Weekend movies

I rented 'Must Love Dogs' this weekend. I have been looking forward to that movie for ages. I love John Cusack and with the exception of Serendipity have loved every movie he's ever been involved with.
I love Diane Lane (not the same way I love John Cusack) and loved under the Tuscan sun....Loved, loved, loved it.
It stands to reason I would LOVE this new movie as well.

It Sucked! I mean sucked.
We've seen Lane as a gun shy divorcee. We've seen Cusack as a sensitive artist. And we've seen it done much better than this.
I hated Lane's character and her family who during gatherings want to set her up with her first cousin and stick pictures of their eligible friends on her fridge. Come on! I think the days where the " my friend\sister\buddy\ mother \ dog, put my profile on a dating site with out my knowledge." story line was fresh and interesting. We hardly saw Cusacks character and when we did I was brought back to the days of Lloyd Dobbler. I love Lloyd Dobbler but the fast talking confusion doesn't work when we don't see a glimpse of character depth.

I was so disappointed in this movie. It makes me wonder what these two actors were thinking when they took these parts.

I need an indoor pool perhaps??

A happy Friday quiz

Raw evil score: 40%This was a funny one !ha ha ha ha ha!

Road trips and teens

Dustin and I recently took a 7 hour road trip to my mom's for Christmas. Just Dustin and I.
I think that may be the first trip in 13 years that we've taken alone. He talked the whole time. We talked the whole time. It was wonderful. At 17 he's beginning to come out of the hormonal angst years. It was nice to see him back. We talked about his brother, his job, his life and we spent a long time talking about how people change over the years.
At one point I was telling him how in my late teens and early 20's most of my thoughtful time was spent analyzing my relationships. I told him how my girlfriends and I would spend hours talking about boys. What they said, what they thought, and what we thought what they said meant. He became quite animated at that point telling me how he hates that. He wondered why girls did that. Didn't they know that what he says is exactly what he means? Simple as that. I wish I'd known that when I was 17....

Coffee droppings

We are crazy humans.
I was playing around on the internet today and ran across an article that made me laugh out loud.
Apparently there are those among us who would pay 175.00 for a pound of coffee that was picked from the excrement of a small mammal. (A Civet from Indonesia)
Yes people, when we say this coffee tastes like shit there may be a good reason for it.
I for one would like to know who's idea it was to pick coffee beans out of crap and roast them? What exactly was the thought process behind that action?
Was there a coffee bean drought? Were these people so desperate for a cup of Joe that they were willing to pick the beans out of this animals crap?
We may never know the answer to those questions.
What I do know is New Yorkers are spending a pretty penny on this stuff.
I'd like to know why.

I'm back!

Ooh I've been gone a long time! A writing hiatus which I am happy to say I am over. Well I'm forcing myself to be over it. I don't have a lot of patience for these things. Happy New year everyone. 2006!
I recall being in elementary school and working out how old we would be, as a class, in the year 2000. I was going to be so old! So old that I may not even have the energy to enjoy making it to the new millennium. I was sad that I had too be so old when that party came around....Now here we are, over half way through the first decade of the new millennium. By the year 2010 my oldest son will be 22 my youngest 18. I will be 42 years old. Not so old. If course when I was twelve I wouldn't have thought that but now...Not so old.
The years fly by. One after another until you wonder what happened? Where did your life go. I think that comes from looking ahead too much. So worried about what comes next that we don't know what's happening right now. I think my New year resolution will be to live today. Who knows what happens next and no matter how much you worry. It will be what it will be.
So here's to the new year may we all notice every moment.

Cheers my friends