I Want To Be A Ya – Ya Priestess

Today after work/school, I picked up Autumn and she wanted to go to McDonald’s for dinner, but I didn’t want to go there again so we went to In-N-Out again b/c she wanted a hat and stickers.  I got my burger animal style and protein style (where they just wrap it in lettuce w/ no bun).  I didn’t care for it all that much and will get the buns next time even though it’s more calories.  I love their secret sauce, grilled onions, and pink lemonade.  But their fries suck and have the texture of cardboard.  You’d think that they would have incredible fries since they only have a few items on their menu.  Oh, well.  Autumn had fun and got her hat and even asked me to take her picture!

  After we ate, Dad called and said he was on his way home from the clinics so we went over to his house.  He told us that the original zipper spider had moved to one of the living room windows.  It was cool/creepy to get to look at her up close through the glass.  Those curled up fangs by her eyes gave me the creepy willies.

Dad worked w/ Autumn on writing her name b/c her “u” looks like a “y” and she writes her name as “Atuum.”  He kept telling her he was going to call her “atom” since that’s how she was spelling her name.  After they worked on that for a while, he said he had a special night gown for her when she spends the night sometime.  It’s this fluorescent yellow t-shirt he got from the bike ride he did on Saturday.

While I was sitting in a comfy recliner and snuggling w/ a sweet baby, Dad was out sweating like a pig at the Hotter ‘N Hell 100.  But don’t feel too bad for him b/c he loves to do it and puts himself through that torture of his own free will and choice.  He went 100 miles in 5 1/2 hours and I tell you, the man’s a machine.

Autumn wanted Papa to chase her around the great room, but he had an even better idea and gave her a piggy back ride while they chased me and then I turned around and chased them.  She kept trying to hold onto his hat and pretty soon it was down over his eyes and he couldn’t see and we were all laughing really hard.

We finally came home at 8:30 so I could do some laundry and get Autumn to bed.  Earlier tonight when Autumn & I finished w/ dinner we went to The Movie Trading Co. and I bought these 2 movies.  After I posted yesterday about the best Strong Southern Women movies, I googled it to see if there were any others out there that I had forgotten.  I kept seeing one called “Divine Secrets Of The Ya – Ya Sisterhood.”  I had never heard of it before and found a few clips on youtube.  It looked good so we went and found it at The Movie Trading Co. for only $3.99!  I also LOVE the movie Chocolat and don’t own it and got it for $7.99.  I still have a dream of hosting an awesome chocolate party someday where me and a bunch of girl friends would stuff ourselves silly w/ all types of chocolates and then watch this movie.

I really liked Ya –Ya Sisterhood, but had to watch it w/ the subtitles b/c I had a hard time understanding  what they were saying at times.  Maggie Smith who plays Caro is so British and does a horrible Southern accent.  Every time I see her I can’t help but think of old Wendy on the movie Hook, and more recently the movie I saw, A Room With A View.  But Sandra Bullock is awesome and there are some great lines (cursing included b/c that’s such a Southern thing).  Here are some of my favorites:

“Oh, look who it is…all my old ex-friends.  And the biological fruit of my womb, that rotted.”
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“I think I was perfectly clear.”
”You were perfectly clear and perfectly wrong!”
”This is violently unfair.”
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“I think it can be summed up with ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions.’”
”What about the road back? What’s that paved with?”
”Humility.”
”Do you think she has that in her repertoire?”
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“Are we gonna do that again?”
(Prick their palms w/ a knife and then hold hands to share their blood).
”Hell yes.  Of course we are.”
”You guys, that’s how diseases are spread.”
”Honey, the only disease that could survive our bloodstream is alcoholism.”
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“There are people in the world to save you when you need saving, cover your ass when it needs covering, and are always there when you need someone to lean on.”

Anyways, I’ll be adding this movie to my chick flick collection.  After it was over, I watched Whose Line and it was funny b/c one episode had Ms. America as a special guest and then the 2nd episode had Jerry Springer as a special guest.  Both episodes were super funny.