This is my last blog post. This blog wasn't easy. I even forgot last night.
As of today, it started snowing again. I also got some new shirts from Aeropostale because of a coupon. And I think my favorite jacket is falling apart. One of the buttons keeps irritatingly unbuttoning itself because of a wide button hole that was slowly ripping. Either I need to learn to sew or get rid of it. I can't get rid of it because I love that jacket. Although, I have a more fancier black one that I usually wear if I'm going to a place where one should dress nice. I don't often wear it because it makes my head looks smaller. I even got compliments on my corduroy jacket, but not this year yet.
But still, exciting for the new snow. And Christmas is only on Saturday.
Since I won't be blogging for the winter season, I want to wish all a Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night. Have a good holiday, be festive, and all you Scrooges, at least show a little initiative. I had to for Thanksgiving. I'm sure you can, too.
Currently listening: the Wicked soundtrack (I've been dropping hints about getting tickets for Christmas.)
Monday, December 20, 2010
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Day 76
I don't think I'll do "90 Days of Winter". To be honest, this wasn't easy. I forgot certain days, I started out the blog with slow and unadventurous days, and I don't even think it;s been roughly 90 days since September 21st. Because I am sure that this is really day 76. Maybe next spring I'll do it again. If I do it then, then I'll have to blog on my birthday. Maybe I'll do that, but not winter.
Today was kind of fun until the evening. I got to spend time with my Kentucky friends who are leaving tomorrow, but then they went to see friends of theirs somewhere else in Chicago, and I spent most of the evening watching Friends on DVD. And a little Bewitched
Currently watching: Saturday Night Live, host Jeff Bridges
Today was kind of fun until the evening. I got to spend time with my Kentucky friends who are leaving tomorrow, but then they went to see friends of theirs somewhere else in Chicago, and I spent most of the evening watching Friends on DVD. And a little Bewitched
Currently watching: Saturday Night Live, host Jeff Bridges
Friday, December 17, 2010
Day 75
Fun day.
Today, some out-of-state came for a visit to spend the night. And we went to one of Oakbrook's expensive classy restaurants called Ditka's. They're son is the general manager so he came by to chat every few minutes.
I also did some cleaning in preparation for the visit. Also had some lunch from TGI Fridays but got stuck in traffic. You know, Christmas shopping. But lunch was great. I love TGI Fridays.
And tomorrow, I'm going to find a wreath because I still need one to display and that will conclude the decorating of the house. I got the tree with lights, garlands, and ornaments, and a tree skirt, some decorations around the house, and the stockings hanging by the chimney with care (I always say that when talking about Christmas stockings). And sometime next week, I have to go out to get ingredients for a pound cake, hopefully if the grocery store won't be too crowded, and then regretting to make it. I hate baking, but my cookies or cakes usually come out all right. I'm not a baker for real, but I have baked cookies once (I'll explain those another time) and I made two cakes. I don't have a passion for baking, but my sister-in-law is a baker. Her things are really good.
Today, some out-of-state came for a visit to spend the night. And we went to one of Oakbrook's expensive classy restaurants called Ditka's. They're son is the general manager so he came by to chat every few minutes.
I also did some cleaning in preparation for the visit. Also had some lunch from TGI Fridays but got stuck in traffic. You know, Christmas shopping. But lunch was great. I love TGI Fridays.
And tomorrow, I'm going to find a wreath because I still need one to display and that will conclude the decorating of the house. I got the tree with lights, garlands, and ornaments, and a tree skirt, some decorations around the house, and the stockings hanging by the chimney with care (I always say that when talking about Christmas stockings). And sometime next week, I have to go out to get ingredients for a pound cake, hopefully if the grocery store won't be too crowded, and then regretting to make it. I hate baking, but my cookies or cakes usually come out all right. I'm not a baker for real, but I have baked cookies once (I'll explain those another time) and I made two cakes. I don't have a passion for baking, but my sister-in-law is a baker. Her things are really good.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Day 74
It's so cold out.
But I still love the snow.
I also wrapped all my Christmas presents today. I'm waiting until next week to get socking stuffer stuff, but mainly I got all my gifts settled. Especially two that were sets. One is a winterwear accessories for my sister-in-law and a coffee and chocolate/candy set. It's just coffee, chocolate, and candy all wrapped in individual tissue paoper in a gift bag.
I love wrapping presents. I was listening to Christmas music while doing it and even created a system of which kinds of wrapping paper to wrap which kind of family member or friend.
