Best. Day. Ever.

Dude, last Thursday was (one of) the most fantastical days of my life. Kind of. I mean, I guess not really. That was a big of an exaggeration. BUT! I'm very happy with the outcome of that day. What, you might ask, happened on this day, the 5th of July? (Gah, that would have sounded much better if it had happened in May.) Good grief, ANYway - I'll stop the chatter and just show you, shall I? I think I shall.

Russell Brand portrait by Pat Bennett at Icon Tattoo and Body Piercing in Murfreesboro, TN

Dream Post

*wake up to alarm*
“WHOA - baby! I just had the craziest dream!”
“mmhmm...”
“Do you want to hear about it?”
“Yeah, yeah.”
“...will you be able to stay awake?”
“Yes!”
“Okay, so...

I was at Mom and Dad’s for some reason - I guess my brother was in town. But I had to go to work, so I was getting ready, and for some reason I wanted to wear one of my old “save the rainforest” t-shirts as an undershirt. So I had that on, tucked into my nice dress pants, and I was getting ready. And then all of a sudden I was driving to work! I had no recollection of anything in between, but I was only half-dressed and didn’t have any lunch. By now I was already off Mom and Dad’s road, so I didn’t want to go back - I figured I’d just call Mom and have her bring me a shirt (since for some reason my job was at the high school). I stopped at a grocery store to get food for lunch and realized I didn’t even have my purse, but Mom’s was in the car and it had cash in it, so I used that to get food. Anyway - I get to “work” (the high school), and Dr. Punch is there helping Little Hippo with homework. I got there super early since I hadn’t actually finished getting ready, so I was able to help for a minute...and the screen on the computer monitor was super resizable. Like...we grabbed the corners and stretched it from a square monitor to a super wide-screen. Anyway - Lil H. had copy/pasted his code from some other IDE into VS, so it destroyed all the indentation and stuff and we were trying to figure out the VS commands to auto-format the code. We finally figured it out (it was some crazy swirly design on the keyboard...super weird) and then Dr. Punch went off on this weird rant about someone’s cute kid and how you shouldn’t draw that design on a kid’s forehead or else the parents will think you’re weird...

Are you awake?”
“. . .”
“You fell asleep, didn’t you?”
“. . .”
“I knew you would!”
“No! I’m awake - I heard what you were saying!”
“Wha-” (“What did I say then?” Is what I was going to ask.)
“You decided to get rid of the shed/out building/outhouse thing, and *mumble mumble mumble - something about Supernatural and people and it would make a great show, or something*”
“What??”
“Yeah, they all turned out to be silhouettes and *mumble mumble*”
“Yeah, that is not at all what I was talking about.”
“Oh. [. . .] You’re going to write this, aren’t you?”
“Yes. But now I have to get up and get ready for work.”
“Okay, I’m going to go back to sleep and keep having weird dreams.”
*rolls over, farts*

FIN

Fun story - I GIS'd "sleeping baby mongoose" for this post's pointless image at the bottom so I'll have an image on my FB page, and I got these pictures:

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Friday Tunes

Day Five: A Song that Reminds Me of Someone

2011: "You Are My Sunshine" by The Pine Ridge Boys

My dad sang the chorus to this song to me all the time when I was little. It was supposed to be our father/daughter dance at my wedding, but the stupid rain meant our stupid wedding couldn't have stupid dancing. *pout*

2012: "Such Great Heights" by The Postal Service

Mr. T made a mix tape CD for me when we had first started dating. He said it was our song. :) Even though our first dance song was going to be "The Most Beautiful Girl" by Flight of the Conchords. Stupid rain... But when I hear this song I can remember the night he gave me the mix tape. It was the sweetest thing...no one had ever made me a mix tape before. We were in my car and I was driving to our friend's house for a party. I have a Spotify playlist with all the songs if you want to take a listen.

30 Days of Songs

Ha! I made a new page! It's up at the top and says "30 Days of Songs" - if you click on it it will take you to the list of thirty songs I'm going to be picking over the next...twenty-something weeks. As I publish the posts I will add the link to that page. Woo!!

