Stella Who ??!!

Saw her but didn't say hello.
Thought I would but decided against it.

Hingis defeats Kournikova ( both 13 years old)

The last 10 minutes in the SemiFinal match Martina Hingis won against Anna Kournikova in the 1994 Wimbledon Juniors. Martina went on to win in the Final. The two women commentators (Russian, I believe) never stop talking.
STFU already!

iPhone... Come and Get It

The iPhone goes on sale today at 6pm.

Per Apple, "iPhone, the revolutionary combination of a mobile phone, widescreen iPod, and Internet communications device..."


Apple iPhone Q & A


I would love to have one but $499 for the 4G and $599 for the 8G is way out of my price range. AT&T plans start at $59.99/month. Even that's too much for me. I pay $25.00 every 2 months or so.

Ahh, to dream.

It Starts... It Starts !!!!

The day began with rain. They got fourteen matches completed. Roger Federer, Andy Roddick and Martina Hingis won their matches. They are currently in a rain delay.

Centre Court is undergoing a renovation. They are adding a retractable roof. It definitely looks completely different without the partial roof that it used to have.

Cool... they are playing again. Serena Williams & Justine Henin are resuming their matches. They should both advance.

I don't know when Maria Sharapova plays her first match. It's either tomorrow or Wednesday.


Ciao for Now.
Maria

Poor Zoey

My favorite Brunner cat was hit by a car yesterday and broke his elbow & one of his big teeth and got a cut on his chin. He, thankfully, doesn't appear to have internal injuries. He has a huge cast on his arm. Poor guy! So sad!

Photos (6/25):

Wimbledon on TV

ESPN2

NBC
Sat, June 30 12:00 PM - Men's and Women's Third Rounds
Sun, July 1 12:00 PM
Mon, July 2 10:00 AM - Men's and Women's Round of 16
Tue, July 3 10:00 AM - Women's Quarterfinals
Wed, July 4 10:00 AM - Men's Quarterfinals
Thu, July 5 12:00 PM - Women's Semifinals

More coverage to follow

We Think You're Crazy... Both You and Cheney

"Listen to America instead of all that advice".

Adding More Green to the List

I took out four DVDs from the library today after work. They are all on AFI's Top 100 Movies list. They are: "Citizen Kane" (I saw this about 5 years ago but since it's the #1 movie, I'll see it again), "Gold Rush", "Unforgiven", and "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid".

After I watched the show on Wednesday, I said that of the movies I have yet to see, I would watch 2 or 3 Westerns. I'm not a fan of the genre and so I picked "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" because Paul Newman & Robert Redford are hot and "Unforgiven" because Clint Eastwood is as well. Hee Hee! The other will be "High Noon". A Western with Grace Kelly in it; gotta see that.


What I Thought:

"Gold Rush" (#58) - Good but not great. I saw "City Lights" (#11) and liked that so much better. I guess so did those people that voted. I want to see more of Charlie Chaplin's movies - "The Kid" as well as "Modern Times" (#78).


"Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" (#73) - Again... Good but not great. I was expecting more. Nothing really happened.


"Citizen Kane" (#1) - 7/5 - Truly a great film.


"Unforgiven" (#68) - 7/11 - Very good. I liked it.

Sara Bareilles

iTunes has a Free Download of the song "Love Song" this week!!

Charamel, My Sweet Charamel

What is Charamel you may be asking. It is my favorite browser theme/skin. I had it on my MacMini for Firefox. I loved it. The color & the simplicity. It was no longer compatible with newer versions of Firefox. Until today... I found a way around it and now have it for Firefox and Thunderbird, the email program I use. I love it!

Here's a screenshot.

So Cute!

