading an article about his upcoming Broadway debut and the picture attached to it looked nothing like the young Harry Potter of yesterday. In fact, he looks very similar to another actor I used to “have it bad” for, Mr. Frodo himself, Elijah Wood. {I wrote Elijah a letter when I was like 11 asking him to be my boyfriend! I had myself totally convinced he’d say yes.} I know Dan Rad is only 19, but damn! Move over, Zack Efron, this guy’s got you beat. AND he has an accent. Nice… ;-)


Love that little bit of “I’m not a teen,
but I’m not an adult” facial hair.






I’m a hobbit, I’m a cannibal. I can be anything you want.

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Dumb Story # 1 aka Stretch Armstrong

When I was in high school I was in honors and AP classes but I wasn't ever one of those kids. I was intelligent, but I got just above average grades because I was more interested in socializing than learning. Anyway, the point is, I was no idiot. I wasn't one of those ditsy girls who had no class or culture. In the last few years, though I have noticed a change in my intellect. Don’t get me wrong, I think I am much smarter now than I ever was in high school and a lot more street wise at that. Not to mention that the internet has opened my mind to so many new things, some I’ve researched at great length.

The problem seems to be that sometimes my mind has a little trouble with really simple, common knowledge things. I don’t know if this is an age thing, a memory thing or, well, a weed thing. I suspect it’s the latter. Those of you lucky enough to partake in the sacred plant might know what I’m talking about. And maybe you can remember having moments like these. ;-) So with that I give you the first of many Dumb Stories.

Dumb Story # 1 aka Stretch Armstrong

Monday was Labor Day any my sister in law and her husband were over eating pizza. They were sitting on one couch and I was sitting next to my husband on the other. We live in a downstairs apartment and you can hear the people that live above us walking around, moving furniture and stuff like that, but we’ve lived downstairs for so long I don’t even notice those noises.

My brother in law looks up at the ceiling and says something about how much noise my neighbors are making. I told him that I don’t notice it except for (okay brace yourselves) “when that fat little retard is running around.”

{Okay, first of all, I know that’s horrible to call anyone a retard, especially a fat retard, especially a fat little retarded child. Seriously though, you don’t live by this kid, and I do and I call ‘em like I see ‘em. He’s annoying as shit, he’s mean to his friends who only hang out with him because he’s so much bigger, they figure he can be their muscle…he’s just one of those ADD out-of-control little bastards you want to slap in the grocery store.}

ANYWAY after I said that SIL and her husband, knowing what an asshole I am, started laughing. :-D Come on. Say “Fat Little Retard” without laughing. You know you are trying to picture what this little kid looks like, don’t lie. So they assumed I called him that because I don’t know his name, but I said “No, I do. It’s Lance.” More laughter, and then for reasons that pertain to a different story, my SIL says “Fuck Lance Armstrong!” and we all nod in agreement but I decide to take it one step further (regrettably) and say “Yeah. I like Buzz Aldrin better.” My comment was met by blank stares of disbelief and I have to be honest; for a second I’m sitting there thinking, ‘come on. you know who Buzz Aldrin is.’ so I say “Buzz Aldrin’s hilarious! I saw him on TV…” and that’s when it hits me. We were talking about LANCE Armstrong. NOT NEIL. Sigh…..God, I felt like a moron! But I guess it made for good laughs. :D

**Due to the stoned nature of the writer, some facts may be incorrect, exaggerated or totally untrue.