So I was a slacker last week and did not post. Really, it was not about lack of time. It was really embarrassment over not doing to much. Here is what I did do:
#37 Painted nails a bright, electric blue. I thought the color would be lighter, but what can you do. It was my last fun color before my friend's wedding. I did not think that blue would suit the occasion, so it lasted about 2 weeks and then got switched to a very neutral tan. I somehow feel naked at this point. All the colors are gone and have been replaced with basics. I will say that I am more apt to try different colors and finishes on my manicure from here on out. They were very liberating to wear!!
#35 Planted a love note to Mark. He was travelling for work and I saw the suitcase before he left. I put a card in his pants that said I loved him and I was proud of him. I placed the card in a way that it would fall out when he hung up his pants. It worked like a charm and he discovered his note at the appropriate time.
#72 Gave a gentleman $5.00 on the street. That was all I had. He was very nice and said he was down on his luck. After I gave him the money, I noticed that 2 other cars also spared some money. Maybe I am rubbing off.
#74 Listened to one CD--Beach Boys Greatest Hits--very beachy and summery!
#40 Watched 3 more movies:
"12 Angry Men--So I watched this in high school, but I vaguely remembered it. Too much partying. Anywho, great movie. It shows that not everything is as it seems and how quick we are to pass judgement. A star-studded cast presented a fantastic tale set in a jury room. They have heard the case against a young boy accused of murdering his father. Henry Fonda was the sole juror that had reasonable doubt that the boy had commited the murder. He then spends the next couple of hours trying to convince 11 other men that there are other possibilities. He has the odds against him, but manages to convince a bigot, an angry father, a man who doesn't sweat, an old man with a strong memory, a wallflower with a cough, a grown version of the accused, a sports fan, a frustrated foreman, a refugee watchmaker, a typical working man, and a cereal-box doodler. Awesome flick--must see for all. Fun little tidbit, this movie was a financial disaster when it opened, but received 3 Acadamy Award nods for Best Picture, Director and adapted screenplay. It lost all three to The Bridge on the River Kwai, but recognized financial success because of the nominations. I guess you could say it was the sleeper hit of its time.
Swing Time--Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire star in this gay romp centered around, you guessed it, dancing. The story moved quickly, but there were some unanswered questions and gaps in the plot. Some things just did not make sense. I guess people were so enthralled by the dancing that the continuity of the story was not a concern. Some memorable songs that came from this flick included "The Way You Look Tonight", "Waltz in Swing Time" and "A Fine Romance". I love watching old movies and hearing standard songs that came from that movie. It is like you hear the song for so many years and you know that it a famous song and then you here where it came from and it all blends together.
Some Like It Hot-- Marilyn Monroe played a drinking ukulele player looking for a millionaire. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon were running from the mob while wearing dresses. When both sides meet, shenanigans ensue. Very funny movie, very tongue in cheek. One of the things about this flick is that I noticed how full-figured Marilyn really was. She had some rolls. I love that she owned her body image and the public adored her for what she was. It is amazing to me how our perception of beauty has changed over the years. Would Marilyn with her curves and rolls and out-of-control hair be considered a bombshell now? I would love to say yes, but I fear in the age of size two twigs, she may not get the same label.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Week 36
Holy Crikey!! I got a ton done this week!!
#36--I rubbed my man's feet this week. He played a disc golf tournament and he felt like an old man after he spent all weekend on his feet. I made him comfy on the sofa and started rubbing. Shudder. I don't know that this exercise will cure me of the foot creepies.
#40--Watched 2 more movies this week:
-All the President's Men. This is a docudrama that chronicles the journey of two reporters for the Washington Post that are uncovering the events leading up to the Watergate Scandal. Dustin Hoffman was great and Robert Redford, well, just plain yummy. Interesting fact about this flick is that Redford wanted to produce this movie with no-name actors. The studio not only refused, but told him he had to play one of the leads. That's showbiz.
-Bridge On the River Kwai. So, the only thing I took from this movie is that acting stubborn and hard-headed will only result in exhaustion, starvation, dehydration, and death. Alec Guinness is a British officer that leads a group of POW's in a Japanese work camp. Guinness doesn't want his officers to do the manual labor of building the bridge, so he starves himself until he gets his way. Then he takes over the bridge building and becomes so enamored with his ability to build and protect the perfect enemy bridge that he ends up blowing up the bridge and getting shot. It was a very entertaining flick, but it was long. Took two sittings to get through.
#10 Compiled my favorite recipes in a folder. I used an old binder and put about 50 recipes in plastic sheets. I have apps, dinner, desserts, sauces, pasta, and all sorts of goodies. Very excited to have my favs all in one place now.
#37 I painted my nails a gorgeous shade of spring green. Trying to get the green to come my way!!
#92 I completed a 1000 piece puzzle. Mark helped. Mom sent the puzzle for my birthday. We put it together within the week. It was fun and we worked well together, except I kept stealing the sections that Mark was working on. In my defense, they worked in the same section that I was working on.
