It's about 80 (26.7C) degrees out right now. How bizarre. This is Florida, but it makes the whole Christmas thing very surreal. Inside the mall, listening to Christmas songs about snow and stuff, seeing Christmas in its full over-commercialized glory and walking outside where you wish you were wearing shorts because it's so warm. Not ( Read more... )

Mary Poppins was on TV last night and I watched it. In spite of the ridiculous number of commercial breaks it suffered at the hands of ABC Family, I really enjoyed it. I hadn't watched the movie in many years! I didn't realize it was in Technicolor. My husband says he thinks even decades-old Technicolor movies look better than a lot of movies ( Read more... )

I had a very odd phone call this morning at work ( Read more... )

December 7th, 1941.

I watched Possession last night. It wasn't that great of a movie, although there were some good performances in it. A vague summary of the story: two modern-day scholars (Gwyneth Paltrow and Aaron Eckhart) go try to unearth information that could prove a connection between two Victorian poets (Jennifer Ehle and Jeremy Northam). My biggest ( Read more... )

Do you ever momentarily forget how old you are and have to really think about the relation between the year you were born and the current year to figure it out?

A picture is supposedly worth a thousand words, but I'm not sure in this case. This picture is worth the following words:

In browsing this silly site, I have come across this picture several times and it makes me laugh every time, so I'm posting it in hopes that it will make you laugh as well.

So, this picture is worth at least 34 words.


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Ha! I had my first experience at my current job of being cursed at over the phone. Not a barrage of insults or anything, but I have to tell the ridiculous story so you all can agree with me about what a biatch this lady was ( Read more... )

Last night I had some free time, so I sat down and watched extra features on some of the DVDs I own. I have watched all my movies, but many extras have been untouched. My favorites are the little "the making of" featurettes.

I noticed that in the featurettes for both Bridget Jones's Diary and Shakespeare in Love, music from the score of the ( Read more... )

Bing Crosby's voice - It's like velvet.

icanhascheezburger.com - It never gets old to me.