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**WARNING** (this may seem like a normal entry, but after finishing it, i discovered that i totally "geeked out" in the middle of it. this is your nerd alert warning.)



oh hi! i didn't see you there.


i realize i used that opening a few entries ago. whatevs. i like it. it makes me laugh kinda.

i'm listening to Pokerface right now. you should be jealous. it's like a party up in here.

umm...hi. okay. now let's start the entry.

i guess i don't really know what i'm going to talk about. i haven't done anything extravagant lately.

oh wait! yes i have. i went to JoAnn's yesterday and bought patches to patch up the holes in my favorite pair of jeans. i am so upset that they ripped. i just got them back in the fall, so they're not very old. i think it was because i wore them like, every day in Ireland. and we trekked across some rough terrain. but, not really. i don't know why they ripped. ugh, but i'm upset because they fit really well and my other pair of jeans are too big. and, i've been on the lookout for a new pair but i can't really buy jeans right now because that would cost money.

so, i'll just patch these up and hope they don't lose their character. i bought the iron on kind because i couldn't find anything else. i'm probably going to sew them on because

1. i don't have an iron
and
2. that's really the only reason

well, i might use my hair straightener. i've done that before. it worked semi-well. maybe half hair straighten, half sew. i sometimes use my hair straightener to iron things. i used it to iron my curtains before i hung them up. that's all, really. i generally don't iron.

well. now that i've told you that....

Ruby Tuesday is chasing her tail furiously around the apartment. she can run so fast it's unbelievable. and man, that tail. it can run just as fast. it's funny how much she thinks it's out to get her. we snuggled on the couch today.

i walked to the post office today in the rain. it wasn't bad. kinda nice. and it was even nicer once i got there and saw that the postal worker i have a crush on was there. and he gave me my movies! this is the ruggedly handsome one. the last time i saw him he was eating pretzels and today he was drinking coffee. i like him.

for movies today i got:

1. disc 2, season 2 of Entourage. i'm totes warming up to this. fave characters = Johnny Drama and Ari.
2. Role Models. the one with Paul Rudd and .....Sean William Scott?
3. Blind Dating. which i've watched already and will discuss NOW!

so, i watched Blind Dating this afternoon. it was a nice treat for my eyes. Chris Pine. i had seen the trailer for this on some other rom com like, last year. i can specifically remember seeing it. and i thought, "aw, that looks cute." so, i put it in my Netlix queue and then kind of forgot about it, as i often do. and then, after seeing Star Trek, was like, "holy crap who's that hottie??" turned out to be Chris Pine. naturally i thought, "hm, i wonder what else he's been in..." and saw that he was the main character in this film, Blind Dating. immediately it moved to number one. and i got it today!

about this attractive twenty-two year old blind guy who's basically looking for love while in the middle of receiving treatments for a risky eye operation.

aw, i liked it. it was pretty sweet. i just loved his parents. and his whole family and his best friend. everyone just seemed like they really got along. the relationship between him and his mother kind of reminded me of the mother-son relationship in My Left Foot. if My Left Foot was a rom com.

anyways! good movie.

AND. so, he falls in love with this really sweet Indian girl who turns out to be in the middle of an arranged engagement to another Indian man. which Indian man, you ask? umm....MOHINDER. from Heroes. YEAH. i was like, "what's he doing here?!?!" it was weird. especially weird to hear him speak without an accent.

AND THEN. so, his brother sets him up on a bunch of unsuccessful dates with all these weird girls. the first of whom, finds out he's blind and starts uncontrollably sobbing, which continues throughout the whole date. and the actress walks onscreen and i'm like, "...noooo....it can't be...." BUT IT WAS! it was CHARLIE!!!!! the waitress from Heroes!!! who i also saw last week on Entourage!!!! it's like she's following me or something. she was such a sweet girl on Heroes. until she had an unfortunate encounter with Sylar in the back room of the diner....

AND SO THEN!! i'm watching and Chris Pine meets with the doctor who will be performing the risky eye operation and it took me a while to figure out who this guy was. but it dawned on me towards the end. who was it, you ask???? um, IT WAS BOB. from Heroes!!!! Elle's father. INSANITY!!! it was like a Heroes cast reunion. i couldn't believe it.

but, it was a sweet movie. kind of mindless. but, whatev. Chris Pine is a dreamboat.

so tomorrow i'm working 8-4. yikes. ugh, i hate getting up early for work. it will be just me and one resident the entire day. i'll see if we can get out and do something fun. depending on the weather, i guess.

ohohoh!!! i made key lime pie last night. totes delish. i made it in a chocolate crust instead of a graham cracker one. good decision. perhaps i'll take pictures because it came out quite beautiful. i don't know what prompted me to make a key lime pie. i guess you could call me the piemaker. no, actually don't call me the piemaker. that title is reserved for Ned on Pushing Daisies.

oh, i miss Pushing Daisies. what a great show. did i tell you about the Heroes connection to that show!??! did i? i don't think i did.

