i'm a bad driver

i think its safe to say i'm a bad driver. i know people don't usually admit to their short comings but i think that's doing a disservice to us all. If i think my friend has the perfect life and i' m constantly comparing myself to her life and putting myself down because my life isn't as perfect or together when really she doesn't have the perfect life but i don't know that... it's just all around bad. so i'm telling you, i'm a bad driver. And now, with the advent of cell phones, expensive coffee drinks i don't want to spill and now sirius satellite radio that i'm constantly futzing with, i barely pay attention to the road at all! I realized this yesterday when after driving for about 15 mins, I realized that I didn't even have any hands on the steering wheel. This insanity has got to stop, mark my words that when I get into my car tonight to drive home from my office, i will not allow the above mentioned distractions to take me away from my obligation to those around me to remain focus on the road.

david hasslehoff

oh how i looooove "the Hof." here's a pic of my friend's friends with him at fenway park, but more importantly this link is as my friend david said the greatest 5 mins of tv/film/video in the history of humanity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi2CfuqcUGE

my obsession of david hasslehof continues!

yikes

well, i was doing so well in weight watchers, but the being dumped has really sent me into a spiralling weight gaining set back. I'M SUCH A FUCKING CLICHE!! i hate it, i'm a cliche of a woman, who only talks about losing weight and getting dumped. holy shit, i'm a fucking cliche! i've never done anything normal, like going to college way far away when everyone else went close to home and then picking up and moving across the country and finding my way out in LA, i've prided myself on being different my entire life, only to come to find out i'm a fucking cliche. sorry i love the f word so much. anyway, it's true, people. male comedy writers all think women aren't funny. yes, it's true, i know one who wrote an entire article about it, and they all say that women comedians only talk about "i'm fat i ate a pint of ice cream last night, wahhh!" or "my boyfiend dumped me and now i have a million cats, waaaah!" i guess it's true! so from this day forth, i will talk about something different! just give me some time to come up with something!

movies

went to see the "matador" last night with liz and rachel and adam. we got a drink after. didn't really like the movie, although, i have been conditioned to say i like every indie movie in this town just cause people think indie = smart movie= they think you're in intellectual if you like it. Therein lies the problem. anyway, i love Remington Steele in it and greg kinnear, but overall... not so much! as least i have the courage to say that. on another note, anyone watch that oprah with james frey, author of a million little pieces? I of course did cause i'm obsessed with her and have her as a tivo seasons pass. anywho, i thought she kinda annihilated the guy and i'm not sure he deserved that. if he goes and kills himself, that blood is on her hands (hands that i hope to high five one day, as it were). I think there are so many greater issues in the world right now, whether or not james frey fabricated and or exaggerated some of the stories in his "memoir," is not one of them.

suck it

i have nothing of interest to report today, my life just isn't exciting enough to sustain a 7 day a week blog or perhaps exciting at all. who knows.

evite update: 135 yes-es!

the week in review

i've had a bad week, by all accounts. So this morn when i was walking out of rite-aid after picking up my perscription for some bacterial infection I have, I saw the scratch off california lottery tickets and thought "well if there was a time i'd win, it would be this week!" so i bought 2 tickets and got to my office and furiously started scratching. Well, i don't know if you have bought a scratch off ticket recently, but they're really hard to follow, not the instructions, but figuring out whether or not you won! I have a bachelors degree and consider myself pretty intelligent, I mean hey I can master crossword puzzles and sudoku, but i couldn't for the life of me figure out what the fuck the game was all about! I had to enlist the help of one of the writers assistants who reviewed the bingo game card and reassured me, no I had not in fact won $20! the bad week continues!

oprah!

from time to time I check oprah's website to see "what shows they're working on," hoping that one day, one of the upcoming topics would include a guest like me. Unfortunately, I'm not part of a couple who has been inspired by Garth or Trisha, have children with accumulating debt or have asked anyone "do i have a big butt." (an actual upcoming topic) Today is no different, no oprah topics for me to submit myself for. why do i want to be on oprah? I'm not sure, but one day, oprah, i will bump fists with you!!!!

coffee good!

