My new life goal...

I saw The King's Speech last night.   First and foremost...  excellent movie.  Just extremely well done.  And I know I didn't see The Fighter, so I cannot comment on Christian Bale's performance, but Geoffrey Rush was sublime in The King's Speech.  And let's not forget to mention my irrational love for Helena Bonham Carter.

However, all that being said, my new life goal is to meet Colin Firth.  I told my husband on the way home...  I said, "Hon, every decision I now make in my life moving forward is going to be to move me toward that goal of meeting him... just so you know.  If I do something that doesn't make sense, just realize it's more than likely got something to do with that. "

So now I need to figure it out.  I figure I need to either write a wildly popular book that will be made into a movie and he will be the star and I will be on set to observe from time to time OR just write a screenplay for him.  The stipulation of both the movie rights and the purchase of the screenplay will be that I get to meet him.  If not?  No deal.  That's RIGHT.  NO DEAL.  Do you hear me future Hollywood people clamoring after my brilliant work?  I meet Colin or you can all go pound sand!!

Colin Firth will be 50 this year, so I need to start the wheels churning for roles suitable for a 55-year-old main star...  57 if I start with a book instead of going right to a screenplay.

I will meet Colin Firth.  Oh yes, indeed, I will meet him.

How could I not.  Just look at him.  He's a treasure.



 

Name the Movie Quotes #2

In honor of Sunday night's horrible Oscar Awards (seriously, how long has James Franco actually been dead and how many puppeteers did it take to get him to almost look alive?) it's time for more fun with Guess the Movie Quotes!!!

1.   We're at the airport...     Yeah, so?...  I already seen the airport.  Speed - guessed by Cindy

2.   If the guy owned a funeral parlor, no one would die. - WALL STREET

3.   Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?  - Airplane!  Guessed by Brooke

4.  I've loved you from the moment you sat on that ridiculous pinecone.  - The Sound of Music - guessed by Cynthia

5.  When I look at you I see nothing of the king.  Only that whore, your mother.  My father never did anything so well as to cut off her head.    Elizabeth - guessed by Cynthia

6.   As to where I am, I was, admittedly, lost for a moment, between Charing Cross and Holborn, but I was saved by the bread shop on Saffron Hill. The only baker to use a certain French glaze on their loaves - a Brittany sage. After that, the carriage forked left, then right, and then the tell-tale bump at the Fleet Conduit. And as to who you are, that took every ounce of my not-inconsiderable experience. The letters on your desk were addressed to a Sir Thomas Rotherham. Lord Chief Justice, that would be the official title. Who you *really* are is, of course, another matter entirely. Judging by the sacred ox on your ring, you're the secret head of the Temple of the Four Orders in whose headquarters we now sit, located on the northwest corner of St. James Square, I think. As to the mystery, the only mystery is why you bothered to blindfold me at all.     - Sherlock Holmes - Guessed by Brooke

7.  Road? Where we're going, we don't need roads. Guessed by Brooke

8.  Hello. Unfortunately, we must start the story with an empty chair.   If it wasn't empty, however, we wouldn't have a story.   But, it is, and we do, so we must tell it. - NANNY MCPHEE

9.  Okay boys, gather around here and listen up. We're shuttin' it down, Wyatt Earp's here to mop up.  - THE FUGITIVE

10.  Panda Watch. The mood is tense; I have been on some serious, serious reports but nothing quite like this. I uh... Ching... King is inside right now. I tried to get an interview with him, but they said no, you can't do that he's a live bear, he will literally rip your face off.   Anchorman - Guessed by Brooke

Ok, everyone.  Lets see what you've got!!

Finished work for charity...

