10 Movies From My Childhood

This week's Ten on Tuesday has to do with movies of my childhood. I love being taken away by a good movie. I was a child back in the day of the vhs & beta wars. The Brat Pack movies were during my teen years. Not a bad time to grow up with the movies!

1. Grease - I saw this movie when I was 8 years old. Oh, how I loved it! I owned the double album, books, posters, you name it. When it came out on vhs, a more excited girl there never was. And I was thrilled beyond belief when I introduced it to Lamb and she loved it as much as I did when I first saw it. 2. Gone With The Wind - Back in the day before vcrs, Gone with the Wind would come on t.v. once a year. I would anxiously await the time it would air. In my eyes, Vivien Leigh was the absolute most beautiful woman in the world and Clark Gable the most debonair man. I would wait all a twitter to hear: You, sir, are no gentlemen. And, you are no lady. 3. Wizard of Oz - another movie that came on t.v. about once a year. It would scare me to death. My Navy dad was stationed in Hawaii and I can remember him calling us one night and I excitedly told him that I finally watched the whole entire movie. I made it past the flying monkeys!
4. Blue Hawaii - The highlight of summers when I would visit my dad was to stay with my aunt and uncle. We would HAVE to watch Blue Hawaii with Elvis Presley. I insisted. To this day, that is still my favorite Elvis movie and he even sings my favorite Elvis song in it5. Footloose - I was about Lamb's age when this movie came out. It was such fun and had *the* best soundtrack at the time. It even caused me to crush on Kevin Bacon for a bit. And, for shame, they are REMAKING it!!! With Zac Efron as Ren!!! Now, I like Z.E. just fine. But, I don't think the movie needs to be remade. I'm still quite verklempt about it6. Star Wars (trilogy) - I can remember my mom debating about taking my brother & me to see this sci-fi movie that everyone was talking about. She finally decided that we could handle it. My brother & I loved it! My brother collected all the toys and that was one thing that we would/could play together. For Christmas, my mom would hunt down the specific hot toy Coastie Brother wanted (along with every other boy in America). Sadly, the toys were lost/damaged/something and didn't live long enough for youngest brother or even Bear to play. Like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Star Wars movies have been loved by all the generations in my family7. Top Gun - I've already told ya'll how this movie changed my life. 8. Dirty Dancing - This is a movie from my teen years. As a matter of fact, I was a senior in high school when it came out. It charmed me! I saw it like 3 times in the movie theater. "Nobody puts Baby in the corner" was our mantra for a time.
9. Breakfast Club - Another teen movie. This is my favorite Brat Pack movie. I always wondered what happened Monday at school.
10. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - This is the first Marilyn Monroe movie that I saw. She enchanted me. Absolutely beautiful and funny. And that pink dress!! I still covet that pink dress she wore when she sang Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend.honorable mention: Indiana Jones trilogy - another movie Coastie Brother and I loved as kids. I remember I had to leave my seat when the huge spiders were all over his back. Made me ill. There was another lady out there with me who was skeeved as well. Now I can sit through the whole thing.

Sisterchicks

Before my dear friend, Melissa, moved away, she introduced me to the Christian Fiction book series, Sisterchicks. Basically, they are quick light reads about 2 friends (the friends are different in each book) who travel to some exotic location. They find some truths about themselves and God along the way.


Another dear friend of mine is planning a trip to Europe with her sister-in-law/BFF. A real life Sisterchick adventure! It got me to thinking that I have never been anywhere by myself. When I was a senior in high school, I did spend Spring Break at my best friend's home in Arkansas. I flew there all by myself (well, and about 100 other strangers). But that was really going from family to family. I have never left my family and gone somewhere for vacation where I was the only person from my family there.

I so want a Sisterchick adventure for myself. So, I'm going to add that to the Top 10 Things To Do Before I Die. Leave my family at home and go some place grand with another friend. I'll start saving now.

Shadow

The photo hunter word of the week is shadow. Last summer, we took a Rambling Road Trip that took us to Marion, Ar; Memphis, Tn; St. Louis, Mo; Kansas City, Mo; Oklahoma City, Ok; and Dallas, Tx. Along the way we saw some baseball games, state capitols, and interesting little tourist things. This picture came from the Oklahoma State Capitol. The statue is called The Guardian. He also sits atop the dome of the capitol building. I thought it appropriate that the way the light shone it cast a shadow in all directions. That way he is able to truly guard.

On the menu for this week:

Appetizer

What is your favorite fruit?

pineapple

Soup

Who is someone you consider as a great role model?

