Georgia

Just got back from seeing Ray. I like to try and see a few movies nominated for an Oscar before the big night.
So Jamie Foxx - there is a reason for the hype. He was good in Collateral but he was great in Ray. I am a Ray Charles fan. I am the "Baby Please Don't Go", "Hit the Road Jack" kind of fan.
It got to a point I forgot Jamie Foxx was just playing, it was like watching Ray Charles.
Eerie...
Back to Collateral the person who should have been nominated but will probably never win an award for anything. Tom Cruise. Now hold on I don't think he is hot and I could care less about his personal life. The man can act. I have not seen a bad Tom Cruise movie. I even liked that goofy fairy tale one he did. He was such a bad ass and a scary bad ass. So cold it was brilliant.
Like when Ben Kingsley did Sexy Beast. But much cooler. Ben Kingsley has that air of creepy. Tom Cruise not so much.

I just have not shared my tales of being a tambourine girl nor the pictures.
Plan on doing that this weekend for now I have a date w/my big bed.

A Panic Attack to End all Panic Attacks

This weekend I went and hung out w/some of my closest friends from college. We watched our friend's great 80's cover band play and had a lot of drinks.
Luckily we had a hotel room, because it snowed ALOT.

There are very few things I am afraid of. Unfortunately all of them seem to be nature related which means you have little or no control. I am afraid of lightening and driving in lots of snow.
I got to face that fear head on, unfortunately for my friend and co-pilot Sandy.
At one point I screamed when a semi came cruising by and blinded us then started sliding into our lane. The other mini breakdowns came courtesy of people cutting us off making me not" focus on the path" as Sandy would say. It took us an hour to get from Milwaukee to Johnson Creek at which point Sandy took over the driving duties and I finished up my nervous breakdown.
Do they not plow in Milwaukee? I ask because as soon as we hit Madison - you could actually see the lines on the road. It was lovely.

I counted at least 10 cars in the ditch. 3 of which were cars that zoomed past us. One guy had gone down the side of the road and turned his car around so it was parked perfectly in between a grove of trees. I guess it's not so much the snow but my fellow drivers.
The roads were messy and dangerous and people were being idiots. If no one but us had been on the roads I probably could have handled it better. But to be stressed anyway, then have the added stress of morons behind lots of metal - it was my undoing.

Sandy I have decided should be a motivational speaker.
I would call her show "Follow the Path and Face your Fear w/Sandy Stauffacher."
I said to Chris what shocked me the most was no one teased me for being so upset. Even my Mom, who is my harshest critic said she hated that commute.
So I now know I can do it, thanks to Sandy's persistance and patience. I don't like it, and it's ok to be afraid. You just can't let the fear control you.
That is what I need to work on.

So if you see my snapping a rubber band on my wrist you might want to give me some space. I am either pissed or freaking out about something.

Thank goodness for 4 day weekends!

But now the forecast is saying snow!
Wouldn't it blow to be stranded in Milwaukee on my anniversary sans my spouse!

I will take a pen to the eye Thank you...

It has been that kind of a day.

And now I get to go babysit for two hours.
Which wouldn't be so bad if I had been paid but I have been doing this since 1/17 and no dough...
I like the child but girl gotta eat.
I just want to curl up in the fetal position and sleep.

Luckily I have a four day weekend coming up and I can't wait!

A Crush - or all things Scottish formerly known as LFYBs

So my friend Beth and I have started a tradition of getting together on Saturdays and having lunch then shopping. We keep trying to see a movie, but either the times don't work or one of us has seen what the other wants too.
Each trip involves someone playing a cd.
Yesterday Beth was playing the Killers.
I am a sucker for an accent, and these boys have Scottish accents and of course dress up when they play. Making me remember my obsession w/Duran Duran. The difference these boys rock out.
I have found lately I wish I was about 10 yrs younger - I would become a groupie.
Hee hee...
I would love to be written about in Rolling Stone or Spin. Following these bands around pining...
I had mentioned this to my Mom in an earlier phone conversation and she was shocked. Not shocked in a "that is gross way." More quizzical. My Mom ever blunt. "Well when you worked at the radio station you could have behaved that way." Yes, Yes I could have.
I have a laundry list of bands0 that I met that when I told my friends, they were jealous and I guess these bands were considered hot. But, I am not always one of those in the moment kind of people. Also, when I am around those people. I am pretty oblivious to the obvious. For example Robin the drummer of Bush. Asked me out. I thought he was making conversation until their third trip to Madison and asked one of my coworkers where I was. (Looking for my kitten who had ran away). Or being kissed by Paul the drummer from Moby. Or holding hands w/Moby as we walked to find a bar to have drinks at. The doors where there, I just didn't open them.
Because deep down I am a good girl.
So really I don't want to be any of that. But I am going to keep on lusting.
Besides the thing I learned that was the hardest for me. It's a rare rocker who is as cool as his on stage persona. I have only met a few who are even cooler. Moby, Lenny Kravitz, Del Amitri.
So today I will go buy the Killers cd, and on my way to work tomorrow morning do a little daydreaming. And think about what could have been.

A little whine w/my nacho cheese...

So I pinched a nerve in my neck.
Not sure how it happened - why it is good.
The pain woke me up when my alarm clock which I forgot to turn on didn't.
Why it is bad. I can barely turn my head to the left. Which in cubicle land is a problem when everyone comes up to talk to me from behind.
Driving is also intersting but I am dealing.
I know I live on the edge... :)

So part four million of my crazy ass job interview is tomorrow.
Kids is it bad that a recruitment agency is a little disorganized in their recruiting?
If you said yes you would be right.
But hey it's good practice and I will be in jeans.
Hoorah :)

If it's in the mall maybe you shouldn't do it...

For example apuncture massage.
I did as did my friend Beth and we are both sore today.
Beth is bruised.
My ego is more bruised than her body as the whole mall got to hear our collective asses get spanked by little Asian men...
More on that later.

My Favorite Day - Saturday

Why?
Because you still have one day before work and you can be in your robe all day if you like.
And I like :)

At least we still have college hockey...

Chris and I are going to see the Badgers play Minnesota tonight.
Should be fun.
There will be over 100 of us from work.
Springs invades!

A little break from the crazy...

So finally the cold is letting up.
Hoorah.
It's amazing what good over the counter drugs can do for a person.

Took a sabbatical from babysitting the little one tonight.
Just don't feel right about coughing so hard around her.
I know when I have my own I won't have that option.

So... had part two of the bizarre interview.
All I can say - I AM SO CONFUSED AND FLATTERED...
And confused.