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{August 26, 2013} The World’s End

Sunday we went to see a matinee of The World’s End.

As I la la la love Simon Pegg, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0670408/?ref_=tt_cl_t15, we were going to see this movie!

I also love Nick Frost, his best mate and co-writing partner. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0296545/?ref_=sr_1

If you’re not sure who Simon Pegg is, he wrote Shawn of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Paul, just to name a few. If that still hasn’t jogged your memory, he’s played Scotty in the two new Star Trek movies, that help?

So, if you’ve seen the previews anywhere, this won’t be a spoiler, if you haven’t, it will be. Five childhood friends reunite 20 years later, back in their hometown, to complete an infamous pub crawl, twelve pubs, twelve pints, ending at, you guessed it because you’re so smart, The World’s End pub. The goal is to make it to the end, beat their record of eight or nine. Then somewhere along the line (here comes the spoiler alert) they encounter robots.

Ok, so this was Hot Fuzz, Stepford Wives, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, any stupid drinking movie and a few others I can’t think of, all rolled into one.

I knew when is saw the preview it was not going to be an Oscar winner, but I knew there would be funny parts, there would be odd parts, there would be parts we would look at each other “huh?”, there would be really stupid parts and there would be parts that drop your jaw. And you know what, we weren’t disappointed! Did I mention, it had Simon Pegg?

I will say that the end didn’t make sense to either of us, we were talking about it for most of the night! When you see it, you will probably agree and if you understand the ending, please explain it to me!

One of the things that I really like is, like many writer/actor/stars, Simon Pegg puts a lot of the same actors in their movies. Think Kevin Smith, Adam Sandler, Christopher Guest. In Simon Pegg movies, you might see Bill Nighy, David Bradley, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine, just to name a few.

I don’t think this movie is going to be in the theater for very long, but that wouldn’t stop me from seeing it! Wait, I did see it! If you’re up for a mindless good time, a few laughs and beer? Go for it!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1213663/?ref_=sr_1

{August 23, 2013} Hitch

I know I’m way behind, but today, I finally saw Hitch.

One of the things I like about having access to cable again, is the possibility that an older movie might be on and Hitch it was.

Overall, I enjoyed this movie. Will Smith plays Hitch, a consultant who helps his clients get over their fears and bring out who they are to help find the love of their lives or if they are already in love, the courage to be with their love, help her see him for who he is.

His methods seem to help all of his clients, but as you can imagine, they don’t work for himself, when he meets a skeptical reporter in Eva Mendes. He has to face certain things and others as they come to light, after he breaks a lot of his own rules.

I will give you a hint…there is a happy ending!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386588/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1y

{August 21, 2013} The sofa is too comfy!

Ok, we may have already talked about this, but it’s so true, I dozed off again!

I don’t know about your sofa/couch, but this one is so darned cozy, you can easily fall asleep and not even realize it, well, until you wake up again!

I had the same problem with the sofa in my house in Atlanta! I could sit and work on the sofa until the cows came home, which is a great saying, but doesn’t apply here since we don’t work with cows, but…

If I were to lay down to watch a movie, just recline to get more comfortable, I may close my eyes thinking I was just blinking and wake up three hours later, not realizing where the time had gone! It sucks you in!

Case in point, I was laying down to write to you tonight and I don’t know what happened, but all of a sudden I woke up and DCM was saying goodnight! What? What happened? Oh, ok, I’ll be in soon, I still have to blog (and now it’s after midnight!

Sometimes though, you have to admit, it is the most comfortable place ever! As long as your sofa/couch is long enough for you to stretch out on, you can get the most intense good nights sleep ever!

There have been times that both DCM and or I have fallen asleep on the sofa, we don’t always wake each other up when it’s time to go into the bedroom for lights out; either we realize that the other person is comfortable and sleeping soundly that they will get up on their own and come to bed later or…the other person is sleeping so soundly, there is no way to wake them up!

What about when you’re sick, isn’t the sofa the most awesomest place to be on the planet? Propped up on some pillows, wrapped in blankets, cup of hot soup or tea to help keep you warm and bad TV or movies on to help you forget that your sick, what could be better? It’s a nice change from the bedroom where you know you’re going to be later, maybe can’t move from that spot, but need to look at something else and stretch out differently.

