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.

Kids, Kids, Kids!

They're everywhere! The past couple of days, my house has been flooded with kids. There are, of course, my own three, then two little girls from our neighborhood that my girls play with every day, and I am watching a friend's daughter. On top of that, there is a little boy from down the street that hangs around my oldest daughter quite a bit. He was here yesterday and ended up staying for dinner.

He isn't here (yet) this morning, but all the others are. The neighborhood girls were here before 10:00 this morning to play and my friend dropped her daughter off just before 10:30. I fed them all cereal. I'll tell you what, I think they would all eat all day long if I'd let them! One or another of them is constantly asking for something to eat or drink.

Do you know how many juice pouches I've passed out over the past few days? I've also volunteered myself to keep the neighbor girls overnight tonight so that their parents can get some packing done. They are moving next weekend. Not far away, but the girls won't be able to play together very often anymore. I feel really bad for them because the girls literally play together every day, pretty much all day long. I don't know what my girls are going to do once they move.

Anyway, I better go make sure no one is sneeking any food out of the kitchen!

Oh, for cryin' out loud!

I think that crayola marker was some sort of possessed magic marker!! The spots that I thought I got out of the couch yesterday are reappearing! I am also finding new markings that I didn't notice yesterday. Maybe they are multiplying!

I don't know what I'm going to get it off the walls with, unless I repaint. But if I do that, I'll just end up repainting every week! ARGH!

Sick of it!!

No matter how hard I try to keep any sort of writing utensil out of my son's reach, he always seems to get his hands on one! The girls left out some crayola markers earlier and I didn't realize it (we've had the "discussion" on many occasions that they need to put their things away when they're finished using them, and keep their markers and crayons out of their brother's reach).

They did not follow directions and I went downstairs a few minutes ago there was brown marker on the couch in 3 different places, all over the wall in at least 4 different places! I am getting so sick of this! This kid is driving me nuts with his obsession with writing on things! At least it wasn't a permanent marker (this time!).

I used the magic eraser on the wall and when it dried, all the markings showed back up. I am hoping that I can get it all out of the couch with resolve spot magic.

This is really getting OLD! Here are some lovely pictures of my mess:






Oh, and the purple and orange you see in a couple of those pics are from previous "art work" that I hadn't yet cleaned up. Sheesh! I don't know why I even bother cleaning it off, he'll just do it again! Oh, and that picture by the door was taken AFTER my first attempt with the magic eraser! AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!

I gots nothin'!

I really don't mean for my posts to be so far between, but I've really got nothing worthy of blogging about. Things have been rather uneventful around here lately. I guess that's not such a bad thing.

Yesterday I took the kids to play at the park for a little while. We watched Hocus Pocus last night. We got it through Netflix. It was ok. I had never seen it before and the girls liked it.

Today I took the little man to get a much needed hair cut. His hair grows so stinking fast! He just got it cut less than 2 months ago, but it was already in his eyes again! (No, guru, you're not going to start buzzing his head like yours!)

See? Pretty boring, but that's all I've got right now. It wasn't really even worth typing out, but I did it anyway because it has been since Friday that I last posted anything. Well, there's 30 seconds of your day you can't get back!

Eyewitness

Well, I witnessed an accident this afternoon. I was right behind this minivan taxi going through a green light. The van was in the intersection, when this lady, also in a minivan, decided she had time to turn left in front of him. She SO did NOT! He slammed on the brakes and tried to swerve to avoid hitting her, but he ended up clipping the rear of her van and pulling her bumper partially off.

I saw the whole thing happen, so I stuck around to give a statement to the police. I know that if it had been me involved in the accident (which would have been very possible had I left a few seconds earlier), I would have wanted to have someone who saw it stick around to let the police know that it wasn't my fault. Since it was the back of that lady's vehicle and the front of the taxi guy's, they may have thought it was his fault.

What boggles my mind is that the lady had 4 small children in her van as well as another adult woman. One of the little girls was sitting in that right rear seat and if she had been just a second slower, or if he hadn't swerved, the taxi van would have hit right where that little girl was sitting!! As it was, that window right next to that girl shattered completely off the van! What would make her think she had time to make that turn? Why would she even take that chance with her kids in the back? It's crazy, I say, CRAZY!!!

While I was sitting there waiting for the police to arrive (which was like 20 flippin' minutes, btw!), I snapped some pictures with my phone. Here is the lady's van:

Did you poop, AGAIN?!

Not too much going on today. I got woken up this morning by the little man who was standing by my bed saying "ow, mommy, tummy hurt" along with a very strong smell of poo! MMMM, what a way to start the day!

