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.