Embrace the sofa, don’t fight it! We almost become like toddlers who don’t want to nap, we might miss something, but I’m here to tell you, napping for anyone over five is very underrated and if you fall asleep, it’s your body trying to tell you something!

Hmm…back to the sofa or head off to bed?

{August 20, 2013} FaceTime!

The good mood started on Saturday and went all the way through today!

First…I was in the kitchen juicing my veggies on Saturday when I heard DCM talking to someone, telling them I was making a lot of noise, guess who! LB! Granddaughter extraordinaire! She was excited to talk to Grandpa and JJ and show us her room, read us a story and talk to the cats, sounds like a good start to the weekend!

Today…I reached out to GES today to see about chatting with the girls. Dinner was over, it was a little before bath time, still a little odd as I’m two hours behind, haven’t quite had dinner and they are getting ready for bed, but you know me, I’ll take any moment I can get!

Here they come onscreen all talk, talk, talk, over each other. MGS wants to know when I’m coming to visit, more importantly, how many minutes until my visit! Just like when I left a few weeks ago, she’s asking again, looks like we might need to plan a visit in the next few months, hmmm, twist my arm?

I had very important business to discuss with EJS. She is starting FIRST GRADE in a few weeks! What? I still remember meeting her when she was just two weeks old! Her daddy works at Staples, he is very excited to get her school supplies, but I wanted to get her something for her book bag, something special.

She discussed it with her mom and we decided on a pencil case and some colored pencils that she can keep as most of the school supplies are communal. I asked if there was anything special on the pencil case, its pink, maybe Cinderella or Ariel. I am on the case!

We chatted about camp, which she loves until she found something more interesting and moved on and it was me and MGS. She talked to me for a long time, from the kitchen to the bath to getting ready for bed and then…”I’m done with you now”, well, alrighty then!

I talked to EJS for another minute and then she was ready to move on so I said ‘night ‘night, I love you and blew kisses, then it was over.

A few minutes later guess who was free! Miss A! We connected and she was sitting there posed just like Rodin’s “The Thinker”! Big difference, she was giggling, giggling, giggling! What a great sight and sound!

We chatted a bit about school and how she was liking it and then I got the entire scoop from SDL, Miss A is a woman of few words, more giggling, sometimes hard to get a word in edgewise! We talked about her new school, riding the bus, aftercare, her appointments and the rain, rain, rain that won’t go away!

I’m excited that I will get to see my munchkin in a few weeks when I’m Atlanta for a race, how lucky am I!

Then it was time to get her ready for night night, so I blew kiss and accepted the ones I got, said I love you and see you soon and signed off with a smile on my face, almost as good as the giggles and smile coming from hers!

So, who’s next? Night night!

{August 18, 2013} Contact and The Adventures of Ford Fairlane

Today we watched two movies, two of DCM’s favorites. One made you think, question what you might know and open your mind to the possibilities and the other just sucked the brain cells right out of your head. (try and disagree with me!)

We watched Contact first, not First Contact (ha ha, nod to all my Trekkie friends!) starring Jodi Foster, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Skerritt, Angela Basset, just to name drop. It was interesting, about a young girl who was searching the vast universe for life from the time she was a small child, encouraged by her dad, who never gave up that dream, no matter what, no matter who told her she was crazy, her ideas were crazy and there is no such thing as life off our planet.

A great quote from the movie:
Young Ellie: Dad, do you think there’s people on other planets?
Ted Arroway: I don’t know, Sparks. But I guess I’d say if it is just us… seems like an awful waste of space.

That determination and spark (no pun intended) kept her motivated and determined, what would the world be like if great thinkers and innovators throughout history had given up when someone said, you’re wrong, your ideas are stupid, you don’t know what your talking about. Leonardo Da Vinci,
Marie Curie, The Wright Brothers, Albert Einstein, just food for thought.

All in all, it was a good movie and I can now say I’ve seen it.

At one point, we were joking, I said, I don’t know why we keep trying to make contact with “little green men”, it doesn’t seem to work out for the us on planet earth! (Except for Star Trek: First Contact and maybe E.T.)

