WHEW, where did the weekend go? yesterday, a bleary-eyed day spent rushing, rushing, rushing, all day long, wishing i had time for at least a short nap, but on the go all day long. i went to my niece’s volleyball game and they lost, but the games were really good and thrilling (would have been even more so if i’d been fully awake), and they came in second in their division, which was good.
i saw “king kong” last night, was totally apathetic about going, but it was pretty good. but TOO DAMN LONG. erica thought it was delightfully over the top. david liked it, and so did randy. don’t all guys like it? why, i wonder? something about scary islands, creepy monsters, big apes, pretty girls. and what about jack black? he was good in the role, but i kept wishing he’d have a horrible and grisly death.
i hated the part when they were on skull island and they were in some valley and these REALLY REALLY GROSS worm-slug-like things came glopping out of the glop and then out of the top of these disgusting slimy thins shot these big pink REVOLTING things that sucked onto people; one of them got adrien brody’s arm (I LOVE ADRIEN BRODY NOW), but he escaped because he was the HERO of the film, and another one sucked a guy’s head and killed him.
and also there were too many dinosaurs and long scenes of running around plus giant insects and giant bats and many many giant things and clearly all these animals got ahold of that same crate they found in gilligan’s island when they ate the radioactive vegetables and all had some certain weird attribute, like mrs. howell was really fast from eating sugar beets and gilligan could see really far because of eating carrots. maybe i’m mixed up on who had what attribute, but you get the idea. maybe it was mary ann who could see far because of the carrots, and gilligan was strong because of eating spinach.
king kong was also like a big “jurassic park” ripoff, all the giant creatures and everything. they could have shaved a half hour off the time, easy. but i guess that’s what guys like the neverending chases, which are part of any kind of guy film. chasing chasing chasing. i liked the fact that the humans were able to outrun any of the animals even though many of the animals were VERY VERY FAST. and also, when they were being chased by dinosaurs, why didn’t the people get stepped on? because they made it feel like the people were right there getting tangled up in the dinosaurs’ legs, and yet nobody got squashed like a bug.
i’m just saying.
it was pretty good, though, especially since my expectations were so low. the natives on skull island certainly were unattractive and quite scary and i had to keep hitting randy in the arm because of the scariness aspect of it all.
i didn’t get any candy for the film. i really really wanted some, but now i’m coming DOWN TO THE WIRE in terms of days left to lose weight for the play. DOWN TO THE WIRE, let me just say that a few times so maybe i’ll PAY ATTENTION TO MYSELF.
i really suck at paying attention. i did make my family a lovely dinner tonight including a lemon poppy seed cake and i didn’t eat the whole thing, so that’s something. right? not the whole thing.
tonight i heard about yet another person who reads this site, or maybe they used to and they don’t any more. it’s some woman who i didn’t know existed, and because of READING THIS RIGHT HERE, she’s been telling a friend things about me, stuff that she’s decided she knows about me BASED ON WHAT I’M WRITING RIGHT NOW. she’s never met me, she doesn’t know me.
this is annoying to me. have i not written over and over again that there are only maybe two people, maybe not even that many, who really know what’s going on? but i guess if you were to just read this all the time you’d have some idea of who i am and what i’m doing. but maybe i’m just MAKING IT ALL UP!
because that’s the thing about the internet isn’t it, the ability to just make stuff up if you want to.
ok, i’m not making things up. just leaving stuff out. but if you haven’t even MET me in PERSON, please, please don’t go around telling people your opinions on what’s going on with me WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW ME AT ALL.
so, hamas won. i just found this out today, but apparently it happened a few days ago. i was listening to jimmy carter on one of those sunday morning programs while i was running FAST on the treadmill, and he was talking about how, potentially, this COULD be a good thing…but it seems a little unlikely, doesn’t it? i kept thinking about a new yorker article i read a few years ago, about people in hamas, and about how their whole thing is that they want all jewish people to be DEAD.
so it seems they’d have to come a long way to be moderate and wanting to have peace talks, when they’re starting at such a very very bad place.
but what do i know?
jim gaffigan. i wrote about him a while ago, i saw him in champaign, he’s a REALLY REALLY FUNNY comedian, and he had a special on comedy central tonight and i wish i’d written about it sooner so you could have seen it. i taped it, in case you want to borrow it. or you could look him up online and you could order a tape for yourself.
so far when i ask people if they’ve looked at any sites that i have links to, they always say they haven’t. that’s too bad.
anyway, i think that jim gaffigan is going to be on again on saturday night. i’m not entirely sure, and i’d look it up myself right now but it’s five minutes till midnight and my goal was to be asleep before 12, and i know i’m not going to succeed but at least i’d like to be close.
flying fish. amy and jim had a good time in mexico, and they went snorkeling one day and they saw flying fish. have you heard of flying fish? i hadn’t. merceds, my niece who is 14, has heard of flying fish. or at least she alleges that she has; maybe she was just making it up.
why haven’t i heard of flying fish before? i need to see some. i’m not entirely sure i want to go to mexico, though. it sounded pretty fun, but not as fun as i’d really like to have.
i think i’d like to be someplace warmer. more tropical.
there were at least five other things i wanted to talk about tonight, but time is slipping away, plus of course i’ve forgotten them.
remember – enjoy life, eat out more often.
i read that on a packet of sugar once, and it really resonated with me.
ok ok ok, i can’t believe tomorrow is MONDAY already, I WANT A VACATION!
grace not looking forward to monday morning so much.