My Partial Cast of Characters

Sparkler = Hope Davis
Saltina = Rosie O’Donnell
Blyss = Queen Latifah
‘rayngutan = George Carlin
Roger = Steve Carell
Ashley = Kelly Clarkson
Ru = Ben Affleck
Nicole = Daisy Fuentes
Slackker = Colin Farrell
Kitcar = Angela Lindvall
Leia = Janeane Garofalo
Jim = Philip Seymour Hoffman
Bumblebee Girl = Camryn Manheim
Edxx = Matthew Broderick
Fly = Jake Gyllenhaal
Mom = Bea Arthur
Squeak = Joaquin Phoenix
Rainbo = Reese Witherspoon

Your turn…who should we cast as me?

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On a similar note, check out My Heritage and let them decide which celebrity you most look like.

My answers included: Felicity Huffman(68%), Martina Navratilova(67%), Holly Hunter(66%), Kate Beckinsale(63%), Angelina Jolie (61% - yah…like in my dreams. they picked it…not me), Jessica Alba (60%) and Kathy Bates (60%).

If we include dudes: Tom Cruise (72%), Nguyen Van Thieu (66%) and John Cusack (61%).

This is the picture I used:

You can see my results here

I am so elated. I love it when a plan comes together.

I recently booked a trip to the fabulous San Francisco to visit my dear, dear friend Butterfly over Labor Day weekend.

Now it turns out that our mutual, Very, Very Nice friend Squeak will be able to jaunt up from LA to join us in a festive, far-too-long-in-the-coming reunion of sorts. I don’t know if any of us really remembers the last time we were all together, but the best bet would be around a decade ago.

Wowsers! What a fun trip this life is.

So, for most of my life ‘Saturday’ has meant ‘chores’. Overall that is no big deal, most of the time I find them rather enjoyable and kind of relaxing. In particular I enjoy doing laundry, vacuuming and 90% of the time I’d prefer to do my dishes by hand rather than use the machine. Of course all the elements of bathroom cleaning are merely a neutral sort of necessary evil.

However I have a real problem with dusting and I despise making my bed. Part of the bed thing is the actual act, but mostly it’s the fact that I hate sleeping in a tidy bed. I much prefer the balled up blanket, half-tucked sheet, and scattered pillows nesting sort of sleeping style. The trade-off is, I like the looks of a made up bed. Quel problème. So making the bed is a nuisance I have to undo and redo on an (almost) daily basis.

In other news, I’m teaching myself how to eat with chopsticks with my left hand because (1) I’m eating more stir-fry type meals lately (2) I prefer eating some things with chopsticks (3) I like eating at my desk while I read/surf the Web (4) I don’t like switching my right hand from rollerball to chopsticks to rollerball.

So there you have it.

Damn you Saltina, with your promise of mirth and merriment and your enticement through the force of “the t/r/i/v/i/a” whilst you sat idly by as I lubricated my mental faculities with beer and whiskey..and what…all of this on a WEDNESDAY night.

And now I am left alone to rue the day, in this foggy stupor, dry mouth and sweating my way through my VIP client meetings. Is this your revenge for my mercury being so retrograde that my world was fabulous whilst yours was being pissy? Ah, revenge is a dish best over-served with liquor…on a work day!!!

(I sure had fun honey, thanks. But am I really getting too old for this shit?! )

“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”
— Aristotle, Politics - 343 B.C.

Yah. Ya gotta be careful… The Kraken has that effect sometimes.

In other news, the popularity of “Pirates of the Caribbean” is looking to make this a “Kraken-pun-ilicious” summer.

Recent lyric love:

How come no one told me
All throughout history
The loneliest people
Were the ones who always spoke the truth
The ones who made a difference
By withstanding the indifference
I guess it’s up to me now
Should I take that risk or just smile?

What do you know
It happened again
What do you know

-Kings Of Convenience

Um, excuse me. I can almost see your diplomacy!

I was at a “client meeting” recently and saw this:
“Those who say it cannot be done, should not interrupt the person doing it.”
- Chinese proverb

I love this quote and have now made it an integral part of my workspace.

At work today we all did the Dessert Personality Quiz. I’m just sayin’…mine wasn’t very “work” appropriate:

LEMON MERINGUE… Smooth, sexy, & articulate with your hands, you are an excellent after-dinner speaker and a good teacher. But don’t try to walk and chew gum at the same time. A bit of a diva at times, but you have many friends.

Smooth, sexy, & articulate with your hands!!!!!!!!! Who thinks up these things?