11-days. Shut-Ins. That is how long it has been since we have had any type of structured routine in this house. Just the group of us, nowhere to go, no car (for most of it), just hanging around the house. Chilling. Eating a ton of great tasting, yet uber caloric food. In the morning it's finally over. We are headed back out into the wild. Bittersweetly with the holiday season behind us. Back to our scrambled mornings of fights to not get out of bed, bowls of cereal, the dog taking a leak on the front porch post because it is too cold and he is too lazy to go down to the lawn and then me yelling at him for it. Oh tomorrow.
During these days off without the car I spent a fair amount of time online. I even broke down and made a Pinterest for heaven’s sake. Frankly, I really didn’t want to do that because I like having a life and I knew that it would be another time-suck for me, but I was bored enough to do it anyway. Gah. During this time I also, because I just had so much to do, kept track of the random crap I googled, typically to prove a point in conversation or because as I have mentioned before, it drives me batty to not be 100% certain about the random stuff that crosses my mind.
Things I Googled over Christmas Vacation:
The Poltergeist Curse.
As you might imagine around my house we are fans of all things scary. So of course during our shut-in lockdown phase we all sat down one day and watched the whole Poltergeist trilogy. And as you may know there is a rumored curse to haunt the cast of the movies because a shit ton of people croaked during the process of releasing these three movies. Well of course everyone knows the little girl, the star of the movies, died at the end of filming the last one. So I decided to look up all the gory details.
A) Carol Ann - Heather O’ Rourke died in 1988 when she was only 12-years-old of septic shock. Yeah, that’s normal for kids, right?
B) Dana – The teenage older sister in the first movie actually died in 1982, the year the first (and very best of the films in my opinion) movie came out. Her boyfriend strangled her. She was only 22. She would be the exact same age as my daddy if she were still alive. Sad.
C) Kane – The scary ass old dude from the second movie died of stomach cancer in 1985. I guess he was 60, but he looked like 800 to me.
D) Taylor – The Medicine Man who came to protect the fam from the above scary old man died of kidney failure in 1987.
That’s a lot of dying for one show if you ask me. A curse? Who knows, but sure sounds creeptastic to me. Oh, and as we were watching it we just had to know if ol’ Tangina (Zelda Rubinstein) the little psychic lady was still alive today. During my search I found out that cute little Zelda passed away at the age of 76 in 2010. So she was around until just barely-ish. So unfortunately there will be no more of that cute little fakey sounding voice for this world.
Reasons your car might sound like a tank.
On Friday night at the last possible minute, 6pm-ish when the shop closed, we got our car back after two weeks of major car surgery! Woo hoo! Freedom Time! Hooray yo! And as it was driven home we had to note that our car now sounded a lot like a super cool suped up car with a race muffler. And since it isn't, and never will be, any of those things this unfortunately was a bad thing. So we had to wait out the weekend out to take the sucker back in. During that time I of course, just like looking up web MD, decided to speculate what on earth it's problemo could be this time around. So "I searched Reasons Your Car Might Sound Like A Tank" because that is what it sounded like.
Here is what I found:
A) How to fix a car that stalls in 7 Steps (which reminded me of the movie How To Lose A Guy In 10-days, and now I feel like watching it)
B) Fuel Injection Cleaner
C) How To Prepare for an Emergency (fuuuuuuuck! this is not a good sign, eh?)
D) My Car Started To Emit Gas Fumes Well After We Had Turned It Off (Now it is the car's turn to get even, and kill us - via poison!)
E) What is Vapor Lock? ( I don't even ever want to know)
F) How to get a good deal on a new vehicle when doing a trade in (DING DING DING!!)
Sundance Film Festival
Every so often, in January, my pals and I may go up and enjoy the festivities at the Sundance Film festival in Park City. Once my pal Marta won some tickets to some awards party and we went and sat in the middle of a bunch of filmmakers and right next to Tony Hawk because it was for Sports Documentaries. That night was fun and entertaining, but we felt a bit out of place. Ya know, since we were neither film makers nor sports peeps. Oh, and another time 30 Seconds To Mars played a concert up there. So yeah, we had to be there! We had so much fun that day freezing our asses off.
Anyway, thinking about how fun attending has been in the past I decided to read up on when this year's festivus is (Jan 19-29th). And also about the screenings that are screenings here in SLC along with those up in Park City. I hope we can score some tickets and find the time to go up. I also was curious about the history of the festival. It is about to happen upon it's 34th year anniversary! Wow! It is also the largest independent film festival in the United States. Pretty Dang Cool. Well, if anyone wants to join me on some sort of movie seeing/legitimate reason to hang at the festival (aside from volunteering because I have too much responsibility to commit to it), let's do it!
Celebrities that are my age or approximate same age (within 12 months or less difference):
No good reason or value for this search, just plain ol' boredom at it's best. Shut-Ins, remember? And FYI, there were a lot of non celebrity people that come up for my year or so of birth that look all porn star-ish. Ew.
Aaron Paul - Jesse, Breaking Bad love him
Adam Levine
Bam Margera
Brandy Norwood
Claire Danes
Earl Watson - Utah Jazz player
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Joel and Benji Madden
Kate Hudson
Kourtney Kardashian - not particularly a Kardashian fan myself
Heath Ledger
Macaulay Culkin
Rosario Dawson
Ryan Gosling
Zooey Deschanel
There were a lot more, but I got tired of reading em. My not-giving-a-shit side kicked in, or I may have gotten hungry. Who knows?
Well, that is the end of my useless Winter Break information searches this time around. Anyone else unearth any interesting topics or facts lately and wanna share?
2 comments:
Excellent post! That poltergeist thing has always creeped me out! Your poor car! What else have they figured out?? Those mechanics sound like they suck at their job. I have ALWAYS wanted to go to Sundance! ALWAYS! I will go with you if you know what to do and where to go :) I am clueless on both!
Oh gosh the car thing has been such a mess. Now it's just tiny things, a seal not on right, a cap not tightened. I think that they weren't equipped to pull the engine, but did it anyway. They suck!
And I will totally look into Sundance for us, you'll LOVE it! :D
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