Movies! #78

I am on my way to getting the 1 movie a week in! This past week I watched, When Harry Met Sally. I had never seen it before, only the iconic scenes that everyone talks about from that movie.

I really enjoyed this movie! Just the funny parts of it. I once again asked The Hubs if he wanted to watch it with me, he just looked at me as if I had a 2nd head. Oh well, maybe one of these days!!

The whole idea behind When Harry Met Sally is great. I can not think of a time where I have seen the same storyline play out in the way that it did. Of course there have been the times where growing up as kids then the characters fall in love. But I can't think of another movie that the 2 main characters have met, disliked each other, met again, disliked each other again. Then finally met and became friends and eventually fell in love. It was refreshing even though the movie is a "classic" according to my list.

I do have to admit I started to watch the movie, then about 45 minutes into it stopped went had dinner played some MMO's and then came back and watched the rest. So it was a great movie once the main part started but I can see where some people do not like it.

Of course we have to talk about the famous scene with Meg Ryan and the fake sex. This is the most talked about part of the movie, I was waiting for it because that is the only part I had really seen before. It was funny, then of course the lady that says, "I'll have what she's having". It was super funny and I get why it was quoted so much!!

Overall I would give the movie a 3.5 of 5 stars. It was good and of course made in the 80's. I did love the twist of her getting mad after they had sex. I mean come on, you knew what was going on and you knew that's the way he acted. Heck it would be super weird for anyone!!

We'll see if I like this weeks movie better!

<3 The Wifey

SWTOR - Star Wars -- #95 -Try a different MMO.

I am going to start this post with saying I love WoW(World of Warcraft). It has and always will be my First and Favorite MMO.

Alright down to business, an MMO is a Massively Multi-player online game. Part of my Day Zero List was #95 to Try another MMO. Right now I play WoW. It is an online game that is played by over 11 Million people throughout the world. I got started in the game while The Hubs and I were dating. I saw him playing, I knew of the game but never knew how to play. I started to watch him over his shoulder and then he got me a trail account so I could try myself. It was a lot of fun. The big aspect that I love about the game is the social component.

For me it was the fact that I could be in a game, playing a character and meet people all over the world! I have friends on there from Europe, Australia, Japan. It is a great way to get social interaction. It has always been about the social for me. I have played now for about 5 years. The Hubs has played for a lot longer than I have, he was one of the first people to get into WoW and play it from Vanilla WoW, as it's called(classic to the rest of the world) in 2004. There have been many expansions to the game so it keeps us as players interested.  The game itself is based off of books, The Hubs has read them all. He loves the lore of the books and the game.

Here are what the different Logo's have looked like over the years and expansion!!

Orgional

Burning Crusade

Wrath of the Lich King

Cataclysm

I love WoW! It is a very fun time and a place where you can get lost and not have to worry about the everyday world. There have been people that get addicted to it and that can be bad. I know I play a lot, but during wedding planning I stopped playing for a while. It was a hard decision after we got married to go back or not. I'm glad I did.

Here are a couple of pictures of Beeleave off  WoW. I love her hair!!

Full Shot

Head Shot

Now Star Wars: The Old Republic is another MMO that just came out this year. The Hubs was really big into trying it. They allowed him to beta test the game. I logged into his account to see what it was like. It was nice. I still wasn't sure if I wanted to play. Some people online were saying it was a WoW killer. I doubt that simply because 11million people play WoW.

I will give SWTOR it is a great game. After about a month of The Hubs and all of our friends playing I decided it was time. I got an account and LOVE IT!!!! I play a Bounty Hunter(like Boba Fett & Jango Fett from the Movie) as heals. I love healing on WoW my main toon is a Priest healer. It is a lot of fun, it also helps that I play with all of the people I know in real life. I love the cut away scenes. Almost every quest you get goes with a story the NPC you are getting the quest from tells you why you are getting whatever they are asking for.