I treated myself to a nice vanilla soy latte yesterday. Day 2 of being single. My friend decided to dump her boyfriend today, and be all sad about it, i think she's trying to steal my break up thunder! I think I'm not too happy about this, now all our friends will be calling her to see how she's doing and i'm left out in the dust. truth be told I'm doing fine but still like the attention. I'm going to book my torrino, italy tickets today, YAHOOO!!

back to my old tricks

OKAY, so yesterday being my first full day back in single-dom, i did my usual single activity and went to book soup in west hollywood, which is the most incredible, amazing book store in this city! i used to walk there a lot when i lived in west hollywood, but now i drive and look at all the new books and the people who work there are so smart ( you have to take all these tests and interviews just to get a job there) and they recommend the best books. so as i'm puruising the asisles, i need to get around this guy and i'm all "excuse, me" and IT WAS BURT REYNOLDS!!! the burt reynolds!! can you believe it? i was so freaking pumped. BURT FREAKING REYNOLDS!! he was wearing a red sweater and was looking at the poker books!!! also, he was totally wearing a full toupee!! he was there for the entire time i was there (he was not dumped recently cause his significant other was there, a very put together beverly hills looking lady) which was about an hour? then I was reading a book by the register when they went to pay and they spent $342.16!!! that's a lot of reading material. I ddin't get anything. then as i was leaving, I got to my car and parking next to me is CHRISTOPHER LLOYD FROM TAXI AND BACK TO THE FUTURE!!!! he got out of his porshe SUV and was milling around my car, making sure i didn't hit his car and then he headed into book soup. what a great celebirty spotting night!!!

one more thing...

weight watchers update - i've lost 4.6 pounds
evite update - 117 yes!! Yikes.

breaking up is hard to do

so i got dumped yesterday by will. aw, so sad. for those of you out there who are married, thank your lucky stars, being single sucks big time!!! anyway, he said that it seemed like it was getting serious and he's not really in a place in his life to be serious with someone (he is 25, this should be no surprise to me) and that he's probablyl going to regret this decision and he wants to be friends. but he was really nice and had the balls to meet up with me and that says a lot about his character and why i liked him in the first place. I know a guy who dumped his girlfriend over EMAIL after dating for 8 months and he is like 36, so it speaks a lot to his maturity at 25. oh, well. back in the saddle again. ON sat. night, i knew i was getting dumped and i went around my friends birthday party and took bets on what will was going to say when he dumped me and everyone wrote out their opinions on 2 cocktail napkins. it's in my car, which much like my relationship died yesterday so it's in the shop. tomorrow I will take a picture of the cocktail napkins when I get the car back and write them out cause someone of them are so freaking funny!!!

hmmm

i may not be dumping my boy toy after all. turns out I might be the one getting dumped. see i didn't actually want to dump him, it's just i was freaked out, regardless, i haven't heard from him in days and that's not his typical behavior... something is afoot. too bad I don't have the courage to pick up the phone and be like what's going on? maybe i will later in the day. maybe if i eat something...

greg and peter brady

that's me with them! if you're thinking to yourself, sarah looks a little thin in the face that's b/c weight watchers is working and i've lost 2.2 pounds. I weigh in again on sunday, i'll keep you updated!

sirius satellite radio

i got my sirius satellite radio installed (i did it myself, thank you v. much) and i have no use for terrestrial radio, cause it SUCKS!! sirius is the best, i love love love it!! There are endless amounts of channels of music and talk to listen to, never again do i have to sit there and listen to commercials because all the stations have them on at once!!! AND the big draw is howard stern, baby!! it's weird to hear him cuss on the air, though, i'll be honest. anyway, on another note, evite update: 100 yes-es, 9 maybes, 15 nos and 165 question marks meaning they haven't replied either way. and the evite was only sent out 36 hours ago!! I'M FREAKING OUT!! what i've learned is you invite 237 people but then they all come with someone and so put a +1!!! so i'm starting to lose my mind!

party

we're throwing a party on feb. 4th, but it's getting a little out of control. the person who owns the house doesn't want more than 120 people there which i get, but unfortunately, the evite list hovers somewhere around the upper 200s. you think people won't come, but you'd be wrong, the number of yes replies keeps growing and growing to the point that i'm getting nervous!!!

communication is the key

I sense a breakup on the horizon. I fear I don't know how to communicate to my 25yr old man child, this is mostly due to my irish catholic upbringing where conflict didn't exist (or at least wasn't spoken about) and now i do not have the communication tools to bring issues up or how to gracefully and diplomatically discuss them. My dad, sister and I are very blunt and we don't knwo how to couch things in a way that are like a beautifully decorated package with a bright red bow. More to come on that... watched the golden globes last night, thought steve carell's speech was hilar! didn't really like anything else. why does debra messing annoy me so, she's done nothing to me!!!

