2
Feb
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Yep, I’m that bad a moviegoer. If you don’t believe me, let me assure you that the movie I saw prior to the aforementioned was New Moon. And before that? I don’t even remember! Julie and Julia, perhaps?
Of course, if we expand my movie-watching to include films viewed at home as well as en theater, we can add such goodies as, um, Julie and Julia again (yeah, it was on Movies on Demand and I demanded it!), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (on FREE Movies on Demand, which I love), and Mad Men Season 2. I know, I know, that’s not a movie. You people are sticklers!
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2
Jan
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Well, hello there. Welcome to 2010!
Yesterday, despite all of my mother’s advice to start the year out right, I actually did no writing at all, but instead went to brunch, then a movie—It’s Complicated, and I’d just like to say that I would like my life to be complicated in the way that Meryl Streep’s life is complicated if it means Alec Baldwin, a gorgeous house with a huge garden and perfect tomatoes, and my own bakery where I make the most delicious chocolate “cwahsont” in the universe—then Sephora (yay, new “compact,” which I was told was something only grandmothers say, yay, Clinique Youth Surge, which I’m sure will prevent me from being mistaken for a grandmother), then Lululemon (yay, new workout pants with hot pink cuffs), then dinner (yay, dinner) and too many glasses of wine in my hood with L.
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Tags: 2010, alec baldwin, AOL, chocolate croissant, clinique youth surge, friday that feels like a saturday, it's complicated, lazy saturday, lululemon, meryl street, movies, new year, real housewives of orange county, sephora, vegan frat boy, what not to wear