TRIVIAL or SUPERFICIAL or LIGHTHEARTED ; THE LIST OF THE MOMENT

WHAT'S NEW?

I'm Curious About:  Sewing blouses without using patterns.  Making one's own custom shoes using flip flops for soles.

So Bad - So Good : The Cold.  The Rain. After a True Winter, I'm so ready for a True Spring and True Summer.

I Might Just Be Done With : Some of the guests who appear or appeared on Coast to Coast AM - which is still broadcast. Finding their YouTube stations and listening to their full agendas that are not discussed on the talk program, I realize just what they have withheld or have not been questioned about on that program with George Noory. I'm about 90% done with the whole Coast to Coast program. 

So funny! : Phil Hendrie's parody renditions of the old Art Bell Show. I burst into laughter and almost rolled off my bed the other night when I discovered these.  East of the Rockies, West of the Rockies, South of the Rockies, North of the Rockies...all those phone numbers... and he's got the bumper music right...

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AM I WHO I KNOW?

My Favorite Person Is : The highly intelligent, flirty, twinkle eyed man who must have memory loss, since he's wearing a wedding band.  No harm done, my friend. Everyone wants to be thought of as beautiful.

The Celebrity that Interests Me : None.

The Celebrities I've met (Just saying) : (Maybe another time.)

Historical Person I'd Like To Interview :  Isadora Duncan

TRAVEL?

If I Could Travel Back In Time : The Village in New York at the time of the Russian Revolution.

AM I WHAT I INDULGE?

Oldie Film I Want To Watch Again Sometime : Niagara  (Just watched it for the first time.)

Oldie Favorite Album I Blissfully Recently Listened to from Beginning to End :  Buffalo Springfield (debut album)

Book I Recently Read Cover To Cover :  (See the reviews)

Book(s) I Keep Meaning To Reread : Mantra Books and Audio by Thomas Ashley Farrand

Person I Get and Nobody I Know Understands :  Shall Remain Nameless.  (I get it that he has Narcissistic Personality Disorder.)

AM I WHAT I EAT?

Favorite Cheese Of The Moment :  Fontina

Bread : Home Made Old Fashioned Farina muffins. Bakery Pretzel Bread.

Condiment : Mayo.  

Sweet : SweetTarts.  Chalky bits of flavor.

Spice : Paprika

I'm Drinking : Columbian Coffee - Cowboy Brew.

I Just Cooked : Chili with ground beef steak, black beans, carrots, onion, garlic, paprika, diced fresh tomato, canned tomato sauce.

I'm Craving : Old Fashioned Creme Puffs with pudding filling like mom used to make. Light airy crust, smooth warm milk pudding.

AM I WHAT I BUY?

Charcoal- Eucalyptus soap from a small -business - crafts fair - home-maker.  Made in U.S.A. Love the delicate perfume scent and the hard milling.

Beautiful tiny rose patterned fabric for the above mentioned blouse without a pattern, even though ditsy patterns are not like me. Pre washed and shows no sign of being crinkly.

Water Buffalo Lung dog treats :  I still have dogs to sit. These treats are real stinky and crunchy and they love it. They come running without being called or hearing the word "treat."

AM I WHAT I MISS?

My dog. Memories of her always put a smile on my face.

Having my own garden in pots.

Being able to afford using the house heater.

LATEST REALIZATIONS : 

That my best woman friend is never going to be a person who likes to get out there and do things.  (This is not just about Covid-19.)

That I need some new friends who do like to get out there and do things.

That I miss the real Art Bell. Check out this program about a man who was camping out by a lone phone booth in the Mojave Desert and spends hours at night talking to people who call it.  ART BELL INTERVIEWS DESERT CHAD  (Research shows that the booth was removed some time ago as it was feared that the people traveling there to see it were causing some environmental harm... Really!)

C 2023  Christine Trzyna

Ask yourself the same questions.

Don't let me influence you. 

TRIVIAL or SUPERFICIAL or LIGHTHEARTED ; THE LIST OF THE MOMENT

AM I WHO I KNOW? (or DON'T?)

