Miss Saigon on Saturday – that was one of the spud’s birthday presents – and the show kicked ass. I was occasionally distracted by the fact that the actor who played Chris had a very strong resemblance to Jon Walmsley (you might recognize him as Jason from The Waltons).
We had second row seats, and we have first row seats for Jesus Christ, Superstar next month, and Les Mis in the spring.
I teared up several times during the show (PMS is a bitch, yes it is), and a woman sitting in the row behind me was sobbing pretty loudly at the end. Great show, but also a downer.
After the show (it was the Saturday matinee, and we got out about 4:30), we had dinner at Lonestar, and then came home and had cake and the spud opened most of her presents (she saved one to open on her actual birthday), and then she went upstairs to watch Crossroads and Fred and I sat around and waited for it to be bedtime. I was absolutely stuffed from the birthday cake. I’m glad the bakery we get our cakes from is on the other side of Huntsville. If it was any closer, we’d be in trouble.
I think the spud had a pretty good time, and she got plenty of good gifts, so I’d call it definitely a happy birthday.
This picture seems to make the cake look kind of hideous, but it was pretty in person. I swear it! (And DAMN was it good…)
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Pet store kitty pics are
yonder.
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I swear to god, I don’t know about my husband sometimes. He spent a good part of Saturday morning altering a picture of himself so that it would look creepy and make me scream and run away. It is SO fucking creepy, I can barely stand to look at it.
Naturally I’m going to link to it so you can be creeped out as well. Go
check it out, but don’t say I didn’t warn you!
Creepy, ain’t it?
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Speaking of creepy, we watched
The Ring again yesterday, this time with the spud. Naomi Watts could be Nicole Kidman’s twin sister, I swear. She looks like her, she sounds like her, she has many of the same mannerisms. It was kind of distracting, really! Naomi Watts, Nicole Kidman, and Meg Ryan should play sisters in a movie and get it over with.
Speaking of movies (nice segue, eh?) I also watched
Bend it Like Beckham this weekend. Good movie! I love that adorable little Parminder Nagra.
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When we adopted Stanley-bean, he had an upper respiratory infection and was on medication. The vet gave him an injection and told us to keep giving him the medication until it was gone. We did, and the wheezing and sneezing stopped.
Over the weekend, the sneezing and wheezing started again, so after a discussion with the vet, Beanie-bean will be going on a different, stronger medication.
Being sick hasn’t slowed Beanie down any, though – he still runs around like his ass is on fire.
He and Fred have a game that keeps them entertained for hours. Fred sets the mesh hamper in the middle of the living room floor, and then tosses a ball in the hamper. Beanie comes running from his hiding place under the kitchen table, and attacks the hamper, sometimes pushing it all the way across the room. Then he runs off and waits for Fred to do it again. To see him in action, click on the “Movie of the week” over there in the sidebar (it’s under “about”).
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For some reason, Stanley-bean loves to be held like this, so that he’s laying along the length of Fred’s arm. As soon as Fred picks him up like this, Bean starts purring so loud you can hear him from three rooms away.
He just lays there and looks around, purring to beat the band. Freaky cat. ]]>
That IS a freaky picture!
In my defense, I didn’t start out making the creepy picture. I was going to P’shop my eyes onto a picture of Stanley to see what it would look like. After I’d lassoed one of the eyes, I cut the image, which left the eye entirely white.
Of course I wanted to see what black would look like, and I got all sidetracked making the picture Robyn posted.
Someone will post here or email Robyn to suggest I need some sort of counseling because I’m evil/crazy/depressed/suicidal in 3…2…1…
The pic looks like something from Event Horizon.
“Where he’s going, he doesn’t NEED eyes!”
No, Fred, you don’t need counseling any more than all the other red-blooded males do as my DH loves to do the same things. Must be something in the genes LOL! It is real creepy looking, like you aren’t in there anymore. Great for halloween =).
HAPPY BIRTHDAy SPUD!!
The picture of Fred made me laugh – does that mean that I’m as disturbed as he is?
I watched the Stanley video – my favorite part is the cat sitting by the door watching him like he’s insane.
Lauren – probably. 🙂 Also, all the older cats look at Stanley-bean like he’s completely crazy. It’s almost as funny to watch their reactions as to watch the crazy-ass stuff he does.
Fred.Is.Fucked.Up.
That is all.
Jesus Christ, Robyn! After looking at that picture, how can you ever have sex with that man again. Creeepppyyy!!!
mmmm… what kind of cake was it?
That picture is freaky, it looks like a Fred mask b/c the eyes are holes as opposed to black eyeballs… which I do have a basis for comparison for since one of my friends has black contact lenses that he wears for Halloween, and with those, you can still see the three dimensionality of his eyes. Not so with the Fred “mask”.
Oh and those pictures of Fred holding Stanley are so cute, it reminds me of how my bf’s dad used to hold his nephew (bf’s nephew, bf’s dad’s grandson) when he was a few months old, and the baby would fall asleep like that! so cute!
Michele – a white cake with white frosting. SO good, believe me! Peggy Ann Bakery rocks!
Stanley is just too cute. I love the pics, and love the new feature! Movie of the week, awesome!
I don’t know if you agree Robyn, but I would have to say that with this kitten addition, Fred seems to have finally gotten his dog.
I want a piece of cake!!!
creepy, yes but it would be more creepy if you could see the window through his eyes.
great job, tho!
Maybe I’m all late and stuff but I’ve never heard the expression “purring to beat the band” before.
That picture of Fred would make a good Halloween mask, don’t you think? All you’d have to do is print it out and attach a length of elastic! Of yeah, and cut out the eyes!
I watched Bend It Like Beckham this weekend too. Good flick!
Robyn, I loved China Beach too. That episode with the real Viet Nam nurses talking about their experiences? Cried through the whole thing.
Happy Birthday, Spud! I hope she saved me some cake.
Michelle – dictionary.com defines “to beat the band” as: To an extreme degree. So he was purring to an extreme degree. 🙂
Aidan – I got GOOSEBUMPS when I read your comment and was reminded of that episode. I just adore that show, and as a result of that show, I love Dana Delaney no matter what she’s been in. We were watching 10-8 last night, and the guy who played Dodger was on as the bad guy. Which I think is what got me thinking about China Beach!
I think someone should go as Fred for Halloween. Any volunteers? 🙂
I saw on tv one time where Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts have been very best friends for like a billion years. That’s prolly why they are so much alike, I think. Oh, and you’re so so right about the Meg/Nicole/Naomi movie!
Happy Birfday Spud!!!!
China Beach re-runs are on the History Channel. Now, if you had TiVO, you could just set it up the season pass to record China Beach and you’d have every episode in no time.
If only you had TiVO…
***Shudder shudder shudder***. Soulless bastard.
Our cat likes to be carried like that too; she’ll only let my husband do it, though. I guess it’s because he has the biggest hand/arm combo.
I NEED TIVO!!!!!!!!
Aww Robyn – you made me lose my bet with my husband. I thought for sure you would write something about the Joe Schmoe marathon that was on yesterday…now i have to cook dinner tonight.
Oh my gawd, Stanley is such a cutie pie! I just love watching him wag his little stubby tail. 🙂
Sharon – sorry about that! If I’d had a heads-up and a fiver, I probably could have seen my way clear to writing about it. Heh. We caught a few minutes of the marathon, but I couldn’t convince Fred that we should watch the whole thing. I canNOT wait until the last show tomorrow night. I’m dying to know what will happen!
Whyyyyyyy? Why the frightening pictures? I’d just completed therapy to get the scary dog out of my dreams at night, and now scary Fred will be starring in them!
Just kidding. That is one freaky pic, though.
I like the pics of him holding Stanley, too; I used to hold my cat Snoopy (Stanley’s twin!) the same way before she got too big and she liked it a lot. Must be a thing with the gray cats.
I loooooooooove my Tivo.
and, that picture of Fred is just disturbing.
Robyn, I loved “Bend It Like Beckham!” Parminder is so cute. I just saw her on some music award show tonight. (I was only half paying attention to it and can’t tell you what it was.)
I’m with Elizabeth…I’m scared to go to sleep now. I’m not kidding. I’m very sleepy and my husband is not home. I’ll just concentrate on the Stanley-bean photo for a while. He’s precious.
Oh, I just put up a cute one of my Sam in my blog. I caught him in the cutest position.
Perhaps Stanley likes to be held like that so he can pretend he’s a panther laying across a tree branch in the wilderness waiting to swoop down on some unsuspecting prey. Which reminds me, have you seen the commercial on animal planet where the house cat chases the zebra like it’s a lion? It’s cute.
Robyn – I know! Every time the commercial comes on where he says “What is goooiiiinng oooooonnnn” Jason and I start cracking up.
Luckily, I persuaded him that my cooking is not really worth a winning bet and I took him out to dinner instead.
Sharon
OMG…He is wrong for doing that picture…gives me the heebiegeebies just thinking about it….*shiver*
The cake looked scrumptious and very fall-like! I don’t think I’ve ever knew your daughter’s name before until I saw that cake. Pretty cake/pretty name! 🙂
I didn’t comment yesterday, but I read this. Don’t know what I was doing that I couldn’t find time to comment, but there you have it.
Fred pic=creepy.
Cake=good.
Stanley=bean.
I loved the clip of stanely bean , it cracked me up.