Movie anyone?

Apparently if you've seen more than 85 of these ... you have no life. I guess I have no life, cause I've seen exactly 85. How many have you seen?

*(UPDATED: I looked back and realized that I accidentally left 2 movies checked from the person who sent this to me that I hadn't actually seen. I fixed it. I guess I still have no life though at 85.)

There are 168 movies :)

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
( ) Boondock Saints
( ) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
( ) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
( ) Airplane

Total: 3

( ) The Princess Bride
(x) AnchorMan: The Legend of Ron Burgandy(the freakin best!)
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
( ) Labyrinth
( ) Saw
( ) Saw II
( ) White Noise
( ) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
(x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total: 9

(x) Scream
(x) Scream 2
(x) Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
(x) Scary Movie 2
(x) Scary Movie 3
(x) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp

Total: 19

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
(x) Little Black Book
(x) The Village
( ) Lilo & Stitch

Total: 26

(x) Finding Nemo
( ) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (new one)
(x) White Chicks
( ) Butterfly Effect
(x) 13 Going on 30
( ) I, Robot
(x) Robots

Total: 32

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
(x) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
( ) KING KONG

Total: 38

(x) A Cinderella Story
( ) The Terminal
(x) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris (the Mary-Kate and Ashley movie?)
(x) Dumb & Dumber
(x) Dumber & Dumberer
(x) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
( ) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber

Total:44

(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
( ) Practical Magic
( ) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
( ) The Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
(x) The Whole Ten Yards

Total: 48

( ) The Day After Tomorrow
(x) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
(x) Just Married
( ) Gothika
(x) Nightmare on Elm Street
(x) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
( ) The Grudge
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask

Total: 55

( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Sleven
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
( ) Identity
( ) Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
( ) Ice Age
(x) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George

Total: 59

( ) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) ET
(x) Children of the Corn
(x) My Bosses Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
( ) Frailty
( ) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2

Total: 65

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x) She's All That
( ) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
( ) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
( ) The Terminator
( ) The Terminator 2
( ) The Terminator 3

Total: 70

( ) X-Men
( ) X2
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
( ) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Others
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
(x) Cruel Intentions 2
(x) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2

Total: 79

(x) Swimfan
( ) Miracle
(x) Old School
(x) The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
(x) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin

Total: 85

Happy Belated!

My 2nd Blogiversary was August 14th! How could I have not remembered? I could have had a party, a cake, balloons, maybe even pony rides! But no, I didn't even think about it. Actually, I don't think I remembered my 1st one either. Oh well, not that big of a deal. But, man, it sure doesn't seem like it's been 2 years since I started this thing!!

Vanilla Frosty!

Has anyone else tried one of these?



What do you think? I think they are pretty good. I'll usually pick chocolate over vanilla on most things. While I wouldn't say I like the vanilla better than the chocolate frosty, I would say that I probably like them both about the same. So, I guess now it will just be a matter of my mood at the time to determine which I would choose. I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, as I am really bad at making these kinds of life-altering decisions.

And they're off!

They got off to a good start to the year today. They both got up and ate breakfast, got dressed, brushed their hair and teeth and were ready to head out the door about 40 minutes early! They stood on the porch for most of that time, just waiting for when they could head down to their bus stop!

I hope this will last. I know last year, there were several days when they were racing against the clock to make it to the bus on time. I know it was probably just the excitement of the first day back, but a mom can hope, right?

Two More Days!

Today and tomorrow, then the girls will be back in school. My younger daughter is going into 1st grade, so she will be starting full days at school. I ask her if she is excited about going to school all day, and she says she isn't. She doesn't want to go all day. She's worried she will be bored.

I have assured her that she will not be bored, but will have a lot of things to do and learn and the day will fly by. I told her she may even have an extra recess too. That got her attention. Her Kindergarten teacher told us that she would often rush through her work so that she could play. I hope she will slow down a bit this year and work more carefully.

It was kind of funny getting that report from her teacher since all of our older daughter's teachers have always given a completely opposite report on her. She is more of a perfectionist. She takes her time on her work and would often end up spending time during her recesses catching up on her work that she did not complete in class. She gets upset if, when she is coloring, she gets out of the lines even a little. Her handwriting has always been, by far, the best of her classmates, but it's because she takes her time and has to have every letter perfect. If it doesn't look good to her, she will erase it and do it over.

It is interesting to see their individual personalities. It will be interesting to see how our son does when he gets to school. Maybe he'll be a good mixture of both!

Anyway, we went on one last adventure yesterday before school starts on Thursday. Thanks to a friend of mine who works for Children's Hospital and is able to get day passes, we spent the day at Fort Rapids Indoor Waterpark. We had a blast! The only thing that bugged me was the inconsistancy of the workers. They rotated stations probably every half hour. To go down the tunnel slides, you had to be at least 48 inches tall. We went up the steps and even my younger daughter was able to go down each slide. The 4th time up, they had switched workers and the new guy measured my younger daughter against the stick and she was just under the height limit. He said he couldn't let her go down the slides because she was too short. GRRR! So it just depended on who was manning the slides as to whether she could go down them or not. That was kind of frustrating.

There were a different set of slides that you lay on this mat on your stomach and go through a tunnel and come out at the end and go down this steep hill. That one only required you to be 42 inches tall, so she was able to do those with no issues. She had a blast on those slides. So did I! It was a fun day and we all slept well last night too.

Who's Cool!?

Just chillin' like a villian!

Done!

