Thanks to Zoe over at Bubbles in my Head, I have a new Christmas themed header graphic. I’m feeling very festive today.

I didn’t get a lot of reading done this past weekend for Zoe’s Read-a-ton contest. We had our diversity dinner at work on Friday and by the time I arrived home I was too bagged to try and read. Saturday was also a complete write off due to a planned Christmas party. Sunday was “mad fluff and stuff” day as we cleaned the house in preparation for Mom’s arrival on Tuesday night.

I did manage to start Grisham’s A Time to Kill but I’ve only made it through about 150 pages so far. The plan tonight is to sit back with the book and get at least another 200 pages finished before closing my eyes and heading off to sleep. I’ll be starting as soon as I post this since I have to be up at 5am to head to work *shudder*.

Wish me luck!

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A few minutes ago, while I was happily reading the news online, the hubby shouted down the stairs advising that “you better get up here quick”. He should have known better. On any Sunday that follows a night of copious amounts of red wine being drunk, I don’t move anywhere quickly.

Somehow while she was playing with a plastic grocery bag in the kitchen, Thanatos managed to get her body, head and front leg stuck through the handles. Her back legs were stuck in the main section of the bag. After a bit of wiggling about, she discovered herself stuck and immediately started wailing for help.

The hubby came rushing down the stairs with a squealing cat in his arms. Dumping her unceremoniously in my lap, he says “you deal with it”. It was a smart move on his part. Laying her head on my arm, she immediately stopped howling and squirming. Purring loudly, she patiently waited for me to extract her from the bag. A few ripped handles later and she was wiggling her way out of the bag.

Rescued, she stayed on my lap long enough to get a belly rub and some scratches behind the ears. Then, she toddled off back to rule her domain; the kitchen.

Famous last words: “Damn! We should have taken a picture of that before rescuing her.”

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They (I have no idea who “they” are) say if you have seen more than 85 of these movies you have no life. There are 252 movies on the list.

My number is 178. I should feel ashamed and bit embarrassed, but I’m a movie addict. Hollywood must love me. What’s worse, I’ve seen many, many more movies than this poor list consists of and as I sit here typing I’m plotting the next two movies I’m planning on seeing in theatres this week.

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
(x) Boondock Saints (we’ve watched this so much that we’ve worn out a DVD copy and had to buy a new one)
(x) Fight Club
(x) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story (I’ve seen the sequels too…)
(x) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane
Section Total: 10

(x) The Princess Bride
( ) Anchor Man
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) Labyrinth
(x) Saw
( ) Saw II
( ) White Noise
() White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
(x) The Princess Diaries
(x) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Running Total: 18

(x) Scream
(x) Scream 2
(x) Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
(x) Scary Movie 2
(x) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
Running Total: 27

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
(x) Resident Evil 1
(x) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
(x) The Village
(x) Lilo & Stitch
Running Total: 36

(x) Finding Nemo
(x) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
(x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
( ) White Chicks
(x) Butterfly Effect
( ) 13 Going on 30
(x) I, Robot
(x) Robots
Running Total: 44

(x) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
(x) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
( ) Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
(x) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
(x) Eight Crazy Nights
(x) Joe Dirt
(x) KING KONG (old and new of course)
Running Total: 54

(x) A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
( ) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
(x) Halloween
(x) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber
Running Total: 59

( ) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle (this is on my “to see” list)
(x) Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
(x) Ghost Ship
(x) From Hell
(x) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
(x) The Whole Ten Yards
Running Total: 68

(x) The Day After Tomorrow
(x) Child’s Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
( ) Ten Things I Hate About You
(x) Just Married
(x) Gothika
(x) Nightmare on Elm Street
(x) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
(x) Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
Running Total: 78

(x) Bad Boys
(x) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
(x) Lucky Number Slevin
(x) Ocean’s Eleven
(x) Ocean’s Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
(x) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
( ) Bedazzled
(x) Predator I
(x) Predator II
(x) The Fog (I’ve only seen the original, not one of the remakes)
(x) Ice Age
(x) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
Running Total: 90

(x) Independence Day
(x) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
(x) Christine
(x) ET
(x) Children of the Corn
( ) My Bosses Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
(x) War of the Worlds (I used to love the TV series, so of course I had to see the movie)
(x) Rush Hour
(x) Rush Hour 2
Running Total: 99

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
(x) She’s All That
(x) Calendar Girls
(x) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks (I want my two hours back..,and yours, and anyone else’s who had to sit through this movie)
(x) Event Horizon
(x) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
(x) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
(x) The Terminator 3
Running Total: 112

(x) X-Men
(x) X2
(x) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
(x) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
(x) Reign of Fire
(x) The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2
Running Total: 126

( ) Swimfan
(x) Miracle on 34th street (I love the old black and white version but I’m not a fan of it’s colorization)
(x) Old School
(x) The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
(x) Krippendorf’s Tribe
( ) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin
Running Total: 132

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Running Total: 138

(x) Baseketball
( ) Hostel
(x) Waiting for Guffman
(x) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Rejects
(x) Elf
(x) Highlander
(x) Mothman Prophecies
(x) American History X
( ) Three
Running Total: 145

( ) The Jacket
(x) Kung Fu Hustle
(x) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
(x) Willard
Running Total: 152

( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
(x) Hulk
(x) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
(x) Chronicles Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
(x) 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
(x) Waterworld
Running Total: 158

( ) Kill Bill vol 1
( ) Kill Bill vol 2
(x) Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
(x) Kingdom of Heaven
( ) the Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
(x) The Ghost and the Darkness
Running Total: 161

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
(x) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
(x) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
(x) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
(x) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Running Total: 169

(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
(x) The Matrix Revolutions
(x) Animatrix
(x) Evil Dead
(x) Evil Dead 2
( ) Team America: World Police
(x) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
(x) Hannibal
Final Total: 178

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My blog friend, Caylynn, has been doing this for a while so I thought I would try this out this week and see how it goes…

• Baby-sitting doesn’t count right? I was a booking clerk at a photo studio for the summer (between grades 10 and 11). I was allowed to work during the summer, but not during the school year.

Soup: Did you ever lose something really important to you?

• Prior to this year, I would have said that what was lost (stolen) that meant the most to me was my grandmother’s cross. My grandmother (on Dad’s side of the family) gave a cross and necklace to my mom after my parents married. My mom gave it to me when I graduated high school. About 6 years ago our house was broken into and the cross was stolen. I was so upset to lose a family piece, but my parents seemed happy that the hubby and I weren’t home at the time of the break-in. There was a bad spree of violent home invasions happening in the city at the time.However, it seems so trivial to mourn a piece of jewelry since losing my dad to cancer 2 months ago. Yeah, I’ve lost something really important to me.

Salad: What is the best Christmas present you ever received?

• My hubby bought me a vacuum cleaner for our first Christmas together. We lived in an apartment with lots of crappy old ’70’s carpet and I desperately wanted one. Despite lots of people telling him buying me a vacuum would be the death knell of our relationship, he ignored them and bought me the present I still think shows that he really understands me.

Main Course: Tell about a favorite “hang out” place for you and your friends when you were in high school.

• I was the nerdy loser with few friends. I didn’t have a hang out. I went home and did my homework.

Dessert: Name something that always brings a smile to your face.

• My cat, Thanatos.

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