It's Been Awhile...

So it's been awhile since a new blog. There wasn't much of especial excitement going on. And then there's the stuff that's interesting but that I can't blog about. ;) A blogger's dilemma.



I've compiled a list of possible activities for when Mom is here. Have quite a bit actually, so it might not be too boring for her.



Got a fairly decent raise that will take effect in September. That'll be nice. Now I can afford that yacht I've been eyeing.



Keely is still not in labor. She is due today. I am tired of being at work and was counting on her being in labor so I had good reason to leave. Alas, she is not helping me. :)



I'm thinking next week I will get the belly button ring. If Saturday goes well like I think it's going to. Just in time to hide it for when Mom's here. Most people get this hiding stuff from your parents taken care of in, what, high school? Not me. I choose to do it now instead of high school. Yeah, that's right, I am 30 years old.

Nikki on 07.29.04 @ 02:56 PM PST [link]

Someone Turn It Down!

Holy crap it's been hot outside! Like, nearly 100 degrees. What's with that?



Went and saw I, Robot this afternoon. I was dubious, but a friend needed to escape some relationship drama, I suggested he do something to fill up the weekend time so he wasn't consumed by thinking about it, and so he offered to go to the movies. It ended up being a fabulous way to escape the heat, as well as a fairly decent movie. Watching Wil Smith for a couple hours is never too difficult either. :)



Afterwards, it was somewhat early, and I didn't want to go home, so I...oh you will never believe this...yes ladies and gentlemen, I washed my car! I even vacuumed it, although it needs some more done. It probably could've stood a more thorough cleaning, but I was out of quarters. Besides a car dealership, where can you take a car to get professionally cleaned on the inside? And, who knows if it's expensive to have the freon or whatever replaced in a car for air conditioning? I'm just thinking that if it's this hot when Mom comes out, there's no way I can not have AC.



It's cooled down but I am still lethargic. I should do laundry...but I don't want to. I feel kinda antsy.

Nikki on 07.24.04 @ 10:41 PM PST [link]

Something About Fridays

I don't know why, but on Fridays, I want junk food. Maybe it's because, growing up, when Mom and I ate out, it was usually Fridays. But Fridays roll around and suddenly what I brought to snack on all day is not good enough: a banana, yogurt, and the splurge of some of those new Oreo Crisps. Right now, I am eating that banana so that I don't go get a big candy bar. But, a banana is not the same. Not at all. Sigh. I did indulge (notice how that rhymes with "bulge" :) ) in a bag of baked potato chips. They're just not salty enough. The thing is, I am not even all that hungry. I just want to eat crap!! :)



It is freaking hot outside. When I left the house this morning it must have been at least 80 degrees out. And humid. Feels like Wisconsin weather.

Nikki on 07.23.04 @ 02:17 PM PST [link]

Weakness

Yesterday I walked into Fred Meyer to buy some socks (because I forgot a pair when I repacked my workout bag). What am I greeted with when I walk in? School supplies! Every year this happens, the euphora that washes over me when I see brand new notebooks just waiting for me to write in them. It doesn't matter than I have a stack of half used notebooks, both of my own purchase as well as from my place of employment. It doesn't matter that I have 4 or 5 writing journals that I need to to fill. I always want new notebooks. College rule. And don't forget about all the other fun school supplies. Every year I struggle not to buy anything! Luckily, I didn't have time last night. But there are plenty of nights to peruse....

Nikki on 07.22.04 @ 03:02 PM PST [link]

Postal

Where is my bazooka?

Nikki on 07.22.04 @ 02:01 PM PST [link]

Happy, Happy Girl

So, I have purchased my tickets to see Rent a month from now. The cool thing is that I am going with people that haven't seen it before. For some reason, that is just more fun. :)



Tonight Betsy and I are going to write at a place called Top Pot Doughnuts, on Capitol Hill. Sigh. Torture. Sheer torture. You know I am going to eat one. Good thing I am working out tonight. :)



I woke up this morning and had a debate in my mind about what day it was. The first time I was sure it was Wednesday and then I changed my mind and believed it to be Thursday. Imagine my chagrin when I realized that it was indeed Wednesday afterall.

Nikki on 07.21.04 @ 03:26 PM PST [link]

Good News

Talked with a fellow writer today, and it is her claim that a novel is composed of approximately 200 Word doc pages, or about 50k words. This is a relief to me since I am at 35k and about 107 pages. I am much closer to finished than I thought. Still far from it, just not in the unreachable area now.



