Monday, October 25, 2004

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  A few things:

  What happened with Ashlee Simpson on SNL last night?  I got the West Coast feed, of course, and something was surely bizarre--she was on stage looking confused and doing an Irish jig sorta thing, and then they cut to a guitarist, and then showed the stage with just a spotlight (no Ashlee Simpson)--kind of a cool camera shot of just the white circle on the stage. I assume something was edited out, and CNN had video of "Ashlee Simpson walks off SNL" but I couldn't play the video. Someone please fill me in, because it was freakin' weird. The whole thing lasted about a minute or maybe less.

  Summer123 asks: What's for dinner tonight and what's the dress?

  I'd been planning on taking another shot at macaroni and cheese in the crock pot, but then yesterday Mack and I went to Costco and tried this roast beef they were making in the microwave. It's already cooked and everything and you just heat it up. I didn't expect to like it, because I don't like most microwaved foods, but this was fantastic and it takes about 7 minutes. So this morning when I got up, I tossed some sliced potatoes and carrots, along with some pearl onions, in the crock pot with some beef broth and dry onion soup mix. I don't know how they will turn out, but so far, so good. I'm also making some Country White bread (from Krusteaz mix).

  Also at Costco yesterday, I bought Christmas cards, and we've all already signed them and most of them are already addressed. I usually have every intention of sending out Christmas cards, but I probably have actually only done it maybe three out of the last 7 years. I've just been too busy and unorganized.

  I'm not sure what's changed, but this is a record for sure--apartment is clean, laundry is caught up, I'm cooking about 5 nights a week now (frozen or leftovers the other nights), and my freakin' Christmas cards are as good as done and it's not even Halloween. AND the Red Sox are not only in the World Series, but they're up 1-0 2-0.

  Somewhere, something is definitely not right.

  My arms hurt. I dunno why.

  I'm watching Ulee's Gold on DVD (from Netflix) right now. It's quite possibly the slowest movie ever made. My friend told me it was good, and I have kind of a crush on Patricia Richardson (well, not kind of), and I really can't watch any more reruns of Home Improvement (not that I've seen that many, but I've definitely seen enough). I don't mind slow-paced stories most of the time, but I don't have time to sit and take in every nuance of this film right now. I'm not in the right frame of mind.

  Not much else to report. Mack is on her best behavior because she thinks I'll un-ground her, but that's not gonna happen.

  Currently Watching Ulee's Gold By Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson see related

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