True Body

I’m watching season 1 of True Blood. Goodness, but it does like the blood. The title fits. It also offers lots of other, more pleasing features, like gorgeous, undressed male bodies. The men of True Blood do make for an excellent TV-watching experience.

What a Pain

I woke up thinking that my old nemesis plantar fasciitis had returned to bedevil me. My right foot hurt a lot. I got out of bed this morning with the admirable intention to make it to Sunday’s CrossFit class, but as soon as I tried to walk I realized that this was intention would only remain exactly that, an intention.

It hurts to put weight on my heel, and unlike plantar fasciitis it isn’t improving as I walk around. It had been my first guess as I’ve eaten lots more dairy, wheat, and sugar than I normally do. I figured that my normal anti-inflammatory low-carb diet keeps the foot pain at bay, but I had done too much bad eating this crazy week that my body was feeling it. But I don’t think that’s causing the pain. I can see some inflammation and redness on the inner side of my foot — not something I’d see if it’s plantar fasciitis.

I’m trying to remember what I did to hurt it. Was it housework? My body can’t handle cleaning house? Wouldn’t that be interesting, but ultimately very messy?

Yesterday I took Spencer for a walk with the Paw Placement folks. I stumbled over a wire and over a rock. Yet it never felt like I twisted anything. I was wearing solid shoes, but they are relatively new, so maybe there’s something about them that has bothered my foot.

Did I get bit by something? That would seem a reasonable situation. I do get spiders and I was cleaning up some items to take to Goodwill. Could there have been something in the pile?

Yep, I’m clueless. I have to drive to a movie today, as I’m reviewing Taking Woodstock. Let’s hope that I can drive to the movie and get some errands done.

All I know is that this is a pain.

The Ugly Truth review

I like both Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, but their film, The Ugly Truth, didn’t earn my love. Still, I liked parts of it. Here’s my review.

New in Town review

Man, do I love romantic comedies. When done well they warm my romantic heart. When done badly, they bring out my cynical side. New in Town made me feel incredibly cynical. Here’s my review.

Bruno review

I am so behind on posting my reviews. I’ll try to catch up over the weekend as a lazy way to do some blogging. Anyway, here’s my review of Bruno.

Making it Through the Week

What a crazy week. The start of the semester at NAU always throws me for a loop. I work in a tech support department that assists NAU faculty. It’s been insane this week. Due to our budget cuts we’ve lost some of our student worker help and that means a lot more work for us full-time folks. Thus, a crazy week. We made it though.

I stayed in bed until noon today — a well-deserved sleeping in, if you ask me. I only had one thing to deal with today and that was cleaning the house. I was having visitors. Paw Placement was coming over for a home visit. I’m adopting a dog named Duke and this was the first visit to see how Duke got along with my dog Spencer. It went well — no fights, no growling, and no unseemly behavior. Spencer wasn’t a love puppy, but he wasn’t obnoxious. That’s a victory to me.

Now I’m just sitting back in my clean house, watching some of season seven West Wing episodes. Hey, I made it through the week, I’m allowed to relax.

Ctrl

I’m watching episodes of Ctrl on Hulu. What a fun concept. A computer keyboard gives a nerd magical abilities in a life-changing way. Just watch out for the Copy and Paste shortcuts.

more about “Ctrl Trailer“, posted with vodpod

Lonely Dog

Spencer is standing on the back deck and barking out at the world. The world isn’t answering back.

I think he needs another dog for company.

Family Fun – Let them Eat Cake and Being a Kept Woman

Went to Phoenix area this weekend for the “quarterly” birthday party. That’s the four-times-a-year party where we celebrate the birthdays that occurred in the quarter. This time it was actually a “halfly” as we combined the 2nd and 3rd quarters, as we never could get the parties scheduled to meet everyone’s availability.

Held at my nephew Jason’t house, we swam (finally got to wear my new swim suit), played Apples to Apples (my brother Steve beat us all), and watched the chocolate cake plop into my niece-in-law Maria’s lap. Don’t ask, it was definitely an accident. Of course, nothing stops my family from chocolate cake — we ended up eating it anyway.

