One of my favorite "Christmas" songs of all time:



Hope you all have a healthy and happy holiday season!

Bummed or Rain, Rain Go Away

Last night was a lunar eclipse ON the winter solstice.  You know who should have had prime viewing?  Los Angeles.  You know who got to see rain and clouds and morons trying to drive instead?  Los Angeles.  I'm not one to complain about the wet weather.  It is soothing and when last minute shopping, it comes in handy for clearing out open air malls (see moron driving comment above).  But to have missed a big ole red moon on the winter solstice seems wrong to me.  I mean, I should have been having midnight margaritas and singing "you put the lime in the coconut".  Alas . . . beautiful pictures here.

My New Favorite Thing

Yummie Tummie Panties

Ugly?  Yes.  But they are soooo comfortable and the muffin top has been managed.  The briefs and thongs don't creep, pinch, or have visible pantie lines.  The industrial strength elastic tames the muffin top.  And they are easy to wash.

http://www.yummietummie.com/slimming-underwear.html

Plus, any brand that says "Yummie" is a friend of mine.

A Pay It Forward Moment

I saw this story on the Front Page of Yahoo! today.  It's truly amazing what good people can do when given the smallest opportunity.

Welcome to LA - earthquake version

Unlike my former employer's office building, the MySpace office is not on casters.  That 5.7 (from over a hundred miles away) felt like it:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqscanv/FaultMaps/116-33.html

Seriously? Snow in July?

I'm not going to lie, when we got to our campsite and there was snow on the ground my first thought was "WTF?" and my second was "I KNEW I should have brought my beanie!"  Little did I know that Uncle Gary and Aunt Devonne would have every possible amenity one can have for "real" camping (no running water, sleeping in tents, closest major road is named "Dinkey Creek", campsite not visible from the dirt road).  All in all it was a wonderful trip with one of the best campfires in history.

So today I was fully expecting it to be a more difficult day after being so far out of cellphone service for the weekend.  Little did I know that work wouldn't be the challenge . . . that it's actually the crazy weather following me around.  Weird LA moment: check out today's weather forecast:

Who said climate change wasn't fun?

Grease is the Word

There are a lot of people who love the movie Grease here in LA. I spent last night with a bunch of them at the Hollywood Bowl, singing along with my favorite tunes and my brother, Stuart. No pictures yet but SUCH a good time. The Hollywood Bowl is an outstanding venue that allows guests to bring picnics and beer! Imagine that! No Coors Light for us! Any of us. I mean . . . Summer Lovin is never going to be the same for me now that I've sung it with a thousand of my best friends.

Nothing says "I'm so excited we won" like . . . .

Burning a car and walking around on a freeway.



Go Lakers? 

A little something that made me giggle

Retribution by Jilliane Hoffman


My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I will admit to being hooked on approximately 75 pages of this book. However, it took reading about 300 pages to get there . . . 300 pages of overly graphic crime scenes (rape, sadistic torture, murder). The worst part is that you could tell Hoffman was as sick of writing the story as I was of reading it by the end; the last 10 pages were a glossed over mess.

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Racist Camera?

Love this story on the front page of Yahoo! and especially love that it was found by searching blogs! http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100122/wl_time/08599195464300

Matt Nathanson talks about his junk

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Quote of the Day: Courtesy of Evelyn (RE: The Twilight Saga)

Me: this is AWESOME http://theoatmeal.com/story/twilight
SleepyEve: hehehe. . . and now i never need to read it

If you all get the chance, check out how well theoatmeal.com has captured my obsession with Twilight.  I especially love the description of "Pants".

Programming on A&E

I'm pretty sure the programmers need some professional help.  Hoarders? Intervention?  Paranormal State?  Okay, yes, I love all of those shows.  I know I need help.  The difference is . . . I don't go out looking for crazy people.  

P.S.  I know bed bugs are sick.  Do we really need to see them every 5 minutes Mr. Hoarders Producer?