hello, lovely

Stolen from kc.

1. Name a movie you have seen more than 10 times. Nothing to Lose. I love every part in that movie. LOL
2. Name a movie you’ve seen multiple times in the theater. Um, the only movie I remember seeing a zillion times in the theater was Legends of the Fall. We saw it 4 times. We cried like babies the first time, and everytime other than that, we cried just a little earlier, knowing what happens. Besides, long-haired Brad Pitt? Hot. lol
3. Name an actor who would make you more inclined to see a movie. Reese Witherspoon. I just love everything that she does!!
4. Name an actor who would make you less likely to see a movie. I can’t really think of anybody off the top of my head.
5. Name a movie you can and do quote from. The Rock: “But how, in the name of Zeus’s BUTTHOLE did you get out of your cell!?!” (I used to have this whole little section memorized, but that’s my favorite line. LOL)
6. Name a movie musical in which you know all of the lyrics to all of the songs. Moulin Rouge
7. Name a movie you have been known to sing along with. Moulin Rouge or any Disney animated movie I’ve seen. LOL
8. Name a movie you would recommend everyone see. Nothing to Lose!! *lol* The language is a bit strong, so if that doesn’t bother you, you should definitely see it.
9. Name a movie you own. Better Off Dead
10. Name an actor who launched his/her entertainment career in another medium but who has surprised you with his/her acting chops. Justin Timberlake.. he’s not like, the best, but I’ve seen him in a couple different things (plus SNL), and I just love ‘im.
11. Have you ever seen a movie in a drive-in? If so, what? Nope, but that would be so fun!
12. Ever made out in a movie? Nope, but I have had to sit next to people making out. It was uncomfortable… lol
13. Name a movie you keep meaning to see but you just haven’t gotten around to yet. Anything on my Netflix list… lol
14. Ever walked out of a movie? No, but I can think of two that I should’ve walked out of.
15. Name a movie that made you cry in the theater. I always cry at movies in the theater. I’m such a sap. I usually try not to when Joe’s with me, but yeah.. I’m a big baby. LOL
16. Popcorn? Depends… if I go w/ Joe, we usually get the “movie meal” things … little bit of popcorn, little bit of soda, and a little bit of candy. If I go w/ my family, we get like, everything. *lol* If I go w/ my sister, it’s a crapshoot. Sometimes popcorn, sometimes nachos, sometimes a hot dog. If I go by myself, it depends on my mood.
17. How often do you go to the movies (as opposed to renting them or watching them at home)? Lately, I”ve been going a lot. If Joe’s here, we go to one or two movies. If my sister and I feel like it, we usually go out to see a movie Friday night after work. I’ve started going myself, too. I love the movies. We went all the time when I was a kid, and then we stopped.
18. What’s the last movie you saw in the theater? Wild Hogs. It was pretty funny!
19. What’s your favorite/preferred genre of movie? Comedy or romantic comedy. Sometimes a good drama or action flick, but I’m always in the mood for funny.
20. What’s the first movie you remember seeing in the theater? Sleeping Beauty.
21. What movie do you wish you had never seen? Dead Man
22. What is the weirdest movie you enjoyed? ummm, I don’t know.
23. What is the scariest movie you’ve seen? The Shining really freaked me out. THe original one, not any of the newer versions.
24. What is the funniest movie you’ve seen? Nothing to Lose.

“It’s been alleged that if you’ve seen over 85 movies you have no life. Mark the ones you’ve seen. There are 239 films on this list. Copy this list, go to your own blog, paste it in and put x’s by the ones that you have seen. Add them up, figure out whether you’ve got a life or not, and post it.”

