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Can I just say how much I’ve been enjoying your movie star crushes? And with every comment I think, oh yeah, HIM TOO. How could I have forgotten Viggo as Aragorn, my god, or Orlando as Legolas? Mmmm, Man-Elfwich. Also, the bathtub scene in Out of Sight with George Clooney, Clive Owen in every-damn-thing, the FOX in Robin Hood (yes, yes, YES!).
I LOVE that one of you listed Philip Seymour Hoffman, by the way.
Let me cycle back to the tines-up/tines-down issue. I hear you saying that tines-up maximizes your chances of getting everything as clean as possible, but what about the hand-stabbing? Am I just clumsy, or what? Because I have had to wear a Band-aid two nights in a ROW as a result of being skewered by a upward-facing steak knife.
Also, unrelated to anything but because I’m halfway watching American Idol right now and Mariah Carey is warbling away: I have been compared to Mariah Carey more than once with regards to facial features. I don’t know how to say it without being kind of a dick but Mariah Carey? Not a pretty woman, in my opinion. Guess who else someone compared me to recently? Chloë Sevigny. Hmmmmmmm.
So my boy Dylan has grown right before my eyes since we’ve been here in Coos Bay. All of a sudden he can’t be crammed into his tiny newborn outfits, his size 1 Swaddlers are too tight, and he’s noticeably more aware and, I don’t know, sentient. He makes all these hilarious sounds: AWOO, AGOO, AWWW. He demands entertainment in the form of looming human faces or dangling toys and if left to his own devices he voices a loud complaint. I love the new, more interactive update (Baby V. 2.1.4!) but hoo boy, things are actually getting a bit harder, too, because he can’t be . . . um, stuffed in a corner and ignored anymore. Which is to say, OH SAY IT WITH ME: nobody puts Baby in a corner.
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LOL – see I knew my previous reference that movie would turn out ok!
Not so geeky now am I… ok so maybe I am!
p.s my two cents on the silverware issue – forks up, knives definitely down.
Or you could take a different approach and get someone else to unload the cutlery for you – works for me!
Ha. I was very tempted at one point to buy a “Nobody puts baby in the corner” onesie at one point last year.
oh i love a good dirty dancing reference. funny thing, i was just thinking of that quote today when i was tidying up the dining room and deciding where to put the high chair. i decided against the corner for obvious reasons.
On the silverware issue, I am all about maximizing the clean potential. I am so lazy that I honestly do not bother to pre-wash or sometimes even rinse, so I need the machine (the cheap, horrible, possibly centuries-old machine) to do all it can for me. Despite being a total klutz, I have never (yet) had any bad tine stabbings as a result.
As for TV Boyfriends, I am all about some Lloyd Dobbler, Spike on Buffy, and Vaughn on Alias. And, oh yeah, Colin Firth and Johnny Depp in anything.
I just realized this comment would probably go better on the previous post, but now I have typed it all here, so, um, here you go!
Also: I am so jealous of your OR Coast right now! Wish I were there.
Also was stabbed in the middle of my palm by a steak knife – worst place to keep a bandaid on and clean yet apparently I like to live on the edge because I still wash the steak knives UP, hmmmm…
I totally agree about Mariah Carey – not so good – but I actually love Chloe Sevigny’s looks when she’s not doing the Mormon thing- may be influenced by my love for indie actresses generally. But you don’t look like either of them!!
on the silverware issue, I’m a tines up girl on forks but STEAK KNIVES? Um, no. The silverware is a mix of eating part up/down to maximize washing and minimize nesting of like silverware but steak knives (all knives) are ALWAYS blade down. Especially with a toddler. Let your inlaws know the system ;) I had no idea I was so opinionated on this issue but I do have a definite system around here.
ANYWAY, glad you are having a fun trip.
Ever since a friend’s son got a steak knife stuck in his cute little 3-year-old tush when he stumbled backward onto the open dishwasher rack, I’ve washed knives with the pointy bits down! Somehow, forks seem less likely to actually slice into flesh, so they still go tines up for maximum cleaning potential.
jesus, i forgot about aragorn.
