Daily Mish Mash

I can run, but I can’t hide.  I was tagged by both Former City Girl and Momma Blogs A Lot for this meme.  I guess there is no escaping it.  Here are 7 random things about me (why anyone cares is a mystery, but whatever): 

1.  I eat cereal or oatmeal (or ice cream, but usually the first two) almost every night before going to bed.  Ask my hips.  They don’t lie. 

2.  I try really hard to match my underwear to my shirt.  I used to be more obsessive about this when I was younger.  Now, I’ve calmed down about it and just try to make sure that they don’t clash with the shirt. 

3.  I try to be ‘green’.  I really do.   But there is one thing that I do that wouldn’t earn any points with Leo or the polar bears.   I fail miserably with remembering to switch my laundry from the washer to the dryer.  I often have to wash my laundry twice because I forget about it the first time and it goes sour.  Every time this happens I cringe thinking about those poor polar bears and their melting ice caps.  This is why my next house will have a laundry room next to the kitchen instead of in the dungeon basement.

4.  I’ve never broken a bone.  I guess I’m either just really careful or really lucky.  Or really boring.

5. This one I’m sure will get lots of gasps and ughs and “Are you kidding me?”, but I will freely admit it anyway.  I like Grease 2 way better than the original Grease movie.  Oh yes I do.  How can you not sing along with Michelle Pfeiffer to “Cool Rider”?  Plus, I thought that Maxwell Caulfield (the cool rider) was way cuter than John Travolta ever could be.  So there!

6.  I had my first kiss in 7th grade at Skateland and thought it was so gross.  Then I kissed my second boy later that summer at an Air Supply Concert and it totally made me rethink my stance on kissing.  So. Not. Gross. I believe that the kiss happened during this song. Does anyone else this cheesy video?

7.  I hitchhiked once.  It was during Senior Week (Grad week at the beach).  It was 6am and the buses weren’t running yet so we decided to put out our thumbs to see if we could catch a ride.  Dumb, I know.  Luckily the guy who picked us up wasn’t a serial killer.   What was so important that I felt the need to risk my life by getting into some potential psychopath’s car?  Oh, just the fact that I had to go see the love of my life (He really was because this later turned out to be my husband) who was staying 20 blocks or so up the road.  People will do really stupid things when they are a teenager in love.  I plan to lock my kids in the dungeon when they hit puberty.

I’m not tagging anyone at this point but I would be thrilled if you tagged yourself and completed this meme and told me about it. 

If you are feeling really lazy and don’t want to come up with seven random facts, just leave me a comment with one random thing about yourself.  I love hearing how random you all are. 

I love Top Five Tuesday at SuperNanny Where are You.  I wasn’t going to participate because it was Movie Madness day but I just thought this was an interesting topic and I couldn’t resist.

Here are the Top 5 Reasons I Love to Blog:

1.  My friends were getting sick of me talking incessantly about Ryan Gosling and I think were about to stage an intervention.  I  really needed an outlet for my obsession and the internet seemed like the perfect place. *

2. I’ve always enjoyed keeping a diary but I found that when I tried doing it as an adult that I would break out in cold sweats trying to figure out what to write when I put the pen to the paper.  For whatever reason, I don’t get those anxieties with my laptop.  It just feels more casual and I like that.  Plus there is the added benefit of being able to add photos to go with my thoughts.

3.  I love the community that I have found through reading and commenting on other blogs.  It makes this desperate housewife feel not as desperate.

4.  Blogging gives me a creative outlet.  I am so NOT a crafter or painter or knitter or sewer.  Clearly, I’m not much of a writer (since I wrote sewer instead of seamstress) either, but I do find it to be a lot of fun coming up with post ideas and telling a story.  The icing on the cake is getting comments on one of my posts.

5.  I make a ton of money and get lots of great new products to try and review everyday.  (Hahahahaha–that last one is totally false, but I hope that maybe one day it will be true.) 

