The Wall Street Journal

Every day at lunch time I read the Wall Street Journal - not the Money & Marketing pages, but the Marketplace, Personal Journal and Weekend Journals are awesome if I do say so myself. Anyhow, I found a few of my favorite articles online, and am putting them here for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

Under Priced at a Hundred Million: An article about some of the most expensive real estate on the market, including one of Donald Trump's places.

*Can 'High School' Last Forever?: An article about Disney's aspirations for the "High School Musical" franchise. (Crazy, if you ask me.)

Can Wine in a Sippy Box Lure Back French Drinkers?: Highly entertaining, especially the bit about the special spraying straw. Also don't miss the crazy statistics about the French and their average yearly wine intake.

*The Summer of Drugs: An article by Ted Nugent (classic hard rocker) about the 60's and how some of the best musicians of the century robbed the public of some of the greatest music ever unwritten by killing themselves by overdose. If I remember correctly, that was the gist of the article.

Cost of Weddings Cheaper than Survey Suggests: An interesting article about surveys and how the gathered statistics can be portrayed to mislead people about the real scenario. It's all about math! Oh yeah, and weddings, too.

Ways to Teach Your Children to Find Work That They Love: An editorial about a woman, her life path, her children's aspirations, and about chilling out and going with the flow when it comes to finding your life's calling.

* These two you need to subscribe to read. Sorry about that... they were really good! You can get 2 weeks free, I think, so definitely look into that and check out these articles!

High Class Media

I've watched a lot of movies in the past month and listened to a lot of music. Here's a bit of a review.

Hairspray: If you have not seen it in the theatres, hustle your bustle. It's amazing. It made me motivated for dramatic life changes... of course this motivation lasted about 2 days, so clearly I need to go see it again, but it's great.

The Guardian: If you have not seen this movie, rent it, it's great. Don't forget a new box of kleenex, if you are a cryer then you're going to need them... all of them.

Becoming Jane: Don't waste your money. See it on DVD in a few months.

Click Five: Just came out with a new CD that I would highly recommend for anybody of the peppy-pop pure-fun persuasion.

Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers: Just came out with a new CD, that I would recommend to... well, everyone.

High School Musical 2: I watched it. It's not High Class Media, let me tell you, but I feel it is worth mentioning. Disney is hoping to make a series of movies rivaling Harry Potter in popularity, and I have to tell them that it's NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. Especially if they continue to have some of the lamest choreography I've ever seen (watch the scene on the golf course... it practically brought me to tears). Though the music was decent (for a TV movie musical extravaganza), I think the first one was better. Not a good feeling to have if you're banking on making High School Musical numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, on ice, French, Spanish, Japanese, Antartican, and Global Domination.

Harry Potter (book #6): I finally re-read it so I can move onto the 7th book. Which is why this journal entry must come to an end very shortly.

Dawson's Creek, Season 3: Remember that drama filled show? So much angst in every episode, it's hard not to mess up your life vicariously. My sister and I have been reliving the glory days since she bought season 3 on DVD. Will Pacey and Joey ever get together? Now I already know the answer, but watching the episodes leading up to their fate is simply irresistible.

It's a Hard Knock Life

Blogging is difficult to do with a dial up connection. I know, I have said it a million times, but do you know how long it takes to log into my email, switch over to blogger, load the typing page... not to mention post the darn entry... and don't even think about photos!

Anyhow, I've been super busy this month and when limited time is factored into the equation with a slow internet connection, updating this thing just doesn't happen. However, today is my first day of rest in a long while, and I though it fitting to spend it online!

First off, I've been working at my summer job which has been painfully boring for the majority of the time. Things have picked up in the past week, but I just sometimes feel like every job I work on has to be a pain in the you know where. Needless to say, I am so glad there is only one week left!

Second, I have spent a good part of August packing up all my lifetime belongings into boxes in preparation for my move to NY. Last weekend we went to NY with a 17 ft. U-Haul (which was overkill, let me tell you... it was about a 1/4 of the way full) to move in. We got there without any major mishaps (my dad only ran into the barriers one time!)... we even found the street I lived one which was a major accomplishment since my dad had never driven in NYC and the exit we were supposed to take was closed. Unfortunately, returning the U-Haul was a major debacle, my dad got in an accident and everyone was fine, but it took about 2 and a half hours to straighten everything out. That night I felt as sick as I have felt since my freshmen year in high school, and the rest of the weekend was quite uncomfortable.

But, I am all moved in! And it looks great.

When I am not at work working, I'm usually off helping someone with their computer troubles. I've been doing tons of work for my grandfather, helping him organize his photos for his memoirs. I've been doing web work and web tutorials for another woman, and I also had helped another lady on the lake get her Mac up and running.

I also had quite the debacle trying to get a cell phone with a New York number. A word to the wise, don't apply for a new cell phone plan right after your address changes... they don't like it.

So that's my current life update. I'm sorry it wasn't more anecdotal, but really I've forget what is humorous in situations as time goes by. Hopefully when I get to NY and have my high speed internet, this blog will become more interesting again!

Attention Amazon Shoppers

Just in case you were wondering... you can not have your tampons gift wrapped on Amazon dot com. I repeat, gift wrapping is not an option for tampon purchases.

Sorry, Sarah, the 300 bulk pack won't be coming to you on your birthday wrapped prettily in pink. Damn! I guess I need to think of something else...

(I suppose it makes sense... who would send tampons as a gift? But still... it would be funny if it was an option. Hell, I probably would do it if I could get them gift wrapped! Oh, well.)

I Want To Be A Kid Again

Enough said.

Seriously, though, this bed is pretty much awesome. It transforms your bedroom into an incredible jungle gym slash camp-ground, perfect for sleepovers and truth or dare games. Within minutes of laying eyes on it you'll be the envy of all the neighbrohood kids... and let's face it - the neighborhood adults!

I'm in the market for a bed. This one's definitely a forerunner.