As a teenager I think, for the most part, I watched most of the typical teen movies.  I was a follower of the Brat Pack and saw everything that starred Molly Ringwald.  Every now and then I get a craving for one of those movies that I haven't seen for eons.  Most recently it was Sixteen Candles, so over the summer I ordered it from Netflix and watched it alone one night after everyone had gone to bed.  Again, I found that what amused and delighted you when you were 13, does absolutely nothing for you when you're 35.  I didn't laugh, but I did cry....over the hour and half that I wasted.  It won't fail though....in about two years I'll do the same thing with Pretty in Pink or The Breakfast Club.  Some deep-seeded need for nostalgia will rise up, and I won't be able to help myself.

There's one 80s teen movie, however, that is the exception in that it is fairly decent.  I can watch it whenever I want and not feel dumber because of it.  It's this one....

This movie actually may have changed the course of my life.  I saw this movie the summer of 1989, right before my senior year of highschool, with my then-boyfriend of about nine months or so.   I was totally blown away by John Cusack's character of Lloyd Dobler.  He was quirky and believable and smart.  And I kept thinking, "This is the same guy who plays one of Anthony Michael Hall's cohorts in Sixteen Candles?!"  It's no wonder he's one of the few 80s teen actors to go onto have a prolific career.

Anyway, I was sitting there in the theater, beside my boyfriend, when on the screen a couple's love story was playing out that made ours look like plain oatmeal.  I couldn't help it, but I was comparing.  I was measuring.  And I didn't think that so-and-so beside me was making the cut.  In the scene of the movie after the break-up, Lloyd goes to Dianne's house and holds up his boom box while a cultish Peter Gabriel song is playing into her open window.  My heart stopped.  I knew that so-and-so would never do that.  And I knew that whoever I was going to be with for the rest of my life just had to have that in him.  Just to make sure, I eventually broke up to see if he would.  He didn't.  He just kept trying to get back together in other boring ways, which I just found irritating.  This is the song, by the way, with scenes from the movie... 

See what I mean?  Kinda gets under your skin, doesn't it?

Personally, I'm thankful to that movie and to that boom-box-over-the-head song, because a year later I met Big D, who is in every way even better than Lloyd Dobler.  He is quirkier, funnier, smarter and can do the worm.  Thanks Mr. Cusack for opening my eyes to the greener pastures!

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Well, sort of.  We "verbally" accepted an offer tonight.  The relocation company will now step in and buy it from us and they will sell it to the buyers.  I do not know how quickly this happens but it is in the works.  I am not sure if it is after the home inspection but that should happen in the next week.

Wow!  I never thought that would happen.  I mean, I knew the house would sell but it just was wierd.  Thinking of someone else calling this place home and using MY cabinets and things is just, well, weird to me.  I mean I'm happy because this couple is young and will really build their memories here.  She also loves my gardens and and how I've decorated.  (hmmm....I like this woman! lol!). They don't have any children yet so this will be so great for them to have a home and begin a family....*sigh*.  That is where we were.  When we bought our home our firstborn was just a few months old.  He was 6 mo when we moved in.  I've had two babies here since. 

I know, I'm probably over attached to this house.  I am very sentimental about places and I very much am a homebody.  I love being home and really making it HOME!! To me home is where your truly hang your heart.  I work hard to make our home inviting and relaxing/comfortable.  Finances don't always allow for all I'd like to do but it amazes me how God has consistantly provided for us over the years and how we find things on sale or are blessed with money as gifts from family and we just put it toward something we really would like or need.  There have been so many times over the years that have been God moments and they have all happened here.  So many prayers and so much growth.  I know you always take your memories with you and it doesn't matter where you live but that God lives in you that makes all the difference but still.......

Anyway, we are set to leave the first week of September and the new owners will move in shortly after.  So very strange.  I hope they will be a good fit for our neighbors.  We have the world's best neighbors here and I wish I could pack them up too and keep them where we are going.

So, until next time, keeps those fingers safely tapping and honey, I'll be up late tonight, I have Blogs to catch up on!

No, I am not going to talk about household chores...again.

I have gotten very behind in some things that I've had on my back burner for some time now.  I am very tired, and I needed a short entry for tonight.  Thus, you're getting this hodgepodge of topics all bundled into one.  I'm sorry, but I'm pregnant.  (That is one really good thing about pregnancy.  It is a great excuse for all sorts of slacker-tendencies.)

First of all, I was given the Art de Pico award by two of my blogging friends, natural paths and 4sweetums an embarrassingly long time ago.

It is for "those who nourish and enrich the spirit of creativity" and procrastinate about posting their generously given awards.  Just kidding on that last part, but I do feel very undeserving.  Thank you very much, my fellow bloggers!   It is a very great honor!

Secondly, I have seen two movies in the last month or so that I have failed to review.  Actually, I wrote up a very long-winded double feature on both of them late one night, back before we started school, and I was still staying up until 2am sometimes.  I hit the "add new entry" button, and POOF!...it was gone.  I cried a river. slapped my computer around, cursed my internet connection, and then went to bed.

So, while I'm not going to be rewriting those reviews, I will briefly tell you about my movie-going experiences with each...

Basically, Big D and I went to see this as movie rubberneckers.  With all the hype over the death and talked-about performance of Heath Ledger, we quickly rented the original in this series, Batman Begins, and then went to see this one.  Basically, I'm not going to add anything new to all that the media and all of your friends and family have already told you.  It was a very tense movie, and all of the performances were better than average.  Heath Ledger was nothing less than mesmerizing, but I'm convinced that he was playing the role of Satan instead of merely the Joker, so it was very disturbing as well.  My only warning is that it felt more like an R, rather than a PG-13 to me.

I went to see this with the kids and Indiana Mimi.  It was another really exciting flick with lots of gasps and thrills.  Yet, the plot was pretty predictable and over-the-top.  The 3-D effects were really well done, but be careful.  In our local paper it states that there is a surcharge for the 3D performances.  Well, it was like $3 per ticket.  I nearly fainted when they told me my total was $36 for matinee tickets for two kids, one senior and one adult.

I think that I have covered everything that I wanted to tell you.  However, there's a great possibility that I'm still forgetting something.  After all, I'm pregnant.