tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85333211722493879882026-07-18T19:20:54.462-05:00My life in Movies. There are spoilers. Get over it!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger303125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8533321172249387988.post-12956304316799156312013-06-22T18:40:00.000-05:002013-06-22T18:40:03.926-05:00

It is hard to believe I haven't blogged in three months!  I am a terrible blogger!  I have been busy.  I have started a new hobby that I really like. It started when I took a road trip with one sister to see another sister. While on the road my little sister was knitting.  It looked easier than I thought.  We ended up at Wal-mart buying supplies. Soon my husband

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I have very eclectic music taste.  I grew up in the seventies and eighties.  So disco and that horrific pop music of the eighties, (which I won't publicly admit is on my iPod) mark my musical upbringing.  But my dad was a huge country music fan.  We knew from a very young age that you don't talk during a Johnny Cash song.  So I was familiar with Loretta

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Where did the last month go?  I started a new job and have been working different hours.  I also started a food blog with my husband.  But today I went to the movies.   My husband had been talking about Burt Wonderstone.  I had seen a few commercials and it looked like it could be really good or really bad.  Steve Carell and Steve Buscemi are magicians of

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This is post number 300! My blog has been around for a year and a half or so.   I started out saying I would blog daily.  Which I did for over six months.  Then I had surgery.  In fact, Post 200, was about recovering from that surgery. Post 100 was in the middle of my Halloween postings. This time last year I was on medical leave and ingesting pain killers.  It was

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Identity Thief.   My husband and I had one of our afternoon dates.  I love the afternoon date.  We get the matinee price for the movie and hit lunch after the rush, so it isn't busy.  We had coupons for the concessions and an Outback gift card burning a hole in our pockets.    Since seeing the preview, we knew that we wanted to see Identity Thief.  I

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Here we are through January and I am still working on Sharpening My Saw. For the mental and emotional, I would like to talk about some of my weird, paranoid fears.  It doesn't help that I know that it is weird.  It still scares me. When my husband and I were dating he asked me what my biggest fear was.  I told him that I didn't want to tell him.  He pushed a little and

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"Silver Linings Playbook" is about broken people.  Bradley Cooper is Pat, a bi-polar man who is recently out of the mental hospital.  Jennifer Lawrence is Tiffany, a young widow.  Of course the trailer is like any generic romantic comedy. I went to see this film as it is nominated for a lot of Oscars.  All the acting categories are covered, Best Picture, Director and

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Oh my, I don't know where this week went.  I had a sick day on Monday.  Not a whole day, I left after three hours feeling like I was going to throw up.  I got my Chicken N Biscuits and that helped.  But I didn't eat any dinner.  Here it is already Thursday and I haven't blogged.  I was up late Sunday watching the Golden Globes.  Late

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The playoffs have begun.  My husband is watching football and I need to see some movies.  I have only seen one of the Best Picture nominees.  Last year was probably one of the worst years for new movies for me.  I am a little ticked that they have 9 nominees.  In the old days with only five nominees I could crank those out in the month between nominations and

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On New Year's day, I went to see "This Is 40".  I was going to go with my husband but he had an important football game to watch.  I started to go by myself and remembered my resolution to sharpen my saw.  I called a friend I hadn't seen in months and we went together.  The movie stars Paul Rudd and Leslie "Mrs. Judd Apatow" Mann.  They are reprising their roles of

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This year I am resolving to Sharpen My Saw. A few years ago I went to a training for work and they covered the Stephen Covey program.  This one stuck with me.  I was supposed to work on this but never really did.  But I never stopped thinking about it.  So I am going to make it my goal for the new year.  The whole gist of it is to balance all parts of yourself to

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CBS is going to make a summer series out of Stephen King's "Under The Dome".  It is a good book with a lot happening.  Luckily it is available in e-book to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome.  It has a huge cast, but I will focus on the main ones and a few minor ones. Dale "Barbie" Barbara Former military, current drifter who is leaving town with a bad taste in his mouth. 

