Wednesday, February 14, 2007

I'll never be alone on Valentine's Day again!

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Your Pickup Line Is Nice pants. Can I test the zipper? The Magical Pick Up Line Generator

Hey, hey! Holy mackarel! No doubt about it!

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My favorite headline on this snowy Valentine's Day is from today's Chicago Tribune: CUBS SPRING TRAINING PREVIEW Cubs Opening ...

My favorite romantic movie that never makes any "10 best" lists

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In honor of Valentine's Day, I am praising It's My Turn . It did well enough at the box office back in 1980, but then it sank like a...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

The almighty buck

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"There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either." Robert Graves "Happiness is not in the mere pos...
Monday, February 12, 2007

A tribute to a wonderful, big old boy

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My gray and white tom, Joey, is one of the gentlest creatures on God's green earth. While he likes everyone he has ever met (except for ...
Sunday, February 11, 2007

Valentine's Day Makes Me Sad This Year

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I am not in a relationship right now. That's OK. I've always been more lonely in a bad relationship than I have been alone. But all ...
Saturday, February 10, 2007

Why I Love this Photo

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Mr. and Mrs. Ashton Kutcher join Bruce Willis at the Super Bowl. I have always been hot for Bruce Willis, so seeing him in Sweetness' je...

Is it just me? Or do these two confuse everybody?

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Maybe it's the Julia Roberts/Sarah Jessica Parker connection that trips me up. Dylan McDermott: Costarred with Sarah Jessica Parker in ...
Friday, February 09, 2007

Anna Nicole chases the Love Crazy Astronaut off the front page!

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This is from today's Chicago Tribune: "News of Smith's death Thursday lit up the Internet and sent mouses clicking far and wide...
Thursday, February 08, 2007

Thursday Thirteen Stuff I Can Do Without

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Thirteen Things that THE GAL HERSELF intends to dispose of Yes, I am a slob. A packrat. An Oscar, not a Felix. Whatever. At any ra...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

What's with Elliott and Olivia?

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My favorite show of the Law & Order franchise is SVU . This season it has me scratching my head. I know that Mariska Hargitay, who plays...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Loving the Love Crazy Astronaut

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There's so much about the astronaut love triangle to capture my interest! First of all, there's the wealth of background about the ...

Maybe I deserve this

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I wore my glasses today to lay the groundwork for a faux sick day tomorrow. You know, maybe it's the achy head and sinus trouble that ma...
Monday, February 05, 2007

What's with the sense of entitlement?

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The office didn't open until late this morning. (Super Bowl Sunday was like a holiday here in the greater Chicagoland area.) So I ambled...
Sunday, February 04, 2007

I still love you, Rex Grossman!

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Maybe it's the long-suffering Cub fan in me, but I can't stand hearing fans turn on their own players. That why it makes me sad to p...

Brave, stubborn or crazy?

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It is now -1ยบ. That's what the mercury reads; I don't want to know what the windchill is. But dammit, I'm a hale and hardy Midwe...
Saturday, February 03, 2007

Life's not so funny for this funny girl

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Watched an old Sam and Diane episode of Cheers this morning. Hadn't seen one in ages. I was surprised by how funny Shelly Long was, esp...

Sorry, but I just didn't care for Babel

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I know Babel is on many critics' 10 Best Lists. I realize it's been nominated for prestigious awards for its direction and acting. ...
Friday, February 02, 2007

Not that this is news …

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I am 32% Lady I tend to make up my own rules of etiquette, throwing all conventions aside. And while I try to be a lady (sometimes), my beha...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Thursday Thirteen 70s Songs that Don't Make Me Puke

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Thirteen songs from the 1970s that THE GAL HERSELF actually CAN stand. See if any of these make you smile. It was a hideous decade for music...

Thanks to Bridezilla and her bad haircut ...

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… I have been ruminating on my own relationship with hair today. Most of the time, I like my hair. It's short, red and in good condition...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Ouch! That hurt!

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So at lunchtime today I'm at CVS, trying to reach around these two women who are planted in the aisle, arguing and not moving. The older...
Monday, January 29, 2007

Grief over a horse

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A horse I have never actually seen in real life, no less. I was so sad to learn about poor Barbaro being put down. So beautiful and so brave...
Sunday, January 28, 2007

I don't need a reason

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Just saw a Feria commercial with Scarlett Johansson and I realize anew that I simply cannot stand her. Not since Madonna and Kathie Lee Giff...

Why I'm Team Aniston

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SHH! I'm really more sincerely a supporter of Team Aniston than I am the Bears. It started during the season of Friends that began with...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

Uh-oh

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If you don't live in Chicagoland, you cannot imagine how deeply in love with the Bears this whole city is. Being the home of a Super Bow...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

Thursday Thirteen performances Oscar overlooked

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Thirteen Things the The Gal Herself feels strongly about: In honor of the Oscar race, I'm listing 13 actresses whose performances were ...
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Sentencing this old gal to a "time out"

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"The gang" here at work is going to lunch, and I just told a fib to get out of it. I didn't make anything up out of whole clo...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

It's a plan

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I'm going on vacation in March! Made the airline and hotel reservations. Now all I have to do is choose which spa treatments I want. Hot...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Another woman would be ashamed

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I mean, I realize that at this point in my life, I shouldn't find these funny. Buried at PhotoCasket.com Buried at PhotoCasket.com

Look at that face!

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Abigail Breslin was just nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Little Miss Sunshine . As a Chicagoan, I know I am supposed to be...
Monday, January 22, 2007

"A True Friend and a Good Writer"

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That's how Wilbur described Charlotte. And, ever since I was a little girl, it sums up all I've ever wanted to be. Sometimes I come ...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Bear down, Chicago Bears

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I love my city when we're all one. And today, on this particular snowy Sunday, we're all one. I know, I know … New Orleans is suppos...
Saturday, January 20, 2007

I can be such a snob!

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When Armageddon first came out in the late 1990s, I refused to go see it. It sounded dopey, like Smokey and the Bandit in outer space. I h...

Back to the future

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I'm going to do it. Today I'm going to make the appointment. And next month it's going to happen. I'm going back to my origi...