(X) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(X) Grease
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean
(X) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
( ) Boondock Saints
(X) Fight Club
(X) Starsky and Hutch
(X) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
(X) Airplane
(X) The Princess Bride
( ) AnchorMan
(X) Napoleon Dynamite
(X) Labyrinth
( ) Saw
( ) Saw II
(X) White Noise
(X) White Oleander
(X) Anger Management
(X) 50 First Dates
(X) The Princess Diaries
(X) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
(X) Scream
( ) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
(X) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
(X) Scary Movie 4
(X) American Pie
(X) American Pie 2
(X) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
(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
(X) Lilo & Stitch
(X) Finding Nemo
(X) Finding Neverland
(X) Signs
(X) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
(X) White Chicks
(X) Butterfly Effect
(X) 13 Going on 30
(X) I, Robot
(X) Robots
(X) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(X) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(X) Along Came Polly
( ) Deep Impact
(X) KingPin
(X) Never Been Kissed
(X) Meet The Parents
(X) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
(X) Joe Dirt
( ) King Kong
(X) A Cinderella Story
(X) The Terminal
(X) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(X) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
(X) The Ring
(X) The Ring 2
(X) Surviving Christmas
(X) Flubber
(X) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(X) Practical Magic
(X) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
(X) Secret Window
(X) I Am Sam
(X) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards
(X) The Day After Tomorrow
(X) Child’s Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(X) Ten Things I Hate About You
(X) Just Married
(X) Gothika
(X) Nightmare on Elm Street
(X) Sixteen Candles
( ) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
(X) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(X) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
(X) Bad Boys
(X) Bad Boys 2
(X) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number SlevIn
(X) Ocean’s Eleven
(X) Ocean’s Twelve
(X) Bourne Identity
(X) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
(X) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
(X) Ice Age
(X) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
(X) Curious George
(X) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
(X) Darkness Falls
(X) Christine
(X) E.T.
( ) Children of the Corn
(X) My Bosses Daughter
(X) Maid in Manhattan
( ) War of the Worlds
(X) Rush Hour
(X) Rush Hour 2
( ) Best Bet
(X) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(X) She’s All That
(X) Calendar Girls
(X) Sideways
(X) Mars Attacks
(X) Event Horizon
(X) Ever After
(X) Wizard of Oz
(X) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
(X) The Terminator
(X) The Terminator 2
(X) The Terminator 3
(X) X-Men
(X) X-2
(X) X3
(X) Spider-Man
( ) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(X) Catch Me If You Can
(X) The Little Mermaid
(X) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
(X) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
(X) The Hot Chick
(X) Shrek
(X) Shrek 2
(X) Swimfan
(X) Miracle on 34th street
(X) Old School
(X) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf’s Tribe
(X) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(X) The 40-year-old Virgin
(X) Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
(X) Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
(X) Lord of the Rings: Return Of the King
(X) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
( ) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
( ) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
( ) Base-ketball
( ) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Rejects
(X) Elf
( ) Highlander
(X) Mothman Prophecies
( ) American History X
( ) Three
( ) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(X) Monsters Inc.
(X) Titanic
(X) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(X) Shaun Of the Dead
(X) Willard
( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
( ) Hulk
(X) Dawn Of the Dead
(X) Hook
(X) Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
(X) 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
(X) Waterworld
(X) Kill Bill Vol. 1
(X) Kill Bill Vol. 2
(X) Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
(X) the Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) Army of Darkness
(X) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(X) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(X) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(X) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(X) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(X) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks: Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks: The Battle For Endor
( ) The Matrix
( ) The Matrix: Reloaded
( ) The Matrix: Revolutions
( ) Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
(X) Team America: World Police
( ) Red Dragon
( ) Silence of the Lambs
( ) Hannibal

I’ve seen 145 146 of these… so I guess, No Life!
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Edited to Add: I HAVE seen Finding Neverland, and I’ve corrected that grievous mistake so my mom doesn’t ground me.

You Are Not Destined to Rule the World

You are destined for something else… Like inventing a new type of cupcake. You just don’t have the stomach for brutality. But watch out - because many people do!

You Are 0% Homophobic

You’re open minded, tolerant, and accepting. And you’re not homophobic in the least

Well, I didn’t need a quiz to tell me that!!

You Are 20% NYC

At best, you’re a tourist. At worst, you’re a poseur.

You Are a Little Addicted to Gossip

In your view, most gossip is pretty harmless. And it’s a pretty fun way to pass the time! You’re willing to pass on some juicy details… As long as you’re not impacting anyone’s personal life too deeply.

What Your Hands Say About You

You are artistic, intuitive, and inspired. You have good people skills. Flexible and broad minded, you can fit in to any situation. There’s no telling where your life will take you. Consistent and reliable, you like to count on structure and routine in your life. Your emotions tend to be nervous and potent. Your energy - both positive and negative - deeply impacts your life.

So, my sister and I went out last night to see Music & Lyrics. It’s soooooooooooooooo sososososososososososososo cute that I actually want to own it on DVD when it comes out. *lol* I also want to buy the soundtrack, but only if the songs w/ Hugh Grant are actually sung by Hugh Grant on it. lol (Just checked iTunes *squee!* it is!) We also went to IHOP, which was soo good. I haven’t had IHOP in forever. lol.