Prongs up!
In regards to yesterday: Will Ferrell in Elf, anyone?
I used to get compared to Alanis Morissette a lot, and that really BUGGED me. But not as much as the time my friend said her Dad said I looked like Monica Lewinksy. I think I can pinpoint the very moment I decided to lose some weight and bleach my hair blonde.
I have an ongoing debate with myself about the cutlery, a problem which I’m probably not going to solve in this lifetime. I was raised to believe that tines up equals better cleaning, I am very, seriously, very clumsy and yet I can not bring myself to turn those knives around, oh my poor hands!
Ah, Mariah Carey. I was huge fan from “Vision of Love” all the way to “Heartbreaker.” Then she did Glitter, and it all went to pot from there. Though I have enjoyed a few of her hits since then, she’s definitely lost her luster.
Also, I agree she’s not anything special now, but when I was a kid and she was in her innocent ballads era, I thought she was beautiful.
Speaking of Philip Seymour Hoffman, have you seen “Love Liza”?
Also I DO NOT think you look like Mariah! you are much prettier then Mariah :) I have been told I look like Alanis Morisette and Liv Tyler.
Just from your pictures Dylan looks like he is getting so big! He is adorable, as is Riley.
According to Consumer Reports (yes, the studied this, too) all silverware EXCEPT knives should be pointing up.
Also, I don’t see Mariah Carey in you but you do look a lot like a girl I work with. I have been told I look like Courtney Love and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Pretty much opposite ends of the spectrum, no? And I don’t think I look like either of them.
Better than looking like Becca from Life Goes On.
Recently, though, a friend was looking at my wedding pictures and told me I looked like Kate Winslet. I can accept Kate Winslet.
Loved the baby in a corner ending to your post today!
Um, back in my 30s, I often was told how much I looked like Natalie Wood. I loved it, however untrue! I’m not so impressed with Mariah, but she does have a lovely speaking voice, dontcha think? The short hootchy skirts have to go, tho…ugh.
Oh, yes: KNIVES go down. Forks go tines up.
Someone told my mom she looked like Carol Burnett. She doesn’t. She is STILL unhappy about it. (This was about 25 years ago.) She actually looks like Alanis Morrissette, but I haven’t dared tell her so.
I’ve always put my forks tines-up and have yet to be skewered…and I’m clumsy. Are you looking at your unloading hand when you’re doing this or do you unload the silverware while the other hand is placing already unloaded silverware into the drawer? When I put the forks tines-down the tines get stuck in the botton of the basket.
Can’t wait to read you when Dylan starts to cruise!
Oh! That reminds me…Patrick Swayze is on my list!
In regards to the knives, we were told repeatedly by the salespeople and by the papers that came with our knives, NOT TO PUT THEM IN THE DISHWASHER. So how about that? Now you can just slice your hand open in the sink when you are washing dishes. On the same note, we are not allowed to wash our pots and pans. We have stainless but I have heard that the dishwasher doesn’t do good things to the Teflon coating. Just another little peice of cancer for us all.
we put our silverware all tines up except for the steak knives. That way you can’t gouge yourself! But – as stated above – you really aren’t supposed to put them in the dishwasher anyway. but tell me: who the HELL likes to hand wash anything?
Who knew this was such a fascinating issue…its a real close second to how you hang your toilet paper. I’m very firm in mys system on forks and spoons UP and knives most definitely DOWN.
I wonder what it says about me that I actually find incredibly interesting to read how others load the dishwasher?! My husband insists on putting all of our bowls on the top rack but for some unknown man-reason always puts the Gladware, etc. on the bottom which means I have lost about 38756 lids to the Melting Gods.
(Wow, that is an embarrassingly long comment on dishwasher loading, I guess my feelings run much deeper than I thought…)
I put most of the silverware pointing up in the dishwasher, even butter knives, but steak knives definitely down. I too am on the clumsy end of the bell curve.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
I’ve always thought you look like Mira Sorvino!