I am so excited because Rent tickets are on sale. Well, they will be on Friday. They are right now through KISS 106.1, but I am still trying to figure out how to get to them. I am going at least twice. No idea on either day. One kind of depends on the other. :) If I could afford it, I would go every day that it was in town. That's how much I enjoy that show. :) I would also like to see Lion King when it comes this winter. I have fond memories of that movie. :)



I am making a list of places to go with my mom when she is here. Some of the places are just drive-bys like:

• Fremont Troll


• Microsoft


• the old apartment


• where I work


• BCC


• UW


• Marymoor

But then I need places that will be time fillers and also disabled person friendly. Then I have a separate list for restaurants. I want to take her to Cold Stone (because it's fun), Ivar's (although we did go there last time but there's one close to my house), and that yummy Italian place on Queen Anne. If she behaves herself, I may take her to the Melting Pot. But no wine this time. :) What are some other good places to go? I thought about taking her to Canada but I don't know if there will be time. I also want to have a little picnic/bbq, maybe at Gasworks. She wants to meet all my friends and stuff and that just seems like the most efficient way to do it...

Nikki on 07.20.04 @ 04:20 PM PST [link]

Public Display of Affection (PDA)

I was at the JJJ tonight (which, by the way, was fricking hot). I sat in my preferred spot, the corner table by the window in the back. I like to sit there so I can look outside at the passersby while contemplating my next move on the novel. Anyway. There was a lineup of cars at the stoplight, one of which was a guy and his significant other on a motorcycle. First he kinda patted/stroked her bared thigh and knee. Then, she had her arms around this chest of course, so she was squeezing his pecs and hips. And then, I thought to myself, good lord don't go there! when I saw her hands going lower. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, she then squeezed his package. Now, I am fine with a certain amount of public displays of affection. I love holding hands. I don't mind kissing or seeing kissing out on the streets so long as it's not gratuitious. But squeezing your man's package??? I almost vomitted. And the thing is, he didn't flinch at all when she did it, so obviously it wasn't the first time, probably today, that such a thing had happened. Which, somehow makes it all the more disgusting. Call me a prude if you want. I don't care. :P



I am up to a whopping 107 pages on the novel today. Tonight's work: dealing with her respective parents after Lainey dies. Fun stuff.



I stole the funniest little earrings from someone today. (Since he didn't even know they were earrings, and I did, I think I deserved them.) They're little Mexican men. They just cracked me up. I wore them for the rest of the day. :)

Nikki on 07.18.04 @ 11:06 PM PST [link]

Snapping Along

Traffic was horrible last night, even at 7:30 when I finished working out, so I quickly got off of 520 and drove to the JJJ in Kirkland to work on the novel. I've been a little frustrated lately, feeling like I'm not going anywhere with it. Asking myself what the point of this is, what I am trying to say, and do I have to be making any kind of huge statement at all. So I booted the trusty laptop up and did what I always do. I start reading what I have and picking at it. Sometimes it's good because, since I made the time line that shook some scenes up, I find some adjustments to be made. Last night I realized I still hadn't changed the e-mail that Aubry writes to Lainey after she gets back from vacation to read May instead of February. Anyway. But really, spending all this time pouring over scenes already written doesn't help to propel me forward much. Yes, it's important to edit, etc, but really I just need more content. The editing can come later.



Sometimes when I write a new scene, I pick a scene already written and then write the very next scene or the one that came before. Sometimes this works. But I could tell that it wasn't going to last night. I wasn't in the mood to write about Spense and Aubry's relationship or even that of Aubry and Lainey. So, as I perused the beginning of the novel, I realized that I have this huge chunk missing right now, from when Aubry arrives in Seattle to when Lainey makes her post an online personal's ad. Not a lot of time elapses between those two points, but there's no way I can gracefully segue from one to the other. Besides, I don't even want to. And one thing that I wanted to do in the book is demonstrate the Seattle work culture, specifically where Aubry (and as it turns out, the rest of the characters, too) works. Around here, it is what it is. But when I go home or talk to friends that have never worked at a place like this, they're pretty incredulous. Free soda? Flexible hours? Alcohol served at team parties during working hours? And since Aubry is being thrown into this environment, after having worked at a school since she graduated college, what better way to introduce it. So that's what I did. After the scene where she arrives in Seattle, I talk a little about where she now lives (which I've decided is Wallingford. I know. Boring. But I hate doing research when I write and this way I won't have to. :) ), how she's afraid of the traffic, and then what the area looks like where she works. I think I captured it. Hopefully it's not too much information too quickly. :)



