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Julie: Hi, I'm Julie, I'm a crazy dog lady.
Crowd: Hi Julie
I learned something about myself today. I am a crazy dog lady.
No, I have not decided to dress Lizzy up for the holidays (although I am not ruling that out just yet, as I haven't planned our annual Christmas card photo shoot yet). And no, I am not throwing her a wedding and marrying her off to the dog next door (although she and Charlie would probably like that).
No, I am one of those, "Is that so-and-so's dog in the front yard? They must have gotten out! I need to run out into the street and try to get them to go back home!" kind of crazy.
Yes, I did it again, I saw that our neighbor's very large and very scary german shepherd was out of their yard and three doors down at the corner house. Jimmy, or so I think he's called, was about to round the block, probably on his way to being lost. So, me, in my infinite wisdom decided to run out my front door clad in my flannel pjs and slippers, to try and get a german shepherd, that I had never met, to follow me back to it's home.
And darn it, if I didn't do it! Running down the street, clapping and calling what I thought was the dog's name...I think I managed to scare him so much that he ran home. He actually ran and sat on his front porch. I can just imagine what my neighbor must have thought when she opened the door (obviously reaching for her mailbox) to find her german shepherd on her front porch and her pj clad neighbor running up the lawn.
While I was thanked and felt that I had done a good deed, I realized today that running around the neighborhood in flannel pajamas is probably the best way to get a very undesirable nickname. I can imagine it now.
Neighbor #1: So, did you see that Flannel McDog-Chaser re-landscaped her front yard?
Neighbor #2: When does she have time? She's so busy running around the neighborhood in her pajamas!
And that is the 356th thing I have done today, other than finishing a research paper that's due this evening. Yay me.
The election:
In case you haven't figured it out, this is one of the most important elections of our times (every election is important). Please vote. If you follow my tweets, it's not hard to figure out my candidate of choice. However, I want to encourage everyone (even those of you who are dead wrong and voting for those other people) to VOTE!!!
The economy:
Wow, can it be any more messed up? I used similar techniques of hiding bad financial decisions when I was in college and working retail, frequently resorting to bail-out packages to pay for my love of shoes. I'm not sure how I feel about that bailout package that was passed last week. I kinda think it rewards bad behavior but I'll leave that analysis to people smarter that me.
And now to more serious matters:
Dog school:
Lizzy continues to do well at dog school even though her fellow classmate, a german shepherd wants to chomp her. Max's hatred of Lizzy makes no sense other than he reads her body language as aggressive rather than playful. Or he's got something against retriever/husky mixes. Dunno. Those germans are an odd lot.
Here's a pic of Lizzy at her Beginner Class Graduation. She's wasn't a fan of the cap we tried to put on her. She's kinda wearing it too far back, reminds me of my high school graduation where I wore my cap virtually parallel with my spine (but I had to accommodate my bangs, in all their 1990 awesomeness)
Makeup:
I experienced Ulta for the first time a few weeks ago. Looooovvvveee their eyeshadow!
Movie standards:
I have determined that I will watch pretty much any movie with George Clooney in it. Not because he is pretty, but he makes some interesting choices in the roles he selects and seems pretty smart yet he doesn't take himself too seriously. He's now been added to the list of trusted actors (he shares the list with Robert DeNiro and Will Ferrell--but not for the same reasons). After seeing 'Burn after Reading' I may add Brad Pitt to that list.
That's all for now.
Ahem, well, it has been quite a while now, hasn't it?
Hmmm, what's been going on, letmesee here....
