How I Spent My Thanksgiving Vacation
Oh Lord. I am so full. I had my yearly birthday dinner at Cheesecake Factory tonight (since my birthday is on Tuesday of this coming week-- a work night, blah) and I am stuffed. Not miserable or unbearably full but most definitely sated. I feel like I might not want to eat again for months. Lord, it was good though. I had the 30th Anniversary chocolate cake cheesecake for what I am considering my slice of birthday cake this year and holy Lord, it was good. I think I finished about half of the slice before I gave up. I also had two Gin Ricky Gervais, which I think are fabulous. It's been a while since I've had alcohol because I've been minding my ps and qs and eating healthy. So the first Gin Ricky Gervais down the hatch hit me like a ton of bricks. For some reason, I felt like Willy the whale in that scene from Free Willy where he leaps forth from the waters and goes over the kid's head, LOL. It was like some transcendent experience where I left the earth and my astral body (to use a term from Dark Shadows) was Willy the whale taking flight.
I also have spent a fair amount of time peeling off the dead skin from my face.
And, yeah, I am not kidding: that really is dead facial skin I gathered into a lid to dump into the garbage can. No one said being a Simon Cowell was easy. There's much, much more where that came from. At least the red-purple color has now faded to red-pink.
Let's see . . . trip to Cheesecake Factory, facial burning off, facial dead skin removal . . . Oh yeah, there has also been a good rotation of films I've watched a million times yet never tire of: The Godfather trilogy, Goodfellas, the Bond films, etc. I have also watched some old Forever Knight episodes since I am STILL WAITING for the next installment of Dark Shadows, damn it. I am a little surprised that TV Guide opted to remove FK from its list of top cult TV shows (http://www.tvguide.com/news/top-cult-shows-40239.aspx) since it still has a loyal following. I am also surprised that Dark Shadows and The Avengers, two of my favorite shows, do not rank higher on the list. And how is The Simpsons considered a cult show? What-ever, TV Guide! I think DS ought to be in the top ten at least. If someone who was born in 1980, nearly a decade after the show ended, can discover it and fall madly in love, it deserves a higher ranking.