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Is anyone there? I kind of fell off the face of the earth.  Those are my workout pants hiding under my polar bear lounge pants.  Yes, I have been lounging more than working out.  It has been over a month since I hit the trail.  Here is my official list of excuses. I have been working a little later.  I'm tired. Daylight savings, it is getting dark earlier. I

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The other night I got a text from my friend.  She is calling me out on not doing my walks.  I need someone to do that.  But as I feared, the weather has started to turn.  All the rain we missed all summer has started in haste.  So the warmth of home is hard to resist. I need a movie montage.  Think of all the movie where the lead character goes through a physical

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"Argo" I was in grade school when the Iran Hostage crisis happened.   I remember hearing about it on the news, mostly about Kathryn Koob, an Iowan who was one of the hostages.  Going to Catholic school, my teachers/nuns had us praying for their release.  A few months after the hostages were released, Kathryn Koob visited our school.  I remember thinking she just

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The powers in that be Movie Land may have finally heard my prayer!  They are going to finally adapt the final novella in Stephen King's collection "Different Seasons" will be adapted for the big screen. This is a magical group of stories. Shawshank Redemption Stand By Me Apt Pupil All the movies were really good.  Apt Pupil was the weakest and still had great

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It has been crazy busy.  And it is getting colder.  A couple of days ago it rained and I didn't walk out of fear that all the leaves on the bike trail would make it slippery and I would fall. I LOVE EXCUSES!  I can justify almost any lack of exercise or unhealthy snack.  At least to myself.  Right now is great walking weather.   I can put on my jacket and

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It is fall.  The weather is getting cooler and the leaves are changing.  This is the bridge that starts my path down the bike trail.  There are leaves covering the trail and crunch under my shoes in the most satisfying way.  I love the sound of walking in the leaves.  Fall is about my favorite time of year.  It reminds me of starting school and the excitement

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I am turning 43 on October 27th.  I would like to note that I am NOT one of those people who needs to celebrate their birthday for a whole month.  But since this is my year of change, I wanted to do something significant for my last month of being 42.  Here's the plan.  I will walk at least 30 minutes every night.  No nights off in October.  I have joined Weight

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. Remember how I used to write about movies?  Well I went to the movies today. I got up early and took a very chilly walk, it was only in the forties.  There were some random oddities on this walk.  First I passed a guy standing in front of his house.  He smiled and said hello.  I smiled back, listening to the Beatles tell me about their "Hard Days Night".  But the

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I have been having a bad week.  I feel like I've had some setbacks.  Work is gearing up for the holidays and I am in retail.  It will only get crazier over the next 90 days.   Almost every day this week I have been late coming home.  Then I am not walking like I should.  I walked on Sunday.  I took Monday off, doing the stationary bike

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      Normally when I am walking I leave the house and walk a while then turn around and walk home.  This is an easy way to control how far I am walking.   If I am getting achy or my feet are sore, I just turn around early.  Yesterday I wanted to challenge myself and decided to see if I could walk from the next town over to my house.   This was a

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This is me on August 11th.  It has been one month since the 5K.  In that time I have walked almost every day.  I have only skipped three days.  One was my wedding anniversary.  One was a day hotter than the blazes.  And then there was MeatFest.  On the first two, I did some stationary bike.  On MeatFest, there was none of that. 

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When I am walking I like to listen to music.  This is really the only time I do.  In the car I listen to the radio on the way to work because I know someone who is on the station.  On the way home I listen to audiobooks.  I have a pretty eclectic mix of songs. A lot of them remind me of movies that they have been in.  I need to have warm up songs.  I read

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When we are young we want our picture taken.  It didn't matter if your hair wasn't perfect, you were wearing your pajamas or you were surrounded by your goofy siblings and cousins.  Even in a bare midriff with shorts.  (I haven't worn a bare midriff since)  Then one day you start the little tricks to avoid getting your picture taken.  Here I am standing

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