Miley Cyrus and Jeff Bagwell (ok so I picked 2 someones)

Salad

If you were to spend one night anywhere within an hour of your home, where would you choose?

can it be one hour by plane? I think Memphis is only an hour plane ride away. I'm probably wrong tho. If by actual time, I guess Galveston. It'll be night so I won't actually see the beach/ocean. Hearing it would be just lovely.

Main Course

Name something you do too often.

go out to eat

Dessert

Fill in the blank: I really like ____wedge shoes_______ because ___they make me taller_________.

A Star Is Born

Lamb and her BFF are attending a month long drama camp this summer. They (40 kids divided in 4 casts) are going to perform The Little Mermaid for daycares, libraries, etc. Neither girl particularly cared what part she got as long as it wasn't something like Woman #2 or Fish #5 or Flotsam/Jetsam (since they are BFFs and talk together they were really afraid of that one). All they wanted was to be a character. After 2 days of 'grueling' auditions, they finally found out their parts.

Guess which part Lamb got??????
That's right! She's 1 of the 4 Ariels, THE Little Mermaid!!! Head on over to Bubba's Sis a little later and I'm sure you'll see what role BFF got as well. We are sooo proud of both of them. They are shaping up to be quite the actresses and having to sing in a musical is going to make their confidence soar. They are just too awesome! Way to go girls!!!!! Love ya'll! :)

All About Me A-Z

Bubba's Sis tagged me. :)

A- Attached or Single? attached for the last 18 years
B- Best Friend: I have been well & truly blessed in this category
C- Cake or Pie: either or both!
D- Drink of Choice: caffeine free diet coke
E- Essential Item: my camera
F- Favourite Color: red
G- Gummi Bears or Worms? neither
H- Hometown: Pine Bluff, Arkansas because that's where I lived for most of my school years
I- Indulgence: highlighting my hair
J- January or February: February, because it's almost spring and in Texas it's pretty good weather
K- Kids: two: 13 yr old girl and 9 yr old boy; both are a little odd and a whole lot amazing
L- Life is incomplete without: Family and friends
M- Marriage Date: December 31, 1989 and then we 'eloped' to Vegas & renewed our vows May 15, 2005
N- Number of Siblings: 4: 2 brothers, 2 sisters. I only grew up with 1 brother. The others are way younger than me. I also have 4 stepsisters and 1 stepbrother. I didn't grow up with them either but I did grow up with a stepbrother who is no longer my stepbrother.
O- Oranges or Apples? Apples, especially if they are cooked in a pie or cobbler or something
P- Phobia: spiders (altho there are so many little ones around here I'm getting a tad used to them)
Q- Favourite Quote: "Life is so daily"
R- Reasons to smile: summer vacation, fun kids, great friends to hang with either in person, IM, email, or blogging, flowers for no reason, going out to lunch (dinner too)
S- Season: Spring
T- Tag Three: anyone who'd like to participate! If you blog, let me know and if you don't, put your's in my comments section.
U- Unknown Fact About Me: In the last 18 years, I have only filled up the gas tank 2x. And both have funny stories to go along with them.
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animals? Both
W- Worst Habit: worrying
X- X-rays or Ultrasounds? I've had both; x-ray & 1 ultrasound had sad results and the other 2 ultrasounds had joyous results
Y- Your Favorite Foods: Mexican, Italian, and American
Z- Zodiac: Taurus

Power of Advertisement

Mama, I have a cut on my toe. See? I think I need a band-aid.

It's ok, just a little scratch. I do believe you'll live after all. No band-aid needed.

Mama! You saw the commercial with the little girl. Her mama thought she'd be ok too. And look what happened. It got infected. I seriously doubt you want that to happen to me.

You are right my darling little hypochondriac. Go put a band-aid on.

After several attempts and some coaxing for the toe & band-aid to Just.Act.Right.

Awww, look how cute. It's like my toe has a little t-shirt on. Now, aren't you happy you took good care of me?

Sing! Sing! Sing!

The foto pherrets word of the week is sing.
Bear (& his Poppy) loves the song Hips Don't Lie by Shakira. Bear's favorite part of the song is the "Shakira, Shakira, Shakira" line. Imagine our delight when we saw this window display at the Hard Rock Cafe. Being the family that we are, we had to pose Bear singing in front of it!

10 Favorite Things

In no particular order, here are ten of my favorite things.

