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NetFlix Movie of the Week: "The Bucket List" (2007). I think I'm going to have to go with Ebert's assessment of the movie. It shouldn't have been Morgan Freeman opening the movie in monologue, but rather Jack Nicholson, bestowing the virtues of Morgan's character instead of Jack's. Some funny lines and scenes, but atrocious blue screen; akin to 70s TV.
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Ok, once again, I'm behind the times....Friends have been pushing me to get onto Facebook for some time and I finally did yesterday.

HOLY SHEEPDIP, BATMAN!!!

I've found more people that I realized I was looking for! Bunch of people from high school, friends from college; most of which I haven't seen in 15 years or more.

Some people say that Facebook is a college thing and is creepy when adults get on it. Eh, whatever...

I was getting a headache with all the crap you can put on your page. I'm having wars with throwing things at other people; like lobbing Justin Timberlake or Paris Hilton, getting wrapped in bubblewrap, tossing polar bears and octopi. This is nuts!

And annoyingly addictive.....

Name Change

J. Geil's 1983 old version: "My Angel Is A Centerfold"

Jenna's 2008 new version: "My Angel Has A Cell Phone"

GUESS WHAT?!?!!

I picked a grape tomato yesterday!!

However, I ate it before I could take a picture of it as proof.....






Bring on the acid-induced canker sores..........

Weekend Wrap-up

Netflix Movie of the Weekend: "Finding Forrester." A modern-day "Dead Poet's Society." Decent rental, but I felt there were story lines that could have been expanded a bit more.
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Cinema Movie of the Weekend: "The Dark Knight" After getting through the 15" of previews the movie was an additional 2.5h long! The buzz with the release was of Heath's assumed Oscar nod because of his death. No, I think he truly deserves this. Heath loved doing the challenging roles to amde him alter his accent, and being the Joker was that challenge. He re-defined The Joker; not as campy as Jack Nicholson's redition. This was, by far, the best Batman movie to be released.
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Weight Watcher's Update: At the close of Week 7 I dropped another 3.5# giving me a total loss of 20.6#!! 10% is now less than 5# away. I'm still about half-way of what I'd like to lose.

Start: 258
Current: 237.4
10%: 233
Goal: 220-ish
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Caption Contest Winner! This week we have a NEW WINNER!! Ace is this week's winner with, "I feel pretty, oh so pretty!"
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Not a bad weekend to report; didn't really do a whole lot. The usual domestic crap like laundry. Went and saw "The Dark Night" which was very good, to say the least.

Grilled/smoked a bunch of stuff last night; a.5# turkey breast, Italian turkey burgers, and pollock. That should keep us going for most of the week.

Mallory started cutting Tooth #3 (right upper) last week and I believe I see Tooth #4 (left upper) getting ready to poke through. Walking better though crawling is still the preferred method of motation. She's 10 months old today!!!

She had her 9m appointment a couple of weeks ago and I've had a few people ask how Mallory and Jenna compare at the same age. I dug out Jen's baby book to look at her stats. At 9m, Jenna was 22.6# and 29".

Mallory? 28.5" (essentially the same length) and 20.5#; a full 2# smaller than Jenna. Mallory is long and lean. Again, I think part of this is because Mallory was crawling much sooner than Jenna did, therefore, is burning calories faster.

Caption Contest!!

Netflix Movie of the Week: "Fletch" (1985) Why do I listen to my husband?? Granted, some of Chevy's one-liners were funny but an over-all dorky movie.

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It's Friday, right? This week's contest is CAPTION. Have a great weekend and I'll see you on Monday!!

Belated Weekend Wrap-up

Netflix Movie of the Weekend: "Manchurian Candidate " (2004) Interesting movie.....not horrible. Glad I didn't pay full-price to see it. Meryl Streep plays a really good political beotch.
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Mals and I had a delightful weekend! Steve and Jen left for DSM Friday evening and he came back solo yesterday as Jenna was to spend a few days with gramma. The plan was to get her back tomorrow, but it looks like she'll stay another night and we'll get her Wednesday (YAY!!). It was a relaxing time with just Mallory. I clearly felt muchless stress with just her than with Steve and Jenna around.

Mom palled around with us Saturday and after having lunch we went to Hobby Lobby and spent over an hour there. I picked up a collage frame and a shadow box to work on a couple of projects and helped mom with some decorating ideas for her sun room.

I had my eye appointment yesterday to discuss my keratoconus in further detail. Dr. Liu is clearly not concerned about my condition.

I got glasses when I was 13-ish. Probably around 18 or so is when my vision and prescription changed a lot; I became more near-sighted and astigmatism popped up. Thesea are both signs of keratoconus. Within the last 6 years (I'm guessing) my prescription hasn't really changed much; maybe some tweeking here and there but nothing major. So my bet is that I developed adult-onset KC. Dr. Liu told me that in severe cases when a person is around 13 their visision is already crappy (my words) and by theire 20s or 30s they've had a corneal transplant. Not so with me.

We discussed treatment options, like corneal transplants, and riboflavin cross-linking. This is a proceedure where riboflavin drops on the eyes are exposed to UVA radiation. The UV cause the riboflavin to become stiff and thus strengthens the cornea. Sounds incredibly intriguing to me. He told me I can do this at home with super-complex B-vitamins and to not wear sun glasses.

Over time, UV radiation causes cataracts. I didn't think to ask about duration of UV exposure; if it's a quickie thing daily or constant no protection. Might have to call the office back and find out.....

So there you have it. He wants to see me back in one year for a check-up. But as it stands right now I'm good!

Caption Contest!!

So it's Friday, again, eh? I'm pretty tapped out with dry-humor, I-think-it's-witty-in-my-head humor so we'll just jump right into the contest. This week it's HEADLINE. Have a great weekend and I'll see you on Monday!!