Well, yesterday was a long day, but we got all of our school shopping done. We bought all the supplies from their lists even the bookbags with wheels that they wanted. They were a little more expensive than the other ones, but will be worth it for them. I know last year, my older daughter had so much stuff to carry to and from school. Her bookbag was always so heavy. I wish they had those when I was in school!

We also bought shoes and a ton of clothes for them. After all that shopping, I went grocery shopping and also filled up the gas tank in my van. After all was said and done, a lot of money was spent. But it was all stuff we needed and I got some really good deals. For all that was purchased, it really wasn't all that much!

It was the first time we were able to buy all their school supplies and clothes all in one day (and not have to spread it out over several paychecks) and know that it wasn't going to possibly set us behind on our other bills. What a great feeling! Who knows, it could be the last time, too. If we ever buy another house or have to pay more for our rent, then we may not have that freedom in the future. We shall see, I guess. (I hate being a pessimist!)

Nonetheless, it was a fun day of shopping. My oldest daughter said she hoped that she didn't have to go shopping again for the rest of the year. I guess I wore her out.

School Shopping

Well, it's that time again. Time to go back to school shopping. Guru gets paid tomorrow, so I will be hitting the stores. Between the two girls, I need to buy:

• 2 boxes of 24 ct. Crayola crayons


• 1 8X5 school box


• 1 pencil bag


• 1 pink eraser


• 1 pkg. cap erasers


• 1 pk. loose leaf, wide ruled paper


• 1 spiral notebook


• 3 large boxes of tissues


• 5 glue sticks


• 2 boxes of colored pencils


• 1 box broad tip markers


• 2 black dry erase markers


• 1 highlighter


• 1 set of water colors


• 1 box of #2 pencils


• 9 double pocket folders with clasps


• 2 pairs of scissors


• 1 roll of clear tape


• 1 box of gallon sized ziplock bags


• 1 roll of paper towels


• 1 container of disinfecting wipes


• 1 black, blue or red pen

On top of all that, they need new bookbags. They both want ones with wheels. Then of course new shoes and clothes.

So, I'm thinking of making a day of it and taking the kids to breakfast and then hitting the stores. Should be fun.

Life Lessons

So we got a new American Girl catalogue in the mail the other day. My oldest daughter will take that thing everywhere she goes. She spends every spare minute looking in that thing and writing down in her notebook all the items she wants. She will put down how much everything costs and add it all up. She is constantly changing her mind on what she actually wants to buy.

I heard her downstairs a little bit ago complaining that she wants all this stuff, but she can't afford it all. To which, of course, I say..."welcome to the real world, honey!"

The Weekend

Well, this weekend went pretty well. Friday evening, guru picked up his mom and brought her over for dinner. (She doesn't have a car.) I made lasagna and garlic crescent rolls and brownies iced with chocolate frosting for dessert, yum! It was a nice dinner then she gave the kids some gifts, since she hasn't seen them in a while. We sat and chatted for a little while then dropped her back off at her house.

After dropping his mom back off at her house, we headed to a movie. We saw John Tucker Must Die. It was pretty good. There were several humorous parts and it definately didn't hurt to have to look at this for an hour and a half:



Then Saturday we watched the first disc of the first season of Doogie Howser. Then guru finished up all of his schoolwork for this quarter and is done until January.

Sunday was pretty relaxing as well. I let guru take a nap and took all the kids to the pool. For some reason, we have several parents in our neighborhood that let their kids go to the pool without supervision. They are supposed to be at least 12 years old to go without a parent, but there was a group of about 5 boys there that were all under 12. They were goofing around and jumping into the shallow end and my oldest daughter got knocked in the head with the lifesaving device that they were playing with in the pool (which, btw, is supposed to be for emergencies only). I told them that they weren't supposed to be playing with that in the pool, but they didn't listen to me.

Then we came home and watched the 2nd disc to Doogie Howser and then The Family Stone. It was just o.k. Our oldest daughter fell off her bike and hit her face on the pavement. She scratched up her cheek and arm and bent her glasses pretty good. I think she needs a face mask for her helmet! :)

Free Cones

Yesterday afternoon, my daughters came inside from riding their bikes out front. They were each holding a blue sheet of paper. The excitedly showed them to me proudly proclaiming that they got a coupon for a free ice cream cone from Dairy Queen.

At our old house, the girls got several of these coupons from cops that would stop and hand them out to kids they saw wearing their helmets while riding their bikes. (We had a cop that lived behind us and would frequently drive past our house on the way out of the neighborhood).

Since we moved, over a year ago, the girls had not received any of these coupons even though they ALWAYS wear their helmets when they ride their bikes. I figured they must not do that sort of thing where we live now. We were pleasantly surprised when they got them yesterday.

So, last night, we decided to go out and drop some books back off at the library and mail a netflix movie back....and stop at DQ. The girls each enjoyed a free (not-so) small cone and guru and I got blizzards. I decided on the caramel chip cheesequake flavor. I'll tell ya what, I was not impressed. It sounded and looked so good. It was not so much.

It had lots of big flakes of chocolate but very few bites of caramel or cheesecake. It wasn't terrible, however definately not my favorite. I still like the banana cream pie flavor the best. I noticed that they also had yet another new flavor of moolatte. Mint mocha, YUM! I totally should have got that, except it was like 9:30 p.m. so I suppose it is best that I did not. I still haven't tried the hazelnut moolatte.

Ok, now I am craving DQ again, so I better just post this and move on to another subject.