Of course when you have a name and like it might as well use it on both games, Plus all the people who play WoW with me know who I am!! So here's Beeleave off SWTOR

Head Shot, I couldn't get a full body!

Overall I'd say SWTOR is a great game, a WoW killer no. Will I stop playing WoW? Nope, will I only play one or the other after a while? Yep. Why you ask because at $15 a month per game adds up at the end of the day, then add The Hubs playing and $60 a month in total is a little much!! But I am glad that I was able to cross a project off my Day Zero list!!


I will leave you with a couple of WoW commercials! They are super funny and amazing that they have all these actors that want to be a part of WoW!! (Just shows you what my favorite game really is)

                                                            Ozzy - Horde

                                                 Chuck Norris - Alliance

                                                            Mr. T

<3 The Wifey
                                   

FOR THE HORDE

Movies #78

First I wanted to apologize for not writing more.  I have been fighting a cold and now an Ear Infection so I haven't been writing posts! No worries I am on horse pills now and hope to be done with it by the end of the week!

Now onto Movies :)

This weekend we watch The Princess Bride. By we I mean A and I.

A After the Movie! She loved it!!

I have to say I've seen the movie at least 5 times and every time it just keeps getting better! A had never see it before so it was exciting to see it with her. Our other friend DD George told A a long time ago that she was going to revoke her friendship card because A had never seen the movie.

I love, love, love this movie. If I ever had kids this is one that they would HAVE to watch. It is just such a great story with it's quirks that make it a classic! Just the humor behind the lines and the fact that you can take the story as something that might have really happened. With all of the fairy tales that are incorporated into the story it still has that "down to earth" feel.

Wesley & Buttercup

My favorite character of the entire movie is Inigo Montoya. I love the idea of his character. Super funny with his words yet very serious. Mandy Patinkin the actor is one of my favorites as well. He does such a good job showing the emotion Inigo feels about the loss of his father. I love the scene when he is waiting for Wesley to climb up the rocks so they can duel. The he helps him up the rocks and allows him to rest before the duel. He then asks him if he has 6 fingers on his left hand. The movie was put together in a way there were clear cut villains and heroes. But only after doing bad does Inigo Montoya come out as a good guy.

Inigo Montoya

I wanted to see what A had to say about the movie, during the first 10 minutes she stop and said there have been so many great 1 liners. I agree, this movie is full of quotes and the best part is that the younger generations are starting to watch it too. Anyone can watch this movie and relate at some point in time, and will laugh a lot of the time. Just the satire of the entire movie makes it worth the watch. I do not own the movie, however I have added it to my list of movies to buy. I could watch it over and over again!

I am going to leave you with pictures of fun stuff that happened. I know these pictures will mean a lot to everyone that has seen the movie!

<3 The Wifey

Friends, we all have them!!

It's true, and if you don't I'm sorry! I will be your friend :)

We all know we have groups of friends, some of those groups mingle together others don't. We all have work friends, and social friends, we have best friends, and acquaintances. I am lucky to have a lot of great friends, some from work and some from games The Hubs and I play online. Today's post is for the friends I have, and what a great group of crazies I have collected over the years!

I have 2 really close friends, best friends as you would say. They are awesome sauce as I would say! We've known each other for a long time!

DD George and I, have a great time!!

DD George(not her real name) and I have known each other for what seems like forever but more like 14ish years! We met like most crazy people do in Band!! Yes I say Crazy and I mean every letter, and say it with Love! She is one of the funniest people I know and is super caring. Love her to death!! This is a typical picture with DD George and I, we are always on the same brainwave!

A and I have a great time!!

A and I have known each other for a long, long time. We met in 6th grade at school. That was some 18ish years ago! Man I can't believe it's been that long! Crazy, Crazy times! We have had a great run, always able to talk we like to go shopping together. This picture is of course from my wedding, but it was for A's Mom! Almost every picture that A's Mom has of me is with my hands in the air! So she got another!!!

