I know this is dorky and it’s probably a false trick to get people happy, but I just took the Tickle I.Q test and my I.Q. is 129. Placing me in the Superior bracket of intelligence. They placed me in the Insightful Linguist catergory. Heh, rather nifty no? Here’s a link that I gathered from google about I.Q.’s and normal percentages.

what a wonderful world it would be.” In a way yes and in a way no. Life would be hectic and annoying. You would get sick of food, the sight and the smell would scare you away. You would be tired of standing and cooking. You would be tired of opening presents everyday. You would never get sleep because of kids running, jumping, and screaming. Santa would be mad, his reigndeers would be crying and puking from the repetative tours of the world. Most of all, you would be utterly broke. Thank God that we can celebrate it in our hearts and not in the physical everyday.

I made a rash statement in my last post. It was a mistake and I would like to take it back. I said that everygame that happened yesterday went wrong. I was wrong. Pitts total wiping out of Cleveland was wonderful. They creamed them 41-0! haha..I didn’t notice that one last night so I made that statement. It also came to my knowledge that one reason why the Colts lost is because they were resting most of their starters. See that makes sense with the playoffs happening soon. So yeah, Christmas perked.

I’m traveling tomorrow down to San Antonio, the home of the Spurs and the Alamo (the poor Spurs just got blown by the Pistons…revenge is a powerful emotion) until after the New Year. Wish me luck, and I will wish you some to.

Merry Christmas 2005 to everyone. Hope you are all having a awesomish night or day, or morning or the night before, or just a happy day regardless.

What happened today in the NFL? Can someone help me register the scores that I am reading? Did the Colts really get blown out…again! This is the second straight lost! What happened to the getting better after the first lost? And the Giants? What happened to them? I mean hello a lost to the Redskins! Both Mannings lose this week…this is not right. This is just wrong! The Panthers lost to the Cowboys….my whole NFL day was a big let down. Nobody who won were supposed to win…atleast in my book. How is this supposed to be a Merry Christmas? Gosh…I want to be a Grinch. Atleast if you’re a Grinch, bad things that happen don’t bother you because you expect them. Argh..a bahumbug to you!

I saw an article about 2 months ago, but can’t find it now. It kinda sucks that I can’t find it. It was on yahoo so if you happened to read it…good for you! If you happen to find it after reading this substitute…send me the link and I will be eternally indebted to you. I have been overly using this term lately, not on my blog but in the “real” world. It’s so fitting. I’ve been trying to think of a new term for the new age health freak, exterme child spending mothers that I’ve been seeing way to much lately, and they gave me a name for it, Yoga Moms. Isn’t it wonderful? Shout it on rooftops, tell the world…we have Yoga Moms now instead of Soccer Moms!

What about dads? I wonder if there are any terms for them yet?

Dear Santa,

I know I’ve been kinda mean to you for the last 9 or so years, and haven’t written my annual letter to you, but you see up until this year there hasn’t been this really cool ESPN phone. So you know I’ve been a good girl all year. I’ve been good for dad. I accomplished all my chores. I finished all my homework, and infact I graduated this year. I’ve been considerate of other people, and have done my part to help my community. So I think that it would be fair to have you give me this awesome phone for christmas, since I wrote an apology, and I happened to have been extremely good this year. Thanks Santa, you are the best.

Sincerely,
Veronica

Love starved/ Sports craved
Emotion bound/ Hormone wild
Heart sick/ Clocked ticked
You must think I’m strange?
-V.L 3/05

3 days left until Christmas and 10 days left until the New Year. Is it just me or has this year gone by extremely fast? This year has been a special year, good for me, but bad for the world at large. I’ll list a few reasons for you: Well we all know the Tsunami happened 361 days ago, and that the death toll was 118,000, and still 1.5 million are without homes. There has been an uncountable amount of plane crashes this year with loads of deaths. In Nigeria and Iran for instance. Even Southwest had a bad landing and killed a kid in a car.

The war in Iraq went past the 2,000 death mark for American soldiers, and God know’s what it is for civilians. Hurricane Katrina hit and wiped out New Orleans. There were 38 hurricanes this season. Gas prices went over $3, some places to $6, London was $5 for a gallon.
Bush was sworn in again this year, meaning 3 more years of presidential stupidity. Did you hear that President Bush has been spying on Americans and has just recently announced that it’s for the good of the people. The only problem is that in the process he is breaking the Consititution, because they are not notifying any Courts. And Bush and his staff of cronies have stated they will continue. They are breaking the Constitution! Where’s ACLU when you need them? Hmm…do you think perhaps homeland security could be spying on me and reading my blog? My blog numbers have been growing…maybe they’re stalking me. Maybe I’m on the watch list. LOL..now that would be HILARIOUS!

It seems like most of the world is mad at America for one reason or another. Europe is mad because of the secret CIA torture camps coming to light, Japan is mad because of to much rowdy military prescence in Okinawa, and South America is mad, mainly Venzuela and Bolivia, I guess they are tired of the raw end of the deal. The Middle East is already mad at the U.S. for obvious reasons, and Kazakhstan kicked out the U.S military that was there. Now we just have to hope that China and Russia stay happy, and that the rest of the world eases some tension. Would I be correct in saying that Bush has zero diplomatic diplomacy?

