Monday, May 31, 2010

Happy Memorial Day

I hope everyone enjoys their time with their family this Memorial Day. Make sure you remember why we celebrate this holiday today:

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Disney Meme

Which Disney Princess film is your favorite?
Beauty and the Beast! I've always adored Belle.

Which non-Disney Princess Disney Film is your favorite?
Alice in Wonderland or Lady and the Tramp. I've always been able to watch them both repeatedly. They never get old.

Which Disney film makes you cry the most?
Old Yeller and that scene/song "Goodbye" from The Fox and the Hound

Which Disney film makes you the happiest?
Alice in Wonderland. I always watch it when I'm sick.

Which Disney film has the best music?
Ooh, that's a tough one but I'll have to go with Bambi.

Which Disney film has the best love story?
Beauty and the Beast because she saw past the Beast to the person undearneath.

Who is your favorite Disney Princess?
Belle

Who is your favorite Disney Prince?
The Beast or Eric (Little Mermaid)

Who is your favorite Disney animal sidekick?
Jiminy Cricket. He's just so darn cute!

Who is your favorite Disney main character animal?
Tramp or Simba

Who is your favorite villain?
In terms of "scares the crap out of me" then Maleficent. Otherwise I just love Long John Silver

What is your favorite Disney song?
"Feed the Birds" from Mary Poppins

What is your favorite Disney villian song?
"Goodbye So Soon" from The Great Mouse Detective and "Oogie Boogie's Song" from The Nightmare Before Christmas

What is your favorite Disney animal song?
"When I See and Elephant Fly" from Dumbo

What is your favorite Disney Princess song?
I hope "Tale as Old as Time" from Beauty and the Beast counts! If not then "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid

What is your favorite Disney Prince song?
"So This is Love" from Cinderella

What is your favorite Disney Prince/Princess duet song?
I don't really have a favorite but I like "Once Upon a Dream" from Sleeping Beauty

What is your favorite Disney love song?
"Love is a Song" from Bambi. It's my favorite from that movie.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Pictures and the Flu

I guess I came back to blogging a tiny bit too soon what with my mom coming down and me catching a little flu bug too. NOT fun! Well, here's those pictures I promised:


This is down the road from my house




Only a little farther down, near where we go grocery shopping (Ocean Springs)


At a rest stop between Lousiana and Mississippi. I believe they do NASA tours there but I was the only one interested in that so we didn't go :(


This is a live band that plays all the time at The Gazebo resturaunt in New Orleans. They have SUCH good food!


The obligatory Bourban Street sign picture.
I'll post pics from The Hard Rock Casino as soon as I can!

Saturday, May 8, 2010

All I've Done Was Go!

Hey, I didn't abandon the blog, I promise! My mom is just down and today is the first time since Wednesday I've been able to do more than check my email. We've been everywhere! Down in Biloxi to the Imperial Palace and The Hard Rock Casino/ Cafe (OMG those little key lime pie bites which are served in shooter glasses are SO good), all over shopping, and even over to New Orleans for a few hours. Tonight we're going to The Shed which is right up the road from my house because Little Freddie King is playing tonight. I'll post a bunch of pictures tomorrow k?

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Teaser Tuesday-Stephen King


TEASER TUESDAYS asks you to:
  • Grab your current read.
  • Let the book fall open to a random page.
  • Share with us two (2) “teaser” sentences from that page
  • You also need to share the title of the book that you’re getting your “teaser” from … that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you’ve given!

THE STEPHEN KING ILLUSTRATED COMPANION
King says, "Johnny is different from other violent, paranoid mystics in only one way: He really can see the future. Only don't they all say that?" (Speaking about his main character from The Dead Zone)

Monday, May 3, 2010

Musing Monday-In Books

Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about the war books

Do you frequent second hand book stores? Have you ever bought a book home only to find anything interesting within their pages?

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link to your own Musing Mondays post, or share your opinion in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks.


I LOVE secondhand stores! You never know what kind of treasure your going to find and usually cheap too! At least half of my books had previous owners actually... including an ARC of Holly Black's Tithe! I picked it up before it came out and before I had a clue who she was because I loved the cover.

Sadly, I've never found anything too interesting inside my books except a few bookmarks (and once a photo of a guy in a tux and baseball hat) but I still hold out hope of finding something amazing one day.
Hey, did you know that there is a website devoted entirely to Things Found in Books?

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Did ya Miss Me?

Wow! My last post here was in March I believe it's time to update don't you? I believe I owe a bit of an explanation for that and the reason my hiatus lasted so long is that blogging got to be more of a chore than something I did for fun. Catch-22 is that I did miss blogging but in the meantime other things began to take up my time but I'm going to try to juggle everything once more!

So nothing is really new with me and I'm still not really reading anything (I've been stuck on the same book since I last updated actually and I'm trying to work on a biography I started 2 years ago too) but I'm going to be posting some movie reviews until I do get back in the swing. In other news, my mother is going to be coming down for a visit for the first time and I'm running around trying to keep the house clean which is harder than you would think lol!

So my Google Reader is incredibly scary looking and because of that I'm going to delete everything older than a week so if anyone has anything that they wrote about older then I would love for you to post a link in the comments! Reviews you did an especially good job on, a post that generated a ton of interesting conversation, etc. PLEASe let me know!!!