Ummm, I can see the Chloe thing a little bit but you don’t have the smarm that she has. I could slap her every damn time. You, I don’t wanna slap. Funny.
um, i think mariah is actually very pretty, although was prettier in her younger days, before whatever she did to her face. and chloe is not exactly pretty but there’s something really magnetic about her. i can kind of see why people would think you look like chloe, but you are actually MUCH MUCH prettier than she is. i have to agree with anon at the bottom here, who says mira sorvino! she’s adorable. at least you don’t get sarah jessica parker. i do. i’ve also gotten sheryl crow (i also don’t like her). my nieces used to think i looked like daphne in scooby doo (the live-action version), who is sarah michelle gellar. i just had a trench coat and blonde hair; i think that was where the resemblance ended. they still call it the daphne coat.
Eek — all the silver goes pointy bits down in our dishwasher. I’d be hella sliced-up otherwise. Not so much with the hand-eye coordination, am I. It all seems to get clean, though.
I don’t see the Mariah Carey thing at all. *Maybe* a *little* of the Sevigny around the edges, but that would not have popped into my head at all. Mainly because you’re attractive and she… well. I agree that I see a lot more of Mira Sorvino! I get Melissa Stark, the sportscaster lady. I don’t see it, but I’ve gotten it several times, so there must be something to it.
Now I’ll go back to daydreaming about the man-elfwich.
OMG! That scene in Out of Sight! Laaaaaaawwwd! I love it!
And how could I have forgotten Clive. Sigh.
I’m a tines AND blades-up girl, or I was when I had a dishwasher. *wistful sigh*
Oh Philip Seymour Hoffman is DELICIOUS, even at his slobbiest. He is! He is! I wish I’d listed him because: YES. Especially in the Empire Falls miniseries on HBO. YES YES YES.
I see the Chloe Sevigny reference a little — not a lot — BUT I will tell you that I actually think she’s very, very pretty, and I actually like her, so for me, it’s a good thing. (Uh, anyone else see Big Love? She has her moments there! She does!)
But yes! YES. MIRA SORVINO, YES. That’s it.
Chloe is pretty if you can get past her outfits. I can see that, but I agree, much more Mira Sorvino.
I don’t look like anyone except my mom, who looks like her mom who doesn’t really look like anyone famous.
I fully agree that Johnny Depp is hot and all, but does no one else find him a bit… well… CREEPY? The dude’s creepy. Hot. Creepy.
I put the knives on their sides up in on the cups rack. Very clean, no stabbing.
Good post – so many comments for me to add! YAY!!
Ok, here goes:
1 – silverware/dishwasher issue. All items go tines up EXCEPT sharp knives! Spoons, forks, butter knives – ok. Sharp knives – definitely down!! No wonder the band-aid has been present for two days! :)
2 – looks issue. Chloe – yes, I can see this. Mariah Carey – not so much. And I agree, not so pretty.
3 – growth issue. My little girl is 4 months old and I certainly remember the OMG moment when she just seemed to instantly outgrow EVERYTHING. But that also just barely preceded the SO MUCH FUN stage that babies reach. Enjoy!
4 – nobody puts Baby in the corner. LOVE! My BFF bought me the onesie from Carter’s with this plastered on the front. Can’t wait to show her off in that! 6/9 months – here we come!! :)
That’s all. I’ll leave you alone now …
Have a great day and enjoy the rest of your stay in Coos Bay!!
(Ok, is it just me or did I totally just sound like a tour director/flight attendant/etc above? Yeah, sorry bout that.)
Hmmm… Mariah? I’m going with the general consensus here in that I can see Sevigny, but Mira may be a better comparison. Being Asian, there aren’t too many celebrities who I resemble. My hubby says Kobe Ty (sp?), the, ahem, adult movie star. Thanks, hon.
I’m a pointy-bits down dishwahser person as well. Never really gave it much thought. Everything seems to get clean, though.
I had to laugh at the celebrity comparison distress, because I, too, have been told recently that I look *just like* a famous actress. I was so flattered (I had once been compared to Neve Campbell in the Party of Five days eons ago), so I was so excited to hear who it was I could be mistaken for:
Kathy. Freaking. Bates.
