Rock of Ages, well, ROCKED. The characters were good, it was funny, the performers were fantastic (I was impressed by Constantine Maroulis, who previously had sort of fallen under my American Idol indifference, and everyone else was right on par at the very least), and the music, of course, was right up my alley ( Read more... )

This "winter storm" needs to move right on past Southern California. I've had a headache for three days, and I have a feeling it's not going anywhere until the pressure system changes.

( I also haven't been having a very good time of weight watchers lately. )

I got up a half-hour early this morning to work out. It took longer than I thought it would and threw off my entire morning (I lost most of my precious local news-watching, coffee-drinking time!), but I feel really good ( Read more... )

I've never been a huge fan of Valentine's Day. I spent many single V-Days with just the slightest undercurrent of sadness. I spent one feeling guilty with some guy I was just not that into. And then last year, my first with Steve, was special. We took a weekend trip to Ojai, a tiny, quaint little town in the mountains. We had sushi and window ( Read more... )

I'm having wedding registry anxiety. My friend who got engaged a month or so before I did had set up a registry before she had a ring on her finger (but after she knew it was coming). I have been engaged for nine months, and I have not started this registering I'm supposed to do.

First of all, I feel strange setting myself up to expect gifts. I ( Read more... )

Dude! I'm not a Sagittarius anymore!! Not that I buy into astrology or read my horoscope, but it's one of those things I just knew about myself, y'know? I was a Sagittarius. And now I'm a Scorpio, along with everyone else born in a six day span in November. And there's a 13th sign. And this is all just WEIRD! Weird ( Read more... )

This weekend has been RIDICULOUSLY productive, and Sunday's not even half over ( Read more... )

As of November 18th, I'd lost 27.6 pounds and my goal for the holiday season was just to not gain any of that back ( Read more... )

I got Just Dance 2 for the Wii for Christmas. ...By which I mean, I bought Just Dance 2 on the enthusiastic recommendations of two different friends, while Christmas shopping for other people. And then, the other day, Steve wrapped up a bunch of gifts for people we weren't going to be seeing before Christmas, and he wrapped Just Dance 2, so it's ( Read more... )

Two options:

Travel time to and from the airport: 1.5 hours
Time spent getting through security, waiting at the gate, and at baggage claim: 2.5 hours
Time spent on an airplane: 4 hours
Total time spent traveling two thousand miles between my parents' house in Chicago and my house: 8 hoursTime spent traveling two HUNDRED miles (a 3.5-4 hour trip, ( Read more... )