My friends in Brooklyn have made a splash on Myspace with a music video:

We have no idea how this happened, but the "Earth Versus the World" music video has reached the top of the MySpace.com video section today, reaching almost 8000 hits as of this writing. Here's a link to the MySpace page just so you can see it in all it's glory.

Congratulations!

Sigh. My life is so suburban I could puke.

View them here.

My thoughts:

Abigail Breslin is up for best supporting actor?? She's 7! And she didn't do anything remarkable in the film but act like a 7 year old!

The art direction category is really interesting. Diverse films.

I hope An Inconvenient Truth wins best documentary just so Gore can run his campaigns with the tag "Academy Award winner Al Gore . . ."

How did Volver get skipped for best foreign? I thought it was sure to be a standoff between it and Pan's Labyrinth?

If Dreamgirls doesn't win best song it will be truly sad (only because they hold 3 out of the 5 nominee spots).

Click? Click is up for Best Make-up???!!!! Give me a break!

A lot of variety overall, good. It's boring when the same 5-7 films fill every category. I'm pleasantly surprised The Prestige is up for a few things. Even Borat squeezes in. I'm sad to see Marie Antionette only up for Costumes.

according to this article. As a budding expert on depression, I recommend a hearty dose of cat videos (at least that's how I spent my lunch hour). May I suggest:

Soothing cat


Do I laugh or cry cat


Unusual cat


Biscuit making cat


Circus cat


Clever cat


Acrobatic cat


Kind cat


Deliver cat

Feel better now?

Hello! I'm not dead, I swear. Just very busy and ill.

After an awesome trip to Disney World I got a head cold that took me out for several days. I should be back soon with more pictures and notes from our journey (and Christmas) (boy, I'm far behind).

The presents keep coming for me this year! My parents thoughtfully let us decide what we wanted for Christmas, and just gave us the money to make it happen. Based on how frequent I take and post pictures, and the fact that my Fujifilm finepix camera was 2 megapixels, 4 years old, and slow functioning, a new digital camera seemed like the perfect thing to spoil myself. After much research and store searching, say hello to my new Canon Powershot SD600.

All were taken without a flash. Check out that dim restaurant! It was darker than it appears, I wouldn't have even tried to take a picture with my old camera. Thanks Mom and Dad!

I realize now that these images are taking way too long to upload. I'll fiddle with blogger settings to get them into more manageable sizes for posting.

My other present from my folks that I bought myself is . . . .
a little fishy! Mom got me this sweet wall aquarium at mod livin'.
She has no idea :-)

(a little late :-)

I have a lot of pictures that I never posted. Here they are in particular order (yes, because I'm lazy).



I painted a portrait for the big empty space on the kitchen wall. I pumped up the contrast on this picture, then used a projector to draw the outlines. A week of painting later, and she's done!




Bread pudding made from chocolate sourdough.




She really puts up with a lot :-)



Julia and I hosted a cookie decorating party. I forgot to take pictures of the cookies, but here's the braciole I cooked.




The fantastic No-knead bread recipe from NY Times.







My favorite holiday cookie - Big Soft Ginger Cookies




Lots of Scrabble. I had a 4 game streak of wins! This game was my favorite played, my winning word was koala.




Finally! We got rid of that extra washer in our basement. Hurrah!!!




Delicious Ham sandwiches leftover from Thanksgiving (I haven't posted photos in a while!)




Checkerboard cookies.




Yea for waterproof mascara when you're chopping onions!




An earlier snow storm, I layered up two pairs of socks, legwarmers, long johns, and waterproof pants to visit the library on foot.




I wish our neighborhood had better sidewalks.

Can you say Cabin Fever?? On the one hand, we're happy to be home safe and sound, on the other, WE'VE BEEN STUCK IN THE HOUSE FOR 36 HOURS, AND THERE'S NO END IN SIGHT. Roads are closed all over Denver, and those who try to drive on local roads are getting high-centered. Ben and I are wishing we bought each other snowshoes for Christmas.

So yesterday I didn't have work, all schools were closed. Today more of the same, all government, schools, retail, are closed. So even if you could get out, where are you going to go? We might give the grocery store another try today, just to get out of the house.

So what did we do? I made turkey stock, reorganized my kitchen pantry, cleaned, cooked, knitted, watched the news, and read. Ben worked from home and read. We napped in the afternoon and played some scrabble and hanafuda in the evening.

The day was long. How the heck am I going to keep occupied today?

Wednesday mid-day.


Wednesday evening.


Thursday morning.


Wednesday afternoon we trekked to the grocery store to get cookie ingredients (very important).




I also got brussel spouts to serve with dinner.


Wednesday afternoon we had an impressive drift in the front walkway.


Wednesday evening some workers shoveled the front walks clear. By Thursday morning it looked like this


This morning Ben shoveled our back patio for a second time.


It's light and fluffy, but DEEP! The levels shown here are non-drift snow.