Eye Candy Friday: Jude Law.

Jude Law

Okay this is long overdue but anyway, here you guys go…

And my favorite picture of this yummy man!

Until the next time…

Movie Review: Invincible.

Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Greg Kinnear, Elizabeth Banks, Kirk Acevedo, Lola Glaudini.
Running Time: 1 hour, 48 minutes
Rating: PG
Grade: C

When the coach of Vince Papale’s beloved hometown football team hosted an unprecedented open tryout, the public consensus was that it was a waste of time–no one good enough to play professional football was going to be found this way. Certainly no one like Papale–a down-on-his-luck, 30 year-old, substitute teacher and part-time bartender who never even played college football. But against these odds, Papale made the team and soon found himself living every fan’s fantasy–moving from his cheap seats in the upper deck to standing on the field as a professional football player.

This movie was good. Not the best movie I’ve seen but I enjoyed the storyline and the message behind the whole thing. Mark Wahlberg did a great job portraying Vince Papale’s character and I had that warm giddy feeling in my stomach the further he got in the whole Eagle’s camp. But it ended abruptly and I guess I was waiting for a grand ending and it never came so because of that, I gave it a C.

So good, but not great.

One Tree Hill was A Rerun.

…but I still watched it.

You see, it was the episode where Nathan tries to throw the Championship game and then Haley finds out she’s having a baby boy and Brooke turns into Bitchy Brooke to Peyton and…Lucas realizes he loves Peyton.

WOO HOO!

Mulu missed it the first time it aired so I called her to make sure she watched it and she did. But having seen the show again, little things started to stand out more for me. The biggest one though is Karen’s pregnancy.

On the way to the game, Deb tells Karen that it’s really funny how Keith was there for Dan’s baby and now, Dan is going to be there for Keith’s baby. Now, really…think about this for a bit. Karen Roe has a baby, Lucas Scott by Dan Scott and is now pregnant with Dan’s brother Keith Scott’s baby, making her pregnant with Dan’s nephew and Lucas’ brother or sister/cousin.

DISFLIPPINGUSTING!

Why the hell did I ever want Karen to be with Keith? That’s some nasty shit…Karen needs to go back to New Zealand, find Andy and bring him back so that he can raise Karen’s baby and what’s really going on with Karen, is she EVER going to have a baby in wedlock? Both of her kids were conceived when she wasn’t married and she gets mad at Lucas for having sex? I mean, come on now…it’s not like he’s got any good role models to model his sex life after.

Anyway, the other thing I noticed and actually remember is #13 who plays for The Ravens is one hot guy! I missed him last time around but this time, I was all eyes for him.

Last night, I also watched Friday Night Lights and I really like that show, I’m thinking that I’m going to catch up on that show before it comes back on from the hiatus, because seriously…it was really good last night. Also, I have to remember to check out Rome before that comes back sometime in January, cause I promised my friend from work that I’d peep it out because her and the hottie gay guy that we work with told me to watch it…the hottie gay guy thinks I’m cute, Awwww…what a waste! Ugh.

Hmm, that seems to be all that my mind is capable of throwing out to you guys, so yeah…I’m done.

Peace out…oh and I’m not at work today because I’m still sick but I’ll be back tomorrow. So be gentle with my work email guys (Holly, Grace, Izzy, Jazz and Daphne.) Ames, I’m gonna call you and bug you at work, haha. So you can hear how horrible I sound right now.

Peace out guys, I’m getting kicked off the computer because Brenna wants to play Disney Channel.

Kids.

I Need To Vent!

So back in September, our company bought out a small business company and we’re in the process of merging both companies into one big, gigantic powerhouse company. All of the small business people moved into our building and a lot of our people moved to different parts of the building. Our AR department got moved downstairs as did our HR department, some of our direct businessmen got shipped to the next building and this is all in the hopes that we’d stop being two different companies and start being one company, united. We’re supposed to be this great big happy family, right?

Wrong.

I’ve heard nothing but complaints from people in our company about how rude and disrespectful their people are and their people don’t smile and say anything to our people when we cross paths in the hallway.

Let’s just say that the happy merge the higher uppers were hoping for is just not going to happen…not anytime soon anyway.