Top Model I Think is Most Heart-Stopping Beautiful : Gigi Hadid

Actor With Talent Who Is Also My Heartthrob : Jack Huston

Actor I'll See Any Film She Makes : Jennifer Lawrence

Actor(s) who I think are underrated : Diane Lane, Drew Barrymore

Poem That Always Gets To Me : Dylan Thomas : I Have Longed to Move Away

I'm Curious About : The Pope's Consecration of Russia and the Ukraine/ Fatima.

Enough Already : Cancel Culture

Worst Person I Recently Encountered : The Condescending "I'm On the Board" Bitch Who Lectured Me In A Parking Lot. 

Where the Hell Is :  Edward Snowden  (He has been silent regarding the Russian genocide of Ukrainians.)

So Good - So Bad :  7/11 hot dogs. The bread bun is often stale, too small, and falls apart, the liquid 'cheese' is not available, there are more bad peppers than good pickles, and who knows what these hot dogs are made of, but I've craved them, slathered in mayo and salsa.  I've eaten about a half dozen of them in the last couple months.

I Might Just Be Done With :  Yahoo

Historical Person I'd Like To Interview :  Martha Washington 

If I Could Travel Back In Time :  I'd like to visit the San Fernando Valley in 1930.

I Could Care Less :  Ellen (Degeneres)  (Why again is she funny?)

My Favorite Person Is : My dog.

AM I WHAT I INDULGE?

Oldie Film(s) I Just Had to Watch Again : An Officer and a Gentleman

Oldie Film(s) I Want To Watch Again Sometime : The Perfect Storm,  Hollywoodland, American Hustle

Not So Oldie Series I Want To Watch Again Sometime : Boardwalk

Newish Series That I Was/ Am So Impressed With : The Wilds

Newish Series I'm Waiting On Next Season :  The Crown

I Just Watched and Loved It :  Horror In the High Desert  (free on YouTube) A documentary about an unsolved murder.

Oldie Favorite Album I Blissfully Recently Listened to from Beginning to End : None

Oldie Band I Didn't Grown Up With That I'm Listening To Now : None

Oldie Song(s) I've Been Listening To A Lot : I The Living by Tom Winslow

Newish music I'm binging : Silk Sonic - Bruno Mars /Anderson .Paak  (I think 'Smoking Out the Window' is hilarious and 'Leave The Door Open' is coming from the perspective of that new vulnerable male...)

Book I Recently Read Cover To Cover : The Sound Of the Sea : Sea Shells and the Fate of the Ocean by Cynthia Barnett

Book(s) I Keep Meaning To Reread :  So many!

Person I Get and Nobody I Know Understands :  The Punk Rocker who lives in his vehicle and spends his days writing and producing music and texting with fans.  He may be wasting away but he will do so until his dying day.  He defines being true to one's art.

AM I WHAT I EAT?

Favorite Cheese Of The Moment : None 

Tortilla to Beat All : Trader Joes Whole Wheat Wraps Olive Oil

Condiment / On Pizza : Olives - Black Olives

Chocolate : Dark with Sea Salt

Canned Soup I Miss That I Don't Think They Make Anymore : Campbell's Scotch Broth

Meal I Miss That I Can't Recreate: Pressure Cooker Stuffed Cabbage

I'm No Longer Into Like I Once Was : Pasta

I'm Drinking : Iced Decaf Coffee, Iced Herbal Tea

AM I WHAT I BUY?

I hadn't bought anything other than food for me and my dog in weeks.  But I uncharacteristically threw money down on the counter for two items on sale.  I think I was partially motivate by my attraction to the color Orange.

Nature Love Power Peel Foot Spa : I've never tried a foot peel before. Put my feet down into the fruity acids plastic "socks" and await the gross delight.

40 Carrots Moisture Splurge -  Ditto never tried a retinol product. I hope I don't regret this!

AM I WHAT I MISS?

Alone Time - A Long Stretch

Soaking in a Tub  (I'm barely showering, trying to save water)

Sleeping nine hours straight no problem.

Burning incense.

A road trip up the coast.

LATEST FASCINATION(S)?  

I SHOULD : 

Take Yoga Again. Go Swimming.

I WISH:

It Would Rain

I HAVE: 

Lately, a strong sense memory of this time of year in 1997. 

C 2022  Christine Trzyna

Ask yourself the same questions.

Don't let me influence you. 