Pope John Paul II died earlier this year. Now we have Pope Benedict XVI, who is a fashion model with his red slippers. Peter Jennings also passed on, leaving his show to too much eye-liner man and his trusty too many facial lifts lady as co-anchors for World News Tonight.

All in all the world is getting sucky. Everything bad is happening and we are all still living.

But since this is the Christmas season let’s think of happy things. Like…how about a list of good christmasy music and movies.

Music- Christmas Moments-instrumental by Aurua productions, a rather nifty cd
-Kenny G’s christmas instrumentals- We Three Kings/ and Ring Christmas Bells mix tracked is awesome!
-The customary pop boy band wonders 98 degrees This Christmas…for all those sappy people out there
- Mariah Carey’s christmas album isn’t bad if your in the mood for gospel and choirs. Her take on Joy to the World is pretty cool.
-for a fun rock/poppy approach to Christmas there is MTV/TRL’s Christmas mix.
-and there is that annoying song “Christmas is All Around” from Love Actually that was supposed to be a humourous joke, but some stupidly smart person came up with the idea to play it on the radio.

Movies:
-White Christmas-all time favorite, family tradition
-Clarance-I have no idea how this movie gets into some people’s traditions…but it ain’t in mine
-The Bishops Wife- but if you rather watch the modern black people musical spin with Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington, pick up The Preacher’s Wife.
-Whatever you do, DO NOT watch Christmas with the Kranks- it makes you want to cry for how stupid it is, not that it’s funny. Tim Allen’s movie picking is going down hill. Actually I believe it’s that way for alot of older actors. It’s a shame though.

“Peace, joy and love was sent to all of us from heaven up above. To every man, woman boy, and girl, to all gods children all around the world. It is our wish that all your dreams may come true, as our has thanks to all of you. And now we have just one more wish that you all remember this… the true meaning of Christmas….Christ the Savior is born! Christ the Savior is born!”-courtesy of 98 Degrees, Silent Night

Well, I watched it. I finally watched Wedding Crashers, so now I can die in peace. lol No, not quite yet, but atleast I can sleep happily tonight.

What I thought about it. Owen Wilson was hot. I thought there was a tad bit to many indepth shots of his nose, they started to make me question my taste of hotness for this guy, but when they zoomed to his eyes…it all came back to me. Okay, okay so I’m a big loser. I don’t mind, really it’s a cool thing. Did you know that Jesus was labeled a loser when he died, hence why he died. So I’m in good company. Of course the reason why Jesus died and I’m here drooling over a phony, maked-up, 37 year-old actor from Dallas Texas (which without all those special add-ons and effects would probably look really ugly and old) are completely different and don’t really compare to each other makes no difference.

Anyways, it was funny. I laughed alot, of course that doesn’t take much, but I did. I cringed, some for the sappiness that spilled forth at the end, and some for the sheer stupidity that made it funny. I cried….for happiness. No, it didn’t make me cry, actually love stories don’t make me cry, they make me cringe. How do people cry for love stories? I want to know the secret. It reminded me of DC. The whole thing is pretty much DC. And I’ll have you know that it really was filmed in DC, they weren’t just sets and props, it was the real city, the real capital. There aren’t to many movies made in that region, Maryland/DC/Northern Virginia, it’s always New York, LA, Seattle, Chicago, or someother big city. How did I miss these guys during filiming?

One line that stuck was “Crap cakes and football, that’s what Maryland is all about.” the thing is that it’s sad but true. Ocean City made it into the movie. A true representation of Maryland, right there before your eyes. Interesting during filming they were staying about 20 minutes from O.C. and O.C. was about 4-5 hours away from where I lived. Dang it…really bad timing.

The let downs in the movie were:

The gay younger brother of the girls they are dating. He was down right sickening. He’s scenes were pukable. I seriously thought about going to the bathroom during one really gross span of him, but I decided against it, just because I was scared of missing a scene with Owen.

The annoying girl who Vaughn was dating in the movie. Gosh, she totally killed her character. Maybe the character was supposed to be dead, but it was way to…argh…you have to see it to get it. It was a ditsy/blonde/I would really love to strangle you/could you leave the movie/go flush yourself down the toilet kind of role.

The ending. I totally disliked the ending. It went from a decent movie to a horrible movie in the last 5 minutes. Okay so not horrible…but it just went sappy. But the plus is that Owen of course has his lines that are funny, but the sappiness totally overwhelmed and killed them.

Overall, I thought it was a good movie. Definately not something I would watch again, unless I was skipping to the parts I liked. It was not the caliber of the Shanghai’s or Startsky and Hutch, but it did it’s job. Of course Mr. Quilp did warn me that it was not all that I made it out to be, but like I would believe him? I think that might also be the cause for my let down, I played it up to much in my mind. Oh well…it is what it is, and it was what it was.