So I made this.   It was a lot of time.  And it was supposed to be a wedding gift.  However, in the meantime a benefit was announced for a former high school friend of mine and what I started to make for the auction was turning out horribly and I was running out of time, so I grabbed this back up, added about 12 more rounds to it, crocheted night and day to get it done, because I'd spent so much time working on the crappy piece.  But I got it done and it went to the benefit.  I don't know how it did.  But I'm going to imagine that it was the star.   Every piece I make has a little piece of my heart with it.  I swear sometime this year I'm going to make something for me.  But first?  I have a new wedding present to start...

In which my husband poisoned me...

accidentally, of course... probably.

I used to always say that there was no such thing as a bad pizza.  That all pizza was good simply because it was pizza and in its pizza-y-ness it was therefore inherently good.  I won't say that ever again.

Let me preface the story by saying my husband is an excellent cook.  He makes his spaghetti sauce from scratch.  He makes his pizza from scratch, dough, sauce... everything.  And what he creates is wonderful.  So so good.

He likes cooking pizza on the grill with the special grill pizza stone.  He's used those easy start charcoal bags before and I didn't like how the pizza turned out using it.  It tasted off and I didn't eat it.  Monday night he did the same thing.  Being a considerate husband, he always makes my little pizza first and then his.  I was a hungry girl Monday night and though once a again my pizza tasted and smelled a bit off... I ate it all.  That was around 7.  By 9 I was in the bathroom puking my guts out.  And I'm sorry for this bit of imagery...  aromery?  The whole bathroom smelled of lighter fluid.   It was most foul.

At 9:30 in the depths of my illness I called out to my sweet man, "You poisoned me!!  I'm dying!"  He felt horrible.  His pizza had been fine because of course all the "Quick Start"-ness of the charcoal bag had burned off and the grill was actually, you know, ready to use and not lethal.  I went into bed around 10 and woke up a 4 in the morning yesterday and ran to the bathroom for round 2.   I came back to bed around 5 and I said to him, "I know you didn't do it on purpose and I know I didn't have to eat it, but I kind of hate you right now."  In his mostly unconscious state he mumbled a "Sorry." and rolled over.

Last night, he so wanted to redeem himself.  He wanted so badly to make me a pizza in the toaster oven.  I couldn't stand the thought of it.  So he made me chicken fingers.  Thankfully, vomit producing free chicken fingers.

Today, the day after...  I am so sore.  My chest is sore.  My ribs are sore.  It's so painful to laugh...  luckily, I'm at work.

I'll have to keep an eye on that wily man of mine.  He may have finally realized that my life insurance is worth more than my tender nagging and loving criticism.

Well done, Cleveland Show... well done.

I'm a Family Guy fan.  I'm not ashamed of it and don't go to any lengths to hide it.  The racy humor, the raunchy dialogue, the blatant innuendos, I love it all.   So I was excited about a Family Guy spin-off, though I originally thought it would have been better with a different character, I admit to being a fan of The Cleveland Show.

I love when shows build up to something and I don't see it coming.  Love it.  It's like the 24 minutes have paid off in spades for the last moments.

In the episode I speak of, Cleveland and his wife Donna go to the NBA All-Star game.  While there in the 1st row Cleveland heckles the players.  The players all decide to seek out Cleveland and talk to him about how they have feelings and blah, blah, blah.  They get to his house at the end and they all make up and Cleveland asks if they're all friends.

They all agree and LeBron sniffs and wipes a tear.  One of the other characters says, "Aw, see LeBron James DOES care about Cleveland."  It was classic and I loved it.  Loved loved it.  It was awesome.  Ultimate pay-off.  Well done.

Cracked glass and broken nails

I'm been pretty MIA so this is all going to be disjointed and just a bunch of bits and pieces of stuff that's been up.

