Oh, Lord. So today at work I had to listen to Cameron go on and on about how great New Moon was. (Keep in mind that Cameron is gay and lists Britney, Miley, and the Pussycat Dolls as his idols). I was surprised when he told me he's never real the novels, but on second thought this was the same person who told me he stopped reading Harry Potter after the third one because they were "too long". Please. The Twilight books may be 500 pages, but you can easily get through one in a day or two.

He thinks since Crap Moon made more than The Dark Knight in its opening weekend, (why, God, why????) that makes stupid vampire movie better. Whatever, dude. Last time I checked, the critics loved TDK and they're still shredding Shitty Moon to pieces. When I tell him this, he replies with that all the critics are "old" and don't understand New Moon because it's about teenagers. Okay, first of all, I'm sure there are movie critics out there in their twenties who have their reviews on RT. And second of all, there are actually kid/teenager/vampire movies out there that have good reviews because they're, you know, good.

He told me that Dakota Fanning is only in the movie for five minutes and I said, "Oh, that's too bad because she's probably the best actor in the movie." You know it's true!!! I don't particularly care for Dakota, but she can act circles around Kristen, Sparkles, and Shark Boy combined.

I came across this hilarious review of NM. It's a little crude, so I wouldn't advise watching it if you're in a public place:
LOL

Has anyone been over to Rotten Tomatoes lately? New Moon is only 28% fresh. Hilarious! It is getting torn apart by all the critics and I'm loving it! Of course, I'm sure not all the reviews for it have been computed, so it could certainly go up (or down ha!) I wanted to share with you some of my favorite review tidbits:

Never has a man's shirtlessness been so essential to a character's development.
Yeah, either the werewolf is allergic to shirts of he's too poor to buy a shirt.

Considering Lautner's acting improved so much sans shirt, I wonder if there might have been Oscar buzz had he taken off his pants.

Oscar should never be put in a sentence when we're talking about Twilight!

There is one thing to be said about the way Weitz handles time travel. He can make two hours and 10 minutes seem like a thousand years.

LOL! And I've noticed that a lot of the critics say that the film just LAGS on forever.

Along with eyeliner, the heroes of New Moon share a dark, ancient secret. Could they be cursed with -- gasp! -- shirtlessness? Twihards will be OMG, OMG, OMG. The rest of us? ROTFL.

The Twilight Saga: New Moon may have upped the budget, but it still looks bafflingly cheap. It's also sillier, sloppier and stupider than its predecessor. (Example: one character decides to kill himself because of a misunderstanding over the phone.

In the mood for two glossy hours of adolescent yearning and buff, shirtless dudes? Then this movie is for you!

I can't comment on the acting because I didn't catch Pattinson, Stewart and Lautner doing any. They basically primp and pose through the same humdrum motions they did before.

BURN! And yes Stewart is an awful actress while RPatz doesn't even seem like he's trying. Taylor's just there to look good.

I could go on, but I'll stop there, but please check out my own Twilight tirade

Since the holidays are upon us, I've updated my journal to a more festive look. I chose "Jolly Snowman" just because I liked the name.

I brought in two blank CDs and gave them to Cameron so he could burn Mariah Carey's and Carrie Underwood's new CDs on them for me and tell him, "Here are the blank CDs for Mariah and Carrie" and he gives this weird look and says, "Uh, she's one person." LOL, I didn't even realize it when I said it, so I told him I meant Carrie Underwood.

Then later, Jackie, one of the residents tells us she's having problems with her thermostat (like she always is) so we go over to her room and while she's telling us what the problem is (it won't turn on, but it was just on auto and hadn't kicked in yet), she looks at me and says mid-sentence, "You have gorgeous eyes." LOL, Jackie is a crazy old woman.

My ten year high school reunion was last September (actually on my birthday), but I didn't go because a) I was in Minneapolis that weekend and 2) I wasn't the most popular of students so I'm sure nobody would have remembered me anyway! Oh, sure I would have gone if I had a fabulous life and could brag about it, but alas, I don't! So there was really no need to go.

