I love myself.

Today's blog is dedicated to my favorite person ever: ME. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY, ME!



So, because I love myself so much, I bought myself a GIANT heart-shaped box of chocolate for Valentine's Day. Later tonight, I will curl up to a ro-co (romantic comedy... aka probably just play jeopardy!) or watch old episodes of 30 Rock (who better than Liz Lemon to spend V-day with?!) while I take massive amounts of chocolate to the face.


Speaking of Jeopardy... THIS WEEK IS COMPUTER WEEK!!! OO! OO! And yes, I got a reminder in my e-mail for "Man Vs. Machine" telling me that tonight, tomorrow and wednesday our dear friends I've mentioned before are challenging IBM's "Watson" to a tournament. ... I know, I know, I've talked about this before- old blews (thats my new word for blog news-> blews). But whatever. I'm cool. And so is Jeopardy.

Back to me. This weekend I went to Arlington... something new and different for me. Well, I guess it was different this time. With a friend visiting from Texas, we ended up doing some touristy things.. Saw some monuments and just walked around the mall (NO not a SHOPPING MALL... READ A BOOK) On Saturday night we went out in Adam's Morgan- SO FUN, a super young part of town- we went to a great bar called Madam Organ- (clever? yes ) with a live band. But what is not so fun? Fighting against the massive amounts of crowds as the bars let out and the 10,000+ Teach Teach For America teachers in town for their conference. So we went into numerous pizza shops, where Jason proceeded to eat, what I can only assume was an entire pizza, by the slice and I bonded with the workers, because I too know how to throw a pizza as well (please no standing ovation).

So kids, I'm out.

Peace. Love. Arcade Fire

It's 7pm, do you know where your kids are?

At 7pm, my parents definitely know where this kid is (not just because I live in their basement) but because anyone who knows me knows im a huge fan of Jeopardy (airing at 7pm on ABC- watch in hi-def it will blow your effing mind, the savants up close are cray-cray)

Being a fan of "America's Favorite Quiz Show" corresponds to my other "grandma" tendencies... ie. naps at any moment in the day... falling asleep during movies.... or at the movies... blindness without my glasses...

But yes, I am a huge fan. Such a big fan, that I bought it on wii for my(self) mom for Christmas this year. I can't even tell you how great of a game it is: the rush from pressing the button in time to type my answer in fast enough is almost as great of a high as Angry Birds (a game I secretly only recently discovered).

Is anyone else excited about this "Watson" character playing next week-- ITS A COMPUTER! That's right, the greatest Jeopardy Champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter (the Ben Roethlisberger-minus the rape- and Aaron Rodgers of Jeopardy-- what up football plug!) are playing against a COMPUTER. But all kidding aside- 50% of Jennings and Rutter's earnings will go to charity and 100% of Watson's will go to charity so it's a pretty cool idea- then again, I'd think any idea involving Jeopardy would be a cool one.


On that note, I will be registering to try out to be on jeopardy. I know, I know, a total long shot- I might as well try out for the NFL - whooaaaaaa FOOTBALL TWICE IN ONE BLOG.





Who knows, I could get lucky.

Peace. Love. Alex Trebek

board games? more like BORED games....

With all the snow last week and crazy weather this week, I've been doin' a lot of babysitting... and you know what that means, A LOT OF TLC... no, not tender, love and care, I'm talking Say Yes To The Dress and 4 weddings... also Toddlers in Tieras WHICH BLEW MY MIND... these LITTLE girls wear "flippers" AKA DENTURES and they looks like creep-tastic dolls. Anyways, last friday they suckered me into playing CLUE... you know the game where you eliminate the "Who"-with-the-"what"-in-the-"where", for about 3 hours... seriously. As I was moving Miss Scarlet towards the Billiards room I had a flash back to grade school. I remembered playing games after school because *secret confession* I was in the BOARD GAMES CLUB. What was WRONG with me (my parents!) ?!?! I mean I wasn't alone, I'm pretty sure there were a significant amount of other A.D.D children that I played these games with but in retrospect, seems like I must have been a big enough nerd that I had to join a club to get my peers to play games with me.

Oh, the stories I have from middle school. See, I went to a school that was about a 45 minute bus ride from Lower Merion. I sat on a bus with 30+ over-privileged, over-medicated, tweens frantically trying to finish their homework before their medicine had kicked in, because naturally, we were all too busy playing games in the "board games club" to finish our homework AFTER school like the normal kids.

Enough about my past, on to the future! I'd like to bid a big BON VOYAGE to, who I am 99% is my only reader, Becky. Becky will be leaving us for Israel where she will be living on Kabutz (sp?) for three months, but first we will be getting cheeseburgers at Elevation (free-range... same thing as kosher right?). I can't remember if I've ever blogged about elevation, but if you haven't had one of their burgers you are SERIOUSLY missing out. THEY EVEN GIVE YOU ONE OF THOSE CARDS WHERE IF YOU EAT 7 BURGERS THE 8th IS FREE- I only need to eat 4 more! (Diary of a fat girl...)

I hope you have access to a computer in Israel, Becky, or my ratings will drop 100%, GOOD LUCK!


Peace. Love. Shai LeBeouff.