Back In The Day

Back in the day, when I met The Husband, this was our song, well it still is, really. I saw Love Actually last night (starring Hugh Grant and featuring a parody of this song by Bill Nighy - I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THAT MOVIE), which led me to thinking about Four Weddings and a Funeral (starring Hugh Grant, see a theme here, but of course?) and remembering this song.

So, here's some cheesy '60s music converted to some cheesy 90's music - and I LOVE IT. Can't wait to get to London and pretend I'm in the movies.

Nice Work If You Can Get It

I admit to being more than a wee bit of a feminist - one of my big issues with Utah is the number of men I work with who look at me like I have five heads because I'm not home warming up The Husband's slippers (or whatever). Being a stay at home wife and/or mom (or parent, since The Husband was a stay at home dad for a few years a while back) is a worthy job and for those who do it - a big cheer from me! Someday, perhaps, I will be able to do it myself - it really is a goal for me in the next few years.

Still, because I think "girls" can do anything "boys" can do, only perhaps better - I love Danica Patrick, the IndyCar driver. She is pretty, athletic, happily married and a really, really good race car driver. I wish she'd come to NASCAR - I would have to relegate Jeff Gordon to my 2nd favorite driver.

Good luck today, Danica!

Happy Memorial Day!

Hope everyone has a safe and sane holiday weekend - drive safe if you're hitting the roads. We're off to "home" for a brief visit - ahhhh, land of normalcy and being able to buy wine in the grocery stores and lottery tickets!!

Little Bit's been staying with the grandparents, so time to collect him, load up on wine to stock in the cellar and maybe do a little fishing with the Grandpa. This has been a long week - ready for the long weekend!

Good Bye For Now

This picture says it all...they came so close but failed to seal the deal. We'll see you next year, Boozer and D-Will. Thanks for everything and have a great summer.

P.S. I hope the Celtics kick the Lakers' ass.

TGIF

I think this really sums up how I feel. It's been one long stinkin' week, it has, at work. Thankfully it is ending on a high note, though my blood pressure is up in the aftermath of this week's crises.

But it's Friday and hopefully the Jazz will win tonight, at home. We like Booz on Fridays too.

GO JAZZ!

Blessed is the Mom, or the lostinutah, who has her own

I have decided to count my blessings. They are many, I know, but most days I don't get that far in counting them because I am too busy being a selfish only child. So here goes:

• My parents and stepparent love me, and they show it. I got a Mother's Day card from my DAD (it was Pattie's idea of course but he signed it), a gift card and an e-card from my Mom (thanks Mom for having me, I'm sure it hasn't always been the "Best Week Ever" being my parent). Plus they all are taking Little Bit for a week when he starts track break so The Husband and I can realize we like each other, as needs to happen periodically.


• Little Bit, who not only spent over an hour, apparently, at JCPenney yesterday picking out a beautiful but very simple pendant that says "Mom" but for also proving someday the girls are going to be bowled over by statements such as "You don't need to wear jewelry, Mom, you are a beautiful jewel all by yourself". I AM NOT KIDDING, and yes, I KNOW THE KID WANTS SOMETHING. HE'S LIKELY TO GET IT!


• Big Bit, who, despite being 6 foot tall and 16 years old, snuggled up to watch a movie with his old mom last night. Aww....


• My entire family - you guys are awesome and I appreciate you lots, despite my inability to keep in touch outside of the blogosphere for the most part. Honest. I'm just glad to know you guys and share DNA with you and see, especially, what incredible Moms a couple of my cousins are. (well they're not the only incredible Moms or the only incredible cousins in my family but hopefully you get my drift).


• The Husband (not least or last) because he knows me at my worst and best and he still seems to like me and sometimes finds me cute after 14 years this June of knowing me.


• The fact I've received, in the last week, two graduation announcements - one from my cousin's BEAUTIFUL daughter and one from a girl who Big Bit used to race around our living room - she riding on her "horse" her eventual stepfather (a high school friend of The Husband) and Big Bit on his stepfather "the other horse"- they were so tiny and now she is too, really beautiful. I feel old, yet blessed, to see both of these young ladies who have grown and are ready to take on the world.


• The Jazz won today and we were there. Yes, Yes, Yes. A fan's sign said it all... "We Love Booz (Carlos Boozer) on Sunday even in Utah". HEATHENS UNITE.


