1. Say Anything — because it has so many good lines (“I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.”), and because Lloyd Dobler makes me believe in love.

2. The Notebook — because I have a serious crush on Ryan Gosling as well as one on Rachel McAdams, so it doesn’t get much better than a movie starring the two of them together. It’s like the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups of movies.

3. 12 Monkeys — because I’ve watched it probably five or six times and I still don’t get it, but I’m still not tired of trying to figure it out.

4. Zombieland — because an awesome movie about Outwitting, Outplaying, and Outlasting slobbery, blood-thirsty undead people (including Bill Murray as a fake undead person) is really just a metaphor for the reality game show that is Survivor. Or else Survivor is a metaphor for Zombieland. I can’t be sure, I think zombies ate my brain. Or else Jeff Probst did.

5. The Hangover — because I have never laughed so hard in my life as I did when I saw it in the theater, and if I’m all alone on an island, I won’t have to worry about peeing in my pants while laughing this time and I’m not saying that I actually peed in my pants the first time, but I did worry about the possibility of peeing. In my pants. Whatever.

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* Yes, I realize the Survivors aren’t actually allowed to take movies to Exile Island.

Not that you’d know it from the minimal posting here, but things have really been hopping.
HA! AN EASTER PUN! THREE DAYS LATER!

First, I’ve been working with a terrific group of people to relaunch the new and improved Indie Ink website. I am a contributing editor and the Marketing & Media H.B.I.C. over there. If you are a writer or a photographer you should definitely consider contributing some of your work.

Second, I HAVE been writing, just not here. Case in point: I wrote a guest post for today over at Happy Healthy Hip Parenting. Show me some love, go on over there and read it. I promise it will make you think twice before flying to Vegas ever again. I’m not sure that’s a good thing, but there it is.

Third, if you found your way here via my guest post at Happy Healthy Hip Parenting, WELCOME. I assure you that this post is in no way indicative of the usual caliber of my writing as evidenced by its near lack of run-on sentences and MINIMAL USE OF CAPS LOCK. Anyway, I am very glad you are here. Grab a Mochachino and stay a while. A good place to start is the Crash Test Faves box over there on the upper right.

Fourth, I also actually DO have a few posts in draft including “5 Things that Are Seriously (Okay, Probably Not Seriously) Wrong with Me” and “5 Things from My Childhood I Wish My Mom Hadn’t Sold at that Garage Sale in 1985″. I’ll try and finish at least one of those and get them up for your reading pleasure in the next day or two.

Or I won’t. Maybe I’m just saying I’ll post something, but in the end it’s all just a big April Fool’s joke. Six days later.

We shall see. I know you’ll lose sleep over it.

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I spent most of Good Friday eating Zappin’ Apple Sour Punch Straws and watching the Tori & Dean: Inn Love marathon because that’s what Jesus would do, and I would like to take a moment right now to thank Oxygen (the channel) for rerunning those first two seasons since I only started watching the show in Season Three. And also to thank oxygen (the element) for making the earth a life-sustaining planet. Amen.

Anyway, while I was watching Chateau La Rue’s remodel (which — HELLO — Tori, Dean, and their designers can come and makeover MY chateau ANYTIME because the finished product was TDF) I decided to do some tinkering around in this here website’s control panel. And by “tinkering around” I of course mean BLOW THE WHOLE THING UP.

(This is the part where you think to yourself that’s why I don’t have a self-hosted WordPress blog and then you condescendingly ask me whether or not I had a backup saved. And I tell you that yes, I DID have a backup saved and even if it was a few days old and missing my most recent post and comments, it nevertheless still qualifies as WAY BETTER THAN NOTHING.)

So, tres sadly, the thoughtful comments you beautiful people left on my Crash Test Mommy TV Episode 1 post are now gone from this here website. But really, the situation easily could have been much worse, so silver lining and all.

The important thing is that nobody got hurt and that I took away some valuable lessons that I will share with you:

• The steps are: Hit Publish –> Backup Files. In that order. Every time.
• Think twice, then delete.
• Watching Tori and Dean requires one’s complete attention or VERY BAD THINGS HAPPEN.

Here’s hoping your weekend is the bomb.

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For the Real and/or Imagined Haters: If you are even dreaming of judging me for watching T & D don’t waste your time. Their show, now called Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood, is starting its FIFTH SEASON on Monday and that just proves that I’m not the only one watching it and furthermore where is my Nielsen box when I need it?