Now that’s humbling.
When we had a dishwasher, the constant argument was not “tines up/down” but “sort the silverware into separate compartments in the dishwasher vs. just throw it in there already, geez.”
I am DEEPLY against tines up in the dishwasher. My biggest fear is ramming a fork tine under my fingernail.
Also, I dispute the “they get more clean” theory on the basis that it doesn’t matter if they are more clean if YOU HAVE TO PUT YOUR GERMY HANDS ALL OVER THEM TO GET THEM OUT! Whew. I feel better.
Tines down!
I have to tell you, I don’t see the Mariah thing. But funny you should mention it, I have been compared to her since 1991. DAILY. I hear it ALL.THE.TIME. But more of the Vision of Love era, not so much how she looks now.
eeekk.. Am I ugly?
Tines either way. Knives down always. I do turn some of the spoons up on purpose b/c there is nothing grosser than 2 spoons getting stuck together & it’s dirty in the middle.
You do NOT look like Mariah.
And since I didn’t get to weigh in on the previous post, I adore John Cusack.
MKB: Depp’s little moustache is what I think makes him slightly creepy these days.
My husband does that tines up thing and drives me batty. Whatever, it SO does not make difference. I have experimented and the food is stuck either way if you do not wash it in a timely manner. I too stab myself regularly so I just turn them all down when he is not looking ;)
I was compared to Cameron Diaz once from the nose up??? That was also when I had blond hair but still, I look NOTHING like her. Maybe we have the same color eyes??! This I even highly doubt. I do agree with the person who said Mira Sorvino with reference to you.
I was a clumsy idiot of a child, emphasis on idiot. Dishes/flatware were my chore, and when it came to the flatware I ALWAYS impaled my pink little hands on whatever vaguely pointy or stabby implement of doom presented itself first. I eventually started to complain about it and suggest that the family do something about it by like, putting things death-side down, for instance. It never took. Nobody changed anything and I was stuck with the piping hot fork tines and a basket full of steak knives glistening moistly at me. Sure enough it took words from my sage grandfather to straighten me out. He suggested that instead of grabbing ‘em from the top… I go at ‘em from the side or even underneath… and voila. NO more bandaids. Seems trivial and silly to have to have had it TOLD to me, but as I said, I was an idiot.
In my home now, we are all points down, but still I come at things from the side of the basket (even after usually taking the flatware basket OUT of the machine) just in case I or my main squeeze was sloppy and got a knife in the wrong direction.
So – when all else fails, grab ‘em from below. (”Don’t pick the fork-flower by the bloom, rather by the stem”.)
You’re thinner, prettier, and as far as I know, can sing better. I’ve never been fully convinced that you really are a member of this family. AL
umm..I get Kirstie Alley ALL THE TIME….now I should mention that I am 5′7″ and weigh in at 145. So NOT Kirstie Alley…
On the dishwasher: Forks and spoons up, stabby stabby knives DOWN.
it was ME who said you look like Chloë Sevigny… is that an insult? I didn’t mean it to be. I think she’s cute. :) I meant it as a compliment MAN! jeesh!
Anyway, Mariah Carey is fucking annoying as fuck and SO NOT CUTE!
it was ME who said you look like Chloë Sevigny… is that an insult? I didn’t mean it to be. I think she’s cute. :) I meant it as a compliment MAN! jeesh!
Anyway, Mariah Carey is fucking annoying as fuck and SO NOT CUTE!
I’ve had people say I look like Scarlett Johanssen (I don’t, but it might be my lips..) and Angelina Jolie (I fucking WISH…) and Liv Tyler…
I think I look like ME. and I’m totally happy w/ that. I’ve never seen anyone that looks like me… I’ve yet to meet my doppelganger…
I hear ya on all those hotties. I could go on and on forever. YUM-MY!
I do tines down. Because I couldn’t afford to buy the jumbo box Band-Aids from Costco every week.