In the course of the scene, I also "discovered" a new character, named Adam. No, he's not going to be a love interest for Aubry. No sordid love triangles in this book! I don't even know if he's going to be around much, but I would like him to be. He seems like a fun guy. Doesn't that seem funny? That I would like a character to be around but I am not sure if he's going to be? Good grief, it's up to me how much he's going to be around. lol And of course Lainey is already pushing Aubry to date him. That crazy Lainey! I got interrupted by the phone, so I didn't get to finish the scene, but, I did get up to a whopping 104 pages. This energized me since I have hovered around the 95-97 range for quite some time now. It's still less than 35,000 words, which isn't even a novella yet. But, I do have a lot more to write. I guess sucky traffic is good for something. :)

Nikki on 07.16.04 @ 11:20 AM PST [link]

Crazygrrl

Had to be in a meeting with her yesterday. I think I did pretty well, though. I didn't say anything in my bitch-tone. I was able to smile, although tightly, every once in awhile while. I gracefully evaded taking her home. It seems I have this habit, when she starts talking, even if she's not talking to me, of looking anywhere else in the room. Maybe I should stop that. I will practice glazing my eyes over.



I think I need a massage. My shoulder is killing me.

Nikki on 07.15.04 @ 12:45 PM PST [link]

Gender Differences

I came across this quote a couple days ago. I wish I would have written down who said it and where, so I could properly credit him/her. But suffice it to say that I didn't say it.



The basic difference between men and women (besides just about everything) is that men want the things they can't have.
They live for the things they can't have — remote controls large as coffee tables, Dodge Vipers, Maxim vixens, $3,800 titanium golf clubs. In fact, I think the only reason a man has a brain is to whip out his Palm Pilot and make lists of the stuff he doesn't have. On the other hand, women want to keep what they have. (That's the big difference and it causes a lot of fights.)



I think that sums things up pretty well, huh?

Nikki on 07.14.04 @ 11:46 AM PST [link]

Too Sensitive

Yesterday I had an e-mail exchange with a friend. We haven't even seen each other in over a year and hardly ever talk anymore. Anyway. I asked him a question and he retorted quite snottily. Or, that's how I perceived it. It might have just been his usual sarcastic way, something I used to find indearing. I wish I was one of those people that just didn't care. That I didn't analyze everything. Because now it's bothering me and it's just dumb. Either way, I can't really do anything about it. It's his deal.



It's a good thing I've been working out because this whole labor thing (Keely's, not mine) is going to require some muscle! :) Last night we were doing wall sits and lunges and squats. I guess I shouldn't complain; I won't be the one pushing a watermelon out of a pea sized hole. :)



I've been sleeping on the living room floor lately. I don't know why. I go through these phases where it's difficult for me to fall asleep in bed. What's with that?



If Saturday goes well, I might be getting the belly button piercing next week. YIKES! :) I still want to actually go into a couple places first. I found a couple in Kirkland. I am worried that it's going to look all gross until it's completely healed.

Nikki on 07.14.04 @ 11:42 AM PST [link]

Comparison

I was going through the pics on my computer last night and when I got to last year 4th of July's I decided to compare this pic of Keely and I to one that was taken this year. YIKES! First of all, the one taken last year isn't all that flattering (the group shot is much better) but still. It reinforces to me that I have indeed changed in looks. I usually can't tell unless I look at pictures or when I buy some new clothes. Anyway. So then I started looking at more old picture and just became disgusted with myself and stopped. I thought about posting some comparison pictures, but decided it's just too damn embarrassing. :)



But I don't want to be one of those girls who dwells on her looks all the time.