Today I stayed longer so I could join my niece in watching Gigi, the 1958 musical. She found the first part a bit of a bore (just like the character Gaston), but once the romance part began she was into the story. There are some adult themes, so explaining the concept of “mistresses” or “kept women” to a 10-year old took some clever wording, but the word “sex” was involved, which dismayed my niece. She was relieved that Gigi ended up marrying Gaston, as that is what people in love should do.

A good weekend with family. Now it’s a week of crazy work as the semester is about to begin. I really think that I would rather have a chocolate cake in my lap.

Lucky Number Slevin – Why the Wait?

There are so many movies where I do this “Want to see it; no I don’t” kind of behavior. I rent it but put off watching it, returning it unseen. I’ve done this with several movies and I kick myself for returning them unwatched, because I know what will happen once I do get around seeing it a few years later. I’ll love it. Lucky Number Slevin was one of those movies.

This time I picked up the movie via Netflix. I’d rented it before, but had returned it to the rental place unseen. The last two weeks the Netflix package sat on top of my TV, waiting for me to open it and put the movie in. Finally I did it tonight. I even figured that I would probably get bored, turn it off, and go to bed early. Hah! I liked the darn movie.

I loved the cast, especially Josh Hartnett and Lucy Liu. Morgan Freeman and Sir Ben Kingsley made entertaining mobsters, the dialogue was clever, and the twists and turns entertaining and not overly predictable. It’s not a perfect movie, but it is a perfect movie for a Friday night.

Man, I just have to make myself put those movies into the dvd player. A greater percentage of these films end up as enjoyable viewings. Sure, some are average, so-so outings, but let me try to remember the ones that surprise me, so I will not be so reluctant to put the next dvd into the player.

Chak De! India review

Ah, the joys of watching a sports movie. It’s interesting to see one from India. Chak De! India was entertaining. Here’s the review.

Julie & Julia & Food

I enjoyed Julie & Julia. A group of us women went to see it and we all had a good time. Meryl Streep is marvelous as Julia Child and Amy Adams is a delight as the blogger who attempts to cook all of the recipes in Julia Child’s cookbook.

I’m reviewing it and had a devil of a time trying not to use any food comparisons as part of the review. I succumbed to the temptation and finished my review with this:

Two wonderful actresses with one good character and one larger-than-life character, a lighthearted script, competetent direction, and you have the ingredients for one tasty dish.

You will be thinking of food when you leave the theater. It’s hard not to. We see the two main characters love their food, so how can we not feel the same?

After the movie, three of us went out for dinner and drinks. I tried Oysters Rockefeller and Steak Diane. Not a cheap dinner, but trying new food seemed the Julia thing to do.  The dinner was delicious and the company good. I wish more movies inspired this kind of activity.

Wrapped Up and in the Dark

The landlord has hired painters to paint my place’s exterior. There’s nothing like having the windows and doors covered to make it even darker than my place already is. Lulu kitty and Spencer are freaking out at the activity outside. I’m just happy that the weather is cool today so it’s nice and comfortable sitting inside.

It should be interesting to see the place painted. It’s been looking like a hillbilly shack for way too long.

Sugar Evils

Good video about sugar and what we eat.

I do so much better without sugar or processed carbs.

Health Care Forum – Calm and Quiet

I went to a Health Care Forum tonight. You’ve heard about all the teabagger mobs that have shut down some of the forums? Nothing like that happenned here. It was calm, quiet, and kind of boring.

Kyrsten Synema, one of the state legislators, conducted the event. She’s on Obama’s Health Care Task Force, so she’s traveling around the state presenting information and answering questions.

Yes, there were people who cheered the comment about our border — if ex-Gov Napolitano had closed it there would be no health care crisis. Yeah, makes no sense to me either. I’m sure that the insurance companies would have cut prices, insured all, and never denied care to anyone as long as that dang border was closed.

Anyway, I can’t report anything exciting. It was informative, but I bet the two bills described will be very different by the time they are combined in the conference committee.