01-02-2010

Last New Year’s Eve Rick and I were in New York City having dinner at a French restaurant with friends. This year we watched the Food Network all evening, ate plates piled high with carrots, celery, clementines, thin-sliced peppered salame and white cheddar cheese with chipotle peppers and cranberries throughout. This after a gourmet dinner of Cream of Wheat. We like Cream of Wheat and are notoriously lazy about having a New Year’s Eve plan. At midnight we called friends and family, sleeping or not. Those who get woken up by calls from people like me will be delighted to learn I got payback when my brother called early the next morning to send well-wishes. We spent 01-01-10 lazing around, happy that we were, went out for Chinese and then watched Julie & Julia (where we enjoyed watching French food being cooked).

Was last year a much more exciting start to the New Year? Yes, but I was still just as happy as it started off exactly the same way as it has for the last seventeen years - with my favorite person by my side who is the bread to my low-fat butter.*

*That’ll make more sense when you see the movie.

No Sunday Blues

All the Sunday life maintenance stuff is done: garbage collected, fresh towels up, fresh sheets on, lunch made, clothes out for tomorrow and (ugh) alarm set. Now I'm about to chill and read some more of Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach. Her writing is witty and always chock full of fascinating facts and stories. A previous book, Stiff, is one of my absolute favorites. So the prospect of reading makes me happy plus I'm really excited to show off some logo design ideas on Tuesday for the place I just started rowing at. There was a quote in the movie A Family Thing that goes something like, "Being happy ain't nothing more than having something to look forward to."

The Dark Knight

Everyone is raving about this movie, and so will I. It is dark, maniacal and intense. Heath put past Jokers to shame, and to be honest I could just watch Christian Bale lean against a building all day. Tall, dark and handsome just like my guy. Plus he has "the nose," and I'm a nose girl. I joke with B that I married him for his nose; it's just a bonus that he's an awesome guy. The two of us met up with V and enjoyed coffee and conversation at Tim Horton's post-movie. Actually only B had coffee, but coffee and conversation (which I copped from B's Twitter) has such nice alliteration.

Spoiler Alert: Did you think the prisoner would push the detonator? Me, too - and then felt guilty for it. I like how the director included us all in the social experiment.

Favorite Line: Madness is like gravity. All it takes is a little push.

Journey to the 21st Century's 3D

Holy crap, Journey to the Center of the Earth in RealD - the new 3D technology is out-of-this-world, slick, tasty eye candy. This is better than IMAX 3D.

Take your kids. Take your grandma. Take your eyes and put them back in your head when it's over.

My First Movie

Wow, I can't believe I finally got this to work! Yay! So here is a little taste of our first day of snowboarding this year. Don't worry - your speakers are working fine; I just didn't add sound for this first attempt. The videographer - my husband - is snowboarding while taking the video.

I swear this is the only time I fell after fastening my boots - on camera. We started farther back from the hill so had to shimmy before we finally started sliding. The last image is my board on the left and his on the right. We had a blast. Thank goodness for muscle memory. Our first trip down felt like we had just done it yesterday instead of over 9 months ago.