Here’s to a stress-free, painless Christmas!
Dec 22nd 2007
Karen HawkinsGoddess Eye Candy
Shopping.
Crowds.
Spending (too much) money.
Parking hassles.
Family strife.
Noisy get-togethers.
Eating too much.
Christmas can be stressful. So why don’t you just lean back, and let Dr. McDreamy take care of all of your Christmas aches and pains . . .
MERRY FROS CHRISTMAS! The doctor is IN!
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34 Responses to “Here’s to a stress-free, painless Christmas!”
Karen Rose on 23 Dec 2007 at 12:51 am #
I loved him in ENCHANTED! If you haven’t seen it, do! Patrick is wonderful as Robert. He plays it so straight. “How do all these people know the words? I’ve never heard this song before.” — when Giselle leads Central Park in song. And he’s so cute.
If he’s in Grey’s Anatomy, that’s a good reason to watch it. Maybe I’ll dive in after this deadline - which I need to get back to!
Karen Hawkins on 23 Dec 2007 at 5:53 am #
This week’s FROS is a bit tame compared to last week’s, but I didn’t want to send anyone into overload right now. Plus, there’s something reassuring about a sexy man with a good job . . . makes me shiver all over.
KarenR sadly I didn’t like Enchanted AT ALL. In fact, sitting through it was like fingernails on a chalkboard for me. Giselle annoyed me to death. I thought the story was different and I think that’s what got me — I thought she was coming to ‘the real world’ but noooooo . . . she could still get the pigeons to carry flowers for her, make squirrels dance, and clean the house by ‘thinking happy thoughts.’ Although … cockroaches ‘n rats doing dishes? Blech!
Still, there were some very funny moments in it and Dempsey’s great to look at no matter what.
The movie I want to see next is PS I LOVE YOU with Gerard Butler. I can’t wait for that!
Karen Rose on 23 Dec 2007 at 6:30 am #
I thought the cockroaches were adorable, LOL. I’m a Disney addict and I loved all the hidden Mickeys in the film - and that the women who did the voices of Ariel, Belle and Pocahontas had speaking roles. I’m still humming the “happy working song,” a couple weeks later.
Patrick Dempsey is great to look at no matter what and Gerard Butler looks good anywhere, too - hope you love the next movie!
Gannon on 23 Dec 2007 at 7:30 am #
I loved ENCHANTED, too, Karen R! I thought the whole Central Park scene was hilarious!
I’m dying to see PS, I LOVE YOU! It’s gotten fairly poor reviews, but it has Gerary Butler in it, so that’s enought for me!
I love me some McDreamy! In fact, he was in my dream last night! How bizarre is that??!!
Gannon on 23 Dec 2007 at 7:32 am #
Ooops, Gerard! My fingers aren’t cooperating on the ol’ keyboard this morning! And ‘enough’! Geez, time for some more coffee!
Lisa H on 23 Dec 2007 at 7:41 am #
Karen H - How come none of my doctors look like this?
Here is a tech question for you ladies, yesterday my goddess blog shrank, the font is now so small I can barely read it. Is this something you guys did or is it my computer? It’s quite possible I hit a key and didn’t know it, if anyone knows how I can fix it, please let me know!
Thank you!
Judy F on 23 Dec 2007 at 7:42 am #
Patrick doesn’t go much for me. Sorry. BUt I do want to see Enchanted. Maybe after the holidays.
PS Karen did you get the santa’s this week…
Ladytink_534 on 23 Dec 2007 at 8:08 am #
He sure is hot!
Cookiedough on 23 Dec 2007 at 8:40 am #
yummy mc dreamy!
I thought he was geek cuteness in Can’t Buy Me Love..I’m a sucker for a hot nerd! I have yet to see Enchanted; the kids I would take want no part of it, they want to see Nation Treasure 2.
I also can’t wait for drool time over Gerard. Even the trailer makes me sob, though!
Paula on 23 Dec 2007 at 9:03 am #
Hi everyone, I agree with Lisa H , how come you only get doctors who look like this on TV. Lisa H try going into the control panel setting and then click on display icon then click on settings tab. It could be that you need to change your screen resolution, (mine is set as 1024 x 768 pixels). That is all I can think that it might be. Good luck, let me know if you solve it.
Lisa H on 23 Dec 2007 at 9:10 am #
HI Paula - My pixels were already set at 1024 X768.
I also increased my font size to large and it increased it in my Favorites menu but not on the goddess blog itself.
Thank you for the suggestion though. At least I know its not the blog, just my computer.
