Random Me

Some random facts about me.

1. I hate winter, well I hate ice and white knuckling it in the car while I worry about sliding on said ice and crazy Iowa drivers.

2. I’m sort of winging it with trying to figure out how to raise a 13 year old boy. I mess up often. But in the end I hope he turns out to be a good person, though he will likely be a snarky sarcastic cynic.

3. I’m a sweepstakes and giveaway junkie. I love winning things, anything and everything. Though I do limit my entering to things that I actually want or would give as a gift.

4. I’m an extremely open, honest person. I’ve been told I’m extremely opinionated and sometimes even brutal and forceful with those opinions. I’m learning to be less overbearing.

5. I talk and act and write in the way that I think. I can connect the dots in my head, but sometimes have to slow down to let others do the same.

Reel Reviews, Grown Ups

Here goes my first post for What I Watched Wednesdays. I’ve watched quite a few new to dvd movies lately, which sounds a little like it’s something different, but actually I watch dvds pretty much every week.

Grown Ups came out last week on dvd. I knew I would want to see it when it came out on dvd as it is chock full of some seriously funny guys. Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider, and David Spade all in one movie. Should be laugh out loud, pee in your pants, hilarious, right? Wrong. I was worried right away putting the dvd in. That many funny people in one movie and you expect a lot and it’s easy to get let down.

The plot was almost non-existant. The guys grew up together, went their separate ways, and are brought back together for a funeral. The rest of the movie is almost like they were winging it to see what happened. You get very little in-depth character development as there are so many characters. There are a few moments where I giggled, but nowhere near the belly hurting, tears running down my face, laughter I would have liked.

It’s a movie you could watch with your family, there are a few suggestive parts. All in all, I would watch it again on tv unless there was something better on.

What I Watch Wednesdays

I watch movies. It’s rare that I go to the theater, it has to be something really big for that seeing as how one freaking movie ticket is $9.50 and there are three of us. Add in deliciously buttered popcorn with Reese’s Pieces on top and you almost need to take out a loan for two hours worth of entertainment (and if the movie sucks, well…at least the popcorn is good.)

So I rent dvds, usually within a week of them coming out. The employees at the local Family Video know us all by name, actually one of the girls quite frequently flirts with my husband. We generally have a late fee as we’re terrible at remembering to bring movies back on time, but they know we’ll be back in so if we toss them a couple extra bucks we’re golden.

I also subscribe to every movie channel available. I have HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, Starz and Encore, The Movie Channel and all the independent movie channels as well. I subscribe to the On-Demand service so I can watch whichever of thousands of movies available.

Needless to say (which makes no sense because I’m going to say it anyway) I watch a lot of movies and I have opinions on them. I’ve seen a lot of blogs with recurring weekly themes and this is something that I like so I’ll give it a shot. I do watch some tv shows as well, maybe we’ll see some comments on those as well.