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Ghetto Dry

I washed my three pairs of khakis yesterday afternoon since I needed a clean pair for work this morning. When I went to grab a pair to put on this morning not a single pair was dry. Which poses a couple of problems for me; I'm not willing to wear wet pants and I don't have a dryer. Being the resourceful gal I am I busted out my hair dryer (for the first time ever) and started drying my pants with my hair dryer. The ghetto drying mission was a success and I made it to work on time.

New Obsession

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My new obsession is Criminal Minds. I never really got into it before because I lean towards mindless television like Mob Wives or My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. (Which by the way is fabulous even if I spend most of the time reading the subtitles because of those extreme cockney accents.) I caught a couple episodes of Criminal Minds here and there but it never stuck until recently. A&E plays re-runs of it every morning and I have recently started watching it while I get ready for work. With every T.V. show I get into late in the game, I started buying the seasons to catch up. I'm almost done with Season 1 and will be buy the next few seasons shortly. Somebody is having a super sale and they are only $15 a season. Score!


Now on to the things I like and dislike about the show. My favorite character on the show is Dr. Reid. His weirdness is what makes him awesome. He is extremely awkward but in a still a way that still makes him likable. He's that friend that when he starts you just shake your head and tell people who aren't used to it, "Don't ask."  We all have one. 

Matthew Gray Gubler aka Dr. Spencer Reid

Shemar Morgan aka Derek Morgan

The character I wish would go away is Elle. Seriously, a waste of screen time. I do like Garcia, the computer wiz, though. She's funny and her quirkiness helps balance out the gravity of the show. Derek Morgan (Shemar Moore) is always pleasant to look at. I remember him as Orlando from Diary of a Mad Black Woman. Liked him then, like him now. I also like JJ. It took me forever to place her from a movie I had previously seen but I finally did. She was the love interest of one of the London brothers in Out Cold. (It's a funny little movie that even includes Zach Galifianakis.) Hotchner is fine. I don't have a strong opinion of him one way or the other. I do like that his wife is crazy Andi (Pacey's first legal girlfriend) from Dawson's Creek.That leaves Gideon. The actor who plays him was also Inigo Montoya in the Princess Bride. Seriously it's him. Give it a second and it will all click. My Mom blew my mind with this.

Inigo Montoya aka Mandy Patinkin aka Jason Gideon

Every time I'm watching him as Gideon I really just want him to tell everybody that he encounters that he is looking for a six fingered man and to say, "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die," to one of the unsubs. Seriously, if only. I also wouldn't mind if his weapon of choice was a sword and he was the best fencer in all of the land. (Side note: My roomie, Lulu has never seen The Princess Bride. Her childhood was obviously lacking. Also I suggest you watch it if you haven't. Or if you want to get old school you could even read the book.) 


So far I am really enjoying this series even if I do have to sleep with my bedroom door locked some nights. I don't know why I didn't start watching it earlier considering I find this kind of stuff interesting. (I did consider taking a class as freshman in college called Serial Killers.) I blame reality television. It's loud, obnoxious and it sucks you in. You can't help but gawk at a train wreck even if you know you should pick your jaw up off the floor and run away. 
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All Big Ang, All The Time

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Big Ang (my favorite Mob Wife of all time) is getting her own show on Vh1! I couldn't be more excited. The show will premiere this summer. They have ordered 10 episodes running 30 minutes long each. I'm at pee my pants level excited. Seriously, a full 30 minutes of nothing but Big Ang and her awesomeness. I don't know how we functioned so long with out it.

Check out the full article on the Vh1 blog here.

Weekend Movie Review

This weekend I watched Footloose (the remake) and Winter's Bone. Both came out over a year ago but what can I say, I'm a little behind.

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Footloose was much better than I thought it would be. The new Ren, Kenny Wormald, is much cuter than Kevin Bacon even in the 1984 version.  He did a fine job and I even liked his Boston accent. The worst part of the movie for me was Julianne Hough. Seriously, every time she came on screen I wanted her to leave a soon as possible. She looked much older then she actually is. I'm attributing that to the darker hair and make-up. I know she's a good dancer but I thought it was only so-so here. There's a difference between hip-hop booty shaking and then in need of a stripper pole booty shaking. Hough was doing the latter. If that was the point of the movie then Congratulations! you did it. I'm sure at one point she will be a fine actress but the whole time I was watching her I just saw Julianne Hough not the character she was supposed to be playing. The best surprise of the movie was Miles Teller who played Willard. He was hilarious and so refreshing. It also doesn't hurt that he's cute but not in a pretty boy way. The best scene of the whole movie was when Willard is learning how to dance. Four little girls are singing Deniece Williams' "Let's Hear It for the Boy" and teaching Willard choreography. The little girls were so cute and the scene was very funny. Overall, the movie was pretty good. I would give it 2.5 stars out of 5.

