Sara Recommends

Smiling Hill Coffee Milk
I am a skim milk person by nature, but sometimes the whole milk with a splash of lovely flavoring is just heaven in a mug. And I love the old glass bottle it comes in. It reminds me that something as simple as milk is not to be taken for granted.

Headphones
We all know that the iPod changed my life. You joke until you know. But I hate those damn earbuds. Give me headphones. Far superior to those damn ear buds. And they have improved since I was a kid, they now come in a style that fits over the ears and behind the head -- and are still hidden by my hair. I remember when I was in high school I always felt like I had my own personal soundtrack walking down the hall. It made my observations of people different. They moved to music, to lyrics. I find myself doing that now.


Knitting
I recently learned how to perl after getting the knit stitch down. I have been crocheting for a long time and its nice to learn something new. But some how knitting seems to carry more street cred with the crafters. Don't worry, I am not giving up on my crochet roots. Yeesh, I do have some integrity.

JK Rowling getting her fine self back the the computer and work on book 7.
I am just saying.

My Life Without Me
This movie manages to do what other movies like Stepmom fail at again and again. Stepmom pushes those sentimental buttons that make you cry like a sieve, but you hate yourself for it afterwards. Sarah Polley plays the main character, who at age 23 and with two daughters and her husband all living in a trailer in her mom's backyard, finds out she is going to die in two months. She does things she has always wanted to do, and does ordinary things that we all take for granted. It's beautiful and raw, and honest, and purely organically sentimental. The good kind that is reflective and does not leave you with scummy feeling.

Not making a music video for a period movie that involves a mediocre pop song and the star in a modernized version of their period costume prancing and looking moody.
Girl with a Pearl Earring. Great film, but the video cheapened it a bit, and made no sense whatsoever.

Frankenstein Day
February 14th. Um, I can't wait! This by far is the best holiday in February. Let's look to Mr. Ham for some more guidelines on it.

Keeping your old college textbooks just in case someone needs to use it.
I knew there was a reason I hung onto all those old clunky psych textbooks! That someday, eight years later a friend would need to find an obscure therapist that was ungoogable. Yes, I said it, un-googable. We used books, yes books, to find him!

Sad Bastard Song for the moment
Sideways - Citizen Cope

Let's get it on song for the moment
Juicy - Better Than Ezra

Song to mock your friends who maybe trying the dating world by singing it to them loudly in parking lots for the moment
All out of love -- Air Supply