Bottom line, it made me think, just as it was intended.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Apparently I was thinking too much and needed to be brought down about, oh, I don’t know, a bunch of levels…I had to watch The Adventures of Ford Fairlane. I was promised that if I watched it, I would never have to do so again or be asked about watching it.

I now know where certain lines of DCM’s come from and I want that 1.5 hours back!

There was quite a cast in this movie, Ed O’Neill, Priscilla Presley, Wayne Newton! Lauren Holly, Gilbert Godfriend, Robert England (not a fan of Freddy Kruger, but always odd to see him out of that costume), who wasn’t in this movie?

The two best parts of the movie? Ford Fairlane, Andrew Dice Clay’s mint condition Ford Fairlane and Lauren Holly’s green VW convertible, go figure, I loved that!

I think the imdb.com description says it all:
Ford “Mr. Rock n’ Roll Detective” Fairlane is experiencing problems, and it’s not with the opposite sex. One of them is that all the rock stars pay him with drum sticks, koala bears, food processors and bicycle shorts. Another one of them is that all his employers that want him to find a girl named Zuzu Petals get killed. Why didn’t he become a fisherman’s detective instead? A must-see for Andrew Dice Clay fans

Not to worry, you never go into this movie thinking it is going to be a cinematic masterpiece. It had a few funny moments, I’ll give you that, very few and no koalas were hurt in the making of this movie. Don’t misunderstand, I like stupid funny as much as the next guy, but this was, well, really stupid funny, when it was funny.

I watched it, I should have at least gotten a tshirt, but now we can all move on with our lives.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098987/?ref_=sr_1

{August 17, 2013} Kick-Ass 2

Tonight DCM and I decided to go to see Kick-Ass 2.

If you’re not looking for an Oscar winning movie or Oscar worthy performances, then Kick-Ass 2 might just be for you.

I have to tell you, when I saw Kick-Ass, I had certain ideas of what it would be like, a fun, human/real people turned superhero, yes, but no. I was not quite prepared for the level of violence, mayhem, destruction, blood and gore that the first movie had to offer. I was incredibly upset after I watched it, glad it was a Red box pic.

Now, remember, I am all about gratuitous violence if it works for the movie, if you’ve ever heard me talk about Machete, I la-la-la loved it! And that movie had some awful, disgusting, grody and awesome slashing and hacking, but I knew what I was getting in to when I went to see it and I wasn’t disappointed! So much so that I sat through it twice! (And the sequel, Machete Kills is coming out in October, you can bet your sweet machete I’ll be there opening night!) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0985694/?ref_=sr_2

At least this time, I was prepared, I knew there would be a lot of slashing and hacking and blood, punching, kicking, pain. There were two serious gross out scenes, totally not necessary, I believe it was just put in for that purpose, to gross you out. I am afraid I’m going to have that scene going through my head more than once, maybe not, a girl can hope.

All in all, if you’re looking for a movie with a lot of arse-kicking, mean girls, regular people standing up for themselves with and without masks (that could be the message, you don’t have to wear a mask to be a hero, it’s inside each of us) and a good old fashioned melee, this movie is for you.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1093951/?ref_=tt_cl_t1

{August 15, 2013} Cute and Amazing Kids

I’m always amazed at what kids are capable of.

I’m sure you’ve figured out that I am über proud of all my nieces, nephews and grandkids, the ones I am related to and the ones I love dearly and their parents and I are close and when they see me, “Go see Auntie J”, they have granted me the honorary title of aunt, I couldn’t be prouder.

So, here I have to brag a little… (You know I’ll brag about them and others in future posts, stay tuned!)

EJS is starting first grade in a few weeks and so creative, give her a box and watch her make magic! MGS is precocious and smart and can figure things out easily (she showed me how to play Temple Run!).
Miss A is holding a cup on her own and taking the stairs like a champ.
KK is a championship softball player, her sisters, J and K are two of the fastest swimmers in Atlanta!
LB sings and dances like a primary ballerina and is learning how to wink.
JS was fantastic during his Bar Mitzvah, his sister, S, is a star on the stage, her little brothers are creative and fun.

