Finally back!

Life on Mars. Thank goodness we had electricity so we could watch it. There are still many without. That was a crazy storm that moved through. We have NEVER gotten 4 inches of sleet/ice pellets. And then of course the 3 inches of snow just added to the fun. WOOHOO!

While I'm here I should probably add some more movie reviews:

Step Brothers-as stupid as you expect
The Deal-this was good, I always expect a movie with William H. Macy to be good
Meet Joe Black-I can't believe I had never seen this, it was fantastic!
Sex in the City-I liked it, I know many didn't, oh well
The Family that Preys-another great Tyler Perry movie

We haven't gone completely stir crazy but everywhere you look outside is blinding white, and our driveway hasn't been touched except where the lovely street plowers pile more ice up at the entrance. Maybe today..............

:-) Peace

Yes, We Can.................

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Everyone knows its been frigid here the last couple of days, so last night I hunkered down with a pot of chili and a couple of movies. 1st off the chili was very good. I don't use a recipe so you never know how it is really going to turn out. But last nights pot was great! I guess you never really know how a movie is going to turn out either even though you see the previews. I thought "Swing Vote" was going to be a comedy. Well, it does make you laugh, but it also makes you cry and makes you think. It was a very good movie. I was pleasantly surprised. I recommend it to everyone. Also watched "My Best Friends Girl". I really like Katie Hudson but this one is just not as good as I hoped. It's not bad, but just NOT GREAT.

Thank goodness we are getting back to more normal weather today.

:-) Peace

More movie info

While Robbie is watching a boring movie I thought I would report on some GOOD movies I've seen lately.

"The Cleaner"-good movie, good plot twists
"diminished capacity"-good also
But, the best was "Eagle Eye"-very, very, very good.

And that doesn't count re-watching "50 First Dates"," Big Momma's House" and the best of the 1st season of "Mary Tyler Moore Show".


In between time we also had the Stokes Xmas celebration, so I made 3 pairs of machine knit fingerless mitts and a hand knit scarf to go with other gifts.

Even tho I have been "face booking" I need to make myself blog more often. So I shall try.

:-) Peace

Happy New Year to all!

:-) Peace

It's Christmas Eve!!!

And I'm sure you are either excited or panicked. It's a day for last minute stuff. Last minute shopping, wrapping, baking. I'll be doing all three. It does help that the Stokes' are not doing their Xmas till after NYE so I have extra time there. Robbie decided this year he wanted to do email Xmas cards instead of snail mail. I'm not thrilled with the concept, but I will be doing that today also.

Our "green" elephant Xmas party Saturday night was a riot!! We will be doing that every year I'm sure. We all had lots of fun, and most went home with nice and useful gifts :-)

On the movie scene I have still been watching lots of Xmas movies. Some are about Xmas, some are just set during Xmas but they count. "Die Hard 1", "Lethal Weapon 1", "Grumpy Old Men 1", "While You were Sleeping" are all set during Xmas. Re-watched all of those. Re-watched all 3 "Santa Clause" movies, "Christmas with the Kranks" and "Surviving Christmas". A new one for me was "Noel". I don't know how I missed this one but it is a 9 1/2 hankies out of 10. It was VERY good. An oldie funny one I also missed was "Elf". Another new one was "Christmas Cottage", pretty good. None Xmas movies were "The Dark Knight" (fairly good) and "Mamma Mia!" (total chick flick but very good). A not new movie "She's the Man" (teenager movie, but cute).

We are definitely not going to have a White Christmas as it is 52 degrees right now, but it will be a wet one.

Peace :-)

Non Blogger

Yep, it's me the "not been blogging girl". I've been both busy and lazy I guess. We have been playing with our Christmas present to ourselves. I've been watching xmas movies and listening to xmas music. Robbie has been re-watching his sci-fi movies. The sound bar system is great. I have hooked up and tried about 6 antennas with not much more luck. We get a couple of local channels great and thats it. But we are more of movie watchers anyway. TV-wise tho the last Boston Legal ever was great, going to really miss that show!! Movie-wise we watched Fred Claus again (it is that good). Christmas Cottage (10 hanky-but I loved it) Scrooged (Bill Murray is alwasy good for a laugh) The Perfect Holiday (just ok) and of course Christmas Vacation and Home Alone.

We only put up a little 3 foot tree this year, but it is cute. Have big plans for next year because I just got a bunch of new beautiful ornaments yesterday on clearance on our Belleville girls day out trip.

The usual saturday nite suspects are doing something cool this year for Christmas. We are going green by having a White (green) Elephant draw number game. We all bring something we already own (wrapped) and draw numbers to pick gifts (or steal from already opened ones) You can re-gift something, or bring a gag gift, or just something you are tired of. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!!! and it will be lots of fun, and no gift buying stress.

:-) Peace