Now me, personally I say hi to everyone in the hallway, whether you’re from their company or ours, I’ll say hi to you because you guys brought donuts for us to eat last week and man, NO ONE has done that here in such a long time…myself included. LOL. Now, my friends have all had their complaints about this stupid shit from this department and that stupid shit from that department but I’ve always been the one that said, “Well, she was nice to me.”

Not today.

Okay, I’m the Contracts Department Admin and the department fax machine is in my office. When faxes come in, I usually just run them over to whoever it belongs to, since its just down the hall. I don’t have to do it, but I do because I’m nice like that. Now, if the owner of the fax is on the phone, I’ll quietly hand them the fax and they’ll take it, mouth a “thank you” and I’ll be on my merry way. I don’t try to converse with them while they’re on the phone, but I don’t ever use the Inbox outside my boss’ office, mainly because some of the stuff that gets faxed to them (both of my bosses, the boss and then my boss boss) shouldn’t be left around for just anyone to walk by and grab. They get mods for different contracts faxed to them, or memo’s from clients and well, they’ve always just said to hand it to them, so I do.

Well this new chick, we’ll call her Hoecakes from the small business company we bought out works in our building now, she works in the Contracts Department so I support her now as well. I’ve been told time and time again that she’s a bitch but I never believed it because she was always civil to me, she was never rude or disrepectful until today.

So Hoecakes gets a fax today and I walk it over to her office. When I get there, she’s on the phone so I’m trying to just hand it to her and leave but she won’t even acknowledge me. So I look for someplace to just set it down where she can see it, but her desk is littered with errant papers and there’s a folder holder on top of her desk like the one shown to the right.
While still on the phone, she points to that stupid folder holder. Does she want me to put it there? If I do, the papers are going to fall off, I mean, the thing is not level, there’s no way that it’ll stay right? So I try to just hand it to her and she then points to her door, so now I’m just thinking, “Would you just grab this shit and let me leave already?” So there I am, trying to just set the fax down when she sighs all loud like and says into the phone, “Can you hold on, Bob?”

She pierces me with this withering look that reminded me of the Wicked Witch from the Wizard of Oz and then she points to her door and says, “There’s a box hanging outside my door called an Inbox, why don’t you try using that sometime?”

What the eff?

I could only stand there and gape at her because I was blown away that she would talk to me that way. Now, I don’t know if that’s what they used back at her small business but that’s not how we do things here in the Contracts Department at OUR company, she don’t work for her company anymore, she works for OURS, so bitch you gotta do things OUR WAY…oh and before I could reply she snatches the fax out of my hands and barks out, “Just give it to me and get out”

Oh.Hell.No.

Did I say anything mean to her? Oh hell no.. Am I going to forget this little thing? You bet your bottom dollar that I won’t be forgetting this anytime soon and she wants to see bitch? I’ll show her bitch…

Stupid bitch.

Movie Review: The Devil Wears Prada.

Starring: Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci, Adrian Grenier, Simon Baker.
Running Time: 106 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Grade: C

In the dizzying world of New York fashion, where size zero is the new 2, six is the new 8, and a bad hair day can end a career, Runaway Magazine is the Holy Grail. Overseen with a finely manicured fist by Miranda Priestly–the most powerful woman in fashion–Runway is a fearsome gauntlet for anyone who wants to make it in the industry. To make Runway the fashion bible of New York and therefore the world, Miranda has let nothing stand in her way–including a long line of assistants that didn’t make the cut. It’s a job no self-respecting person can survive, yet it’s an opportunity a million young women in New York would kill for. A stint as Miranda’s assistant could blast-open the doors for recent college graduate Andy Sachs. More college drab than haute couture, she stands alone among the small army of “Clackers” on staff at Runway–superslim fashion divas clacking their stilettos down the halls of the magazine’s Manhattan headquarters. But when Andy comes in for the job, it dawns on her that making it in this industry will take more than drive and determination. And her ultimate test stands before her in head-to-toe Prada. Miranda can spin the fashion world like a basketball but has a devil of a time finding and keeping a good assistant. Andy is completely wrong for the job. But she has something the rest of them don’t: she refuses to fail. To become the perfect assistant, Andy will need to make herself over in Miranda’s image. Soon, much to her boyfriend’s dismay, she can talk the talk, walk the walk and never again confuse Dolce with Gabbana. But the more of life she sees through Miranda’s eyes, the more she begins to grasp that Miranda’s world is a fabulous but lonely one–and that sometimes great success depends on great sacrifice. But at what cost?

