sunday slump... !

why do sundays invariably suck?

just too much to do today and not enough energy!

trying to pack crap for tomorrow's business trip to boston... so, of course, i can't find a thing! now i've got multiple post its full of things that i should go out and buy... somehow i started stealing stuff out of the "travel" toiletry bag that i keep fully stocked at all times. i guess july was so busy that rather than go out and buy new shampoo and stuff, i just stole from the travel bag. lol.

so, yeah, that's a pain in the ass.

also missing one clothing item that i wanted to bring with me... oh well, i'll have to do without it.

there are so many black holes in my existence. shit is constantly getting sucked into them. i'm just a mess.. i guess that's the problem. everything i own is thrown in one big pile. it's not a pretty sight.

usually, i deal with this just fine... but, on the occasional sunday afternoon when shit needs to be accomplished... it becomes a problem.

oh well, enough with the sob story.

last night was fun.

had really good thai food in the city and then went to see rp's friend sam bradley in concert.

sam has a very good voice (better than bobby and rob, IMO). but, at the same time, i liked his music the least... if that makes any sense. the songs were just less my style and i found my mind wandering through the show.

regardless, if you care, i taped it. especially b/c my friend laura, who was originally supposed to be joining us, couldn't be there.

here's one of the videos (a song which will likely be familiar to you), if you go to my youtube, you can see the rest.



i had just about all i could have to drink and still be okay to drive home. no, i wouldn't drive drunk... but, at the end of the evening i could feel my head starting to be a tiny bit wobbly... so, it's good that it was then time to go.

so, while we're on the somewhat twi related stuff... i guess the last time i updated was earlyish friday night...

well, rp/ks made another appearance on friday night... this time at marcus foster's gig... here's a departure shot...



yesterday was more of the same... rp/ks still holed up in LA... they had lunch together which was fraught with typical paparazzi insanity... here's a video of their separate arrival and departure from lunch...





there are also some photos of the lunchtime rendezvous






in other light of twi news, jackson and nikki returned to LA from van yesterday... presumably to attend today's kids choice awards




last night in LA (i know it's hard to keep track, so, this would be after the saturday lunch), rob was spotted by paps again... this time attending marcus's 2nd LA show... and this time sans kristen


so, that brings us up to date... it's currently sunday and the TCA are happening today at 5 PM PST

they won't be aired on television till tomorrow, monday. they'll be on fox during prime time. here in new york they air at 8 pm.

which brings us to another problem in my own personal world of crazy...

tomorrow at 8 pm i'll be in boston having dinner with a bunch of colleagues...

and, unfortunately, at 31 years of age, i don't think "i can't make dinner b/c i have to watch the teen choice awards" is an acceptable excuse...

so, i came up with this zany idea of asking the hotel i'm staying at if i could borrow a VCR... lol. after all, it's a conference center as well so they must have some AV equipment.

my friend christina, who is an excellent problem solver and doesn't mind making strange phone calls, asked the hotel for me and it looked like a no go...

but, then the concierge guy was like... "well, if you are DRIVING... why not just bring your OWN VCR..."

i don't know why i didn't think of that! i have several crappy old VCRs hanging around the house... i can totally toss one into the car!

so, that's the plan. bringing my own VCR up to boston and hopefully taping the awards from 8 to 10 and then rewinding and watching them when i'm home from my work function.

as if we needed any more evidence that i have some serious mental issues...

let's see... what else... i'm feeling lazy so here are just some bullet points...

• picked up the september glamour 'ladies of twilight' issue. jessica simpson is on the cover. definitely worth buying. nice photos (though, i've already posted them here!)

• hating france today. well, not all of france just one annoying asshole who won two dolls from me on ebay and then refused to pay for them... saying i was charging to much for shipping! did they READ the listing? i clearly state several times in my auction description WHAT the overseas shipping charges are and WHY. after a bad past ebay experience (which was with another annoying fucker from france!), i ONLY ship via express mail to international people. it's the only method that is guaranteed and insurable. so, now i have to file a damn claim with ebay to get this moron in trouble and i have to relist the dolls. major pain in the ass.
  

• tons of annoying mosquito bites as a result of yesterday's photo session in the park across the street. am officially done with summer. bring on the fall.

• looking forward to getting together with jenny couture this week in boston! glad to be incorporating some fun and games into my work week there!

okay, i should go... i have so much i need to be doing and this blog entry is just another form of procrastination.

i'll probably update again later tonight if photos from the TCA emerge...

:-)

m


ps. uploading random photos here w/o comments is annoying. once again, damn TPTB at flickr. here are a couple of shots from earlier this week when kristen's mom was driving her around to appts in la

proof that she can still look nice with the black hair... (even though i'm personally keeping fingers crossed that she shows up at TCA tonite with a stylishly short RED 'do!)

another eventful day

so, i'm still having trouble figuring out how to balance the blog between my own personal rants about life and the twilight stuff which i feel compelled to discuss...

having this trouble just makes me angry at flickr all over again for making my life so much harder... hopefully i'll figure it all out soon enough. (and, once again, if this is my biggest problem in life............ lol)

ANYWAY... quick rundown on my day --

• twitter epic fail (really fucking annoying. and, as of now, still not working 100% for me!) people with nothing better to do than fuck with websites should just kill themselves and save the rest of the world a headache
  

• phone appointment with military academy (thrilling!)

