Deleting Twitter, Blu-Ray & Birthday Celebration Review

I'm going to blog probably more often b/c I have some many things to get off my chest. One thing, I'm going to delete my Twitter account. I cannot keep up with that anymore since I don't have a Smart Phone. For those who are following me on Twitter right now, sorry. I prefer FB to Twitter now.

Also, I'm contemplating about whether to get a Blu-Ray player or not. I have about 4 standard DVD players at home and one hi-def flat screen TV. Because of the many gift cards I got yesterday b/c of my birthday party (explanation coming up.) Should I get a Playstation 3 or any other kind of Blu-Ray player? I am not a gamer, myself, so I 'm leaning towards the latter. We shall see.......

Onto my birthday celebration yesterday, it was the best birthday ever since my 30th one. I had a great time eating at a salad buffet bar, Sweet Tomatoes! Many family members came, but the most important people that came to my birthday were my high school friend which I haven't seen in 13 years. This was my first high school reunion ever! I'm, glad that she came and brought her family. Also, one of my co-workers came (it was supposed to be two, but one bailed on me the last minute;); she brought her husband. Also, a friend of mine who I haven't seen since I was like 5 years old came with her roommate. I know both of them through Facebook. They update their status as much as I do. in fact, most of them are FB friends of mine; that's why Facebook is the best social networking and missed connection tool in my opinion.

Here's a list of what I got for my birthday:

• a blue Snuggie (blanket with sleeves that was advertised on TV);
• a digital camcorder (like FLIP, but a little bigger. I'm going to upload a video on YouTube and post it on FB.);
• 14 movies on 8 DVDs--the complete Blade (vampire action movie with Wesley Snipes) trilogy plus a Blade TV movie on 2 DVDs, the first four Police Academy movies on 2 DVDs (the 80s version of Keystone Cops), the whole Rush Hour trilogy plus Money Talks with Chris Tucker on 2 DVDs, the 80s Christmas classic Gremlins with Phoebe Cates and finally, (I really wanted this for so long)....Say Anything, my favorite John Cusack movie of all time;
• $20 in cash;
• $10 Borders gift card;
• $25 I-Tunes gift card;
• $25 AMC Theaters gift card;
• 2 Target gift cards (totalling $50);
• 4 boxes of candy (including some of my favorites, Swedish Fish & Reese's Pieces);
• a bottle of wi....I mean pomegranate sparking juice (might use that for New Years Eve);
• 2 Wally World gift cards (totalling $45);
• 2 Banana Republic long-sleeve shirts and finally,
• 3 Best Buy gift cards (totalling $65)

I'm fully loaded right now! I don't expect much for Christmas, then! Thanks for all those who came! I will never forget it! On that note, I will end this post. Post comments and thoughts, please!

Glee & Julia reviews

WARNING: SPOILER ALERTS TO LAST NIGHT'S EPISODE OF GLEE.

Sorry, guys....I've been so busy lately this fall that I haven't got a chance to update this blog., but because of watching the movie Julie & Julia, it gave me purpose to update this.

What a sensational and exciting episode of Glee! and now it's off the air until April 2010 because of American Idol....like one of the songs featured on last night's shows said...."you can't always get what you want." And to quote another song featured, "my life would suck without it." In the episode, the glee club New Directions goes to Sectionals to compete against Eve's glee club and the deaf glee club, but first, Emma Pilsbury took over for Will Schuester after he was suspended for sleeping on one of the mattresses the club earned for shooting the commercial. Then, Rachel told Finn that Puck was actually the father of Quinn's baby....so Will & Puck had a fight, which made Will quit the glee club for now. At the sectionals, the whole club finds out that the other glee clubs "stole" their set list which included "Proud Mary" and "Don't Stop Believin." Later, we find out that it was the villainous Sue Sylvester who leaked the lists and she was suspended by the principal.

Back to the sectionals, the glee club met before their performance and they discussed what songs are they were going to do since the other teams perform theirs. Rachel wanted to perform a song she was preparing when she was four years old, but then Finn came back with a new song and literally saved the day for them, and OMG! the payoff was well worth it--Rachel Berry sang "Don't Rain On My Parade"--better than Barbara Streisand's version, imho! and the whole group sang the Rolling Stone's classic "You Can't Always Get What You Want." I prefer the original, but guess what? They won the sectionals anyway and onto regionals. The happiest moment came at the end when the group sang the Kelly Clarkson hit "My Life Would Suck Without You," Will & Emma finally hooked up! I simply love this show! I hope it will be nominated for a Golden Globe or Emmy next year!'

Before I saw this magnificent episode, I saw the movie Julie & Julia with Meryl Streep, Amy Adams & Chloe from 24. It's basically two true stories based into one movie....big mistake, imho. I liked the Julia part, where Meryl Streep did it again--channeled a real life character into her. She played the famous chef Julia Child. Her story is just basically about her getting into the highest French cooking school, Cordon Bleu, which made her and her husband write one of the most famous cookbooks of all time, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She should get an Golden Globe & Oscar nomination again for this. Meryl is one of the actresses who knows what's she's doing--along with Julia Roberts & Sandra Bullock. Unlike Julia's story, Julie's story is a little bit boring. Julie Powell (Adams) plays a call center rep who loves to cook. She doesn't like her life, so she decides to cook all 524 recipes of Julia's cookbook in a year with her husband & her best friend 's (played by Chloe) support. I almost fell asleep with this part, but I would recommend this for only Meryl Streep's great performance as Julia Child.

I don't know when the next post will. If something comes up and I really really want to blog about it, I would post it. Until then, Happy Holidays and a great 2010 to everyone who reads this. Please comment on this.