My favorite:
1. number
2. picture of hubby & me (bad scan :( )
3. way to read 4. Military person 5. Christmas present

6. flowers

7. jewelry

8. beach

9. princess
10. memories
I'm assuming everyone knows that hubby & the kids are my favorite people. ;)

Smile, There's a Baseball Star Behind You!

The Houston Astros has this really neat promotion where you can go out on the warning track and have your picture taken with the players. There is a barricade that separates us and they walk down the fence. All you have to do is ask and they'll pose with you. Most of them are very friendly and some of them have their idiosyncrasies. For instance, Morgan Ensberg (3B) always wears his batting gloves (when Jeff Kent was on the team, he did too). Craig Biggio always stands a little ways back so the fans can't get too close. This is our 3rd time doing this and things worked a bit differently. The more famous players weren't allowed to do individual poses (they were taking way too much time at the first part of the line) so they had to do like Craig Biggio. Stand back, pose, smile. Hunter Pence (left) is Houston's newest Honey (watch him, he'll be Rookie of the Year). He & Brandon Backe (right) felt really silly doing that and wished they could come to us.


This is Lance Berkman who plays 1B or the outfield. I'm not sure what determines what position he plays. He's lost weight so I almost didn't recognize him!








Here is Craig Biggio who recently got his 3,000th career hit.

This is Orlando Palmeiro. He is a relief player but he is always so happy to be out there posing for pictures. He got really silly this go around. The boy in front of Bear got the Dr. Evil pose. In this one, he was being silly to get a good smile out of Bear.






Sigh, Brad Ausmus. Our catcher. Our dreamy ballplayer. He was the very last one and the one all the ladies were there to see. My mom is afraid this will be his last season (contracts up) and I hope she's wrong!

Summer Fun

Bathing suits? Check!




















Swimming pool? Check!



















Sunny weather to warm up the water so we can have some summer fun? Not in the past week!!!! Maybe this week. It looks like sunny days are in the forecast for us!

Fake

The Photo Hunter word of the week is Fake. This scanned picture of Bear was taken at the Livestock Show several years ago. I think he's 3 or 4. He's on a fake bull at a fake rodeo. But he thinks he's hot stuff.

More Than Meets The Eye

Hubby knows I've been in a summer funk so he calls at midnight to tell me to set the alarm for the next morning. We are going to see Transformers. What? Wake-up early?? Ok, whatever. Why was I ambivalent about going to see this movie? I couldn't tell you now as I turned out to really love it! Hubby was absolutely giddy when we walked out of the theater. Lamb was giggling (in a good way) throughout the whole thing. Bear was all excited, yet worried about one of the autobots. It had everything: humor, a little romance, action, special effects, a likable hero, a kick-butt girl who didn't scream through the whole entire movie, & a set-up for a sequel. I mean, I know it's a good movie when I have tears in my eyes over a ROBOT. The special effects were seamless. These transformers really looked like they were transforming. There was some minor cussing (not any of the *big* words) and, obviously, fighting. However, no blood & guts and I don't remember seeing any dead bodies. Mainly it was robot against robot. Hubby says this has been his favorite summer movie so far.


Oh! There were a lot of Disney channel actors making cameos too. We saw actors from Hannah Montana, Suite Life of Zach & Cody, and Phil of the Future. That was fun too.


Sadly, it wasn't a movie to determine whether Josh should be my honey or not. He had a major role, but he wasn't on screen as much. It's really Shia LeBeouf's movie. I asked Lamb if he was her hero. She just looked at me. One day I'll miss those looks, I'm sure.


Now I'm all fired up to see Live Free or Die Hard! Yippee Ki Yay!

A Bible Story

"My bible says 'sluggard' rather than 'lazybones' and I like that," said Lamb when I casually mentioned getting her a new bible. The one she uses now is a light blue Precious Moments that was given to her by her great-grandparents at her birth. Her name is the same as her great-grandmother's, just with an extra 'A' towards the end. You can see where my granddaddy forgot that and had to squeeze it in. It's a special bible and I would like for it to be preserved. Plus, she's in a teen bible study. It's my hang-up, not hers. But, she's an easy-going Instant G.R.I.T.S. so she humored me. Looking on-line, we found a bible made specifically for teen girls that she liked. I also told her that it might be fun to get a different translation and compare her two bibles.
Yesterday, we went to Lifeway Christian Stores to pick up said bible. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of picking up a box that contained a version with a purple suede cover. Way too pricey for me so I put it down and grabbed the one we saw originally. At the check-out, Miss Easy Going had turned into Miss Moody. It got even worse when the clerk mentioned that today was a 40% off any item sale. Walking to the car, I finally got it out of Lamb that she *really* wanted the purple suede bible but that it wasn't the end of the world, she's OK. Sigh. We decided that when she's outgrown her teen bible, her new bible would be purple suede.
Once we are home, she dives into her bible and stays there all day. Checking it out, transferring papers, and reading. "Guess what?! It says 'sluggard' too!!!" All is well in her world.

