Out of 'Star Wars' crispy M&M's (sigh)

Had work this morning and I didn't want to faint so that's an improvement. However it was super busy which sucked. And we ran out of 'Star Wars' crispy M&M's! (I work at a supermarket) So sad. I was forced to buy Kit Kat Bites instead and they aren't the least bit Star Warsy. They do sort of taste the same though.

Yesterday I was going to recap, for your entertainment and mine, the movie "The African Queen" starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn and directed by John Huston. However, I hadn't seen it before and it was hard to type and watch the movie at the same time so I stopped. After two minutes. (What? It was hard recapping the sound of the jungle. Shut up!)

So now I'll tell you of the things I learned while watching this movie.

1. It is easy to make torpedoes (My only experience with making explosive devices is when we made sparkler bombs at a couple of neighbourhood barbecues but they wern't that great. Oh and there was the time I blew up a barbecue (except I didn't really blow it up, parts of it that wern't supposed to be on fire just caught on fire. It was windy that day. There was really no need to call the fire department. And I don't think it was really my fault. Hello? There was totally no parental supervision. And I was, like, 10))

2. It is easy to fix a broken propeller

3. Capsised boats will rise to the surface at just the right moment in order to blow up a German ship

4. Just before you are about to be hanged, your German captors will marry you to your fellow captee. Which is very bizarrely nice of them. Well though they were German, they wern't Nazis so that might explain it.

5. It is easy to blow up a German ship

6. When dragging your boat through the reeds as you walk in chest high water, the worst that will happen is that leaches will latch onto you. You won't be attacked by crocodiles or hippos or poisonous snakes.

7. It is really easy for an alcoholic to give up gin cold turkey. Really!

8. Humphrey Bogart had crooked teeth. Hadn't noticed this before. (I have perfect teeth and my sister is always having dental dramas because the morning of an inter-school carnival she and my brother started fighting in the play room and she fell on the floor and chipped her tooth on the tiles. Ever since then it had been dental drama after dental drama. She even hurt her tooth when we were in Phuket! (also while fighting with my brother. Noticing a patten? I have) Anyway because of all this (and the dental dramas another one of my friends had (they had to break her jaw in order to correct her over-bite) I tend to notice dental imperfections fairly quickly)

9. It is seriously hard to guess Katharine Hepburn's age. I kind of always knew this one but it was really apparent in this movie.


Dinner is ready. Will be back later.

(edited later because grammar and punctuation are good)

A guy called 'Zay'

While we were eating dinner, my family and I watched 'Pilot Guides.' This episode was about Western Canada. The guide was Zay Harding (I think). He was cute. I think he was either Canadian or he just had a really mild and inoffensive American accent. Anyway, he was cute and funny and a bit of a dork (which is how I like my guys) and his name was 'Zay!' Say it out loud. You'll feel better.

On his trip he went to Whistler and went mountain bike riding, went to Vancouver where apparently Marijuana is legal or something, looked for bears, took a cool train ride, searched for gold, and drank a shot which had a toe in it. That's right. A toe. A long dead person's toe (I hope someone didn't just cut their toe off and send it to the tavern) but still. Say it with me Summer Roberts style: Ew!

Where the hell is my cocoa butter hand lotion?

Found it. Now my hands smell vaguely chocolate-y.

Who I am 'shipping on TV part two:

3. Gregory House and Lisa Cuddy on 'House'-Actually I'd 'ship Wilson with House over Cameron. She is soo annoying. It always about her issues. Cuddy on the other hand is awesome. She's smart. She's funny. She doesn't let House push her around (much). I don't really like her low cut tops and often her hair annoys me but the costuming generally sucks on 'House.' Hugh Laurie is gorgeous and fantastic in this role (and no, this is not me jumping on the band wagon. I loved him before 'House' when he was on 'Blackadder' as the Prince Regent. I actually knew he was English. So ha!) and Lisa Eidlestein (or however you spell her name) is pretty good to. I remember her a Laurie, the call girl on 'West Wing' (though I always wanted Sam to be with Mallory, Leo's daughter. They had great chemistry and Mallory was a red head. I generally favour red heads. Except for Addison on 'Grey's Anatomy' though I do find myself liking her more than I feel I should).

Anyway, here's hoping for a romance (or at least more hot snark) between House and Cuddy. That and Cameron dying. Quickly. With House not caring.

I have a hunch

I have a hunch I'm going to spend tomorrow re-watching 'A Very Long Engagement.' I need some French whimsy damn it!

'Press Gang' quotes

I was just watching the 'Press Gang' episodes 'The Last Word: Part 1,' 'The Last Word: Part 2,' 'Holding On,' and 'Day Dreams.' I love 'Press Gang' and will eventually dedicate several entries extolling its virtues and trying to convince people to watch it. For now, here are some quotes that jumped out at me.

The Last Word: Part 1

Colin: Don't throw the ashtray.

Lynda: Don't shoot. He's a jerk.

Colin: Do you have to keep pointing at me, gun wise? Its just that I've got a naturally high fear level, probably if you were just a bit cross with me, that would do it.

Colin: Can I just say on behalf of everyone? I'm glad you didn't kill Kenny. That would have been one serious bummer. [I wonder if the creators of 'South Park' saw this]

Colin: Maybe you're just one of those wacky kids who likes to tease his friends with a loaded fire arm. We all know one.

Colin: Just remember I'm basically neutral in this on-going crisis situation.

Colin: You shouldn't really think of me as a hostage, more a facilitator

Colin had some really good lines in this ep! He manages to be heroic and self-centered at the same time.

The Last Word: Part 2

Lynda: You are contemptible.
Spike: I love it when you talk dirty.

Kenny: If I get killed doing this you're gonna feel really guilty.
Lynda: Why would I? You won't be around to tell me to.


I'm rather tired so I'm gonna go to bed now. FYI my icon, made by violetcreme is of Colin from the episode 'At last a dragon' where he disguises himself as "an Arab from Arabia" in order to sell oil fields located beneath his high school. Cheeky bugger.