 

First, I've been thinking on this blog a good bit.  Trying to figure out what to do.  If I need to focus on something or if just writing whatever is going alright.  And I don't really know.  So I figure I'll just keep doing what I'm doing and figure it out later.  I have enough to try to figure out without throwing this into the mix.  It seems to be going ok given my stats even on days when I haven't written anything in a week or more.  So, yeah, for now...  this is what it is and I'm ok with that

___________________________________________________________________

I had a pretty good health scare this week.  For those who know me... and of course none of you do, but IF you did you would know it takes a LOT for me to break down and go to the doctor.  I'm not a fan of doctors.  I feel they are just big pushers for big bad pharmaceuticals.  Monday was day 2 of my time of the month.  Hence forth it's going to be referred to as being broken.  That's what my time of the month is called in our house.  It started out when my guy said to me once "Are you still broken?"  And it stuck.   When I'm being overly difficult, I hear "Are you going to break soon?" and so it is.  Anyway, I broke Sunday morning.  On Monday I started getting cramps.  Just like everyone, I always get cramps, but for the prior two months they were a bit...  different.  Usually they've been staved off with Tylenol.  But on Monday, they came on and they hit hard.  Tylenol didn't touch them.  I couldn't stand up.  I couldn't sit down, I couldn't do business in the bathroom without crying.  I left work early, called the doctor and made an appointment for March 1st, 5 days before I'm scheduled to break again.  By the time my husband and I got home I walked to the house completely doubled over in pain.  I've never experienced pain like that.  Ever.  It was excruciating and terrifying.  The nurse on the phone said that if a hot bath and a heating pad didn't help the pain to go to the hospital.  I just happened to have some hefty pain pills at home as well, so I took one of those took my bath and went to bed with my heating pad.  When I woke up at 3am, I was still pretty sore, but better.  I've just been mildly sore since then, which I think is from the trauma of so much pain Monday.  So we'll see what happens at the doctor's appointment.  I hope and pray to God that it's nothing serious.  I'm still pretty terrified.

______________________________________________________________________

I have discovered, or I guess rediscovered, a passion of my former years.  Reading.  I'm loving it.  You would think that leading an online book club would have reignited  the obsession before now, but nope.  But I found something that did.  My Kindle.  Holy heck do I love that thing.  I have read 7 books since the middle of December.  SEVEN.  I used to read so very much.  But then college and then working and just life took over and the reading stopped.  Now I can't imagine not reading whenever I have the chance.

_______________________________________________________________________

I found out recently that a girl I went to high school with has a huge brain tumor and has had four surgeries.  It came out of nowhere.  One day she got a headache.   Later that night she was light-headed and dizzy.  Next thing she knew she was undergoing surgeries for a massive tumor.  There is going to be a benefit for her the 27th of this month and I'm making an afghan for the silent auction.  I totally need to get my butt in gear on it, too.  I only have a little over two weeks left to get it done.

_______________________________________________________________________

Lastly, I have to say something I have a very strong opinion on.  I'm sure it's because of my job that I have this opinion, but I just have to say it.  If you have SafeAuto...  you suck.  For so many reasons that I'll get into at some time or another.  But if all you can afford to carry on your vehicle are minimum limits....  then you can't afford to drive a car.  And everyone should be terrified to drive around you.  You are an irresponsible selfish slug.  Yeah.  That's right.   No offense.

 

So anyway...  to wrap up...   I'm wishy-washy on the blog, I could possibly be dying, I love to read, am fairly handy with a crochet hook and I hate you if you have SafeAuto.  Yup.  That's it.  In a nutshell.

I'll be back sooner than I have been lately.   Promise.  SMOOCHES!!

But everyone ELSE is doing it! 2010 Review

1. What did you do in 2010 that you’d never done before?

I went to Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas...  all by vehicle from Pennsylvania.  It was quite a road trip, though I have been in TX before, but via plane...  you know, the way sane people travel.

2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?

You know, I don't think I made any last year.   But this year I want to lose 50lbs and have 2K in savings for our big 2012 trip.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

My best friend had a little baby girl named Paige.  It equal parts filled my heart with joy and despair.

4. Did anyone close to you die?

My grandfather who my husband and I have had dinner with every month for the past two years killed himself November 30th.  I don't know if getting over that will ever happen.

