One of my favorite bits from the romantic comedy, "He's Just Not That Into You":

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Came across it while I was flipping channels last night and this scene made me laugh out loud in recognition. They speak the truth!

What did I say about Valentine's Day being like a big rom-com script imposed on us?  I totally had a bad movie moment last night ( Read more... )

Feeling so very tired. Had a busy and rather tough weekend, mostly with family. My mother has deteriorated very rapidly in the last few weeks, with a precipitous decline in the last seven days. It appears that she now also has Parkinson's in addition to Alzheimer's. It may be that she's had Parkinson's for a long while but that it went ( Read more... )

I need to keep on the straight and narrow, and not get distracted by the attentions of emotional dead-end guys. Or any guys, really. No amount of companionship and cuddling is worth it. I'm hoping that Mr. Drama settles down with the professor chick soon so that he's not out there as a loose, hormonal end. While I was working out at the gym ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I spent the day with Mr. Drama.  We started off with a late brunch at Salt's Cure, a fantastic butcher-turned-restaurant in West Hollywood where they make everything from scratch (including their own bacon, ketchup and hamburger buns).  Neither of us had been there before, and were feeling celebratory upon having a day off (and it being ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting 2013 so far. It started off with a lovely New Year's Eve celebration that started off classy and ended up not-so-classy (maybe a bit slutty?), and since then I've managed to read my first book of the year, finally hang something on the walls of my home (at last!), register for an improv comedy class, and be hit in my new ( Read more... )

My plans/goals/resolutions for this year:

• Employ the cardinal rule of improv and say "Yes and..." whenever possible. Blind date? Sure! Invitation to a party where I won't know anyone? I'm there!

• Make more eye contact with people when I'm out and about -- and smile.  I have a tendency to look absently above people's heads or through people when I'm ( Read more... )

Love the lyrics, love the song, love the artist Lianne La Havas. I have to get her debut album, Is Your Love Big Enough?, which is all about -- what else? -- a breakup. She's fabulous...shades of Corinne Bailey Rae, Lily Allen, Meshell Ndgeocello, Jill Scott. I wish I could've gone to see her set two weeks ago here in LA. I need to get braver ( Read more... )

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
--AristotleNeed to get back to attempting the habit of excellence. I slept so much this past weekend, and though my alarm went off at six this morning, I didn't get out of bed till an hour later. At this rate, I ( Read more... )

I just spent money on something that I already have. Technically I do not need to spend this money, nor do I need a new Blu-Ray player, because I have one already. But I bought a new one anyway, to exorcise some juju ( Read more... )