Back to kids amazing me…
People are always posting amazing things their kids can do on Facebook and today, there was one that tripped me out completely, a baby, 20 month Ella, singing her heart out to Elvis!
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LuxQtvzA_cg

Of course, once you go to YouTube to watch the video there are a trillion more to check out and 3 hours later, you’re got sure where the time went!

Enjoy!

{August 13, 2013} Bringing Down The House

Tonight I watched a movie that people have been saying they loved for a long time and I just hadn’t gotten around to watching.

There was a reason I hadn’t watched it when it came out or when it would come on TV when I had cable, not sure what it was, but I just didn’t want to watch it. So, today, I sucked it up and decided to watch it.

It was rough going in the beginning, it moved really slowly. A lot of it reminded me of HouseSitter, a movie Steve Martin did with Goldie Hawn in 1992, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104452/, successful man, con artist woman who moved into his house and infiltrates his life and his family.

Same concept, just with Queen Latifah and during the course of the movie, while trying to hide her from everyone he knows, hilarity ensues. In addition, as he loosens up, starts to really enjoy life and looks at her in a new light, she starts to change and grow as a person and become, more refined in a way, without giving up who she really is on the inside.

In the end, they help each other, her mostly with his business and realize his dreams and becomes a success in every way and she finds out that she is worth more than she realized, they also find love, it may be with each other or with someone else, but someone who values them.

At the end, I realized that I had laughed and overall it was cute, there was a good message, but I don’t feel like I missed anything by not seeing it sooner.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0305669/?ref_=sr_1

{August 11, 2013} TANG

It’s the drink of astronauts!

Ever since I was a kid, I have loved to drink Tang. It wasn’t something that my parents had in the house all the time, but when we had it, I loved it.

As an “adult” I have bought Tang from time to time. It was good when you an get a smaller tub, then it doesn’t go bad, and by bad I just mean that it gets moisture trapped in it and then it gets hard and solid, hard to get back to powder.

Even I have to admit, Tang can be too sweet sometimes. (What? Did I just say that out loud?)

The last few weeks I’ve been wanting some Tang, but I always forget when I go to the grocery store and then I want it. Today, we were at the grocery store and as we were leaving, I remembered! We went back to the juice aisle, I got some Tang!

As soon as we got home, unloaded the groceries, I made a bottle of sweet and refreshing Tang…ahhh, a mechiah!

Then I made some later, not as refreshing, still good, but way to sweet! But that first drink, hit the spot, made me happy and isn’t that what it’s all about?

{August 9, 2013} We’re the Millers

Ok, I need to give you more than just “Go See It!”

We’re the Millers is about a pot dealer who hires a family to smuggle a huge shipment of weed from Mexico into the U.S. (not a spoiler, just the description).

The movie stars Jason Sudekis as David, the dealer, Jennifer Anniston as Rose, the stripper he hires to be his wife, she actually lives in his apartment building. Emma Roberts is Casey, the homeless girl who becomes the “daughter”, the last member of the family is Kenny, the teenager who lives in the same apartment building as Dave, played by Will Poulter. There is a great supporting cast to round out the movie.

David rents an RV to take across the boarder, a great cover…a family traveling across country in an RV on a family vacation.
I’m sure you’re thinking, what a great idea, nothing could go wrong and you’d be so right…wrong!.

There were some predictable laughs, how could there not be? some surprises, some OMGs! There were even lessons learned, personal growth and self discovery, imagine that!

For those of you with sensitive ears, there was a lot ‘o cussin’, at least one graphic image, just want to warn you, but if you can get past that, you’re golden.

One of the best parts..the bloopers right after the movie and before the credits, they were great!

All in all, the theater was packed, our assigned seats were in the very first row, a lot of laughter, a lot of cheering and a few “huh”!

Know where I live? Guess where the opening of the movie is based? C’mon, put 2 and 2 together…pot dealer, legal…yupper, Denver, how cool was that to be at a movie that starts in Denver watching it in a theater outside of Denver! Everyone in the theater was stoked by that tidbit!

Go see this movie, it was too funny!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1723121/

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