• diego gets a haircut (yay - he was starting to smell!)

• trip to the gynecologist (ugh!)

• nap (much needed)

• grocery shopping (bought not 1 but 2 copies of $9.95 special rob issue of teenybopper mag!)

let's see if any of that needs elaborating on...

oh, first of all, i get to the doctor, and i take a seat, and i come eye to eye with a bunch of birth announcements... you know, various babies they've delivered recently...

and, the first one i read, the child is named "emmett"... i refuse to believe that the parents just thought this name up on their own... oy vey.

well, i do have to say that in addition to my overall hate for visits to the gyno, i think my doctor is particularly annoying. i like her well enough i guess... i've been going to her for roughly 16 years now... probably since the day she became a doctor since she isn't much older than me... but, she's always running ridiculously late. and, i don't know why, b/c my actual face (or not so much face) time with her is usually all of 3 minutes (just how i like it!).

so, yeah, i waited about 20 minutes past my appointment time in the waiting room... and then i waited ANOTHER 20 minutes sitting on a fucking table wearing a paper gown. fun times.

oh well, at least it's overwith for another 6 months...

anyway, this is a good segway...

apparently kristen stewart was at another medical building today... (unless i'm wrong and it was some other kind of building... though, i could swear someone said it was a medical building... don't hold me to that tho... and, don't start any rumors based on my info!)

anyway, yeah, so, they're making a whole fucking lot of money, but life does suck for these poor people... check out this video below of a gagillion paps following her around today (that's her mom in the truck with her)






a few more pix...




now... before you start feeling too bad for kristen... here's the more interesting news of the day...

paps caught rob driving a crazy ass porsche around LA... if you believe the paps (which one should never do) he was coming from kstew's house when the photos below were taken...



glad to see he's still rocking the yankees cap... i guess he doesn't hold too much of a grudge against NYC...

my own personal assumption is that the car is a rental... he had that silver rental this spring... and, it doesn't make any sense at all that he'd have actually gone and bought a porsche when he's only in LA for like 5 days and won't really be anywhere on a permanent basis for... oh, maybe years, to come...

so, good for him for getting a fun car to drive for 5 days... even if i couldnt' have identified this as a porsche if you paid me to!

hmmmmm... maybe the crazier robsten supporters can read something into the fact that the porsche is very close in color to the truck.... could it be a sign?

meanwhile, other things were happening in the land of twi up north in vancouver...

here are two additional shots of nikki and taylor from wednesday...





and some shots of additional cast members from a wednesday evening group dinner...

i will say that, much as kellan does nothing for me, he looks much much better with dark hair.

i still hate bryce. her hair is far too red for her pale ass face.




and, someone needs to give rob a break for a second with the dirtiness and focus on the fact that jackson rathbone could also stand to make the acquaintance of a bar of soap...



and, a bar of soap and issues of cleanliness are ANOTHER excellent segway.

you MUST check out this fabtastic entry over on robsessed -- along with the help of twitter's fakerparis, they have compiled a series of photographs detailing the long and varied history of the dirty and distintegrating trousers rob was spotted in at LAX earlier in the week.

The Mystery of the Blue/Gray Pants

let's just say that they date back to 2005... so, yep, definitely check out the link.

now, i'm perfectly willing to accept that rob would like to drive around in a fancy car but have dirty clothes and hair... boys are like that.

what i have trouble grasping is that he is mending his own clothes...

i mean, can we all pause for a moment and try to create a mental picture of him sitting down with a needle and thread?

if you look at the repair work, it's certainly NOT the work of a mom... not that he's even seen his for more than 5 minutes in the past two years...

i don't know, i really can't wrap my mind around it... lol. he'd prefer to sew than to whip out the amex and place a few orders online.......?

it's fine by me... it's just incredibly confuzzling...

but, then, i think part of his allure for all of us is that he's anything but typical...



and, yet, there's more...

ashley is featured in sept issue of glamour magazine... and looking quite good!




and nikki and kellan on the streets of van on thursday...

(from twilight gossip -- see here for more)





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and, one quick movie review... which is actually somewhat twilight related...

THE WEDDING WEEKEND

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i feel like i've seen this same low budget indie movie over and over and over... college friends reunite for a weekend and compare and contrast how their lives have turned out...

they have mid-life crises that somehow come to a nice neat conclusion by sunday afternoon...

anyway, this movie initially caught my eye b/c david harbour is in it. he does a lot of theater in ny and has always been one of my favorites. (earlier this year he had a nice featured role in 'revolutionary road')

oh, and did i mention that all the men are friends b/c they performed together in an acapella group? so, there's some singing too! lol.

anyway, the film wasn't awful... just far from monumental.

oh, and it's twilight related b/c elizabeth reaser is also in the movie...

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i leave you with this children.... a photo that's been circulating the web which has given me no shortage of chuckles...

i have to credit my friend christine, yankeegirl51680 on twitter, for bringing the photo to my attention...



okay kids, i hope you had a pleasant thursday...

my friday involves a drive to brooklyn for a work meeting... pray to god that the BQE (brooklyn queens expressway) is kind to me... but, who are we kidding... it's one of the worst fucking roads in the country... so, pray that i make it home alive (i'm a bad driver... so, most days, that's all i'm aiming for... )

:-)

m