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{August 21, 2013} The sofa is too comfy!

Ok, we may have already talked about this, but it’s so true, I dozed off again!

I don’t know about your sofa/couch, but this one is so darned cozy, you can easily fall asleep and not even realize it, well, until you wake up again!

I had the same problem with the sofa in my house in Atlanta! I could sit and work on the sofa until the cows came home, which is a great saying, but doesn’t apply here since we don’t work with cows, but…

If I were to lay down to watch a movie, just recline to get more comfortable, I may close my eyes thinking I was just blinking and wake up three hours later, not realizing where the time had gone! It sucks you in!

Case in point, I was laying down to write to you tonight and I don’t know what happened, but all of a sudden I woke up and DCM was saying goodnight! What? What happened? Oh, ok, I’ll be in soon, I still have to blog (and now it’s after midnight!

Sometimes though, you have to admit, it is the most comfortable place ever! As long as your sofa/couch is long enough for you to stretch out on, you can get the most intense good nights sleep ever!

There have been times that both DCM and or I have fallen asleep on the sofa, we don’t always wake each other up when it’s time to go into the bedroom for lights out; either we realize that the other person is comfortable and sleeping soundly that they will get up on their own and come to bed later or…the other person is sleeping so soundly, there is no way to wake them up!

What about when you’re sick, isn’t the sofa the most awesomest place to be on the planet? Propped up on some pillows, wrapped in blankets, cup of hot soup or tea to help keep you warm and bad TV or movies on to help you forget that your sick, what could be better? It’s a nice change from the bedroom where you know you’re going to be later, maybe can’t move from that spot, but need to look at something else and stretch out differently.

Embrace the sofa, don’t fight it! We almost become like toddlers who don’t want to nap, we might miss something, but I’m here to tell you, napping for anyone over five is very underrated and if you fall asleep, it’s your body trying to tell you something!

Hmm…back to the sofa or head off to bed?

{August 20, 2013} FaceTime!

The good mood started on Saturday and went all the way through today!

First…I was in the kitchen juicing my veggies on Saturday when I heard DCM talking to someone, telling them I was making a lot of noise, guess who! LB! Granddaughter extraordinaire! She was excited to talk to Grandpa and JJ and show us her room, read us a story and talk to the cats, sounds like a good start to the weekend!

Today…I reached out to GES today to see about chatting with the girls. Dinner was over, it was a little before bath time, still a little odd as I’m two hours behind, haven’t quite had dinner and they are getting ready for bed, but you know me, I’ll take any moment I can get!

Here they come onscreen all talk, talk, talk, over each other. MGS wants to know when I’m coming to visit, more importantly, how many minutes until my visit! Just like when I left a few weeks ago, she’s asking again, looks like we might need to plan a visit in the next few months, hmmm, twist my arm?

I had very important business to discuss with EJS. She is starting FIRST GRADE in a few weeks! What? I still remember meeting her when she was just two weeks old! Her daddy works at Staples, he is very excited to get her school supplies, but I wanted to get her something for her book bag, something special.

She discussed it with her mom and we decided on a pencil case and some colored pencils that she can keep as most of the school supplies are communal. I asked if there was anything special on the pencil case, its pink, maybe Cinderella or Ariel. I am on the case!

We chatted about camp, which she loves until she found something more interesting and moved on and it was me and MGS. She talked to me for a long time, from the kitchen to the bath to getting ready for bed and then…”I’m done with you now”, well, alrighty then!

I talked to EJS for another minute and then she was ready to move on so I said ‘night ‘night, I love you and blew kisses, then it was over.

A few minutes later guess who was free! Miss A! We connected and she was sitting there posed just like Rodin’s “The Thinker”! Big difference, she was giggling, giggling, giggling! What a great sight and sound!

We chatted a bit about school and how she was liking it and then I got the entire scoop from SDL, Miss A is a woman of few words, more giggling, sometimes hard to get a word in edgewise! We talked about her new school, riding the bus, aftercare, her appointments and the rain, rain, rain that won’t go away!

I’m excited that I will get to see my munchkin in a few weeks when I’m Atlanta for a race, how lucky am I!

Then it was time to get her ready for night night, so I blew kiss and accepted the ones I got, said I love you and see you soon and signed off with a smile on my face, almost as good as the giggles and smile coming from hers!

So, who’s next? Night night!

{August 18, 2013} Contact and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

Today we watched two movies, two of DCM’s favorites. One made you think, question what you might know and open your mind to the possibilities and the other just sucked the brain cells right out of your head. (try and disagree with me!)

We watched Contact first, not First Contact (ha ha, nod to all my Trekkie friends!) starring Jodi Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, Angela Basset, just to name drop. It was interesting, about a young girl who was searching the vast universe for life from the time she was a small child, encouraged by her dad, who never gave up that dream, no matter what, no matter who told her she was crazy, her ideas were crazy and there is no such thing as life off our planet.

