PAY IT FORWARD BLOG HOP.

Hey there fellow bloggeroos!  Hope everyone had a wonderful week.  Thank you all for being so patient during my critiquing period.  For those of you that left me a comment anyway, you are so sweet!  I do appreciate it.  For those of you who decided to follow me, big welcome!  If I have not followed you back yet, please leave me a comment to set me straight.

I started off the morning with a chuckle so I thought I'd share it.  I keep my cell phone on my desk.  My ringer is set to the Pink Panther theme for everybody.  I was sitting here minding my own business when the phone rang.  Hubs always calls me a few times throughout the day to get his Laila fix.  Well, I grabbed the phone and in my best hot porn star voice said, "Hello there sexy."  There was a brief pause on the other end of the line.  Then a woman giggled and said, "I'm sorry, I have the wrong number."  And we laughed.  I added two years to her life and mine.  At this rate I'll live forever.

Now to the matter at hand.

These two highly intelligent manly specimens:

Alex at http://alexjcavanaugh.blogspot.com/ and Matthew at  http://theqqqe.blogspot.com/ devised a plan that would enable us to meet other bloggers and ride up the ladder to bloggingdom.  They came up with this blog fest.





I'm supposed to list three blogs I visit and enjoy.  Well, I visit a heck of a lot more than three, so here's what I'm doing.  Today (pretend it's Friday already) I will list the three manned by the ladies who have been a great inspiration in my writerly life.  Besides, we've exchanged the occasional email and that's pretty cool.  In alphabetical order by last name I give you....

Carrie Butler from http://soyoureawriter.blogspot.com  Carrie is smarter than heck and she writes the best flowing conversations I've ever read.

Lisa Regan at http://lisalregan.blogspot.com  Lisa is a highly talented agented writer waiting to find her novel a home.  She has tons of knowledge to offer.

Apparently, these two ladies have teamed up with a third party to host the blog hop below.  Check out Carrie's blog for more info.

And last but not least, Nancy Thompson at http://nancysthompson.blogspot.com  Nancy focuses on her journey to getting published.  She gives us hope, and she is an awesome writer.  She's also responsible for the fact that I am now following people on Twitter.  I'll have to do a practice run. :)  Great Heavens!



Next week, I will possibly participate on the above blog hop and pass on a few awards.  In that way I can name a ton of other blogs that I have missed.

Have a great weekend everyone!  I'll be around following and visiting.  ...^-^...

WORST MOVIES EVER BLOGFEST

This awesome blogfest is being hosted by Alex over at Alex J Cavanaugh

I like to be entertained, and movies are a great way to achieve that goal.  Still, some movies really suck.  Here are a few that made me curse in several languages.

1. KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE.

Aliens who look like clowns come from outer space to terrorize a small town.  Are you freakin kidding me?  This was the most God-awful movie I've ever watched. 

2. MARS ATTACKS.

The Earth is invaded my Martians.  They torture and kill.  Okay, I know a lot of people liked this movie, but I have to disagree.  (My husband still makes me do the alien voices.)  I don't care how many top paid actors or good-looking Pierce Brosnans you stick in there, I really hated this movie.

3. WORLD'S GREATEST DAD.

A comedy about a man who learns that the things you want most may not be the things that make you happy, and that being lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone.  This is not a comedy.  It is a depressing movie.  I love Robin Williams in everything else except this.  His son is obnoxious.  The best part of the movie was the end because it's all about a writer who wants to be published.  Seriously, if you're going to watch it, fastforward to the end.

4. Bewitched

Everyone knows the show, right?  The cute witch marries the human.  I loved the show.  Then they went and made this movie with Will Ferrell acting like an idiot.  The witch wasn't even called Samantha.  Pisses me off when they mess with a good thing.  The only plus of this movie was Shirley MacLain as Andora, but I like her in all her movies.

5. INDECENT PROPOSAL.

A woman cheats on her husband for a million dollars.  Seriously, this is supposed to be a cool movie?  Granted there's a lot of money involved.  And Robert Redford is hot, but come on.  Then at the end she goes back to her husband and they start over like if nothing happened.  The whore cheated on you and you agreed to it for money.  You pimped her out you schmuck.  Yeah, I did't care for this movie.

6. KINGPIN.

A star bowler whose career was prematurely "cut off" hopes to ride a new prodigy to success and riches.  All with me now.  "Stupid.  Stupid."  I used to like Woody Harrelson until I was coersced into watching this movie.  It was plain disgusting.  How do writers come up with this crap?  (Man, I'm a harsh critic.)

7. THE CABLE GUY



A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.  Let me start by saying that Jim Carrey usually makes me laugh, but I thought he was the biggest jackass in this movie, which probably means he played the part well.  Still, the movie made my crap list.