Living in bev. hills, I often see "Rodeo" but yesteray i went to the rodeo with my friends emma and matija. Ifrst of all, it was like an hours drive out of LA. when we turn off the freeway, the little town, norco, CA, had horse trails, not sidewalks, and people were on horses everywhere, i was like whre the fuck am i? then we go to the rodeo and there's like cowboy hats and boots everywhere. 3 city slickers did not fit in! So the thing starts with a prayer and while the cowboy is sayiing the pray for the safety of our cowboys, amazing grace is playing ever so lightly underneath. then some guy came out and did some trick roping, he was like the world trick roping champion, and he was very impressive and then another girl came out and her horse curtsied! so i was so entertained and on board. but then it took a very dark turn and the next thing I know there a baby cow running away from a guy on a horse with good reason cause he lassos a rop around his neck which snaps the calf's head back and then the cowboy gets off his horse, and throws the calf on its side and ties up 3 of it's 4 legs and leaves it there on the ground twitching and in shock for 10 seconds. VERY UPSETTING. the 3 city girls did not see that coming and couldn't believe this was a sport. I think i was in more shock than the calf was. mmY favorite part was miss rodeo california who wore white leather chaps with gold lame fringe on them, very fancy!!!

winter olympics

i decided today that since we're done taping on feb. 17th that on the 19th i'm going to turin italy for the olympics!! one of my best frieinds from college works for Nike so i have a free place to stay and my good friend from high school works at NBC sports and and my friend emma and matija are going to go with me, so this is freakin' awesome. actually emma and mat. are here visiting LA and we went hiking this morning before work and we had talked before about doing it, but we've convinced each other it's going to be an awesome idea, especially since we have zero expectations! also it will be my last blow out since i can't take a huge around the world trip like i usually do every year since my show is over and i have to stay in town to take meetings and get on another show. anyway, i'm excited. just a sidebar THIS WILL BE MY 3RD OLYMPICS!! i worked at the summer ones in '96, went to salt lake and now turin, which will be my first one out of the U.S. I've also been to the olympic museum in lausanne, switzerland with my friend joe who i met in Geneva, swiss, who's blog is the air force academy one on the upper left hand hyperlink.

also, here are pics of him at the musee olympic taken by yours truly
http://home.myuw.net/jmig01/europa/switz18.htm

houston, we have a problem

okay, a few months ago I started dating will. I met him through his friend who told me that will was age 27. perfect, i thought albeit a little young, but why not, what's to lose? when I told people he's 27 they would say "well at least he's not 25" So off we went, and now we're still dating. Last night i learned he is in fact not 27, he's not even 26 HE IS IN FACT 25 AND I'M HAVING A COMPLETE AND UTTER MELTDOWN AND NOW NEED TO BREAK UP WITH HIM SINCE HE'S NO WHERE NEAER THE SAME LIFE STAGE I'M IN!!!!!! PLEASE ADVISE!

my life is weird

yesterday i was in the wardrobe dept. gabbing with the gals who i'm doing weight watchers with (haven't cheated yet!) and i turn the corner and i see one of our guest cast getting fitted for his outfit and he's removing his pants! he has no pants! this wouldn't be a big deal if it werent for the fact that he's from a very popular t.v. show from the 70s and a very recognizable face, i'm just not telling you who he is to protect my own ass, you can email me and i'll tell you!

what did i do yesterday?

nothing really exciting to report. we're kinda far behind on our script writing schedule. so this week again we had to do another gang bang where we come up with the story and then every writer is assigned a scene to write. so yesterday i was assigned my scene. also yesterday howard stern went on the air of satellite radio, but i couldn't get it going cause serius satellite sucks and i can't figure out what's wrong with it!