I agree with the others… I’ve always thought you look like Mira Sorvino. And that’s totally a compliment, because I really like her. :)
I think you’re way prettier than Chloe or Mariah.
I hadn’t discovered you at the time of the man-Elfwich, and that just made my day.
My fiance insists that spoons need to go handle-down in the dishwasher in order to get clean, but thankfully he doesn’t feel the same way about forks. When utensils are face up, you need to touch the part that goes in your mouth to pull them out, and doesn’t that defeat the purpose of them getting so sparkling clean? Wow, that makes me sound like a germophobe.
ok, i TOTALLY missed yesterday’s post. not sure how that happened. but my alltime movie star crushes are: vin diesel in pitch black and hugh jackman as wolverine. i’m sure there are others, but those two just, well, DAMN!
as for the tines up/down…i find i HAVE to put them face up if i want them even a little bit clean, however, i INSIST that all knives be face DOWN! i am not a fan of hand-meat stabbing.
mariah carey, i think she’s okay looking, but the crazy factor negates any beauty on her part. also, you don’t look like her. at all. and i don’t even know who that chloe chick is. i have been compared to whats-her-name judd. no, not Ashley, the pretty one. the other one…the FAT one. ya. *sigh* lucky me.
My knives have been blade-down since a run-in I had with our new steak knives.
And for what it’s worth, I would take being compared to Mariah Carey over BLOSSOM (!!!) any day, my friend. A good friend of mine gets Gene Wilder. We’ll be sitting over here on our sad sack log if you want to come visit us.
No on the Mariah thing…yes on forks up (but the pointy knives always go down) We’ve been without the dishwasher so long I’d forgotten about that great debate. Ours broke and replacing it will require either removing the countertops or the floor….maybe next year!
By the way…can I ship Cody and Zoey up to stay with Dog when we drive to Anaheim??? They only lick themselves once in awhile!
My very first: Pierce Brosnon in Remmington Steele…and then again in The Thomas Crowne Affair. My god did I want to be Laura Holt.
no, no, no! You’re RIGHT! Silverware DOWN.
Cleaner? Jesus Christ, how much stuff are you cramming into your dishwasher before you run it? Unless you’ve got an entire service for 12 in there, your forks and such should get clean just fine.
(PS – I’ve been compared to Marie Osmond [pre-surgery] and Linda Blair.)
I always thought I was weird because I would totally do it (like animals) to the fox from Disney’s Robin Hood. Feels good to know I’m not alone. I watched that movie constantly when I was a little girl just to daydream of that fox of a fox!
I also enjoy Zach Braff in Garden State + just about everything else he does. I LOVE cute dorks.
I’m shocked no one has said Terrance Howard. OMG he is delicious. I especially liked him in Pride.
Also, Bruce Lee was a hottie.
I don’t discriminate; different races or CARTOONS, it don’t matter to me! Sexy is sexy in my book.
As for dishwasher dos + don’ts, how the silverware land is how they get washed in this house. We’re not supposed to dishwasher knives? That might explain why my stainless steel Ginsus started to rust after I ran them through the machine.
Oh shizz, I forgot to mention who I’ve been told I look like:
- Jodie Foster (ick)
- Claire Danes (this is agree with)
- if Gywneth Paltrow + Martha Stewart had a baby (as per my husband)
I don’t think you look like Mariah OR Chloe just like I don’t look like Jodie or Martha!
Simon once told a girl that she looked like Marilyn Manson. No amount of “but I meant it as a compliment!”s could save that one.
And I too have a crush on Philip Seymour Hoffman. Talent makes me hot.
Whether you continue to read or not, I wanted to let you know I talked about you! :)
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I once had a guy who was trying to get in my pants tell me that I looked like Joan Cusack; needless to say that the comparison did not help his already infinitesimal chances. Mostly I just get compared to the personalities of celebrities. Recently, I was told that I was just like Ellen Page in Juno, “if you would’ve gotten pregnant when we were in high school.” Heh, uh, thanks, I guess?
