Where Does My Day Go????

The guilt just washes over me. Dude, the bro, keeps informing me that I need to update my blog. Even though we have been communicating daily as a result of his bout with Hollywood (yes, they finished filming at his house. Yes, they rented and returned his dining room table and silverware for the White House dining room shots. Yes, Val Kilmer and Fifty Cent visited with Josh Brolin on his patio. All too surreal for me). YES, FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD, I KNOW I HAVEN'T BLOGGED SINCE JUNE 10th!!!!!!! I have a reason.

First, School got out. I hid under my bed (metaphorically, don't call the men in the white coats yet) until the dust settled and a routine got established with the comings and goings of the Teens of Summer. Then I had to get Girl ready for camp. She's in the North Georgia Mountains for two weeks, with no cell phone, no ipod and no computer. My bet is she survives, but barely. Then there is this lace shawl that I am trying to finish before our trip to the UK in two weeks. Not to mention stalking all my friends on Facebook and Ravelry.

And now I've been sucked into the time-vacuum that is PLURK. Oh, just go investigate it. I don't have time to explain. I have to go see what my friends are doing.

I'm not fixing dinner tonight. Again.

OMG-He's Gonna Have Famous Furniture!!

As I type this, 550 miles away in the home of my brother, Dude, Oliver Stone is behind a camera filming a scene from the upcoming movie "W"!!!!! How wierd and cool is that???

If you've read anything about the movie industry, you know that many films are shot in Louisiana. Must be just "sumpthun" about our little banana republic. Post-Katrina, many of those movies planned for New Orleans moved to Shreveport, and a whole huge industry has been born. Seems that "Hooterville on the Red" has just about everything movie moguls like--cheap labor, various outdoor and indoor scene selections, a wide variety of architecture, plenty of hotel space and damn good food. "The Guardian" , "Mr. Brooks", and "Mad Money" , "Factory Girl", "Premonition" and "The Great Debaters" have all been filmed in S'port.........

So when a location manager approached Dude and Jula about using their house, it wasn't a big deal. Their friends' home had been used in "Mad Money" --so they knew the drill. Oliver Stone--yes Oliver Stone- came by to look at the living room....and he liked it. So chez Dude and Jula has become Barbara and George 41's Houston living room for a few days.

It has been a wild daily report for the past week as my bro's living room has been emptied of furniture, only to have most of their things brought back in as "they are nicer than the stuff we WERE gonna use." The crew has photoshopped pics of the Bush twins into picture frames, they changed out some paintings and brought in a very un-Jula rose-covered chintz couch.

The latest happening was that the site manager asked Jula yesterday if "James and Ellen" (as in Cromwell and Burstyn) could use the upstairs of the house for downtime between takes. My sister-in-law was thrown for a loop, as they have kids ranging from 14 to 9 and so the upstairs is not as "done" as downstairs.... but with an "it's a mess, but sure" she has removed the clothes from the "very expensive clothes hanger" aka the treadmill, and pushed a pile of clean but not folded towels from an armchair to behind her dresses in her closet and is going with the flow. At this moment, she is ensconced in her kitchen, in a comfy chair brought in for her use, needlepointing and drinking Diet Coke after Diet Coke as the magic of moviedom works around her.

So when you go to see Oliver Stone's "W", be sure to notice the linen press, the books, the fireplace, and the portrait of the young belle above the bar in the dining room...that would be Gran!!!!!!!!!

Oh, and did I mention they get paid a right nice figure per day for all this hoo-hah??

I wish Hollywood would discover the Middle-Of-Nowhere..........

Sock Wars Assassination on the Horizon

My days as a Sock Wars Assassin are numbered. I just received a message titled "Rest in Fleece"from my new assassin informing me that my socks are in the mail. I guess I have about 36 hours left to live in SockWars.....

If anyone would like to commiserate in my upcoming demise, please remember that I like pink roses, lilacs, stargazer lilies,and gardenias...oh, and peonies.

Target Eliminated!!!

Yes!!! I have assassinated my sock wars target, ErieELF. Or at least the socks are in the mail, along with some goodies from Georgia for my newly-demised knitting friend in Ohio.

My assassin -*MIRTH*- was, sadly, assassinated by HER assassin , Lady Elaine, before she could finish my socks, and now must forward my unfinished pair to New York for re-targeting to me. She sounds like a fast knitter, so my only hope is that HER assassin, Mirabai, with get her before she can finish my socks and kill me. Both are still listed as alive, but that can change at any second.

Are you thoroughly confused yet??

On the other side, I must wait until ErieELF gets her package, declares herself dead, and sends the socks she was working on for her target, Sock Diva, to me. As of today, Sock Diva is still alive, so ErieELF hasn't assassinated her yet. Sock Diva's target, Elabeth, is also still alive.

Something tells me I won't be alive for long.

Just some more Serenity

Just a few more pics....

Cute as can be...my tablemates, Rosy and Patrick from Singapore.


Aunty Ruthy, of bridge visit fame, putting at the Country Fair.


Silly Slavs with me in Burma. Big Bro, (aka Bratislav, and Nina's husband) making faces and Little Bro (Borislav) cracking up.


Yes, the water of the Indian Ocean is really THIS BLUE!!!


I love, love, love my Lido Guys...



Whatever am I gonna do with Earl and Ross?? Or how am I going to cope without them????



Miss Pat, Mama's yoga teacher, and Mama.




I love the creativity of the Serenity's pastry chef and staff...don't you LOVE these little marzipan chinamen???