2008 We Salute You!!

Yes I am aware that it is now February and this post should have been out to the public in January, it looks like my resolution to not procrastinate this year is already out the window. Which I think is a good thing because nobody can keep all there resolutions. So failing this one just paves the way for my resolution to get back to my birth weight is looking like a possibility this year. So anyway I would now like to take this blog and tip my hat to the best and worst of 2008.

BEST MOVIES

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Defiance

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull*

* I am aware it wasn't that great, what can I say I'm not only a fair weather fan.

Mamma Mia!*

* I saw this in London, the best Sunday there for sure

Horton Hears a Who

Twilight

Beverly Hills Chihuahua*

* I know it isn't Oscar worthy but when you have a Chihuahua it touches you

Forgetting Sarah Marshall*

* Are those sad tissues? Or happy tissues?

Baby Mamma

Sex and the City

Nights in Rodanthe

Step Brothers

Marley & Me*

* Warning- I cried so hard that I lost a contact in my tears

Four Christmases

I do have to say that it wasn't a great year for movies, I hope 2009 brings some better choices. At least the movies that I did like were for the most part light hearted and enjoyable.

WORST MOVIES

Hancock

I Am Legend*

* I really wanted to like both of these, yet after two showings all I want is 12 hrs of life back

27 Dresses*

* Romantic comedies are supposed to be funny and romantic right?

Strange Wilderness

The Other Bolyen Girl*

* I still own this because I love the book and Eric Bana of course

GOOD MUSIC

Missy Higgens

Dean Martin

Josh Radin

Schylur Fisk

Pink

John Mayer

Blue October

Ray Lamontagne

Nickle Creek

Katy Perry

Taylor Swift

Jewel

Jessica Simpson as a country artist

Sonic Youth

Cold Play

Cat Power

BEST T.V

Desperate Housewives

Nip Tuck

Gossip Girl

Golden Girls re-runs

The Office

30 Rock

CSI: Miami

It's Me of the Dog

The Amazing Race

What Not to Wear

Little Britain USA

HighLights

London- This seriously was the best experience of my life, London I miss you.

* Walking alone by the river

* Eating crepes at my favorite crepe restaurant

* The Tube

* Stratford and the bed and breakfast

* Ghost tours with Richard III

* The Fringe Festival

* The Imperial War museum

* Big Ben at night

* Holland Park

* The theatre

* Paying 15 pounds for Mamma Mia

* Minding the Gap

Horse shows with Simon

Winning big in Las Vegas

San Diego

* The zoo

Colorado Springs

* The zoo

Texas

Well here is to the end of a great year. I would like to dedicate this blog to Estelle Getty the wonderful Golden Girl Sophia whom we lost in 2008.

I Am A Poet & Don't Even Know It...

Ok So when I was younger I used to write poetry all the time. I actually got published in school newspapers and all that junk. I got some awards as well. I know I usually am all about the funny blog but the other day while on an airplane I just started writing and this is what came out on the paper in about ten minutes so I thought I would post it and see if I could still win junior high contests. Consider yourselves judges (even though nobody reads my blog) so have at it.....

Lines

Going through life living, learning who am I?

Loving knowing only hurt can happen in the end.

Taking moments and making them into memories

And taking the memories that hurt and willing them to become simple moments again.

Losing the ones you love and realizing life takes no prisoners,

All things good or bad will end.

Taking the person you thought you were and morph from the pain once more

Changes from the outside are masking the sorrow felt from within

People come and go, yet certain ones come and stay

They touch your soul and rattle all logic you once thought you had

Asking, what do I want from this crazy life?

Reaching out for something to hold,

Yet secretly wishing your fingers find nothing but air.

Picking yourself up from the ashes,

Seeing someone in the mirror that you don't recognize.

The face stares back,

And though different is fresh, new and full of experiences good and bad.

Another wrinkle on your face that the world I have lived and felt life.

Lines that say I have had dreams,

Dreams that I have reached and dreams that found me.

A face that shows the steps the feet traveled,

Marks of moments and memories,

Lines that say who I am.

Thanks for reading don't worry I am not going to go crazy and off myself like legit poets tend to do.