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Winter's Bone features Jennifer Lawrence who was actually nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Ree Dolly in this movie. This movie is about a 17 year old girl who is taking care of her family after her Dad skips out on them and his bail. She must bring him in or prove he's dead to keep the bondsman from taking their house when he doesn't show up for court. The whole movie is her trying to find him and what happens during that time. It's a very good movie but it is not a feel good movie. It's based in the Ozarks which also happens to be the methamphetamine capital of the world. (I guess it's nice that Missouri comes first in something because it certainly isn't economic growth and development.) That fact plays an important part in the movie. I think they accurately portray drug dealers and cookers here. They aren't going to be flamboyant wearing gold chains and hanging out on street corners. Often times you can't tell when someone around here as money from legal or illegal gains. People who live in the Ozarks aren't flashy. You can tell that by watching the film since it was filmed in Forsyth, Mo. A small town consisting of 1,716 residents. It's 30 minutes (give and take) outside of Branson and Springfield. I thought Jennifer Lawrence's performance was fantastic and I can see why the Academy took notice. I highly recommend this movie as long as you go in not expecting a typical Hollywood happy ending. I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

Definitely Not Nirvana

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Courtney Love has tweeted that Dave Grohl has hooked up with her daughter Francis Bean Cobain, the daughter of his late Nirvana band mate, Kurt Cobain. Well it isn't true. Dave Grohl denied it and made the comment that Love was on another twitter rant and he was the lucky recipient. Francis Bean has said it wasn't true and asked for her mother to be banned from twitter. Can't say I blame the poor girl.


Courtney Love is kind of the 90's heroin version of Stevie Nicks but with much less talent, more drug use and craziness.

Screw PETA, I'm Team Jennifer

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Looks like PETA is feuding with someone else this week so it looks like Kim K is safe from another flour bomb this week. This weeks lucky recipient of their wrath is Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer Lawrence made some comments about a scene she did in Winter's Bone. In the movie she skins a squirrel for her movie family to eat. Apparently, this wasn't a fake squirrel in the movie. She also said that she should probably lie about because of PETA and then went on to say screw PETA. Well, of course that didn't sit well with crazy animal lovers. 


I'm all for animals being treated well and not killed for erroneous purposes. If animals are being killed for sustenance, then I'm cool with that. I eat meat like a lot of other human beings. It's part of life. I am opposed to people wearing fur though. For one, they often skin those animals alive. Just horrible. And two, fur is so hideous and tacky. Seriously, I've never saw anyone wearing fur and thought "Damn, they look cute today." Because wearing fur is ugly and wearing fur makes you look cheap.

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For the purpose of the movie I don't think they had to use a real squirrel. I was an indie film so they may not have had the budget to get a fake one or they wanted the realism. People in the Ozarks eat squirrel. I should know because I was raised in the Ozarks. I have never eaten squirrel, nor do I plan to but I know people who have. People of the Ozarks also eat a lot of food they hunt themselves like venison, wild turkey, fish, and other wild life that is not necessarily sold at a super market. 


I also think it's great that Jennifer Lawrence didn't lie about it and even told PETA to screw off. Good for her. PETA annoys me. I know a lot of vegetarians and vegans who don't support PETA because they are so extreme and most of the members seem cray. I'm sure their are some very sane and non extreme PETA members but you never hear about them. I like what PETA stands for (stopping animal abuse) but not the way they go about it. They jump on everyone about any little thing they do or say. Granted they have the right to say it but when you constantly harp on people you tend to lose your merit. It gets old and you stop listening. They also throw red cups of "blood" and other substances on people. Case in point, the Kim Kardashian flour bomb. While hilarious, it wasn't right. She was already choosing to wear fur, so "attacking" her about wearing fur probably won't make her stop wearing fur. It's like someone who is homophobic. Shoving your sexuality in their faces won't make them any less homophobic. It will actually make them more homophobic. I have kind throw PETA into the same category of the Westboro Baptist Church. Angry extremists with lots of time on their hands to be judgmental. 


This made me giggle.