And I'm going to see their faces on Christmas Day when they open them which will make me happy.
Currently listening: "Oh Holy Night" -Martina McBride (just ended as I was typing the "Currently listening")
But I still love the snow.
I also wrapped all my Christmas presents today. I'm waiting until next week to get socking stuffer stuff, but mainly I got all my gifts settled. Especially two that were sets. One is a winterwear accessories for my sister-in-law and a coffee and chocolate/candy set. It's just coffee, chocolate, and candy all wrapped in individual tissue paoper in a gift bag.
I love wrapping presents. I was listening to Christmas music while doing it and even created a system of which kinds of wrapping paper to wrap which kind of family member or friend.
And I'm going to see their faces on Christmas Day when they open them which will make me happy.
Currently listening: "Oh Holy Night" -Martina McBride (just ended as I was typing the "Currently listening")
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Day 72
My company showed up today. But they leave in the morning.
I was at the art gallery and they were at a restaurant near the bus stop that I get off at when I come home. So I went over to meet them. That's something that I like about myself is when we have a whole bunch of people over and I arrive home late with them possibly wondering where I've been.
Normally, I like to think that I'm not missed when I really am, but it's a nice thought I like to have. Really, it's no rush for me to get home to quickly to see the guests that I invite over. But I know I am missed because they say things like "We were waiting until you get home" or "Where have you been"?
Currently listening: "Tik Tok" -Ke$ha
I was at the art gallery and they were at a restaurant near the bus stop that I get off at when I come home. So I went over to meet them. That's something that I like about myself is when we have a whole bunch of people over and I arrive home late with them possibly wondering where I've been.
Normally, I like to think that I'm not missed when I really am, but it's a nice thought I like to have. Really, it's no rush for me to get home to quickly to see the guests that I invite over. But I know I am missed because they say things like "We were waiting until you get home" or "Where have you been"?
Currently listening: "Tik Tok" -Ke$ha
Monday, December 13, 2010
Day 71
Yesterday I forgot to mention that saw Terms of Endearment yesterday. Well, first after getting home from grocery shopping, I watched the Amy Adams movie, Leap Year. That was alright. I've seen a better Amy Adams film, but it wasn't too bad.
And right after that I watched Terms of Endearment. Which made it to be the 11th Best Picture Oscar winner that I've seen. And it was so sad at the end. It was very good and Shirley MacLaine was really good. Especially, at the end scene. But fortunately, I can't cry.
I just don't. Sure I have tear ducts, but I don't cry. I get teary-eyed if I'm laughing too much, or if I'm really tired, or if I have the hiccups, but never out of sadness. And I kind of like that about myself. I just don't have the need to cry.
Currently listening: "Like a Prayer" -Madonna
And right after that I watched Terms of Endearment. Which made it to be the 11th Best Picture Oscar winner that I've seen. And it was so sad at the end. It was very good and Shirley MacLaine was really good. Especially, at the end scene. But fortunately, I can't cry.
I just don't. Sure I have tear ducts, but I don't cry. I get teary-eyed if I'm laughing too much, or if I'm really tired, or if I have the hiccups, but never out of sadness. And I kind of like that about myself. I just don't have the need to cry.
Currently listening: "Like a Prayer" -Madonna
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Day 70
So cold.
I had to go out to do some grocery shopping this afternoon and loading the car, it was so windy my scarf was blowing around everywhere and I had to practically force things into the trunk while standing in sludge.
The wind was blowing through the bare trees that sounded like someone screaming outside the house.
I did, however, put up the tree and other things today. The tree looks great, it has lights, garlands, ornaments, and I also put up other decorations around the house. As the song says, "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas".
By the way, my last blog post is Monday next week. Not tomorrow.
Currently listening: "Heat of the Moment" -Asia
I had to go out to do some grocery shopping this afternoon and loading the car, it was so windy my scarf was blowing around everywhere and I had to practically force things into the trunk while standing in sludge.
The wind was blowing through the bare trees that sounded like someone screaming outside the house.
I did, however, put up the tree and other things today. The tree looks great, it has lights, garlands, ornaments, and I also put up other decorations around the house. As the song says, "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas".
By the way, my last blog post is Monday next week. Not tomorrow.
Currently listening: "Heat of the Moment" -Asia
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Day 69
Busy day.
