According To Suzy

Something New

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-08-26T19:39:00-05:00

I've decided to try something new. After 3 years of writing here on this blog, I decided to go to blogspot.

I don't know what I'll end up doing, but right now I'm on the fence about dabu. The site has it's problems and I think it's time to give another site a chance.

So you can read me over at blogspot: http://www.accordingtosuzy.blogspot.com

Back To Reality

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-08-18T17:58:00-05:00

So summer is over and now back to reality. My reality is made up of waking up everyday at 6am and going to work...just like tons of other folks.

I'm actually glad to see the summer go. It was a pretty shit-tastic time where I felt as if I had no real time for myself. There was a lot of complaining going on. I don't know how my friends felt, but I was even starting to annoy myself...so I'm glad it's over. I did see a whole bunch of movies though. I saw: The Happening, Wall-e, Water Lilies, Just Add Water, August, Prom Night, Elsa and Fred, Hancock, Wanted, Caramel, Dan In Real Life, Lars And The Real Girl, Pathology, The Girl In The Park, Sleepwalking, The Life Before Her Eyes, 27 Dresses, Persepolis, Made Of Honor, Meet Dave, The Eye, Margot At The Wedding, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, XXY, Smart People, Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Tocar El Cielo, Affinity and The Dark Knight. I saw all those movies in 22 days...think that was enough? :)

Being back at work has been interesting. I have to get used to running after work when I'm all tired again because there's no way in hell I'm waking up at 5am to workout. Uhm, no. Then there's the wanting to go to bed by 7pm which I have to fight off. As much as I'd love to go to bed that early, it just wouldn't work. I'd be up by 4am and completely exhausted by 2pm. Can't.

Anyway, I'm just rambling.

Dead Like Me Movie???

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-06-14T22:18:00-05:00

There's a Dead Like Me movie coming out??? OMG! This show should've never been canceled.

A Quick Catch Up

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-06-03T18:18:00-05:00

It's been a while since I've blogged. I've been pretty busy. I thought that now over the summer I would be able to catch up, but just as the school year ended, camp started. So I have no time.

A quick catch up:

1. The kids Opera was excellent. We had a blast working on it even though I developed insomnia.
2. I'm trying to recooperate from the insomnia.
3. I lost weight and won some money at the same time which all went towards gas anyway. I hope to maintain myself and not put it all back on.
4. Minga died (pet ferret). She was old and had a good life.
5. I joined the Wii-volution.
6. Antonio & Andrea get married on Saturday!!!

Jesse Stops By PR

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-04-30T19:41:00-05:00

So Jesse was in town for a few hours. This has to be the friend visit I've ever had :)
Even though he was only here for about 9 or 10 hours, it was cool to be able to hang out.

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Tales From 35,000 ft In The Air

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-04-28T19:35:00-05:00

I know it's been a while since I've updated my blog. What can I say, I've been busy.

Anyway, I had to share this story. Random things are always happening to me and my flight back from Fl was no exception. First of all, I was in Tampa this past weekend at Mike and Jill's wedding. Congrats guys! Flying up there was easy...a direct flight. Coming back, well, that wasn't so easy.

For whatever reason, I had to fly from Tampa to Miami and then to Puerto Rico. Yeah, that doesn't make sense to me, but whatever. So I flew to Miami and that was fine. Of course I had a few hours to kill when I got there since my next flight was at night. So I wait, charge my phone which wasn't easy. There is a shortage of working electrical wall outlets on concourse C of the Miami airport. Everyone fights over the few sockets. Hours go by and it's finally time to board my flight home. But wait, where's the plane? It hadn't arrived yet, so more waiting.

It finally arrived and we board only to sit there for another hour. Why? I don't know. After that hour, we take off and the ride is normal. Until we reach PR. So we're right above PR and the captain has said, "Prepare for landing", when 10 seconds later he pulls way up. WTF anyone. The next thing we here is, "I apologize, but we can't land in PR right now. There's a storm right over the airport and safety comes first. So, we're being rerouted to Santo Domingo (The Dominican Republic) and we'll wait out the storm there". Uhm....ok.

So we fly to DR, land and do more waiting. Of course we weren't allowed to get off the plane. There were so many annoying people around me. They'd been drinking wine and talking all flight long. I seriously just wanted to get away from them, but couldn't. Then they were talking as if they were the only one's who were having this problem. Annoying. After about almost an hour in DR, we take off again and head home. I spent more than 4hrs on a plane trying to get home from Miami. I finally made it home at 2am.

Random!

Mike & Jill's Wedding

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-04-27T19:38:00-05:00

Congratulations to Mike and Jill!!!!

The wedding was amazing and reception was loads of fun! Thank you for inviting me. It was great to be a part of your day and be able to hang out with great friends also. I wish I could've gone to the BBQ, but there was that pesky thing called a flight to catch.

Anyway. I wish you guys all the best 'cause you deserve it.

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Juan & Melissa's Wedding

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-03-09T10:08:00-05:00

Juan and Melissa are married! Congrats you two!

It was a nice ceremony and reception. Thank you for inviting us and we wish you all the best!

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Noche en SJ

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-03-02T10:06:00-05:00

Hanging out in Old San Juan, friends, eating food, a couple of drinks...good time.

