OMG this song is friggin' AWESOME

They've been playing this song on my soap opera (General Hospital). The more I hear it, the more in love I am with it. It makes my heart ache and makes me cry.

"Ours To Keep" by Kina Grannis

Fabulous kudos for Alan Tudyk

Go, baby, go!

For Your Consideration: Alan Tudyk for Best Supporting Actor.

"It's quite possible that you never made it to Death at a Funeral this summer. You caught the preview, made a mental note to check it out, and then instead saw Superbad, which opened the same weekend, and forgot all about it. Our fear: What if Academy members did the same? Well, it'd be a shame, because it would mean they missed the worthy performance of Alan Tudyk.
You probably remember Tudyk as Wash from Firefly, or the E! network exec in Knocked Up who tells Katherine Heigl to "tighten," but the El Paso, Texas, native is even funnier as Death's anxious lawyer Simon Smith. Desperate to calm down before seeing his future father-in-law at the titular funeral, his character takes what he thinks is Valium but turns out to be a hallucinogenic cocktail created by his fiancée's brother. Similar scenarios have played out in countless uninspired stoner comedies (and typical Vulture workdays), but Tudyk pushes himself to be more than just a dude acting high. Sure, he marvels at the size of his hands and unspools a roll of toilet paper ("Join the others…" he encourages the squares until he sadly reaches the cardboard tube), but Tudyk skillfully translates his character's state of mind to his physical movements and facial expressions, shifting from anxiety to confusion to utter despair.
"[Director Frank Oz] made me do take after take," Tudyk explained to the Orlando Sentinel. "'Oh no, you're higher than that.'" (This probably explains how he ends up naked on the roof.) But even at his most absurd, Tudyk never seems to be overacting; instead, he's just giving the outlandish performance called for in the script, serving as an excellent foil for Matthew Macfayden's grieving straight man, while at the same time conveying concern and affection for the freaked-out fiancée. Yes, Tudyk's had practice with British farce — he took Hank Azaria's place as Lancelot in Broadway's Spamalot — but here, he steals his every scene. Academy, you've nominated a Texan playing a bewildered Brit before, and this side-splitting portrayal also deserves a nod. Alan Tudyk for Best Supporting Actor! (We just hope he doesn't show up in costume.)" —Lori Fradkin

EDIT: More kudos for the role.

Hee

W00t!!!

The Boy and I will be going to see Bon Jovi in CT in March. Got my tickets and my hotel reservations all set.



AND I'm fairly sure they will be coming to Boston in the summer, too.




woohoo!!!!

Hee!!

One of Alan Tudyk's movies, Meet Market, is available for preorder on Amazon. I was delighted to find Alan featured on the cover.

And is it just me, or is he wearing a Firefly tshirt???
(The same shirt that Adam Baldwin is wearing here.)

(click for larger image)

So cool!!! Is it possible for me to love him even more??

*sniff*

The WD is broken. [/sad]

Today...

Yesterday I suddenly decided that I HAD to get my ears pierced. As soon as possible. They'd been pierced when I was young, but they closed up long, long ago. The only place I could think to go to was Claire's. Not that there's anything wrong with Claire's, but I don't believe I'm exactly their usual clientele. So this morning, off we went to Claire's. The young lady there did a fine job. And it only hurt for an instant. And Jake feels he has even more reason, now, to believe that I'm completely off my rocker.

My shiney new earrings!

But don't they make my earlobes look fat?

The cute bag my care kit came in.

I feel like I'm 12.

I even got stickers.

And, in other news, Blogger finally got the best of me. I went to sign on, and it first teased me by giving the option to sign in with new or old blogger, but after I signed in with the old, I was taken to a screen that laughed at me endlessly, until I agreed to sign up for New Blogger. After I surrendered, it promised that it would move my blogs over in just a few minutes. Then it suddenly changed it's mind and decided that it needed more time, and it would email me when it was finally ready to let me back in. After laughing at me for a few hours, it finally did. Whoopie.

Penguinpalooza!

Today Jake and I went to the New England Aquarium in Boston. Did I ever mention that I don't drive in Boston? But dude...they were having a special penguin exhibit. So I mustered up my courage and off we went!



African Penguins. See the kissy-faces?


Kisses!

Like cats, peguins like to assume the 'meatloaf position'.

Jake gets to touch a starfish.

Starfish!

Jellyfish!

More jellies!

Rockhoppers!!

Hey, how'd that Rockhopper get over there with the African penguins?

