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of December 28 - January 3, 2004

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Quote of the Week

Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands--and then just eat one of the pieces.

-  Judith Viorst

Boy Toy of the Week

Justin Randall Timberlake

Date of Birth (January 31, 1981)

a real boy toy!  If it's good enough for Cameron Diaz, it's good enough for me!  I heard some celebrity sleaze on Q100 last week.  Apparently, Cameron is having jealousy issues with Justin being in Europe and her being in the United States, so she flew over there and "laid down the law" - okay, I wasn't there, I am merely repeating some celebrity sleaze I over heard.  So maybe Britney will have another chance with Justin soon if Cameron throws him over because of his cheating (or maybe just flirting) ways...

 yeah, sure, I've featured this little boy before but now he looks a little "harder" around the edges if you know what I mean!  And good news for all of us fans of N'Sync.  Rumor has it that they will be recording a new album next year (in 2004).  Oh, boy!  You know I like that news!

Movie of the Week

 There are only about ten movies that I would like to see this week:  The Last Samurai, Bad Santa, 21 Grams, Mona Lisa Smile, Cold Mountain, Paycheck (at least JoLo's not in it!), Lost in Translation, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Big Fish (Ty's niece, Sydney, is an extra in the movie - Susan thinks Sydney did not end up on the cutting room floor because she was standing next to Helen Bonaham Carter and Danny DeVito at some funeral scene and they stopped the filming to move flowers out of the way so Sydney could be seen better!  How exciting!  That's another thing on my list of things to do in my lifetime - be an extra in a movie (and actually make it to the big screen - as in not having my scene cut!))  But unless I pull myself together and go see a movie tomorrow (Sunday), my movie of the week will be one that I watched on Christmas Day with my mother (and even she thought it was insipid - me?  I liked it!).  And just what would that movie be:  The Lizzie McGuire Movie (and yes, I'm am serious that is the title of the movie!).  It ends happy and we all learn a valuable life lesson.  Could you ask for anything more from a movie?  I think not!  Who cares that the movie is aimed at the tween's age group (I think that would be 9 to 12 year old girls).  I am young at heart still!

Web Site of the Week

Bring Me Home Biscuits... too cute, isn't it!  I found this site at one of my favorite personal websites, Allaboutjen.com  Love the name and the humor!  And what I like about this web site is that the mission statement (and I know how you love mission statements, Jim Bob!) for this organization is:  Our business is helping nonprofit organizations achieve their mission through more effective fundraising.  Now, I'm all about equal time for all types of animals (except snakes - sorry - just can't get into it!) so I'm thinking they need to come up with something for cats.  In fact, I'm sending in just such a suggestion... you should, too!  After all, even cat shelters (especially, cat shelters) need to raise money!

Featured CD in rotation this week

Seal IV... I like the way this guy titles his CDs:  simple, direct and to the point.  This was one of the CDs that I picked up two weeks ago.  I'm still liking it.  I really like the Love Devine cut.  He is a rather scary looking person.  It took me a while to search it out on the web, but I did find out that a childhood bout of lupus left him with the distinctive facial scarring.  This web site listed him as a British soul, rap and rock musician.  The rap part is news to me but I'm not what one would label as a Seal fanatic thus may be unaware that in fact he has an extensive repartee of rap music.  I mean, what do I really know.  Let's not go there.  That leaves way too much room for Jim Bob to comment!  See, I hide my little messages to Jim Bob through out the web site.  Sometimes he finds them and sometimes he doesn't.  I'm willing to bet that he doesn't find this one.  I'll send him a one dollar bill if he finds this one by the time I get ready to update the web site again.  And if my pc is as precarious as I think it is, that could be weeks!

Featured Joke of this week

compliments of my cousin, Linda Wishart

A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. The wife said, "You should do it, because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee." The husband said, " You are in charge of the cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee." Wife replies, "No you should do it, and besides it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee." Husband replies, "I can't believe that, show me." So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and shows him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says ... HEBREWS!!

Currently I'm....

(Saturday, December 27, 2003)

watching... Well, it's Saturday night and that usually means I'm either watching America's Most Wanted or Court TV's Saturday Crime Fighting Lineup.  I truly feel, one day, I will see someone I know on America's Most Wanted.   

listening to... I was very happy to come home tonight to see that my request from Recorded Books (at least part of it, anyway) was in my mailbox.  The new book by James Patterson, The Big Bad Wolf.   So I will actually go for a nice long walk tomorrow - the weather is supposed to be in the 60's and sunny.  Ah!  A great way to burn off some of these calories I've consumed this week!  And then I still have the two to listen to this week from Bookears, Syndrome: A Thriller by John Case (I love his books! - wait, hot off the internet, I just found out that John Case is a pseudonym for a husband-and-wife team, Jim and Carolyn Hougan) and the new one by Linda Howard, Dying to Please (wait a minute, another hot off the internet, this is not here latest one either in hardback, though it might be the latest one in paperback... I mean, I strive to be as honest as I can!)

reading... I have a reading assignment for the Christmas holiday season.  Lisa Henry Horne gave us all the book Good to Great to read.  She's planning on having a lunch and learn in January about the book.  Apparently, it's on some reading list for up-and-coming managers (and what Lisa wants us to read it for is beyond me!).  Scott and Ty gave me a beautiful book mark for Christmas so I can put to good use that Christmas present!

eating... well, I'm drinking some hot chocolate.  I've not been what one would call faithful to the Weight Watchers creed/plan this week.  I'm sure when I go in to weigh on Monday, I'll have gained a few pounds but I'll get right back on it next week.  Until then, I am going to enjoy myself without going overboard.  Seriously!  My hot chocolate is non-fat milk.  Okay, I did make it with Ghirardelli chocolate and I did pile on the miniature marshmallows but I am planning on just having one with no crackers and/or cheese or any other snacks.  That should count for something!  Don't you think?  Work with me here, folks.  I'm into some serious self denial tonight.