So I have been visiting New York where I, my husband Eric, and dog and cat will be living very soon. It is a lot to take in. At first, I was a little unsure if I could really see myself living here, navigating the city, taking the subway. But, surprisingly (even to myself) after a couple of days here I feel sooo much better. I am actually getting how the streets work and even the subway. OK this is actually a very big deal for me because I have no sense of direction. So, things are looking up. And when we were first looking for an apartment I was a little freaked out, just because I could not only picture myself in the shady areas with the tiny apartments, but was I was picturing was me getting stabbed. But, today we started out in a much better place and I think we may have found our apartment. I think I will like New York quite a bit and I haven't even got to the best part. Let me tell you about my first celebrity sighting. Was walking down town to get my first glance of Times Square, and I look over to my left to see Judy Greer. Now if you don't know who I'm talking about, she usually plays "the best friend roles" and has star'd in such movies as 13 Going on 30, the Wedding Planner, and Jawbreaker. Pretty cool I thought, a celeb sighting on my first trip here. And yet I had no idea what was in store for me. So, we were all walking down some random street in Greenwhich Village, and we saw some flyers up for a movie that would be taping in that area. We began to walk down a street with lots of trailers lining them, not thinking much about it. So we are walking right next to one of the trailers, when the door opens. All I think is, 'Oh, someone is coming out I should move out of the way', and as I glance up I see the man who steps out of the trailer within touching distance of me is....... Hugh Grant. Hugh Grant!! I am freaking out in my mind, yet I keep my cool and just keep walking (as all of us did). I glanced back once, just to make sure, just before he disappeared into another trailer. OK, let me just let everyone know-----he is just as, if not more, gorgeous in person. Ah, what's more exciting, New York or Hugh Grant?
Even though it did use the story of the Graduate as it's backdrop, it wasn't a rip off of any kind. It just used that as a stepping stone to a whole new twist, on what happened with the rest of the characters after that movie. I loved Shirley MacLaine in this movie, she is a tough broad who is fun to watch. The movie wouldn't go on any of my favorite movies lists, but definitely worth viewing. It just seems it is not that often I can see two romantic comedies that don't completely suck, but actually work.
Several nights ago Eric (my hub), Donnie and I watched the movie the Aristocrats. Let us take a trip down reation lane:
So I was recently one of seven students from OIC to style hair for our very own Pear Blossom pagent. My "princess" was actually pretty cool, not a typical pagent girl. When I first met her about a week ago to try some do's for the big day I found out that she is funny, sarcastic and pretty. I told her she'd win... I also told everyone else. Day of the pagent I was privilaged to meet some of the ladies behind the scenes, living out their dreams of pagent days gone bye. Make-up: Mary Kay -- nuff said. Hair: OIC and 2 local stylists of a prominent tanning salon which will remain unamed. One of the ladies, let's call her 'Jan', was responsible for the choreography of a dance the princesses had to perform on stage in unison. Sort of a Western Boot Scoot Crappy. What I really mean is it blew. And while the poor cowgirls were paraded around on stage, we were delighted with a lovely singing trio of robust women covered in denim. The next delight we experienced was none other than a mime. This act was titalating for about five minutes. Twenty-five minutes later I found myself picturing all sorts of mime related deaths. We were also treated to a pianist, a barbershop quintet, and twenty or so kids in a jumprope gang. Now don't get the wrong impression most of these acts were performed by local hacks, this was not some portion of a talent show. Although if I was really being honest the jumprope gang rocked! About three quarters through the show the co-ordinator/president whatever her title was, gave a hefty speech, mostly concerned with what the pagent is and was created for. Then she addressed the princesses. She was telling them all sorts of advice she of her many years had come to find out. Including an analogy that started with something like "live your life like a dog" and "let others touch you". But it really got good when she told a personal story. How she would stress every year that the pagent would go perfect, no mistakes, until one year... She hadn't ate anything in a couple of DAYS (that emphasis is coming from me not her) "you know how it is ladies when your trying to lose some weight" (she is also addressing the audience with this one). Apparently at the end of the pagent, at an after party of sorts she ate four whole pieces of cake. And her lesson here was about how if every year she ate four pieces of cake the pagent would go perfectly, and it always did. Now I don't know about anyone else, but what I took from that was anorexia plus glutony equals tradition! All in all the pagent satisfied my entertainment needs like a skeezy FOX reality show, and I lapped it up like a kitten. Oh, and by the way did I mention I did AMAZING hair and my girl won. Coincident?