I bought this little mouse toy for Mika last night and she promptly pawed it under the tv stand. As I fished it out with a broom, I discovered a plethora of other toys that I had wondered about: two little balls, the black mouse, the grey mouse-like toy from the vet, as well as several rocks from the water fountain, and pens. The cat loves pens. So anyway, she shouldn't be bored for quite some time. Didn't stop her from waking me up this morning with her meowing, though. I also bought her some Advantage last night, to kill the few mysterious fleas that I find on her every once in awhile. (Man, that is some expensive stuff, too.) They keep it locked up-why I am not sure-and when the lady was unlocking the case she asked if the cat was above or below 9 pounds. I actually stopped and pondered that for a moment. What the hell? Of course, she is above 9 pounds. Not sure why I had to stop and think about it! :)



Nikki on 07.13.04 @ 10:46 AM PST [link]

Empty

Woke up this morning to the sounds of the painters. I needed to get up anyway, so it wasn't a big deal at all. However, they were right outside my window...my window that doesn't have a curtain. Luckily, I stayed beneath my covers all night. :) The fact that there isn't a curtain isn't generally a problem since rarely is anyone in the backyard. I'm afraid that if I put a curtain there, Mika won't be able to jump into the window.



Then, traffic wasn't bad at all this morning. That's always a little odd. When I got to work, there were all kinds of parking spaces. I started to wonder if there was some kind of holiday that I had forgotten about. Once inside, I remembered that they moved a bunch of people from my building to the other building. So, it's really quiet today. It's also quite cold. I know that I'm wearing a tank top, but still. I had to go out to the car and bring in a cardigan sweater to wear. Outside it's so nice...

Nikki on 07.12.04 @ 02:23 PM PST [link]

The Weekend

Pretty good weekend. Finally got that damn sticker. Exceeded what I needed to get it, actually. So that was good. I didn't have to go postal. No one had to die. :)



Yesterday Suganthi and I went to dinner. She picked out a place for us to go in Renton and after getting turned around, we finally get to the place, only to discover that it's no longer in business. By this time we're ravenous. We went back to Bellevue and ate at Z Tejas at Bellevue Square. It's a pretty good place. They have unusual things on their menu, which is good for people like me who tend to choose the same thing over and over. :) Their corn bread is really good, too!



Today I ventured over to the Eastside (via I-90 since 520 was closed) and worked out, shopped, bought an overpriced hot dog at Redmond Towne Center. Went to VS and finally found a nightgown that I like. Oh and now I can stop complaining on ehre about not being able to find capris. I bought a pair at the Bon. :) I had it in my mind to be in a coffee shop today, so I went to Kirkland. I discovered that they were having a little festival today so I wandered around first before going into the JJJ to write for a bit. I'm up to a whopping 98 pages now. Man. It's going to take forever to finish this book.

Nikki on 07.11.04 @ 11:11 PM PST [link]

Miscellaneous

I just realized today that the other day when I bought the wine...they didn't card me. Does that mean I look my age now?



Last night when I was at the gym, in the lockerroom, behind me to me left was a young girl- probably 10 or so. Behind me to my right were two women in their early 20s. They were all perfectly (no doubt spray or tanning bed) tan, really thin, dressing like they were going to a club instead of to workout. Whatever. I don't care. What caught my attention as I sat tying my shoelaces was how the little girl looked at them. To me, she was looking at them and wondering how she would attain that look for herself some day. She didn't take her eyes off of them for very long, but she did it in a covert kind of way. It was kinda sad, actually. I felt like I should tell this girl not to compare herself to anyone else, especially these women. Of course, I didn't say anything to her. Then I saw these women in my cardio playground class and I groaned internally. All I thought of was, "What are they doing in here?" Them, in their low slung short shorts, spaghetti strap mini tank tops...they do nothing for my self image when I am wearing black capris, and a baggy t-shirt. And then I remembered the little girl up in the locker room and I told myself, "You don't need to compare yourself to anyone, especially these women." Next time I checked, those women were gone. I saw them through the open door from the gym to the weight room. Which is filled with buff, sweaty guys lifting weights.



It's like November around here. It's damp and rainy and cold. Ugh. I pulled out my funky red shirt with the tiger print on it. The one I used to affectionally call my "Good boob shirt." (Did I just type that on my Web site?) Sadly, due to my weight loss, it no longer is because it's pretty baggy now. It's good. But it's sad, too. lol Guess I'll just have to find another one.