BUT! so, i'm watching a season 1 episode of Heroes recently and notice that Ellen Greene's name is in the credits. and i'm like, "Ellen Greene....what?" she played Aunt Vivian on Pushing Daisies, and is more commonly known as Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors. the film, and on broadway, i believe.

so, i'm like, "who the heck will she play on Heroes??"

the episode begins. i think it was the episode where Issac Mendez had the unfortunate run in with Sylar in his apartment. or, "loft" as they say. so, then Sylar decides he needs to go and see his mother. and he goes to her apartment and she opens the door and i gasp, "AUNT VIVIAN!!!!" she was Sylar's mother!!!! i couldn't believe it. aw, and it's so sweet because he brings her all these snow globes from wherever he travels to. although, you know that he travels to those places to kill people. but, she doesn't know that so it's sweet.

and then he makes it snow in her apartment and it's very reminiscent of the scene in Edward Scissorhands with Winona Ryder dancing in the snow, right before she cuts her hand on Edward's hand. and in Heroes, his mother dances in the snow right before he accidentally kills her with a pair of scissors.

so, kind of the same idea. actually, a lot of the events in Heroes remind me of other things. i can't think of anything right now. except Edward Scissorhands.

i also think the numbers 6 and 9 have been reoccuring. i only just noticed it. let me tell you my findings and maybe a super Heroes fan will read and let me know if i'm just crazy or not:

- sylar's mother lived in apartment #6
- when matt parkman was doing the FBI training test, it was also apartment #6
- matt parkman's creeper father lived in apartment #9
- the comic book that Issac wrote was called 9th Wonders!
- nathan petrelli's hospital room number was 1909 (or something like that)

maybe i'll do some research on this. 6 and 9 are basically the same number so maybe it's an emphasis on either. hold on. i'll use my super power online researching skillz.


umm...so, guess what. i'm totally right! or, totally half right. apparently there is an entire Wikipedia-esque site devoted to Heroes, and there is a whole entry about the use of the number 9. YES! i notice things!!!!

that's cool. i like it when there are things like that. that's what i liked about Lost. until it got ridiculous.

OH!!! which makes me remember something else about Heroes that make me think of Lost.

(you can stop reading now if you're totes bored. i won't be offended.)

so, on Heroes there is a character named D.L. Hawkins. which always makes me think of the character on Lost, Eloise Hawkings. it would be even weirder if D.L.'s power was time travel, but it's not. it's walking through walls.

also, i laughed really hard when it was revealed that D.L. stands for Daniel Lawrence. and i thought of a certain best friend of mine.... :)

BUT ALSO, while reading the list of number 9 occurances in Heroes there is one which i will copy for you here:

The license plate on Kaito's limousine is "NCC-1701". In addition to being the registry number of the USS Enterprise on Star Trek, the digits in the number 1701 add up to 9. Also, 1701 is a multiple of 9.

so, let's go over this one. the character of Kaito is played by George Takei, who we all know as Sulu, from STAR TREK. crazy! this must have been done on purpose. same with all the other Star Trek references in the show?? i don't know.

but it's like a total segway for Zachary Quinto who we all know as THE NEW MR. SPOCK. what?! does he spell his name 'Mr. Spock' or 'Mister Spock?' i like the latter. although, it kind of makes me think that he should grab a top hat and a cane and do a little soft shoe number.

if i was interviewing Zachary, i would ask him if he turned to George Takei for any guidence/inspiration for taking on the Star Trek role. i haven't heard anybody else ask him that question yet.


WOW. this entry took a geek turn that i wasn't expecting. i apologize? maybe i'll go in and put a disclaimer at the beginning. a warning from the surgeon general.

i think that's all the nerd i have in me.

i'm gonna go finish the second season of Heroes now. i know, it feels like i JUST started. and i kind of did. it was a short season because of the writer's strike. remember that?

ok. i have to end this before i bore you to your death. and i have to get Ruby Tuesday off of the television. and i'm going to eat supper because it's almost midnight.

goodnight friends!!!! i'll update tomorrow....maybe from work!!!! get psyched!! a work update! those are always fun and exciting.

loveLOVElove,
J.