Beantown And Lima, Ohio

Don't you just love what I did with the title?  Well, I leave tomorrow for a five night trip to Boston to check out Northeastern and look for places to live.  I'm sure I will come home with a ton of great pictures and stories, but until then here is a little look at my trip to Glee Live 2011 last week.  It was freaking amazing.  I didn't know what to expect from the tour and was not disappointed in the least.  The photos aren't great because I wasn't allowed to bring my DSLR camera in (thanks to a bitchy security guard who thought she was Secret Service), so I used my iPhone.

A Few Of My Favorite TV Quotes For No Reason

"Does he like you?  Because if he doesn't it's kind of a moo point."

"A moo point?"

"Yeah, it's like a cow's opinion.  It doesn't matter.  It's moo."

-FRIENDS

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Grace walks in wearing a cow print skirt

Karen: "Got Skirt?"

-Will and Grace

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"Conservatives want government to be just small enough to fit in your bedroom"

-The West Wing

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"I love children.  They are just tiny little humans.  Teacup humans."

-True Blood

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"It was a pink bunny suit or no bunny suit at all."

"NO BUNNY SUIT AT ALL.  ALWAYS NO BUNNY SUIT AT ALL!"

-FRIENDS

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Will and Grace lying in bed

"Grace, your toenails keep gouging into my legs"

"I'm sorry, I'll cut them"

"Don't you need them for climbing trees and warding off predators?"

-Will and Grace

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"You're full of sass today"

"You have a nice sass yourself sir"

-The West Wing

Because James Lipton Is Hot

I have been thinking about the Bernard Pivot questions at the end of each Inside the Actor's Studio.

Here's mine, because I know you were dying to know.

What's your favorite word?  

Schmata.  (Look it up in your Yiddish dictionary)

What's your least favorite word?

Pus.

What turns you on creatively, spiritually, or emotionally?

Zero Pressure.

What turns you off creatively, spiritually, or emotionally?

Unreasonable Expectations.

What sound or noise do you love?

The many versions of how kids say my name.

What sound or noise do you hate?

The gagging sound right before someone throws up.

What's your favorite curse word?

Fuck. (But Asshat is really good too).

What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?

Surgeon.

What profession would you not like to do?

Hospitality.

If heaven exists what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?

Sorry, I don't believe in God.  But if we are talking just a nice place with a benevolent overlord - "Hi if your looking for Dick Cheney, take the down escalator".

I would add:

What scent or smell do you love?

Airports/Airplanes

What scent or smell do you hate?

Wet dog.

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Ooohh! I just found the original questionnaire from Proust.  Let's make this even more fun!

What do you appreciate most about your friends?

That they can keep a secret.

What are your favorite color and flower?

Pink and Calla Lilies 

Who are your favorite prose authors?

Right now: Dan Brown, J.K. Rowling and Janet Evanovich.

Who are your favorite poets?

Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss.  They rhyme so it counts damnit.

Who are your favorite painters?

Mondrian, DaVinci, Picasso, Monet.

Who are your heroes in real life?

Those who fight against animal cruelty.

Who are your heroes in fiction?

Horton and The Lorax.

How would you like to die?

Somewhere really unexpected like just fall over mid-conversation with a grandchild and really mess them up.

What is your motto?

Who owns this problem? (I ask this when I feel like I am making trouble for myself).

What are your favorite qualities in a man?

Money.  Joking people, joking.  Really it's that protective thing guys do that makes them seem like they can handle anything.

Rooting For The Cancer

Does anyone have a shark I can jump?

We're Off To See The Wizard

Going to see Wicked this weekend!

It's going to be Legend -
wait for it
dary!

Back with photos and ramblings on Sunday.

My BlackBerry is fully charged so I don't go through 100% tech withdrawal while at the hotel.
I said goodbye to my iMac this morning.
It was a touching moment.

Prayer to the TiVo gods*

Dear TiVo gods*

Thank you for everything you do.

Your incredible power to pause live TV is unrivaled.

You let me fast forward through commercials. 

I cannot imagine life without you.

But if you keep randomly deleting my shows I'm going to have to pound on you a little bit.

In the name of In Treatment, Medium, and Desperate Housewives

Amen

*As this blog is written by a godless California girl, you can pray to whichever TV god you want (DVR, iTV, etc).

Thinking...

The Duggar family is like a bad car wreck...you can't help but watch even though it is gruesome.  

One of the problems of working with 2 year olds (literally) is that your business cards are coated in a fine layer of glitter.  

Glitter - by the way - should be outlawed.  There is absolutely no way to get rid of all of it.  It comes to the surface in strange ways. I swear I have glitter still imbedded in my pores from the late '80s. 

Glitter is the herpes of arts and crafts.

You can count on my happiness when you have your 2 year old make me a thank you card for her birthday present.  Thank you cards are the epitome of manners.  You rock.

If you bring you schnauzer to the office I will get nothing done.

If you name your twin girls Heaven and Nevaeh I will curse you.

If you put a kiddie gym with mats in the back of my office I will find a padded horizontal surface to covet.  I will refrain from lying down, but it will eat at me all day.

If I watch another episode of In Treatment I will go searching for a therapist that looks like Gabriel Byrne.

Hmmm...maybe I should see a therapist after all...

My Day

Smell of a baby's head all day.  

Drive the Range Rover.  

Walk through the vineyards.

Eat Sprinkles Cupcakes.

Hang out at the park.

Eat great food.

Watch Arrested Development. 

Meet wonderful people.

Kiss baby cheeks.

Take pictures.

Trip to the library.

Get paid for all of it!!!!

Going Postal

What goes through my mind in an average day that I can now subject you to...

Care-Takers are the same as Care-Givers.  

How does that work? 

Is it like flammable and inflammable?

My BlackBerry does not recognize "texting" as a viable word in its texting spell-checker.  

If you use the word "covenant" in a conversation with me I immediately flash to an image of Charles Manson.  Go ahead and carve a swastika in your forehead because you are officially disturbed.  

I have a college degree and still need a poster board sized chart to keep everything straight on LOST.

In my sickly state today I did my "6 degrees of Kevin Bacon".  I only needed 4.

The package I was expecting today was delivered, just not to me.  

According to the UPS tracking website it was signed for by "Dalene" at 

"the Dock" in 

"Angwin, Ca"

Angwin has docks? 

And the UPS Conspiracy lives on.

And a picture to brighten your day ('cause I'm that kind of girl)...