Cosmopolitans for everyone June 20, 2008 ~ 2:18 pm
Posted by Julie in : About a Julz, Reviews , comments closedI saw the Sex & The City movie last night. Alas, since Lori is in West Virginia doing summer stock and Jordana is in San Francisco for the weekend, I was friendless when I went. I was the only person in that theater sitting by themselves, I kid you not. But I knew that if I didn’t go last night, I probably wasn’t going to see it while it was still in the movie theaters. And while yes, I will buy it when it comes out on DVD, I just felt like it was something I had to see in theaters.
People, I cannot rave enough about this movie. If you loved the series, you will love the movie, because it feels like a giant two-hour episode. There are good storylines for each of the four women, there is plenty of fashion to go around (even though I can’t walk in heels, I came out of the theater seriously coveting these Manolos), and the majority of the supporting cast has a reprise as well. By the end of the movie I had laughed until my sides hurt, cried more than once, and felt like I had just spent the evening with some old friends. That sounds cliche, but over the course of the series, that’s just who these characters became: I knew their faults and strengths as well as I knew my own and talked about them often with my girlfriends. Last night was just a much anticipated reunion with them.
For the record? I’m still a Miranda.
Tip of the day June 19, 2008 ~ 3:31 pm
Posted by Julie in : Technobabble , comments closed“Don’t look into the sun.” Or not.
Those of you who are on Twitter or are addicted to Facebook status messages? I give you Plurk. Plurk is like a cross between Twitter and IM and chatrooms. You type in something you would like your friends to know, in 140 characters or less, and then they can comment on it. I’ve been Plurking with a bunch of knitters from Ravelry for two days and have been having a blast. Check it out. And if you do, look me up. I’m EvilJulie.
Making mountains out of molehills June 16, 2008 ~ 10:39 am
Posted by Julie in : Drama Queen , comments closedBack in 2003, I had a membership with TDF (Theatre Development Fund). TDF is very cool because it offers tickets to various shows at a discount - a substantial discount if you snag a ticket to a Broadway show from them. You can only become a member if you are a full-time student, full-time teacher, union member, senior (62 or over), civil service employee, staff member of not-for-profit organizations, performing arts professional, or a member of the armed forces or clergy, and you have to send in proof to join. I think when I joined I sent them my business cards from two theaters. At any rate, I let the membership expire and occasionally thought about renewing, but figured it would be too expensive or too much of a pain in the ass or something like that.
Last night while watching the Tonys, I decided there were a bunch of shows I wanted to see. This morning, I decided I was going to renew my TDF membership. I had kept my original email from them in my work email, so I still had my password, and inside of five minutes and $27.50 later, I am again a TDF member and can go to see Cry Baby for $36. Sometimes I seriously wonder why I blow things so far out of proportion. If I would have just checked the damned TDF website, I would have renewed the membership years ago. *facepalm*
Epic fail June 13, 2008 ~ 9:10 am
Posted by Julie in : Academic Office Monkey , comments closedYesterday, we couldn’t log on to email at work. A bit of a problem, since we receive requests from students and faculty via email all day. Someone called over to ITS and we found out that the room that houses the servers had lost its air conditioning. Apparently, this is a problem. Apparently, when servers don’t have things to cool them down? They get angry and lose data and shit. (Hey, anyone who emailed me at work yesterday-you know who you are-sorry. I wasn’t ignoring you. The server was just having a hot flash and being moody.) And sometimes in addition to losing email, you also lose your access to documents saved on a shared network drive.
Good thing I had lots of paperwork to do yesterday, because otherwise it would have been a dead loss.
Perspective June 12, 2008 ~ 9:56 am
Posted by Julie in : Technobabble, The Girls , comments closedWhen the girls were at my house last weekend, I introduced them to Wii Fit. Now, if you have Wii Fit you know that as soon as you start, it checks your BMI, your balance, your age, and from all that information comes up with your “Wii Fit Age.” Depending on the time of day and how much alcohol I’ve consumed, my Wii Fit Age has been anywhere from 24 to 45. Saturday night, my Wii Fit Age was a respectable 27, three years younger than I actually am.
The Youngest, who is almost 13 got on the Wii Fit next. She is always seen as “the athletic one” in the family because she’s always involved in several sports and is likely to get up and do something active in her spare time because she can’t stand to sit still. By contrast, The Oldest and I would rather sit and read or knit or whatever, not run. So The Youngest gets on the balance board and doesn’t complete one of the tests and doesn’t do great on the second one. The cheeky Wii Fit asks her if she trips a lot when she walks, and then presents her with a Wii Fit Age of 22, a full ten years older than she actually is. The Oldest and I howl, and The Youngest pouts.
The Oldest takes the balance board, completes the tests, and is announced to have a Wii Fit Age of 15, which is her actual age. She and I high-five, as we, the non-athletic ones, have finally beaten the Youngest at something, even if it was an exercise video game. “At least my Wii Fit Age isn’t ten years older than me” is going to go down in family history as a comeback to anything.
