I was pretty hungry when I got off work yesterday and I was thinking of a new, exciting way to prepare yet another grilled, skinless, chicken breast. I was feeling pretty ok about that dinner until I got the mail. Of course it had to be Pizza Hut coupon day. And they don’t just have one picture of a pizza…no…they have multiple pizzas. I have to admit I wavered a bit but then I remembered that I don’t even like Pizza Hut much. So I’m throwing that away and what’s underneath it? The frickafrackin’ Black Angus dinner for two coupon! You know, the one with the Wagon Wheel Sampler platter with the fried zucchini and the loaded baked potato and the bread. Oh, the bread! The bread that I love beyond all reason. And the fudge cake at the end. Sweet chocolaty goodness with a vanilla ice cream chaser. Somehow I managed to throw that one out, too. Then, when I settled down in front of the tv with my salad and chicken breast, they played that Olive Garden commercial with the skinny guy talking about trying all the different combinations of pasta and sauces. I just had to mute it. Enough is enough.

I tried to watch “Prison Break” last night. I think it’s a well-done show but I just didn’t care much. I was really enjoying it at the beginning and then I just got more and more bored and I finally just turned it off about an hour and a half in. I don’t think I’ll watch it anymore, even if Wentworth Miller is kind of good-looking.

When I was doing my movie roundup I forgot to mention “Beyond Borders” (12/250). It wasn’t very good which was probably why I didn’t mention it. Still…it’s a movie that I had never seen before so it counts. Clive Owen is in it. Clive Owen is hot. That’s about the best thing I can say for the movie.

From CNN:
Louisiana evacuees should stay away for at least a week to avoid “a wilderness” without power or drinking water that will be infested with poisonous snakes and fire ants, state officials warned Monday.

That paragraph scares the crap out of me. If I lived in Lousiana and I read that I would probably never go home again.

This guy called in to some channel this morning and said that, during Camille, a bunch of people went to high ground to escape the flooding but then were killed because all the poisonous snakes went to high ground too. That’s scary.

Three more movies down on my 250 goal:

“Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story” (9/250) I laughed a lot at this. I felt stupid for laughing but I laughed anyway. I couldn’t help it. It was funny.

“Brother’s Keeper” (10/250) This was a great documentary. It was about these four weird old brothers that all lived together and one of them dies and another one is accused of his murder. It frustrated the heck out of me. I just wanted everyone to leave them alone. They were just a bunch of old men not bothering anybody.

It’s sort of weird at the beginning but, if you stick with it, it’s really interesting.

“The Upside of Anger” (11/250) This was pretty good. I liked the cast: Kevin Costner, Joan Allen, Keri Russell, Alicia Witt, Evan Rachel Wood & Erika Christensen. It was kind of crazy.

Here’s the deal about “Upside of Anger”. They eat a lot. Many scenes are of them preparing meals and then eating them. Meals that looked really good. I just got finished watching CBS Sunday Morning this morning and seeing the lobster corn dogs and sirloin burgers. I really didn’t need to watch a movie where skinny, pretty women eat all the time.

I read a book, too. The book was sort of sucky but I guess I can still count it as 1 out of my 100 books I’ve never read before.

I started a diet today. Now I’m dying for some potato chips. I don’t even like potato chips that much. I don’t usually eat potato chips. It’s just the idea that I can’t have the potato chips that’s making me really, really want some. It probably isn’t helping to write about potato chips. That’s just making me want them more.

I really want some carrots. Lots of crunchy carroty goodness. I’m dying to eat some carrots. Mmmmmm….carrots.

Let’s see if that helps.

Half my office is on a diet and my boss brought four dozen doughnuts to work today. Ha! I don’t think he knows about the diet/contest. It would be kind of funny if he did though and was just messing with everyone.

I took the “What Classic Movie Are You?” quiz and I ended up being the coolest movie! I thought I’d be like “Plan 9 From Outer Space” or “The Blob” or something.

But, aaackkk! Look what famous leader I am:

It is true that a couple of my “enemies” at work have chosen to quit rather than get fired. I may have had something to do with that. They deserved it, though. They were doing bad things. Bad, bad things.

OK. I didn’t like that leader result so I took the test a couple more times to see if I would always end up as a mass-murdering psycho. The second time I was Albert Einstein and the third time I was Abe Lincoln. Then I did the movie one again and ended up being “Apocalypse Now.” Twice.

I’m so confused. WHO AM I?!?! I think I’m going to need some therapy now.

This fixation that the “Friendship” on BB6 has with “Cappy” is flat out crazy. He was a contestant on a tv show and he lost. He’s not dead. You don’t need to make a little memorial to him in the HOH room. Loons.

Go James.

I just watched “Sudden Impact” (8/250). I don’t know why I like these Dirty Harry movies so much. They’re actually pretty goofy plotwise and the acting is a little over the top. I’m loving them, though. I just have “The Enforcer” and “The Dead Pool” to go and I’m done with the series. What will I do then? I guess I’ll have to start watching Clint’s spaghetti westerns.

I bought my vacation shoes. Only nine more weeks until Shamu splashes water all over them. Yay!

I tried to go out shopping yesterday. There was a nail in one of our tires so we went to Big O to get that fixed first. The Big O guys didn’t write us up or anything and just said to give them the keys and they’d fix it in about ten minutes. So, like an hour later, they say our car is ready and they tell us to go out into the bay and just pay the guy who fixed it ten bucks. I’m thinking there’s something all kinds of fishy going on at the Big O but the nail’s gone so I don’t really care.

While I was waiting, I got to watch the Skate Vert finals of the Dew Action Sports Tour Vans Invitational. It was surprisingly enjoyable. I developed a little crush on Bob Burnquist because he kept laughing whenever he fell on his butt. I decided that I want to marry a pro skateboarder and get one of those houses with the skateboard pools in the backyard. Hey, there are worse ways to spend a life.

After the fishy nail pulling, I ate lunch at “Red Robin” and I think I got food poisoning or something because I ended up really clammy and dizzy and intestinally compromised. So I just came home and I didn’t get to try on Nike Shox or anything. Boo! Sucky “Red Robin”. I hate it when I pay people to make me sick.

On a happier note, the “Six Feet Under” finale was great. I’m glad everyone was in a nice place at the end. I don’t know why I wanted good things to happen to these characters since they’re really all pretty awful but I did. So, yay. And boo hoo because it’s all over.

Now bring on the next season of “Deadwood”.