Dear Desperation,

I've reached you. I gave in and paid 99cents to have unlimited listening the rest of the month on Pandora.

40 hours of free listening doesn't last long when I work 12-14 hour work days.

Dear eye candy,

Not having you around, is making it really hard to want to do things.

Dear Alice in Wonderland,

For those who haven't decided whether or not to see you, let me give my 4 cents:

• Obviously, you're nothing like the original animated version, but you're more like the book (from what I've been told since I haven't read it)
  
• Loved the look of the film (go figure, Tim Burton is great)
• Helena Bonham Carter gets my vote for favorite actor in the movie
  
• The 3D didn't really do much for me...

Even if you aren't excited to go, give it a shot, maybe not in 3D, but why miss the chance of seeing a movie that isn't like all the others and for which people dress up? I saw Alices and Mad Hatters - - I was hoping for someone in a Cheshire cat outfit. No dice.

Dear Billy and Elton,

(Joel and John that is...)

Your concert was fun. Really fun. More fun than I thought.

Thank you Noelle for letting me be your date (Matt - thanks for going out of town so I could be your wife's date).

Dear you know who you are,

I hope you enjoyed your little spending spree on my behalf. Thanks to email notifications, the suspicious activity on my bank account didn't go unnoticed. Nice try.

As if I shop regularly at hottopic.com and other unknown "specialty retail" stores!

It's true what Dwight sad, "Identify theft is no joke Jim. Millions of families suffer every year!"

Dear Jets,

And no, I don't mean the professional football team who lost to the Colts...or the finger snapping Shark fighting caucasians in West Side Story...or even Elton's catchy and often unknown lyrics of the song first featured on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

I mean the great 80's pop band:

From a quick poll of close friends and coworkers, apparently my family was one of few families who owned the groups albums on cassette. And I'll even stake a claim to fame and say one of the former band members married the sister of my childhood friend.

Thank goodness for great 80's music. And by great, I mean nostalgic.
I needed this today.

Dear what the,

http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/karatekid/

Another classic...being remade...into a modern retelling.
But, it won't compare.
It can't.