*Edited to add–I would like to ask that my bloggy friends not stage a Gosling intervention unless of course, you can somehow arrange it that Ryan was present for the event.  Thanks.  Really, I’m not that much of an obsessed fan.  I just play one on my blog. (Actually I am that obsessed but do not need an intervention.)

For the third summer in a row, we took a vacation without our kids.  Some people may think it is bad parenting to drop off the kids with grandmom and hit the road for a weekend at the beach with friends, but it is on these trips that valuable life lessons are learned. 

Here are just a few examples:

1.  There is something really freaky going on with our world.  Signs are pointing toward the apocalypse.   There were thousands of grasshoppers all over the beach on Friday.  Grasshoppers on the beach????  I visit Ocean City every summer, multiple times a summer, and I have never seen anything like this in my entire life.  They were on the beach, in the water, in my bag, EVERYWHERE!!! 

What is even more weird is that one day they were there and the next day they were gone.  Vanished!   There were no signs of them anywhere.  Of course, I didn’t have my camera the day they were there, so you can just imagine what an invasion of beach grasshoppers would look like.  It was a weird, but fascinating sight to see.

2.  Speaking of bugs, when you see a cockroach at a restaurant, it really pays to inform the manager.  She was horrified and gave us the entire meal for free.  This saved us $150!

3.  When you save $150 because of a cockroach, you will find it is then acceptable to pay $7 for one shot at a bar.

4. When you get the bill for $28 dollars for a round of four shots, you will use the f-word even when you hardly ever use the f-word.

5.  Dancing under confetti is much more fun than dancing under no confetti.

6.  When someone says they are immune to alcohol that is the sign that you should immediately take away their drinking privileges.  This is ALWAYS foreshadowing of really bad things to come.

7.  Chalkboards on the back of bathroom stalls in a night club just invite naughty things to be written on them. 

 Me + Chalk + Lemon Drop Shots = Sentences That Should Never Be Written in Public

(About Ryan Gosling)

8.  Getting hit on by a 22 year old guy will make make a 34 year old married mom of three kids feel like she just won the lottery.  This made my friend’s night week month.

I also learned that I really shouldn’t have scheduled the Movie Madness Carnival for the day after returning from vacation (especially a vacation without kids that included way too much alcohol).  What in the world was I thinking???!!!  I am going to have to postpone until next Tuesday, August 12th.   

I’ll post the winners to my bloggy giveaways tomorrow.  Now I need to deal with laundry and have a stern talk with the ants that have invaded my kitchen while we were away. 

Happy Friday!  This week’s list comes from Amy of My Friend Amy.  Her list has a theme…men from across the pond. 

She says, “It’s those darn sexy Irish/Scottish/English accents….sigh.  With the one and only exception of my true love forever Brad Pitt.”

She also thanked me for hosting our lists because she has quite a few heterosexual male readers that she didn’t want to scare off forever.

Speaking of heterosexual male readers, I received a request to post a list from Blake.  I’m thinking that, in all fairness, I need to put his list (of women) up in a few weeks.  What do you think?  Will that ruin Friday Eye Candy forever or can you appreciate the beauty of the female form?

I always thought that my husband would be the first guy’s list to go up, but since he doesn’t show any interest in reading my blog I figure why bother.  His loss.  Our gain.  :) 

I actually showed him the dream date post and he had me laughing hysterically because he asked me if I had fun playing with my Colorforms (do you remember those??).  So, in case you are wondering, he couldn’t care less about Friday Eye Candy and my obsession with The Gos.  If he did, I would never post this stuff.

Enjoy Amy’s List and leave a comment here to tell her who’s your favorite guy on her list.  Then go over to her blog to say hi.  She has all sorts of fun things going on from the Lost Book Challenge to lots of great giveaways.  (I just won a book–hooray!!)

Ok, enough talk… bring on the guys:

Brad Pitt

Jude Law

Alex O’Loughlin

Stuart Townsend

Naveen Andrews

Ed Westwick

 I think I’m booked through August for Friday Eye Candy, but if you would like to see your list go up sometime in the fall, email me at dailymishmash (at) gmail (dot) com.  I love to see who you all choose!