AFI's 100 Years . . . 100 Movies -- 10th Anniversary Edition

1. "Citizen Kane," 1941.
2. "The Godfather," 1972.
3. "Casablanca," 1942.
4. "Raging Bull," 1980.
5. "Singin' in the Rain," 1952.
6. "Gone With the Wind," 1939.
7. "Lawrence of Arabia," 1962.
8. "Schindler's List," 1993.
9. "Vertigo," 1958.
10. "The Wizard of Oz," 1939.
11. "City Lights," 1931.
12. "The Searchers," 1956.
13. "Star Wars," 1977.
14. "Psycho," 1960.
15. "2001: A Space Odyssey," 1968.
16. "Sunset Blvd.", 1950.
17. "The Graduate," 1967.
18. "The General," 1927.
19. "On the Waterfront," 1954.
20. "It's a Wonderful Life," 1946.
21. "Chinatown," 1974.
22. "Some Like It Hot," 1959.
23. "The Grapes of Wrath," 1940.
24. "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," 1982.
25. "To Kill a Mockingbird," 1962.
26. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," 1939.
27. "High Noon," 1952.
28. "All About Eve," 1950.
29. "Double Indemnity," 1944.
30. "Apocalypse Now," 1979.
31. "The Maltese Falcon," 1941.
32. "The Godfather Part II," 1974.
33. "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," 1975.
34. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," 1937.
35. "Annie Hall," 1977.
36. "The Bridge on the River Kwai," 1957.
37. "The Best Years of Our Lives," 1946.
38. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre," 1948.
39. "Dr. Strangelove," 1964.
40. "The Sound of Music," 1965.
41. "King Kong," 1933.
42. "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967.
43. "Midnight Cowboy," 1969.
44. "The Philadelphia Story," 1940.
45. "Shane," 1953.
46. "It Happened One Night," 1934.
47. "A Streetcar Named Desire," 1951.
48. "Rear Window," 1954.
49. "Intolerance," 1916.
50. "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," 2001.
51. "West Side Story," 1961.
52. "Taxi Driver," 1976.
53. "The Deer Hunter," 1978.
54. "M-A-S-H," 1970.
55. "North by Northwest," 1959.
56. "Jaws," 1975.
57. "Rocky," 1976.
58. "The Gold Rush," 1925.
59. "Nashville," 1975.
60. "Duck Soup," 1933.
61. "Sullivan's Travels," 1941.
62. "American Graffiti," 1973.
63. "Cabaret," 1972.
64. "Network," 1976.
65. "The African Queen," 1951.
66. "Raiders of the Lost Ark," 1981.
67. "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", 1966.
68. "Unforgiven," 1992.
69. "Tootsie," 1982.
70. "A Clockwork Orange," 1971.
71. "Saving Private Ryan," 1998.
72. "The Shawshank Redemption," 1994.
73. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," 1969.
74. "The Silence of the Lambs," 1991.
75. "In the Heat of the Night," 1967.
76. "Forrest Gump," 1994.
77. "All the President's Men," 1976.
78. "Modern Times," 1936.
79. "The Wild Bunch," 1969.
80. "The Apartment, 1960.
81. "Spartacus," 1960.
82. "Sunrise," 1927.
83. "Titanic," 1997.
84. "Easy Rider," 1969.
85. "A Night at the Opera," 1935.
86. "Platoon," 1986.
87. "12 Angry Men," 1957.
88. "Bringing Up Baby," 1938.
89. "The Sixth Sense," 1999.
90. "Swing Time," 1936.
91. "Sophie's Choice," 1982.
92. "Goodfellas," 1990.
93. "The French Connection," 1971.
94. "Pulp Fiction," 1994.
95. "The Last Picture Show," 1971.
96. "Do the Right Thing," 1989.
97. "Blade Runner," 1982.
98. "Yankee Doodle Dandy," 1942.
99. "Toy Story," 1995.
100. "Ben-Hur," 1959.

I saw the movies in green.


Download the List... HERE


1998 List

Cat Boxing

My Chico Bags

They arrived on Monday and I used them today when I went food shopping. A lady bagging her groceries next to me kept looking at them. The colors are awesome; well except for the green. It's too drab although it is lighter than this photo shows. They have a Lime Green on backorder and a Pale Green coming soon. Chico Bags.com

I am so psyched about them. The whole idea of them. They're way more convenient than bulky canvas bags. I have 2 in my sling bag and 3 in my car.


Ciao for Now.
Maria

Got CFLs?

