Today, in Cereal January 21, 2009

You’ll be happy to know, blogworld, that I have made a considerable dent in my cereal. Turns out I don’t like Golden Grahams as much as I did as a child. Crispix, though, are. the. bomb. I’m also making good progress on the milk, however not as quickly as I’d like. It was milk-a-plenty for dinner tonight: a bowl of Crispix and a blueberry smoothie (yum — even with the 2 day old coffee I added).

I haven’t been writing or doing much else because I’ve been too busy watching movies. Gobs and gobs. Tonight it’s going to be High Plains Drifter. Last night was Valley of the Dolls, which made me suspicious that a movie I’d seen part of around 6th grade (which I remember being called “The Patty Duke Story” in which Patty Duke played herself) was actually Valley of the Dolls. After a quick internet search, I discovered they are not the same movie. Patty Duke really did play herself in a made-for-TV biopic called Call Me Anna. In my defense, both movies have similar drugged up Patty Duke hospital scenes, plus I doubted my memory could be real for the following reasoning — “Who plays themself in their own biopic?” Turns out, Patty Duke is just that cool. Go Patty! I mean Anna.

A New Year January 7, 2009

Happy New Year, Blogland.

The new year is my favorite “holiday.” I love the celebration of it, the starting anew, the plans, the staying up until midnight and exclaiming the blessing at the top of your voice outside. Not a lot of shouting for me this year: I got into bed at 11:45 PM, December 31st, and promptly began to drift off into slumber, drowzily managing to hear the shouts of others when the hour hit, then out to dream away the night.

New Year’s Day found me at The House of Rambo, co-hosting a friendly breakfast potluck. There was so much food! The motto: Spend the first day of the new year with the friends you want around for all your years. It was a success and hopefully a new tradition.

I’m giving up scowling this year.

So far in 2009, I have done the following:

I bought cereal! I have not purchased a box of cereal for at least 2 years. I bought a bunch of milk for my contribution to breakfast (sausage gravy). I didn’t use as much as I thought I would, so now I’ve a surplus. I decided cereal would be the best way to use it up, so off to the cereal aisle I went. Holy wow! What a delightful venture! It was like seeing old friends. I was not alone in the aisle, so I did my best to contain my glee, though had others not been present I would have been skipping and giggling, and yes, most probably talking to the boxes. I lingered over Honey Smacks (nee Sugar Smacks) for awhile. I wanted it so badly for the silly reason that it’s the best named cereal on the market, but just thinking about the sugar content gave me a belly-ache. In the end, I came away with one box each of Golden Grahams and Crispix. Five days later and I still have yet to eat any of it … Oops. Goal for this weekend.

I watched Hot Fuzz! What a great, funny, smart, action-packed movie. I love it so much and cannot believe I missed out on seeing it in the theater (especially since I’m a fan of Shaun of the Dead as well). Very lame of me, indeed. I watched it three times on Sunday. Is that even lamer?

It was very windy this morning. I stepped to the curb, away from the safe wall of my building and was hit by a gust of the stuff. All my concentration in that instant went to making sure both of my feet stayed planted on the ground. If I had been doing a fancy leap or twirl off the curb (per usual), the wind would have surely blown me across the street, it was that strong.

My boss is getting married on Saturday! I am going, with nothing yet to wear or gift. Hmm. I should get on that. Goal for Friday. Her stress level has been high this week, it’s been obvious; yesterday, she was very short with me (pun intended — you would maybe laugh and most certainly roll your eyes if you knew that she’s only about 5′1″). Our age difference is at least 20 years. This, combined with just our basic personalities I think, gives us a rather mother/daughter dynamic. She can be a bit doting sometimes (when I’m sick) and she nags me a lot (frustrating!). But it’s mostly a good working relationship; I’m very happy for her and even not dreading the whole wedding ceremony part of things.

I think that’s all caught up now. It’s coffee, donuts, and a movie for me now. Such a tremendously exciting life I lead …

Oh. Right. One more thing: last night I drafted a life plan for myself. It’s not for sharing — though I will tell Meaghan (jealous?), and it’s multi-faceted, but rest assured, friends, phase 1 is now in full effect.

And I’m totally failing at the no scowling thing (yes, already).