two movies

Christina Ricci isn't making a fashion statement, she's "Penelope"

(if you liked Big Fish then you should, by all appearances, like this)

my documentary pick

(I really wanna see this)

monkeys

yesterday David sent me an e-mail with a few cute photos of baboons. little did he know that he would spark my dormant interest in monkeys. just for the record- one of my college roommates, Brian, promised to buy me a pet monkey once he saw "fit"

also, I own a gorilla costume.

here are a few pictures of my favorite monkeys in no particular order-

I'll be honest, I know nothing about this gorilla, I just like the way he looks.

this is a character from the cartoon Dexter's Laboratory, Dial M for Monkey

this is the Evil Monkey from the cartoon The Family Guy

1976 King Kong (classic poster... and yes, Kong is standing on top of the World Trade towers) most recent King Kong remake

the Monkees

NEW FAVORITE: and you thought television commercials were a dying breed- yeah, RIGHT!

Betsy Randle = Amy Matthews

have you seen the new Advil television commercial? I think the slogan goes, "I'm all Advil" anyway I saw this advertisement and for a split second I was taken back to my sophomore year in high school, maybe even Jordan Hoover's bedroom... where I watched many an episode of Boy Meets World.

see, I heard a familiar voice in that Advil "ad"

and then I saw the face

(top row, second from the left)

yep. that was Amy Matthews I saw on television, tellin' me about how she is, "all Advil" (Brett Favre is too!) so... I just thought I'd mention that

because I loved me some Boy Meets World

Muay Thai

I know... you're wondering-

where's this new restaurant?

Spanish/Asian fusion??!?

stop.

this is Muay Thai.

Ricardo introduced me to it and now I'm going once a week (with Ricardo) to Plano (yes, believe it... 972) to learn from Saekson.

lemme tell you THIS IS NOT EASY and I'M WORKING MY SKIN TO THE BONE but I LOVE IT. as you know, if you know me, I might need something that... has the ability to keep my attention (hmm... never enjoyed classic "cardio" workouts, a.k.a. running or as I liked to call it, "too boring") and Muay Thai seems to be up for the challenge.

I'm just trying to figure out who I'll look more like in the end-

Zangief or

Sagat

obviously I don't have the muscle build of either of these guys... nor the scarring... and unlike Sagat, I have full use of both of my eyeballs

but I do have a beard (score one for Zangief)

and Sagat is wearing the proper Muay Thai... uniform (decided against using such words as "outfit" or "attire" because... he's Sagat.)

anyway, I suppose only time will tell.

or Saekson.

music: Meatloaf

so I have to admit that I never knew what "that" was... so I did some ra-search and found out that

"that" is-

"I'll never forget the way you feel right now"

"I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight"

"I'll never do it better than I do it with you"

"I'll never stop dreaming of you every night of my life"

"You'll see that it's time to move on"

"You'll be screwing around"

so that's "that" and this is the video

something new

I'm not giving up "LOVE on the internet" but I am adding something to it. things that I "like"

like movies, music, sports... maybe even food, who knows? but I am broadening the scope of this blog.

sho 'nuff

YEA!

this is me with my valentine

(and I have to give a special thanks and mention of kalloor.com for all of these photos, you've officially been KALLOORED)

I promise we're not posing

seriously (that was a GREAT salad)

"domestic violence"

(and we're at church, no less!)

this, this is what it looks like when "we" take a photo (I promise, soon, I will upload all of my pictures...)

:).

trust Who?

"if I trust You, everything else will become, for me, strength, health, and support. Everything will bring me to heaven. If I do not trust You, everything will be my destruction." -Thomas Merton

memories

"Go back, then, a little way to the choice mercies of yesterday, and though all may be dark now, light up the lamps of the past, they shall glitter through the darkness, and thou shalt trust in the Lord till the day break and the shadows flee away." -C.H. Spurgeon

forgiveness

"Forgiving does not mean forgetting. When we forgive a person, the memory of the wound might stay with us for a long time, even throughout our lives. Sometimes we carry the memory in our bodies as a visible sign. But forgiveness changes the way we remember. It converts the curse into a blessing. When we forgive our parents for their divorce, our children for their lack of attention, our friends for their unfaithfulness in crisis, our doctors for their ill advice, we no longer have to experience ourselves as the victims of events we had no control over." -Henri J.M. Nouwen