I finished the Christmas shopping that I have to do today and got it all done. Then came home for a while, but first I went to get the new eggnog Milkshake from McDonald's, and then I went to visit my grandfather, and then I went out to dinner, and went out to the art gallery for a holiday open house.
There were a lot of great hand-made gifts and people who I often see at the events, and had a good time.
But today was really rainy and wet and gross. But during the open house, it started snowing again. Thank goodness. We could really use something not so icky and slippery. But I do hear it's supposed to be very icy out for the rest of the weekend. Like ice all over the place.
Also, just to let people know, Monday will be my last blogpost. I guess it was because I missed days is why I'm not at Day 80 yet. For my post tomorrow, I'm going to check again to see if it really will be day 70 or not.
I haven't decided to try to do a winter one yet. That would last from December 21st until March 21st. I still have to decide. This wasn't that easy, but I'll manage.
Currently watching: Satuday Night Live (host Paul Rudd)
I finished the Christmas shopping that I have to do today and got it all done. Then came home for a while, but first I went to get the new eggnog Milkshake from McDonald's, and then I went to visit my grandfather, and then I went out to dinner, and went out to the art gallery for a holiday open house.
There were a lot of great hand-made gifts and people who I often see at the events, and had a good time.
But today was really rainy and wet and gross. But during the open house, it started snowing again. Thank goodness. We could really use something not so icky and slippery. But I do hear it's supposed to be very icy out for the rest of the weekend. Like ice all over the place.
Also, just to let people know, Monday will be my last blogpost. I guess it was because I missed days is why I'm not at Day 80 yet. For my post tomorrow, I'm going to check again to see if it really will be day 70 or not.
I haven't decided to try to do a winter one yet. That would last from December 21st until March 21st. I still have to decide. This wasn't that easy, but I'll manage.
Currently watching: Satuday Night Live (host Paul Rudd)
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Day 67
I'm feeling a little better today.
I guess I didn't have a cold so much as I was just sniffly and sneezy from the weather. I didn't take any medicine, but I'll survive. I usually don't take medicine when I'm sick, and I survived.
Earlier this even, I went out to take my dog for a walk and there was snow everywhere. My town suffered major floods last July and it's like this. The streets, the sidewalks, the driveways, etc. And it's still coming down. It looks beautiful and magical and I am so glad we have snow finally.
When I'm out waiting for buses or at the art gallery, I get cold. I don't wear a warm enough jacket, but I do have one much bigger and more like a coat. And I have a scarf and gloves, and I'm still cold, but still proud top be in the snow. If I have to change a song on my iPod or get my phone out to check the time, I have to epose my bare hand to the cold air, though.
Currently listening: "Family Affair" -Pink (just ended as I was typing "currently listening")
I guess I didn't have a cold so much as I was just sniffly and sneezy from the weather. I didn't take any medicine, but I'll survive. I usually don't take medicine when I'm sick, and I survived.
Earlier this even, I went out to take my dog for a walk and there was snow everywhere. My town suffered major floods last July and it's like this. The streets, the sidewalks, the driveways, etc. And it's still coming down. It looks beautiful and magical and I am so glad we have snow finally.
When I'm out waiting for buses or at the art gallery, I get cold. I don't wear a warm enough jacket, but I do have one much bigger and more like a coat. And I have a scarf and gloves, and I'm still cold, but still proud top be in the snow. If I have to change a song on my iPod or get my phone out to check the time, I have to epose my bare hand to the cold air, though.
Currently listening: "Family Affair" -Pink (just ended as I was typing "currently listening")
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Day 66
OK, the first natural day of skipping a blog post which means skipping post "Day 65".
Sick day.
OK, it wasn't just me that was sick. On my way to the art gallery, I knew about a plan where I would be the "director for the day". But the executive director was getting a sore throat and her son had one, too. I was coming down with a cold so I disgustingly snotty, sneezy, I had red eyes, itchy, too. And the assistant was coming down witha headache. Several of us were sick or ache-y in ways.
I'm feeling a little better right now, but I was miserable today. You know, it's that time of year when people have colds back and forth. I didn't properly contaminate myself as was also possibly getting contaminated, too.
But it got better coming home to see ABC Night. And an extra rerun of Modern Family and Cougar Town.
Currently listening: The Wicked soundtrack
Sick day.
OK, it wasn't just me that was sick. On my way to the art gallery, I knew about a plan where I would be the "director for the day". But the executive director was getting a sore throat and her son had one, too. I was coming down with a cold so I disgustingly snotty, sneezy, I had red eyes, itchy, too. And the assistant was coming down witha headache. Several of us were sick or ache-y in ways.
