We are totally stuffed from a most elaborate Chinese New Years dinner this afternoon. Dumplings, green onion pancakes, shrimp and chicken stirfry, eggrolls and rice noodles and almond jelly for dessert. Dad cooked up a storm while we filled eggrolls furiously ( Read more... )

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An early Valentines present for you all...

My current favourites stand as thus:

Best Actor - Lenoardo DeCaprio (having only seen Blood Diamond from this category and being a tad bit smitten with him at the moment - he gets my vote)

Best Supporting Actor - Djimon Hounsou (seriously, see Blood Diamond)

Best Actress - Helen Mirren.  She's certainly the favourite to win and she's very deserving ( Read more... )

I would like to use this opportunity to publicly thank my husband for his keen disinterest in football.  However many times it is explained to me, or the countless times I watch The Replacements, I will never ever understand or be able to fein interest in the sport ( Read more... )

While there were a few things that I didn't understand in this movie, I thought it was pretty powerful.  It was the first movie to actually make my biological clock's alarm go off.  Clive Owen is pretty darn terrific.  I've seen three of his movies and I think that I like him.  Despite his mashed up face and bored expression, he's very good and ( Read more... )

I can't believe that it's the end of January already!  For the first time in four years I do not dread February, March and April due to tax season.  Mind you, the free lunches I got in on (while working on the weekend) were great and when everyone is stressed out it makes the work load a bit easier somehow ( Read more... )

I watched Pan's Labyrinth this afternoon.  It was pretty good and even though i knew about the violent content of the film, I still had to look away for many scenes.  I feel bad for kids duped into thinking this might be a fun fantasy movie.   The Pale Man was pretty scary.  yuck.  I get the parallel story lines and such, but I couldn't help but ( Read more... )

I wish my hair could look as calm and cute at work as it does when I'm home.  Case in point:  I'm sitting here in the most perfectly place pigtails one could imagine:  sleek and low with just the right amount of bang hanging loose.  yet tomorrow, when I attempt this it will be crooked and will somehow make me look fat(ter).

being a girl is so HARD

I cannot express how happy I am to be home at 5:15 on a Friday!  I was given permission to leave early today which coincided with Shaun picking me up early - win win!  It's not that I had a bad week, I just that I wanted it to be over with.

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