February 8, 2010
In honor of the Saints winning the Super Bowl, I bring you the ladies of the Krewe of Hard Knocks. Ain’t we special?

In honor of the Saints winning the Super Bowl, I bring you the ladies of the Krewe of Hard Knocks. Ain’t we special?

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February 5, 2010

ps. Don’t worry, I’ll be home in time for the Super Bowl. Go Saints.

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cross country skiing, in my mind

I’m leaving in a few hours for my annual cross country ski trip. Do you know how much I love to cross country ski? Unfortunately, I can’t actually ski this weekend because I’m an idiot who broke her hip 3 months ago. So I’m driving like 4 hours to go to an outlet mall instead in a pretty, snowy location. We might also go see The Young Victoria. I’m driving 4 hours for this.

In other news, I can almost walk like a normal person again at this point, and aside from having some trouble bending over (I’m 90 years old!), I’m mostly back to my old self again. Though my doctor sucked a shitload of blood out of me yesterday because she is concerned because apparently it’s really not normal for a 32 year old’s hip to spontaneously crack for no good apparent reason. Who knew? I’m also getting a bone densitometry test on Wednesday. Do you know how many $15 co-pays I’ve doled out this year? In the past 12 months I’ve notched a toe surgery, tendinitis, a broken hip, 6 months of twice-weekly physical therapy and the single worst stomach flu known to man in my belt. Sexy!

Anyway. Ho hum.

Nothing like an outlet mall in the middle of nowhere to lift one’s spirits.

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February 1, 2010
Further evidence that New Jersey is weird! I went to my very first Nets game last night (they lost! can you believe it?)…and not only did they give us 4 free bags of Pirate’s Booty on the way out, but they also entertained the crowd at the end of the first quarter by THROWING BURRITOS INTO THE STANDS. Needless to say, I was on my feet jumping up and down trying desperately to catch one, but can you even imagine if, say, you had just come back from the bathroom and didn’t know what was going on and got slammed in the head with a friggin burrito? Amazing! I truly love New Jersey.

Further evidence that New Jersey is weird! I went to my very first Nets game last night (they lost! can you believe it?)…and not only did they give us 4 free bags of Pirate’s Booty on the way out, but they also entertained the crowd at the end of the first quarter by THROWING BURRITOS INTO THE STANDS.

Needless to say, I was on my feet jumping up and down trying desperately to catch one, but can you even imagine if, say, you had just come back from the bathroom and didn’t know what was going on and got slammed in the head with a friggin burrito? Amazing! I truly love New Jersey.

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January 25, 2010

Brad Childress. Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder. Enough said?

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January 21, 2010
leitch: We are just more than three months away from book launch. Here’s what the cover’s mostly going to look like. It’s important to Hyperion that you know it is “not final.” In case you missed that. By the way, I am happy with that title, even though, devoid of context, it sounds like a book about the war on terror. (It’s not a book about the war on terror.)  Fathers and sons, huh? Sexist.

leitch:

We are just more than three months away from book launch. Here’s what the cover’s mostly going to look like. It’s important to Hyperion that you know it is “not final.” In case you missed that.

By the way, I am happy with that title, even though, devoid of context, it sounds like a book about the war on terror. (It’s not a book about the war on terror.)

 Fathers and sons, huh? Sexist.

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annoying trend alert

Ok, crafty ladies of the world — answer me this. What in god’s name is up with all the friggin’ flag bunting??

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making stuff is hard.

So I got this awesome pasta maker for Christmas. Even though I pretty much never cook, I really wanted one of these because when I DO actually cook, I really like the idea of making everything from scratch. Getting all pioneer lady on yo’ ass. You know? I made tomato sauce from scratch once (you know, like, not from a jar) and that was cool. So I thought to meself, what fun it would be to make the pasta, too! So I invited a couple of my hoochie mamas over next weekend to eat the fruits of my labor (err), and now I have to figure out how to use this thing.

The machine comes with a little instruction booklet and pasta recipes in ten languages. But the stupid English recipe is written in British! As in: “Ingredients: 500 g soft wheat flour.” Fuck that!

Also, please to explain the meaning of this. “Ingredients: 500 g soft wheat flour and 5 eggs; instead of using 5 eggs you can use a glass of natural mineral water.”

WTF.

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It took exactly three cups of $8.50 beer for me to be all mmmmm, get in my belly Chris Christie Rice Krispie cake at the NJ Devils game last night. Shameless! Related: That’s what separates New York from New Jersey. In the Jerz they hand out motherfucking slices of cake to all of the fans at a hockey game to celebrate the inauguration of a new governor. Or is that what separates democrats from republicans? Hmm. To ponder.

It took exactly three cups of $8.50 beer for me to be all mmmmm, get in my belly Chris Christie Rice Krispie cake at the NJ Devils game last night. Shameless!

Related: That’s what separates New York from New Jersey. In the Jerz they hand out motherfucking slices of cake to all of the fans at a hockey game to celebrate the inauguration of a new governor. Or is that what separates democrats from republicans? Hmm. To ponder.

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January 20, 2010
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