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Hunger Games (The Movie) and the End of an Era

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Lulu aka the Roommate and I have been in our new place for almost a month now and we have turned into the Golden Girls. Actually that's a lie, the Golden Girls went out more than us. We are too young to be in bed by 10:30p on both Friday and Saturday nights every weekend.

 So last Friday I decided we needed to go out and do something. Our original plan was to go downtown to Big Whiskeys and grab an outdoor table and watch all of the girls stumbling in and out of Icon in their mini dresses and heels. Well those plans had to change when Lulu dropped the bomb on me that Icon closed. I was so sad to hear that. I had only been to Icon a couple of times because I have enough self esteem to not want to be rufied and grinded up on by randoms. I did; however, love to watch the people coming in and out of there. Last time Lulu and I did a people watching sesh there, we saw several people get arrested/ticketed for MIPs. We also saw a guy attempt to attack one of the Icon bouncers and it didn't go well for him. The bouncer won and the guy was arrested. He was so out of control that the police had to restrain him to the ground while they waited on a paddy wagon to show up to take him to jail. If that it is not a legitimately fun night than I don't know what is. But since Icon no longer exists, the plans had to change. 

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In attempt to bring me out of my depression Lulu decided we should go see the Hunger Games. It was actually a really good movie. It was very refreshing to see a movie follow the book and when they did add stuff to the movie that wasn't in the book, it actually contributed to the story. Since the book was written in Katniss's POV you got the insight of her thoughts. You can't do that with a movie so they had to add more stuff about the game makers and the making of the Hunger Games. It was good because it actually added a lot and made the movie better. I thought Jennifer Lawrence did a great job as Katniss. The best part about Katniss's physical appearance in the movie was her awesome side braid. It was a half french braid on each side that formed into a single side braid. Talk about awesome! 
I also liked Josh Hutcherson much more in the movie than in person. When I first looked at his picture and saw how short he was I really didn't know if he would be believable as Peeta but he really captured Peeta's charisma with the Capitol spectators. Liam Hemsworth as Gale was fine. His part in the movie was pretty small, as to be expected. I think Liam looks better in real life than he did in the movie because he tends to be a little scruffy. I was also super excited to see Katniss's Mom was Maureen from Sons of Anarchy. Totally made me more interested in the movie from the get go. I'm really looking forward to seeing the second movie. The second book was my least favorite out of the three but I'm looking forward to seeing if the things they add to the movie will make me like it better.

If you need a Hunger Games fix check out some movie and promo pictures here.

No More Questions

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As a twenty something, college graduate it's inevitable I am going to get asked the "life"questions. What do you do? What do you want to do? Did you graduate from college? What's your major? Are you going to go back to school because what are you going to do with that major? Do you have a boyfriend? You don't have a boyfriend, why not? Do you like boys? These are the types of questions I get on a daily basis. These are probably some of the most annoying questions ever to be asked! Yes, complete stranger I would like to go into the woe is me tales of why I graduated 2 years ago and am still working a front desk job. That sounds like a nice out of the blue subject I'd like to tackle today. Trust me, do you think if I had everything figured out I'd still be working a front desk customer service job? No, I'd be doing something else. But the job market is crap and I'm still completely undecided on what I would like to do every day of my life for the next 40 years. So please stop asking. While you may think you're just making conversation, I actually get extremely uncomfortable and want to crawl out of my own skin. I know what you're going to ask me and I don't have answers. So now I'm going to have to explain myself, opening myself up to your judgy eyes. My hope is that people will start asking me questions that are a bit more relevant and less philosophical. For example, How did I get my hair to look that awesome today? Or What did you think of last night's episode of Sons of Anarchy? Or who do I think will win the AL East this year? (For the record I will always say the dynasty that is the New York Yankees.) So far now on these are the only questions you will get an answer to. Oh the "life" question you asked, I'm pretending it didn't happen. 

Mockingjay

I finished the final installment of the Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay. I liked this one better then the second one but the first book would still have to be my favorite. Mockingjay had a lot of build up to an intense battle for the Capitol and to assassinate President Snow. Then fizzled out. I was ready more of a battle sequence then what transpired and I understand why a lot of people thought it just lost steam. I must say I was a little disappointed by it but since I was prepared for it I was able to get over it in 3 seconds. I thought the rest of the book was good. I liked that we got to know more about the characters especially the other Victors. In the end Katniss chooses to be with Peeta which I already knew was going to happen and still support after reading the trilogy. 


Now I just have to watch the movie. Which I actually want to watch but just need to find the time to do so.