letters to juliet

I was in the mood for a chick flick, so this movie...

and popcorn of course, were just what I needed.

Last night Lee Ann joined me for the movie and a trip to Starbucks and Chapters. Books, coffee, chick flick. And popcorn. Good times.

get your girlfriends together

and go see this...

I saw Valentine's Day on Tuesday with seven girlfriends {after a nice dinner at Baton Rouge with K, and a trip to get my new iPhone} and we give it our eight thumbs up. It is a fun night out chick flick kind of movie {despite the not so great reviews it is getting}. And it has such a great cast. McDreamy and McSteamy, Bradley Cooper, Ashton Kutcher and Taylor Lautner all in one movie...how can you go wrong?

I am off to learn how to use my new phone...

This may be a challenge for me, as I am not so technically inclined. But how cool that I can video tape the kiddies, take photos and use all the apps that I know nothing about yet? Auntie M tells me I can even get a Kindle app. So, who can come over and teach me how to use my phone?

twenty ten

I have been reading this
and this

and thisand going to the premier of this

and ordering this because I love her scrapbooking style...

and I've been hanging out with my favorite kiddies and taking them to birthday parties and play dates, hockey and swimming, and school of course...and squeezing in some play time of my own with my girlfriends. There have been girls' nights and breakfasts out after hockey, Sens games and skating in the backyard rink with the kiddies and on the canal at night with girlfriends, homeade pizza parties and Sunday dinners, coffee mornings and scrapbooking nights with new neighbors, crafting get togethers, Rock Band parties...

So far, 2010 has been fun, fun, fun.

There. now. you. are. all. caught. UP!

team jacob

Last night I saw The Twilight Saga: New Moon movie, and it confirmed for me, just as when I read the books, I am very much Team Jacob.

It also confirmed for me, however, that these movies are just not well done. The acting is cheesy and the vampire make-up is just as bad. But somehow it does not seem to matter. I still enjoyed myself. There is just something about this story that I really like.

So despite the over-the-top-soap-opera-ish teen drama, I had a great night out with girlfriends. Christine, Lee Ann {no Kelly this time sadly} and I saw the first movie as a group, so we went back for part two together. Jill & her sister and Jen joined us this time too. We had a nice dinner before the movie at O'Connors Irish Pub.

So, who are you?

Team Edward...

or Team Jacob?

Just curious.

the time traveler's wife

If you are still thinking about the movie the next day, it must have been good right?

Last night I saw The Time Traveler's Wife with some girlfriends, and I am still thinking about it today. Christine, Jen and I had read the book, and Lee Anne hadn't {which made the experience more entertaining because I kept hearing Jen whisper to Lee Anne explaining things that you could have easily missed if you hadn't read the book. I especially loved the part where I heard Lee Anne say "Well how many of him are there then?}.

I think my review would be that the movie was good. But I am always biased to the book, if I have read it first. I love reading more than I love watching movies. I loved this book. And there is just no way they can put all the detail of the novel into the film, without making it ten hours longer. The film did a pretty good job of touching on the most important parts of the story, but it is harder to get into the characters and really understand Claire and Henry's relationship without all the detail of the book. You know what I mean.

So I highly recommend the book. And the movie is good too. Just different. And if you read the book first and then you go to the movie, you can't really just enjoy the movie for itself. Because if you're like me, you will be constantly comparing it to the parts of the book in your head. Or if you are like Lee Anne, you will be sitting in the theater wondering out loud why Henry's hair is suddenly gray. {Just teasing Lee Anne - you know I love you}!