5. What countries did you visit?

Texas.   I really think that counts as its whole own country.

6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?

A better relationship with my husband.  Our marriage is good.  It could always be better.

7. What dates from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

November 2nd, when my friend had her baby and November 30th when things stopped making sense.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?

Um, is this sad...  I don't have one.   Yeah...  that is sad.   Here's to big achievements in 2011!!

9. What was your biggest failure?

I don't have one for this either...  which is good.  :)

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

I went through 6 weeks of throwing up once a week, inexplicably.  I finally bought Align and it worked like a charm.  I'm like 6 weeks puke free!

11. What was the best thing you bought?

My aunt's Netbook.  She hated it.  I LOVE it.  That may have been at the end of 2009...  now I don't know.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?

The "It Gets Better" guy.   I don't remember his name.  I remember his speech.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?

Everyone on both sides of the political debate who refuse to find any merit in the opinions of the other side.  There is some good in most everything.  You don't have to disagree with someone completely just because they have a different letter behind their name on C-SPAN.

14. Where did most of your money go?

The mortgage.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

My friend having her baby, finishing the baby blanket I was making for her and another one I made for another friend in April and seeing the American people begin to take our country back on November 2nd.

16. What song will always remind you of 2010?

Yeah, I'm totally not into current music, so I'd have to say "Yesterday" because that was the song that was playing during the commercial that told me the Beatles were on iTunes!!   Oh and add "The Beatles being on iTunes!!!" to the above.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? Happier
b) thinner or fatter? Thinner, but only by a slim margin.  Get it?  SLIM margin?   HA!
c) richer or poorer? Still living paycheck to paycheck, so I'd say about the same.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?

Eating right.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?

Eating poorly.

20. How did you spend Christmas?

With my family in the morning to late afternoon and then over to my husband's family for a few hours.  We spend Christmas Eve with his family.

21. Did you fall in love with 2010?

Any time your year is touched by the suicide of a cherished and dearly loved one...  the answer is a resounding "No."

22. What was your favorite TV program?

Seriously, I LOVED Bachelor Pad.  Loved it.   So conniving, so much strategy.  It was awesome.

23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

Nope!  Still hate all the same people!!  :)

24. What was the best book you read?

The best book I ever read was in 2009...  so I guess the best book of 2010 would have to have been The Mists of Avalon.   Very good book.  Long ass book, but very good.

25. What was your greatest musical discovery?

I got nothin'.

26. What did you want and get?

An iPod Shuffle, a ball bearing clock, a new printer and payment for the blanket I made.  (not one of the ones I made for friends, obviously)

27. What did you want and not get?

I didn't get around to getting my Droid in 2010.  It will happen in 2011 and soon.

28. What was your favorite film of 2010?

Wow, this is a hard one.   Inception, Salt and Letters to Juliet

29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

My birthday was a Monday, so nothing.  The day before we went to my parents to celebrate my birthday and Mother's Day.  And I turned 32.

31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept of 2010?

Business casual by day.  Super Sweats Woman by night.

32. What kept you sane?

My husband and my animals.

33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

No matter the year...  Colin Firth.  Always.

34. What political issue stirred you the most?

Oh my gosh, I'm not even GOING there.

35. Who did you miss?

I did a lot of crocheting this year.  It made me miss my grandmother horribly.  So many questions I had for her.

36. Who was the best new person you met?

I don't know if I met her just this year or at the end of last year.  But, without a doubt, Brooke.  There are others, too, of course.  Miss Britt, Aunt Becky, I actually got to email back and forth with Jenny, the Bloggess... which holy crap! The Bloggess!!! But yeah...

37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.

You can never tell someone too many times that you love them.  And to always listen to the stories you've heard a million times as if it's the first time, so that when the day comes that they stop being told, you have them forever in your heart.

38. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.

Tori Amos - Pretty Good Year

"They say you were something in those formative years
Hold onto nothing
As fast as you can
Well still pretty good year"