I wasn’t really planning on doing another post so soon, but I saw this fun little meme over at Supernanny Where Are You and since I was looking for something to do to avoid going to the grocery store I just had to participate. 

It’s about movies (Top 5 Favorites) and since I love lists and I love movies, I just couldn’t resist. 

Plus, I thought this would be a great post to promote my Movie Madness Carnival.  I finally picked a date for next month.  It is going to be on Tuesday, August 5th.  Click on the little banner on my sidebar for more information. 

Anyway, back to my list.  My husband says I have about twenty movies in my top five, but I disagree.  There are twenty in my top ten, but only five in my top five.  So there!

These are the absolute favorites, the movies I could watch over and over again and never get sick of.  These are the ones I choose to watch when I’m feeling sick for comfort (especially #2) and the ones that will make me laugh and cry no matter how many times I see them. 

I thought I’d list them in the form of youtube videos just to be annoying for fun. 

1.  The Notebook-It’s hard to pick just one scene.  The kiss scene is of course my favorite, but I really love this one too:

 

2.  The Burbs–A classic dark comedy. Yes, it is extremely cheesy, but I love it!  Plus, it is nice to watch a Tom Hanks movie where he doesn’t have a fake accent.

3.  Titanic–Again, the kiss scene trumps all but this is another good one:

4.  Meet the Parents–I laughed from beginning to end with this movie.  It is hard to pick a scene that stands alone as being the funniest because they build off of each other, but here is one that sort of stands alone:

5.  Pride and Prejudice–I have to post this scene of Mr. Darcy and Miss Elizabeth unexpectedly running into each other at Pemberley. It is law. No other scene will do. Great, great movie!!

Looking at this list, I just can’t believe there isn’t even one traditional romantic comedy on there.   I love romantic comedies, so my honorable mentions include Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, Only You, and many more.

Since I haven’t seen a movie in a long time that is worthy of writing a review for,  I thought I’d make a list of my Top 5 Movie Kisses.  They really aren’t in any particular order, but you can probably guess my absolute favorite:

1.  The Notebook–Ok, if you hadn’t guessed by now, what took you so long??  This kiss is my absolute favorite.  Actually, I love every kiss from this movie, but this one is the best.  How can it not be?  There is really no comparison when it comes to this kiss. 

2.  Serendipity- A cute movie, a sweet kiss, and of course, John Cusack (again in some sort of precipitation).

3.  Gone With the Wind–A classic kiss!  I just watched it on youtube and I love how Scarlett’s all “Fiddledeedee” and Rhett’s all “None of the fools you’ve known have kissed you like this—have they? ”  I just love the way he takes hold of the situation and puts her in her place.  Not that I’m about men putting women in places, but it works in this scene.

4.  Titanic-The color of the sky, the costumes, LEO!!!  This is a truly magical kiss. 

 5.  Sixteen Candles–Ahh, Jake Ryan.  Didn’t every girl who grew up in the 80’s want to kiss Jake Ryan.  Gosh was he was dreamy.    Anyway, this is a great kiss:

So, what famous movie kiss do you think should be added to this list?

This post is part of Movie Madness.  If you haven’t already entered the giveaway, go here.

1.  Coke Zero in a two liter bottle.  For some random reason, my husband decided to buy a few bottles of two liter Coke Zero in place of our usual  fridge-friendly 12 pack.  First day–delicious!  Next day–flat and yucky.   So, now that we are working on our second bottle I’m feeling compelled to consume the whole damn thing so as not to waste the bubbly goodness. 

2.  Urinary Tract Infections.  Maybe if I drank more water instead of the aforementioned Coke Zero, I would not get them as much.  But I figure if Coke can clean corrosion from your car battery, it sure as heck should be able to wash away bacteria in my bladder.  Doesn’t this seem like a good scientific theory?  No, I didn’t think so either.