Karen Hawkins on 23 Dec 2007 at 9:32 am #
Lisa H, yes I got the Xmas hotties you sent and spent a good thirty minutes examining them as FROS-worthy! — YUM! I toyed with the idea of putting one up this weekend. However, after much thought, I reluctantly decided that we all needed some respite from our over-stimulated holiday for some quiet sexiness. Something a little less heart-throbbing, but still definitely a HOTTIE. Next week though . . . WATCH OUT! Heh!
KarenR, I love some of Disney’s creations and others, not so much. I just thought this movie could have had more reality and been truly charming instead of coping out and being a cartoon without the drawing. I would have LOVED to have seen a princess from a cartoon learn to run a vac. I think that would have been fun because, heck, I have to run a vac, why doesn’t SHE have to run a vac.
But like I said, there were some very funny moments in there and when the pigeon ate the cockroach during the song was one of them. VERY funny!
Stacy ~ on 23 Dec 2007 at 9:50 am #
I saw “Enchanted” and thought it was cute, but it may give you sugar shock. Still a fun movie, and it kept reminding me how far Patrick Dempsey has come from when he did “Can’t Buy Me Love”, or “Loverboy”. He’s grown into a fine-looking man. For me his appeal is more that he comes across as a happily married family guy.
Oh yes, I want to see “P.S. I Love You” very much! Just the preview alone works for me, so I think I’ll really like the movie.
Marie Conley on 23 Dec 2007 at 10:05 am #
If I could be Grey for half an hour I wouldn’t care about Addison or the new girl he kissed.
Suzanne Enoch on 23 Dec 2007 at 11:33 am #
I feel a cold coming on — is there a doctor in the house? Oh, yum. *g*
I loved “Enchanted”. The way her dress was so cute in the animated part, but totally over the top in Manhattan — and still nobody gave her a second look.
Sometimes at the mall I can just imagine everybody bursting into song and executing a perfectly choreographed number. Or the airport. What a hoot that would be.
Keri Ford on 23 Dec 2007 at 11:53 am #
Add me to the Enchanted band-wagon. My sister and I both giggled through it nonstop. We loved it. I’m a major Disney buff, so that could be why.
There is just something about Dempsy. He’s got that subtle sexiness about him.
Meg on 23 Dec 2007 at 11:57 am #
I am with Suzanne. I LOVED Enchanted!! I thought it was a melt your heart kind of a love story. And I, too, am still singing the songs!
OH! What about the outfit he wore to the king and queens ball… WOW!! I didn’t used to be a fan, but now… 
Absolutely!
Kasey on 23 Dec 2007 at 1:17 pm #
I want to see Enchanted too….I don’t know if I will get to it in the theater but I will probably just buy it when it comes out because I usually love all the disney movies. I did see National Treasure last night and Riley is really cute.
I watch Grey’s Anatamony too, but lately it is getting kind of annoying but I am starting to like Dr. McSteamy more than Dr. McDreamy.
Lisa H on 23 Dec 2007 at 1:39 pm #
Karen H - I didn’t send you any Christmas hotties! But feel free to send them to me!
Judy F on 23 Dec 2007 at 3:30 pm #
It was me that send the christmas hotties. Have to spread the love.
zambonigirl on 23 Dec 2007 at 3:37 pm #
hmmm…i think i need to just go and find a good barber instead. maybe something situated above a pasty shoppe? yeah. someone who can sing or even turn into a pirate at a moment’s notice…
Karen Hawkins on 23 Dec 2007 at 4:37 pm #
Judy and Lisa, I’m so sorry I got that wrong! I knew it, but didn’t type it correctly. There are times my brain and fingers don’t connect, like when I thought my computer was dead and it had just come unplugged. You’d THINK I’d check that first, wouldn’t you? But nooooooo!
I can see I’m grossly overrulled on Enchanted! That’s what’s so beautiful about art — there’s something for everyone and not everything is for all of us. I do know that the 11 year old who went with me just loved it!
Btw, anyone seen The Golden Compass? Is it any good? What did you like/didn’t like?
And ZamboniG, I HATE gory movies, but I’m fascinated to see how the Burton/Depp team bring that movie off. I gotta see it though I’ll probably spend the entire movie peeking through my fingers. EEEK!
Suzanne Enoch on 23 Dec 2007 at 4:59 pm #
KarenH, I just got back from seeing “Sweenie Todd”. They aren’t kidding about the blood. But for atmosphere, singing, and some very good acting, I give it a big thumbs up. Unlike Zambi, though, I am not in a hurry to find a meat pie shoppe below a barber’s establishment.