You all have met my great work friends, S & J. They are some funny stuff and I love that we are starting to hang out other than when we are at work!! Here is their picture just for good measure.

J & S working like mad people!!

Now I know I have a lot more friends then this, but a lot of them are online as well. I know that I can't show you a picture of them because, a lot of them I've never met in person. Just because you haven't seen a friend doesn't mean they aren't you friends! I know a lot of people online and people that I play games with that I haven't seen ever. I've talked to them over VOIP in game they are still my friends none-the-less! Other online friends are the Ladies from The Knot, those ladies are awesome, we all have different opinions but work out everything together. Without those ladies I'm sure by now I would have lost my mind!!

Another group friends kind of blends together. It's The Hubs, Wireman(our good friend) and C The Hub's best friend! We all play MMO's together. C I have actually known longer than The Hubs has, I've known him from Middle School. I think it's great they are best friends because C is a great guy!! Wireman is a super funny guy that The Hubs met at work! He plays MMO's with us and is super funny. C and Wireman get into it all the time making jokes about each other. It is always a great laugh.

We all went to Sushi on Monday night to celebrate Wireman's birthday! It was an awesome time as usual! I wish I had a picture of the 5 of us so you could see!

To sum it up, Friends are great. They balance out life, the good times and the bad. They know your darkest secrets, and they don't hold them over you!

Thank you all for being my friends!!

<3 The Wifey

The Hubs, My Very Best Friend :)

Movies!!! #78

Here we are another week into the New year, and another week into the Day Zero project!!

I am on week 2 of my 52 week goal of a new movie each week from the 2 top 100 Lists. This week I am going to watch from the Non-Modern list. However The movie I have picked seems to me is more modern than the others on the list. However I am waiting for our Netflix to come so I needed to pick one that is on Instant watch!

Tonight I will be watching Die Hard! I know I have seen it before, but it was so long ago I only remember who is in it and not really what it is about!

When I got home I started the movie, of course on the computer and The Hubs was play SWTOR, he asked what I was going to watch this week I told him, he looked at me and said, "Die Hard, Really?! Have you seen any of the Die Hard movies?" I told him yes, and he said well there you go, you don't need to watch it! Needless to say, he wasn't going to watch it with me! He put his headphones on and started watching Bones(My All Time Favorite Show).

I finished the movie, and I have to say not what I was expecting. I think I've seen maybe the 2nd or 3rd Die Hard and thought it was the first. This movie was definitely a product of the 80's. Please don't get me wrong, the 80's had great times, but this movie was not one of them.

Bruce Willis - John McClane

It wasn't bad per-say just wasn't that good. I love Bruce Willis, he plays some great characters. This was a typical Cop, and he did a good job. Made me like him, even though he had obvious flaws.

 By far my favorite person in the whole movie was the Limo Driver. Just because he was funny, he added that little comic relief that was needed. But he was only on screen for a total of 15 minutes. But did a great job!

De'voreaus White - Argyle

There were bad guys too, and they were good actors, All speaking in Dutch maybe?! Not 100% sure they didn't talk enough for me to know for sure.

To be honest with you I am having a hard time with this one. As I told The Hubs after the movie was done at 10:45 I was ready for bed. I usually don't head to bed until 12:45am. That tells me a lot about how I didn't like the movie. I know this also because I was on Pintrest the entire time as well.

With all of that being said I'd give the movie a 2.5 out of 5 starts. Here are some more pictures. But not a very good review this time! Sorry :)

The LAPD cop that believe John in the Movie.

This was the lead bad guy. He did an excellent job.

<3 The Wifey

There is a dark, cold space under our stairs... #62

It's true! There was a dark, cold space under our stairs that didn't do anything. There were 2 openings to it. One behind the TV shelving unit we have, and the other in the Kitchen downstairs behind the fridge that is in there. What a waste of space. I know normally there isn't really anything under the stairs but in our house we don't have a ton of storage if we have all of the rooms full. We needed somewhere to put our crap! LOL, and by crap I mean Christmas decorations!!

