Vindication

So, like every other American, I used to watch $40 a Day with Rachael Ray on the Food network. A former victim of the food service industry, I would commiserate with my friend Caryn on the ridiculous lack of tipping Rachael seemed to do in order to stay true to her budget. Perhaps she thought she was doing her part by giving exposure to those restaurants, but to us she was encouraging poor tipping, which, if you have ever waitressed, is JUST NOT COOL.
So my hero and second love of my life (remember Ross' top 5 on "Friends"? ) Anthony Bourdain was in South Carolina last night on "No Reservations", which I believe lost a well deserved Emmy to Kathy Griffin and her stupid life on the D list, the hag, and he happened to be in the same cafe that Rachel had been at months before!! He had a flyer for her show and asked the waitress if she remembered Rachael and her miserly ways. The waitress said "no comment", with a funny expression, and you know what that means!! Ha!! A public call out! I love it!! I hope there is retaliation, Tony would SO kick her in the EVOO.
That's the good news. The bad news is, that after panning the new Rilo Kiley album in my Music section, they are suddenly being hailed as the "next big thing" and this is their "breakthrough" album. Bah! I just picked up the new Spin magazine and they are actually being compared to Fleetwood Mac, albeit without the barge of cocaine. No Bueno. The rest of the magazine was great, though, in that one of the writers went to Karaoke with The New Pornographers and printed their set list, which included but was not limited to Hall and Oats, Ace of Base and Billy Joel. I love music nerds.
I am reading 2 different books right now that are so similar I might as well be reading one, and the funny thing is they are both memoirs. I for some reason can't get enough of reading about alcoholics, so I am reading "The Tender Bar" by JR Moehringer and "A Drinking Life" by Pete Hamill. Seriously I think they are the same person. Depression era kids in the streets of New York, the men in their life drunk and obsessed with "the bar" down the street, started drinking at an early age, I haven't got to the persevering parts yet, but I'm sure they are coming. Still good reads, though.
Which reminds me my library books are due tomorrow.
Birthing classes start tonight. I have instructed Jeff to pinch me if I start giggling in the middle of something hippie-ish, or if there is singing. It could happen. I guess, like everything else, i can blame it on hormones.
All of a sudden, like overnight, I am HUGE!!
Jeff asked "OMG do you think you are going to get any bigger? I can't imagine it?" which, if you are married and have been pregnant, or if you are a woman, you know was the absolute WRONGEST thing someone could say to someone who is pregnant for the first time and hugely self conscious, but I was proud, I did not burst into tears, I calmly told him that he got a free pass on that comment due to the fact that he was hit on the head with a board at work that day and therefore probably did not realize what he was saying. Ill get back at him by waking him up in the middle of the night sometime soon to go out to the store and find me some random color Slurpee that does not exist.
At work, someone has been using my pretty blue mug and then putting it back in the cabinet filthy. I got so angry yesterday that I had to write on it in Sharpie. It made me sad to defile my mug, but today it was clean and right where I left it.
Prison Break started last night, but I am delaying my gratification to watch it with Brian on Wednesday, even though its literally killing me not knowing what happened. Who said they couldn't draw this story out? They are just in another prison now, but one that is like Thunderdome, without Tina Turner. Ooh, that was a bad movie.
If I think of something else I'll be back later, right now I am going to read the Food Day section.
Oh! Did you hear OJ was arrested for armed robbery?