And I liked “The Golden Compass”, too. Can you tell that I’m deadline free at the moment? *g* Next up is “I Am Legend” after Christmas.
Karen Rose on 23 Dec 2007 at 5:34 pm #
Karen H - DH took our oldest daughter to see STodd yesterday and he, movie critic extraordiaire, give it a 9 out of 10. He loved Helena Bonham Carter. And my daughter (even as she cackled that she was now old enough to see Rated R movies without us) said she watched part of the movie through her fingers.
The gore, DH said, was up close and very personal. But the blood was rather orange vs deep red, contrasting nicely with the sepia tones of the film. That part cracked me up!
I don’t generally watch scary movies like that - they give me nightmares.
Oldest daughter also saw Golden Compass too and said it was beautifully done cinematically. However it would be a spoiler to tell you what she didn’t like. I’m not sure a movie based on a book every quite compares.
But I’d like someone to TRY to base a movie on one of our books. That would be uber cool.
Karen Rose on 23 Dec 2007 at 5:35 pm #
Suzanne - tell us about Legend when you get back. I loved the Omega Man version with Heston and the scene with the lion pouncing on a gazelle (I think) in Manhattan really caught my eye.
Apparently Will Smith is fabulous in it.
Kimberly W on 23 Dec 2007 at 5:48 pm #
I won’t be able to see Sweeney Todd until it comes out on video. Our nearest theater, since I live in the middle-of-nowhere wilds of Michigan, won’t be getting it. I did get to see “The Golden Compass”, though. I thought it was beautifully shot and the CG imagery and characters were really, really fantastic. They stayed fairly close to Phillip Pullman’s book except they cut a little off the end, which I have found will be the start point for “The Subtle Knife”(the second book in the series hence the second movie:))
Karen Hawkins on 23 Dec 2007 at 5:48 pm #
Yeah, it would be nice of they’d make a movie of one of our books. Let me be the first to offer up one of my books in case there’s a producer out there reading our lovely blog.
Of course, I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that there is an amazing amount of hot talent here in Mt. Oly and it wouldn’t surprise me if that didn’t happen eventually. It might not be me, but I am going to be SO excited when/if it ever does, PLUS I’ll be first in line at the theater, ready to plunk down my cash. I promise not to say during the movie toooo many times, “I KNOW THE AUTHOR!”
Kimberly W on 23 Dec 2007 at 5:50 pm #
Oh and Daniel Craig was tre yum! and Nicole Kidman was the perfect Mrs. Coulter with all the characters cold bitchness intacted. I especially like how they had her daemon be the only one who couldn’t communicate vocally.
Karen Hawkins on 23 Dec 2007 at 9:36 pm #
You know, I was never a Nicole Kidman fan, but I have to admit, that woman can ACT. I respect her efforts even though I’m not always crazy about her choice of part.
As for Daniel Craig, I had no idea he was in The Golden Compass. I can see I HAVE to see it now!
Lisa H on 23 Dec 2007 at 9:39 pm #
I hate gory movies, but I will be going to Sweeny Todd, and I will have to close my eyes for the bloody and slicing. I will do anything for my Johnny though, so there you have it!
I heard he was wonderful in it, as he is in everything…it’s not his fault Pirates 2 and 3 were so badly written, not enough Captain Jack—I bet if Suzanne wrote them, they would have been divine…Perhaps if she collaberated with Karen R (to whom we would have sent massive amounts of chocolate) it would have been perfection!
Kasey on 23 Dec 2007 at 11:58 pm #
Kimberly W - I am glad the Golden Compass was good…I want to see that too!
zambonigirl on 24 Dec 2007 at 11:35 am #
i didn’t think sweeney todd was so bad. of course, i’ve seen the play a few times and knew what to expwct. i like how tim burton takes a set, makes it perfect, and then skews something in it to make it unreal and otherworldly. jd was, of corse, perfect and sinister. alan rickman was perfect as judge turpin-i knew he would be. i both hated and loved to see him in that role. the two young boys had fantastic voices. when ar finally sang, i let out a little yelp. i’ve heard him sing once before, but on a bad recording. it was a great movie. but then, i do like the play.
Susan K on 25 Dec 2007 at 6:58 pm #
Yummy! I’ll take Dr. McDreamy as my christmas present!
ilovetoread on 28 Dec 2007 at 10:21 am #
We have many, many pictures of Patrick on our computer at home. (My youngest daughter) He’s great in Enchanted and he’s got another movie coming out next year called “Made of Honor”. It looks to be just as good. My favorites are Johnny Depp as Captain Jack and also Antonio Banderas as about anything.