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No One Does Dancing Like Janet

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-03-01T09:19:00-05:00

Have you seen the new Janet Jackson video? I'm sure 'cause it's always on. Not sure I like or understand the concept of the video. Putting that aside, no one does dancing like Janet. Always backed up by a slew of awesome dancers, the choreography always looks great.

Janet Jackson - Feedback

My favorite Janet dance video probably has to be "If". I loved it from the first time I saw it.

Janet Jackson - If

And if that wasn't enough, there's always Rhythm Nation. :)

Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation

Antonio's Bday

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-02-25T10:04:00-05:00

For Antonio's birthday we went to dinner at Tierra Del Fuego.

And for some reason Andrea started cracking up when it was time to sing Happy Birthday ;)

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Kinky

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-02-16T10:02:00-05:00

This party was awesome...Valentine's Day party the day after.

Dj Velcro
Charles Feelgood
K-Swing

Honestly I only went to see/hear K-Swing. If you haven't heard her stuff, get a move on. It's sooo good!

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Tomas & Mabel Wedding

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-02-11T21:45:00-05:00

My cousin got married yesterday. It was a long trip there and a tiring trip back, but everything was beautiful and a great time.

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Lock Up That Baby Formula

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-01-24T20:16:00-05:00

Tonight I had to stop by Kmart to get a few things. One of which was my TN medication. Since it wasn't ready I roamed the mart aimlessly for about 45min. I visited the electronic department and saw the TV's I can't buy. I walked around the clothes section and saw underwear for sale. Then I stopped by the baby section to see if they had another gate like we have in the ktichen, but no. As I was leaving, I passed by the baby food and drink aisle. That's when I stopped and was amazed at what I saw.

The baby formula in powder form is under lock and key! WTF?!?! Does it have some alcohol content I'm not aware of? Do you now get carded if you want to buy a can of baby formula? There is beer and wine free for anyone to pick up and stock up, but the baby powder formula is behind locked glass??? Who knew the most dangerous stuff was in the baby aisle!

This just didn't make sense to me. It still really doesn't. I mean, is it because it's a popular item to steal? Not having a kid myself I am unaware of the powdered formula thefts or the black market retail value of this stuff. Hey, if it's behind a locked glass door, there must be a reason.

I just found this very odd.

Noche de Bowling (Galaxy Lanes)

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-01-09T21:44:00-05:00

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DC Trip 08

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-01-08T18:58:00-05:00

I went to DC for a few days after New Years just to get away before work started up again.

It was cold, I got sick, saw my friends and it was a great trip :)

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The Incredible True Story of Rich's PRican Adventure

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2008-01-03T14:05:00-05:00

So Rich's PR adventure is over. He's now gone back to the misery that is winter life in MD.
The week he was here we:

Drank
Went to the beach
Drank
Went to Old San Juan
Drank
Went to Isla Verde, Piñones and 20/20
Drank
Went to my aunt's for New Years
Drank
Went to the Caribe Hilton New Years Bash
Drank and Drank
Recovered

Somewhere along the lines we did eat food and slept.

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Baldwin Alumni Holiday Party 2007

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2007-12-27T14:36:00-05:00

Last night was the annual Baldwin Alumni party. This year it was at a place called La Plage...? said like plash...I don't know...The beach. It was nice. At one point I went into the bathroom and there was some girl looking like she was going to puke just sitting there infront of the sink. The water was running and her hand was in the water, but she wasn't washing her hands. I asked her if she was ok. She said yes. Apparently this was her way of making ground..."getting intouch with reality" I think she said. Riiiiight....I walked out.

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2007 Christmas Celebration

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2007-12-26T15:58:00-05:00

The 3 F's: Family, Food and Fun.
There was lots of all the F's.

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I Am Legend

suzettemarie15@hotmail.com (Suzette Benitez) — 2007-12-20T11:16:00-05:00

Robert Neville (Will Smith) voluntarily stays behind in NYC in hopes of finding a cure to the virus that has wiped out the earth's population in less than three years transforming those infected into aggressive, hairless, hungry zombies.

To me the human turned aggressive zombie virus was used already in 30 Days/30 Days Later. Sure there are differences. The virus in I Am Legend is an unexpected side effect of curing another illness. Also, the zombies are computer made. It would've been better to see real people zombies in this movie, like in 30 Days. There's just times I'm so over cgi.

Don't get me wrong, I liked the movie. There's this sense of desperation all throughout that just kept building. It's a completely desperate situation. You're the only normal, non-infected human as far as you know. Your only companion is a dog and you interact with store manequins. For about three years you've been chased by zombies that want to eat you and you haven't found a cure. Anyone would be desperate.

I liked the way the city was transformed into this abandoned, desolate concrete land where deer and lions run free. I didn't like, aside from the cgi zombies, the fact that for such a smart person, Dr. Neville has some mayor brain farts that caused a hell of a lot of trouble for him. I guess it all goes back to the desperation. Also, the zombies are portrayed as mindless creatures and then as exhibiting rational thought. Ok...so which is it? Dumb zombie or smart zombie?

The more I think about it, the more questions I have so I'll just stop. As far as movies go, it was entertaining. But where in the world did that woman get a brand new shiny car from??? No more questions!!!!