Lunar Lunacy

What is it with people & blaming out-of-character behavior on the poor position of the moon? If you ask me, people are selfish & inconsiderate & just plain weird, but they feel the need to blame their lack of decorum on a large sphere in the galaxy. If you ask me, it's just their excuse for the evening.

KDP & I saw "Friends With Money" last night. There isn't much to say about the movie, except that it was horrible. Jennifer Aniston was so similar to her "Rachel" character. All you have to do is add a pot-smoking addiction to her & save yourself $10. It's a 90 minute film that felt well over two hours.

Anyway, it wasn't the movie that has me riled up, it was the people in the theater. The theater held about 250 people. There were maybe 70 people last night. KDP & I sat down with only four others in there. The chairs rock back & forth & KDP's went so far back she could have hit her head on the floor behind her. So we move down three seats. My new chair? Frozen in its spot. I almost pitched forward because there was no "give" to the chair & I was anticipating it moving a bit when I sat down. She asked if we should move again. I said I was fine & it didn't matter to me anyway. Minutes later, two women walk in at the opposite end of our aisle. They walk the full length of it (completely empty) and sat next to me on the other end. I mean LITERALLY next to me. Her elbow jabbed mine while my arm was on the arm rest. Why did she have to sit right next to me when there were 240 chairs left in the theater? I craned my head around to see just how full the theater was and said to KDP (loud enough, ofcourse), "She had to sit here? Right Here? Are you kidding me?"

Next up--two girls come & sit in the row infront of us diagonal from KDP. They make a fuss about sitting down and then take off their shoes & put their bare feet on the chairs infront of them. EW!!!!! Medical tests have proven that patrons should NEVER go to a theater in shorts or skirts because of all of the contamination on the seats. Why would you put your bare feet on them? A few minutes pass & an usher comes in and says to the girls that people have complained about their bare feet and that they must put shoes on and they may not put their feet on the seats. So the girls giggle a lot & put their shoes on. With that, a very TALL man & his wife/girlfriend come in and sit directly infront of the two girls. There was no way that the one girl would ever see the film because the man was SO TALL! The woman he is with has to go get something, but before she leaves they begin to make-out (disgustingly) right there. They were approximately 40 years old. Grow up! So the girls giggle again & get up & move into our row. With that, an elderly couple come in and sit infront of the giggling, shoeless girls. Keep in mind that the full 70 people are not in the theater yet. Why is everyone congregating around this area? We were at the respective end of the aisle. We were about 3/4 of the way back. I could see if we sat dead center of the theater, but we hadn't.

It's time for the movie. The women next to me talked the entire time in another language. Their phones went off at least three times that I heard. The elderly couple infront of the shoeless girls decided twenty minutes into the film that they didn't like it & got up & left. It was all so weird.

UGH~~movie over & we're out to get a drink. We walk (in my cute new shoes) to The Grand Luxe & there's a wait to even get a spot at the bar! It's 9:15ish. Who the heck is still waiting for a seat at a bar? So we decide to go to Chilis. We walk in there & it's PACKED! Lucky for us, a booth immediately opened in the bar area so we sat down. We ordered nachos & Chambord Margaritas. The nachos were fantastic. The margartias were disgusting! And while I am trying to gag this thing down, we saw six african-american guys completely skip out on their bill at the bar & two of the Chilis staff run out the door after them. We then watched a curly-red-haired woman sit at the bar with a rose & a Corona (in it's bottle) wait for a blind date. She sat there sipping this thing, looking around, and then looking at her phone. All-of-a-sudden, the phone rings, she chats, hangs up, slurps back a 1/3 of the Corona, and then giggles & waves to the bartender & hauls her happy self outside because he finally arrived.

As we left, there was still a big crowd waiting to be seated. It's now 10:45 pm and people are still waiting? This is nuts. And as we are walking out, one well-endowed woman says to another more well-endowed woman, "Aren't you cold?" The larger of the two says (right in my ear) "The Twins are fine!" (She is obviously waving her finger back & forth over her large ....ummm.......yeah.) I didn't need that. So I turn around to KDP & I know the woman heard me & said "Did you hear that. Her "twins" aren't cold. That's good. I needed to know." What is with people??? This is a public place. Families are there. And that was my ear!
Walking to the car, we saw the blind date lady drive past with a man inteh passenger seat. Good for her!

People are weird & thank goodness we have a full cycle to go before the moon is full again. I can't take all of this in one night.

XXL

My hair is pin straight. People pay good money to have their hair straightened to be like mine. Mine? Natural. I don't use hairspray, mousse, special products. Nothing. But why would anyone want their hair to be straight like this? It's flat. No oomph. No height. And it doesn't cooperate. It just hangs there. So I decided to buy some xxl volumizing mousse and use the diffuser on my hairdryer. The results? Nothing. There was no difference. And I spent an extra five minutes on this. To look the same. I asked Crau if she noticed the "height" in my hair. She giggled and said exactly what I just said. It's the same. I don't buy into all these wonder products. I'll stick to the volume on my ipod and television.

Birthdays Galore

KDP had a birthday yesterday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

And The Professional Shopper and Vinci are tomorrow! Early wishes & cupcakes for them!