I'm feeling a little better right now, but I was miserable today. You know, it's that time of year when people have colds back and forth. I didn't properly contaminate myself as was also possibly getting contaminated, too.
But it got better coming home to see ABC Night. And an extra rerun of Modern Family and Cougar Town.
Currently listening: The Wicked soundtrack
Monday, December 6, 2010
Day 64
Still snow.
I worry that the snow is going to melt away too fast.
By the way, the family that I had over last week are coming again next week unaware of the snow. Boy, will they get a surprise by the natural magic of the snow.
I even watched Just Friends today. It's another Christmas movie I like and try to watch every year. Well, actually, a lot. But for sure around Christmas. It's a really funny romantic comedy, but would probably much farther than ten of my top ten movies. Somewhere around 20 or something.
Tomorrow, I'm going to go to the art gallery. It'll be my first time going to Oak Park while they're snow all over and wearing my new gloves. I'm leaving my boots home though. I have a really nice pair of boots, but I'd rather wear my pair of Sketchers tomorrow instead.
I worry that the snow is going to melt away too fast.
By the way, the family that I had over last week are coming again next week unaware of the snow. Boy, will they get a surprise by the natural magic of the snow.
I even watched Just Friends today. It's another Christmas movie I like and try to watch every year. Well, actually, a lot. But for sure around Christmas. It's a really funny romantic comedy, but would probably much farther than ten of my top ten movies. Somewhere around 20 or something.
Tomorrow, I'm going to go to the art gallery. It'll be my first time going to Oak Park while they're snow all over and wearing my new gloves. I'm leaving my boots home though. I have a really nice pair of boots, but I'd rather wear my pair of Sketchers tomorrow instead.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Day 63
Christmas TV shows.
I've been watching Christmas TV episodes lately. One of Modern Family, two of Bewitched, and one of The Simpsons They make me anticipate Christmas and makes me think it's coming to slow.
The good news, I can't stop thinking about the snow whenever I'm outside. The way it looks at night is beautiful. When the houses have lights up and they they snow lights up, the Christmas trees in the windows, the iced over pond that looks like a painting with swirls of snow; it's all really magical.
I also got new gloves today. I couldn't find a nice black pair but I got a nice brown pair to match my jacket. I haven't really used them, but I put my jacket on to see what their like. Now, this week, I can go out to the art gallery with my gloves while I still listen to my iPod. Oh, and also get use out of my boots. I have a pair of Columbia brand boots from last winter. I've been wearing them to take the dog for a walk, but didn't really tie them up. So I know I'll wear them for a while this week.
Currently listening: "Family Affair" -Pink, now "Get the Party Started" -Pink.
I've been remembering to list whatever I'm listening or watching as I make the post and sometimes I have to post two songs because one song changes in the middle of the post. I hope that's what you can understand when I list a song, and then say "then" or "now" with another song.
I've been watching Christmas TV episodes lately. One of Modern Family, two of Bewitched, and one of The Simpsons They make me anticipate Christmas and makes me think it's coming to slow.
The good news, I can't stop thinking about the snow whenever I'm outside. The way it looks at night is beautiful. When the houses have lights up and they they snow lights up, the Christmas trees in the windows, the iced over pond that looks like a painting with swirls of snow; it's all really magical.
I also got new gloves today. I couldn't find a nice black pair but I got a nice brown pair to match my jacket. I haven't really used them, but I put my jacket on to see what their like. Now, this week, I can go out to the art gallery with my gloves while I still listen to my iPod. Oh, and also get use out of my boots. I have a pair of Columbia brand boots from last winter. I've been wearing them to take the dog for a walk, but didn't really tie them up. So I know I'll wear them for a while this week.
Currently listening: "Family Affair" -Pink, now "Get the Party Started" -Pink.
I've been remembering to list whatever I'm listening or watching as I make the post and sometimes I have to post two songs because one song changes in the middle of the post. I hope that's what you can understand when I list a song, and then say "then" or "now" with another song.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Day 62
Yay. It snowed.
IO got up at 3 AM this morning and couldn't sleep. And looking out my window, I saw that it had snowed. All over the street and the grass and in bushes, and it looked beautiful with the street lamps and their glows.