Delicate flower June 9, 2008 ~ 9:28 am
Posted by Julie in : About a Julz , comments closedOn occasion, Rick calls me a delicate flower or a delicate hothouse flower since I am sick or ailing more of the time than a “normal person” (I guess). To prove his point, I got sunburned this weekend. While sitting under a tree.
Saturday, I was very good and applied the sunscreen thoroughly, since we were going to be in the park all day for Samang’s party. No sunburn. Yesterday, we got up at 6 a.m. to drive into the city and find parking (construction is a bitch on traffic and Rick needed the car in Manhattan for this morning). Now, I do not wake up well. I may appear to be functioning, but that is only because I have routines when I get up and I can walk through them blindfolded. Feed cats. Clean litter boxes. Give Joe his medicine. Clean my rook piercing. Brush teeth and hair. Take allergy meds. Get dressed. I can do all that stuff. Anything beyond it? That’s asking for trouble. So of course, I forgot my sunscreen yesterday morning, because that is not in the normal routine. I realized it several hours later when we were leaving for Sage’s soccer game, and thought “Shit. Oh well, I’ll sit under the trees.” And I did that. But last night when I got home and took of my tank top, I realized that my shoulders and decollete were kind of red. To make it funnier, I was wearing a tank top with parts cut out (designer tank snagged at a street fair for half price), and so I have marks where the cut outs were.
I think Rick is right, because who the hell gets burnt sitting under a tree? Only a delicate flower. And he wonders why I don’t want to go out when it’s that hot and sunny…
Isn’t that what godmothers are for? June 5, 2008 ~ 2:55 pm
Posted by Julie in : The Girls , comments closedI just went out on my lunch hour and bought my godchild fun plastic toys for her birthday, which is this weekend. Little People farm and pirates (in my head, sometimes the pirates decide they want to come to the farm to mess with the animals), and a VTech baby guitar so she can play guitar like Uncle Rick. The guitar was an afterthought, mostly because I am not sure I will be done with her sweater by this weekend (it’s supposed to be 90*, so I’m sure she won’t care, but still), but also because I was walking through the aisles at Target and couldn’t resist something that when you hit the baby whammy bar, said “Sheep! Sing it! Baaaa!!” “Ducks! Sing it! Quack!!”
Jordana and Thabiso should just be glad that I didn’t decide to buy Samang the Radio Flyer ride-on-rocketship. That thing didn’t have an off button, the guitar does.
History in the making June 4, 2008 ~ 9:54 am
Posted by Julie in : Politically Incorrect, Technobabble , comments closedYesterday I upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.5.1 or whatever the hell it is. Suddenly, I have my editing tools back when I’m writing a post (yeah, I guess when you’re 3 versions behind the latest release, they start to take fun toys away from you as a means of spurring you into upgrading). I also have many other tools that I have no idea how to use. I will learn them, slowly but surely, but today I’m just going to ignore them. At least until later this afternoon when I’m bored - that was yesterday’s pattern: install something, become irritated with it, ignore it for a while, come back to it and figure it out. If anyone saw the seventy times I changed the blog template yesterday afternoon, you will understand what I’m talking about.
The cold is manageable now, the fever is gone, and I am back at work. Wearing an Obama ‘08 sticker. Because hey, how ’bout my boy Barack? There were times along the way where I had my doubts, but now he’s the presumptive nominee and I am a very happy girl, enjoying the day. Hillary’s speech pissed me off a little until Tim Russert’s commentary helped me understand it. My thought process last night went something like this: “Seriously, you’re not going to make a decision? Dude, you lost. Decision has been made. Start unifying the party by stepping down. Ohhh, wait. If she plays this very, very carefully, she might convince all of her supporters who were saying they were going to go over to McCain that Obama is okay, especially if she goes for the VP slot. We might have a united party the easy way. She is either Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius, or just someone who can’t admit that she’s lost. I am hoping for the Coyote route.”
And then I started to think about things from an historical perspective (there are a lot of ifs in this scenario, by the way). Let’s say Barack offers Hillary the VP slot, and the Dems take the White House in January. Let’s say Barack serves 8 years as President, and then Hillary is elected President in 2016 and she serves 8 years. If that happens, then Hillary Clinton will have been in the White House in one capacity or another for 24 years, if we count the Bill years. I am not sure whether this is very cool or very scary - we do have term limits for a reason, after all. But the idea of it is mind-blowing, isn’t it?
Stress is the new ecchinacea June 2, 2008 ~ 4:39 pm
Posted by Julie in : Uncategorized , comments closedApparently, stress is good for me. Because the second the stress let up? I caught me a cold. A lovely summer time, my wastebasket is half-full of used Kleenexes and my nose is rivaling Rudolph’s for scarlet luminosity, fuck me I’m dying on the couch in the 80* heat cold. 80* by itself isn’t bad, but when Butchie, my landlady’s jack-of-all-trades comes over to reseal the roof and I have to shut the windows to keep the cats and myself from dying of toxic fumes, that’s when we get a little fussy about the heat.
Plus, we is out of juice and shit, and there is only so much water I can drink when I feel like crap. Rick is so getting sent to the store tonight when he gets home. I would go, but I don’t have the energy to walk 6 blocks and back when my head feels like this.