I do now!

CFL = Compact Fluorescent Light

I went to Wal-Mart and bought (2) 6 packs at $9.88 each. Great price. That's $1.65 a bulb. Sweet!


"If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars."

EnergyStar.org



P.S. - I am so looking forward to getting my five reusable bags. They should arrive by Tuesday. Yippee!!!!!

Blast From the Past

2001 Sydney Tournament - Women's Doubles Early Round - Martina Hingis & Monica Seles against Venus & Serena Williams. Quality's not so good, but so cool to see.

2001Doubles ~ Seles,Hingis,V&S Williams
Uploaded by RJWCapriati

It's In The Bag... Doing What I Can

Plastic bags suck for the environment. I bought some reusable nylon ones online today. They're called ChicoBags. They were $5 each. Buy 4 get 1 free. So with shipping... 5 for $24.50.















Next week, I will be buying CFL Lightbulbs, probably from Walmart - 12 for $19.76. These are the longer ones. They have shorter ones but they are 4 for $16.88; not worth it to me.
I also plan to by an aluminum water bottle. It costs $18.99. Sure it's a bit much, but it eliminates me buying plastic bottles which can leach chemicals into the water. It's from a company called Sigg.


Ciao for Now.
Maria


P.S. - I found "If You Want Me" on LimeWire. I'm so psyched! I think I listened to it about 6 times today.

The Song

I recorded "If You Want Me" by using the Audio Recorder on my laptop while listening to it online. Quite primitive, but I just had to find a way to get it on my iPod. I may go see the movie "Once" tonight. Maybe after seeing it, I will want to buy the album from iTunes.


I have to go to jury duty today. Hope all goes well.

Oh My... What a Song!

"If You Want Me" sung by Marketa Irglova & Glen Hansard - from the Soundtrack of the movie "Once".





Link to the Website for the movie. They have streaming songs from the movie. The Soundtrack is available on iTunes but only the entire album; can't just buy one song. Bummer.

Movie Friday

Great Song, Great Video... Remember This?

Christopher Walken is simply awesome!!

Oh Well

Maria Sharapova lost in her SemiFinal to Ana Ivanovic. Ana played very well and Maria... not so much. Her heart didn't seem all into it. Her fight wasn't there. Hey, everyone has bad days. After Ana won, I was so rooting for Jelena Jankovic to win over Justine Henin, but she didn't. Again, oh well. So on Saturday, I hope Ana starts off well like she did today. She was on fire!

I so do not want to go to my little cousin's (1st cousin, twice removed - my cousin's granddaughter) Communion Party on Saturday. It's going to be hot and I still don't know what I'm wearing. Plus my hair looks like crap. Biggest reason... Women's Final. Hello!! Sucks big time!


Ciao for Now.
Maria

Update: I played tennis for about 40 minutes. Felt great!

Can't Freakin' Wait

Women's SemiFinals at the French Open are tomorrow. Coverage on ESPN2 starts at 8am. I am so looking forward to it. Sorry Mack... no Teletubbies or Sesame Street for you. Hee Hee.


1st Match: Maria Sharapova (Russia) vs Ana Ivanovic (Serbia)

2nd Match: Justine Henin (Belgium) vs Jelena Jankovic (Serbia)


Yup... 2 Serbian players. Too cool! Not that I'm Serbian; I just think it's a wonderful thing. Plus Novak Djokovic, also Serbian, will play Rafael Nadal (Spain) in the Men's SemiFinals on Friday. Also in the Semi's are Roger Federer (Switzerland) against Nikolay Davydenko (Russia).

I love tennis!

Looking Ahead

Things That Make You Go Hmm...

TWO WOLVES

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.

He said, "My son, the battle is between two Wolves inside us all."

One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith.

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which Wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."



PEACE

It does not mean to be in a place
where there is no noise, trouble or hard work

It means to be in the midst of those things
and still be calm in your heart



Courage is not the absence of fear
but rather,
the judgment that something else is more important than fear

Poor, Poor Lady

William Sledd says "NO OVERALLS." She's coming to grips with it.