Words Unspoken|Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten.

Today was fun, though. Matt and I went to Blockbuster and rented a few movies:

• Boys and Girls
• Office Space
• Rose Red
• Dogma
• Mallrats
• Armageddon

What’s funny is that, other than Rose Red, every one of those movies is connected in some way. Can you figure it out? I did!

Anyway, after that we did some serious grocery shopping. Bought all the food we should need for the next two weeks or so. Most of it is pretty healthy, too, so I’m happy, of course!

Also, I have a new pet project in the making. I am a member of a few message boards out there, and I like them, but I didn’t feel like I had a place that I could go without the baby thing in my face, all the time, day in and day out. So, I made my own, with the help of Stacy and Leesha. I should probably warn you, before you go over and register, that drama will not be tolerated, and in light of certain members’ feelings (myself included, but more than just me), we’re trying to be very careful about making people feel bad. I don’t want every post to come up about babies, or engagements, or things like that. This might sound selfish, but hey, it’s my board, and we just can’t have people feeling out of place! What’s the fun in going to a message board if everything that gets posted makes you feel bad about something (or a lack of something) in your life, right? Now that the warning’s out of the way, though, go join!

I love when I stumble upon random things from my past. For instance, Memoirs of an Invisible Man. I remember watching it, but I couldn’t remember the name. But now I know!

This, for some reason, reminds me of the movie Splash, probably because Daryl Hannah is in it. You know, I saw that movie two or three times when I was younger, and haven’t seen it since. I’ve wanted to, though. If anyone owns a copy, feel free to send it my way! Seriously, though, I should go to Blockbuster and see if they have it.

OMG! I’ve just discovered something even funnier. Everyone knows Eugene Levy for his hilarious father part in American Pie and all the sequels. He was in Splash, too! AND… He was in an episode of Maniac Mansion, based off of the video game of the same name. I have that game! I loved it! I seriously spent countless hours trying to beat it.

Okay, I’ve given a few days for people to get their submissions in for the Sex and the City challenge, and now it’s time to answer them! So here goes!

Stacy wanted me to relate:
Angela - Cynthia Nixon, who played Miranda, starred in an episode of Murder, She Wrote with Angela Lansbury.

Maria wanted me to relate:
Fans - In Ring a Ding Ding (Season 4, Episode 16), on the way home from the Chinese restaurant, they are waving fans, and Carrie makes a comment about how she’ll save a lot of money on air conditioning.
Pillows - In Luck be an Old Lady (Season 5, Episode 3), Samantha is suspecting that Richard is sleeping with other women at the hotel in Atlantic City, so she tries to wear him out before leaving him. One of her lines here is “Hi, I’m Samantha. Can I get you some towels? A chocolate for your pillow?”
Laundry - In Drama Queens (Season 3, Episode 7), Miranda does Steve’s laundry and ends up discovering, in her words, that she’s “dating skid marks man.”
Vietnamese People - In The Domino Effect (Season 6, Episode 11) they play a song called “In The Waiting Line” by Zero 7. This is the same song played in the party scene of Garden State. At the beginning of Garden State, Zach Braff is working at a Vietnamese restaurant, and he gets a hard time from a customer because he’s not a Vietnamese person.

Kalen wanted me to relate:
Tomatoes - In Just Say Yes (Season 4, Episode 12), Carrie says “Aidan, I just charged tomatoes, I really don’t think I’m in the position to buy an apartment.”
A Cup of Sugar - In Sex and the Country (Season 4, Episode 9), Samantha goes next door to Aidan’s country house to borrow a cup of milk for the pie Carrie’s baking. Of course, the stereotypical idea from most movies is not a cup of milk, but a cup of sugar!

Zi wanted me to relate:
A Humane Society - In The Big Time (Season 3, Episode 8), Miranda and Steve adopt Scout, their puppy. They adopt him from a pet store, but another place to adopt animals from is, of course, the Humane Society!
A Digital Camera - In The Real Me (Season 4, Episode 2), Carrie is documented for the New York Style fashion show by photographer Paul Denai. Obviously, he had to use a camera for the photographs!
Nasty, Dirty, Ratty Old Running Shoes - In A Woman’s Right to Shoes (Season 6, Episode 9), Kyra loans Carrie a pair of old sneakers when her shoes mysteriously go missing after a party.

So there we have it! How’d I do?

Leesha and I are proposing a challenge to you. We’ve both watched Sex and the City so many times that we know all the characters, the plot lines, the tiniest little jokes. It’s come to the point where just about anything can (and often will!) remind us of the show. This is where you come in.

Think of anything. Seriously, anything! A thought, an idea, a person. We want to see if we can associate it with Sex and the City! Not everything can be directly related, but we can relate it within one step. We’ll try to do it directly whenever we can though!

Make sense? Good. Start commenting! We’ll have answers up within the next few days.

Warning: this post will definitely contain spoilers for Grey’s Anatomy. This post will span the entire show this far, including the season 3 finale, so if you haven’t seen parts and want to be surprised, don’t read any further!

We all know the timing is a bit weird throughout the show. The interns have been in their first year of residency for three years now! But a post on the Grey’s LiveJournal community has me thinking about the timing with Meredith’s half sister, Lexie.

In season 3, episode 1, “The Time Has Come Today“, Callie is talking to Finn about why Meredith is so “weird”. She says, “Four years of high school, four years of college, four years of med school…” which would add up to somewhere between ages 25 and 27 at graduation from medical school. Let’s say, for argument’s sake, Meredith falls right in the middle (and the “norm”) of this, and say that she’s 26.

She states that she did take some time off to go to Europe in season 3, episode 14, “Wishin’ and Hopin’” - but she says she only went for two months. This wouldn’t put her too far off of the medical school track, as far as I know.

In season 2, episode 5, “Bring the Pain“, you hear the Chief say that he and Meredith’s mom, Ellis, had the discussion about leaving their spouses 21 years before. Add to this that Meredith was five years old (according to season 2, episode 18, “Yesterday“) when the affair was going on.

In season 2, episode 22, “The Name of the Game“, we find out about Meredith’s two half sisters, Molly and Lexie. Molly states that she’s twenty-two while talking to Meredith. She says that her older sister, Lexie, is in medical school and that her (their) dad is very proud of her. If Lexie is older than Molly, but still in medical school, that would make her somewhere between 22 and 27. This would mean that Meredith’s father, Thatcher, had an affair and started a family before his relationship with Ellis deteriorated. Plus, the fact that Lexie is an intern the year after Meredith makes this whole storyline impossible.