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The Friday Five

I'm short on creative steam today. So I'm going to do an old friday five (as they've been too busy to add a new one). So here's one from 11 April 2003.

1. What was the first band you saw in concert?
Dave Matthews Band, I think …

2. Who is your favorite artist/band now?
It's hard to pick. I like lots … BNL, Guster, Fountains of Wayne, Beck … and on.

3. What's your favorite song?
Can't pick. It all depends on my mood.

4. If you could play any instrument, what would it be?
I do play the piano, but as another instrument … I think I'd pick guitar.

5. If you could meet any musical icon (past or present), who would it be and why?
I don't know why, but I think I'd say Paul Simon.

Happy Birthday, Dorothy!

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Be an Athletic Supporter

I have spent the last two days doing photoshop tutorials. It's something I've really been wanting to get a little time to do, so I had a chance and I took it! I might put up some of my efforts later on, but for now, I will just let you imagine what I've been up to.

We went to play racquetball again tonight. And I finally found the secret to beating Matt … I must force him to lift weights prior to our games … and then I will totally smack him down. And he will possibly endanger his manly parts with poor ball trajectory.

So after hitting himself (in various places) with the projectile, I said to him, “If you can't be an athlete, be an athletic supporter!” Which is a quote from Grease. I laughed like crazy.

Well I thought it was funny.

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Yea!

I'm doing better and better at racquetball. I'm even enjoying myself now instead of being fairly frustrated that I keep LOSING. I'm still losing, but not as frequently and I am keeping most serves going for longer and longer. I came this close tonight (imagine me holding my fingers about 1 cm apart) to actually beating Matt in the overall match.

Gilmore Girls was really funny tonight. I loved the thing with Luke going to jail. I've got a tape of Queer Eye to watch too. That should be good.

Right now though, I'm finishing off our taxes. My very kind father did our taxes for us, so we've got to fill in some lines on the state ones and I've got to address 'em and stamp 'em and stuff. Fun fun.

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Disgusting

Matt got ahold of the remote and turned The Swan on. In case you don't know, the premise of this whole show is that they take “ugly ducklings” and give them intensive makeovers (surgery, intensive therapy, 3 months of 1200 calorie diets and exercise).

Here's my issue … they don't makeover ugly ducklings. They make over normal looking girls with really bad self esteem. These girls just come out looking incredibly fake and plasticized. It seems really horrible to me that these poor girls have had their self-esteem absolutely marginalized by the people around them and the world at large around them. They need a bracing reality check far more than they need an intensive makeover.

These women (at least the two that are on tonight) have had kids!!! For god's sake. You're not going to look like you're 16 any more. GIVE IT UP.

Now I'm going to go settle down.

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Happy Easter!

Matt and I took a few minutes out of the last hours of Easter to engage in one of our favorite traditions … the ritual enlargement of Just Born Brand Peeps marshmallow candies. We ceremoniously loaded a couple on a plate (covered with a paper towel for the plate's protection) and loaded said plate into the microwave. Then we carefully punched in 1 minute on the microwave's time clock. I closed the door. We took a moment of silence and then … Start! Above are the results (with a control subject for comparison).

Always worth 98 cents, no?

Make sure to visit Peep Research.

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Music

Much like the news, I can't stand the radio. There's always some idiot DJs filling the air with their self-important jabber and frequently the music is repetitive and dull. So where does a girl get exposed to new and different and good music.

Well sadly, it's from TV! I've been garnering all of my new music finds lately from TV shows and commercials. And the excellent fan sites are kind enough to do play lists from the shows.

Music from The OC
Music from Gilmore Girls
Music from Malcolm in the Middle
Music from Alias
Also, if you ever wanted to know what that song is from that commercial (they do TV shows too though), visit AdTunes.com

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Saturday

Matt and I have had a nice Saturday thus far. We spent a couple of hours at the gym (treadmill, racquetball, eucalyptus steam-room), did some shopping for some up-coming gift-giving events and of course, some errands. Groceries do need to be bought on a weekly basis … bah.

Now we're at home … working on our respective computers. I've got tooo too much work to do. That's cool though. I actually kinda like working. Plus, it's Saturday, so of course, there's good TV on. I watched a great episode of Queer Eye where they got rid of the dude's mullet. Excellent! Now I'm watching The Whole Nine Yards since I hadn't seen it before and the folks on CBS are good enough to be showing it. It's kinda funny so far.

I'm missing being home right now, since Easter's tomorrow. I've always enjoyed it. We've always had a good egg-hunt in our family, but I haven't gotten to do it in a few years. But I sent home some nice Kinder-Surprise Eggs for my lil' cousins. They're choccy eggs with a little toy inside. I picked 'em up while I was in France. You can't get them here because the FDA has some silly rule about non-edible things being in edible things.

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Gimme a Break!

I'm taking a break from cleaning, since I'm sneezing my head off. So I decided to take one of those “which … are you?” quizzes. And since I'm watching DS9, it had to be a which DS9 character are you quiz.

Little surprise, I'm ….

Nerdy nerd nerd nerd! Nerdy nerdy nerd nerd! Ha ha ha!