Posted in cali_lovin on 05/09/2005 04:10 pm by Queenkv
SAN DIMAS — Sitting with my bro in the coffee shop….did some newspaper reading….did some online reading….now I’ve moved on to the cyber-window shopping portion of this program….
I have my cute Sharp Zaurus SL-5600 PDA - and I didn’t get much use out of it. Now I want to. I added the following to my Amazon wishlist:
- SanDisk SDSDB-1024-A10 1 GB Secure Digital Card by SanDisk
- Linksys Wireless-G Compact Flash Card WCF54G
I’m a material girl….living in a material world….and somehow…shopping makes me feel like a better woman. Who knows…maybe I’ll break down and buy the damn accesories….maybe I’ll exercise some self-control and wait for my tax refund to come in. Maybe I’ll just sit here in this dark cafe…and lust after items I can’t afford because I don’t have a salary….
Damn the American consumer culture…
Posted in cali_lovin on 05/09/2005 11:46 am by Queenkv
Back in front of my iMac…going through my to-do lists - compiled over the last few days - a mix of things to follow-up on - from my job search to my wedding madness.
Poor Mark - he takes the blunt edge of my frustrations. He wants me to find a job - wherever - now. So, that changes my search parameters - by a lot.
I still have the un-employed blues…but I’m working on it.
We took my mom and my ninang to Bucca Di Beppo’s for Mother’s Day. Our party of 9 had a pitiful time chowing through 3 large plates of pasta. We did great on the Linguni Frutti de Marre…but left a bunch of noodles on the other two plates. Despite our bulging tummies - we still scooped up a serving of the garlic mashed potatoes. Too yummy - and yesterday - Bucca served as lunch and dinner.
Last Friday - Mark played hooky from work…’cause everyone else was doing it. We drove down to Fashion Island for some window shopping and lunch. We stopped by a pet store and lusted after the puppies….damn, I was tempted to get my mom a cute little weiner dog for Mother’s Day. On my card - I wrote: “Hey mom, I’ll get you a cat when you retire.” When she read it at Bucca - she looked at me and said: “I’m not retiring.”
It’s not that she doesn’t like pets or animals…she doesn’t like feeding them and cleaning up after them.
A loud mouth in the backseat of an SUV passed us in the parking lot.
“Do me baby! Do me now! Do me hard!” he yelled at Mark. Unfortunately - the jackass was in a car going about 40 mph - so I was unable to defend Mark’s honor.
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Posted in BonVivant on 05/09/2005 11:42 am by Queenkv
That wise phrase was uttered by a Catholic bishop as the Muslim army is on the brink of storming the Walls of Jerusalem…..
We saw Kingdom of Heaven last night with my bro. He’s back in town - yeah!
[from allposters.com]
Orlando Bloom looked hot as a scruffy brunette. I suppose the blonde look would have went over a wee bit delicate for this Crusade tale.
It was also neat to Dr. Julian Bashir [Alexander Siddig] from DS9 - in a pivotol role.
[from mesapollons.free.fr]
The Kingdom of Heaven follows the adventures of Balian of Ibelin - a simple blacksmith - into Jerusalem. He becomes a knight and takes on the responsiblity of defending the people of Jerusalem. It’s an epic story - with plenty of lectures on religious and moral obligations to the Christian faith and to all the different people of faith who live in the Holy Land. Bloom wisely keeps his mouth shut as the veteran Crusaders dispense advice on top of advice.
As soon as the film gets over it’s obligation to outline all the arguements for war and peace - the storyline kicks in….and it get’s more interesting.
Ridley Scott is a master of the violent action scenes - plenty of close-ups on gore, slashing swords, severed body parts and the slow-motion music montages that follow Balian’s battle to survive. OK - granted…I had some pretty shitty seats - front and center….and I had to crane my neck to take in everything. Despite my shitty seat - I still appreciated the fight choreography and the cinematography.
The love tangent got on my nerves…a bit…I didn’t like Sibylla - the future queen of Jerusalem. An obvious flirt with delusions of wit. But her character plays another important twist in the storyline.
I enjoyed the film - good storyline and good character development.
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