Juno

Two thumbs up for Juno, which I went to see last night with my knocked-up friend T. Jason Bateman, you are dreamy. I must find the sound track immediately bc I loved the songs so much. We sure are cute for two ugly people? Brilliant!

I am a little concerned about how much going to a movie costs these day though. Ten dollars for the ticket and $17 for snacks? OK maybe I didn't need the reeses peanut butter thingies AND the raisin glossettes, but then what would I have for breakfast this morning??? I mean, raisins were fruit once, weren't they?

Scrabulous!!

Online Scrabble - like I didn't have enough ways to waste my precious time.

http://www.scrabulous.com/

Be it resolved

The Last Purse - purchased Dec. 29, 2007

So I had a little trouble getting through customs after my trip to NYC but I am back on Canadian soil now. Of course I am kidding. I returned on Sept 14ish and have just been incredibly lazy since.

Which leads to the following new year's resolutions, in no particular order of importance:

1) Blog more. See above.

2) Have more fun. In a recent inventory-taking life reflection, it occured to me that I am a 30 year old, single, unburdened by husband and kids, healthy, well-educated, good-money-making woman. I should be having the time of my life, but my life is rather dull. So I resolve to have more fun. I don't really know what the means, but I'll figure it out. And have fun doing it, damn it.

3) Take a year off - from worrying about things like being 30 and unburdened by a husband and kids, where my career is going, starting a business, owning a home, accomplishing everything I am supposed to by now on my self-imposed, entirely impossible schedule. I'm just going to take a break from it all. Surprisingly, taking a rest from worrying leaves me with little anxiety. I know everything will be there waiting for me (and maybe a few more!) when I return.


4) Refrain from buying a purse for an entire year. This one may be the hardest of all to accomplish. Most people I've told have laughed in hysterics. I myself, am not certain this is achievable but am apt to do it out of spite now. My mom says that if am successful she will reward me by buying me....wait for it......a purse.

5) Travel more in Canada. Montreal, Ottawa, those newfie provinces, Churchill, there's so many places I have not been in my own country. Before I do any more cross border and off-contintent travel, I am going to explore Canada a bit more.

6) Give drugstores a chance. Gulp! Now this one might actually be tougher than R4. I recently read that because beauty product manufacturers are not required to publish reports on the efficacy of their products, consumers have no proven, objective methods by which to determine whether more expensive skin/beauty products work better than less expensive ones. That is to say that the only proof I have that my $55 Bobbi Brown moisturizer is better than the $11 L'Oreal moisturizer is my own internal snob-o-meter. (as a side note, I forgot said $55 mositurizer when I went home for the holidays and had to use $11 moistuizer [best available in Dauphin, MB] for the duration of my stay. I did not die.) I get that I am paying for the packaging and advertising and celebrity endorsements. I really do. Yet I find it so hard to resist. Here's my strategy. I am not ready to delcare 2008 the year of the drugstore, but I will give the Shoppers DrugMart beauty boutique a chance. I'm not going cold turkey though. I'll start with the higher-end Benefit and Freeze 24/7 and work my way down, stopping just short of St. Ives and Life brand. Forgive me, Holties, for I know not what I do.

These are a lot of resolutions for me. I think my only resolution last year was to not make any resolutions, but that is so 2007. Coincidently, I have been reading many an article about the no-resolution resolution phenomenon as of late, which only serves to prove again that I am ahead of my time. And perhaps that I should resolve to be a little less conceited but I digress.

This year, however, I am feeling wildly optimistic. It is the year of the primaDonna. So I wish everyone the best with their goals for 2008. Cheers!