The Flag

Foto Pherrets word of the week is flag:

This was taken from the ferry on Ellis Island.

Happy 4th of July

Foto Pherrets doesn't have their photo word up yet so I thought I'd make my own. This is a picture of Coastie Brother when he had a tour of duty in Kuwait back in 2003. Some clever person (not hubby) photoshopped it into a joke.

Now it's 2007 and Coastie Brother is serving another tour of duty in a different location. He has good friends and he's had some good times. But, he still is away from home, away from his kids & family. Thank you Coastie Brother & your unit for securing our freedoms. Thank you to all the ones who came before you and all the ones who will go after you. Thank you to the signers of the Declaration of Independence. It wasn't easy. Doing the right brave thing rarely ever is.

Loaded Questions # 20

This week's installment:





Hypotheticals:


If you could only work on one body part at the gym, what would it be?


My thighs.


Anything Goes:


Use one adjective to describe the game of baseball?


sexy


No-Brainers:


What would you like to know more about?


photography


Personals:


What is the last movie that made your eyes tear up?

Talladega Nights from laughing so hard (there might have been another more recent one but it's late & I can't think)

10 things to do before I die

In no particular order here are ten things I want to accomplish.



1. see my kids grown, happy, healthy, & successful in whatever they do in life




2. become a grandmother (in many, many, many, many...years)




3. swim with the dolphins




4. go to Europe




5. see more of the U.S. (especially Atlanta, Hollywood, Savannah, D.C., & northern Kentucky) along with visiting all the baseball stadiums/state capitols




6. become a certified teacher




7. celebrate my 50th wedding anniversary (we've celebrated 17 so far)




8. own a beach house somewhere along the Emerald Coast in Florida




9. clean my house




10. Lamb told me I had to include this: scrapbook her Washington DC trip which happened over 2 years ago. And Bear says I MUST finish crocheting his orange blanket.

New Honey?

I still don't have anyone to call my honey. However, there is a candidate who is a front runner. Josh Duhamel. I have enjoyed him since his Leo Du Pres days on All My Children (back when I watched soaps). I followed him to Las Vegas, but we parted ways this last season. Too much tv, not enough time to watch it. He has a new movie which starts tomorrow. You might have heard of it, a little movie called Transformers. I'm not opposed to action films, I rather enjoy them for the most part. This one didn't seem to appeal to me, even though hubby & Bear are all excited about it. But, I'm going to go see it to give Josh a trial run as my new honey prospect. Wish me luck! Not for naming a new honey, but for enjoying the movie! ;)

8 Things Revisited

After listing 8 things that I know, I got to thinking about ALL the things I don't know. Here are 8 things that I need to learn:

1. I need to learn that not everyone has the same expectations that I do. I'm mostly talking about work, but it can also apply to all points in my life. People just aren't going to respond or act they way I would in the same situation. Imagine that!
2. I need to learn to drive a stick shift.
3. Goes along with #2. I need to learn to read a map. Without knowing #s 1 & 2, I'll be a horrible partner to hubby (or anyone else) on The Amazing Race. It would hurt my feelings to read on the message boards how useless I am on the challenges and the driving and the navigation and.....
4. Courtesy of hubby, I need to learn to not worry so much. Silly man, doesn't he know that if you worry, it won't come true? I'll try to learn it on a lesser level.
5. I need to learn some self-discipline &/or non-procrastination (new word :) ). If I could do that, then during the summers I could still have a schedule. I do much better with a schedule. And I'd get tons of things done. I have yet to start one thing I wanted to accomplish this summer. Oh wait! I did get my spoon collection together. Whew. I feel better.
6. I need to learn how to change a flat tire. It would be horribly embarrassing to get stranded on the side of the road because I don't (altho, I think I could figure it out). And you better believe Lamb will learn before she takes a car out by herself.
7. I need to learn to like water without adding kool-aid to it.
8. I need to learn to not put off making appointments. I dread it every single time and I don't know why. Lamb & Bear need orthodontist consults like 6mths ago. Sigh, I'll do it tomorrow.