I took her home, and normally I do a drive-by dropping off, but I wanted to show my mom the shawl after it blocked out. I told her everyone loved the edging she did *lol* Megan gave me a belated Valentine’s gift of a heart w/ Reese’s PB cups in it (yum)! Thanks, Megan.

I came home, and the apt was burning up so I turned the heater off, but forgot to turn it back on when I went to bed, so I woke up this morning to an apt that was almost 60 degrees. For whatever reason, that’s nice when I’m outside, but inside? Too damn cold. So I turned the heater on and went back to sleep. I woke up on my birthday! (Ok, not my ACTUAL birthday, but the time on the clock was 10:28.) Now I’m reading emails & blogs, watching cooking shows on PBS and will actually get my butt moving about 1pm to run the errands I need to run. I love the weekend.

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More quizzes!! Blogthings has had a bunch of new quizzes (I subscribe via bloglines so I get updated whenever they post new ones) lately, so that’s why so many quizzes. They’re stupid, but also a great way to waste a minute or two.

Your Boss Is Not Psycho

Even though you might hate your boss at times, your boss is pretty fair and upstanding. If you’re having trouble with your boss, you may just be having trouble with authority in general.

Good to know that my boss isn’t psycho. i did this w/ my “closest” boss in mine, not the boss-boss.

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You Are 36% Texas

You’re as welcome in Texas as a skunk at a lawn party.

Good to know it isn’t completely sticking. *LOL*

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You Are 8% Massachusetts

You Yankees loving homo! You probably think Starbucks coffee tastes better than Dunkin Donuts.

Dude. I hate coffee, and I don’t even know where a Dunkin Donuts is around here. *lol* I know where one USED to be. *lol*
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You Are 12% California

You are a bogus Californian. Go back to the East Coast.

Dude. I’m more California than I am East Coast. *LOL*

Nothing important to post, so here are a few interesting quizzes….

Your Brain is Purple

Of all the brain types, yours is the most idealistic. You tend to think wild, amazing thoughts. Your dreams and fantasies are intense. Your thoughts are creative, inventive, and without boundaries. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking of fictional people and places - or a very different life for yourself.

You Are Pretty Happy

You generally have a happy, fulfilling life. But things could be a little better, and deep down, you know it. Maybe you need more supportive friends or a more challenging career. Something is preventing you from being totally happy. You just need to figure out what it is!

You Are a Mac

You are creative, stylish, and super trendy. You demand the best - even if it costs an arm and a leg.

Stolen from Manda.

I’m using M since she took A, already, and using her answers would just be cheating.

Rules: Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following…They MUST be real places, names, things…NOTHING made up! If you can’t think of anything, skip it. Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

Your name: Manda
Athlete: Mike Modano
4 Letter word: Maar (how geeky is it of me that I actually looked in the dictionary to find a “cool” m word? hahaha)
Street name: Mockingbird Lane
Color: Magenta
Gifts/presents: Marble Magnets
Vehicles: Mustang
Tropical Locations: Manda Bay (I totally have to go there now. LOL)
College Majors: Meteorology
Dairy Products: Milk
Things in a Souvenir Shop: Magnets
Boy Name: Mark
Girl Name: Madeline
Movie Titles: Moulin Rouge
Alcohol: Merlot
Occupations: Makeup Artist
Flowers: Morning Glory
Celebrities: Mandy Moore
Magazines: Martha Stewart Living
U.S. cities: Menasha (no one said it had to be a MAJOR city. LOL)
Pro Sports Team: NY Mets

well, it’s not really about weird food. it’s about weird ways that i eat food, i guess. i found this on ro’s myspace or blog or something.

1) when i go to chili’s, i always have to get chips & salsa w/ a side of ranch. in fact, i can’t go to chili’s w/o getting the ranch on any/everything. [it's the best, and imo, they should bottle the stuff and sell it. because i can't find anything in the stores that tastes like it. wishbone is the only one that comes close.]
2) i love to eat pickles & ketchup. it’s usually best when the pickles are cold & the ketchup’s room temperature, but i don’t discriminate.
3) i can’t/won’t eat leftovers if they’re more than a day old. sometimes i’ll be brave and let it go 2 days. because i haven’t mastered cooking for 1 or 2, this results in me wasting a lot of food…whether i get rid of it right away or let it sit in the fridge until i feel like cleaning it out.
4) pretzels & cream cheese. yum.
5) joe and i go to applebee’s at least once everytime he visits. sometimes more than once. we almost always order the chips & queso w/ the spicy beef (applebee’s has the best queso, imo.)