Is anyone NOT having a May birthday?

Fragility

I saw a man get hit by a car tonight. I have never seen anything like this before, and I hope to never again. I was on Old Country Road at a major intersection. The cross street had the green light & what I believe was a Civic sped over the intersection. As he passed down the street to my right, I heard a "thud" and saw his car veer across the two lanes of on-coming traffic & hit the curb. At the same time I saw, what I thought was his front bumper, fly across in the opposite direction & land in the road. From where I was sitting, I could not see anything but the car in the opposite lanes. When my light turned green, there was a gray sweatshirt laying across the road. There was a man in that sweatshirt. My stomach immediately flipped upside- down and my arms have felt like weights ever since. I cannot believe it. I pray for that man & his family tonight. I will not be able to close my eyes for awhile without seeing that image.

Dates & Dilemnas

First things first:

"The Devil Wears Prada" is coming out on June 30th. Ink this one into your planner!

Nick Lachey is signing his new album on Tuesday, May 9th. You have to be on line at the Virgin Mega Store & be one of the first 300 to purchase it. Then, you are given the "golden wristband" that will get you back in at 4:00 for the signing. I'd do it in a heart beat. The problem? I have two finals to administer that afternoon. Now, a strong urge tells me to throw caution to the wind & cancel class & postpone the tests to Thursday. But, the practical self says not to. Oh drat! I hate being reliable & dependable.

OH~~Fleet Week is the week BEFORE Memorial Day. So, ladies, plan on a trip into the city!

Tribeca Film Festival

OH MY GOODNESS! I met Jamie Johnson! Wait! I'll start from the beginning.

Crau & I went in to the Film Fest today. We met at Penn where, as soon as I got off the train & entered the main lobby/ticket center, I hear "So this is what you do on a Saturday". It's a student from Farmingdale. I keep telling you all that I feel like "Where's Waldo" and need my own book. I chat with him for a minute & then grab Crau & off we go.

We wanted to grab lunch before we got on line to try & see if we could buy tickets to the film of choice. She suggested Rosa Mexicano, which was a very cute mexican restaurant across from Fordham & Lincoln Center. As we finished yummy quesadillas, we walk outside & spot David Blain...aka The Bubble Boy. You know, the guy who does those weird stunts like freezing himself for a week or burying himself alive for 5 days? This time he is in a water bubble for 8 days & then will hold his breath for 9 minutes on Monday night. Nuts. We did not walk up to him, mind you. There were lines and security all over the place. But we could see him just fine from the sidewalk. Besides, we had bigger things to do: get in line an hour and forty minutes early to try & get tickets to see "The One Percent". It's a documentary about class in America. And its creator/director is the heir to the Johnson & Johnson Corporation.

So we get on line and we are about 50 people back. Not too bad, I think. We are guaranteed to get in. We met some nice women while waiting. One in particular was from Anapolis, MD, and just took the train up this morning to see THIS film and stay the night & then go back home. So cool. She had her suitcase with her. lol. Anyway, we wait & wait & wait some more. Then a volunteer comes along & says that it's not looking too good & she does not think they will be taking many people in to see the film. So we cross our fingers & wait even longer. They took a group of people in & we weren't in it. Then she comes out & says they can take 20 more. We LITERALLY just made it in. Crau was #19. UGH! I would have had a breakdown right there on the sidewalk if I didn't get in to see the film. But we did!

The film was great & the theater was packed. I sat in the very first seat of the theater, which is a handicap row so I was all alone. Crau was behind me. At the end of the film, Jamie Johnson was there to do a Q&A. He was so nice & looks like a normal guy--not anything like you expect $25 Billion to look in person. But that's why he does these films. He wants to try and lessen the gap between the overly wealthy & the poor. He doesn't seem to appear comfortable in the role he has been handed in life & I am taking this film venture as his way out of the guilt. He's so humble. He looks like the actor, Daniel Futterman. The son from "Birdcage" & the younger brother, Vincent, on "Judging Amy". Yeah~~I love him. I stayed after to shake his hand & congratulate him on his work. I figured "Hey~i can do this. I talk for a living!" Nope. I was in awe. I became just like my friend "C" (aka~~The Professional Shopper) and started sputtering out words that Crau says were coherent & made sense, but it didn't sound it to me.

Ah~~I floated on Cloud 9 as we walked back towards Penn. We stopped for a yummy coffee treat (iced decaf. caramel macchiato for me) and then realized that our trains were in 15 minutes & that we had already missed one.

Oh I love Jami....I mean the Tribeca Film Festival!

Cinco De Mayo

Oh Happy Margarita Day! I hope everyone had at least one frozen salted treat! I had fun yesterday. Mango, lime with coconut flavor, & pina colada spritzers! Mmmmmmm.

And, I know it's a bit late, but I found out that Thursday was the unofficial "Star Wars Day". Wanna know why? It's the day you can say "May the Fourth be with you"...get it? May 4th~~"may the fourth"? Hysterical! Yes, you all know I have a corny sense of humor. Don't roll your eyes & looked shocked.

I am heading in to the Tribeca Film Fest today! Can't wait to fill you in!