8.  THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET.







A mute alien is chased by outer-space bounty hunters through the streets of Harlem in this thought-provoking cult classic.  (Thought-provoking my ass.)  Yeah, I was wondering why he couldn't talk, why an alien would be an idiot, and why the heck he snorted coke?  As a sworn Sci-Fi lover, I felt betrayed.

9. FREDDY GOT FINGERED.

An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.  This is just plain sick, and I value myself as having an open mind.  I lasted five minutes with this movie and counted it as a not worthy of anything.  I apologize for even mentioning it.

10. VAMPIRES SUCK.



A spoof of vampire-themed movies, where teenager Becca finds herself torn between two boys. As she and her friends wrestle with a number of different dramas, everything comes to a head at their prom.  I normally like spoofs.  This one sucked, literally.  Of course, without Leslie Nielsen, no spoof will ever be the same again.


Well, that's all folks.  Hope everyone enjoyed my picks.  Hate on.

Have a Happy Monday.  ...^-^...

NOVEL FILMS BLOGFEST...last day.

LAST DAY...so here are a few mixed goodies.  Tomorrow I will pass on Liebster award.

1.    A Wrinkle in Time was my first taste of Fantasy.  I loved it.  The book was great.  The movie could have moved a little faster but still great.  Basically, there's a girl with three bothers, a boyfriend, and a mom.  The girl loses her dad who gets sucked up into another realm.  (I love realms!)  With the help of some peculiar friends she saves her dad and...happily ever after.

2.   What Dreams May Come is so rich it's just hard to explain.  A man and his wife are happy.  They have two wonderful kids.  The kids die.  The man dies.  The woman dies because she commits suicide.  The man crosses from Heaven to Hell to save his wife.  The afterlife is presented as a state of being rather than a place.  This is an awesome movie and book.  I love Robin Williams. 

3.   Stephen King baby.  I loved this movie because it's not really a horror and touches you in so many levels.  The story about the lives of guards on Death Row leading up to the execution of a black man accused of child murder and rape, who has the power of faith-healing.   I love Tom Hanks...great actor.

4. 
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband. Her husband is a real bastard, but the only reason he found her was because she flushed her wedding ring down the toilet...at least that's how it happened in the movie.

5. 
Stranded on an island, a group of schoolboys degenerate into savagery.  The movie was just as good as the book.  Rumor has it that if these had been girls, they would have acted more civilized.  :)

6.  I didn't mean the cartoon.  There is seriously a movie out there of the Jungle Book.  There's Mowgli and a cute girl, and all his animal friends.  It was really a cute story.

7.  Yes, they made a movie of this.  The book was better.  My husband reads James Patterson.  I don't particulary follow thrillers, but this had a nice romance in it and a touch of fantasy.  There's a girl with an imaginary friend.  They grow up, fall in love.  He becomes real.  Happily ever after follows.  :)

8.   Another one of King's babies.  This is every writer's nightmare.  A fan who just doesn't want the story to end, so they're willing to mame or kill you.  I loved them both.

9.   Who doesn't love this book/movie?  The kid gets to fly a spaceship with a cool alien/robot friend, and he collects a cute pet.  I lost count of how many times I watched it.

10.   This was a freakin awesome movie...and I do love my aliens.  The guy alien is carrying a baby.  The man winds up raising the baby as his own.  They start off hating each other and then bonded.  If you've never watched it/read it, it is really good.

Okay, that's enough for today.  So glad I could share these with all of you. 

Have a great day!

...^-^...

NOVEL FILMS BLOGFEST..day 2

Picks for Day 2.  I love a good romance, and this one rips at your heart strings.




The story begins with Noah, an 80-year-old man, reading to a woman in a nursing home.  He is reading the story of their meeting to his wife who is battling Alzheimers and doesn't recognize him.  Her only memory is sparked by his relating of the story, which he reads to her every day.  He explains that he is also ill, battling a third cancer, and suffering heart disease, kidney failure, and severe arthritis in his hands.  The story starts with a tempestuous romance and ends with their death, side by side on the hospital bed.  I've never cried so much during a movie.




Next:  Bridget Jones Diary.  It has humor, sexy guys, and a fabulous romance.




This is the story of a 30+ woman jotting down her personal journal.  She writes down everything about her life, her career, self-image, vices, family, friends, and romantic relationships.  Bridget not only obsesses about her love life, but also details her various daily struggles with her weight, her over-indulgence in alcohol and cigarettes, and her career. At the beginning of the novel she is employed in the publishing industry, but after her breakup with Daniel she quits and begins working, somewhat accidentally, as a journalist for a local television station. Bridget's friends and family are the supporting characters in her diary. Her best friends are Shazzer, a strident feminist; Jude, a highly successful business woman; and Tom, a gay man. These friends are there for her unconditionally throughout the novel; they give her advice about her relationships, and support when problems arise.  The story is funny and heartwarming.  I liked it so much I had to watch the movie.



That's it for today.  Tomorrow I'll toss in a couple fantasy movies into the equation.

Have a great day!