So this is a book turned movie and since I didn’t read the book, I didn’t know what to expect. I actually didn’t choose to watch this movie either, my brother’s girlfriend did and though I wasn’t all that excited to watch it, I wasn’t really bored or anything with it either but for me this movie was just average.

Simon Baker was a total stud in this movie and maybe if there was more of him I would have liked this movie a little more. I didn’ t not like it, I liked it well enough but it didn’t grab me. I enjoyed it, I laughed, I gasped but I didn’t really get all wrapped up in this movie as I did with other movies, especially the movies that I watched this weekend.

Was it good? Yeah, would I pimp it out? Maybe…and it’s a really big maybe.

Movie Review: Clerks II.

Starring: Brian Christopher O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Rosario Dawson, Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Trevor Ferhman.
Running Time: 98 minutes.
Rating: R
Grade: C

Ten years ago best friends Dante Hicks and Randal Graves were New Jersey mini-mall clerks still slacking off together in their early 20s. Now working in the fast-food universe, Dante and Randal have managed to maintain, and even hone, their in-your-face attitudes, agile skill with vulgarities and unbridled love of screwing the customers. But they’re also faced with such shocking prospects as marriage, leaving Jersey and finding real careers. Dante and Randal invade the world of Mooby’s fast food restaurant, where the slogan is “I’m Eating It.” Behind the counter, where the only other employees are an uber-nerd and an entirely too sexy manager, Dante and Randal are free to offend anybody and everybody who so much as orders fries in their inimitably irreverent way. But, even as riotous debates rage between them over such burning matters as George Lucas v. Peter Jackson v. Jesus, change is on the horizon. When Dante announces that he’s going to leave Jersey forever and marry Emma Bunting, Randal plots a going-away party so shocking it will draw the police, the fire department and potential protests from PETA, while altering their lives forever.

Okay I wasn’t expecting to like this movie all that much because I didn’t see the first Clerks, but my brother wanted to watch this movie so I decided, why not? I’m glad I watched it because it was one of those silly, funny movies that had you laughing from the beginning to the end.

Elias was friggin’ hilarious! I loved that weirdo nut job! When Marshall from Alias started arguing and then threatening to kick Randal’s ass because of the things he was saying about Frodo and Sam (which I totally agree with and love the movie anyway), I couldn’t stop laughing. But when Elias showed his LOTR Ring that was hanging around his neck, holy hell I was rollin’…

But my favorite characters of this movie was frickin’ Jay and Silent Bob. Jay mostly, when Bob plays his song and Jay say, “Ohh” and then proceeds to put chapstick on all the while he’s singing provacatively, “Do you to f**k Me? Cause I’d wanna f**k me!” Oh my hell, HILARIOUS! And don’t even get me started when Emma and Dante come out of Mooby’s and Jay is bare ass naked with his junk tucked underneath and he’s looking up with his trench coat open, dude I almost peed in my pants it was so funny…

Would I recommend this movie? If you’re up for some really retarded comedy, then yeah put this one in and sit back and watch for some good laughs, some stupid dialogue and just to laugh at stupid guys…I enjoyed it!

Movie Review: Grid Iron Gang.

Starring: Duane “The Rock” Johnson, Kevin Dunn, Xzibit, Leon Rippy.
Running Time: 2 hours.
Rating: PG-13
Grade: B+

The uplifting story of detention camp probation officer Sean Porter, who creates a high-school-level football team from a ragtag group of dangerous teenage inmates as a means to teach them self-respect and social responsibility. He is joined in this experiment by co-worker, Malcolm Moore. But Porter must first overcome almost universal resistance from the powers that be — his skeptical bosses and coaches at rival high schools who don’t want their players mixing it up with convicted criminals on the football field.

I really enjoyed watching this movie. The Rock did a great job portraying Sean Porter, the probation officer turned football coach of the Gridiron Gang. There were times though when he was yelling at the kids that I would mutter to myself, “Do you smell what the Rock is cookin’?” haha, but other than that, it was a good role for The Rock. Showed his sensitive side, which I thorougly enjoyed.

