My father came over and together we extricated the sofa from my bedroom. Just in time for the girl to tell me she can’t take it– her truck isn’t big enough. DANGIT! Now I have the sofa in my hallway!!!! That’s okay– there will be another taker… I am sure of it.

It’s been an exciting couple hours here at the Donnavilla. Last night I came home from having spent the evening at my parents’ house and found my kitchen flooded. Water was dripping from the ceiling lamp. I immediately called my father who rushed over at 11:00pm and diagnosed the source of the leak. I thought it was a water pipe but my father recognized it was the air conditioner. Ray from Ray’s HVAC arrived this morning and told me my air conditioning unit was low in freon and somehow this was the reason for the water. It made sense coming out of his mouth but now as I try to repeat it, it just sounds insane.

Yesterday I decided it was time to get rid of the sofa in my bedroom. It had belonged to my neighbors and my mom rescued it from the garbage a few years back. It found a home with me although it never really acted as a sofa. Its main role was laundry storage. I posted an ad on Craigslist for a free sofa and I almost immediately got a taker. In preparation for the new owner, I have been trying to get the sofa out of my bedroom but I can’t seem to fit it through the door. HOW THE HECK DID I GET IT IN HERE? If I got it in, I must be able to get it out— right? And so for the second time in two days I have called my father, “Daddy? I need help!” He said he will come over later and mastermind the extraction. What would I do without him?

Friday night I went to see the Philly Funk Authority play at the Sellersville Theater. It was a really great show. I would have gotten up and danced if I didn’t have my big purse with me. I don’t know what I was thinking bringing it in the theater with me. I should have left it in my car. There is nothing more silly than a woman dancing around with a big purse on her shoulder. I’ll remember to forget it next time.

Saturday I went to Target World and for the first time ever, I shot a gun! In a way it reminded me of High School when I used to do archery. I have to admit, I felt rather queasy holding a gun. It scared me but I made sure I was alert and responsible. There was another break-in in my neighborhood the other day. I am considering purchasing a gun but I won’t do it until I am completely educated in gun ownership. Let’s just say that yesterday was my first step toward getting familiar with guns and possibly moving toward owning one.

Speaking of material goods I wish to own, I just bought the Verismo vuNOW PoD. My dad was telling me about it the other day and I decided to just buy it. Apparently you connect it to you TV and you can watch videos from YouTube and Hulu and other sites. It will arrive next week so I’ll let you guys know how it works once I get it connected and play with it a bit. I put my Netflix membership on hold a few months ago and I got an email telling me that it would be re-activating shortly. I think I may just cancel it totally— hopefully this VuNOW device will be a good replacement.

I logged into Rhapsody and queued up a few songs and guess what I saw? A SHUFFLE button! Yes! It’s finally back!

Am I the only one that thought Cat Stevens was singing, “Be strange” and not “peace train?” It now makes sense why I never could find the song listed on any album of his.

I recently saw that Napster lowered the price for their music subscription service. I considered making the switch but then I remembered Yahoo music did the same thing right before it went belly up. RIP

Ein Duke kommt selten allein

1. To crush your enemies
2. See them driven before you
3. And hear the lamentation of the women

Anyone read this article?

MAGAZINE
My Personal Credit Crisis
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
Published: May 17, 2009
How love, subprime lenders and willful self-delusion led one man, an economics reporter, to the brink of foreclosure.

Having read this article, all I can say is I DO NOT understand this mentality. You do not borrow half a million bucks if you can’t pay it back. You also do not charge almost $350 for groceries, $700 in clothes from J. Crew, and $179 at GapKids if you are also staying up at night wondering how you are going to pay your bills. This man deserves NOT to be bailed out. He made his bed… he needs to sleep in it. At the end of the article you finally figure out how this man (AN ECONOMICS REPORTER!?!!?) can admit to being such a total sucker… he has a book coming out.

1. Kemps Fat Free Frozen Yogurt Key Lime Pie

I bought it Saturday morning and I can’t stop myself from devouring it. I doubt it will be around come Monday.

2. Star Trek (2009). I caught it at an iMax theater yesterday and oh my gosh it was fantabulous! LOVED IT! LOVED IT! Did anyone else notice who played Spock’s daddy? BEN CROSS!!!!! He played Barnabas Collins in the early 90’s remake of Dark Shadows.

This is the exact picture I had pinned to the inside of my locker when I was a junior in High School! What is it about men with yellow/green glowing eyes!?!?

Ben Cross wasn’t the only actor I recognized. The guy who played Bones…. I knew him! But from where?!? I asked Lisa and she named some obscure movies he had been in (Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Riddick…) but I had never heard of any of them. Then I started wondering if I could have possibly met this guy on eHarmony or Match… Don’t laugh! He really looked familiar to me and just recently a pro-Sarah Palin documentary came out and the producer/director/interviewer made the rounds on all the different news channels… the guy looked very familiar to me and as it turns out… I corresponded with him on Match.com years ago! So it’s possible. Odd, but possible. At any rate, I looked up Bones on IMDB and it turns out he played Caesar on XENA! THAT’S HOW I KNOW HIM! Either he is an exceptional actor and totally changed his look or I am losing my edge— I immediately spotted him in Bourne Supremacy back in 2004.

Wow.

Yes, it’s true. I subscribe to Gwyneth Paltrow’s weekly newsletter, GOOP: nourish the inner aspect. I get a kick out of it. Sue me. At any rate, the latest edition has Gwyneth collecting a playlist of 10 songs from 6 of her super cool music expert friends and offering the list to us so we can have a Spring Dance Party!

I decided to go one step further and create a Rhapsody Playlist from it!

So take a listen and in Gwyneth’s words: Get your mother lovin’ dance shoes on…