Get It: Celebrity Haircut!

Remember when Jennifer Aniston was all the rage with her "Rachel" haircut on Friends and people were climbing over each other to mimic it? Or when Victoria Beckham's pageboy cut was all the rage? Or everyone wanted Mia Farrow's crop and Farrah Fawcett's flip? (Okay, fine technically I don't "remember" those last two.)

I've never understood wanting a celebrity haircut, particularly when you looked nothing like the celebrity - UNTIL NOW!

Once I saw Angelina's blunt black bangs in SALT, I absolutely had to have it.

Do I have :
- her cheekbones? No!
- her intense eyes? Nuh uh!
- her strong jaw? Nope!
- her fair skin? Nyet!

Did I care? Absolutely not! I wanted what I wanted so I went and got it.



I love the intense color and even though the cut doesn't flatter my face, it's still a lot of fun. Which celebrity will turn my head next?

Try It: Waiting

On June 29th, 2010 at 3:30pm, I got into a line at my local movie theater for a midnight viewing of Twilight: Eclipse.

If you're doing the math, you've calculated that I was in line for over 8 hours.

Are you judging me? You're not the only one. I felt like a zoo animal. People stared as they walked by. Many stopped. Some took pictures. Others asked the theater employees what I was doing, if I was for real. Then there was heckling. Honest to goodness heckling. Some "You can't be serious" and "you've got to be kidding me" and lots of "oh my god" with pointing and laughing.

I don't mind waiting. Maybe it's because I didn't grow up in the American get-it-now, customer-is-always-right, have-an-aneurysm-if-more-than-two-people-are-in-front-of-me-at-Safeway culture.

It's not that I'm not impatient. I am terribly impatient, particularly when I don't want to be doing something. But once I've committed to waiting, I can do it with the zen focus of a monk.

This is helpful when waiting in lines for midnight movies. Or driving coast to coast. Or trying to write a novel.

You know, the journey. Not the destination. Because the destination, the movie, was okay. It was that journey in line that I really enjoyed.

I was eventually joined by fifteen friends on my cozy picnic blanket. We ordered Thai food, busted out a bedazzler, played a Twilight board game, and munched on delish homemade rice krispes treats.















(the Twilight board game and Alie's awesome bedazzlement)





So if instead of waiting in a line at Eclipse, you were slaving away at your cubicle or running errands or planted on the couch at home or stuck at another generic happy hour, then guess what - it's okay if you're judging me. I'm probably judging you, too. :)

Harvest It: Potato!

It's that time of year. The leaves of my tomato plant had begun to wilt and yellow so I slipped on my gloves, got down on my knees, and dug through the soil where I had planted the cuttings of one Yukon Gold Potato just three months earlier.

And viola!!


I'm going to mash up the big ones, roast the medium ones, and boil the little ones - all with some flavoring from my rosemary, thyme, and parsley plants.

Mmmmm.