Because honestly? Having Facebook is almost like a reunion. I have 90 former high school classmates on my Facebook and it's very interesting to see their photos ten years since I've last seen them. There are some that have seemed to age beyond ten years (those were the ones that liked to party according to the photos I saw) and there were those who looked they had never aged since '99. There were classmates who I had once thought as cute or pretty not so attractive now (LOL I am such a bitch) and there were those who were more homely when I went to high school with then who are now simply stunning, the ugly duckling who turned into the swan, if you will. So yeah, thanks to Facebook I can have my own class reunion without actually going to the reunion.

And just for fun, I've made a list of celebs my age who would be in my class, you know, if every single famous person my age happened to go to the same school with me.

( I would totally be BFF with Eliza )

So I did a video review of Almost Famous in my movie blog. Go check it out: It's me!

One of my favorite websites, Television Without Pity (TWoP!) wrote this article in honor of the movie The Box in which they provide some pop culture dilemmas. I thought I would share my answers to anyone who cares!

( WWJD )

I've cleaned my room!

( Before photo )

( After photo )

To post reviews and comments on my favorite movies. It's just going to focus on that. So far I've got reviews up for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, American Beauty, and Walk the Line.

Cinematic Sara

I'm in the process of cleaning my apartment. LOL I am so messy. So far I've tackled the kitchen and bathroom (get the hardest rooms out of the way first) and cleaned up my living area this afternoon. Only my bedroom is left and it is a mess! There's clothes and shit all over the floor and I need to organize my closet and desk. Actually, I took a pic...( Click if you dare! )

See what I mean?

Recently I finished watching the fifth season of House. I LOVE that show! I thought I'd share my thoughts about last year's season.

( I wish my ringtone were MMMBOP )

So yesterday at HP employees (and residents if they wanted to) were allowed to dress up in costume and the residents had their Halloween dinner and party. Why they didn't have it on, oh, I don't know, HALLOWEEN, I have no idea. During lunch, these two guys who work as physical therapists came by dressed as Elvis and Michael Jackson (and they both went all out!) and passed out candy to the residents. At one point, "Elvis" put a chair in the middle of the dining room while everybody was eating and had Gloria, one of the residents, sit in it while he serenaded Are You Lonesome Tonight? to her. He was quite good! All the old ladies were loving it; it was great! I don't think Hoag was too thrilled because he's been trying to mack on Gloria for awhile and is always harassing her. In fact, Gloria and Maury (the guy I mentioned in my previous post who died on his birthday) used to be an "item" and Hoag couldn't stand Maury. Well, I can't stand Hoag (he is an ass; he told Kaitlin she has a "perfect body", that's so wrong for an older man to say to a young girl!), so I was feeling some serious schadenfreude.

Oh, and Lynn, the receptionist came dressed as a bottle of ketchup and she brought her tiny dog who was wearing a hot dog costume. It was so disgustingly cute!

I didn't change into my own costume until dinnertime because it would have been too hot to wear all day (especially with the way they keep that place heated during the winter, GOOD LORD!) My inspiration for my outfit was this dress, but the pattern my mom got for it was more for a 19th century dress, not 18th century, so nobody knew exactly what time period I was supposed to be from - it ranged from 17th century to 19th century. Everyone asked me where I got my outfit and they gasped when I told them my mom made it for me. Marjorie told me I won for best costume! Yes! I love Marjorie; she's this picky old lady who won't eat beef, dairy products, lettuce, or pork. She's also obsessed with Pat Sajack and Norwegian people. (She likes me because I'm of Norwegian descent). I liked my hat, though! I don't have a photo of my costume, but I can show you my hat:

( Yankee Doodle Hat )

Krista was a beach bum, Kaitlin was a bumblebee, Robyn was a '50s girl, Alix and Karen were cowgirls, Kelsey was a nurse (even though she already is a nurse, but it was a different outfit) and as for residents, Evelyn and Mary Ellen wore witch hats (perfect for Mary Ellen!) and Bill and Anne came dressed as hippies. They wore tie dye shirts (Bill's had a pot leaf on his!) and Anne wore peace sign earrings and Bill was wearing a toupee! Ha, ha, ha!

