H stands for huh?

The Coen (not cohen) brothers are up to it again and this time wow what a surprise...right in time for award season.  Therefore, I need to ammend my earlier GG predictions and add freaking True Grit to the list of nominations.  I suppose best actor for Jeff Bridges and if Matt Damon gets one, that will be even more insane than is Inviction nom. It might even be up for best movie. 

I am not happy having to write this ammendment and I hope I am wrong.

Golden Globerger

The 2011 Golden Globe nominations come out on Tuesday, December 14.  I would like to quickly put down my predictions on the nominations to see how close I come this year. I am only going to do movies because TV is boring this year.  The big question is whether they will consider the Kids Are Alright a comedy or a drama.  I have think they will consider it a comedy for the Golden Globes so Natalie Portman wins under drama and Benning under comedy.  Now there are a few others in each category I think have a shot but these are the ones I am going to guess. 

Best Motion Picture-Drama
The King's Speech
The Social Network
The Town
Black Swan
Inception

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama
Michelle Williams - Blue Valentine

Natalie Portman - The Black Swan
Jennifer Lawerence - Winters Bone
Nicole Kidman - Rabbit Hole
Hilary Swank - Conviction

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Coliln Firth - The Kings Speech
James Franco - 127 Hours
Mark Walhberg - The Fighter
Jessie Eisenberg - The Social Network
Aaron Eckhart - Rabbit Hole

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Julia Roberts - Eat, Pray, Love
Sally Hawkins - Made in Dagenham
Annette Benning - The Kids Are Alright
Julianne Moore - The Kids Are Alright
Anne Hathaway - Love and Other Drugs

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
John C Reilly - Cyrus
Jake Gyllenhaal, - Love and Other Drugs
Paul Rudd - How Do You Know
Kevin Spacey - Casino Jack
Johnny Depp - Alice in Wonderland


Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
Melissa Leo - The Fighter
Amy Adams - The Fighter
Dale Dickey - Winters Bone
Helena Bohnam Carter - The Kings Speech
Miranda Richardson -Made in Dagenham


Best Performance by and Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture
John Hawkes - Winters Bone
Sam Rockwell - Conviction
Christian Bale - The Fighter
Andrew Garfield - The Social Network
Geoffrey Rush - The King's Speech


Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
Toy Story 3
Eat, Pray, Love
The Kids Are Alright
Love and Other Drugs
Made in Dagenham

24 Days Til Xmas: Tips from Jewz-A-Claus

Tip #2:  When mailing Christmas cards, you can save some money on stamps by just handing the cards to people who live near you rather than sending them in the mail.

25 Days Til Xmas: Tips from Jewz-A-Claus

Tip #1:  When buying Christmas lights to hang on your windows, you could save a lot of money by just printing drawings of lights and tacking them in the wall.  That way, you don't have to worry about your electricity bill going up. 

Blue

So Pink is pregnant, which I guess means she won't be doing any dancing on the hanging linens for the next few months.  What I want to know is when the baby is born, will she say things to the kid like,
"what's the dealio?" and
"if you're too skool for cool."

or what happens if the baby pisses her off and won't sleep, will she write a blockbuster song about it called, "shut up"? 

To School or Not To School

I have been thinking a lot recently about going back to school.  I think the ONLY thing stopping me at this point is not wanting to spend the money.  I wish one of my rich relatives who has a lot of money would say, "Laura, you are so smart...let me help you out."  It's nothing to them.  Like my father, if he could just give me a loaner from the trust fund I'm maybe going to receive when I'm 77 because he lives to be 109.  But I doubt I'll get that trust fund anymore because I've been such a "bad daughter" by making fun of his diseases and I'm pretty sure all my money is going towards his "just-in-case" radiation treatment or my stepmother's bipolar light mood stabilizer. 

But I digress.  I just don't know. I sit all day. Every day.  At work.  Bored. Bored. Bored.  And now I am 34 and I don't know how long I can keep doing this same thing over and over and over. So, school. That would keep me busy.  The problem is yesterday, I went from looking into getting my MBA, to being a pastry chef to being a laser technician to being a teacher.  So, my focus is a little off.  But, school would keep me interested right now.  A hell of a lot more interested than the daily drudgery of coming into a boring job everyday and getting excited when it's time to go to Shaws to make my salad and decide which flavor Kettle potato chips I wanted to eat that day. 

So, I decided to study for my GMAT.  I figured that would give me a focus at least and somthing to try for.  I am so bad at taking tests like that and my scores are always so low but I figure I could at least try.  But the problem is the test itself is $250. So, I am going to start by getting a couple of books and seeing if I can focus on practicing for the test.

I'm sure I could always ask my father for math advice while he lays in his hospital bed too.

Yellow ribbons and onions

Thursday is Veteran's Day.  And while I don't know many veterans (ok...I only know maybe one or two), I do know how important this day is to all veterans and families and friends.  And after watching TV last night, I now know how important this day is to advertisers and local restaurants. 

If you are a veteran and you go to Outback Steakhouse on Thursday, you get a FREE bloomin onion. How awesome is that veterans?  You put your life on the line everyday and you get an onion.  Damn, you are lucky. 

Also, if you are a veteran, and you want to go to The Golden Corral buffet restaurant, you get a FREE meal. That's right.  Strap on those prosthetic legs and let go of your PTSD for a day, and get yourself a plate filled wtih corn, fried chicken, mashed potatoes and spagetti (that is at least what I get at buffets).  Even Gary Sinese is doing it.  And I'm pretty sure he only played a veteran in a movie. 

I'm not making light of veterans and the struggles they face when they return home. I'm just saying, you might want to skip your parades and get some free food. Something to think about.