I am in the all silverware points down contingent, due to a childhood incident involving a steak knife and a cut underneath my pointer finger nail. Ouch. My sisters are still traumatized by the retelling of this story. And I agree with Operation Pink Herring — it makes sense that you don’t touch the parts of clean utensils that will eventually go into mouths, no?
Forks/Spoons Up. Knives Down.
I can’t possibly see Phillip Seymore Hoffman as sexy after his “I just sharted” quote from Along Came Polly. Ew!
…crap! “Seymour” I really shouldn’t talk to someone while I type.
TOTALLY the fox from Robin Hood. I don’t know to be glad I’m not alone in that….or scared.
People always tell me I look like Celine Dion. I am like, “THANKS ALOT! NOT!!” She is not an attractive woman. In. My. Opinion.
I totally don’t think you and Mariah look alike. Plus: Mariah=Huge Beotch. Also in my opinion…
I prefer tines-down. Esp since a friend accidentally backed into an open dishwasher door and ended up pulling a knife out of her leg. I’d rather have dried oatmeal on my fork.
I think Chloë Sevigny is very pretty…she plays some unique characters but that is good. Surprised about the Mariah comparision though
I just had a tines-up incident! A wayward fork stabbed me in the hand. And it hurt like a bitch because forks aren’t sharp, they don’t give you the pleasure of making a gentle entrance into the skin.
I just wanted to say that I can “hear” how happy you are lately. I am so glad that your trip is going so well and that Dylan is coming out of the sweet but terrible newborn stage.
I hope JB gets back soon though, since the boy is growing so quickly.
It was me who listed Philip Seymour Hoffman on my hottie list. I dunno, anyone who can say that they sharted themselves and still look cool is ok in my book. :)
Foxy Robin Hood — I totally get that one. Sure, he was a cartoon, but he was confident and devil-may-care and witty, yet also sensitive and compassionate and he had a sense of humor. So basically, he was the Cloon as played by an animated cartoon fox.
Tines up, pointy knives down, pull the basket and dump onto a clean towel to sort/put the Implements of Torture away.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is a chameleon. Sometimes he’s HOT and sometimes he’s just a big lizard.
Denzel, however, is always happiness on toast.
I had a drunk on a bus once tell me I looked like Michelle Pfeiffer. I was grateful. I’ve also gotten Sela Ward (after I stopped being addicted to foiling) and Rene Russo. I don’t think I’d recognize Mariah Carey if she stood up in my soup, so I can’t comment there.
Oh, and this is really in response to yesterday’s post, but as the human owner of a recipient of the loving care given VDs (no, NOT diseases) at V’s puppy ponderosa, Dog is very, very lucky. And my Sophie is just a bit jealous.
Okay, totally not the right post and not even about movie actors (I actually couldn’t think of any actors since it’s been about 50 years since I’ve actually seen a movie!), but Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters and Chris Cornell (previously with Audioslave) are both on my “opt out” list for my marriage :)
Biscuit admitting that she like animals makes me feel soooo much better for admitting that I think Corbin Bleu (Disney ingenue)
And we have points up, but we have a compartment for knives, one for forks, one for spoons – totally anal I know – but if the knives are in the corner compartment, you can get them out of the basket without impaling yourself
Somebody just said the other day how much I reminded them of Gisele Bundchen…
…and then my alarm went off. Ba-dum-chhh!
Not too many comparisons here, but as a kid it was Pippi Longstocking. There was no Ariel for us red-headed kids back then. :)
The Chloe Sevigny reference made me laugh. Hopefully, you weren’t compared to her in Big Love. I love that show but she is homely.
My favorite boy crush is John Cusack!
Tines? I eat with my hands. Kidding. Ok, not when it’s potato chips.
Loved the photos of Dog. Hilarious that photo of her in the other dog’s chair. Who says dogs aren’t generous with their stuff?
Mariah Carey has had some plastic surgery. Her features look sliced and diced. Her body’s in pretty good shape though.
ok..didn’t realize we were naming cartoons too…yes, the fox in robin hood DEFINATELY, but also Goliath (remember that show Gargoyles???), Shrek, and the beast from Beauty and the beast. i’d totally do ALL of them.
