new year’s

by Donna on December 31st, 2005

I should take a nap. I am feeling a little tired. Lisa and I just made lasagna. Now I must go to the grocery store and get some salad and noshes. Audra and Steve and John are coming over this evening. We’ll have dinner and then maybe we will go to the Inn of the Hawk or Issac Newton’s for drinks. I am going to wear my new black pseudo-80’s shirt. I am rather torn as to what I should wear on the bottom. Maybe jeans, maybe a black mini-skirt, or maybe a long black skirt; I will figure something out.

Not a cool mom

by Donna on December 31st, 2005

I have not been happy with my hair. It looked good and it behaved very nicely; it just wasn’t me. I felt like a soccer mom. This morning I called Aprille and she told me to come in and she would fix it. And she did. She cut the back shorter and it now seems much more stylish. Thank goodness she was able to fix it. I don’t blame Aprille but rather John. Why John? Because he keeps playing Phil Collins on his iPod. When that first Phil Collins song came out of the speakers, I told him to turn it off!
“Why?”
“Because if I listen to Phil Collins, I will cut my hair and buy a station wagon.”
John apparently thought these were good things because ever since he finds reasons to play Phil Collins. And just as I said would happen, I CUT MY HAIR SHORT! If this continues, I will be trading in the Chevy Caprice for a Station Wagon. I hope he heeds my words and stops playing Phil Collins. I cannot be held responsible for my actions.

After my hair cut, Aprille, her boss, and I had mimosa’s! Studio 39 is just the coolest!

World According to Opp

by Donna on December 30th, 2005

I am a Crawly Amphibian
No, I am a Flippery Fish
I am a Slimy Mollusc
I am a Crawly Amphibian…

Reminds me of when I was in High School and Coach Opp (My shot put and discus coach) would say to me,”You’re a Wigwam, You’re a Teepee, You’re a Wigwam, You’re a Teepee!”
“What?!?”
“You’re too tense!” (two tents)

NAVY Seals

by Donna on December 29th, 2005

I washed my hair and as God stood by with a brush and hairdryer in hand, my hair fell right back into place! I couldn’t believe it! I was certain that my hair would stand on end or shoot out in odd directions. It looks just how it did in the Salon. How cool is that?

Went to DeLorenzo’s this evening with Lisa and Mom and Dad. Lisa once again said the craziest thing. She was explaining the difference between comets and meteorites and my father said, “How is it you know so much about this topic?”
“Because I am a school teacher, it is important I stay up on information like this and so I spend an awful lot of time watching the Discovery Channel”
“Really?”
“Yes, in fact just the other day I was watching a documentary on the Discovery Channel about Navy SEALS!”
“What did you discover about Navy SEALS?”
“Well, I always thought Navy Seals were cute little semi-aquatic creatures, turns out they aren’t exactly semi-aquatic but they are very very cute!”

I think she was pulling our legs. I am sure of it.

sos

by Donna on December 29th, 2005

Can anyone tell me how to upgrade donnaville’s rss feed? Links don’t appear in my current feed and that is just crappy. I have searched a bit and I can’t seem to find any instructions as to how to upgrade it. I am using an old as dirt version of MovableType.

ok

by Donna on December 29th, 2005

My two week vacation is quickly coming to an end. I didn’t go anywhere or do anything special. It’s hard. I would have liked to have done something but I didn’t really want to spend any money unnecessarily. Plus the weather hasn’t always been very cooperative. I worked on the house and got a lot of stuff accomplished in terms of cleaning. It’s all good.

Snippity snip

by Donna on December 29th, 2005

Yesterday I got my hair cut rather short. I loved it yesterday. Today I am wondering, “What was I thinking?” I needed something different. This is different. What really worries me is how the hair will look when I blow it dry. My hair tends to flip in weird ways and although it behaves for Aprille, it doesn’t ever do what I want it to do. No need to worry. Hair grows. My hair grows especially fast. All will be fine.

What really may have caused me to change my mind about the haircut is Lisa’s reaction to it. She loved it and told me I look great. I said, “I think it is a youthful cut.” Lisa’s response was, “Oh no, you look much older.” My stomach is still sitting on the pavement outside of the salon in Doylestown.

younger mother

by Donna on December 28th, 2005

The other day I saw a little bit of the movie Blow on TV. I noticed a strange connection between it and Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous. In Blow, Rachel Griffith, the actress who portrays Johnny Depp’s character’s mother is actually 5 years younger than Johnny Depp! The scene I watched, she even looked younger than him. In Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous, Eileen Brennan portrays William Shatner’s mother. Eileen Brennan is 7 years younger than William Shatner. She also looks younger than the man whose mother she is portraying. How odd is that? This is not a new phenomenon. In fact, Angela Lansbury did this throughout most of her career.

meatloaf

by Donna on December 27th, 2005

Meatloaf popularity grows among foodies

What a coincidence! I make a kickass meatloaf. The key to having it turn out fab is softly singing Dead Ringer for Love while mixing it up.

movie bluff

by Donna on December 27th, 2005

I am slightly worried. Last night I watched Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous… AND I LOVED IT! There were certain lines that just had me on the floor rolling. Lisa will be glad to know I watched this movie so we can send it back to NetFlix and get a new one. I also watched Lady Chatterley’s Lover starring Sylvia Kristel and Nicholas Clay (remember him as Lancelot in Excalibur?) Maybe I was just in the right mood because I also really liked this movie too. Heck, I probably would have like Bolero had I watched it last night. The next movie in my NetFlix queue is Zardoz starring Sean Connery, who wears nothing but a loincloth while worshipping a HUGE FLYING STONE HEAD, being hounded by naked women, and battling immortals. Doesn’t it sound terrific? Of course my inner Truffaut may grab hold and cause me to push Brief Encounter above Zardoz, but we’ll see.