Things I Love

Mar. 13th, 2008 08:30 pm
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)
Sunday: The Brit Awards. This is unsurprising, as I listen to British radio way more than I listen to American radio, but I enjoyed the Brit Awards a great deal more than I enjoyed the Grammys. From yet another fabulous version of "Umbrella" to Paul McCartney closing out the show with interactive choruses of "Hey Jude," it was sheer fun. 

Monday: Cereal. Just because I do. 

Tuesday: Recognizing that sometimes the people that you work with are fun. If you get them outside of work and serve them lots of sangria. 

Wednesday: Super Mario video games. Seriously, they're video games about short, mustachioed, plumbers. Brilliant. 

Thursday: Nights at home. Sigh. Love that.
  • Current Location: rocking chair
  • Current Music: "Last Restaurant Standing"
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love

Mar. 8th, 2008 12:56 pm
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)
Thursday: My rocking chair. 

Friday: Fondue! It's totally the perfect food for me. 

Saturday: "The O.C." SoapNet is playing a marathon right now, and I turned it on, and it was in the middle of one of those musical montages "The O.C." did so well, and Seth Cohen was snarking, and oh, I miss this show terribly.   (ETA: OMG, Marissa is EVEN MORE ANNOYING NOW.)
  • Current Location: rocking chair
  • Current Music: "Champagne Supernova" on an "O.C." episode
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love

Mar. 5th, 2008 11:17 pm
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)
Monday: RUSSELL STOVER COCONUT CREAM EGGS. ALL 18 OF THEM. Seriously, [profile] arctacudaand [profile] bscotchpumarock.  

Tuesday: Yesterday was a bad day in which I really needed to do a Things I Love. Frog!Ten died (*sniffle*), there was a crisis at work that was mostly my fault, it took hours for me to sketch out a budget that then didn't add up because I can't do math, then I had to go to a reception and try to convince people that OMG they should totally become lawyers! But I was then reminded of what I love: my father, who had to listen to me complain, pointed out that I have a great family, and on top of that I have fabulous friends. 

Today: Hmm. The movies! Clever, quotable, British films!
  • Current Location: rocking chair
  • Current Music: "The Daily Show"
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

HUGE Catch-Up Post

Mar. 2nd, 2008 02:57 pm
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)
Things I love:

Tuesday: Bill and Colleen coming for Tuesday night dinner. 

Wednesday: Pub quizzes!

Thursday: City life. The surburbs are SCARY and DARK and have TREES and also WILDLIFE. 

Friday: Getting to see [profile] bouncy_castle79! Many huzzahs! 

Saturday: Baseball! Oh, there is something lovely about baseball being played in front of you. It makes everything in your life better. 

Sunday: [profile] bouncy_castle79saying, as we parted ways IN THE WEE SMALL HOURS OF THIS MORNING, "See you in July!" Yes! For the bloody fantabulous pilgrimage to Scotland! Even more huzzahs!
  • Current Location: rocking chair
  • Current Music: too tired for music...
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love, Weekend Edition

Feb. 25th, 2008 08:41 pm
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)

Catching Up:

Saturday: Satirical shows suddenly becoming relevant again. "Saturday Night Live" suddenly remembered that it's supposed to be a biting commentary on our society, and its little bit of brilliance on Saturday actually made me feel like someone in the nation had decided to steady the universe and talk sensibly for something. It was a revelation to discover how much satire matters when it's done correctly. 

Sunday: Feeling well! I love feeling like a healthy human being!

Today: Top Gear! BBCA is playing the tent season premiere tonight, and I just love those Top Gear boys. I've missed their squabbling. "Want to wash your car? In Switzerland, you're not allowed!" "That's the hottest thing in the world!"

  • Current Location: rocking chair
  • Current Music: Top Gear!
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love

Feb. 22nd, 2008 10:02 pm
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)
The BBC. Maybe just the entire British acting establishment. Okay, yes, they make television shows that are almost uniformly better than ours, but they also have the most brilliant marketing on the planet and I love it. Aside from my DW DVDs that are dripping with extras (maybe that's just the DW marketers and not the BBC, so who knows?), they just have the best ideas for actors to do fun things. All those little skits for charity that are constantly going on? Those are genius. And then they have interview shows like this. Is that not the world's best idea? Why don't we have shows like that here?
  • Current Location: Sick Nest on Couch
  • Current Music: "House Hunters"
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love, Yesterday's Edition

Feb. 22nd, 2008 11:14 am
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)

Mojitos. Made properly, with lots of fresh mint.