I have nothing of substance to post, and Blogthings posted a few new quizzes, so… here you go:

In 1980 (the year you were born)

Jimmy Carter is president of the US President Carter announces punitive measures and embargos against the USSR in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupts in a violent blast estimated to be 500 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th US president in a sweeping victory US Representative Michael O. Myers is expelled from the House for his role in the Abscam scandal Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix Christina Ricci, Chelsea Clinton, Venus Williams, Jessica Simpson, Macaulay Culkin, and Jake Gyllenhaal are born Philadelphia Phllies win the World Series Pittsburgh Steelers win Superbowl XIV New York Islanders win the Stanley Cup The Empire Strikes Back is the top grossing film “Lady” by Kenny Rogers spends the most time at the top of the US charts U.S. viewers get caught up in the “Who Shot J.R.?” cliff hanger on the soap opera series, Dallas, which is solved on a November 21 episode, drawing a record numbers of viewers

You Are Not Very Worldly…Yet

You haven’t really traveled the world yet, but you’ll get around to it someday. In the meantime, it couldn’t hurt to broaden your perspective a little. Try a new type of foreign food or pick up a foreign movie to watch. You can become more worldly without a passport!

I probably should have done this yesterday, but I slept all day and then Joe went to a movie then we came home and started playing Trivial Pursuit Totally 80s! We didn’t finish the game because I was tired, but… I’m winning. Here’s my year in review, memestyle, as stolen from Miss Zoot.

1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?

* Got engaged
* Drove halfway across the country
* Went on a road trip w/ my sister

2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don’t do resolutions. I’d like to lose weight, and I have some yarny/knitty goals to accomplish, but that’s about it.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
My friend April gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Elizabeth Renee

4. Did anyone close to you die?
No, I don’t think so.

5. What countries did you visit?
Just the US.

6. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
A husband & a spinning wheel.

7. What dates from 2006 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 8, 2006 - the day I got engaged! June 11 - Lizzy’s Bday!.:) Sept 1 - TC got married!!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Getting my license

9. What was your biggest failure?
not finishing Joe’s afghan. lol

10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Just this thing that is a cold now but was something worse a few days ago.

11. What was the best thing you bought?
Um. my laptop.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
I have no idea.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
I don’t know.

14. Where did most of your money go?
Yarn & books.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
my half-way cross country trip w/ Joe and the road trip to Beaumont w/ my sister.

16. What song will always remind you of 2006?
Sexy Back. [I'm stealing Zoot's Answer.]

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a) happier or sadder? 
b) thinner or fatter? 
c) richer or poorer?
happier, the same, the same

18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Exercising

19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
sitting on my booty

20. How will you be spending Christmas?
hopefully up north w/ the fambly

21. Did you fall in love in 2006?
AWw, I love my Joe. I’ve been in love w/ him for a super long time… but I love him more every single day.

22. How many one-night stands?
zero

23. What was your favorite TV program?
CSI & Grey’s Anatomy

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
No

25. What was the best book you read?
Umm.. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

26. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Miser!!

27. What did you want and get?
my driver’s license & yarn.

28. What did you want and not get?
a spinning wheel and a new “little” camera

29. What was your favorite film of this year?
I have no idea… um. Cars. Because it was the first thing that came to mind.

30. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 26, and I had dinner with all my friends (Dina was there in spirit!!), and then TC, April, Joe and I went to SCREAMS

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
losing a bunch of weights..

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2006?
um.. is it clean? great.

33. What kept you sane?
knitting

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I don’t know.

35. What political issue stirred you the most?
Um. I don’t know.

36. Who did you miss?
Dina.

37. Who was the best new person you met?
I don’t know that I met anybody new, that I really have any sort of contact with or that I remember. I met a ton of people in Joe’s family and our new receptionist that doesn’t work there anymore is pretty cool… so um… all of those people plus our new/old receptionist.

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006.
Driving is easier & less time consuming than relying on public transportation.

39. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
“But lately I’m beginning to find that I should be the one behind the wheel.” - Drive, Incubus

You are The Moon

Hope, expectation, Bright promises.

The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.

The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.