I've gotten a promotion, started my master's degree, gained weight, lost weight, bought some clothes, donated some clothes, gotten my hair cut, let my hair grow, polka'd, left on vacation, returned from vacation, tried acupuncture, signed up for facebook and myspace, gotten rid of my yahoo email account, started using my gmail email account, removed most of my old blog posts, visited babies, prayed at funerals, laughed at weddings, let my bangs grow out, started referring to the urban dictionary a lot more, started using our treadmill, stopped using stamps, bought a food steamer, returned a food steamer, been drunk with friends, been drunk with coworkers, laughed a lot, cried a bit, changed my cell number, got a new cell phone, found a career, stopped drinking pop, started drinking lots of water, was rude to fellow travelers, took a water aerobics class, took a women's boot camp class, used our george foreman grill, figured out the water jug puzzle from Die Hard 3 a few times, fell on the ice, volunteered at a women's shelter, went to an OHL hockey game, bought some pens at staples, saw some movies...well the list goes on an on.
Suffice to say, I've been busy.
Riley
199? - May 27, 2006
The decision came friday night, where after several nights of Riley wandering the house, Godric and I concluded that Riley had either suffered some sort of stroke or was in extreme pain that prevented him from laying down.
With his lack of eyesight and hearing, the wandering and confusion he was suffering was heartwrenching.
I know he's in a better place now, but that doesn't change the fact that I miss him so much I hurt.
Please, no calls, emails or comments. This is too raw.
...because I think saying 'and the oscar prize goes to' is far too PC for this blog.
This year was unprecedented because we had a FOUR WAY tie for first.
Suzy, Mark, Paula and Jason all tied with 10 correct answers.
While checking all the submissions it became clear that the two unexpected winners, Crash and Original Song "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp" threw a monkey wrench into most people's entries. In fact, of the 4 first place entries, none of them got the best picture correct and only one got the best song correct.
Here's how I decided who won the prize...
Since not one of the 4 got the best picture category correct, I focused in on the next top categories, best director, best actor/actress and best supporting actor and actress.
That ruled out Jason and Suzy because Suzy missed the best actor category and Jason missed the best supporting actor category.
So that left Mark and Paula.
Mark and Paula's entries were very similar because they got a lot of the big categories correct but faltered in the smaller categories.
So, I decided to look at the music category. Neither one selected "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp" as the best song (which almost made Jason the winner merely on that choice alone) , but Mark selected Brokeback as the best Score. Paula chose The Constant Gardener as best score.
CONGRATULATIONS MARK, YOU ARE THE WINNER.
Gene, tell him what he's won...
...Mark will be receiving a $20 gift certificate to a fine eating establishment and a one day supply of 'Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco Treat'.
The correct answers:
Best Picture Crash
Best Director Ang Lee for Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman for Capote
Best Actress Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line
Best Supporting Actor George Clooney for Syriana
Best Supporting Actress Rachel Weisz for The Constant Gardener
Best Original Screenplay Crash - Paul Haggis
Best Adapted Screenplay Brokeback Mountain - Larry McMurtry
Costume Design Memoirs of a Geisha
Original Score Brokeback Mountain
Original Song "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp" - Hustle & Flow
Best Visual Effects King Kong
Best Animated Feature Film Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Best Documentary Feature Marche de l'empereur, La
Best Documentary Short The Golden Age of Norman Corwin
Best Live Action Short Six Shooter
Best Animated Short The Moon and the Son
Entry results:
Suzanne: 8
Thor: 9
Suzy: 10
Darrell: 8
Kathleen: 5
Brian: 3
Corinne: 6
Azita: 6
Mark: 10
Jane: 4
Glen: 9
Cindy: 8
Sharon: 4
JP: 7
Kimmy: 3
Clay: 8
Shawn: 6
Leah: 8
WDB: 4
Don: 5
Davo: 6
Paula: 10
JulieU: 8
Jason: 10
Most people chose Brokeback as best picture.
Only 3 people chose "It's Hard Out Here For a Pimp" as the best song, so congrats to Jason, Clay and Kimmy. Way to think outside the box you guys.
Thanks for playing. If you would like to see how you did, per category, leave a comment with your email address and I'll send that right over to you.
Julie
Win a fabulous (really, on the mediocre side of fabulous) prize!
Play here
Winners will be announced when I get around to it.
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