Is it Friday already?

Well, what I was going to do today was tackle my cookbook project, but instead...

I worked on my client birthday card mailing for December.  My first year in business, I would address the birthday cards when I did the tax return, put the date where the stamp goes and stick then in my monthly birthday file.  Then all I had to do was slap a stamp on it and mail it at the appropriate time.  Boring, but effective.  That plan sorta got away from me last tax season - and my helper never bothered to do her cards at all - so my birthday greetings went by the wayside for a few months.  Paperwork was not her forte, as much as I like her.  I hate to say this, but if I want things done my way, I guess I am just going to have to do everything myself.  So - I did my November cards the other day and I have finished December today.  I need to make more cards and then I can do January.  Hopefully, I will be caught up by the time tax season comes along and I can go back to my original system.  And yes, I have successfully put off working on the Christmas cards for one more day.  I have, however, typed up my Christmas mailing list to print on clear address labels; I don't think my hands can take all that addressing by hand again this year.  Old Arthur, as my mother-in-law would say.

I finally watched Get Shorty in its entirety.  It was absolutely hilarious!  I tried to get Tim to watch it once a long time ago and he didn't find the first few minutes humorous at all, so we switched to something else.  As I have probably said before, I never thought that John Travolta would amount to anything after Saturday Night Fever or Urban Cowpie.  I have been pleasantly surprised over the past few years - he cracks me up.  His Chili Palmer (I'm not going to say anything more than I have to, if that) is great - and Dennis Farina makes one terrific bad guy, even if his favorite word begins with F.  Of course, I had to watch Be Cool - just to see what happened next - and to see The Rock play a gay bodyguard.  I think I liked the supporting characters better in the second movie, plus John Travolta dances with Uma Thurman.  The funniest part was seeing The Rock (who wants to be a movie star and asks Chili to get him an audition) all dressed up in a blue polyester suit, standing in front of a mirror with big afro hair, smiling and smacking himself on the ass.  I thought I would die.  And then, if that weren't enough, his boss (played to the hilt by Vince Vaughan - who thinks he is black) makes a video of him singing You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man.  I nearly wet my pants.  Some movies really are as funny as the books they are based on.  I hope they paid Elmore Leonard a lot of money.