This is what it looked like when we started! Behind the Fridge!

So I asked The Hubs what he thought about making the hole under the stairs bigger, now that Christmas was over and we needed to put the decorations away. He just looked at me for a second like I was from Mars, then he realized what I was talking about!! He said he'd have to take a look. Well 2 weeks went by nothing....nothing...nothing... Then I realized we both had a day off together. I asked him what we needed to do, he said call his Dad to have him take a look.

So that happened and H's Dad came down(a very nice man that knows EVERYTHING) took and look and said we should be good to go because the 2x4 that was in the middle of the wall was not a supporting beam.

Next thing I know The Hubs is walking back in the house with a Saws-all and Table Saw, went strait downstairs and went to work!

The Hubs Getting ready to do some work!!

It was nice to get started. This was our first "demolition" project in the house. Not that is was that big, The Hubs and I have done much bigger projects at my Dad's house. But it was fun. I had to get dinner ready to I left The Hubs to his thing.

I came back downstairs to find a bigger hole in the wall and the vacuum being used! The Hubs does like our Dyson so he vacuum's more than I do! I was excited to see what it looked like so I could start shoving stuff in there!!!

Big empty hole!!!

Bam!! It is clean and man that's a lot of space!! I was super excited. I figured we'd only have enough space to fit a couple of tubs and maybe, just maybe the Christmas Tree! I was wrong, there is a lot of space in there! Now that The Hubs had it all cleaned out we can start packing it up.

We really didn't want to have boxes on the ground just in case the floor got wet for any reason. Who knows, it could happen! But I wanted to put everything in there to get it away. So I decided to pack it all up. When I get some more tubs to put away I will put the tubs on the bottom.

Big not so empty hole!!

Look at that! There is still room for more. I know once I get the other 2 tubs I plan on putting in there we'll be golden! Heck at this point I'm happy it is out of the living room!!




Here is the finished product! I've decided that if I ever need to hide from anyone this is where I"m going. Okay not any of you that are reading, but burglars or anything like that! So if the cops need to find me you can all tell them where to look :)

Finished product, I love it!

So I should end with saying that I had not counted this as a room that we needed to get done for the Day Zero project. So I am going to keep it at 0 done. But I am good with that, it just proves to me that The Hubs and I can get things done around the house and update what we want!!!

<3 The Wifey

Movies, Movies, Movies!! #78

Here we go, I figured this would be a good start to our 1001 day journey with Movies! I love movies, not as much as some people but a good movie goes a long way for a person.

The rules I want to stick to for this goal in the Day Zero project are simple.

1. I will watch a new movie each week for a year. 
2. All of the movies I can choose from are on 1 of 2 lists.

           100 Movies to see before you die
           100 Movies to see before you die : The Modern Classics

     3. I must be able to get these movies either on Instant watch on Netflix, or by mail on Netflix. If however a friend has one I can borrow I can watch it that way.
     4. I will not buy any movie that I want to watch out of the 52 weeks of movies.

...And we're off!!

Week 1, I have decided to watch The Big Lebowski. It is from The Modern Classics top 100 movies. I asked The Hubs if he wanted to watch it with me(of course while he was playing SWTOR) he turned and said he'd seen it and didn't need to watch it again. Then he proceeded to turn back to his game and get lost again. I did however ask him again what he thought of it, so I knew what to expect. The Hubs said, he thinks it's was funny. We'll see how that goes!

I just finished watching the movie and I have to say a good way to start this Project! It was good, I can see why it's a Modern Classic. It has super funny parts, and a great story line.
The best part is I was watching it while on the Computer Playing WoW of course, and The Hubs was playing SWTOR and he stopped playing and decided to scoot his chair over so he could see the screen and start watching again with me.

The movie on a whole is just funny, there are parts where it drags and I'm not going to go through the whole movie, but just tell you about parts that I liked a lot!