TRIVIAL or SUPERFICIAL or LIGHTHEARTED THE LIST OF THE MOMENT

 AM I WHO I KNOW? (or DON'T?)

Top Model I Think is Most Heart-Stopping Beautiful : Gigi Hadid

Actor With Talent Who Is Also My Heartthrob : Jack Huston

Actor I'll See Any Film She Makes : Jennifer Lawrence

Actor I'll Always Miss - I Like (Most Of) What He Did : Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Poet Who Always Gets To Me : Dylan Thomas

I'm Curious About: Jack White (Musician.)

Enough Already :  Harry and Meghan, especially Meghan

I'd Be Totally Embarrassed If She Were My Mother : Madonna

So Bad - So Good :  Fenty Savage Fashion Shows (For starters, I hate lingerie and never buy it or wear it  Secondly, there's anorexia and then there's ugly fat. The masturbation and sex act indicative dance movement are "savage" and not at all titillating. They are gross.  And if Demi Moore doesn't give it a break soon, she'll be on my Enough Already list. Sorry!  But I appreciate that all a dance production is a cross over with fashion and innovative rather than runway shows where mostly anorexics unnaturally walk one foot almost crossing over with the other: amazing that more models are not going splat on the runway.)

I Might Just Be Done With : Daily Mail Online  (So Obviously Anti-Biden with their hideous headlines it's totally unbalanced reportage.)

Historical Person I'd Like To Interview : Benjamin Franklin  (What really went on in the Hellfire Club Ben?)

If I Could Travel Back In Time : The Beatles at the Cavern after Berlin

I'd Like To Meet But Won't In This Life : Jimmy Page 

(New!)  I Could Care Less : K-Pop

My Favorite Person Is : My dog.

AM I WHAT I INDULGE?

Oldie Film(s) I Just Had to Watch Again : Into the Wild, Titanic

Oldie Film(s) I Want To Watch Again Sometime : Grey Gardens, The Talented Mr. Ripley

Not So Oldie Series I Want To Watch Again Sometime : Boardwalk

Newish Series That I Was/ Am So Impressed With : The Wilds

I Just Watched and Loved It : A series on YouTube about dealing with Narcissists.

Oldie Favorite Album I Blissfully Recently Listened to from Beginning to End : None

Oldie Band I Didn't Grown Up With That I'm Listening To Now : None

Oldie Songs I've Been Listening To A Lot : Don't You Care by the Buckinghams. Easy To Be Hard by Three Dog Night

Book I Recently Read Cover To Cover : None

Book(s) I Keep Meaning To Reread :  Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley series, Erica Jong's Fear of Flying

Person I Get and Nobody I Know Understands : Andy Warhol

AM I WHAT I EAT?

Favorite Cheese Of The Moment : Irish Butter

Tortilla to Beat All : Trader Joes Whole Wheat Wraps Olive Oil

Condiment / On Pizza : Olives - Black Olives

Chocolate : Peanut Clusters

Canned Soup I Miss That I Don't Think They Make Anymore : Campbell's Scotch Broth

Meal I Miss That I Can't Recreate: Pressure Cooker Stuffed Cabbage

I'm No Longer Into Like I Once Was : Pasta

I'm Drinking : Cheap Von's Signature Brand Instant Decaf  (Horrible) and Freshly Roasted Ground Guatemalan out (No Shakes).

AM I WHAT I BUY?

Scent : Pacifica Tuscan Blood Orange

Shower Gel : Hemp Sweet Orange by Clean and Beauty (defunct business)

Winter Top :  Thrift Store Find by a fashion brand company whose clothes I really like though it upsets me to hear that the local store in Studio City is not nice to its employees. (Won't Buy New.)

Casual Shoes : Skechers

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AM I WHAT I MISS?

Alone Time - A Long Stretch

Soaking in a Tub  (I'm barely showering, trying to save water)

A long deep honest in-person conversation (with a sane and empathic person).

Sleeping nine hours straight no problem.

LATEST FASCINATION(S)? 

Doreen Virtue's Conversion to Fundamentalist Christianity.

The Heidi Planck Disappearance Case - all that Hollyweird Connection.

I SHOULD : 

Take Yoga Again. Go Swimming.

I WISH:

It Would Rain

I HAVE:  Lost My Patience with:

Snobs.  (Including Organic Foodies.)