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Sunday Movie Review

**Okay, I wrote this the Friday I watched Rock of Ages (June 15). I just never posted it. SORRY.**

My review of Rock of Ages:

Overall: pretty good
Recommendation: Redbox - not theaters 


So....if you know me at all you know I <3 Russell Brand. It didn’t matter to me what this movie was about, as long as he was in it. I watched Hop for the same reason. I love the man, but he chooses some weeeeird roles, guys. lol 


Anyway, even outside of Russell B. being in it, this movie seemed pretty funny. You’ve got Tom Cruise playing an aging rock star, which is ironic because he’s an aging movie star. Well, the “star” part depends on who you’re talking to. He had the body of a 40-something...it was sad. And then there was Alec Baldwin, who plays the same character always. I think it’s just Alec Baldwin. Also - he can’t sing. Oh lawd, he can’t sing. Mmmmm... Mary Blige was in it. She was cool. Someone told me most of the movie takes place in a strip club - total lie. Maybe 20 minutes. And you don’t even see boobies. It’s PG-13, people. The pole dancers had MAD skills, though. I was impressed. Okay, who else? Paul Giamatti. He looks so skeevy in the movie. It’s gross, and awesome. AND - he sings. Terribly. It’s great. Then there are the two younger people I don’t know. The chick was in Burlesque, which I’ve seen and liked. She’s apparently a Country singer. The dude? No idea. But I didn’t really like him. As a singer or an actor. There was also the chick that I thought was Emma Stone for about 50% of the movie, until I asked Miss C and she was all “Oh no she innit!” and I looked it up on IMDb. (Don’t yell at me for using my phone in theaters - there were only like 10 people there. It was seriously the worst turn out for a midnight release I’ve ever seen. I still don’t understand why it was a midnight release.) 


Well that paragraph kind of ran away from me. I was just going to say my idea of what it might be, not actually what it turned out to be. Oh, well. I thought it would be good, and it was...well it’s wasn’t bad. But it wasn’t great. I can definitely see how it would be a great Broadway musical. But that stage-to-film translation didn’t go...well. It’s worth a Redbox. Or maybe even a purchase after it’s been out for awhile and the price drops. 


The best part (to me) was this: 


SPOILER ALERT 
Russell Brand and Alec Baldwin own the club that 90% of the movie is in. About midway through the movie Russell starts singing “Can’t Fight this Feeling” to Alec Baldwin and it turns into a duet and they reveal that they’re in love...there’s this whole montage of their “special moments” from the past...it’s great. And then they kiss! Apparently. Somehow Miss C and I missed it I think it was because of the story I’m about to tell you. 
END SPOILER 


Okay, so about ¾ of the way through the movie, Miss C flails like Miss C do. She’s freaking out over a spider she felt crawling on her. I’m 99% sure she’s flailed said “spider” onto me. She’s convulsing, and now I feel jittery because I’m sure it’s on me. Well, about 5-10 minutes later my fears are confirmed - I feel it run across my hand. After a small panic I think “I’m going to be the mature one here and calmly smush it on my pants.” so I smear my hand all over my leg. And then proceed to feel bugs all over my body for the next 20 minutes or so. Both of us are scratching and flinching and twitching...I was convinced they had an infestation and when the lights came up we were going to be covered in tiny demon insects. But at the same time a small part of my brain was saying “This is all psychological - chill the f out.” Then, out of nowhere, it’s on my arm again. So I turn - very calmly - to Mr. T and gently ask “WTF IS THIS THING ON MY ARM?!” and once he sees it moving, tries to flick it off. I carefully whisper to him “STOP THAT - WE NEED TO KILL IT!!” Then we look closer and realize it’s a tick. That is why it was so indestructible. So I place it in his hands and Miss C and I try to not think about it again for the last bit of the movie. That totally didn’t work. 


 I feel itchy and crawly again just thinking about it. 


 It was around 3:00 when I got home, and I had to be up at 6:00 to get ready for work. My lunch break turned into my nap time - I brought a pillow and blanket and crashed so hard in my car. It was glorious.