I love snow. And it's about time it came. Now all we need is Christmas and those impostor mall Santas. Ooh, I can't wait for Christmas. I hope it stays snowy until my next birthday next June. It would be great.
Also watching an episode of Modern Family on DVD, one of them was a Christmas episode that inspired me to start a film. Or at least pitch one. In an episode, Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) invite a divorced, homeless, and grumpy mall Santa into their home for dinner. It made me want to start a film about a married couple who invite a troubled college student into their home for Christmas. It would make a good drama, and I have Christmas on my mind.
I'm also going to watch an all-new Saturday Night Live tonight with host Robert DeNiro.
Currently listening: "You Oughta Know" -Alanis Morissette, then "Zombie" -The Cranberries (just got into this one recently. I love it.)
IO got up at 3 AM this morning and couldn't sleep. And looking out my window, I saw that it had snowed. All over the street and the grass and in bushes, and it looked beautiful with the street lamps and their glows.
I love snow. And it's about time it came. Now all we need is Christmas and those impostor mall Santas. Ooh, I can't wait for Christmas. I hope it stays snowy until my next birthday next June. It would be great.
Also watching an episode of Modern Family on DVD, one of them was a Christmas episode that inspired me to start a film. Or at least pitch one. In an episode, Mitchell (Jesse Tyler Ferguson) and Cameron (Eric Stonestreet) invite a divorced, homeless, and grumpy mall Santa into their home for dinner. It made me want to start a film about a married couple who invite a troubled college student into their home for Christmas. It would make a good drama, and I have Christmas on my mind.
I'm also going to watch an all-new Saturday Night Live tonight with host Robert DeNiro.
Currently listening: "You Oughta Know" -Alanis Morissette, then "Zombie" -The Cranberries (just got into this one recently. I love it.)
Friday, December 3, 2010
Day 61
Two lists.
I know I owed this post two different lists. Actually, one list, which is a list of ten movies. The other is a list that continued today, also with ten titles in it.
The first list is Top Ten Favorite Movies. I know people who have a Top Ten of their favorite films, and I never made one. I knew I had the first three placed and other three that needed places, and then that meant another four. But it's not a top ten of a specific year or actor or something like that. It's just in general.
1. Chicago - I love the whole thing. The costumes, music, acting, Oscar wins, the songs; all of it. One of the major reasons I love it is because it won Best Picture at the Oscars, even though I didn't see the ceremony it won for.
2. 2012 - I am so glad I saw this. It's thrilling, adventurous, John Cusack's performance is great, and I love the Adam Lambert song at the end, "Tim for Miracles". It's really worth seeing.
3. A Lot Like Love - This is a good dramedy. Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet have chemistry and it has it's funny parts, sad parts, touching moments, and it's really good writing. A man and woman who don't seem good for each other at the start grow closer and closer through the span of 6 1/2 years.
4. Juno - my 2nd favorite Best Original Screenplay winning Oscar. Ellen Page is hilarious, it has a good cast, good writing, and touching moments. It's another good dramedy.
5. Little Miss Sunshine - my 1st favorite Best Original Screenplay winning Oscar. Also a good cast and funny and sad at the same time. And it has it's touching moments, and Alan Arkin's Oscar-winning performance is well-performed and well-deserved. He did a really good job.
6. Love Actually - Two of my favorite performances are Liam Neeson's and Emma Thompson's. Neeson plays a man who lost his wife and now seeing his 10-year-old son start to fall in love with another girl. And Thompson plays a woman who suspects her husband is having an affair with another and younger woman. I like all the performances, but those two are the best. It's a very funny movie with sad, touching moments, and it reminds me a lot of Christmas. I love Christmas.
7. Sleepless in Seattle - This is another "good writing" film. Meg Ryan was a romantic comedy queen when this came out and her performance, as well as Tom Hanks', are really good. I love the writing of two people who are perfect for each other but on entire different sides of the country and just want to meet each other.
8. The Devil Wears Prada - You have to admit, I can't make a top ten list without a Meryl Streep movie. My dad does not like her and he says that Kramer vs. Kramer, was not only his first Streep film in general, but also the first Streep film where he decided he doesn't like Meryl Streep. But this one is all about fashion and New York City, and networking with big-name designers. I can also see why Streep got an Oscar nomination.
9. Julie & Julia - My first blog (not blog post, but blog in general) is all about Julie Powell. I loved her book and based my blog on it and then got to see this. And of course, Meryl Streep is hilarious in it, and Amy Adams did a good job playing a struggling writer and blogger who had a plan, but with a quriky and kind of unreliable, but still respectful husband.