Quiet weekend ahead. So far at least. :)





Nikki on 07.09.04 @ 12:22 PM PST [link]

More About the Novel

I know you've all been waiting for another installment of the novel. It's okay. You can admit it. However, I will expect you all to pay me what the novel would have cost you to buy, once it is published but you won't have to buy it because you'll have already read it. It's only fair. :)



So this scene is about how Aubry and Spense meet. Lainey bullies Aubry into writing a personals ad and that's how it all starts. As I always preface releases of scenes, this did not happen to me. :) No one had to talk me into it, when I did it. I did it all on my own. :) In a lot of ways, I think I am a little bolder than Aubry even thinks of being. And that isn't saying much since I am not bold at all. lol Anyway, I've been doing a little tweaking here and there in the novel concerning the time issues. Sigh. Haven't revisited the fated 4th of July scene, though. It probably won't be a big deal at all to turn it into some other holiday or no holiday at all, just a conversation that the two of them have randomly. But I will always grieve that this quaint little scene I wrote had to be altered. (Now is that melodramatic or what?! :) ) The Personals Ad

Nikki on 07.08.04 @ 04:35 PM PST [link]

Note to Self

Do not ever drink more than one glass of wine.



No matter what.

Nikki on 07.07.04 @ 11:18 PM PST [link]

Peanutbutter Cookies

So I made some (pretty damn tasty) peanutbutter cookies last night. I am perplexed by one thing, though. The recipe said that it would make 72 cookies. Okay. I don't need that many, but alright. I mix everything up and start plopping the dough on the sheet. The recipe actually made about two dozen. What the heck? There's a big difference there. The recipe doesn't say it, but I can only assume that it meant 72 miniature cookies, because the cookies I made are not that big. Strange. But yummy.



Yesterday seemed like Fall. It was rainy and cold. A good night for lighting candles. Did I? No. But it was a good night for it. On my way to Target last night I noticed my passenger side headlight is out so I am going to have to fix that...



(I can hear someone here in the office across from my alcove, a perm employee...she's talking about the possibility of the place removing the coolers of soda...good grief. I smell anarchy on the horizon.)

Nikki on 07.07.04 @ 10:52 AM PST [link]

The Elusive Sticker

Oh, and I didn't get the damn sticker this week. .2 away.

Nikki on 07.06.04 @ 01:23 PM PST [link]

Truth or Dare

I hadn't played truth or dare since high school, when we used to play it every once in awhile at sleep overs. I don't know why we played it; we pretty much knew everything about each other and we only asked truths anyway. I think the only time we did dare's was the time we stayed at Rebecca's house. I have vague memories of someone, maybe it was me, having to go outside into the snow and get something from the car. Anyway. I played truth or dare poker this weekend and it was pretty fun. At least for me. I think the other person was probably bored to tears. But it was a good exercise for me in forcing myself to talk about myself. I've been accused of hiding parts of myself from other people. Anyway. I'm looking for a book that has truth kinds of questions in it. Sometimes I draw a blank and the questions in the game were good. Some of them were naughty....but a lot of them were questions I would want to ask any of my friends. My favorite being, If you could inhabit the body of someone in this room for a day, what would you do? :)



Fourth of July was fun. Keely and I hung out at Myrtle Edwards Park. Found a nice grassy area close to the bathrooms (very important for a nine month pregnant woman), next to the beer garden, not too far away from the main stage but not so close that we couldn't talk, and with a little shade. Brought plenty of snacks and drinks. The fireworks themselves were okay...I think other years have been better. Getting out of the park seemed easier this year. However, getting off of 99 and making our way into Wallingford was horrific. We would move three inches forward and then stop for 10 minutes. I am sure that it took an hour to just get to Wallingford Ave. I took a right off of 45th at that point and then it was a breeze getting home. Ugh. Between the idiot drivers and the busses, I was ready to go crazy.



Yesterday was a laid back day. Slept in. Took an afternoon nap. Went to the Eastside and worked out. There were only two of us in step-aerobics! Then met up with Judy and worked some more on her resume. I went to Barnes and Noble and as I was walking down an aisle, this guy was walking up and he gave me the strangest look, so I gave him a strange look back. Then he said something about he thought he saw me earlier today and was I following him around. Strange. Looked to see if there was a new Stephen Mackey journal out but there wasn't. It's okay. I have plenty of journals to fill up right now: 3 Mackey's, a smiley face one, and the one from Italy. I'm pretty much set. :)

Nikki on 07.06.04 @ 12:27 PM PST [link]

Fourth of July

Folks, I just realized that I wrote a scene, I think I wrote this last summer, that I cannot use. Well, maybe I can alter it. But I have a scene between Aubry and Spense taking place at the 4th of July and I was going to post it today, being all timely and such. Then I remembered the time line that I constructed last week, which has them not even meeting until October and the relationship being over in April. Do any of you see July in that timeframe?? Sigh. And it was a good scene, too. I kinda need it to be a holiday, too. I'm thinking that New Years Eve will work. Sigh. It won't work to bump up when they meet, either, because I don't have her even living in Seattle until July. I like the timeframe for the most part. Damn. Damn. DAMN!



