Jeff, Who Lives At Home

Thumbs up!

Thanks to positive and friendly celebrity blogger Micah Jesse, he gifted me after a lucky retweet, with two tickets to see an advanced screening of Jeff, Who Lives At Home.  It was also followed by a Q + A with one of the directors, Mark Duplass and actor Ed Helms.

Funnily enough, Micah had picked two winners that day and my friend @cali_in_nyc was the other one!  We all by chance sat next to each other for the movie and snapped this pic right before it started.  Thank you Micah!

As for the movie, I enjoyed it!  Jason Segal seems to effortlessly play his role as a grown man-boy stoner (who still lives at home - his mothers basement to be exact) seeking signs for his life calling.  His brother on the other hand is the opposite and a lot of the movie focuses on the struggle between how each lives their lives according to their perspective. 

Without getting too philosophical, the whole thing reminded me of the Deepak Chopra book that changed my life, The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire - Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidences.  If you liked this book, you'd like this movie or vice versa.  If you haven't read it and like this movie, I highly recommend reading it.  

The gist of the book (via amazon.com) and what I believe is the gist of the movie is this: Not only are everyday coincidences meaningful, they actually provide us with glimpses of the field of infinite possibilities that lies at the heart of all things. By gaining access to this wellspring of creation, we can literally rewrite our destinies in any way we wish.

But even if you aren't into all the "hoopla", like my fiance for example (yes, the movie was reminiscent of several conversations he and I have had before), we still thought the movie was entertaining enough to not be pissed that you spent $13 to see it.  Which is of coarse, the only thing determining a good movie or not these days.  

This Is Weird

I just noticed this and it was totally unplanned.
In the year 2008 I had 248 posts on here.
In the year 2009 I had 248 posts on here.

Trend Alert - Hot Toddy Oddy Oddy

Hot Toddy is the new black.

I was sick with what I assume was a stomach flu this past week. The day before it happened I read this blog post from Nonsociety's Jordan Reid, that for no reason in particular stuck in my head except for the fact that I thought to myself the next time I was sick I should try this.

I always say that three good things came from my relationship with the actor in LA: Lucy (she was sort of a gift from him), my BCBG wallet (my birthday present from him shortly before I found out he had been cheating on me for, oh, three months or so), and my go-to fever remedy. A few weeks after we first met I became very, very ill with a fever of about 102 (yes, I should have seen a doctor), and he told me his family remedy, which had me back on my feet within 24 hours.

(Disclaimer: I am obviously not a doctor, so please: take any medical advice I dole out with the requisite grain of salt. If you have a fever of 101F or higher, experience shortness of breath or stabbing abdominal or chest pains, expel colored mucus, or have any symptoms that last more than 7-10 days, see your doctor.)

MY EX-BOYFRIEND’S GO-TO FEVER REMEDY

1. Draw a bath, as hot as you can stand.

2. Climb in the bath with a hot toddy*, and drink the entire thing, no matter how miserably sweaty and overheated you get. Stay in the bath as long as you can stand, or until it begins to cool.

3. Immediately climb into bed and cover yourself with every single blanket in your house. You’ll be sweating profusely and desperate to throw them off, but don’t: the goal is for you to fall asleep, and for your fever to break. When I first tried this I woke up in a pool of sweat…but with a normal temperature.

Again, not a doctor…but it works for me. Try this at your own risk.

*HOT TODDY

Combine the following ingredients in a large mug:

1-2 shots brandy or whiskey

1 tbsp honey

1 tbsp fresh lemon juice

1 cup hot water

1 tea bag (I use English Breakfast)

Optional: cinnamon stick

Well the next day I got sick and heard HOT TODDY on TV twice and overheard someone talking about it. So strange which is another blog entry all together, but I wont get all Deepak Chopra right now.

Anyways, I should have taken this as a sign but I couldn't get myself to clean the tub enough to want to bathe in it (it's clean, I just have issues) and was also too sick to get the ingredients. Next time I guess but I hope I don't feel like this again for a very long time. If anyone does try it, let me know how it goes!

