Never again do the following: • Watch any Keanu Reeves film (save the first Matrix on rare occasion) • Read any Nicholas Sparks book ever until the end of time. Ever.

1. I am super mad at Apple (the company, not my cat) for releasing new nanos freaking DAYS after I bought my sister one for her birthday. Talk about getting jipped! 2. I totally heard the phrase "guided Starbucks tastings" on the radio today. People at the Dallas Museum of Modern Art are getting pretty hoity toity* with the events, no? 3. I also just saw a snippet of a ...

A meme started by Josh: Thin Red Line Purchased at Best Buy in Little Rock about four years ago. Unfortunately not the first edition that had the Malaysian chants on it. I think this movie is the epitome of art captured in film; it's visual, musical and poetic all at once. I love the scene where Pvt. Bell reads the letter from his wife that she wants a divorce, after watching ...

1. A large Kleenex box. 2. A jar of CVS brand medicated chest rub (it's called Mentholatum in our family, and is used on raw noses). 3. Cheerios 4. Milk 5. Ozarka Water 6. Pretzel rods. 7. Sara Lee Honey Wheat Bread 8. 20oz bottles of Diet Sprite 9. Lavendar scented Method hand soap I think that will keep me from having to go to the store for a while. Thanks, Michelle!

1. Half watching a lame movie where Kate Hudson has a dreadful Scottish accent and actually SINGS karaoke with it (twice!). This is not quite as humiliating as when I admitted to Josh that I watched the Lifetime movie "Evolution's Child" in it's entirety, enthralled. 2. Contemplating deleting my MySpace account because Josh informed me that MySpace is now owned by Fox. 3. Considering cleaning up this dump that ...

Just about a week ago, Josh and I actually followed through on something and attended the infamous and first annual DeLoach Peer 2 Beer Party, a crafty name that essentially means 'young people getting together to copy music illegally whilst bottles of beer sit in ice tubs.' (Mom, I told you the truth when I said I hate beer, in fact I share Dooce's philosophy that, "if you’re ...

Ok, so basically everyone came to visit, everyone got and gave gifts. The kitties tried to eat tinsel and the tree dried out. Since I last posted, I've seen King Kong, Munich and Memoirs of a Geisha. I've eaten Christmas Dinner at a hotel, hit La Madeleine twice in one day, cooked Tomato Basil Chicken and had my parents cook for me. I even had a toilet over ...

I found out an old friend from college is expecting a little one. So I thought I'd do my part to add to the name pool, by searching through none other than Josh's myriad of fantasy novels. (Unfortunately, most of the names in these books tend to be male.) For a girl: Jojanna Shadea Khyber Cinnaminson Carline Marna For a boy: Alenburga Flynn Kaspar Kenner Jorgen McGoin Milton Leso Sagrin Bek Pen Kermadec Achen Penderrin Tagwen Borric Weylin Udell Kulgan Dolgan Calin Tomas Fantus Roland Arutha Fannon The names above were taken from: Exile's Return, by Raymond E. Feist Magician: Apprentice (volume 1), also by ...