Roses are red

I am so grateful that I have a cousin who works in a beauty salon. I called her up this morning and asked if she would wash, dry, and style my hair for me. Of course she said 'yes' and my hair looks amazing! No, I'm not incredibly lazy, but everyone has to admit how nice it feels to have your hair washed and dried in a salon. The best part is that it is free for me. I pay her in other ways. I just recently got her The Golden Girls Season One. We are both massive fans and she could not wait to watch all the episodes.

Today I also discovered that all the sun I am getting has darkened my skin a few shades more than my face. After a brief consultation with my Mary Kay Specialist, we decided I should just use a bronzer instead of a darker foundation.

My fiance and I had dinner at the San Francisco Rose off Greenville Avenue in Dallas. We met three of his colleagues from work and they were all my age. (Let's just say my fiance is significantly older than my age of 24.) As I conversed with all three very attractive women I began to worry. I did not worry that he would find them attractive, and I did not worry that he would want to date any of them. I worried because I thought, "If I come across as that clueless and juvenile, why would he want to be around me or even marry me?" The one thing I had to remember was that I am very mature for my age:). The food was fair, and my chicken bottom was burnt. Note to self: Don't eat dinner there again.

My review of Some Like It Hot: See White Chicks if you are looking for a close to same story line, but with more comedy. See Some Like It Hot if you prefer a classic black and white film starring the beautiful Marilyn Monroe. I enjoyed the movie and did get a few good laughs from the dialogue. My favorite part was reminding my drooling fiance that Marylin Monroe was, I believe, a size 14. He is still arguing the point that the average size for a woman today is a size 14 and not the food deprived, skeletal, silicon figures of most of Hollywood's leading actresses. (Yeah, I'm targeting Lindsay Lohan again.) Bottom line is that the film gets 3 out of 5 hearts.

Bath and Body Works Heaven

I have come to accept the fact that today will be relatively uneventful. I actually woke up at 8:00 A.M. after a serious hard night's sleep. I give full credit to Earth Therapeutics Anti-Stress Massage Lotion with chamomile and lavender. You can pick it up at a Bed, Bath, and Beyond near you! My fiance doubted the magic of this miracle massage lotion, but I made him use it last night and he told me how well he slept. Do you still doubt?

The super best discovery I have made over the past two weeks is Bath and Body Works Body Conditioner. This stuff is a gift from Heaven! It is exactly what it says: a conditioner you rub over you body in the shower after you have washed. The goal is to make your skin softer with your favorite fragrance. (My personal scent is the Cotton Blossom.) Using this conditioner has eliminated the need to lotion up after a shower. I still tend to lotion the ole legs and feet, but that is because they tend to lean toward the dry side. Aside from giving me smooth and soft skin, I have the light fragrance of Cotton Blossom on all day. It is strong enough to tell it is there, but soft enough to hide if I put on perfume or a body mist. I highly urge everyone I know to try this, and with the current sale it is only $5.00/bottle. Man am I glad I got paid today! I will definitely be stocking up.

No movie to review today. I would have liked to discuss Collateral, but my fiance misunderstood his Comcast Digital Cable settings and recorded the movie en Espanol. I have no personal problems with the Spanish language, but I also do not understand any of it. I think we'll be renting Some Like it Hot tonight so check back for that review.

For any fellow Golden Girls fanatics, (I know we are few but we must stick together) have you ever notice the error in the age of Dorothy and Stan's first child. Throughout the whole show we are constantly reminded that Dorothy and Stan were married for 38 years. We also know that they had to get married because Dorothy was pregnant. So logic would stand that their son, Michael is at least 38 years old. If you watch every episode that contains Michael, he is always said to be in his mid-20s. Just a little something to think about.

Safety First!

I had a whole agenda of things to do today. Okay, so it wasn't so much "things" as a "thing" I had planned on getting done. Part of Texas certification for teaching requires a set of fingerprints to be cleared by the FBI. I never worried about this formality. I have led a clean life and have nothing to hide. Well, I had sent in three sets of prints and was going to get a fourth set made this morning because I had not heard about the status of the last set I sent in. I contacted the state and it turns out that because of certain circumstances, they can just do a background check on me with my name. Now, what is so wrong with doing this from the beginning? Last time I checked I knew of 60 other people having this one glitch that kept their certification from being mailed to them. I even heard that one lady drove to Austin herself to get things cleared up. The part that still "gets my goat" is when I hear commercials about a shortage of teachers in the state. It is all a bunch of baloney! Thanks to "No Child Left Behind" and a former govenor like Bush, no one is allowed to teach with a bachelor's alone. All those commercials about teaching with just a degree is hogwash. If all you have is a degree, your resume gets thrown on the bottom of the pile under the "alternative certification" resumes. I know this from experience. Teaching is a noble profession, but get certified in college and avoid the nightmare of finding a job.

Enough negativity. . .

Interesting quote of today: "Patience is the companion of wisdom." -Augustine
I find this quote interesting because I have zero patience with stupid people, and yet for some reason they continue to insist on breeding. I guess there has to be a balance somewhere because without idiots, the intelligent would have no way of gaging just how smart they are, and we would not want all that arrogance wasted.

Another movie to look at today: Bewitched. I was pleasantly surprised at how well this movie was put together. A truly avid original Bewitcher will be entertained by this take on the old sitcom. What people need to understand is that it is not a remake of the show with a Samantha and Darren. It is the story of Isabel and Paul, the two people that are going to be in the remake of the show in the movie. (Confusing I know, just go see it to understand.) Will Ferrell actually acts in the movie. Don't get me wrong, I love the SNL shtick as much as the next gal, but it was cool to see him play an attractive leading man. Nicole Kidman was fantastic at displaying the naivete of a witch in a human world. My fave part was the revenge she sought after Will's character's ex-wife. The award for best acted part must go to Steve Carell for playing Paul Lynde's take on Uncle Arthur. If you don't know who Paul Lynde is, rent Bye Bye Birdie and then Carell's performance will make all the sense in the world. No sex was needed to make this a comfortable, funny, and enjoyable romantic comedy. Yes, it is a good date movie: 4 out of 5 hearts.

The Perfect Man Huh?

Well it's summer time and, as a high school educator, I am taking full advantage of my summer off. Today I found myself at the movie theater watching The Perfect Man. As a romantic comedy addict, I fell in love with this movie. I spared my fiance the pain and did not take him, but he did observe, from the previews, that he could not understand why any man would dump Heather Locklear. I found it more upsetting that Heather Locklear has gone from the devastatingly gorgeous young woman to the desperate, aging mother. Where is the justice in a world that will still cast Sean Connery with women half his age, but poor ole Heather has to play a woman intent on dating whatever crossed her path?

The movie itself was the "cookie cutter" formula of all chick flicks. My favorite part was Hilary Duff. Yes I admit it, I have to back my fellow Texan, I am a minor Hilary fan. Maybe it is because I teach teens and it amuses me to see who their role models are, for the girls anyway, and why they admire them. Not to mention that any force in this universe that can balance out the evil that is Lindsay Lohan is more than welcome to me. That's right, I admit that I despise Lohan openly as well.

As for Duff's leading man, the character "Adam" was the cutie-patootie that is expected in a film of this caliber. The thing that drove me nuts the entire film was trying to decide who he reminded me of or if I had seen him in anything before. I am one of those that can go nutty when I am trying to place actors in other movies.

It is nice to find a movie every now and then that doesn't require a lot of emotion or thinking. I left feeling good about life and very satisfied with that "happy ending" atmosphere.

I would definitely give The Perfect Man 3 out of 5 Hearts.