#27 Completed another Pogo Badge album this week. I spend entirely too much time on Pogo.com
#78 I submitted another answer to Games Magazine on their website. This month's contest was very challenging. I got down to 4 answers that were very puzzling. They finally came to me and I submitted today. Basically, I had to combine movie titles, old and new, given only the first letter of every word. The last word of one title was the first word of the next title. Also, they removed 2- and 3-letter prepositions, articles, and conjuctions.
For example, I was given C __ A__ __ O (2*)*Number of movies. The answer is City of Angels in the Outfield.
Some were very challenging and used very obscure movies. I proved to be smarter than the contest.
#77 I found all the Waldos in a Where Waldo's Book. Those suckers are small and hard to find. I am still having nightmares in shades of red and white stripes!!
#74 And finally, here are the CD's I listened to:
Cheap Trick-Authorized Greatest Hits: Great CD with lots of classics
Steely Dan-Countdown to Ecstacy: Yeah, kinda boring and not my favorite. I always thought Steely Dan was a little more rock.
Candlebox-Candlebox: Yea Rock and Roll
Dire Straits-Alchemy Part 1: This was pretty good. I did not recognize a lot of the songs. Weird.
Earth to Andy:Very obscure band that sounds hacky
Dread Zepplin-Un Led Ed: What a great CD. Think Led Zepplin meets Reggae meets Elvis.
Bad Company: I don't remember listening to this one-That is not good.
Bush-Razorblade Suitcase: I love Bush, not like I love STP or Led Zepplin, but I love them.
Doobie Brothers-Best of the Doobies: Fun, Classic Band
STP-Core: These guys rock!!
That is a lot of stuff--pat on my back!!
#36--I rubbed my man's feet this week. He played a disc golf tournament and he felt like an old man after he spent all weekend on his feet. I made him comfy on the sofa and started rubbing. Shudder. I don't know that this exercise will cure me of the foot creepies.
#40--Watched 2 more movies this week:
-All the President's Men. This is a docudrama that chronicles the journey of two reporters for the Washington Post that are uncovering the events leading up to the Watergate Scandal. Dustin Hoffman was great and Robert Redford, well, just plain yummy. Interesting fact about this flick is that Redford wanted to produce this movie with no-name actors. The studio not only refused, but told him he had to play one of the leads. That's showbiz.
-Bridge On the River Kwai. So, the only thing I took from this movie is that acting stubborn and hard-headed will only result in exhaustion, starvation, dehydration, and death. Alec Guinness is a British officer that leads a group of POW's in a Japanese work camp. Guinness doesn't want his officers to do the manual labor of building the bridge, so he starves himself until he gets his way. Then he takes over the bridge building and becomes so enamored with his ability to build and protect the perfect enemy bridge that he ends up blowing up the bridge and getting shot. It was a very entertaining flick, but it was long. Took two sittings to get through.
#10 Compiled my favorite recipes in a folder. I used an old binder and put about 50 recipes in plastic sheets. I have apps, dinner, desserts, sauces, pasta, and all sorts of goodies. Very excited to have my favs all in one place now.
#37 I painted my nails a gorgeous shade of spring green. Trying to get the green to come my way!!
#92 I completed a 1000 piece puzzle. Mark helped. Mom sent the puzzle for my birthday. We put it together within the week. It was fun and we worked well together, except I kept stealing the sections that Mark was working on. In my defense, they worked in the same section that I was working on.
#27 Completed another Pogo Badge album this week. I spend entirely too much time on Pogo.com
#78 I submitted another answer to Games Magazine on their website. This month's contest was very challenging. I got down to 4 answers that were very puzzling. They finally came to me and I submitted today. Basically, I had to combine movie titles, old and new, given only the first letter of every word. The last word of one title was the first word of the next title. Also, they removed 2- and 3-letter prepositions, articles, and conjuctions.
For example, I was given C __ A__ __ O (2*)*Number of movies. The answer is City of Angels in the Outfield.
Some were very challenging and used very obscure movies. I proved to be smarter than the contest.
#77 I found all the Waldos in a Where Waldo's Book. Those suckers are small and hard to find. I am still having nightmares in shades of red and white stripes!!
#74 And finally, here are the CD's I listened to:
Cheap Trick-Authorized Greatest Hits: Great CD with lots of classics
Steely Dan-Countdown to Ecstacy: Yeah, kinda boring and not my favorite. I always thought Steely Dan was a little more rock.
Candlebox-Candlebox: Yea Rock and Roll
Dire Straits-Alchemy Part 1: This was pretty good. I did not recognize a lot of the songs. Weird.
Earth to Andy:Very obscure band that sounds hacky
Dread Zepplin-Un Led Ed: What a great CD. Think Led Zepplin meets Reggae meets Elvis.
Bad Company: I don't remember listening to this one-That is not good.
