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!)

wow, i'm updating before midnite!

dude, amen for it being friday!

as predicted, i encountered hellish traffic on my way to brooklyn -- and on my way home too. on the way there, some ridiculous fucking truck dumped bricks all over the BQE... making a normally awful road positively nightmarish. and, on the way home, it was typical friday afternoon escape from the city traffic.

so, by the time i got home i had a massive headache... which i haven't been able to shake.

on top of that, the idiotic neighbors are at it again with the goddamn fireworks so my dog has been on the verge of seizure for the past couple of hours. fun stuff! when he's nervous, he scratches things wildly... anything and everything... it's horrible to listen to... especially when you have a headache.

so, that's about it.

i think i might try to relax by doing a bit of doll work tonite. there's at least one, if not more, blythe that i've done some customizing to in the past that i might like to make changes to...

now, on the the rest of the nuttiness ---

today was a major day on the light of twi... as my friend christina said... it truly is like a soap opera with the friday cliffhanger... ! lol.

you'll remember, yesterday afternoon, paps caught rob driving off from kristen's house in a porsche...

that brings us to last night (thursday night)

rob's friend bobby was playing in LA and moon, from letters to twilight, spotted kristen and rob
at the show... they left just before bobby finished and hopped in a cab with rob's other friend, marcus foster.

here's a grainy (but unmistakable) shot she took of them hopping into the cab...


that cab took them to the chateau marmont hotel where kristen apparently spent the night in rob's room... according to the folks at radar online.

and, for those who require photographic evidence... here are photos of kristen leaving chateau marmont today... you can see that she's wearing the same clothes she wore to the concert the night before...

none of this is really shocking to me... there's been enough "robsten" evidence for me for months now... the post-VMA photos really were the smoking gun...

i think anyone who still disputed their togetherness after that is just in some sort of denial!

beyond that, i don't think they particularly care that people know... but, at the same time, they're just not the kind of people who are going to sit down and do a happy go lucky interview about it either.

so, good for them.

i honestly don't care either way about them being together... it's not something i sat around hoping for... lol. but, i will say that i think they seem well suited to each other and i think that each could do a lot worse!

as someone who (obviously) has a bit of a rob fixation, i'd most certainly prefer to see him with someone real and unpretentious like kristen rather than say an attention whoring socialite.

while on the subject of rob, after kristen's departure this afternoon, he was spotted getting a bite to eat on the patio at chateau marmont...



and........... for everyone wondering where the hell kristen's ex michael angarano has been all these months... he (quite coincidentally!) resurfaced yesterday as well... out on the town with a mystery brunette! and, i say, good for him. no use sitting around pining over kstew when she's obviously moved on!


through the grapevine, rachelle was apparently also hanging out at chateau marmont last night... though, it does not appear that she was hanging out with kristen and/or rob... (in all likelihood, she had no idea they were there!)

so, while we're on the subject of rachelle, let's take a look at more from the september 09 issue of glamour.





the ladies of twilight look awesome here -- i think.

the one you don't recognize is noot (who is the former model playing vampire heidi in italy)


i watched a pretty great (if already somewhat dated) documentary last night...

NO END IN SIGHT

*****/*****



i'm just about as politically left leaning as possible, so watching stuff like this horrifies me beyond belief.

basically, this is a rundown of the massive bush fuckup in iraq

literally from the get go through his last days in office, every move that administration made with respect to "operation iraqi freedom" was a bumbling fucked up mess.

the documentary interviews countless former advisors who detail one error in judgement after another.

some of the most shocking

-- we had virtually no arab speaking military officials over there

-- the bush administration never had any plan to protect infrastructure in iraq beyond their oil resources

-- the bush administration "dismissed" thousands upon thousands of trained (and armed!) iraqi military personnel without a second thought... creating intense anti-american sentiment and putting all these men on the street with their livelihoods taken away...

a third grader could've figured out that the results were going to be catastrophic.

anyway, i'd been meaning to watch this doc for years now... and, of course, with obama in office, some of this info is already a bit dated...

at the time the movie came out, there really was "no end in sight"

and... hopefully... that's changing.

i guess only time will tell if we provided any service whatsoever to the people of iraq...

hmmmmm... that's a cheery way to start the weekend... no?



okay, as of right now, i think that's all from me.

i'm actually seeing rob's friend sam bradley sing in NYC tomorrow night... so, should have some photos of that for you on sunday!

and, of course, the coming days should prove eventful with the teen choice awards on sunday and the arrival of the (supposedly full cast) in vancouver on monday for more preproduction work on eclipse.

:-)

have a wonderful and relaxing weekend folks!

m