This reminded me of all those football movies that I’ve watched but I still enjoyed this one. I was also pleasantly surprised to see Mulu’s old boss’s brother in law, Setu in this movie. Setu played Junior in this movie and I thought he did a great job.

An emotional movie about the devastating effects that gang life has on kids these days. It was pretty trippy to see that this movie was filmed right here in L.A. close to my home. My high school played some of the high school that these kids ended up at, so that was pretty neat. I was rootin’ these little fellon’s on while they reached that level where they didn’t consider themselves losers anymore…I was so happy at the end when they weren’t losers anymore.

Yahoo…good movie.

Oh and Just In Case You Were Wondering…

…remember when I told you that I have the best friends?

Well I do and I can prove it because guess where I’m going on January 9th?

To the Justin Timberlake concert.

And guess who I love more than anyone in the world right now because she got the tickets for us?

Holly.

Yep, it’s good to be me right now because I’m goign to see Justin and Holly is going on my I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER AND EVER AMEN LIST…which is the list that everyone should shoot to be apart of because hello, ya’ll want me to love you guys forever…and well, I love Holly forever.

THANKS SO MUCH HOLLS and let me know if you change your mind, I’ve been giddy with excitement even in between bouts of coughing, sneezing and blowing my nose, it’s just friggin’ great, I ache in all places and yet my spirits aren’t down because thanks to you sweetums, I’m going to see Justin!

Yesssss….

Unwanted Attention.

So this weekend, Mulu and I attended the Christmas Party/Dance for our home ward, which was put together by her Dad. She had to go and me, well I miss our home ward a lot since going to the Singles Ward and I was more than a little excited to go and see all the familiar faces and get my little dance on with the old men of the ward and Mark, of course. Gotta look forward to those obligatory dances with Mark. I was also looking forward to having fun with my family and then dancing with my Dad, because seriously??? My Dad can groove.

So anyway, we get to the dance a little late…everything is already underway and the band is playing and their singing one of my favorite island jams. We go in and are seated, Mulu goes to check out what’s up with her family and I walk over to my family’s table which is right next to hers and am greeted by my nephews, nieces, daughter and sister. We’re talking about what I missed so far and I ask where Mom and Dad are and then I am served with a mountain of food from the guy that used to annoy the snot out of me by pestering me every dang Sunday to go to class. I think I blogged about him last year but I can’t be sure. Anyway, so Mulu and I get our eat on and this is when we realize just how friggin’ great the band is. They’re playing song after song of great island music and then I muse aloud to Mulu that I couldn’t wait for them to play Selena…which is a must at all Samoan dances. And seriously, like they read my lips while I told Mulu or something, the very next song was Selena’s the bitty bitty bom bom song and I laughed and then of course, we had to go and dance to it.

It was the start of lots and lots of dancing for me. I danced with anyone and everyone and only rested when I couldn’t catch my breath anymore. I did my obligatory dances with Mark, as did Mulu and then I hid from some of the old men that creep me out (okay this is totally Lay Down, B Nice HA!)…and in the midst of all of my dancing, I get asked to dance by some new guy in the ward.

He wasn’t the worst looking man on earth but he was totally not my type but since it would have been rude to not dance with him after he came to all the trouble of asking me, I got up and walked onto the dancefloor with him.

We danced and didn’t talk much, I smiled a lot at him since I wasn’t saying anything, hoping against hope that he wouldnt’ take all of my smiling as a sign of interest because really, I was NOT interested in this guy…in any way. So anyway, he asks me question after question and I pretend that I can’t hear him, since one of the questions he asked me was if he could take me out on a date. WHAT THE HELL? I haven’t even told you my name yet, what is wrong with you? I swear that the band could feel my growing annoyance with my dance partner because just when I swore I couldn’t take anymore of his incessant talking, the band wrapped up the song and I shook his hand without saying a word and just turned my back on him and walked away.

He must have taken my abrupt departure as some sort of sign that I was playing hard to get because, he asked me to dance later on and with some prodding from my brother in law (who works with him) I grudgingly went.