I got up and ended up having to put him in the tub. It was all up his belly, on his t-shirt, on the carpet under where he was standing, even between his little toes! EW!

I have had several more of those messy diapers to deal with today as well. It has not been fun. Especially for him. I feel so bad when I have to change him because his little bum is so red and sore and he just cries and says "ow". So, I gave him another bath tonight and put some desitin on him (which I haven't had to use in quite some time now).

So, I didn't even leave the house today. The girls had some friends over playing for a while and they went outside to play. Then they ended up going to the pool with their friends. Their grandfather is staying with them this summer and watches them while their parents are at work. He will take my girls with him when he takes his granddaughters. I will often take them when I take my girls. So, it's nice to let them be able to go swimming sometimes without having to go myself, and chase the boy around the whole time.

Sad thing is, those little girls are moving at the end of this month. The girls just had another friend, that they often played with, move last month. Also, a little girl that my younger daughter played with a lot just moved this week. So there really aren't that many more kids around that they can play with. We have had several neighbors move in recently, but none of them have kids. Hopefully we will be able to get some new neighbors soon that have some little girls!

Restroom Signs

Friends don't let friends take home ugly men.
Women's restroom
Starboard, Dewey Beach, DE

Beauty is only a light switch away.
Perkins Library
Duke University, Durham, NC

If pro is opposite of con, then what is the opposite of progress? Congress!
Men's Restroom
The House of Representatives, Washington DC

You're too good for him.
Sign over mirror in Women's restroom
Ed Debevic's, Beverly Hills, CA.

No wonder you always go home alone.
Sign over mirror in Men's restroom
Ed Debevic's, Beverly Hills, CA

A Woman's Rule of Thumb: If it has tires or testicles, You're going to have trouble with it.
Women's restroom
Dick's Last Resort, Dallas, TX

A Man's Rule of Thumb: If it has tires or tits, It's gonna cost you.
Men's room
Dick's Last Resort, Dallas, TX

TGIF!

Well, our VBS is finally over. It was a fun, but tiring week. It was from 6-9 p.m. Sunday-Thursday nights. I spent the evenings co-teaching music. The other lady did most of the talking, which was absolutely fine by me. I was just there to help show the movements (signs) to the songs. Except last night, the song we learned had a little rap in the middle of it, and she couldn't get the timing down with the first group, so I was put on the spot to do the rap for the rest of the groups. I felt like a major dork, but that's ok.

It is a fun job to do, but it does get a little repetitious. We teach the same songs to all the groups of kids, so we are doing the same songs over and over all evening. Tonight there is a pool party from 8-10 p.m. The girls really want to go, but it has been raining and I am worn out. So, I don't know if we will end up going or not.

It has been a yucky week here in central OH as far as the weather. It has rained a lot this week. Yesterday, we wanted to get out of the house, so I took the kids to play at McDonalds. The little man found a little girl to play with. He is in this hitting phase right now (which, btw, is getting really old!). He started out by hitting her and she cried. Then I made him appologise to her. Next think I knew, he was holding her hand and leading her around, trying to get her to go up in the tunnels with him. Oh, man, what am I in for with this kid?!!


(How you doin'?)

Then, today, we met up with trin and her little guy for a little while at the pool. After that, I had some grocery shopping to do. I've still got another store to go to after guru gets home, if he ever finishes up with the project he's working on today. He is usually home by 6:00, but here it is, well after that time, and he is still at work (about an hour away) with no end in sight to this project.

I wish I could just hop into bed and not get up until Monday!

Sunnin' and Singin'

I mentioned in my last post our church's VBS started this week. It kicked off Sunday evening. I watched the DVD and learned the music and movents on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. I pretty much got them down. I was very proud of myself. The kids are doing awesome with them as well.

We spent this afternoon at the pool with some friends. The girls all had a great time. And I ended up chasing the boy around the whole time, as usual. I've been reminded this summer how UN-fun it is to take a 2 year old to the pool. He is in a very independant stage and thinks he is invincible. AAAAAHHHHH!

But he did stop for a few seconds (and I mean, literally, a few seconds) to soak up some sun.


I barely had time to grab my phone to take this picture before he was done and ready to go run around the pool some more. (I know it's not safe to run around the pool, but try to tell that to a 2 year old!)



Then it was time to come home, get showers, and head back out to VBS. I'll tell you what, for not knowing these songs a couple of days ago, I have heard them enough the past 2 nights to make me sick of them. There are still 3 more nights to go!!! That's ok. It really is fun. And the kids all seem to be having such a good time learning them.

Well, that's about all I've got for ya today, except to ask you to say a prayer for our friend OZ who was in a motorcycle accident last night.