  • Current Location: Sick Nest on Couch
  • Current Music: "The Price Is Right
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love

Feb. 20th, 2008 11:22 pm
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)
Crystal clear winter nights when I actually take a moment to look up at the sky. 
  • Current Location: rocking chair
  • Current Music: "Ooh La" - the Kooks
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love

Feb. 19th, 2008 10:28 pm
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)

Tea. My new blend of tea that's special to me. And the act of making tea. The entire process is soothing, the ritual of it. Plus, drinking tea is apparently one of the ten most important things you can do to live longer!

  • Current Location: rocking chair
  • Current Music: "Boston Legal"
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love, Yesterday and Today

Feb. 18th, 2008 06:24 pm
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)
(1) Three-day weekends. Obviously. 

(2) "The West Wing." I watched an episode and a half today and was so bowled over by how good that show used to be that it was astonishing to me. There was the President, converting to Celsius in his head, and Sam snarking about "expanding the definition of 'writer' to those who can spell" and insulting Mallory's hockey-player boyfriend and babbling about his love life to Toby, and CJ insisting that she is good in bed, and Josh teasing Donna about philately, and the President complaining about modern classical music, and then Sam's "it's what's next" speech...And that was ONE EPISODE. I'm not even getting into Josh's "Somebody started a fire in this fireplace, Charlie" at the beginning of "The Leadership Breakfast." That's what I'm loving today: those magical two seasons when Aaron Sorkin turned in a hilarious, heartbreaking masterpiece every week.
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love

Feb. 17th, 2008 12:12 am
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)

Slightly late, but...I love my DVD collection. Today I skimmed through the good parts of "Gone with the Wind," "Back to the Future," "The Thomas Crown Affair," "Casino Royale," and, okay, "The Christmas Invasion" and "New Earth," I admit it. And I've decided I have excellent pop culture taste. All of these things get better every time I watch them. That is all.

Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love

Feb. 15th, 2008 11:34 pm
earlgreytea68: (Default)

Today it's a work-related one, shockingly enough! My office. I love my office. I love how it's mine. I love how I could shut the door, if I so desired. I love my Shakespeare calendar, and the zen garden, and the little figurine of the Sheriff, and the postcards, and my Red Sox Mardi Gras beads, and the article about tea, and the train schedule, and the little mirror about sistes, and the paintings from St. Tropez, and the photo of Fenway, and the printout of Tino. And not to forget the gorgeous view of the Hancock and Prudential buildings out the window. Love it.

Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love

Feb. 14th, 2008 08:49 pm
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)
Today, a bit of a random one, but Billie Piper. I love Billie Piper. Partly this post results from the MP3 choosing both "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" and "Honey to the Bee" yesterday. And then I read this inexplicable review in the New Yorker: "Your response to 'Mansfield Park' will depend a lot on how you feel about the performance of Billie Piper as Fanny, a character that Austen's own mother called 'insipid.' Piper, now twenty-five, was a teen-age pop star and tabloid magnet and then became famous again as an actress in the British TV series 'Doctor Who'; her face, with its huge brown eyes and lips that appear to have been stung by an entire press gang of bees, is fascinating without being truly engaging." I can't figure out whether she likes Billie or doesn't, so I'll proclaim right here that Billie Piper took my least favorite Jane Austen novel--in fact, one I actively disliked--and made it bearable. So she gets a shout-out in my Lenten list. 
  • Current Location: rocking chair
  • Current Music: Supernatural
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love

Feb. 13th, 2008 09:16 pm
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)
Today's installment of Things I Love: Snow. Not that we actually got snow today, mind you. We got those gross, sleety, slushy nonsense. Which made me appreciate snow that much more. I love its silence, I love its diamond-bright brilliance (is anything else that color), I love that noise it makes when you crunch it beneath your boots, I love its clean smell, and I love most of all the fact that it makes days extraordinary, an excuse to break out of that numbing routine you go through over and over. 
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love

Feb. 12th, 2008 09:12 pm
earlgreytea68: (Default)
Today's entry: Sticking with the predictable for the time being, my friends. I am very strict with my definition of "friend," which means that I count myself as only having a precious few. But they are all very kind, very indulgent of my constant complaining and obsessive personality, and, most importantly to me, very, very funny. 
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Things I Love

Feb. 11th, 2008 09:15 pm
earlgreytea68: (OMGYay)
It is a new Lenten resolution of mine to focus on the positive, not the negative. To keep me on this path, every day I shall post something that I love about my life. Today, in honor of the first day, I will start with the obvious: my family, who make me laugh like no other people on the planet, largely because they're a little bit insane, but in a good way!
  • Current Location: rocking chair
  • Current Music: Top Gear
Tags:
  • Add Memory
  • Share This Entry

Profile

earlgreytea68: (Default)
earlgreytea68
Sherlockfic

December 2024

S M T W T F S
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 2425262728
293031    

Syndicate

RSS Atom

Most Popular Tags

Page Summary

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 12th, 2025 12:42 pm
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios