I know, I know it's been awhile, but I'm coming back strong with a Christmas story for all of you!
Christmas day night. My parents, sisters and I all gathered in the family room to watch The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (huge fan) and we were eating the cake my mom had bought for the day. Well, I was sitting on my parents lazy boy couch with the legs up when I dropped my fork on the carpet. Since it was chocolate cake I was worried Birdie would swoop down and try to eat it. So I leaned over the leg portion, it collapsed, and I went face first into my parents solid wood coffee table.
My first reaction was to stand up and cover my face b/c my cheek right under my eye hurt incredibly bad. My sisters thought I had busted my nose and my mom started screaming something unintelligable because I had started to bleed from my left eyelid with blood on my hairline as well. So, dad came bounding in from the kitchen and we held a compress to it. Dad and Kellie took me down to the emergency room at St. Lukes while mom and Laura stayed behind.
We get to St. Lukes and the lady at the window asked me what had happened - keep in mind I could not see all this time b/c I didn't have my contacts in and my glasses were all screwed up from the faceplant. So I took away the compress and she looks at it and goes "oh my." So we wait in the lobby room for about 20 mins when the nurse comes and we go to another room. They asked me some questions (Did someone do this to you-did someone hurt you)and I assured them it was a coffee table. So, the doctor and nurse lay me down and clean off all the blood. From there they spread the wound apart and then poured in the glue into the inch gash right above my eyelid to close it. Apparently, the glue will prevent scaring a lot more than stitches would. Which is fine with me. I would not be happy getting stitches in that area.
During this time my face wasnt hurting so much as it felt like my head was being pounded with a hammer. They took a CT scan just to make sure there was nothing going wrong with my head (they pronounced nothing was in there). Issued a prescription for Vicoden, wished me a Merry Christmas, and sent us on our way. All in all about 2 hours at the hospital.
Conclusion: I now have an inch long gash below my eyebrow covered in glue. I have scratches along the side of my eye and under as well. All of that is from my glasses (thankfully those didnt break-they are Dolce & Gabbanas!). Half my eyelid is a bruise with bruising under my eye as well. And, apparently my right arm took a beating as well b/c I have a huge bruise on my upper arm that hurts now.
Otherwise that, I had a great Christmas though! Hope you all did too!
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Monday, November 10, 2008
St. Louis Film Festival
Hooray! The 17th annual St. Louis film festival starts up this weekend and will last for two weeks. I've worked it out that these will be the movies I plan on seeing:
Adam Resurrected: "Jeff Goldblum gives an acclaimed performance as Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in early-'60s Israel. During the war, despite his status as a much-loved circus entertainer, Adam was shipped to a concentration camp, where the commandant (Willem Dafoe) forced him to act the part of a dog to survive. Incarcerated again at the asylum, Adam recognizes another such pitiable creature— a barking young boy raised in a basement on a chain— whom he works to save." I think its a comedy...
Humboldt County: "After a drunken one-night stand, tightly wound UCLA med student Peter Hadley finds himself stranded in picturesque Humboldt County at the family home of free-spirited Bogart. The judgmentally inclined Peter at first resists the eccentric enclave of pot farmers but slowly comes to embrace their easygoing life and ideals."
I've loved you so long: "Tells the story of two estranged sisters who reunite when Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) – who’s murdered her 6-year-old son – is released from prison after 15 years. Over the objections of her family, younger sibling Lea invites her sister to come live with her, and gradually a different Juliette emerges from the shadows of her terrible crime."
Let the Right One In: "Tells a darkly atmospheric, poetic and surprisingly tender story of adolescence … and vampirism. Fragile, anxious 12-year-old Oskar, regularly bullied by his stronger classmates, finds protection and friendship when 12-year-old Eli moves in next door. A pale, serious young girl, Eli only comes out at night, and her arrival coincides with a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders." And...it's in Swedish!!
Pretty Ugly People: "After shedding all her excess weight through gastric-bypass surgery, Lucy (Missy Pyle) fakes a serious illness to trick her estranged college friends into gathering together in the Montana wilderness. Lucy wants to show off her slim figure, with the hope that she’ll finally “feel like one of them,” but during four days of arduous hiking, she soon discovers that her friends have become as unfamiliar to her as her newly trim body. Faced with the rigors of the outdoors, these pretty people turn ugly, revealing their deepest fears and secrets."
Wendy and Lucy: "Down-at-heels Wendy, delicately played by Michelle Williams, begins a road trip that’s intended to take her to a job in Alaska, but her car breaks down in the Pacific Northwest, touching off a cascading series of economic disasters the includes the impoundment of beloved dog Lucy."
Yeast: "A Maddeningly un-self-aware, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman engaged in toxic relationships with two exasperated friends (Greta Gerwig and Amy Judd). With a physical aggressiveness and emotional violence that is undeniably feminine in nature, “Yeast” explores the grinding mechanics of friendships that have run their course. Mostly improvised, the film follows a few days in the lives of three women struggling to keep friendship alive in the face of a huge challenge: They know each other too well.
Adam Resurrected: "Jeff Goldblum gives an acclaimed performance as Adam Stein, a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in early-'60s Israel. During the war, despite his status as a much-loved circus entertainer, Adam was shipped to a concentration camp, where the commandant (Willem Dafoe) forced him to act the part of a dog to survive. Incarcerated again at the asylum, Adam recognizes another such pitiable creature— a barking young boy raised in a basement on a chain— whom he works to save." I think its a comedy...
Humboldt County: "After a drunken one-night stand, tightly wound UCLA med student Peter Hadley finds himself stranded in picturesque Humboldt County at the family home of free-spirited Bogart. The judgmentally inclined Peter at first resists the eccentric enclave of pot farmers but slowly comes to embrace their easygoing life and ideals."
I've loved you so long: "Tells the story of two estranged sisters who reunite when Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) – who’s murdered her 6-year-old son – is released from prison after 15 years. Over the objections of her family, younger sibling Lea invites her sister to come live with her, and gradually a different Juliette emerges from the shadows of her terrible crime."
Let the Right One In: "Tells a darkly atmospheric, poetic and surprisingly tender story of adolescence … and vampirism. Fragile, anxious 12-year-old Oskar, regularly bullied by his stronger classmates, finds protection and friendship when 12-year-old Eli moves in next door. A pale, serious young girl, Eli only comes out at night, and her arrival coincides with a series of inexplicable disappearances and murders." And...it's in Swedish!!
Pretty Ugly People: "After shedding all her excess weight through gastric-bypass surgery, Lucy (Missy Pyle) fakes a serious illness to trick her estranged college friends into gathering together in the Montana wilderness. Lucy wants to show off her slim figure, with the hope that she’ll finally “feel like one of them,” but during four days of arduous hiking, she soon discovers that her friends have become as unfamiliar to her as her newly trim body. Faced with the rigors of the outdoors, these pretty people turn ugly, revealing their deepest fears and secrets."
Wendy and Lucy: "Down-at-heels Wendy, delicately played by Michelle Williams, begins a road trip that’s intended to take her to a job in Alaska, but her car breaks down in the Pacific Northwest, touching off a cascading series of economic disasters the includes the impoundment of beloved dog Lucy."
Yeast: "A Maddeningly un-self-aware, tyrannical and emotionally stunted young woman engaged in toxic relationships with two exasperated friends (Greta Gerwig and Amy Judd). With a physical aggressiveness and emotional violence that is undeniably feminine in nature, “Yeast” explores the grinding mechanics of friendships that have run their course. Mostly improvised, the film follows a few days in the lives of three women struggling to keep friendship alive in the face of a huge challenge: They know each other too well.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
whoa
Holy shit. I was just sitting here on my couch and Obama was declared winner. What happened during the commercial break?
Can't they count any faster?!
I love election night, espically for the first time in three chances I've had to vote i'm finally going to be on the winning side, although I do find it sort of scary everytime NBC keeps telling me John McCain won another state. Thankfully Obama is still 60ish points ahead while i'm typing this.
And it makes me happy to keep hearing about Missouri this and Missouri that. I did just check though that its McCain 50 and Obama 49. Cry! What the hell is wrong with rural Missouri because they are the ones that keep blowing it for Democrats in this state. Bleh.
I got to the polling place at 5:50 am this morning and was 139th in line. I finally got in to vote around 7:30ish and was 15 minutes late for work. Oh well! At least I got to wear my little sticker around saying that "I voted, how about you?"
I'll talk to you later.
And it makes me happy to keep hearing about Missouri this and Missouri that. I did just check though that its McCain 50 and Obama 49. Cry! What the hell is wrong with rural Missouri because they are the ones that keep blowing it for Democrats in this state. Bleh.
I got to the polling place at 5:50 am this morning and was 139th in line. I finally got in to vote around 7:30ish and was 15 minutes late for work. Oh well! At least I got to wear my little sticker around saying that "I voted, how about you?"
I'll talk to you later.
Monday, November 3, 2008
Does anyone have $9,600.00 dollars?
I want one of these Cabbage Patch Dolls. How cool would it be to be immortialized as a Cabbage Patch doll! Although, I don't remember having one growing up. Maybe my sisters did. I know I had a bazillion Pound Puppies with their little houses but not a Cabbage patch doll.
I plan on getting to the polling place at 6:00 am tomorrow. I just hope the lines are not too long because I can't be late for work at 8:00. I'd better pack a book....
I feel bad for the Joe Biden doll. He has not even broken one thousand!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Friday night hockey
So, I went to the Blues game on Friday and got to see Sarah Palin drop the hockey puck. When she came out I couldn't quite see so I climbed up on my seat and promptly started to fall off and had to grab the girl next to me who proclaimed "Wow! Are you that excited to see Sarah Palin?" My response: "No." I just couldn't see! But I was able to get some good pictures by standing on my chair. And you know, she was sort of booed, but in the end she was roundly (and loudly) cheered. I'm okay with that because her two youngest daughters came out with her. And they looked so cute in their Blues hockey jerseys so it was really hard to boo. Besides, at age 26, if I walked into the center of a rink with 25,000 fans booing my Mom, I would probably start crying...
In the end, I stayed for the entire game, the Blues lost 4 to 0, and Sarah Palin did cause this.
In the end, I stayed for the entire game, the Blues lost 4 to 0, and Sarah Palin did cause this.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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