50% Yeah Baby!

OK granted, the 50% mark has been reached for...Blogging...but still 50% in like a month. I predict that my blogging goal is going to be like 500% by the end of the year. I finished ANOTHER knitting project last night - a super cool bulky hat with the same yarn as my socks. You can find the pattern here. I was also a treat to read some of the designers blog, she calls herself the Yarn Harlot, it's pretty cool too, if you're interested check it out here.
I also did some exercising yesterday finally, which I think is going to count as both exercising AND doing something I've been meaning to do. I finally FINALLY took my XC skis across the street to the nature preserve and skiied around for about an hour. It was awesome. Why haven't I gone over there before? I mean we have only lived here for 7 years. Because I'm a weirdo, that's why. But here's the thing, while I was skiing, my skis literally fell apart. The top peeled away from the bottom like a sardine can, and the plastic caps that go over the top of my ski poles split and cracked and just fell off. So if you or anyone you know would like to sell me a pair of skis drop me a line, otherwise I will be heading to Play it Again Sports in the next week or so. Which leads me to another thought I've been having. The 30 list contains 2 categories : Around the House Projects and Things I've Been Meaning to Do, which I have come to the conclusion have not been done because I am lazy, but because we're broke. Not to delve too much into my financial info, but I really don't get it. We don't spend frivolously, I never by new stuff - EVER, we have a house payment that is far less than most people's since we were able to buy it in 2000, before the boom. It's just crazy because pretty much the majority of people I know, are making far above the Maine "average" income, and yet everyone I know is just barely paying their bills. It's twacked. Oh wait DUH DUH DUH - I forgot, it costs us 650, to have our oil tank filled. Sweet. Anyhow, enough of that.

So I watched Shopgirl last night. I know I said my next movie would be Capote, but it wasn't, um obviously. I was torn as to whether to give this movie a single woot or a meh. I think I have settled on the Woot. Here's the thing about that movie: Steve Martin wrote it, and narrates it - and it's a story about an older dude - played by guess who...Steve Martin...and a younger woman, Claire Danes. I could not get over Steve Martin 1. playing a serious role that wasn't funny AT ALL and 2. seeing him get it on with Claire Danes, it totally grossed me out. Oh and also, Claire Danes is SOOO thin, distractingly thin, and they dressed her in clothes to highlight her distractingly thinness. I think that she is about as thick as a dictionary. The movie also tried really really hard to use all kinds of edgy indie type shots, you know the stark weirdly lit long shots down a hallway, etc. Not only that, but the movie had lots of stereotypes, especially that of Mirabell (Claire's) loopy blonde co-worker, wh0 seemed to really play no significance to the plot except to add in a totally unnecessary sex scene with her and Jason Shwartzman - who I love by the way. But on the positive side, the acting in this movie was fantastic, I give it a woot alone on the 2 minute scene with Mirabelle's parents played by , some guy who looks like Jeff Bridges, (but wasn't) and Fracnes Conory (the mom from 6 feet under) Seriously, those two were just amazing. Also, Claire and Jason did a fantastic job, however Steve Martin just seemed forced weirdly restrained like he was holding in a poop the entire movie. This movie was advertised on netflix as being "like Lost in Translation" except no, it wasn't. While this movie does examine the loneliness of people, and everyone's struggle to find meaning, this movie showed positive growth in the characters AND had a happy ending. Anyhow, Single Woot.

I think that's it for now. Cya.