• Oh and the State Liquor Store in our little burgh now has doors on the front, in fact, it's looking quite complete...I'm thinking we're opening in a couple of weeks. I'm threatening to send picture to the mayor of my parade in the parking lot.


• Lastly, I got to offer a prayer of thanksgiving today my grandmother is getting out of her rehab center (not exactly but close term) in a week to go home like she wants to! Would that I can ever be as tough as she is.


• I will withhold my happy Obama comment until after Mrs. Clinton backs out. Woo hoo. Oh wait, YES WE CAN. Sorry, I slipped.


• Lastly, my friends. You can't choose your family but you can your friends and I'm glad you chose me and I am glad I chose you.


• Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens were in da house with us today, but their power could not overcome that of the D-Will. Jack Nicholson, take that!!! (Translation, Jazz not only won but won in OT over the overrated Lakers and Kobe Bryant's back).

Have a great week! Zac and Vanessa, come back to the HazMat Center Friday to see the next chapter of really being "lostinutah".

The Great Vole Hunter

Here in Utah (unlike where I was in Idaho) we have this horrendous pest called a vole. Voles are like mice, only bigger and they love to terrorize your garden. They're extremely hard to get rid of as well. They threatened to invade last year, but Mr. Bucky Katt was alert and on patrol in the garden and they never surfaced.

Apparently the bad economy is hard on the voles as well, because we planted our garden this weekend and the voles came out of the woodwork.

Mr. Katt, mouser extrordinare, caught 4 voles. Yesterday alone.

He's on patrol in the garden even as I type. Now, if he could just do something about my usual springtime in Utah horrendous allergic reaction. I don't know what I'm allergic to here, but it's twenty times worse than it ever was at home. Yuck.

Playoffs, 2nd Round, aka I can't stand Kobe Bryant

All I can say is, if I have to keep seeing Jack Nicholson every 30 seconds in order to watch my team play, I'm going to have to keep myself from hurling. Come on, ABC, find something better to show. Like Tobey Maguire or RDJ. If you show them every 30 seconds I won't be quite as upset. Granted, all you're going to see at our courtside is some weird eye dr. who brings blow up dolls to the game (I AM NOT KIDDING) or if you're lucky Donny and Marie, but just because the Lakers are in L.A. does not mean I want to see Jack constantly.

We've got tickets for Mother's Day to see the Jazz, I hope, WIN. Come on D-Will.

GO JAZZ!

I Wish I Was As Cool As Tony Stark

It's been a weekend already, it has...went to the Jazz game last night (yes!!! Take that, T-Mac!)Sadly, now ready for Kobe Bryant to hand us our walking papers - I have no admiration for Kobe Bryant, period.

Today we went to see Iron Man. I haven't checked Cousin Steve's site yet for a review, but Steve, if there isn't one, you should be doing it. I'm sure you've already seen the flick.

The Husband and Little Bit wanted to go, very badly, to this movie and I was tempted to let them have guy time and go, but they wanted me to come. The Husband has in his collection of old comic books some Iron Man. I never had heard of it until recently. I was more of "The Archies" kind of comic book reader myself. So I really wasn't interested.

Therefore, it was a "game time decision" as they say whether to go or not, and the things that decided me for it were a) Robert Downey, Jr. who I love, and b) the fact that Robert Downey, Jr. was on Letterman this week and he was as usual, funny, direct, handsome and all that and his clip looked great. Besides, as far as RDJ goes, I have to admire anyone who's faced the personal demons this "young" man has and has come through as the really good person he seems to be.

Okay, enough fawning over Robert. The movie's good. I swear. And this is from a female who doesn't get the Lord of the Rings movies (I read the Hobbit but after that I just got lost), Batman Begins etc. I do like some Superhero stuff, but it's stuff like the original Batman with Michael Keaton, SpiderMan with Tobey Maguire - something unexpected. Some guy you think would in no way be able to pull this off, yet does in spades. That's Iron Man, and that is Robert Downey, Jr. (Gwyneth Paltrow and Jeff Bridges aren't bad either, though Jeff is WAY too good looking to be this ugly in a movie).

The movie also says wonderful things about people doing something meaningful with their lives, correcting mistakes and that war is an incredibly crappy way to solve problems. Sometimes necessary, yes, but often not. Peace be with you and the world - go see a good action flick.