I love the voice of the story, it is nice that it comes from an outside perspective. You aren't really sure where it comes from but he is revealed in the end. He was the perfect voice of the show, from a "far" away land that was not part of the story. 

Sam Elliott - The Sranger

Of course there is one main charter, but we all know there are a couple of supporting characters. John Goodman plays a crazy vet that was in Vietnam. He works so well as this person, he is funny. Plays getting mad very well, and is very believable.

John Goodman plays Walter & Jeff Bridges plays "The Dude"

There are so many great quotes in this movie, such great lines. It was very well written. I did find myself wondering off towards the middle. I wasn't really bored but I could find something else to do while watching the movie. My favorite line of the movie was in the beginning where the whole story starts that will play out for the rest of the movie. It was from "The Dude" when he was getting beaten for information on a wife he doesn't have. He stated, "At least I'm house broken". You can only image what it was about! Funny stuff!!

Overall I would recommend this movie to anyone that hasn't seen it. The twists and turns of all the players are great. I would give it a 3.5 out of 5 starts. Worth watching once to say you've seen it!

<3 The Wifey

Furbabies!

So with all of the craziness going on around The Hendo house I didn't get to properly introduce our Furbabies. They are really like our children(we still haven't decided if we want any actual kids).

During our 9 year relationship The Hubs and I took a 3 month break from dating, it was much needed. A lot of growing up on both parts happened while we were apart and we took a fresh look at each other and decided if we were going to get back together or not. As we all know we did :) During our break I wanted a change, so I decided to get a dog. I wasn't looking for any type of dog in perticular. So A, one of my best friends(I'm sure we'll see her later) told Barb a co-worker about it and she knew a guy that had a dog.

So A and I went and met the dog, so fricken cute! I took him that day, A actually let him ride in her car. That's a big deal!! So of course The Hubs and I were still taking our break but he had to come see him along with C(The Hub's best friend). He fell in love with him too! At first his name was Uber, because I said that word all of the time, like Uber sales and whatnot, but after about 3 hours of calling him that A and I decided we it wasn't a good name for him.

I decided he could pick out his own name, I pulled out the phone book and started to read names to him, waiting for a response. It took about 4-5 names and he picked Gus. It works too, he's such an old man dog except for the fact he gets way too excited sometimes!

How Fricken Cute is he?!

A different view. For a while he was iffy about the stairs at my Dad's house!

After The Hubs and I got back together we talked about getting another dog. Then we heard the Gus's Mom & Dad were having another litter. We jumped at the chance to get another Lab. Gus was such a good dog it would be awesome to have another! So we got another dog, of course we were able to go choose the dog. We picked the only one that was sitting in the corner not playing with the other pups. We figured he'd be a little more calm than Gus. The Hubs got to pick his name this time, he had a couple of different names in mind but landed on Toby.

Toby is a little crazy, but super lazy he is awesome. He's a lover for sure, and is willing to do almost anything for a treat.

Proud Papa!

Typical Toby!

That of course was about 3 years ago! I can't believe it's been that long!!! Here is a little more recent picture of the 2 of them!

Ready to go to work! LOL

I was talking to A on the phone the other day, and we were talking about how old the boys(dogs) were getting. Check out their mustaches & beards!!

Look at all those Old Man hairs! LOL

Thank you for letting me talk about my Boys, I know it's been a useless post but now you know my whole family. Well at least the ones I live with!!

<3 The Wifey

And it starts!

The New Year that is!

We all know that we make resolutions to do better things, be a better person, make better eating decisions. It's in our nature to want to make ourselves better. This year I am working on being a better person! I know we just started this journey together and I want to make sure to get it right!

My resolution is to work hard to make myself better, I know that sounds very vague, but in my head it makes sense! I am going to also try to keep to the Day Zero Project. I think that will help me along my journey! Also of course my last resolution is to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse!

So here we go to a new year, and a new better form of us!!

<3 The Wifey