Category: Life

Sometimes, I feel the need to talk about me (imagine that).

A co-worker & I were im’ing to kill a bit of time at the end of our work day. We started talking about our plans for the evening and….

B: Primarily girls night at my house, few of S’s friends coming over, and most of them are…
B: hmm…
B: how to put this politely…
B: single, and for good reason?
Me: 😀
B: oh, and btw, no, you can’t blog this or my ass is grass
B: And no, I shouldn’t have given you the idea

Muahahahaha!

A friend of mine recently wrote talking about how she was feeling stressed out due to her job. She did so in by writing it as a hypothetical letter to “Divine Power That Is”. While I’m not a Divine Power; I’d still wanted to try writing something up to help her feel a bit better. Hopefully this works and to the friend in question here; if this posting doesn’t help…. Well, you’d best tell my wife so she can extract your revenge for you (or at least help you plan it). 🙂

For the rest of my readers who don’t know what I’m babbling about, don’t worry about it. You can just skip the rest of this entry.
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Just a quick meme idea that occured to me. Below I’ve listed the top 100 movies (according to IMDB.com’s all-time worldwide box office results). Copy the list to your blog and bold each of the movies you’ve seen.

All-Time Worldwide Box Office

  1. Titanic (1997)
  2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
  3. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001)
  4. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) But I wish I hadn’t
  5. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  6. Jurassic Park (1993)
  7. Shrek 2 (2004)
  8. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
  9. Finding Nemo (2003)
  10. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
  11. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) But I wish I hadn’t
  12. Independence Day (1996)
  13. Spider-Man (2002)
  14. Star Wars (1977)
  15. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)
  16. Spider-Man 2 (2004)
  17. The Lion King (1994)
  18. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  19. The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
  20. Forrest Gump (1994)
  21. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
  22. The Sixth Sense (1999)
  23. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
  24. Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002) But I wish I hadn’t
  25. The Incredibles (2004)
  26. The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
  27. The Passion of the Christ (2004)
  28. Men in Black (1997)
  29. Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi (1983)
  30. Armageddon (1998)
  31. Mission: Impossible II (2000)
  32. Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Best Star Wars movie, ever!
  33. Home Alone (1990)
  34. War of the Worlds (2005)
  35. Monsters, Inc. (2001)
  36. The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
  37. Ghost (1990)
  38. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  39. Aladdin (1992)
  40. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Harrison Ford & Sean Connery, woot!
  41. Twister (1996)
  42. Toy Story 2 (1999)
  43. Troy (2004)
  44. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
  45. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
  46. Jaws (1975)
  47. Pretty Woman (1990)
  48. Bruce Almighty (2003)
  49. The Matrix (1999)
  50. Gladiator (2000)
  51. Shrek (2001)
  52. Mission: Impossible (1996)
  53. Pearl Harbor (2001)
  54. Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
  55. The Last Samurai (2003)
  56. Tarzan (1999)
  57. Meet the Fockers (2004)
  58. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
  59. Men in Black II (2002)
  60. Die Another Day (2002)
  61. Dances with Wolves (1990)
  62. The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
  63. Cast Away (2000)
  64. Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
  65. The Mummy Returns (2001)
  66. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
  67. The Mummy (1999)
  68. Batman (1989)
  69. Rain Man (1988)
  70. The Bodyguard (1992)
  71. Signs (2002)
  72. Madagascar (2005)
  73. X2 (2003)
  74. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
  75. Gone with the Wind (1939)
  76. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
  77. Grease (1978)
  78. Ice Age (2002)
  79. Beauty and the Beast (1991)
  80. Godzilla (1998)
  81. What Women Want (2000)
  82. The Fugitive (1993)
  83. Hitch (2005)
  84. True Lies (1994)
  85. Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)
  86. Notting Hill (1999)
  87. Jurassic Park III (2001)
  88. There’s Something About Mary (1998)
  89. Planet of the Apes (2001) I never did get around to seeing this modern remake, but I have seen most of the originals.
  90. The Flintstones (1994)
  91. Toy Story (1995)
  92. Minority Report (2002)
  93. A Bug’s Life (1998)
  94. The Exorcist (1973)
  95. My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002)
  96. Basic Instinct (1992)
  97. Batman Begins (2005)
  98. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
  99. GoldenEye (1995)
  100. Ocean’s Twelve (2004)

*sigh* Given the quality of these films, I’ve seen faaaaaaar too many of them. I should be reading more.

Today marks the completion of my third decade on this planet and I am quite pleased to be able to announce that I ain’t dead yet. 😀 But worry not gentle reader, I’ll not be subjecting you to some passé retrospective about my life. Instead, I’ll just recap today and today alone.

I was up playing Wild Arms 3 till about 3 am as I just couldn’t sleep. Most likely due to an excessive amount of munching on holiday goodies while downing glass, after glass of soda1. I found one monster to fight that took around an hour to defeat but it jumped my characters up 4-7 levels! *grin* Then when I eventually got to bed; I slept poorly. Our apartment is just too dry this time of year and our little humidifier stopped working. This causes me to keep waking up with sinus headaches and a terrible thrist. I got out of bed about 8:30 – 9 and went back to playing the video game a bit more. Shortly there after, Michelle got up and gave me my birthday present.

What’d she get me? A case of blue balls Bawls. Then after lazing around most of the day; we headed out to the local mall to meet some friends.

I’d foolishly asked a bunch of friends to join us in watching the Narina movie with a follow-up plan to eat dinner together. There was one point that I’d not factored in these plans. This year, my birthday fell on a Saturday. Just about the last Saturday before Christmas. Traffic was insane and people all around were grouchy, though we did run across some nice people that helped us get around the parking lot2. We went over to the mall a little early and bought a new humidifer and then headed down to the theater. We got tickets, met up with our friends and went in to watch the The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

*whew* What a movie! While not perfect, it was probably as good as we could hope for from a Hollywood production.
High points:

  • The actress playing Lucy was spot on. Most of the other actors cast in the movie were also quite good
  • The backgrounds were gorgeous.
  • The addition of the Nazi bombing run at the beginning of the movie really helped to give context to the time of the story.

Low points:

  • The costuming on the witch. Her outfits were ugly and just didn’t work with the imagery I have in my head for the character. Though I do have to admit the black , soulless eyes did work for me.
  • The witch was not nearly as afraid of Aslan as she should have been. In my memories of the book, the witch was terrified of Aslan but the movie seemed to put them on a more even footing.
  • Maugrim’s voice. The actor doing the voice did a fine job, but being the only character without a british accent really stuck out and annoyed me.

Overall, I’d say it was worth seeing in the theater and it is something I’ll be adding to our DVD collection when it becomes available.

After the movie was over, we headed to the restaurant. Oh, I should mention we had called earlier in the day to try making reservations but were told they don’t do that for parties of less than 8. And that they would have plenty of room for the 6 of us. When we got there; we were told it would be a 2 hour wait. We decided to switch to the Oyama Sushi restaurant. They seated us within minutes of our arrival (even though they were already pretty packed). Then they plied us with drinks until our food was ready3. We had a jolly time chatting and drinking (non-alcholic, for the most part) but all good things do come to an end and eventually we all headed home. It was a very good day and while I ain’t dead yet; I am a bit tired so good night, sleep tight and don’t let the space bugs bite!

1 a.k.a. pop to you heathens.
2 A few people threw their cars into reverse to open up bigger areas for us to drive through and things of that nature.
3 It turns out this weekend contains not only my birthday and practically the last weekend before Christmas but it’s also graduation weekend for the University! No wonder everything was so packed today! This also explains why it took so long for our food to arrive.