10. Easy A - Now it just came out, and I've seen these movies more than once, but I thought that this was the perfect teen comedy since Mean Girls. It's hilarious, newcommer Emma Stone was great, and I hope it even gets an Oscar nomintion for one of the Screenplay categories. It is a loose reference to "The Scarlet Letter", but also partly original in some ways. But I loved this and bragged about it after I saw it. I even saw it when passing by a movie theater and thought "What the hell. It starts in fifteen minutes, I don't have to meet Ken until five" and loved it.
Some trivial facts:
While Oscar winner Diablo Cody who wrote Juno says that she based it partly off of her friend's pregnancy, Julie & Julia is the only biographical movie on this list.
Chicago is the only film on this list that it's my next one.
Sleepless in Seattle is the only 1990's released film on this list. The next released one was Chicago in 2002.
My next list is Oscar-winning Best Picture films I've seen. But without a "Top..." added to it as I'm not listing one movie over another. They may be listed in alphabetical order, but I'm listing them from the top of my head as I alphabetize them. And even with the 82 movies that have been award Best Picture, I've only seen ten. Also, I haven't seen any of these before they won the Academy Award. It was all after they won.
Amadeus
American Beauty (as of last weekend)
Chicago (of course)
Forrest Gump (as of today)
Million Dollar Baby
My Fair Lady (about a month and a half ago)
Rain Man
Shakespeare in Love (another favorite)
The Sound of Music (sometime this summer, though I knew all the songs and lyrics, just not the movie)
West Side Story (another favorite)
But I do have a list of movies "to see". I'll post that list some other time because now I have to update it.
I know I owed this post two different lists. Actually, one list, which is a list of ten movies. The other is a list that continued today, also with ten titles in it.
The first list is Top Ten Favorite Movies. I know people who have a Top Ten of their favorite films, and I never made one. I knew I had the first three placed and other three that needed places, and then that meant another four. But it's not a top ten of a specific year or actor or something like that. It's just in general.
1. Chicago - I love the whole thing. The costumes, music, acting, Oscar wins, the songs; all of it. One of the major reasons I love it is because it won Best Picture at the Oscars, even though I didn't see the ceremony it won for.
2. 2012 - I am so glad I saw this. It's thrilling, adventurous, John Cusack's performance is great, and I love the Adam Lambert song at the end, "Tim for Miracles". It's really worth seeing.
3. A Lot Like Love - This is a good dramedy. Ashton Kutcher and Amanda Peet have chemistry and it has it's funny parts, sad parts, touching moments, and it's really good writing. A man and woman who don't seem good for each other at the start grow closer and closer through the span of 6 1/2 years.
4. Juno - my 2nd favorite Best Original Screenplay winning Oscar. Ellen Page is hilarious, it has a good cast, good writing, and touching moments. It's another good dramedy.
5. Little Miss Sunshine - my 1st favorite Best Original Screenplay winning Oscar. Also a good cast and funny and sad at the same time. And it has it's touching moments, and Alan Arkin's Oscar-winning performance is well-performed and well-deserved. He did a really good job.
6. Love Actually - Two of my favorite performances are Liam Neeson's and Emma Thompson's. Neeson plays a man who lost his wife and now seeing his 10-year-old son start to fall in love with another girl. And Thompson plays a woman who suspects her husband is having an affair with another and younger woman. I like all the performances, but those two are the best. It's a very funny movie with sad, touching moments, and it reminds me a lot of Christmas. I love Christmas.
7. Sleepless in Seattle - This is another "good writing" film. Meg Ryan was a romantic comedy queen when this came out and her performance, as well as Tom Hanks', are really good. I love the writing of two people who are perfect for each other but on entire different sides of the country and just want to meet each other.
8. The Devil Wears Prada - You have to admit, I can't make a top ten list without a Meryl Streep movie. My dad does not like her and he says that Kramer vs. Kramer, was not only his first Streep film in general, but also the first Streep film where he decided he doesn't like Meryl Streep. But this one is all about fashion and New York City, and networking with big-name designers. I can also see why Streep got an Oscar nomination.
9. Julie & Julia - My first blog (not blog post, but blog in general) is all about Julie Powell. I loved her book and based my blog on it and then got to see this. And of course, Meryl Streep is hilarious in it, and Amy Adams did a good job playing a struggling writer and blogger who had a plan, but with a quriky and kind of unreliable, but still respectful husband.
