Posted by Heather in Events // August 31st, 2010
Billy and I had a lovely time at the 2010 Primetime Emmys at The Nokia Theatre Sunday, August 29.
And enjoying dinner at The Palms afterwards with Xaque Gruber, Holly Celeste Fisk (nominated for Best Roommate) and their guests!
We racked up some serious pointage in our combined efforts to get Xaque’s face painted on the wall!
Posted by Heather in Family & Friends, Reviews // August 31st, 2010
Funny story: I have a psychic. A good psychic. Katherine Jones. Who I call, oh, about once or twice a year to check in on what the heck is going on in my life. Now, there are many of you who probably don’t believe in psychics or worse: may find them sacrilegious. I am not of that school. Don’t get me wrong, there are a ton of charlatans out there but I’d argue there are no more or less in the “New Age” arena than there are in Hollywood or on Wall Street or Madison Avenue (or let’s be honest: within the community of self-proclaimed “good” Christians) – so let’s not waste our time or energy on that little debate.
To me, psychics, Feng Shui, Astrology, Reiki – are all thousands of years old, cross-cultural methods of simply getting in tune with your higher self, trusting your intuition, clarifying your intentions and arranging your life around what matters to achieve your highest and best purpose. I don’t live my life by these art forms but I certainly find them fascinating and thought-provoking and worth considering (right alongside my HP12C and Excel spreadsheets).
So, enough caveats: on with my sweet psychic story…
Katherine tells me she “sees” a black and white cat with white booties curled up, kickin’ back on a big purple pillow on our couch. Now, mind you, those of you who know me know I’m a big-time cat lover (all animals, really) but being a traveling dervish, independent felines tend to fend for themselves better than puppies (or fish or plants, for that matter) within my current lifestyle and logistics).
If you know me personally, you’d also know that last year, I heart-breakingly, lost two beloved 15-year-long best friend siblings, so I am (for perhaps the first time in my life?!) currently cat-less. And this has become a daily query for Billy and I: should we get a new kitty? Two? (To keep one another company when we travel?) Or wait ’til we have a house? Or are at least SETTLED!?
But we JUST MOVED.
Days ago…
…which brings me back to my psychic/cat story…
So, with moving boxes left and right – and the patio door open…
THE DAY AFTER Katherine told me she “saw” a white and black cat with white socked paws curled up on our couch on a purple pillow…
…in struts apparently the confident, neighborhood affection-whore and…you got it:
He (we don’t even know his name – but we do know he’s a boy climbed right on up to our couch – and sat right on our big purple (supposed to be meditation) pillow – and started preening himself.
He has adopted us.
We are sure he has parents around here somewhere – he’s too darn well-fed to be a stray. I think he’s worked out the “my parents work full-time” versus “this loving couple seems to be home every time I walk by” system of cat day/night bigamy. If you are his owner, we’re sorry, we cannot control his cheating, meandering ways.
I’m not sure if we will oust him with our own official new cat before he gets too comfortable or territorial or just borrow this one ’til we can afford our own home with a garden but I do know that Katherine called this – yesterday – just like she called out – oddly, my marlin fishing and Nadine’s Rum Raisin Hagen Daz and my pending and repeating toe surgery and so many other random things.
Just thought this was kind of fun and that you might enjoy the story.
If you call Katherine – tell her I sent you (‘course, she’ll already know that!)
Posted by Heather in Family & Friends // August 14th, 2010
For those of you who don’t know (who don’t know me very well), I have a very fun-loving, competitive, game-playing family – filled with athletes (and plenty of competitive non-jock gamers or former football players remembering their hey days).
Perhaps second only to our infamous 60+ player Turkey Day Monopoly marathon (followed, of course, by such stereotypical familial Thanksgiving celebration fodder as synchronized swimming and golf cart scavenger hunts) is our Fantasy Football league – for which, we all drafted this morning from as far flung as Italy to hot desert Arizona to ice capped Colorado – 15 year olds to God only knows – 70+’er’s!
So, as I stretch my trash talking muscles (how I love beating my dad, brothers, nephews, cousins and aunts - here is this year’s OBVIOUS winning line-up!
Heather’s Hollywood Hitters!
Jay Cutler QB CHI
Jamaal Charles RB KC
Maurice Jones-Drew RB JAC
DeSean Jackson WR PHI
Greg Jennings WR GB
Jason Witten TE DAL
Nate Kaeding K SD
Chargers DST
Back-Up Bench:
McNabb, Donovan QB WAS
Best, Jahvid RB DET
Spiller, C.J. RB BUF
Robert Meachem WR NO
Wes Welker WR NE
Posted by Heather in In Production // August 13th, 2010
College Hoops. David slays the Giant. In 1982, Hawaii’s Division II community college shocked the sports world when they beat 7-foot Ralph Sampson and his #1 NCAA-ranked University of Virginia Cavaliers. Few people know the story behind The Greatest Upset Never Seen – and how they saved the school with this win. This is their story.
[We Are Marshall meets Hoosiers]
Posted by Heather in Book Mentions, Colleges & Universities, Directing, In Production, PowerNetworking // August 13th, 2010
Meat Loaf and I…
MacAulay (Sound), Meat and JB (Props)
Okay, first of all…how cool is it that I can even start a sentence that way!?
Meat (that’s what he’s been called since he was a baby) says he’ll answer to any form of meat. “Pork Chop” was my favorite term of endearment but my vegetarian assistant, Keri Owen, kept trying to call him “Tofu Steak” (but he never responded because that isn’t really meat).
One of the COOLEST GUYS ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH (and I’m not just saying that to suck up: he IS KIND – and funny, sweet, thoughtful, courteous, playful, genuine and down to earth – Meat is also a FINE professional actor. So well-prepared. He had done so much prep work in advance, thinking about his character, that he brought his intensity and introspection to every take. He just knocked it out of the park every day. What a joy to work with.
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