Friday, January 15, 2016

Terrible Movie Poster Quotes: The Revenant Edition

The Revenant is a beautifully done movie.  The cinematography is amazing. The supporting cast is great. Here are my terrible movie quotes. 

"The wilderness was really crowded!"

"Leonardo DiCaprio does excellent...with the material he's been given."

"Hugh Glass is the Energizer Bunny."

"Leonardo DiCaprio emotionally reenacts the tauntaun scene from Empire Strikes Back."

"Hugh Glass's and Jim Bridger's life stories are the stuff movies are made of, but not really this movie." 


Sunday, January 10, 2016

Terrible Movie Poster Quotes: The Big Short Edition

We just saw The Big Short. We really enjoyed it, but it inspired me to write some terrible movie poster quotes.

"The best movie about the financial meltdown I've seen all year."

"McKay's movie about the financial crisis was more fun than the actual financial crisis."

"A great ensemble cast... I barely recognized Ryan Gosling."

"Steve Carell's finest and most emotional performance since Anchorman 2."

"Christian Bale is never better than when he's wearing some other guy's stanky shorts."

Friday, January 8, 2016

Currently: January 8 edition

Currently I'm...

Obsessed with comfort reading. There are some books that I want to return to when I feel stressed or depressed. I finished Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman for the second time. Other comfort reads include Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me by Mindy Kaling and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver.

Done with days getting longer. I'm really into a cold, dark winter this year. It seems to have passed too quickly and not been cold enough. 

Stressed about taking down our Christmas decorations. I'm not really ready to take them down, but we are 9 days past Epiphay and the only thing we've accomplished is to swap out the front door wreath and to take down the Christmas cards. 

Finding funny: Good Mythical Morning. It's good, clean fun for the whole family. Plus their North Carolina accents remind me of my friends, the Tates. 

Oversharing: I've felt really tired and stressed this week, and probably on the verge of bringing sick. My parents suggested that they might come to visit this weekend and I cried because, while I love to see them, I am so tired after spending the weekend with them. They decided not to come. 

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Currently: January 1 edition

Currently I'm...

Obsessed with the podcast "How to Be Amazing" by Michael Ian Black. I listened to all the episodes shortly after they were posted. Over the holiday break, I downloaded them all again and am working my way through them. Black's guests are so interesting and he asks good questions in an entertaining way.

Done with those Tasty videos that are clogging up my Facebook feed right now.

Stressed about end-of-the-year reports are due for work. I have a three different kind of reports to complete and each one is a little bit different. They are so time-consuming and tedious.

Finding funny: Lily has been drawing funny notes to herself as reminders to get her lunch out of the refrigerator.


Oversharing that I copied this format from a 16-year-old podcaster. 

Monday, October 12, 2015

Fall Bucket List

This evening has been the most autumnal Monday evening ever in terms of celebrating. Here is our family fall bucket list.

1. Go to a pumpkin patch.
2. Roast pumpkin seeds.
3. Carve pumpkins.
4. Rake leaves.
5. Cut out thankful cards.
6. Bake apple cake. I baked our apple cake last weekend before to use up some apples from Mom and Dad's tree.
7. Go to a corn maze.
8. Eat caramel apples. Apparently I'm the only one who likes caramel apples in my house. So I bought one for myself and ate it over the sink, per tradition.
9. Read Harry Potter: Sorcerer's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire, Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince, Deathly Hallows. We started on September 1, the first day of school at Hogwarts.
10. Cider. I made myself a cider cocktail with the apple bourbon from Wigle.
11. S'mores.
12. Decorate for Halloween. Tim did this one. We went to Hallmark tonight and he found a new Halloween thing. It is a salt and pepper set of a jack-o-lantern and black cat. He said, "We don't have any black cats!!"
13. Decorate for Thanksgiving.
14. Make chili.
15. Make thankfulness garland.
16. Donate to Harvesters.
17. Go hiking.
18. Take a daytrip.
19. Watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
20. Go camping.
21. Have a picnic.
22. Geocache.
23. Coffee shop. I had a pumpkinhead at Headrush last weekend.
24. Buy the best fall candle. We went to Yankee Candle tonight and I got to pick! I got Apple Spice and Ginger Pumpkin.
25. Bake a pumpkin treat.
26. Mulled wine.
27. Go to library event.
28. Go to a fall festival.
29. Celebrate Lily's birthday.
30. Take a Roasterie tour.
31. Visit a historic site.
32. Go to the Nelson.
33. Go rollerskating.
34. Take a drive.
35. Take pictures.
36. Watch the Great Pumpkin.
37. Watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
38. Go to planetarium.
39. Give someone fall flowers.
40. Go to the park.
41. Have a sampler pack of pumpkin beer. I bought it last weekend and finished tonight. I had a Blue Moon Harvest Pumpkin Ale, a New Holland Ichabod Pumpkin Ale, a Shipyard Pumpkinhead, a Shock Top Pumpkin Wheat, a Schlafly Pumpkin Ale, and a Traveler Pumpkin Shandy.
42. Go to trunk-or-treat.
43. Make our Halloween gingerbread house.