The Oscar Party!!!!

My friend throws an amazing Oscar party.  She spends all year preparing and collecting.  This year was the 20th anniversary of her first party.  I've only been going for about 15 years.  It's always one of my favorite days of the year.

The excitement started earlier this year with the pre-show starting at 4:30.  We also moved to a new venue - upstairs.  This year we all had soft seats, the TV had DVR capabilities, we had the whole dining room table for food, and drinks were no longer relegated to the treadmill.

Every year we:

• have boas to wear
• get gift bags like the stars with trinkets and bling
• pick boyfriends and collect kisses every time we see them or hear their name
• bring food to match our favorite movie of the year (This year's winner made a football field with veggies for Silver Lining Playbook.)
• play movie trivia games and match movies to bottles of wine
• collect many, many prizes for picking winners on our ballots (Prizes are also awarded for not picking any winners.)
• offer opinions on all dresses, hair styles, make-up, and acceptance speeches
• critique the host, presenters, and musical numbers
• catch-up on Hollywood gossip from one attendee who reads Star magazine weekly
• laugh - a lot!
• and then head home with a bag full of books, DVDs, movie tickets, marquee night lights, glittery feather pens, and every kind of movie candy you can imagine

It is an award winning party!
  

New Obsession

Stacey told me at the beginning of the summer that I needed to get on Pinterest.  You can save and organize all of the ideas that you come across on the internet in one place – recipes, crochet patterns, crafts, thoughts, or anything that you love.  You don’t have to download to the desktop or bookmark or put in your favorites anymore.  You set up little bulletin boards for whatever categories you want and then start pinning things on your boards.  Now when you click on one of your ideas, you’re automatically linked back to the source (the tutorial, the blog, whatever).  You can also look at all of the amazing things that other people are putting on their boards and repin them on yours. 

The only way to get set up on Pinterest is to go through Facebook or Twitter.  This presented a problem for me.  I’m not doing FB.  Finally I opened a Twitter account and put nothing on it.  I can probably ditch it now that I’ve set up my Pinterest site.  It’s already apparent that this new obsession will be a time sucker, but very useful and fun.  Check it out.  I can send you an invite if you want.

Pretty Toes

Little baby toes are sweet, but most grown up toes really aren't pretty.  My sister Nan says her husband has pretty feet.  The toes are all proportioned just right and he doesn't have mangled, humped ones.  Regis once said that he has nice looking feet and he does.  He could have been a foot model.  Only half of my toes look fine.  The big and little ones are messed up, and one other toenail that I've lost twice has never really recovered.  But, last week Mom and Nan and I went for pedicures.  It was my first ever.  It was fabulous, and relaxing.  My toes look great!  I'm happy and excited every time I look down.  I'm hooked.  I think in another month, I'm going to take Terry on date night.  We'll get pedicures instead of dinner.

This is my good foot.

To the Rescue

We had a loud 2 alarm spider today.  The kids spotted a big black spider on the living room wall and called Grampy in to rescue us all.  The alarm was loud, the spider was scary, and the action was exciting.  You probably had to be there.

2 Alarm Fire

The 2 alarm fire that burned a garage and damaged a house was just around the corner from us.  It was pretty exciting to see six big fire trucks, two ladder trucks, two fire vehicles, the paramedics, two police cars, and the channel 2 news fly down our street.  Hudson and Hadley were treated to a loud parade.  Thankfully people and pets were okay.  It provided plenty of excitement, but the thing that stood out to Hudson was a girl that rode her bike into a pole while she was looking at all the action.  That's something that he can relate to.  He was also impressed (as was everyone) with the car in the garage with a melted bumper.