SATC Awfulness, Facebook Creepiness

In case you are wondering, no, I haven't seen this movie. Hell, I never saw the tv show - there was something in my genetic makeup that made me change the channel the second I heard that stupid theme song. Sadly, my nightmares continue every time I hear that ringtone on someone's phone (as an aside, have you ever been impressed by someone's ringtone? I can think of a single example - one guy had his phone set to play the march that accompanied Darth Vader's entrance into a scene. In this case the shoe fit).

So we're treated to another SATC movie. Did we need one? Did someone ask for it? It almost reminds me of the scene in Ghostbusters where the Busters are told that they will have to fight the first enemy that pops into their collective heads. Akroyd's character thought of the Staypuff marshmallow man. Did someone think to themselves "you know, we could use another movie" and *poof* it was done?

Part of me is just having fun with this blog - please don't take it too seriously.

Are we really supposed to think that these girls are sex symbols? Every time I see a commercial for this train wreck I see a bunch of younger men fawning over the gals near a pool (of course, if the genders were reversed it would be creepy - the double standard continues). Most of the girls don't look bad for their age but SJP... well... you practically expect to see an oat bag hanging around her kneck. See the pic below.



You may have also missed Kim Cattrel stating over and over and over again that her character is not a cougar. Holy S, really? Insert hack line about looking up the dictionary of definition and seeing her pic (it isn't hack if I warn you up front that I'm using a hack line, or at least that is what I am telling myself). She goes looking for much younger men and her primary goal is to get them to the sack... she's right, that isn't at all a cougar.

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If you've been on facebook long enough you've probably been invited to be a "friend" of one of your friend's kids. I can honestly say that my friends all have pretty cool kids so it didn't seem like a big deal. What's the worst that can happen? I suppose they can navigate to my page and then have to ask their parents all kinds of awkward questions. Damn, I wish I could be there for that.

Anyway, this kind of friendship has brought on a phenomenon that is new to me. I am now getting friend suggestions for other pre-teens that I do not know. Yikes. I feel creepy and I haven't even earned it (this time).

Even better is the facebook IM's that you get from your young friends. Here is a real conversation that happened the other day:

FB Friend: What are you doing?

Me: Writing a blog. What are you doing?

FB Friend: Sitting.

Me: Cool.

FB Friend: What are you doing now?

Me: Still blogging.

FB Friend: Do you know how to make the shark icon?

And so it went. I've found that if you just type "lol" over again that it seems to make them happy.

(Amy B. just breathed a sigh of relief as she thought this was one of our conversations until she saw the last line. She mastered the shark icon a while ago so it must be someone else ;-) )

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I opened the pool that nobody swims in last night. The temperature was 63 degrees this morning and it is supposed to be somewhere in the mid 90's today. The solar heater is so awesome that it might raise it as much as 10 degrees today. You can see the real temperature of the pool at the top of this page.
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More pirate pics coming later tonight.