the bright side of ugly

ah yes... quite amusing

The first thing that happened was
it started thundering and lightning really loud when the guy was reading the haftorah, but he just kept droning on, it was quite amazing actually because he didn't even pause. I guess thats what happens when you do it every (almost every) week.

The second thing was
Saladelias for lunch
chicken souvlaki rocks my socks

And the third thing that happened was that
G-D SPOKE TO ME!
me and amy were outside after dinner (at the synogauge because it was teacher appreciation havdalah service and since we were ta's...) trying to avoid the "ruach" and the birkat and we were sitting outside on this bench under the roof thing and suddenly it starts raining again... really lots of raining and we see this bolt of lightning and it was kind of close and so we're running back inside (just around the corner... not so far) when this huge clap of thunder sounds (like not even a one-one-thousand in between... like in that book the thunder cake or whatever). Needless to say we went back into the social hall and stopped avoiding our fate.

The last thing that happened was
At the havdalah service someone had a grand idea to give all the small children (mostly second graders but also some kindergarteners and a few older kids/parents) havdalah candles, which are not regular candles but these huge 3 wick ones with huge flames as a result of so many wicks. So these kids were poorly supervised and they were totally about to give me a heart-attack because hey... it was a disaster waiting to happenand was scary!

and thats it
a boring sunday (sans kindergarteners :'( ahead

Posted by hayley at Saturday, April 22, 2006 | Permalink | Comments

so yesterday I watched a dumb movie
and today I read a dumb book
and believe it or not
the story lines were pretty similar (and equally trash-y).

stupid lifetime movie:
denise richards stars as a wedding planner who has ocd (I'm not even kidding, that's seriously part of the plot...)
complicated ups and downs ensue...
timeline anyone?
1. breaks up with her husband (tried to cheat on her with her sister>>notice this detail because it will come back to bite you in the butt) but they are still legally married.
2. gets a huge wedding order at work (naw... not the the SAUSAGE KINGS DAUGHTER! why we'll be the talk of the town)
3. is at another wedding and when the groom decides to rappel down the church (?) and gets stuck meets a fire fighter and flirts
4. finds out that firefighter man is engaged to her client
5. firefighter (un)hottie makes various moves on poor ocd afflicted wedding planner... takes her to a park and when she jumps off a carousel in an attempt to get away from him (as she realizes that what she is doing is wrong...) twists her ankle. He takes her to the ER and makes her breakfast the next morning bla bla bla
6. Planner goes to work and finds client had a fight with her fiancee... he comes in and surprise surprise
7. Finds out that client is actually engaged to firefighter man's BROTHER (also a firefighter (un)hottie)
8. Two weeks before wedding and sausage king's daughter wants to move her wedding up because she is pregnant with her fiancees brother
9. I don't remember how but somehow she finds out that the two (un)hottie's have yet another brother!... decides to forgive original firefighter man
10. Wedding planner freaks out and storms out on her and firefighter man's date that night
11. Planner gets her ex to come over and finally sign the divorce papers... but on his way out he sees DUN DUN DUN... firefighter man and lets him know that they're "married"
12. ultimate reconciliation at wedding.
and finally
13. A wedding of ocd wedding planner's own... with the original (un)hottie as the groom... but with his other brothers ayears when she nd sausage kings daughter standing by.
**insert between every other word jokes that are meant to be witty but instead come off as incredibly stupid (in part because they are incredibly stupid)

stupid book not worth printing on paper
1. girl breaks up with her boyfriend of four years when she goes to college
2. girl converses with lesbian (again weird/random but strangely part of the actual plot...) sister via email
3. girl meets sorority ready roomate who is a pagant beauty queen
4. girl decides to flirt with boys every day for a month (with the help of roomie and lesbian sister)
5. girl meets "hottie" at newspaper
6. girl finds "hottie" is taken
7. girls ex comes down for the weekend... they break up all over again
8. girl gets involved with a boy exactly like her ex
9. girl breaks up with clone of ex
10. girl learns that "hottie" is single after all
11. girl gets together with hottie
**insert between every word cheap alcohol/beer (because no one cards you at college), ugly skirts, and designer coffees (which every college student can afford despite lack of a job and humble beginnings in new joisey)

so dumb
must clense my mind...

Posted by hayley at Sunday, April 16, 2006 | Permalink | Comments

yes... I've watched many these past few days... shall I list?

Thumbsucker
Still a thumbsucker at 17 he tries to replace his "habit" with others, such as...
**riddalin (stops when he learns it is only 3 molecules away from cocaine and has a huge breakdown at a debate state championship)
**a weird girl who uses him because she knows he won't hurt her (well duh... he still sucks his thumb and he's a senior in high school...)
**pot (this habit is stopped when his supply is cut off from the above)
Finally he is on the plane to him dream college in New York after he has finished and he is dreaming about his dream career (an anchorman) and then he realizes he is talking like he has something in his mouth...
He wakes up and is sucking his thumb.

The Squid and the Whale
Mummy (a up and coming writer who has been having affairs since she and pops were married) decides she and daddy-o (also a writer who is now quite unsuccesful and instead is a college professor) need a divorce (he hit her with a tennis ball too hard during a "playful" match). Dad buys a house on the other side of the park (they live in Brooklyn... next to a park?) dun dun dun. The place is a dump.
Well Dad decides to offer a room to his risquee college student who writes racy sex scenes for her class and at first older son sides with Dad and younger son with Mom until this happens and he sees his dad and lust (the racy college student) getting busy (she decides to move out the next morning... go figure). Meanwhile mom is having an affair with younger brother's tennis instructor.
And on top of it all the younger brother (9) is getting drunk all the time and mastrubating and spreading the semen around school. Yippee!
Whats more it's all based on a true story...
quite disturbing I know.

Walk the Line (ok ok this one's only PG-13 and not indie I know but still weird)
I learned three things...
**Johnny Cash had a traumetizing childhood
**Johnny Cash had a severe speed problem caused by his traumetizing childhood
**Joaquin (sp) Pheonix has something funny going on with his lips not functioning properly that was totally bugging me throughout the entire movie

Posted by hayley at Saturday, April 15, 2006 | Permalink | Comments

I haven't posted in forever.
I guess it doesn't really matter because everyone stopped checking it anyway. Thats ok.

I saw this totally depressing documentary on pbs about this kid who lived in a bubble his whole life (literally) and it made me really sad.

Like it was tuesday and now it's friday and it's still depressing me.
Like he lived in a bubble his whole life.
Was so terrified of germs that he had these huge anxiety problems about them killing him.
It was so sad.
So so so so sad.
Poor baby.

Posted by hayley at Friday, April 14, 2006 | Permalink | Comments