10. Easy A - Now it just came out, and I've seen these movies more than once, but I thought that this was the perfect teen comedy since Mean Girls. It's hilarious, newcommer Emma Stone was great, and I hope it even gets an Oscar nomintion for one of the Screenplay categories. It is a loose reference to "The Scarlet Letter", but also partly original in some ways. But I loved this and bragged about it after I saw it. I even saw it when passing by a movie theater and thought "What the hell. It starts in fifteen minutes, I don't have to meet Ken until five" and loved it.
Some trivial facts:
While Oscar winner Diablo Cody who wrote Juno says that she based it partly off of her friend's pregnancy, Julie & Julia is the only biographical movie on this list.
Chicago is the only film on this list that it's my next one.
Sleepless in Seattle is the only 1990's released film on this list. The next released one was Chicago in 2002.
My next list is Oscar-winning Best Picture films I've seen. But without a "Top..." added to it as I'm not listing one movie over another. They may be listed in alphabetical order, but I'm listing them from the top of my head as I alphabetize them. And even with the 82 movies that have been award Best Picture, I've only seen ten. Also, I haven't seen any of these before they won the Academy Award. It was all after they won.
Amadeus
American Beauty (as of last weekend)
Chicago (of course)
Forrest Gump (as of today)
Million Dollar Baby
My Fair Lady (about a month and a half ago)
Rain Man
Shakespeare in Love (another favorite)
The Sound of Music (sometime this summer, though I knew all the songs and lyrics, just not the movie)
West Side Story (another favorite)
But I do have a list of movies "to see". I'll post that list some other time because now I have to update it.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Day 60
Fun day.
Today I made a plan with a friend to see Love and Other Drugs. It was realy good. It was funny, it was sad, it was romantic. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway were great. I think the movie is Oscar-contending.
Thenn, about a half-hour later, I decided to get another ticket at the same theatre to see Burlesque, but that one was bymyself. That was fun, jazzy, worth the ticket, and really glad I saw it.
I loved both movies, but neither of them would top Chicago as my #1 favorite. But Burlesque was more similar to it. This was the first time I saw two movies in one day.
Although, on weekend, I saw Monster's Inc. twice. One on Saturday and then again on Sunday. And when I was working in a movie theatre, a friend of mine came twice. Once in the morning, then in the evening and saw Little Miss Sunshine both times. She saw it twice that day, but it was her fourth and fifth timer in general.
And I love that moive, too.
By the way, I meant to post my top ten list, but I'm not using the same computer that it's saved on. But I will later this week sometime.
Currently watching: Community
Today I made a plan with a friend to see Love and Other Drugs. It was realy good. It was funny, it was sad, it was romantic. Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway were great. I think the movie is Oscar-contending.
Thenn, about a half-hour later, I decided to get another ticket at the same theatre to see Burlesque, but that one was bymyself. That was fun, jazzy, worth the ticket, and really glad I saw it.
I loved both movies, but neither of them would top Chicago as my #1 favorite. But Burlesque was more similar to it. This was the first time I saw two movies in one day.
Although, on weekend, I saw Monster's Inc. twice. One on Saturday and then again on Sunday. And when I was working in a movie theatre, a friend of mine came twice. Once in the morning, then in the evening and saw Little Miss Sunshine both times. She saw it twice that day, but it was her fourth and fifth timer in general.
And I love that moive, too.
By the way, I meant to post my top ten list, but I'm not using the same computer that it's saved on. But I will later this week sometime.
Currently watching: Community
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Day 58/59
OK, I meant to blog last night. But I didn't forget.
My internet was down all night and I checked this morning and it was up.
Yesterday was a weird day. Exciting things and strange things.
I had my first onion rings yesterday. They were from Burger King. I've had Funyons before, but they're not the same because they're not baked. And they were really good. They even have onion in them which is even better.
But also, yesterday, I kept falling down or tripping and stumbling. I did when I got off a bus, I stumbled on the sidewalk, walking into a Caribou Coffee, and I fell down twice walking into the art gallery.
On the bus last night I saw it had started snowing. Finally. And this morning, I see it already on the ground and rooftops and I look out the window to see it blowing.
And I also found out out last night that my family was leaving and this morning at 6 or so. And that they were also coming back in two weeks. They live in Singapore, but they own a former house in Orlando so they often go back when they're in the United States.