This just looks so soothing and comfortable to drink! Mmmmm.

Monster Truck Tally: 8

Relaxed in Jacksonville, Florida this past weekend courtesy of the best boyfriend ever, mine. :) It was a short weekend but a perfect one, minus the sunburn. I really had to try to not think about all the stress in my life at the moment and just relax. Once I did, it was awesome.

The beach was nice, they let dogs and bikes on it, unlike the uptight beaches here. Old school bikes are apparently the way a lot of people get around there and there are cute little beach side (well, close enough) restaurants to get out of the sun for a while. I had just watched a food network marathon about bar b q so I had a sick craving for ribs. Luckily Sticky Fingers was around and side note: they had the best wings I have ever had. One trimester in Columbus, I ordered wings from every place possible to see who made them the best. Papa Johns happened to take a surprising win but these are SO much better then those.

We also ate at this place called Sneakers. Like usual, I asked our waiter what his favorite was, and he got me this pretty delicious quesadilla that was not on the menu. Literally that is how he described it when I asked him what was in it. He just said "It's got likeee, deliciousness.". Matt the waiter was definitely a highlight of the trip and if you are ever in Sneakers, you should ask for his section.

Also, more miracles! I finished my book on the plane, Spontaneous Fulfillment Of Desire, by Deepak Chopra. It didn't answer all my life's burning questions but it absolutely was a great read. It certainly got me thinking in new directions. I'd like to read some more stuff by him now. Without getting too much more into it now, I just wanted to note a miracle that sticks out that occurred on the trip. If you know me, you know I am a huge fan of the band, Umphrey's McGee. David and I were randomly walking down a road just doing some exploring and I look up and there is a random venue and guess who was playing that very night in little ol Jacksonville? Yup. Miracle, coincidence, luck, random, whatever you want to call it. I wasn't about to drag David to a jam band I had seen so many times, so we didn't go to the show but just the mere fact that they were there blew my mind.

Did I mention I had an amazing weekend yet?

Below is a picture of one of the monster trucks we witnessed and then, the hotel we stayed in.


Just kidding!

Internet Buried Treasure

Here I am, doing my daily routine of surfing the internet on my usual sites, when I came across this little story. It's not so much about the story though but more the photo. I went to high school with these girls. NYMag would like people to know there are money hungry Long Island bitches that can't seem to lock down a hubby with money? NO WAY! In my opinion this is old news. It's just with the whole self promoting phenomenon we have seen explode in the past couple of years, combined with the internet, and people getting clever about events and such, these methods for these girls are now just more public. I just think its humorous for my own personal reasons that they chose the photo of the Plainview chicks and wanted to save it for my memories and when I feel bad I can look here and remember my face isn't posted and labeled as desperate.

Then I clicked on the photo credit to see where it would lead, and I got to this. I don't know how I missed it this summer. Or the original peice. If I had to guess, the quote from the girl would be the one with the brown curly hair in front (Radar says differently though. I don't believe it).

Weird

Had a really weird coincidence. I am going to try to note these more often. Like today for instance, I have been noticing the phrase "freak flag" more. I watched a clip from Shrek on The View and they song a song about waving your freak flag, and today I was watching The Family Stone, which I have seen before. But never noticed this one guy has a line in the movie where he tells her to wave her freak flag. Just a strange little thing I noticed.

But anyways, the real coincidence I am talking about was when Mark and I were leaving a store opening this week, the Hilton's stopped us on our way out to eat. We finally got past the paps and into Pax and were sitting and eating. I was telling him how my friend knows Paris and she sucks and then I look out the window and my friend who I was just referring to's brother is staring back at me. These kids live in LA. The chances of this are like so freaking low. To make it even more freaky, he was going to the store we were just at because his girlfriend he was visiting was there, and she gave him a sweater. Um, the store was supposed to give Mark a sweater and we were also just talking about the mensline. It was just really really bizarre.