It was during this dance that I couldn’t get out of talking to him, since it was a slow song. He asked my for my name, I gave it to him. He asked me if I was seeing someone and I shrugged, not saying yes and not saying no. I told him I was 26 years old and guess how old he told me he was? 39. Now usually I’m not that grossed out about older guys, I actually like older men but this guy didn’t even seem like he was 39, he was starting to seem like one of those slimy characters that you just can’t like and on top of all of that…he was trying to get with Mulu too. Now, I’ll let that one slide since he was new and probably didn’t know that Mulu and I are best friends and inseperable, but when it was more than a little aparent that we were close friends and the whispers and what not kept coming, I got all the more annoyed with him.

What a joke this guy was.

So Blanche tells me to go outside and call our sister in law to tell her that she was just going to take her girls home with her and that she could pick them up in the morning since it was getting late and they live all the way in Long Beach. So I start dialing the numbers but I can’t hear a lick of anything, so I take my call outside. I’m trying unsuccessfully to get through to my sister in law when I feel someone’s finger graze the side of my arm and I look up to see that it was frickin’ stalker guy.

I shrugged him off like I couldn’t be bothered and then took the call, I kept my sister in law on the phone longer than was necessary hoping stalker guy would go away, so then I finally hang up with my sister just as my brother in law is walking out of the hall, I immediately call for him and he turns to see me walking fast toward him, I make inane conversation with him and he laughingly obliges me and then he leads me away from the guy that just won’t take no for an answer.

Ron tells me that if I don’t like stalker guy, just tell him to lay off. I told him that I already did and he tells me to keep telling him where to stuff his stupid pick up lines until he gets the hint, I nod and promise to do just that then start away from him when Mulu comes out of the hall looking for me, she asked me if I was ready to leave and though I wanted to hear the band play more, I see Stalker guy looking in our direction and told her, let’s get the hell out of here. She leaves me to go tell her parents that she’s taking off and then as I’m talking to some of the young boys in the ward, stalker guy comes and stands right next to me, caressing my arm, telling me that we should go and dance again (a slow song is playing mind you), I look over to him and do I tell him to lay off like I told my brother in law that I would?

Hell to the no, I ran like a herd of donkeys were chasing me. And when I was safely esconced in Mulu’s car, we had us a good laugh since she witnessed my running away from the dumb ass in gold. Was it the mature thing to do? No. Did I make him look dumb in front of the boys? Probably. Am I contrite in my actions? Oh heck no..it was too funny.

Do you guys have any unwanted attention stories to share with me? Tell me, I want to laugh!

Movie Review: Pride and Prejudice.

Starring: Keira Knightley, Matthew MacFayden, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone, Donald Sutherland.
Running Time: 2 hours, 8 minutes
Rating: PG13
Grade: B+

In class-conscious England near the close of the 18th century, the five Bennet sisters–Elizabeth, or Lizzie, Jane, Lydia, Mary, and Kitty–have been raised well aware of their mother’s fixation on finding them husbands and securing set futures. The spirited and intelligent Elizabeth, however, strives to live her life with a broader perspective, as encouraged by her doting father. When wealthy bachelor Mr. Bingley takes up residence in a nearby mansion, the Bennets are abuzz. Amongst the man’s sophisticated circle of London friends and the influx of young militia officers, surely there will be no shortage of suitors for the Bennet sisters. Eldest daughter Jane, serene and beautiful, seems poised to win Mr. Bingley’s heart. For her part, Lizzie meets with the handsome and–it would seem–snobbish Mr. Darcy, and the battle of the sexes is joined. Their encounters are frequent and spirited yet far from encouraging. Lizzie finds herself even less inclined to accept a marriage proposal from a distant cousin, Mr. Collins, and–supported by her father–stuns her mother and Mr. Collins by declining. When the heretofore good-natured Mr. Bingley abruptly departs for London, devastating Jane, Lizzie holds Mr. Darcy culpable for contributing to the heartbreak. But a crisis involving youngest sister Lydia soon opens Lizzie’s eyes to the true nature of her relationship with Mr. Darcy.

Wow, I was expecting another Vanity Fair but this was far from that made me fall asleep movie. This movie is actually my favorite rendition of this story. I thought Keira Knightley played the perfect Elizabeth Bennett and Matthew MacFayden was a great Mr. Darcy. I rather liked the entire cast of this movie.

Also, I’ve got to say that I agree with I think it was Kate D. who said that the British Romance movies are much better than the American ones because of the witty banter and the sexual angst that fills up most of the movies. I really did enjoy this movie tons, I would totally recommend this to anyone who wants to read it.