A great quote from the movie:
Young Ellie: Dad, do you think there’s people on other planets?
Ted Arroway: I don’t know, Sparks. But I guess I’d say if it is just us… seems like an awful waste of space.

That determination and spark (no pun intended) kept her motivated and determined, what would the world be like if great thinkers and innovators throughout history had given up when someone said, you’re wrong, your ideas are stupid, you don’t know what your talking about. Leonardo Da Vinci,
Marie Curie, The Wright Brothers, Albert Einstein, just food for thought.

All in all, it was a good movie and I can now say I’ve seen it.

At one point, we were joking, I said, I don’t know why we keep trying to make contact with “little green men”, it doesn’t seem to work out for the us on planet earth! (Except for Star Trek: First Contact and maybe E.T.)

Bottom line, it made me think, just as it was intended.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Apparently I was thinking too much and needed to be brought down about, oh, I don’t know, a bunch of levels…I had to watch The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. I was promised that if I watched it, I would never have to do so again or be asked about watching it.

I now know where certain lines of DCM’s come from and I want that 1.5 hours back!

There was quite a cast in this movie, Ed O’Neill, Priscilla Presley, Wayne Newton! Lauren Holly, Gilbert Godfriend, Robert England (not a fan of Freddy Kruger, but always odd to see him out of that costume), who wasn’t in this movie?

The two best parts of the movie? Ford Fairlane, Andrew Dice Clay’s mint condition Ford Fairlane and Lauren Holly’s green VW convertible, go figure, I loved that!

I think the imdb.com description says it all:
Ford “Mr. Rock n’ Roll Detective” Fairlane is experiencing problems, and it’s not with the opposite sex. One of them is that all the rock stars pay him with drum sticks, koala bears, food processors and bicycle shorts. Another one of them is that all his employers that want him to find a girl named Zuzu Petals get killed. Why didn’t he become a fisherman’s detective instead? A must-see for Andrew Dice Clay fans

Not to worry, you never go into this movie thinking it is going to be a cinematic masterpiece. It had a few funny moments, I’ll give you that, very few and no koalas were hurt in the making of this movie. Don’t misunderstand, I like stupid funny as much as the next guy, but this was, well, really stupid funny, when it was funny.

I watched it, I should have at least gotten a tshirt, but now we can all move on with our lives.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098987/?ref_=sr_1

{August 17, 2013} Kick-Ass 2

Tonight DCM and I decided to go to see Kick-Ass 2.

If you’re not looking for an Oscar winning movie or Oscar worthy performances, then Kick-Ass 2 might just be for you.

I have to tell you, when I saw Kick-Ass, I had certain ideas of what it would be like, a fun, human/real people turned superhero, yes, but no. I was not quite prepared for the level of violence, mayhem, destruction, blood and gore that the first movie had to offer. I was incredibly upset after I watched it, glad it was a Red box pic.

Now, remember, I am all about gratuitous violence if it works for the movie, if you’ve ever heard me talk about Machete, I la-la-la loved it! And that movie had some awful, disgusting, grody and awesome slashing and hacking, but I knew what I was getting in to when I went to see it and I wasn’t disappointed! So much so that I sat through it twice! (And the sequel, Machete Kills is coming out in October, you can bet your sweet machete I’ll be there opening night!) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694/?ref_=sr_2

At least this time, I was prepared, I knew there would be a lot of slashing and hacking and blood, punching, kicking, pain. There were two serious gross out scenes, totally not necessary, I believe it was just put in for that purpose, to gross you out. I am afraid I’m going to have that scene going through my head more than once, maybe not, a girl can hope.

All in all, if you’re looking for a movie with a lot of arse-kicking, mean girls, regular people standing up for themselves with and without masks (that could be the message, you don’t have to wear a mask to be a hero, it’s inside each of us) and a good old fashioned melee, this movie is for you.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1093951/?ref_=tt_cl_t1

{August 15, 2013} Cute and Amazing Kids

I’m always amazed at what kids are capable of.

I’m sure you’ve figured out that I am über proud of all my nieces, nephews and grandkids, the ones I am related to and the ones I love dearly and their parents and I are close and when they see me, “Go see Auntie J”, they have granted me the honorary title of aunt, I couldn’t be prouder.

So, here I have to brag a little… (You know I’ll brag about them and others in future posts, stay tuned!)

EJS is starting first grade in a few weeks and so creative, give her a box and watch her make magic! MGS is precocious and smart and can figure things out easily (she showed me how to play Temple Run!).
Miss A is holding a cup on her own and taking the stairs like a champ.
KK is a championship softball player, her sisters, J and K are two of the fastest swimmers in Atlanta!
LB sings and dances like a primary ballerina and is learning how to wink.
JS was fantastic during his Bar Mitzvah, his sister, S, is a star on the stage, her little brothers are creative and fun.

