Constantly amazed..

How certain songs or movies or books can affect me so.

I am absolutely SCARED about what JK Rowling will do with the final Harry Potter. I am a sucker for a happy ending and I am totally unsure if she will go that way.

I was thrilled to DEATH with the way Stephen King ended the Dark Tower series.. it gave me hope and helped me realize to take opportunities and have no regrets.

I LOVE Zach Braff and his amazing ending to Garden State.. when during the movie, Jason and I were holding hands and were so afraid that the plane would crash and he would die and that is how it would end. The reality was SO MUCH BETTER.

When I want a movie that will make me cry and laugh and be totally satisfied at the end, I pick either Garden State, Notting Hill or Sense & Sensibility. In that order.

Our family has a LOVE of Hayao Miyazaki's movies and Howl's Moving Castle makes me cry just to think about it! Always a message of love and acceptance.. always comforting at the end.

Zach Braff just added me as a friend to his MySpace account and I wanted to SCREAM! He has about 18000 friends but hey, he took the time to add me and that made me happy. Not to mention, that man has AMAZING taste in music.. the song on his MySpace page is by Imogen Heap, called Hide & Seek. Fricking AMAZING. I actually heard it MONTHS ago on Star94.1.. she does everything in this song completely accapella, and her tone is the kind that gives you goosebumps. They used it to choreagraph a dance on So You Think You Can Dance and I forgot to look and see who the musician was... now I know. I have a feeling that Last Kiss is going to be another movie I can't live without.

Ok.. so maybe it is almost that time of the month... I dunno but I am so damn emotional lately! I want to cry and laugh and do all of it at the same time.. weird.. Much Love.. S

Do ya ever..

Just sit back and think about High School? Maybe one time in particular where you were just CRAZY?

I was doing that the other day. I realized that as a parent now, I would FREAK OUT if I found out my teenager was doing some of the things I did. Not that I was a bad kid, because as kids go.. I was a good one. But there were some times where we just did STOOPID things!

For instance.... A girlfriend and I were driving around the local movie theatre one night and we saw some cute boys in a car.. we followed them.. chased them around the parking lot.. got them to pull over and then went to their house for a party! OMG... They were hotties.. and we DID have fun.. but still!!

Now it makes me think.. what kind of parent do I want to be when my kids are teens? I obviously won't be like MY parents, who were so doped up and into themselves that they didn't CARE what we did.. but I also don't want to hold the reins too tight because then they will lose respect for us and rebel. No rebellions please.

Anyway.. just an unrelated rambling for today. Just sit back for a minute and think about the FUN you had in High School/College. Not the crappy times, cuz there were PLENTY of those.. but a FUN time.. a CRAZY time....

S

Campin'

So yeah, we are camping right now. Of course, SOME would say we aren't camping at all.. since we have an RV.. but it is CAMPING to us! Well, I DO have my laptop and I AM skimming wi-fi access off of someone.. but still... we are all living in a 24 foot space together... LOL... we have a BBQ, bikes, swimsuits, folding chairs and BEER... now THAT is the way to camp.

In other news, we will soon be purchasing a home protection devise... AKA - GUN. The one Jason likes is a .45 1911 Kimber. I like the stainless steel with mother-of-pearl grips. hehe

Anyway... That's all for me, I will post pictures of Jason's new tattoo when we get back!
S

Another day....

Today I was all kinds of grown up... I got up at 5am, got ready and was out of here by 5:45am and on the road by 6am. Drove to Long Beach (no traffic WOO HOO) for my rep Monika Thomas' customer day. It was so much fun! Make n Take tables, teacher taught classes and of course, the 1 hour class with Ms. Kelly Pannachi herself!

So many cute projects and hanging out with fellow store owners!

Next year Jason wants to come with me. Got to order new Sandylion (ADORABLE) and Lil' Davis, got to see some new products I hadn't seen before. It was like a mini-trade show! Makes me sooo anxious for October - Memory Trends in Vegas baby! By FAR my favorite show of the year.

I had an AWFUL night last night and I am way paying for it today. Went to bed at midnight, tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. Kept waking up with the WORST stomach cramps... got a total of maybe 4 hours of sleep. On the way home from Long Beach I was sooooo sleepy and had an AWFUL headache to boot. Did make it home in one piece with minimal traffic. Had to sleep for like 2 hours and now feel soooo much better.

Working tomorrow. BIL and SIL and niece & nephew are planning to come out from Florida at the end of the month and we are SO excited! Curtis just wants to hang out and I can't wait to meet the lil' one for the first time! I get to babysit her!!

Ok... off to eat... see ya!