3.  Giving Kids Homework at Vacation Bible School.  Seriously??!!   Look, I’m not trying to be ungrateful or anything.  I know that you all don’t get paid for all the work that is put into what you do.  I do appreciate the almost 3 hour break from my kids (not to mention all the cool crafts you are doing with them while at the same time teaching them about God and stuff) but I do think having homework is a bit much.  Come on now.

4.  My 3 month old computer freezing up.   Ok, Mr. Laptop, I know that  I’m working on Friday’s Eye Candy and it is just too much hotness for one computer to handle, but you are seriously getting on my nerves.

5.  Clutter.  This does not need an explanation. 

6.  Gas Prices.  Again no explanation needed. Well, actually I will add one thing to this.  Did you hear about the kids who are protesting the gas prices because their parents had to cut something out of the budget to afford to live and they chose cable tv.  Having to give up Sponge Bob would drive my kids to take extreme measures too.  I find this story funny but also inspiring.  Good for them for trying to take a stand!   We should all be protesting because this is getting out of hand. 

7.  Cats who are always begging for my food.  See that bowl behind you.  The one with all the food in it.  That is yours.  This chicken soft taco is mine.  And you can take your pathetic look and meowing over to the big oil corporations because with the price of gas being so high, I can not afford to give you scraps anymore.  Sorry.  Maybe you should make up little signs and protest at the gas station like the kids who lost their cable.  

8.  People burning things.  My neighbors behind us are pyromaniacs I think.  They are constantly having a bonfire and the smell of the smoke on a nightly basis is enough to drive me mad.  I’ve tried calling the police but I guess they are above the law because they just keep doing it.

9.  Matt Damon not looking like the Sexiest Man Alive in this picture.  I know it is for a movie, but there really should be laws prohibiting this sort of thing: 

10.  Ben Affleck.  He really hasn’t done anything to annoy me this week, but he just always rubs me the wrong way. 

11.  Moms in skimpy bikinis frolicking around with their toddlers on the beach.  My husband, on the other hand, loved this and couldn’t seem to take his eyes off of them.  I think he was just waiting patiently for something to pop out. 

12. Having to pay for new lenses for my son’s glasses (that I already spent $300 on so they would be supposedly scratch resistant in the first place) Maybe they wouldn’t have gotten scratched at the beach if the aforementioned husband wasn’t so busy looking at the bikini girls and paid more attention to where he put the glasses.

13.  Summer TV.  Between Celebrity Circus, Wipe Out and I Survived a Japanese Game Show, I’m avoiding the tv altogether.  My kids, on the other hand are loving every mind rotting minute of it. 

What’s plucking your nerves this week?

If you like lists as much as me, head on over to Thursday Thirteen.

1.  Trying to be “green” and waiting to put in the window air conditioner until it gets “hot enough” is just plain stupid. There are plenty of other ways to be help save the earth and waiting until it is 105 degrees to put in a window air conditioner is not one of them.

2.  Buying a house without central air was the worst decision we ever made.  Period.

3.  When your child refuses to go swimming, eat another piece of ice cream cake or says she is cold during a heat wave, you know she is sick. 

4.  On the same note, having your child come down with a 103 degree fever is much scarier in the middle of a heatwave than it is in the winter and you’ll lose hours of sleep trying to get her temperature back to normal. 

5.  But I discovered that these cooling strips really do work. 

6.   Eating too much trail mix (even if it seems healthy) because you are too hot and lazy to get up and make a real lunch will give you a terrible stomachache.

7.  No matter how much Coke Zero you drink, you will still feel thirsty. 

8.  I now know the true meaning of the phrase “hot as hell” and I wonder if Hell could actually be located in my house. 

9.  Global warming is real (at least this weekend and in my part of the world).  See we should have listened to Leo when we had the chance.

10.  Leo is never going to notice my efforts to try to be “green”, no matter how hard I try because he only dates swimsuit models.  For that reason, my air is on full blast and I plan to keep it that way.