I'm not even going to post it now.

Nikki on 07.02.04 @ 02:04 PM PST [link]

Less Sore

Okay, I can walk again today. Maybe it was just time or maybe it was the epsom salt bath or maybe the Sports Cream. Whatever it was, I can now move without wanting to not move. Improvement. I think I can do step aerobics tonight without wanting to kill myself...or the teacher.



On another site, someone blogged about keeping things of sentimental value. At first I was thinking of things I kept of a "romantic nature," but quickly realizing I don't have much in the way of that, I realized that I have plenty of other things. Mostly, clothes.

• flamingo boxer shorts: I bought these my first semester at UWL. I collected flamingo things and they were difficult to find. One night I went to Target, and there they were. I wore them around the dorm-they were the kind of pajamas I could wear to Kip's room and not feel like I was wearing pajamas. I wore them all year round. When I moved out here, they finally started to tear from being wore to threadbareness. Even after they had practically disintigrated, I kept them in the closet. Finally, not to long ago, I threw them away.



• black cardigan: Right before I came out here on vacation, I bought a thin black cardigan at Kohl's. I spent $30 on it, which to me at the time, was way more than anyone should spend on an article of clothing. However, I got my money's worth with it. I wore it all the time. It was great all year round. Last year, the elbow finally wore through. I kept it in the closet (near the flamingo boxer shorts) until I found another black cardigan.



• I recently went through my closet, removing all the clothes that are too big for me now (filled two garbage bags) and there were several pieces of clothing that, even though they're too big, I couldn't part with yet. A red button down shirt for one. I don't know what the sentimental attachment to that it...I just like it and am afraid I won't be able to find another one.



• Oh, and I have a bunch of t-shirts that I don't wear but won't get rid of: I think I still have a t-shirt from when I went with band to Florida, one from Hilltop Learn and Play Center, some Girl Scout ones, the one Marie brought back from Paris...

I am crazy.

Nikki on 07.02.04 @ 11:06 AM PST [link]

Sore Again

Oh good lord, why do I torture myself? Step Aerobics Teacher from Hell® also teaches a class on Tuesdays and Thursdays called Cardio Playground. Since I don't have a step class on those days, I thought I would try it. First of all, it was really really hot in the gym. Then, she had us running a lot. Plus, it was just something different and the end result is; I am extremely sore. She loves lunges and squats. So, now my quads hurt. It hurts to get up, get down, walk. Ugh. I feel like a little old lady.



Traffic was really bad last night so I stopped off at JJJ and worked for an hour on the book. Had to park all the way up at the library because it was packed, plus they changed most of the free parking to pay stalls now. Grr. Hadn't been in the JJJ for quite awhile. Felt a little badly that I didn't order anything, but it was too hot in there to drink coffee. When I left, traffic still sucked (even at 8:30!) so I made my way to 90. Stupid commute.



So like I mentioned, I went to the opening of Spider-Man on Tuesday night at the Cinerama, with Tim, Mike, and Dawn. I learned that comic book geeks are similar but audibly different than computer geeks, although there is some overlap. A few people came dressed as Spidey. When they walked in, pretty much everyone applauded. I saw a guy bring in a laptop and watch the first movie on dvd while we waited (over two hours, I'll let you know). During the previews, there was a cacapphony of "boos" during the I, Robot preview. Not sure what that was all about other than it just looks fairly ridiculus. The movie itself was great, I thought. However, I really think that it was written more for the comic book geeks than the general watcher. I mean, I liked it, but I know that those around it that knew so many more of the inside jokes than I could gleam, loved it a lot more. That's not such a bad thing, I suppose. Didn't make it inaccessible to the casual watcher. And then there's Tobey Maguire. I just cannot get over how much he looks like D to me. His voice is different, but everything else (well, maybe not the rock hard abs that he has in the movie-I'm talking more facially) is so similar.



I cannot believe it's July 1. June whizzed by. It was a fabulous month-especially the first half. When I think back to my birthday, though, it seems like so long ago! In that pleasant, reminiscent kind of way.

Nikki on 07.01.04 @ 01:08 PM PST [link]