Cali twice in a year

Evan Almighty (2007) = 7/10. I love Steve Carell! A good message plus awesome visual effects and makeup, too.

Knocked Up (2007) = 3.5/10. The minuscule amount of humor in this movie was completely squelched by the view of her vagina crowning.

Music and Lyrics (2007) = 4.5/10. I was a little bored.


The sad California sojourn has been over for a week now. Doug's 94-year-old granny passed away October 11 and the four of us grandkids (that's me now!) flew out together on a claustrophobia-enducing ExpressJet flight to say our collective final goodbye. One thing I never took into consideration when I got married was hugging. Let me explain: I met all these new people and they all seemed to automatically go for a full-body hug when they found out I was now part of the family. Thankfully, I'm ok with most hugging. Otherwise, I might have been a bit freaked out.

I could go into details of the trip, but instead I'm mainly going to talk about the lady sitting across the 6-inch wide aisle on the flight out there. And a little bit of the trip.

ExpressJet doesn't leave you hungry. There was a short stopover midway through the flight and between both flights, we had a total of 6 mini-meals. When we first got on the plane, the near-elderly woman had a breakfast sandwich from Quizzno's in her hand. She proceeded to eat this sandwich not like a normal person, eating from the would-be heel of the bread down, but from the SIDE of the sandwich. It left her with a pencil-thin sandwich by the end of it all. We both found it quite odd.

An hour later, sidewayssandwicheating woman was given a bagel and cream cheese. She smeared cream cheese over the bagel and instead of picking it up to eat. she cut a tiny part off first. Why not save yourself the cutting step, lady? I'll bet she also eats a hot dog with a knife, too.


The rest:

*Doug has now set foot into a Sephora. And he bought something. It's all part of my master plan. Mwa ha ha!

*I have been in a Trader Joe's now. I love chocolate. I love edamame. But CHOCOLATE-COVERED edamame just sounds icky.

*Why does it look like my pants are pulled up to my bra here?:

*I finally understand what "really good, bland, but flavorful Mexican food" means.

*Anyone want to tell us what the extra shower sprayer thingy is for here?:

A closer view:

Was I supposed to clean my boobs with it or something? You could BARELY move the knobs around to make it spray in another direction.

*I missed Amanda's wedding. I was completely bummed as I had been looking forward to it for nearly a year.

*If you're the kind of person who thinks yelling is a way to earn respect, you lose ALL of mine.