I don’t comment often, but I have to add my .02 on the silverware: knives down, everything else up! Maximizes cleanliness AND safety!
Justmouse -Really? You’d “do” Shrek, a Gargoyle & the Beast? If you had any idea how bad they smelled in person you would rethink that decision :)
I also have an ongoing “discussion” about silverware direction in my house. It involves my very sharp “good knives” which until now I always washed carefully by hand and put sharp side up in the drying rack – to make sure their blades didn’t scrape each other & dull. Danger is my middle name.
Now that I’m usually toting a baby as I walk by there…well danger is NOT my baby’s middle name (I got vetoed). So I ordered a big magnetic strip to put on the wall under the cabinets to save my blades and Kellen’s eyes.
I’ve been told I look like Ricki Lake. And I guess… I dunno. I think she’s pretty in that stare at her long enough she becomes pretty kind of way.
We can’t all be Christie Brinkley though I guess.
Also. I continue to wonder: Do they mean Large Ricki Lake or small Ricki Lake. :(
Oh yeah, and I put all my utensils tines up. I like to live on the edge I guess.
I’m also supposed to hand-wash my steak knives, but who are they kidding. I dont have that kinda time. I got TV to watch!
ELC: about the shrek thing: it was suggested that my husband and i dress up as shrek and fiona for halloween. except for not being green, we..um…sorta already have the look.
what can i say, i like them big, rugged, and grumpy. (of course, now that you mention the smell…i might have second thoughts!)
1. Jude Law — The Talented Mr. Ripley
2. Ralph Fiennes — The English Patient
3. Peter O’Toole — Lawrence of Arabia
Runners-up:
–David Bowie, preferably as the Thin White Duke
– Vincent Cassell, in the Oceans movies
– Daniel Craig, Layer Cake
Everything except sharp objects goes tines up in our house – not for cleanliness, but because it seems to scratch the cutlery less, which is new and fancy… or at least it’s the first matched set we’ve gotten and it replaced the mismatched college stuff. Pointy things point down though.
When she was in the news more frequently I was told often that I looked like Fergie. Yes, the Duchess. *sigh* Not too thrilled with that comparison, to say the least. The best comeback, however, to my distaste at the comparison goes to a used car salesman who was a Brit: “Well, she’s a lot prettier in person!” LOL
Can’t believe I am alone in my love of Kiefer (well ONE person mentioned him in “24″)!! As Ace Merill in Stand by Me or as Michael in Lost Boys? Anyone?
I’ve been told that I look like Celine Dion. I guess we are both ethnic looking white people but um, no thanks. Once I was walking out of an event and all the blinding, crazy paparazzi flash starts going off. I kind of thought maybe I was famous and didn’t know it, but no, Chloe Sevigny was walking in front of me. Much prettier in person, if (as someone said above) you can get past the outfits.
Just chiming in on the Mira Sorvino thing. (Only to the extent that you like her and are ok with the comparison. :)
I used to be told that I looked like Melanie Griffiths, but no one says that anymore, thank god. Were you back home over the weekend? The weather was crAAAzy, with sleet and thick snowstorms, interspered with brightness and sun.
Not having the time to read all the tines-up comments I’m gonna risk being the gross one, or the dumb one, or both. In a fully enclosed dishwasher where high pressured hot water and soap spew everywhere is there really such a thing as maximum cleaning potential dependent upon the situation of the tines?
My biggest movie crush is Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice. Mmmmmmm! Will always love Patrick Dempsey in Can’t Buy Me Love and Michael Schoeffling in Sixteen Candles. Oldies but goodies. Yes to Viggo as Aragorn and also LOVE Brad Pitt in Troy!
Several years ago someone told me that I looked like Hillary Clinton. Beat. That. :/
How fast are you loading that dishwasher anyway? Fast enough to jab a fork/knife/wooden spoon into your hand? I say slow down a bit. But best to put everything lethal side down, just to be safe.
Yay for “AWOO, AGOO, AWWW’s”. :)