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NYE–I have a new dress, but I won’t be wearing it for a while

Happy New Year!

Okay, not yet, but I will be asleep when it actually happens, so I’m trying to get out in front of this thing.

About this time, 10 years ago, I would have been looking for my wedding invitations. My grandmother had hidden them from me. Piece of work, that one.

Back in 2008, I was looking for a dress to wear to a company formal party. I came across a gown that made my heart fly up into my throat, and I did my level best to track it down. I called the company that made the dress. I...

Random

You know, for a while there, I had a good rhythm going with the whole blogging thing. For a while there. Not so much anymore.

So what have I been doing? I don’t know. The holiday season swallowed me whole, and now I’m dog-paddling, trying to survive until after all the NYE festivities. I don’t have any festivities planned, but the rest of the world does and they get in the way of my workweek and confuse my schedule. While I like to pretend to be spontaneous, free-spirited, and mercurial, I am...

Movie Review(s): American Hustle and Frozen

Warning: Here there be spoilers. I will not go into great detail, but if you’re the kind who gets upset over finding out Gandalf the Grey and Gandalf the White are the same person, you should skip this post.

American Hustle: The Desolation of Smug

I was mystified by Silver Linings Playbook. We didn’t see it until after it had done so well at the Oscars, and were expecting a good movie. What we got was a weird mish-mash that made me crave watch Sophie Ellis Bextor videos for an hour. Mystifying....

I’m In Love With a Stripper [Shoe]

B and I are heading to Vegas for our 10th anniversary this year. We’re going to have the Elvis ceremony of my dreams, which pretty much just means we’re having an Elvis ceremony. I love me some Elvis.

In part, this is just a huge fabrication of excuse to get to wear my wedding gown again. I didn’t have enough of it the first time, so I fully intend to wear it* around Las Vegas until I can’t stand it anymore. What I did get enough of the first time were my shoes.

Every closet needs a good pair o...

Gods, gods, and godly. And Joan Collins.

Little reminder that all royalties from December sales of TIARA TROUBLE are going to help out senior citizens through The Senior Source. Click the link to your left to buy your copy, or send it as a gift. You can even send the eBook as a gift!

And now on to my random thoughts:

I rewatched both Thor and Thor 2 last night, and I had forgotten how much I enjoyed the first one. The first Thor is a great superhero movie. It’s lighthearted and comical, with great bursts of dialog and real chemistry...

Book Review: B*tches. You know you love them.

You know what I love? A lighthearted book that keeps me guessing, keeps me caring about guessing, and carries me through to the end on a fun-sized roller coaster of concern for how things will turn out for the characters. The Bitches of Brooklyn is such a book.

Rosemary Harris has done a fantastic job crafting realistic characters, realistic friendships, and making the lives of the five bitches from Brooklyn feel distinct, varied, and interesting. You personally know at least two of these wome...

The Beginning of Me

On the way to school this morning, I asked Thor, “Do you know what today is?” He said, “December 17?”

I said, “Yes. And do you know why that is special?”

I could see the little gears turning in his head, which he shook. ”No.”

I told him, “December 17 is special because that is the date we found out we were getting you. December 17, 2004, Daddy and I found out we were having a baby. It was one of the best days of my life because out of everything in the world, you are the best thing that has ever...

How Rupert Everett Set me on a Crime Spree

I’ve been talking to Robyn and Irene about The Feels today. You know The Feels.

The Feels is what happens when you are somewhere between the ages of 8 and 17, and you lay eyes on someone (usually a celebrity of some sort) whose innate charisma sparks something on the inside of you that wakes up a desire you are too young to name, and that your tiny brain is incapable of understanding. The Feels is a sudden rush of desperate, aching, unrequited love, trembling somewhere on the balance between a...

A Year Later–Hoo and Why

I’ll be honest: I’ve had a really hard time dropping my kid off at school these past few days. I was watching all those little legs running into the building this morning, and it was particularly acute. It’s pajama day, and all the kids were in a variety of candy colored, or merchandise branded flannels, with half of them wearing fuzzy slippers. They all looked brilliantly happy and cute.

The one year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting is Saturday, and as the day approaches, I’v...

Fat Girls Drive Slow Cars

Tis the season for car commercials.

There is a Lexus ad that seems to come on every commercial break, and since we’ve been iced in and watching a lot of TV, I’ve seen it a few thousand times. A gorgeous brunette works at a sewing machine, making giant bows for cars. A decent looking man drives one of said cars.

I don’t know what men think about when they see these ads, but I caught myself having a thought that gave me pause. After wondering if people really buy each other cars for Christmas, I...