I admit, I jinxed the Colts, but not on purpose just so you know. I know that they didn’t lose because I wrote about them in my blog, because I’ve been doing that since the season started, I believe the cause was that I entered a poll on espn.com. It had to be that. I voted that they would win, but in a close game. The problem is that I never vote in polls, usually. The one time I did it my team lost. I’m never going to do it again. I promise. I’m sorry Payton. Please forgive me?

Tonight is the night of truth. (heh, wow…I’m good at those.) I’m going to watch Wedding Crashers! I’ve been dying a million deaths to watch this movie, and finally I’m being revived to life. I’m seeing it! And guess how much it costs at this theater? $.50! Fifty CENTS!, just incase you didn’t catch it. Owen Wilson, here I come!

Last night I shared a rant with Heterdox, I figured it was such a good topic and a rant I thought I would post it here. Please enjoy the Pop world for a moment.

Pop musicians bug. No wait, female pop musicians, actually wait again, female lip movers bug me…they can’t actually play an instrument or sing, they just move their mouths and some big music industries make the gift of singing come alive for them. And to further it,”pop female lip singers/really bad can’t act actresses/let me be a model too to haunt you everywhere you go” Really really bugs me. Have you noticed now that if you are a female you can’t be a singer without acting and vice versa? Actually that’s not only true with females, rappers to. If you are a big rapper you are in movies, like Ice Cube, or Jay Z. Or if you are Justin Timberlake (but he counts in the female lip movers.)

But the “musicians” can’t act! Why have them in movies if they can’t? It completely ruins a movie for me when you read “Brittany Spears” or “Jessica Simpson” as main actesses. Heh, through in Lindsey Lohan and Hillary Duff as well.

I was reading this sports article about Wayne Gretzky, the greatest hockey player ever, and how he’s on indefinite leave because his mother is sick, which is a cool thing that he’s into his family. The only problem is that the team he coaches sucks and will continue to while he’s gone. But the point of all this is, that there was a link about his daughter, Paulina, another blonde, sixteen yearold, try to be model/singer/actress. Isn’t there enough of those already? Please no more. But what makes her different? Her dad freakin holds all of the hockey titles, and is the best player ever to have been on ice. Her mom is Janet Jones Gretzky, the firm workout instructor that I only do whenever I feel like it (actually I used to do it everyday ages 12-14, and off and on from there. I’m lazy okay!) And…and both of her parents tried a little acting…but they sucked. Now she, the daughter, is trying her wings in it. And guess her first movie? A minor role in a movie that Justin Timberlake and Bruce Willis star in, which should be out next year. Just the thought of the actors makes me shiver. My question now is why is Bruce Willis degrading himself to such lowly depths? Here is a man who is one of the best actors currently in Hollywood, who put up with a stupid wife, Demi Moore, who said a thing or two to Ashton “Clutcher” (haha..would have loved to see a punch throwed this punk’d guys way), and if I am correct won a grammy or two, and is now acting with silly white boy-want to be black soul singer-Mr. Diaz?

This only confirms my point that our lives are being taken over by aliens. I’m surrounded by stupid people.

but life has been busy. I’m trying to correct it, but it’s not working so well, so I shall try harder. Well lets see, in my absense the Colts have continued to be undefeated, the NYGiants are the top of their division, the Mavs have been winning and losing but winning more than losing,(infact they beat the Suns twice this year..take that MVP Nash..hahaha say goodbye to that title), President Bush has taken responsibility for the war(like so oh my god, like everyone knew it was like totoally his fault, so like how is he like just realizing it?) and the Patriot act did not get accepted. Hahahahaha…so awesome! The Penguins are giving no hope for this season to be better than the last 5 (Sidney I would like to have a few words with you and your team..WAKE UP!), Mario has an irregular heart beat, sniff…it seems to be the end of a legend on ice, so he’s missing the next Olympics(not that I wanted the Canucks to win again or anything, but it’s Mario, everyone loves Mario!), and the Sports Guy has been on leave for vacation for the past week.

We had a christmas party for everyone one in the area on Thursday. Getting ready for it was a headache, and of course you always experience a few minor itsy bitsy setbacks, like for instance maybe the oven decides to whack out and go into cleaning mode when someone has pies in it baking and burns all the pies, not just pies but cheese cake pies, but PTL the person cleaned up el messy situation and salvaged them…and nobody who came even knew about it. And then because of the afore mentioned setback having to completely change your menu, but it was cool because we did it. The party was a success, well it wasn’t really a “party” it was more of a fellowship, but you all get the point. It was cool. The highlights were Uncle Jim came without his loveable sheep dog Peepers and the ever surprising Bunny Big Word and I got to see that singer guy from what was that band called…dang I forgot, must not have been so important…wait someone across the room is saying something…oh Infused, yeah that guy, yeah, yeah Kevin. lol

(Disclaimer: Infused was awesome, and I can agree with just about everyone that that was the coolest band of its time.)