CAUTION: Woman In Progress

Or maybe I shoulda called this post "life support?" Because my life is being held together by duct tape and cookies? Just back after a six day (48 hour) work week. Yes. Six full 8hr days in a row. I know in the "real" world, there's nothing exceptional about this. There are industries and such that work 60-80hr work weeks. But I am spoiled and I don't like this six day work week thing. Plus, I haven't been sleeping all that well lately for worrying about the stupid event that had me working that extra 8hrs so color me crabby right now. We restarted our annual Genealogy Fair this weekend and it was a booger. No, it turned out great, but the prep and junk for the thing? A booger. We're all walking around like zombies today, lest you think it's just me being held together with duct tape. I'm not sure if anyone else patched up their feelings with cookies yesterday, so I can't speak for what else is holding them together. But I used cookie...

Soooooo...Friday night Mama declared it to be Wendy's night. I'm not sure what's up with her current Friday night fast food thing but I'm not going to argue. I probably should , since neither us--nor Daddy--need to indulge, but I'm enjoying it too much. After years and years and YEARS of rarely ever eating "out" I'm getting a little spoiled. And loving it. Have I mentioned that even $0.97 hamburgers were a treat when I was a kid? A treat as in, we maybe got to eat one twice a year? Just plain pickles and ketchup single patty burgers from McD's. We didn't have a Wendy's (or anything, really) until I was a teenager. So as an adult? It still feels completely indulgent to get a burger or a chicken sandwhich that I didn't have to cook myself. Also, I'm so glad Wendy's introduced the "son of baconater" burger. It's all the love of a baconater with half the guilt.  Bacon+me= True love, in case you didn't know. ...

I admit, I was sort of dubious about watching it because, honestly, the original is like my absolute favorite movie of all time. I've watched it enough times that I can pretty much recite the dialog with the actors. I mean, I can literally picture the entire movie in my head from memory. And can recall the exact inflection of their TONES and facial expressions during the dialog of each scene. I'm not even ashamed to admit that I still cry with Sally Field during the funeral scene, ya'll.  So an "updated" version on Lifetime? Meh. Not terribly excited about it. But I was curious to see what they did with it. PLUS, I was intrigued by the fact that it had an all African-American cast with some of my favorite AA actresses. Queen Latifa as M'Lynn. Phylicia Rashad as Clariee. Alfre Woodard as Ouiser. Jill Scott as Truvy. The two younger actresses, I didn't recognize although Phylicia Rashad's daughter played Shelby. I got that from the website . Fi...

So. The weekend. Well, Friday night I stayed in (shock) and mostly watched a marathon of The Client List on LMN. Don't ask me why I watch this show. I don't really know. J. Love's "Texas" accent is just awful and the storyline is kinda "blah." But her brother-in-law on there is smokin' hot so maybe that's why. I ditched the marathon about halfway through (I'd seen them already and the BIL isn't hot enough to warrant a second viewing for that long) in order to watch my recorded episode of Awake. I don't know why I like Awake either, except that it's one of those shows that you really  hafta think about in order to figure out what's going on. It reminds me a lot of Medium in that regard. Always a real headscratcher with a series long mystery of what's really going on with him...you know...Which is the dream and which is reality or is he really dead/in a coma/etc.? Who knows? But I want to find out. Mostly I want to p...

Friday Night. I watched Bad Teacher on DVD Friday night. I'm not a huge Cameron Diaz fan but the trailer seemed to funny to pass up. I especially like when she gets hit in the face with the dodgeball. *snicker* My take? Not bad. It was really laugh out loud funny in places although some parts were bordering on ridiculous. And while there's nothing really all that redeemable about any of the characters (I don't think there was supposed to be) there is a little bit of "redemption" in the end to make it a happy ending. However, if your expecting Diaz's character to suddenly become "Good" teacher, you'll be disappointed. One thing I really wasn't all that crazy about in the film was the blatant drug use. Granted, I did watch the unrated version as opposed to the theatrical release. Not sure if the bulk of the nasty drug use was just in the unrated version or not. BUT, unlike a film or two that I quit watching because of it (I'm looki...

So Thursday night TV is a bust for me. Nothin' on I care to watch. Normally, I use Thursday nights for watching whatever I got from Netflix that week. This week's Netflix pick was Going The Distance . You know, with Drew Barrymore and Justin Long? I was kinda "meh" about it when I put it in my que but I like Drew Barrymore, normally. And Justin Long--LOVED him in He's Just Not Into You. I figured I'd give it a shot. Ya'll...First of all...a gripe to whoever configures the previews on DVD's and sets the permissions of whether they can be skipped straight to the menu...This disc not only wouldn't let me skip straight to the menu it wouldn't let me use the skip button to skip past individual previews! I had to FAST FORWARD(!!!) through two hours of previews just to get to the menu. So okay. Maybe it was more like twenty minutes. But twenty minutes of previews that you can't skip??? I might as well have been watching a VHS! What's up ...

First of all MEDIUM WAS BACK FRIDAY NIGHT!!! And it was awesome as always. And also, Subway's buffalo chicken sub is...*swoony sigh* Amazing. I'd marry it if it weren't a sandwich. hehehe I stopped on my way home and picked up subs for the folks and myself. I don't usually pick up food on the way home but I had a craving, Subway had a special and I knew Mama and Daddy probably didn't feel like cooking. I had company Saturday morning. Looks like trouble to me! lol Mama's been having some trouble with her hip so she asked me to bring him home with me to wash his stinky butt give him a bath. You know, since she can't sit, stand, bend, walk or lay down comfortably. Poor thing. The DP went and stayed with Nana while Milo invaded came for his bath. Then after his bath he cried wanting to go home except I think what he actually wanted was to go outside to poop because when we went outside to get in the car he made a bee-line for the trees instead and fert...

...but it'd just put you to sleep. For reelz. Weekend of boring. Just me cleaning and shopping and laid out on the couch in front of the boob tube. Fun reading, no? One thing I did do that might not put you to sleep is watch Dear John. I watched it twice. Been waiting to get if from Netflix for, like, EVER! so I figured I'd get my wait's worth. It's a pretty good movie, too. And can I just say...Channing Tatum is like, hot all over with a side of "make me drool" sexy? Oh. My. Stars. (True confession? The second viewing of Dear John was mostly just me drooling over "John." YUM.) Something about that hot body/handsome face in such a touching broody stoic and sensitive hero of a movie character just really...well. Okay. Not to overshare, but, yeah. He wouldn't have to beg. LOL (okay, so maybe a little overshare?) Second best part of the film, though? I don't wanna spoil it for ya but, it totally had a glimmer of a Happily-Ever-After, un...

Mmmmm...Chocolate chip pancakes, bacon and coffee. Thursday night pancake nights rule. Thanks, Jen, for the head's up on using Martha White muffin mixes to make pancakes, too. They're supper easy and tastey delicious. I made these chocolate chip pancakes with Martha White Chocolate Chip muffin mix. Last week I made Strawberry Cheesecake pancakes. Next week? Definitely gonna be Orange Cranberry, if it's in stock when I go shopping. YUM! Also watched a movie last night. Meryle Streep's It's Complicated. I figured it would be a cute movie, judging from the trailers. And it was. But it was fairely awesome, too. Funny, emotional, sweet and at times, silly. But it also had a lot of heart. And with the fabulous Meryle Streep, how could it not? But also, (and I'm almost a little embarrassed to admit this) Steve Martin? Kinda hot. I've always thought he was sorta charmingly cute but something in this particular role pushed him over into kinda hot. Who knew?!