movies

went to see a shit load of movies this weekend: rumor has it with jennifer anniston sucked, but i still love those kind of movies, then saw matchpoint by woody allen, which i really really liked and i've been wildly dissapointed by his last movies, so that was a nice surprise and then i saw "the familiy stone," which was okay, i liked it better than i thought i would. also, the jeans i wore to the movies last night, i'm wearing to work today, shhhh! i joined weight watchers yesterday, very excited to lose some weight, i'm thinking 11 pounds! that should put me at a good weight and i think i'd feel more comfortable in some of my pants if i lose some LBs, let's home i don't lose it in my boobs. the last time i lost weight that's what happened. i think will comes home from budapest some time this week, let's see if he calls me!

new year new me?

we'll see. going to yoga this morning, then seeing movies with bersie. i left purposely left my sat. night open because i feel like with all the travelling and woes, i'm not gonna want to commit to anything tonight. then tomorrow i'm RE JOINING weight watchers with a group from my wardrobe dept. early sunday a.m. yikes i'm nervous to do the official weigh in!

must see t.v.

yesterday i could barely get out of bed, not sure why. worked all day and then went to the gym and worke dout for an hour before going home and planting my ever expanding ass on the couch in front of the t.v. I read a few plays in my short play book as my next writing sample is going to be a one act play. i need to start it ASAP as my agents will need to distribute it later this winter/early spring for me to get a job.

hook 'em horns

how awesome was that nat'l champs game last night? went to a friend of a friend's house, basically a house filled with all beautiful actors/actresses in west hollywood. it was awesome. they had a HDTV and a projector onto one of the sides of the walls. they had pizza and KFC and cupcakes from sprinkles that cupcake store in beverly hills, that is so freaking good. honestly, the best things i've ever eaten, if they weren't fattening, id have them b'fast, lunch dinner!!! AND TEXAS WON!!!! hook 'em horns. I know i live in USC land, but i went to a Big 12 school and you gots to root for your conference!!!!!!

don't fly america west

here is a picture of my luggage. imagine my surprise when i landed in ontario (when my ticket was to land in LA) and found my bag with a padlock on it WHICH WASN'T THERE WHEN I GAVE THEM MY LUGGAGE!! so now my bag is sitting unopened in my bedroom. when i went to the baggage lady and said "this is new," she told me the airlines doesn't cover random locks showing up on your bags. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!!

some christmas pics

of my newphew as sheppard #1 and niece putting cookiees out for santa and a picture of the lego helicopter i built for my nephew, i'm pretty impressed with my skillz!!!

telluride is amazing

here is a few pics from new years eve in telluride!! the ski patrol skis down the moutnin criss crossing the slopes, holding torches. my group of 13 were in the gondola and they passed right underneath us!! IT WAS TRULY MAGICAL!! then on the way down on the gondola, they had fire works and we were eye level with them!! what a night, and that was all free entertainment. then some friend of a friend's paretns invited us to their swanky mountain mansion for drinks and appetizers. it was one of 2 of their houses they own in telluride. we then went to dinner where the talbes downstairs were given devil horns and the tables upstairs were given halos. i traded some girls for their halos cause i'm so angellic and such a good girl. amy (in the picture) is not!!! also, some of my group went snow mobiling on saturday and saw KATIE HOLMES SNOW MOBILING 7 MONTHS PREGNANT!!!!!

do not fly delta airlines

if anyone who is planning to purchase a ticket to fly any where in the world. i would advise you to stay away from delta airlines. the incompetence of their employees is quite staggering!! please do this for me! do not give them any business. basically what happened to me is i had a ticket with 6 flights, 2 on delta, four on america west (i wouldnt fly them either, but that's a whole nother battle) anyway, they made a change in my first flight and then cancelled the remaining ticket, so i show up to fly on america west to telluride at JFK at 5am and they won't let me on because of the fact delta cancelled my entire ticket. each step of the way, delta lied to me, whenever they said they got me on a flight they didn't, i would show up to the airport and the airlies that they said they got me a ticket on to try and get me to telluride before my vacation was actually over, the other airlines, would be like, nope, delta did not get you a ticket. this happened 5 TIMES!!!!!! you'd think i woudl've learned to trust them at some point. they are more than willing to give you a ticket, but not willing to actually make the reservationn on airlines such as great lakes and america west. that not have a reservation thing usually is a problem. anyway, as a result, they ruined my entire vacation and i intend to alert the media until i get compensated for my entire ticket!