Brew Crew, Fun and OSCAR picks!!

Spring Training has begun!!! yahoo!  Timmy and I went to the Brewers game yesterday which was glorious!!! It was super sunny, 80 degrees, pretty perfect.  No beer for me, not even a hotdog!!  I did have some peanuts, which helped make the day worthwhile!!  The Brewers killed the Giants 12 - 1 so all in all, good day!!!

I went out for happy hour with some work friends on Friday night and spent quite a bit of time defending my decision to lay off the booze for awhile.  Most people know I have the lapband and understood that I wanted to test myself to see if my introduction back to booze after 2 months off after surgery had anything to do with my recent plateuing on my weight loss..  HOWEVER, it was trying to say the least. There is a lot of peer pressure when at happy hour!!!  I had a really good time though!!!

I worked out with Kath yesterday morning and did some cardio after for about 45 minutes.. I couldn't do an hour.. I was too tired!!! My shoulder is killing me lately and today it's at it's worst.  So, I'm not working out today. Instead, I plan to stay in my PJs and make a date with my DVR. 

So, on to my Oscar Picks..  Oscar Sunday is one of my favorite days of the year!! This year, I set a goal to see all of the 10 (why did they  have to decide to do 10 movies??) of the Best Picture nominees..  Well, I fell short of that goal by 2..  I did not see District 9 - mainly b/c I did not WANT to see that movie and didn't want to justify the ridiculousness that it was even picked for an Oscar - and I didn't see "A Serious Man" - this was b/c for months I thought that "A Single Man" was nominated and then last week I opened up my Entertainment Weekly and saw that I was wrong and it was " A Serious Man" was nominated.. HA!!!  And my friend Windi (Whom I trust completely as a movie critic) said that "A Serious Man" was crapola...  So, here are my picks.. I have who I think will win and who I wish would win:

Best Supporting Actor:

Who will win:   The guy from Inglorious Bastards (Christolph Waltz)
Who I wish will win:  Same as above - he was CRAZY good in this movie..  total freak

Best Supporting Actress:

Who will win:  Mo'Nique (Precious)
Who I wish will win:  See above - - she was AMAZING.. and a monster. The movie was disturbing and she made it so...


Best Actor:

Who Will win:  Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart) - he's won every other award and I guess he's really good in this movie
Who I wish will win:  Clooney - loved him in Up in the Air.. it was one of my favorite movies this year.  And I just love him in general!!

Best Actress:

Who will win:  Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side)
Who I wish will win:   Jul.. oops I mean Meryl Streep (Julie and Julia) - she was unbelievable and yet so believable as Julia Child.  I've always loved her in everything, but she had my heart after this movie.. I wish they would have just called the movie Julia and gotten rid of the Julie part!!! :)

Best Movie:

Who will win:   Hurt Locker or Avatar (please God, do not let it be Avatar)
Who I wish will win:   Up in the Air - one of my personal faves; An Education - the other personal fave - if you have not seen this little known movie - run to see it..  I loved, loved, loved it.. and the girl in it.. she's going to be a MAJOR star!!!; or Hurt Locker - totally intense, more like a documentary than a movie and really really good..

there you have it!! I hope there are some surprises b/c it seems like people are pretty set on knowing who will actually win and that makes things boring!!! 

Hope you all had a great weekend!!!

xo,js