things that only happen to me. also? why i download Emily, to me, this morning: “Mommy, you look SO much like Jamie Lynn Spears today”
me: “oh. really. great. EXACTLY the look i was going for” (insert sarcasm here)
Emily: “but, the Zoey 101 version. not the big and pregnant version”
me: “thanks. um. i think”
and. um. i think she might be right.
shit.
have i ever told you about [...] Filed in The Family, The Thursday Thirteen | 27-Aug-08 | 40 comments
bear with me. it is only 4am in San Francisco i’m going to start with a confession:
i did not drink at BlogHer08.
i swear. not one. and NO i’m not pregnant. you see, i like to drink. and so, i drink. and i drink often. and when i drink i tend to get, um, wordy. i tend to overshare. and then i say things like
“it’s less [...] Filed in The Family, The Thursday Thirteen | 21-Jul-08 | 40 comments
13 celebrities whose style i love yesterday, i posted a photo of a certain trainwreck-like celeb in an outfit that i kind of, maybe, sort of, erm, liked. but then i got worried that you might think that that i actually *like* Brit Brit’s style. Thus my inspiration for this week’s thursday thirteen.
(ps. since last week’s cross-over post was such a [...] Filed in The Thursday Thirteen | 21-Feb-08 | 19 comments
13 of the most un-buyable onscreen couples it’s always about CHEMISTRY. always. movies and tv shows are supposed to make us believe that these relationships are real. Sometimes they work. think: Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally. perfect. or Captain Von Trapp and Maria in The Sound of Music. they are oozing with chemistry.
sometimes, though, it just doesn’t [...] Filed in The Thursday Thirteen | 14-Feb-08 | 39 comments
13 things that are worth the hype last week we spoke about the things in life that are totally overrated. today i thought we could talk about those things that really are worth the hype. now, i’m sure there will be people who disagree and say…”ipods suck Ali…you can get a zune and it will do the exact same thing” and they [...] Filed in The Thursday Thirteen | 13-Dec-07 | 32 comments
13 things that are overrated
1. trendy flavored martinis. the only person that is permitted to drink an appletini is JD on Scrubs.
2. Porsche Cayenne. if you’re going to drive a porsche, drive a porsche for god’s sake. unless you are Carmela Soprano.
3. Pomegranate juice
4. People’s 50 Most Beautiful People issue. because sometimes, they are just wrong. surely blythe danner [...] Filed in The Thursday Thirteen | 06-Dec-07 | 34 comments
13 of my favorite tv guest stars my god, there are SO many. i could do an entire 13 on The Simpsons alone. i could probably do 33.
1. Bob Saget on Entourage
2. Michael J. Fox on Scrubs
3. Hank Azaria on Friends
4. Mark Hamill on The Simpsons
5. Christopher Reeve on Smallville
6. Keith Hernandez on Seinfeld
7. Dustin Hoffman on The Simpsons
8. Al Gore on [...] Filed in The Thursday Thirteen | 29-Nov-07 | 20 comments
13 things you might not know that i love there are many things i love. and i talk about them all the time. Starbucks lattes. My lululemons. the Cheesecake Factory. Chapstick medicated lip balm. my camera. diet pepsi. turtlenecks. my wii. ipods. but i thought out give you a little taste of some of the other, less well-known things that i love.
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1. Good Times [...] Filed in The Thursday Thirteen | 22-Nov-07 | 17 comments
13 people, alive or dead, real or fiction, i’d love to share a meal with we’ll all heard this question before…and most people have the same stock answers. Jesus. Einstein. Hitler. Martin Luther King. my grandmother. George Washington.
so…i hereby give you my list of people i’d like to dine with. some are outside the box, while some, like Miss Frank, most definitely stay inside the box.
1. Bruce Wayne - dude [...] Filed in The Thursday Thirteen | 08-Nov-07 | 29 comments
13 of the worst movie accents We at Casa de Martell have been arguing about the movie Blood Diamond. It’s not what you think…we both thought - with the exception of the last ten minutes - that the movie was pretty well done. We have been arguing about Mr. diCaprio’s South African accent. the husband says it’s crap. i say it’s [...] Filed in The Thursday Thirteen | 01-Nov-07 | 35 comments