Sore Bones are the Order of the Day

I'm sore...SORE!!! I hurt ... and not just my bloody and bruised right knee from when I wiped out on Wednesday - yes, that's right, I just fell in the middle of the street for no good reason ... thank god no one "important" saw me ... I had just left a conversation with my boss on the corner while he had a smoke though so I later accused him of pushing me and then running in the other direction ...he STILL denies it...

Anyway, I'm sore because I was a good girl and went to yoga both mornings and darn it, my body isn't used to it because I've been a bad girl since November and haven't been doing it regularly...yesterday in particular, I seemed to have REALLLLLLY STRETCHHHHEDDDD - I swear I'm taller now, I felt so stretched - but oooh it did feel good ... and after Saturday's class, Floating Head and I tried a raw foods meal for the first time and found it quite yummy. It was really filling without the awful heaviness you feel after the usual big meal. I had Fofu Benedict at Quintessence

"2 slices of our tasty sprouted kamut bread topped with walnut herb sausage, avocado and fofu. Smothered with mock Hollandiaise sauce and caramelized onions. Served with mixed mesclun and your choice of dressing"

This was followed by a Chai Latte made with cashew nut milk - which is SOOOO good, its all nutty tasting and warm and spicy...perfect to sip on a cold cold day while we sat at the window table and looked across the street at the Russian Baths and watched the Russian Mobsters -so we assumed ... and wouldn't you?... who else goes to the Russian Baths?! - come and go and hoped to see Viggo emerging fresh from a knife fight inside...alas, no Viggo for us but we still spent a good deal of the time speculating on what was going on inside and making up stories about the men coming and going ... someday, I'll gain invisibility skills and slip inside to see for myself...

And tonight, we celebrate ... yes, this is the final time President Goofus will give a State of the Union and according to my calendar there are only 357 days left in office until we are free of this GARBAGE ... and onto new GARBAGE, I'm sure, but at least it will be different GARBAGE and hopefully Democratic GARBAGE ... we shall see ... and hope... and pray...

Well color me disappointed...it was supposed to snow today and it's currently 5:38 PM and not a flake to be seen (unless I look in the mirror - HA HA HA HA!) Damn that Doppler 4000! It's broken, I swear... oh WELL. Weatherpeople SMELL.



















What I really want to comment on is how much I liked "There Will Be Blood" - I forgot I was watching a movie from opening to ending and that's - I think - a testament to how great an actor Daniel Day-Lewis is ...so go see that. (Vron, just do that...how do you think that looks?)

And can I tell you how much fun I had playing poker on Saturday night at Evan's? I did much better than the last time I played (2 years ago) and I actually almost won 3 rounds, if only I hadn't folded too soon...ah well, live and learn, I came in with 10 bucks and left with 7.85 so I'm not too much of a loser...I guess you really do need to know when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em, like Kenny Rogers says you do...and know when to walk away..and know when to run...

Don't we all know the lyrics to that song? Do you want me to admit that one of the first records I ever bought - at Woolco - was Kenny Rogers GOLD!! I'm not embarassed either ...

Well...maybe a little...

Don't judge me...

I'm writing this to say...I'm a HORRIBLE daughter...I've forgotten to call my mommy and daddy on the third most important day of the year - first being Feb. 10th, second being October 26th - Sunday was my parents 39th Wedding Anniversary...39 years, do you believe that? That they could stand each other for that long? For some reason, I had it in my head that it was the 23rd...oh never mind, no use coming up with excuses now, it's too late....but I can declare publicly:

*I love you both THIS MUCH (imagine arms stretched out super wide).
*I think you are AWESOME.
*Thank you for sticking it out... I know with Charlie, its not always easy... hell, Joyce isn't a piece of cake either, but you did it!!! Keep up the good work!!

Snow White, oh what are we going to do next year for their Ruby Wedding??? We must discuss...

Loooooooong Weekend

So any plans? I have minimal plans ...sort of ...maybe some yoga, provided I can shake my baby cold/cough, then to the Land of Fort Lee, NJ for some poker and hot wings at Evan's ... then Sunday I'll check in on the Infirm Cousin Megan and maybe see "There Will Be Blood"... I'd really like to see "Atonement" but I don't know if I can take Keira Knightly and her fake Britishness for 2 hours...maybe I'll just borrow the book from Dear Sick Cousin, like I did with the OMG so fantastic so far The Historian - I can't put this book down, and I got freaked out the other night reading it before going to sleep because I felt as if something creepy was present...could it be VLAD THE IMPALER???!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Monday, I want more than anything to do NOTHING. Maybe see if Floating Head is back from DR and have Brunch/Early Dinner/Late Lunch so I can hear all the news? I'll have to call her and see...

Other than that, this post is BORING so again, I'll try next week to be a better, more entertaining poster for y'all...

New Earworm Alert!

Just purchased last night on iTunes and I can't stop listening to it... The Wild Son by The Veils...beautiful and very joyous...you can see the video on YouTube of course and see what I mean...I like the end when they are all running into the ocean and singing "blessed's the night blessed's the night"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDlDQ0YkvK0

Your knives are sharp
When you put them in my heart
Though the truth, you'd say,
Is I like them there that way
From this hoodlum skin
I can always run to him
Undeserved, capsized
In the gutters of his eyes

Darling I need you far more than I say
None of my fears are as dear to me

And a great light dims
Every day I'm torn from him
And our stars align
In Elysian Fields at night
And the wheels, they turn
And the fallen heather burns
At a loss and scared
In exile and unprepared

Darling I need you far more than I say
None of my fears are as dear to me

Blessed's the night
Blessed's the night
Blessed's the night

When none of my fears are as dear to me
None of my fears are as dear to me
None of my fears are as dear to me

Long time no speak...

I've been a bad blogger since I got back from Christmas Vacation, I know I know...I feel like I've let you down... but I have many excuses and rationalizations as to why you've barely heard a peep out of me... of course I came back to lots o' mess at work and all the stuff that I couldn't bear to handle before I left was still here, waiting to be dealt with. I realized that I did very little work in December - I was just hanging on until I could go home to Mommy and Daddy and rest because I was just so DONE with 2007. I mean it, I'd had it up to HERE. And THERE. So two weeks to the day after returning, I can finally say I'm almost caught up. Anyway... oh excuse #2? I've been sort of ill but not really so I've been sleeping a lot and trying my best to shake it - it's a cough and cold and fever sort of thing just kind of hanging there, not really developing into anything, except today I'm super sniffly and wheezy so can we please just get a cold and be done with it? I'm tired of this rundown feeling ... and the most obvious reason for not blogging is I haven't had anything worthy of typing down here - but have I ever? It's always been just blah blah blah, all the ramblings in my head, current mood status, is it snowing, and on and on... I think I just got out of the habit while I was unplugged in Las Vegas ... so:

RESOLVED! I shall blog faithfully once more... it's 2008, a new year after all , so let's get on with the newness and the resolute behavior and the discipline I intend to exert upon myself. Now, hmmmm... I have to come up with things to say.... I'll get back to you about that... maybe tomorrow ;-)

Some Holiday Pics...

My mother has a case of Prosciutto Tongue - Yummy!















Some of you may not know that I have a terrible fear of the Burger King...so of course my loving father dressed up as the King and scared me something awful on Xmas Morning... he was just sitting outside, waiting for me and then he chased me around the house...ew!























Oh,the unbridled avarice!