Little Blue penguins, aka Fairy Penguins!

Again, in the meatloaf position.

All along the way, we stopped to get our penguin passports stamped.

Then we stopped at the IMAX 3-D theater for a movie about lions.

Then off to the giftshop. What did I get? Why, a coffee mug, of course!

And a little friend for the office.

And a fairy penguin.

Jake got a shark's tooth.(Lest you start to think: "No fairsies! The poor kid only got one thing, and mom got a bunch?!"
Let me just tell you that this ONE shark's tooth cost more than all of my stuff combined!)

And I also got this sweet little charm.

And, as is our custom wherever we go, we squashed some pennies.See the Lincoln Memorial across the penguins? Neat.

We had ourselves a very good time, and I even got us home safe and sound. Woo hoo!

I'm a coffee-mug whore

So, I was completely unable to resist when bettiepie announced her Zazzle store last week.

I am lucky that she only offers two mugs, as I was compelled to get them both, and I fear what might have happened if she offered more. Actually, I was the one to request the second style, so it's entirely my fault, anyway.

Anyhoo, they've arrived and they're quite neat. I'm rather excited. I know probably not everyone gets excited about coffee mugs; but, well, it's the little things that make me happy. Hey! A picture:




In other news, I'm also a Valentine Whore, and I've added a virtual valentine thingy to my sidebar. Please click on it to send me a Valentine! ------------------->


(I stole that from bettie. But I didn't really want to mention that because it's starting to seem like I'm stalking her or something andmaybe it's getting to be a bit creepy on my part.)

Neverwood?

I have a tendency to ignore perfectly good TV shows until they are either ended, or close to it. My latest example is Everwood. It never interested me and I never, ever watched it. I was actually happy when it was cancelled, because it meant that 7th Heaven would be brought back for another year (the CW merged UPN and the WB, and in keeping and tossing different shows, they literally came down to a choice of having room to keep either Everwood or 7th Heaven.) Of course, 7th Heaven is kind of crappy this year, so it may have been better off dead. Anyway, I digress. Last fall ABC Family started playing Everwood, and I totally fell in love with it. I mourned all the lost years that I never watched it. I kicked myself for being glad it had been cancelled. And I've watched, faithfully, the entire series. Tonight and Monday will be the series finale. Usually, when a network gets to the end of a show, they'll just start again from the beginning. I just checked ABC Family's schedule, and they're...not...playing it again. Starting Tuesday, it will be 7th Heaven. :(

Now I'm very sad.

From the mouths of babes

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Jake told me today, "You're lucky you divorced Dad when you did."



rotflol

Holy Shit!

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My new scanner scans negatives.

I had no idea.

I have twenty years worth of negatives in my picture boxes. Since going digital, I never go get reprints of old negatives. Now I can make new prints or digital images of any old negative, any time I want!

I'm astounded.

Woo-hoo!

Hee!

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Look what my sis nephew gave me for Christmas!















There's red flannel jammie pants, too.




















Yes, Min, that's my hair. (But it's kind of messy right now.)

Sexyback

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has been playing on my mp3 player for an hour now. I have it on repeat.



I can't stop.

Shuuunnnnnnn the non-believer!

Charlie the Unicorn

Hugh Jackman is hot.

That is all.

Dude...

where's my panties?






Oh, and side note: I actually got to say, "Dude, where's my car?" the other night. :D Jake and I couldn't find the car after the concert and were wandering around the parking lot for a few minutes.

Just got back from BON JOVI

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Beyond exhausted.

Will try to update this weekend.

G'night.

Oh, yeah!

I remembered another of my favorite television commercials. I've added it to the original post.

Favorite recent TV commcercials

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Leonard Nemoy for Aleve:


Leonard is preparing for a Star Trek convention, but is on the phone with his agent insisting he needs to cancel because of the arthritis pain in his hand. His agent suggests he take some Aleve. He does, and, sure enough, his pain dissapates; and, much to the delight of the Trekkies, he's able to give the Vulcan peace sign.



You can view it here.



MacGyver for MasterCard:


You know the MasterCard commercials. Now they've made a beautiful one with our beloved Richard Dean Anderson as MacGyver. (Helen, have you seen this?) I can't even do it justice in description, so you've just got to watch it!



I know there's at least one more commercial I meant to include here, but my sieve of a brain can't recall it right now. I'll update it later.

EDIT:

Ah, yes...how could I forget the LOTR commercial for TBS?


Play it here. It's the last line that gets me.