Back to kids amazing me…
People are always posting amazing things their kids can do on Facebook and today, there was one that tripped me out completely, a baby, 20 month Ella, singing her heart out to Elvis!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuxQtvzA_cg

Of course, once you go to YouTube to watch the video there are a trillion more to check out and 3 hours later, you’re got sure where the time went!

Enjoy!

{August 13, 2013} Bringing Down The House

Tonight I watched a movie that people have been saying they loved for a long time and I just hadn’t gotten around to watching.

There was a reason I hadn’t watched it when it came out or when it would come on TV when I had cable, not sure what it was, but I just didn’t want to watch it. So, today, I sucked it up and decided to watch it.

It was rough going in the beginning, it moved really slowly. A lot of it reminded me of HouseSitter, a movie Steve Martin did with Goldie Hawn in 1992, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104452/, successful man, con artist woman who moved into his house and infiltrates his life and his family.

Same concept, just with Queen Latifah and during the course of the movie, while trying to hide her from everyone he knows, hilarity ensues. In addition, as he loosens up, starts to really enjoy life and looks at her in a new light, she starts to change and grow as a person and become, more refined in a way, without giving up who she really is on the inside.

In the end, they help each other, her mostly with his business and realize his dreams and becomes a success in every way and she finds out that she is worth more than she realized, they also find love, it may be with each other or with someone else, but someone who values them.

At the end, I realized that I had laughed and overall it was cute, there was a good message, but I don’t feel like I missed anything by not seeing it sooner.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305669/?ref_=sr_1

{August 11, 2013} TANG

It’s the drink of astronauts!

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved to drink Tang. It wasn’t something that my parents had in the house all the time, but when we had it, I loved it.

As an “adult” I have bought Tang from time to time. It was good when you an get a smaller tub, then it doesn’t go bad, and by bad I just mean that it gets moisture trapped in it and then it gets hard and solid, hard to get back to powder.

Even I have to admit, Tang can be too sweet sometimes. (What? Did I just say that out loud?)

The last few weeks I’ve been wanting some Tang, but I always forget when I go to the grocery store and then I want it. Today, we were at the grocery store and as we were leaving, I remembered! We went back to the juice aisle, I got some Tang!

As soon as we got home, unloaded the groceries, I made a bottle of sweet and refreshing Tang…ahhh, a mechiah!

Then I made some later, not as refreshing, still good, but way to sweet! But that first drink, hit the spot, made me happy and isn’t that what it’s all about?

{August 9, 2013} We’re the Millers

Ok, I need to give you more than just “Go See It!”

We’re the Millers is about a pot dealer who hires a family to smuggle a huge shipment of weed from Mexico into the U.S. (not a spoiler, just the description).

The movie stars Jason Sudekis as David, the dealer, Jennifer Anniston as Rose, the stripper he hires to be his wife, she actually lives in his apartment building. Emma Roberts is Casey, the homeless girl who becomes the “daughter”, the last member of the family is Kenny, the teenager who lives in the same apartment building as Dave, played by Will Poulter. There is a great supporting cast to round out the movie.

David rents an RV to take across the boarder, a great cover…a family traveling across country in an RV on a family vacation.
I’m sure you’re thinking, what a great idea, nothing could go wrong and you’d be so right…wrong!.

There were some predictable laughs, how could there not be? some surprises, some OMGs! There were even lessons learned, personal growth and self discovery, imagine that!

For those of you with sensitive ears, there was a lot ‘o cussin’, at least one graphic image, just want to warn you, but if you can get past that, you’re golden.

One of the best parts..the bloopers right after the movie and before the credits, they were great!

All in all, the theater was packed, our assigned seats were in the very first row, a lot of laughter, a lot of cheering and a few “huh”!

Know where I live? Guess where the opening of the movie is based? C’mon, put 2 and 2 together…pot dealer, legal…yupper, Denver, how cool was that to be at a movie that starts in Denver watching it in a theater outside of Denver! Everyone in the theater was stoked by that tidbit!

Go see this movie, it was too funny!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1723121/

{August 8, 2013} Tanked

When DCM and I were in NY last year for a wedding, there wasn’t much to do where we were (Long Island, not much happening outside the diner across the street and the bar in the hotel) so we channel surfed.

While we were surfing, we found a new reality show called Tanked, it first aired in 2011. This show cracks us up! It’s about two guys who started ATM, Acrylic Tank Manufacturer, http://www.acrylicaquariums.com/
Brett Raymer and Wayde King. They are originally from Long Island (random thought…what are the odds we found this show while we were on Long Island, hmmm….) and it’s a family business, they are brother-in-laws, Wayde married Jeff’s sister and Jeff’s dad works there, sort of, they call him The General.

