Rae's Blog

Happy Groundhog Day my friends!  Balzac Billy says that there is going to be 6 more weeks of winter.  He probably didn't actually say it, I actually don't even know if there is a real groundhog that they keep in a cage or something year round. Regardless, winter really hasn't been that bad this year, so I''m not surprised it's going to stick around for longer...because groundhogs are always completely accurate. Anyways, I stole this picture from my old co-host...(former and age wise). Have a great day!

Happy Monday to you to my friends.

I know I'm a little late to the party with this, but this is a pretty accurate representation of how my roommate took the 49's being ousted from the Superbowl.

The Oscar nominations are out!  I will admit, I have not seen even one of the nominations for best picture, but I may try and change that by the time the awards actually roll around.

BEST PICTURE

War Horse

The ArtistMoneyball

The Descendants

The Tree of Life

Midnight in Paris

The Help

Hugo

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

BEST DIRECTOR

Michel Hazanavicius, The Artist

Alexander Payne, The Descendants

Martin Scorsese, Hugo

Woody Allen, Midnight in Paris

Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Bérénice Bejo, The Artist

Jessica Chastain, The Help

Janet McTeer, Albert Nobbs

Octavia Spencer, The Help

Melissa McCarthy, Bridesmaids

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Kenneth Branagh, My Week With Marilyn

Jonah Hill, Moneyball

Nick Nolte, Warrior

Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Max Von Sydow, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

BEST ACTRESS

Glenn Close, Albert Nobbs

Viola Davis, The Help

Rooney Mara, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Meryl Streep, The Iron Lady

Michelle Williams, My Week With Marilyn

BEST ACTOR

Demián Bichir, A Better Life

George Clooney, The Descendants

Jean Dujardin, The Artist

Brad Pitt, Moneyball

Gary Oldman, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

I don't get Dubstep. I know that lots of people really like it...but I just don't get the appeal. This is what I feel like when I listen to it:

I love Ricky Gervais. I really really do. Did you know though, that he has an equally funny partner?  Ricky has been in the limelight for a couple of years now, but his partner Stephen Merchant co-wrote the original UK The Office, Extras, Life's Too Short and various other projects with him. He's hilarious. Youtube him. There, I took care of an hour of work for you.

 

Today is Blue Monday. It's supposed to be the most depressing day of the year.  I have this video for you to watch. If you don't feel better after watching it, then you are dead inside.

 

Does anyone else remember the game I.Q. 2000?  It was kind of a space/Trivial Pursuit type deal if I remember correctly.  We played it A LOT when I was a kid.  I loved it.  Can you still buy it?  Do you have it at home?  Will you give it to me?  It looks like this:

As much as I rip on them, Diesel and Matt really make me laugh sometimes. I broached the topic of a taco based cereal the other day, and this is what came of it...

I don't know why this makes me laugh so hard, but it does.  Sorry about the language in the title...Winston getting a coffee and 2 Advil will make up for it.

Why don't we do the stuff we like to do...more?  I think that that should be my goal for this year.  I pretty much grew up on the Kimberley ski hill and just loved skiing and then snowboarding as I got older.  I went up snowboarding over the weekend and remembered how much I enjoyed it.  I only go once or twice a year now, but there's no real reason for that.  Sure, you think, oh it costs so much money.  But really, if you go out to get silly on a Saturday night it's going to cost you just as much. Plus, you won't feel like hell the next day...unless you wipe out.  Anyways, that's my thought for the day. Do stuff you like to do...more often.

 

Superbowl is almost here. Girls may be crazy sometimes...but boys are just plain ridiculous.

So the other day I thought to myself, 'I should really go through my stuff and clean it out'.  Now when I say my 'stuff' I mean the 15 large Tupperware containers that have moved with me no less than 15 times over the last ten years.  There's a lot of junk going on in there.  It's always fun to dump stuff out and see all of the junk you haven't looked at in a while, but putting it back...is the worst. About an hour in to this whole ordeal, I wanted to shoot myself. Not literally.  I was just very sad I had started the endeavor at all.  I felt like Brother Bear and Sister Bear in the Messy Room book where Mama Bear freaks out on them because their room is a disaster.  It's been a few days now, and it's slowly getting sorted out. It hasn't been fun, but it hasn't been awful.  I really hope I feel the same sense of accomplishment the Bears did after the had a bunch of peg boards to hang things on and drawers to keep stuff in.  The point of this blog?  I really used to love this book:

Happy New Year friends!

Well, I guess that's it for 2011. What better way to end it than with Zooey and Joseph? Happy New Year friends!

 

I'm impressed.

So the Kardashians put out their family Christmas card today...they also released a 3D version of it. What? Didn't your family do that?

There comes a point in every adults life, where you just want your mom.  I had the flu yesterday.  The horrible, I'm probably going to die, somebody shoot me please, flu.  It's not fun, it's not cute, and it's the worst when you live alone. I don't know why and I don't know how, but all you can think is 'I wish my mom was here.'  They can't fix you...but they can.  Do you know what I mean?  They just make you feel better. Anyways, I lived, but just barely.

Why haven't you watched this yet?  It's the cutest video ever.

I always kinda felt like this whenever Santa was around.