Seen It, Heard It, Read It

Seen It

1. Babies

This has been on my instant Netflix for months and I finally got around to watching it. I really enjoyed it! My little cat Blizzard sat right in front of the tv and intently watched the whole movie. It was so funny!

2. Salt

Angelina is her typical fierce self in this movie. It was a great action movie and it keeps you thinking. You definitely need to pay attention so you don't miss anything.

3. Grey's Anatomy: Season Six

I'm doing pretty good job with catching up on Grey's Anatomy. Heather and I got my parents into it which has been fun! We finished this season last week and I was FUHHH-REAKINGGG out. They mean it when they call it "The Season That Changes Everything." I absolutely can't wait to watch season 7 and finally get current!

4. The Last Song

Seriously LOVE this movie. Like I said way back when, I loved the book! Normally when there's a book turned movie, I either like one more than the other, but I think they're both great!

5. Legally Blonde: The Musical

Last Monday, I won tickets to see this from our local news station on facebook! Heather had been wanting to see it for years and I knew she was disappointed we weren't going to be able to see it while it was in Boise. We had great seats and the show was fabulous! I still have some of the songs running through my head!

6. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never

Heather and I went to see this Sunday afternoon. I love how driven Justin Bieber is. That guy has amazing raw talent. It's inspiring to see someone pursue and achieve his dreams. It's also incredible how fast he's risen to fame thanks to social media (and being cute and talented). This was probably the best documentary I've ever seen. Like he's said before, it's a story about having a dream and that's something we can all relate to. This is a must see!

Heard It

1. Brooke Fraser: Albertine

2. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

3. Demi Lovato: Here We Go Again

4. She & Him: Volumes One and Two

5. Ingrid Michaelson: All of her albums

Read It

I've been really busy with school, work and preparing for my midpoint proposal that I haven't had much time to read. One thing I do read everyday is Twitter. You could call me a little obsessed. One thing I like to do is mark "favorite" tweets. I feel like I'm the only one in the world who does it, but I love looking back at other people's tweets that maybe made me laugh or were thoughtful. So here's a little sampling of tweets from the last two weeks that were some of my favorites, in no particular order.

What have you been watching, listening to or reading lately?

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I've been out of the loop (or loopy) the last couple days. Monday I had my surgery for this. I got a call from the doctor today that it was benign. I'm still pretty sore and absolutely HATE how the pain meds make me feel. I'm trying to only take them before bed because the spinning drives me crazy. I've been up and around more today and went out to lunch, but I'm still pretty tired because I haven't been sleeping great. Heather got a funny video of me waking up in recovery. Apparently I've been watching too much Grey's Anatomy because I kept talking about Christina Yang and what she would do or let me do if she were there. Haha! I'm not sure if I'm brave enough to post it on Youtube. We'll see... ;)

I thought the rest of this week was going to be busy with work, but it turns out I'm only working tomorrow. Then for most of February it looks like I'll just be working two days a week. Normally I might be kinda bummed that I'm not working more, but I just got an email the other day that my Midpoint Review Presentation is scheduled for Friday, March 4. I've started to freak out a little, since all of my stuff needs to be in San Francisco two weeks before my presentation. That gives me a little less than three weeks to be ready. AND Spring Semester starts on Monday! Ahhh! So the days I'm not working or doing school work I will be super busy prepping for the presentation. Well I'm off to make a timeline and plan of all the things I have to do before then. Here goes nothing...

Meredith-isms

Heather and I have been watching Grey's Anatomy lately as part of my list of 25. I've missed watching this show sooo much! I haven't watched it in about two years. One of the things I love the most is the Meredith-isms.

Here are some of my favorites:

"We're adults. When did that happen? And how do we make it stop?"

“I've heard that it's possible to grow up - I've just never met anyone who's actually done it. Without parents to defy, we break the rules we make for ourselves. We throw tantrums when things don't go our way, we whisper secrets with our best friends in the dark, we look for comfort where we can find it, and we hope - against all logic, against all experience. Like children, we never give up hope..."

"You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would be, white dress, prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill. You would lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith. Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Prince Charming, they were so close you could taste them, but eventually you grow up, one day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears. Most people turn to the things and people they can trust. But the thing is its hard to let go of that fairy tale entirely cause almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith, that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true."

"At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away."

"Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we're wired that way. Because without it, I don't know; maybe we just wouldn't feel real. What's that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop."

"Okay, here it is, your choice... it's simple, her or me, and I'm sure she is really great. But Derek, I love you, in a really, really big pretend to like your taste in music, let you eat the last piece of cheesecake, hold a radio over my head outside your window, unfortunate way that makes me hate you, love you. So pick me, choose me, love me."

"A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying."

"Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victoris. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate."

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