everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt

"Here’s what I see: 'Oh, honey, you want to paint your nails pink? Okay, let’s do it.' Because do you have any idea how long a weekend is with children? Everybody gets bored; you’ll do anything to fill the time. And if you take them to a face-painting booth, it doesn’t make them cats."

- Jon Stewart on the J. Crew “controversy”

Oh. my. good. god.
I love this movie!

Tina Fey answers the Proust Questionnaire

What is your current state of mind?
On the verge of nervous exhaustion, but only for the last seven years.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A glass of wine at sunset on Fire Island. / No homework.

What is your greatest fear?
Child, loss or damage thereof.

Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Catherine the Great’s horse.

Which living person do you most admire?
Cathy Rigby. She was really good in that stage version of Peter Pan. No joke.

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Procrastination.

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
People who are proud of their ignorance.

What is it that you most dislike?
People who mock education as elitist.

What is your greatest extravagance?
Living in New York City.

What do you most value in your friends?
A willingness to come uptown.

What is your favorite journey?
Pulling up to my parents’ house for Christmas. Just pulling up, though—not the whole drive.

What is your most treasured possession?
A photo of my parents walking around the Acropolis circa 1965. They look like a poster for Two for the Road.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Natural childbirth.

On what occasion do you lie?
During press junkets for movies.

Which living person do you most despise?
Osama bin Laden. Unless we think he’s dead by now, in which case that guy who holds up the GOD HATES FAGS sign.

What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Jeff and Alice Richmond equally, but only because they look exactly alike.

When and where were you happiest?
Anywhere, during the 2 to 24 hours after a successful joke.

If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I would get 30 hours a day when everyone else gets 24.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Providing 200 people with a nice place to work.

If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
My husband and I would work less and my daughter would sleep more.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
September 12, 2001.

What is your favorite occupation?
Being between jobs but having a good one lined up in about a month or so.

What is your most marked characteristic?
Obedience and a long nose. (I might be a collie.)

Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Veruca Salt, Francie Nolan, Miss Havisham. That’s me in a nutshell, actually.

How would you like to die?
I would like to drop dead while introducing the “In Memoriam” clip package at the Emmys … on my 10,000th birthday.

What is your motto?
“Stop reaching for the stars!”

Sorry I've been so illusive lately. Working 40 hours a week, having out of town guests, and not feeling too well are not conducive to blogging. Plus my computer crashed so now I only have my Dad's laptop to use.
More things coming soon!

So tired of getting yelled at everyday for things that aren't my fault. Being a receptionist at a doctors office is super stressful and sick people are mean. Good thing Courtney, my bff from ATL is coming to stay with me for a couple days tomorrow! Time to plan my Vegas birthday trip!!!

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Nicole Kidman, Moulin Rouge

Because the weather was SO terrible last weekend, 6in of snow over night and subzero temps, my dad and I geeked out and had a Lord of the Rings marathon on the big ole' flat screen.
First of all, Aragorn is f-ing hot as hell. I haven't watched these movies since high school and back them Orlando Bloom was more my type, but Viggo Mortensen was looking pretty fine to me. I think a lot of the appeal is how manly he is, I'm a big fan of bad asses.
Check out this Viggo picture! Swoon!

Also, Samwise is totally the hero of the entire trilogy. Frodo is such a pussy and I hate him. It's really sad that everyone is saved because of Sam and he doesn't get any recognition! Poor fat hobbitsie. At least he gets his lady at the end.

Met a guy on New Years. He asked for my number and I gave it to him, he seemed nice enough and he was pretty cute (think Orlando Bloom/ Josh Hartnett). He called me a couple days later and asked me out to dinner so I accepted. He picked me up and as we were walking to his car he walked right past the passenger side door and just got in his side (strike one, not even attempting to open the car door for me.) We went to a nice restaurant (strike 2 didn't get my chair), where I made some joke about how liberal I am and instead of just laughing along he says "Oh, I'm the exact opposite." Then he didn't know any movies I mentioned and said his FAVORITE actor is Tom Cruise. At this point we're at strike 3, or 4, but apparently I like putting myself in awkward situations so I agreed to get hot chocolate w/ him after dinner.
Coffee/ hot chocolate was actually not bad. We had a pretty good conversation and things seemed to pick up.
He took me home after that and said "I had a really good time, we should do this again soon," I thought why not, and agreed. Then he didn't even walk me to my door! Didn't even get out of the car (strike 5?) He texts me the next day saying again he had fun and thought I was cool, then friended me on Facebook and I accepted b/c I like awkward situations apparently.
I don't hear from the guy for TWO WEEKS, I figured he changed his mind and he didn't like me that much, which actually worked out ok for me b/c I could tell it wasn't going to go anywhere. Then he instant messaged me on Facebook one evening at 5:30 asking me to come watch a movie (guy code for get some action) at his house that's about 45mins away. What is wrong with guys?? You take a girl to dinner once, don't even walk her to the door, don't call or anything for 2 weeks, then expect her to drop everything and drive 45 mins out of her way for a Facebook booty call. Uhhhh Yeah.
Obviously I didn't go. Then he texts me at 10:30 that night to tell me he's starting a movie alone, like I'm supposed to feel bad for him. Really? It's 10:30, I'm busy, run along. Strike 6, we're done here.
Didn't hear from him again, defriended him on Facebook.

The search continues.