Garcetti and any other politician who criminalizes homelessness when there aren't enough affordable housing units anywhere. (A statistic I would like to see is how many people voted but chose NOT to vote for an individual in a category. You can vote on what you want or who you want on a ballot but NOT VOTE for a person too. This is better (i.e. None of the Above or I'm a Democrat but Not This Guy) communication than NOT VOTING AT ALL.)

Malignant Narcissists 

C 2021  Christine Trzyna

Ask yourself the same questions.

Don't let me influence you. 

TRIVIAL or SUPERFICIAL or LIGHTHEARTED THE LIST OF THE MOMENT

AM I WHO I KNOW? (or DON'T?)

Top Model I Think is Most Heart-Stopping Beautiful : Gigi Hadid

Actor With Talent Who Is Also My Heartthrob : Jack Huston

Actor I'll See Any Film She Makes : Jennifer Lawrence

Actor I'll Always Miss - I Like (Most Of) What He Did : Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Poet Who Always Gets To Me : Dylan Thomas

I'm Curious About: Jack White (Musician/ His mom is Polish!)

Enough Already : Brad and Angelina (Give him the damn divorce!)

I'd Be Totally Embarrassed If She Were My Mother : Madonna

So Bad - So Good : James Corden

I Might Just Be Done With : Listening to Coast to Coast AM (and KFI)

Historical Person I'd Like To Interview : Thomas Jefferson

If I Could Travel Back In Time : Seeing my Immigrant Grandmother Young and Just Off The Boat.

I'd Like To Meet But Won't In This Life :  My Great Grandparents

My Favorite Person Is : My dog.

AM I WHAT I INDULGE?

Oldie Films I Just Had to Watch Again : The Talented Mr. Ripley, Almost Famous, Chaplin,

Oldie Film I Want To Watch Again Sometime : Basquiat

Not So Oldie Series I Want To Watch Again Sometime : Boardwalk

Newish Series That I Was So Impressed With : The Romanoffs

I Just Watched and Loved It : Halston

Oldie Favorite Album I Blissfully Recently Listened to from Beginning to End : George Harrison All Things Must Pass (Remastered)

Oldie Band I Didn't Grown Up With That I'm Listening To Now : The Byrds

Oldie Songs I've Been Listening To A Lot : Led Zeppelin The Rain Song,  Ersel Hickey, You Threw A Dart, Babyshambles, You Talk, Lou Reed Rock and Roll, Allman Brothers, Midnight Rider  (I first heard all these songs as Oldies.)

Book I Recently Read Cover To Cover : American Sutra - A Story Of Faith and Freedom In the Second World War by Duncan Ryuken Williams 

Book I Keep Meaning To Reread : Blonde by Joyce Carol Oats

Person I Get and Nobody I Know Understands : Andy Warhol

AM I WHAT I EAT?

Favorite Cheese Of The Moment : Havarti

Tortilla to Beat All : Trader Joes Whole Wheat Wraps Olive Oil

Condiment / On Pizza : Olives - Black Olives

Chocolate : Dark

Canned Soup I Miss That I Don't Think They Make Anymore : Campbell's Scotch Broth

Meal I Miss That I Can't Recreate: Pressure Cooker Stuffed Cabbage

I'm No Longer Into Like I Once Was : Herbal Teas

I'm Drinking : Vitamin C Fizzies

AM I WHAT I BUY?

Scent : Pacifica Tuscan Blood Orange

Shower Gel : Hemp Sweet Orange by Clean and Beauty (defunct business)

Summer Top : Calvin Klein Performance

Casual Shoes : Skechers

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AM I WHAT I MISS?

Going out to a big screen movie theatre with a group of friends to see a film.

A long deep honest in-person conversation.

Sleeping nine hours straight no problem.

LATEST FASCINATION(S)? 

Watching HERD Elephant Videos of the Jubalani Herd in South Africa. HERD ORG SOUTH AFRICA (A good cause.)

Antarctica

I SHOULD : 

Take Yoga Again. Go Swimming.

I WISH:

It Would Rain

I HAVE:

Covid-19 Vaccination

C 2021  Christine Trzyna

Ask yourself the same questions.

Don't let me influence you.