Bush-Razorblade Suitcase: I love Bush, not like I love STP or Led Zepplin, but I love them.
Doobie Brothers-Best of the Doobies: Fun, Classic Band
STP-Core: These guys rock!!
That is a lot of stuff--pat on my back!!
Monday, March 8, 2010
Week 34-35
So here we are again...
Missed last week, but got some things crossed off the list.
#35-Left 2 love notes for Mark. There was a little film left on the counter after it was cleaned. I "wrote" I love you in the film. He saw it when he came home and thought it was very clever. Not my best cleaning moment, but some good came out of it.
Second one came in the form of owl mail. Universal Studios is opening the Harry Potter part of the park soon. Because we have annual passes, we get all the updates on the status of the opening. One of the gimmicks going on is the ability to send owl mail to someone. This is really a fancy way of sending an email. Basically, you type the message and it gets sent and the recipient goes to the owlery on the Universal Studios website to retrieve the message from the owl. Corny, but another clever way to tell my man I love him!
#37-Painted my nails in the first of three funky colors. Yellow was the color of the week and boy, it is bright! I have gotten compliments and kudos for wearing a great color such as yellow. I might have even encouraged others to break away from the bonds of browns, reds and pinks on their nails. I stand before you, not as a polish conformer, but as a polish boundary-breaker. I have seen the injustice of fun colors on nails and I will...sorry, got carried away. But, my nails did look great.
#77- Found 3 Waldos in a "Where's Waldo" book. Man, those guys are small and hard to find. My little eyes are straining to find the red and white striped fellow.
#27-Completed one of the pogo badge albums that I have. Not sure how many I have left cause there are so many.
#85-Put a light on the bike today. It was very exciting. I will be able to safely ride at dusk. This is big because I will be riding more often locally now and I don't want to get caught after dark on the bike. After all, car drivers are scary. Bike lanes are not your personal turn lane--but I digress.
#40-Watched "It Happened One Night". Great flick with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable.
The cool thing about this movie is that it swept the five main awards at the Oscars as a comedy. That doesn't happen even today. The Academy loves them a drama. Best actor, actress, movie, director, and adapted screenplay awards were given to a movie that was thought of as the worst movie she made by Colbert and as a punishment to Gable for refusing a previous script. Go figure. This movie was widely considered the first screwball comedy and contains the famous show-off-some-leg-to-get-ahead-hitchhiking scene. It was highly entertaining!!
#5-Paid $3000 to the principal on the second mortgage. Yippee!! Somehow, it feels liberating to write out a big girl check like that. The sooner we get the house paid, the better.
Signing off for this week--L
Missed last week, but got some things crossed off the list.
#35-Left 2 love notes for Mark. There was a little film left on the counter after it was cleaned. I "wrote" I love you in the film. He saw it when he came home and thought it was very clever. Not my best cleaning moment, but some good came out of it.
Second one came in the form of owl mail. Universal Studios is opening the Harry Potter part of the park soon. Because we have annual passes, we get all the updates on the status of the opening. One of the gimmicks going on is the ability to send owl mail to someone. This is really a fancy way of sending an email. Basically, you type the message and it gets sent and the recipient goes to the owlery on the Universal Studios website to retrieve the message from the owl. Corny, but another clever way to tell my man I love him!
#37-Painted my nails in the first of three funky colors. Yellow was the color of the week and boy, it is bright! I have gotten compliments and kudos for wearing a great color such as yellow. I might have even encouraged others to break away from the bonds of browns, reds and pinks on their nails. I stand before you, not as a polish conformer, but as a polish boundary-breaker. I have seen the injustice of fun colors on nails and I will...sorry, got carried away. But, my nails did look great.
#77- Found 3 Waldos in a "Where's Waldo" book. Man, those guys are small and hard to find. My little eyes are straining to find the red and white striped fellow.
#27-Completed one of the pogo badge albums that I have. Not sure how many I have left cause there are so many.
#85-Put a light on the bike today. It was very exciting. I will be able to safely ride at dusk. This is big because I will be riding more often locally now and I don't want to get caught after dark on the bike. After all, car drivers are scary. Bike lanes are not your personal turn lane--but I digress.
#40-Watched "It Happened One Night". Great flick with Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable.
The cool thing about this movie is that it swept the five main awards at the Oscars as a comedy. That doesn't happen even today. The Academy loves them a drama. Best actor, actress, movie, director, and adapted screenplay awards were given to a movie that was thought of as the worst movie she made by Colbert and as a punishment to Gable for refusing a previous script. Go figure. This movie was widely considered the first screwball comedy and contains the famous show-off-some-leg-to-get-ahead-hitchhiking scene. It was highly entertaining!!
#5-Paid $3000 to the principal on the second mortgage. Yippee!! Somehow, it feels liberating to write out a big girl check like that. The sooner we get the house paid, the better.
Signing off for this week--L
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