I love shuffle for this

Granted leaving my entire music library on random provides for some awkward moments like when a book on tape comes on and totally ruins the flow.

BUT, it's all worth it for when I'm reminded of gems like Dirrty which I inexplicably removed from my main playlist at some point in the past decade.

That's right, this song came out in 2002.  I'll never forget, this CD will always make me think of Jenny. I bought Christina and she bought Beyonce and then we traded copies.  I miss those days, and I miss this Christina too.

Although I did love Burlesque...

don't touch my stuff

I got really close to the wall today.

Getting out and seeing just how obnoxious I look always makes me think of this:

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Still, there are no dings in my doors.

the life

I think I've realized my calling in life; to have and entertain guests.  Not that I haven't always enjoyed having friends stay with me, but having guests in Florida is 1000x more fun than having guests in nyc.

Besides the fact that your guests don't have to sleep in your bed with you when they visit in Florida, it's way more fun to do 'entertain your out of town guest' activities down here.  In nyc you basically do a lot of walking around and looking at things, with the occasional stop for a bite to eat or something to drink.  Down here it's taking a drive by the beach and getting out to walk for pleasure, or having a bite to eat at home by the pool, as we did yesterday.

Jon and I had grand plans of kayaking and botanic gardens that were quickly tossed out the window when Scott uncovered the pool.  This picture sums up how the rest of our day went, save for a brief respite to gorge ourselves on a hotdog cookout.

After our day of heavy eating, drinking, and sunning, we did the only thing that seemed appropriate to do.  We went to the dollar theater and saw Burlesque.  I've said it before and I'll say it again, I love Cher.  Neither Jon nor Scott had seen it yet so it was fun to hear their reactions to the different parts.  Well, Jon's anyways, Scott was pretty much entranced by Christina the entire time.

Upon getting home from the movie Scott passed out leaving Jon and I to play this in to the wee (no pun intended) hours of the morning.  I'm amazed we were able to get up this morning in time to do the last minute errands we needed to do before I took him to the airport.  I was sad to see him go, especially now that I know that Meghan's not going to be able to come down this weekend either.  Now it's back to the same old same old, which brings me to my original point.  If it hadn't been for Jon being here I doubt we would have had a cookout and I probably would have felt guilty about laying by the pool doing nothing all day, but since I was entertaining a guest it was like I was working.  Of course I did neglect my blog, which Dan was quick to point out, but it was all for a good cause.  And now I will have to go back to posting day after day with pictures of the sunset and my musings on time and space because I have nothing else going on in my life.

So come visit please!  We've still got grapefruits on the trees and the pool is starting to warm up, now is the time to plan your beach getaway!  

Burlesque

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My sister took me on dream date last week that ended in seeing this.  And let me tell you, it was good, I highly recommend.

It has the Dreamgirls thing where Christina is pretty stiff when she's just doing lines, or just dancing, but as soon as she starts "performing" you remember why they cast her in the first place.

And then there's Cher.  omg.  Before going in I had the thought in the back of my head that it was so wild that Cher won an Oscar, but then I remembered why.  She is brilliantly amazing.  She has that Mariska quality of being able to take mediocre writing and make it believable.  Then to see her interacting with all the other amazing actors in it was super fun as well.

My sister has already been to see it again.  I feel the same way, so if anybody wants to go, just send me a smoke signal.