The company has been around for about 20 years and they have been in Las Vegas for about 15 years. They build everything from small personal tanks to huge monster tanks, some with monsters, literally! The show centers around two tank orders per episode, Wayde and Jeff go to the customer’s site and get ideas of what they want, Jeff says “we can do it!” And Wayde just looks at him like he’s nuts!

There are all the people who work for them, like extended family and each has their own amazing talents.

Then there are the clients, every day normal people, business owners and some super stars (Tracy Morgan, the creator of Jackass, Neal Patrick Harris, KISS, just to name a few) and the look n everyone’s faces when they reveal the tank, so special! Amazement is a good word for it!

No matter what the challenge, they always come through for their clients and you should see some of the amazing designs, there is a you tube link at the bottom so you can check out some of the episodes.

No matter how goofy they are, and they are goofy, they get the job done and they really know their fish, they value all animals and treat them with a lot of care, never putting them in harms way, which doesn’t always hold true for themselves, the pranks they play on each other are great and stupid!

The goofy thing about most reality shows is when the stars have their one-on-ones to the camera, it’s all so like they feel they have to shout at the camera, it’s almost every single reality show star, kind of weird, but it’s their M.O.

Overall, this is a fun show that we both like, we even DVR it and watch a few episodes in a row. Check it out and see if you laugh like we do!

http://m.youtube.com/results?q=tanked&oq=tanked&gs_l=youtube-reduced.1.0.0l4.262.629.0.2548.4.2.0.1.1.0.98.142.2.2.0….0…1ac.1.23.youtube-reduced..2.2.60.0G9tDfpvsD0

{August 8, 2013} It’s girls night!

Tonight was that time honored tradition…Girl’s Night!

I think we talked about this a while ago, the night the ladies get together and go out and do something fun! The cool thing about Girl’s Night is we make a decision on where to go, someone takes charge and we all show up. Then we decide what we’re doing next month, someone is in charge and so it goes on from there…

(Welcome, Girl’s Night participants, to my world of random musings!)

Tonight, it was JS who got us started on Girl’s Night at Posh Splat in Boulder. This is a place that you go and they walk you step by step painting the selection of the evening. Tonight it was a group of trees in a field, I was told they were some sort of Aspen something, I was corrected as I thought they were Birch. See friends, ya loin somethin’ new every day!
http://www.poshsplat.com/

The thing I really like about these nights is that you don’t have to know how to paint, the instructor, tonight was Chelsey, walked you through everything, step by step. It was almost like paint by numbers, just without the numbers or the outlines, hmm…
How many comments do you think there were about “a tree, a happy little tree”. Nod to you HW!
(i added some step by step pictures)

To start us off right, TT sent out a link to Ladies Night by Kool and the Gang, who doesn’t love that?

This was a good group of women, we laughed and shared and had a great time! JS, her husband PS and DCM all worked together many moons ago and have stayed friends ever since. DCM and PS have worked on many projects together and worked together to build CEC what it is today. JS is an integral part of the CEC family, kind of a Jane of all Trades, you should see how she designed the office, the little details and touches that make it a fun and green place to work, she’s got great ideas and is incredibly passionate with everything she does. She’s also a runner and I mean a runner, you know, 20 miles just for fun! She’s about to participate in her first full marathon soon, on her birthday, good luck!

The rest of the group I had met briefly at CEC’s grand opening/open house, I don’t know as much about them as I will going forward, I look forward to getting to know them each time we get together.

TT is part of the CEC family, we sat next to each other and became fast friends. She has an in with race promoters and said she could get me into almost any race, who do yo think is going to be my new best friend?
Can you guess what my suggestion for a girls night was? (If it involved fun, a team name, team shirts and a t-shirt at the end of the 3.1 miles, you were right!) (doesn’t 5k sound further/farther than 3.1 miles? This would definitely classify as a random musing!)

JS’ stepmom, PH was there, she is quite the talent! She seemed like a lovely woman and we shared some laughs over some of the cards they were selling.

CD’s husband works for CEC. She is a real estate agent who was fun to talk to about real estate, Colorado, Atlanta and races and she is the lucky girl who is organizing our next girls night!

I met NP when we did the Epilepsy 5k when I first moved to Colorado, her husband, BR joined CEC a few months ago and her painting…I think everyone would agree..pure perfection! She added her own touches, the rest of us stuck to the script, you go girl!

LA’s husband MA works for CEC and they have a beautiful and very cute little boy named P, who loves Mac-n-Cheese boxes! Like the rest of our group, a lot of fun to talk to, joke with and have a good time.

As I mentioned, we laughed a lot! Thank you for including me in this time honored tradition, it was my first “night out” in Colorado and made me feel good (and miss my girlfriends back home in Atlanta, you know who you are!). I really am looking forward to next month! (I hear there is pampering involved! Jealous?)

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