A Fat Chick Trying to Find Herself: Entertainment

Busy… with the same old stuff

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:56:13 GMT

It’s true, I’ve been very busy lately but it’s been with the same old everyday stuff. It’s nothing exciting otherwise I’d be doing my best to find time to post about it. Since it isn’t anything incredibly exciting, how about some bullets? (As if you really had a choice)

q Last weekend My Prince and I decided to rent some movies. I’m happy to say that I finally watch Bridget Jones's Diary and Blood Diamonds. I wanted to see both of these movies but was secretly more excited about watching Bridget Jones’s Diary than I was Blood Diamonds. I read the book Bridget Jones’s Diary so I was eager to see what the movie would be like and though I wanted to see Blood Diamonds I wasn’t too interested in seeing this bloody (for a lack of better words) guy flick. But, surprisingly enough, I enjoyed Blood Diamonds more than the latter. Bridget Jones’s Diary, the book, was much better and My Prince also seemed to agree that Blood Diamonds was better (big surprise there).

q I had gotten word of two job opportunities and applied for the one, which I wasn’t too excited about and was still awaiting the application for the second one, which I am very excited about. Yesterday I received the application for the second job and can barely wait to fill it out.

q This whole exercise and diet thing is harder than I like to admit. My body responds so easily to foods. If I take more than two or three bites of something that is fattening or not good for me the next day the scale reflects it. I am being quite literal about those few bites. I’ve been paying more attention to the food that I put in my mouth and am carefully measuring my portions to a tee. When I choose something more on the unhealthy side I have to be more careful than one would think about my portion size. For instance My Prince and I went to an Italian restaurant one night for dinner. I love their portabella ravioli! But it’s cooked in heavy oils and covered with a cream sauce, which we all know is bad in the diet world. So, I ate a small sized salad, one bread stick and only three raviolis. You get about ten raviolis that are about the size of a little girl’s bracelet. The next day the scale read that I was at my same weight as the day before. A few weeks before that when I had that same meal, only I didn’t watch my portions, the scale showed a 1lb. increase. It’s frustrating but I think I’m learning.

q Back to the topic of movies. I’m on this kick where I have to read all of the books on my “want to read” list in two days. I’m exaggerating because I want to read those books very much and can’t stand the wait. Now I’ve also noticed that I have this urgency to watch movies that I’ve had on my “I want to watch” list for a while now. So, last night I went to the video store and rented Brokeback Mountain and Super Size Me. I also wanted to rent Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp in it but they didn’t have it. I realize that’s a strange line up but here’s my thought process for those choices. As I’m sure you all know by now Heath Ledger had passed away and only then did I realize that I still hadn’t seen Brokeback Mountain, so of course it got put on the “must see now” list. Over the weekend when I was renting the movies mentioned above for My Prince and I to watch I had seen Super Size Me out of the corner of my eye and remembered that I wanted to see that as well, so since I was going to rent BBM I decided I’d pick up SSM as well. When out of know where this little voice in my head said, “You still haven’t seen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” with Johnny Depp in it yet. What could be better than chocolate and Johnny Depp?” As I was browsing around for my selections I noticed a few other movies that I still wanted to see that I hadn’t yet and figured that I could pick those up on my next visit. This list of movies that I have also happen to be movies that My Prince wouldn’t watch with me because he’s just not interested in seeing them and that’s why I’m renting them on my own. **Side note: it’s funny that the three movies I wanted have the double first two initials in their titles “BBM”, “SSM”, and “CCF”. Weird, huh? lol

I’m happy that tomorrow is Friday and can barely wait for the weekend. I hope everyone is having a great Thursday! ‘Til next time!

~ Fat Chick

You Knew this Was Coming, Right?

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:26:30 GMT

Carrie Quote of the Day:

Carrie: Sports night: ever female's fantasy. A room full of captive heterosexual men all looking to be distracted during commercial breaks.

Today is the Steelers’ first game of the football season and the start of the NFL season. The city is going wild with anticipation for 8:30’s game tonight. The whole day has different festivities going on for the people who took the day off of work for it, lol. In my office I am sporting my Steelers shirt and at 12:00 we are having a “Tailgate Party” for lunch. All over the office you see signs exclaiming, “GO STEELERS!!!” and “Terrible Towels” hanging from cubicles. I have my Terrible Towel and a picture from 2 seasons ago that just became popular last season. This picture as a matter of fact:

The excitements in the air how will I ever make it through the rest of the workday? lol

~ Fat Chick

County Fair and Winning the Bid on a Goat

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:39:21 GMT

Carrie Quote of the Day:

Carrie: After all – people die, computers crash. All we can do is breathe and reboot.

Nice title, huh? Hehe! Allow me to explain. Two weekends ago My Prince calls me up and says, “Do you want to go to <insert county name> fair this weekend and watch my Dad bid on the goat?” My response, “Huh… what?!”

Yes, you read that correctly. My Prince thought he had already told me about the goat bidding but had not. So he then explained to me that his Dad who works for an oil company had to go and bid on this goat in order to get the land from the farmer who’s land happens to be sitting on a bunch of oil. That was the deal so away we went to the fair and we were the proud owners of “Duke” the goat for about two days.

Think I’m lying? Check out a picture of Duke in the "County Fair" Photo Album.

Besides bidding on Duke we did what we do best and had a bite to eat. I got a chicken gyro (which is just chicken, lettuce, sauce, and onions on a pita) and then later on My Prince and I shared the most delicious chocolate covered apple with chocolate chip cookie crumbs sprinkled over the chocolate. I have one word for this YUM! It’s due to these wonderfully “evil” things of why I refer to myself as “Fat Chick”.

Aside from stuffing our mouths and visiting Duke we saw sheep, donkeys, horses, and cows. But a big storm came and rained us out. We said, “bye” to Duke and went on our way.

Isn’t it interesting how business deals get worked out some times?

Have a great day,

~ Fat Chick

Update: I did have a picture of Duke on here but for whatever the reason every time I try to come back to my space my Internet Explorer gives me an error and then closes the page on me. So, I had to remove it.

Also, to answer Rebecca's question in the comments, Duke is back at his home (with his family) where he will spend the rest of his days.