sunday, bloody (hilarious) sunday

omg. this is a complete backtrack entry but necessary. how could i have forgotten the hot mess that was sunday?!

i actually got up around 8am. wtf! then i made it to k's brunch. I WAS THE FIRST ONE THERE!! i am so proud of myself. i really do hate getting places late because it seems so rude and i usually cannot account for the time lapse. however, everytime i am running late there seems to be some spectacular mess of traffic. doesn't matter the time, place or route i'm taking. it's just God's way of telling me i should've left the house a little earlier.

so i chat with k&j. how friggin' cute are they!?! real cute, actually, is the answer. i ~do~ fall in love with k's "breakfast mix" that's playing in the background. every other song i'm all, "oh my god! i love this song!" well actually, every song for awhile there. so, they tell me never to watch friday night tv again. i agree because though i'm not "crosstraining" (by the way, i think the physical fitness standards suggest every week you should get 4.5 hours of heart beat raising activity in order to lose weight) there are plenty of other things i could've done.

many people arrive. i meet this woman who i have a ridiculous amount in common with: both grew up in nc in the same area (it's rare to meet someone who's even heard of salisbury!), are social workers, love to go to movies, read and eat and are virgos. amazing. well, maybe not amazing, but it was refreshing.
and the food is great and people are laughing, some are yelling, d is reading astrological charts, it's a good time. then 'get ur freak on' had to come up in the mix. oh my! there were asses popping and dropping. i think, "now this is my kind of church!" i hang out and watch "the L word". funny, i missed all of season 2 but i could follow it reasonably well. i don't think that's necessarily a good thing.

so i finally go and i come home. eh. i don't really want to be there so i...of course...go to a movie. i saw:

the squid & the whale. it was on my list before it was nominated for best original screenplay but seeing it became a higher priority because of the nomination. i like to be informed when the academy screws people over. anyway, it was good. story of a dysfunctional family in 1986 park slope brooklyn (my old hood!). jeff daniels is a killer as the cold, academic father being divorced by the caring yet closed (and adulterous) newly published author mother played by laura linney. i like her. her eyes seem tiny to me but she carries those meaningful looks well. the two boys, i think 16 and 12, are FUCKED UP normally but the divorce brings strange behavior out of them yet in the end they reach the places they need to be. the writing felt familiar, comfortable. i found it a very disturbing comedy and noticed i laughed at times others didn't. oh well, their loss. at this point (i have yet to see "match point") i doubt it'll win the oscar against the likes of 'syriana' and 'crash' and 'good night, and good luck' but the oscars have no shortage of surprise winners. but i digress: b+