Last night did get kind of rough. I purposely missed Glee so I can be with my guests knowing I can watch the episode on the internet or something. But that's not why it got rough. When I got home I saw my brother and sister-in-law came over and then he started grilling me about my own writing and skeptical about the fact that my first adapted film based off a short story that I wrote didn't have a beginning, middle, and end when I know it did and he said it was a dumb story without having heard what it's about.
Actually, I told him what it's about and he said it was a dumb story. This was a short story I came across recently from when I wrote when I was fifteen. And six months ago I decided to turn it into a short film. But I've been writing screenplays since after high school. With no fiction experience, my brother thinks I could write better. But I'm not going to listen to him. He's the type of guy that he's nice when you get to know him, but then he starts talking.
One more thing, the "58/59" in my title refers to 58 being yesterday and 59 being today. I've missed chances to blog on days so the number of days go up once after two days. For example, say a Wednesday is a day 36. And let's say I forget to blog on Thursday. But Friday I remember to blog and I would say it's Day 37 when it should really be 38. I'm guessing that had I written on every single day or still missed day but skipped a number, I'd probably be at 67 or something. I didn't count, but that's just what I'm guessing.
Tell you what. Today I'll count the days in a calendar starting from September 21st until December 1st (today) and tomorrow I'll say the correct day number when I blog tomorrow. So there won't be any 60-65's or so.
Come to think of it, the reason I start with a number that goes up once is because when I go to my dashboard and see a list of my blogs, I see the number of posts in this one and just say "Day (next number up)". Though there aren't as many days as their is posts. Originally, there was meant to be the same number of days as there would be posts. But I often forgot or at least wasn't able to. Meaning, I remembered, but my internet could have went down or I couldn't have gotten to a computer when I needed to.
So, for tomorrow, the new post will say Day 60-something.
My internet was down all night and I checked this morning and it was up.
Yesterday was a weird day. Exciting things and strange things.
I had my first onion rings yesterday. They were from Burger King. I've had Funyons before, but they're not the same because they're not baked. And they were really good. They even have onion in them which is even better.
But also, yesterday, I kept falling down or tripping and stumbling. I did when I got off a bus, I stumbled on the sidewalk, walking into a Caribou Coffee, and I fell down twice walking into the art gallery.
On the bus last night I saw it had started snowing. Finally. And this morning, I see it already on the ground and rooftops and I look out the window to see it blowing.
And I also found out out last night that my family was leaving and this morning at 6 or so. And that they were also coming back in two weeks. They live in Singapore, but they own a former house in Orlando so they often go back when they're in the United States.
Last night did get kind of rough. I purposely missed Glee so I can be with my guests knowing I can watch the episode on the internet or something. But that's not why it got rough. When I got home I saw my brother and sister-in-law came over and then he started grilling me about my own writing and skeptical about the fact that my first adapted film based off a short story that I wrote didn't have a beginning, middle, and end when I know it did and he said it was a dumb story without having heard what it's about.
Actually, I told him what it's about and he said it was a dumb story. This was a short story I came across recently from when I wrote when I was fifteen. And six months ago I decided to turn it into a short film. But I've been writing screenplays since after high school. With no fiction experience, my brother thinks I could write better. But I'm not going to listen to him. He's the type of guy that he's nice when you get to know him, but then he starts talking.
One more thing, the "58/59" in my title refers to 58 being yesterday and 59 being today. I've missed chances to blog on days so the number of days go up once after two days. For example, say a Wednesday is a day 36. And let's say I forget to blog on Thursday. But Friday I remember to blog and I would say it's Day 37 when it should really be 38. I'm guessing that had I written on every single day or still missed day but skipped a number, I'd probably be at 67 or something. I didn't count, but that's just what I'm guessing.
Tell you what. Today I'll count the days in a calendar starting from September 21st until December 1st (today) and tomorrow I'll say the correct day number when I blog tomorrow. So there won't be any 60-65's or so.
Come to think of it, the reason I start with a number that goes up once is because when I go to my dashboard and see a list of my blogs, I see the number of posts in this one and just say "Day (next number up)". Though there aren't as many days as their is posts. Originally, there was meant to be the same number of days as there would be posts. But I often forgot or at least wasn't able to. Meaning, I remembered, but my internet could have went down or I couldn't have gotten to a computer when I needed to.
So, for tomorrow, the new post will say Day 60-something.
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