84. Spend A Day In My Jammies Watching Movies

What better day to do this than the last day of my vacation? Yes, it was a beautiful spring day, but I don't often have a day off with nothing planned and I needed a break from my TV on DVD. I decided my first movie of the day would be the one I had just received from Netflix, Julie & Julia. I was, as always, in awe of Meryl Streep. (And as an aside, is there anyone she doesn't have chemistery with? I wanted to be her and Stanley Tucci.) I now want to go to Paris and definitely need to cook more. In picking my next movie I went with the theme of "Meryl Streep" and watched Mamma Mia! And much to the chagrin of my neighbors and cats, I did indeed sing along. How can you not when Abba songs are involved? Next up: Bridget Jones's Diary. One Colin Firth movie just isn't enough, in my opinion. I just adore him and even though I had to use my trusty VCR it definitely was worth it. After a quick break for the PBR (not often on network TV where I can see it) I moved on to another favorite Renee Zellwegger movie, Down With Love. A fantastic spoof/homage to 60's rom-coms, I highly recommend it if you haven't seen it. Over the end credits is a "music video" of Renee and her co-star Ewan McGregor doing a song and dance number, so this inspired my next movie choice. I went back to the VCR to enjoy Ewan's musical performance in Moulin Rouge. In keeping with the Baz Luhrmann school of directing my next video was William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, a movie and especially soundtrack that never fails to bring me back to freshman year of college. For the last movie of my all day marathon I decided to go for a classic, one of my all-time favorite movies with one of the best movie scenes ever: Sixteen Candles. (The scene: when all the cars pull away to reveal Jake Ryan leaning against his car. Gets me every time.) All in all, a pretty good dau. I may have ended the day still in my jammies, unshowered, and a butt going numb, but I accomplished something I had wanted to do in a while- have a day just for me where I could ignore the world and do something I love to do: watch movies. Plus, it really got me in the mood to get back to work and "real life" the next day. And who knows, maybe next time I can talk so,eone in to movie marathoning with me.

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Finish a cross-stitch stocking About a year and a half ago when I was living with my baby sister and her two kids it occured to me they didn't have Christmas stockings. I was looking for a cross stitch project to do so I decided to make stockings for them. Now, there is a joke in my family about how long it takes me to complete a cross stitch since I made one for my dad and it took me aboit three years to do. The problem is that I go through periods of time where I don't touch it at all. Also, have you ever done counted cross stitch? Hours later you only have a little square to show for your effort. But anyway, being on vacation this week and doing nothing but watching TV on DVD gave me the perfect opportunity to finally finish the one I had been working on for Jax! I get such a sense of accomplishment when it starts to look like something, not just a bunch of stitches. It's not perfect and if I were Santa I wouldn't put anything too heavy in there, vut it looks good. And as a bonus, I've started the one for Brodie. I still have a couple days of vacation left to make a good dent in it and maybe even start thinking about the one I want to make for my niece Magfie.