Things I Ponder while on the Elliptical Machine

1. Why do guys wear black socks with shorts to the gym? (or anywhere else, for that matter)

2. Why do people still wear those plastic-y workout suits that make them sweat? Hasn't anyone told them it's only water weight they're getting rid of, and that it only really works for wrestlers pre-weigh in?

3. Grunters. pssst...just take a couple plates off.

4. Why don't people re-rack their huge 45lb. plates when they are done? And why do they put the 50 lb. dumbbells back in the rack clearly labeled "5 lbs"?????

5. The unbelievably high Visible Tramp-Stamp Count.

6. Why the gym has yet to repair the 2nd Elliptical machine from the right on the first row, which has been broken for 4 months.

7. Was that Lindor Truffle really worth 10 extra minutes of cardio?

YES. It was :-)

Thumbs up, Thumbs down

Kristen Chenoweth's sort-of autobiography is my new fave. (she's still pretty young, so hopefully she's got a few more yet-to-be-lived great stories coming!) This book seriously got me through the week...it's the book equivalent of a post-breakup pint of Haagen-dazs. It's really funny and just makes you feel better about life (and all the little parts of life that haven't exactly gone the way you planned).

I highly recommed :-)

On the other hand...

I tried a new mascara. This mascara. I have to say...it did not give me Great Lashes.

So what is UP with it being on every magazine's "This Season's Best Beauty Products" list? I'm not the cynical type, but am sadly now convinced that all ten spots on those lists are for sale.

This is the mascara equivalent of the Kardashians.

Why I love Kiefer Sutherland

Aside from that fantastic indie Freeway, here is another reason Kiefer Sutherland is awesome:

Yes, he did

First, I love a good head-butt (as a few of my past uncooperative boyfriends will tell you).

There are also many times I have wanted to head-butt a fashion designer (the one responsible for skinny jeans, Vera Bradley, Zac Posen for this.)

Mr. Sutherland actually went there, probation be damned.

Bravo, Kiefer!

Not sure if I should go there, but oh well...

Let me preface this by saying I am team Rihanna all the way.


But does anyone else find this black-tie football uniform the tiniest bit ironic as her first, ahem, post-incident appearance?

News Stories that should END

How awesome would it be to turn on the T.V. next week and not hear anything else about:

1. The SWINE flu
2. Octomom
3. The Obamas' new puppy
4. Heidi & Spencer Pratt
5. Any sort of rain in the L.A. forecast...stop getting my hopes up, Dallas Raines.

How to get my vote

Since becoming a California resident, I have voted issues from gay marriage to the size of cages for chickens, and I apprecitate that these are very important and relevant social issues. But let me tell you the issues I'd really like to vote on:

1. Install left turn arrows at all the major intersections.

2. Fix the broken parking meters, or don't give people tickets that park at meters that are broken!

3. Eliminate street sweeping days.

P.S. I'd also like an "I voted" sticker in my absentee ballot envelope :-)

Lil lesson in Southern pronunciation

I had my pronounciation of "naked" corrected yesterday. By a relative stranger. Although the person correcting me was by no means an expert on grammar, I was still in no position to correct him or point out his rudeness in "correcting" me in the first place. But sweetie, I knew exactly what ah wuz sayin'.

Naked, or Nekkid? Those are two completely different words in the South.

Naked is what Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden before that unfortunate Apple incident. The David statue is naked.

Nekkid is a whole different thing. Streakers are nekkid. Vanessa Williams lost her Miss America crown over some nekkid pictures of her...

There is a difference, yes?