Get Smart

As you can see, we watched movies this weekend. Gary has a rotten cold so we laid low.

I used to hate this show when I was younger, BORING. But I love Steve Carell so I decided to put it on my Netflix list. He didn't disappoint. He was very good and funny and I like Anne Hathaway, she is so pretty! But I wouldn't rush to watch it again either.

House Bunny

I loved Anna Faris in Just Friends, she was hilarious, and also in Scary Movie 2 so I was really looking forward to seeing this movie. I was a little leery about her trying to be the lead in a comedy and I was right to be. She didn't pull it off, it was an okay movie, and there were some pretty funny parts but all in all I was disappointed.

This picture is funny if you know the song. Dogs in cars are so funny, they think they are human.

Your Heart Belongs to Me

This is Dean Koontz at his best. This is about a 34 year old Internet entrepreneur who seems to have it all. Money, a nice house and a beautiful girlfriend. Out of nowhere he starts having troubling symptoms and within days he is diagnosed with incurable cardiomyopathy and is put on the transplant list.

One year later he has a new heart and life is looking up again until he starts receiving mysterious little gifts and even more disturbing a graphic video of a heart surgery with the message "Your heart belongs to me". He is being stalked by a woman who is the spitting image of the 26-year old donor of the heart he received.

And she has come to take it back.

Awesome book.

The Dark Knight

We watched this movie last night. It was sooo long, 2 hours and 33 minutes. Gary was sound asleep by the end. I nodded off somewhere in the middle and jerked awake when something exploded on the movie. I don't think I missed much. Although this type of movie is not normally my cup of tea, I had to watch and see the late, great, Heath Ledger in his role as the Joker. That was the only good thing about this movie, how he brought this character to life, he was brilliant. The rest of the movie was downright plodding in a lot of parts. I give this 3 stars but only because of the Joker.

Christmas 2008

Mom and Dad's Tree

Shell, Mom and Me

Gary, Brooke, Me and Nicole

Shell, Nick and Mom

My beautiful girls!

Mom and Dad

Brooke, Mom and Nicole

Gary and Louie

Christmas Day at Shelly and Charley's

Billy and Gary

The new addition to the family, Sophie

Nicole and Eric here on Christmas Night

I can't believe after all that planning and wrapping, it is all done and over with. Phew, it is exhausting! On Christmas Eve we went to my parents house, the weather had turned nasty, sleet and freezing rain. We had Chinese food and then opened gifts. We didn't leave there until after midnight, and the ride home was horrible! We took the highway and it had warmed up so instead of ice on the road there were thick white pockets of fog. I was terrified that a moose would be standing in the middle of the highway and we wouldn't be able to see it. (a woman was killed a couple of months ago on that highway because she didn't see the moose that she hit!!) We got up kind of early on Christmas morning, after only 4 hours of sleep! Opened up another round of gifts. Gary and I did stockings this year because we had bought ourselves a new bedroom TV in the Fall. Brooke got me a really nice pocketbook from Wilson's Leather, and a wallet to go with it that she had bought when we were in Stowe. She must have seen me eyeballing it! We left at 1 and went to Gary's brother's house. They had 24 people I think, but somehow we managed to squeeze in. We had a delicious dinner with ham and turkey, squash, cheesy potatoes etc. Lots of food. We had a Yankee Swap afterwards, Brooke got a Dunkin Donuts gift card, I got a little pink teapot and Gary got a mini air compressor. After that we played Bingo, we were all losers of course. Got back home at 7, and Nicole and Eric came over. More gifts to open. They got us a gift card to Chili's and I also got slipper socks, bath gel and body spray from Bath and Body Works. Gary got some scratch tickets and he won $25! Brooke got the Vera Wang Princess perfume set. They left at 9 and we collapsed into bed.

I don't know if I was stupid or brave but I went out shopping yesterday. I didn't find any really great deals. I am all stocked up for wrapping paper, bows, tissue, gift bags, ribbon and card for next year though. I picked up a couple of small gifts, and put them in my wrapping closet. Hopefully I will remember who they are for next year!

Again

More snow. A lot of blowing and drifting but I think we got about 12". I don't think it stopped snowing this weekend at all. Maybe for a few hours on Saturday afternoon. Needless to say, I didn't go anywhere, thank goodness my shopping is done. Today I have an eye appt. and then I get to come home and..you guessed it! Shovel! yeah! i am pumped about that for sure. Louie will be happy though, he won't have to wade through snow deeper than him to get to where Gary snow blowed an area for him. We had a dominoes game yesterday, and I thought I was going to win, I was ahead for most of the game, and then Brooke snuck up on me and won. Not that I am a sore loser but maybe there was some cheating going on??? :)