After dinner was the party in the Community Room. Krista, Julia, Kaitlin, and I decided we would check it out for half an hour. As we were on our way there we ran into Beata (the cutest little old lady you will ever meet) and she wants to know where the entertainment is going to be held, so we tell her to follow us in her electronic wheelchair. At one point, as we're walking down the hall, I turn around to see if Beata is still behind us (she isn't), say that Beata isn't behind us anymore, and run smack into the edge of the wall, like SMACK and hit the right side of my face and shoulder against the wall. It fucking HURT like a BITCH, but it was kinda funny. I know have a bruise on my shoulder.

In the community room they served punch and cookies and this woman who sings songs from the resident's era. She does trivia from The Wizard of Oz because apparently that's a Halloween movie because it features a witch. She asks the residents to name the actress who played Dorothy and there's dead silence. The four of us are sitting in the back and Krista and I are hissing, "Judy Garland! Judy Garland!" Then she asks who Dorothy landed on and flattened and Hoag says "The straw man!" and we're like, uh, Hoag, that wasn't a character... She sang a few songs from the movie and when she started to sing "Ding Dong! The Witch is Dead!", Robyn leans over to us and says, "Why does this song remind me of Mary Ellen?" LMAO! NOBODY likes Mary Ellen.

Maurice, the sweetest old man who used to live where I work died today. He was the nicest and funniest old man; he always had his cell phone with him when he came down to lunch and it was set on the highest volume and it always rang when he was done eating lunch...you could hear that things from across the room!

Anyway, he had been sick for awhile and had been in the hospital. Sadly, he died this morning. And today was his 88th birthday! Who dies on their birthday? You only have a one in 365 chance of that happening. I kinda find it fascinating.

Anyway, on a lighter note, Ashley and Zach came by to visit Jake and me this evening and we reminisced about the good old days when there were four of us working (along with Kat, Krista, and Dani) and we laughed about Lisa quitting because she didn't get Mary's job. (Nobody liked Lisa too much, lol).

There is this ANNOYING constant beeping sound and I have no idea what it is, no idea where it's coming from and I CAN'T sleep! AUGHHHHHHHHHH!

My mom and I went to see Where the Wild Things Are yesterday (more on that later) and it felt like we were watching two shows at once because a family with five children all under the age of six came in and sat in the row RIGHT IN FRONT OF US (when there was plenty of other seats where they could have sat). The last 45 minutes of the movie, all the kids began to get really antsy and fussy and were moving all over and up and down the row and the mom kept going to each one, hunched over, to tell them to quiet down or, in the case of one girl, to quit drinking the large drink they were all sharing. At one point, I almost started laughing because it was just so ridiculous.

When we returned home, I tried to search for the book and was thrilled when I found it! Obviously, they added a lot of scenes into the movie that weren't in the book!



( Let the wild rumpus start! )

I found this interesting piece from the Entertainment Weekly website (and they are my Bible when it comes to the entertainment industry) where they wanted to see if the six major winners from the Oscars 5, 10, 15, 20, and 25 years ago would still be the same if people voted for them again, so they sent out ballots to select members so they could re-cast their vote. While most of the winners remained the same, there were some changes.

( At least Return of the King still has its Oscar...whew! )

So at this website, somebody (a moron) ranked the 100 sexiest movie stars, 50 women and 50 men. Now I don't have a problem with who is on the list (I mean it's all subjective, anyway, though most of the women on there I wouldn't desribe as "sexy", but rather "pretty" or "beautiful" or "cute"). Anyway, the reason I'm rolling my eyes is because Robert Pattinson is ranked #2. Okay, now if these were just the hottest stars OF THE MOMENT, then whatever, I wouldn't care (though I'd still be rolling my eyes), but since they also included old-school Hollywood stars, then I'm guessing this is the sexiest stars of all time list. Okay, this dude has been famous for like, what? Not even a year? And he's considered Empire's second sexiest (male) star of all time? Give me a freaking break! Because he plays that annoying vampire dude who watches his girlfriend sleep? Uh-oh, I feel another Twilight tirade coming on, but I won't get there again! GOD I FUCKING HATE TWILIGHT! Sorry, just had to get that out of my system! (Oh, yeah, and Kristen Stewart was ranked #8 for the ladies. Is she really considered sexy? I don't even think she's really that pretty! And her voice is so monotone!)

Look, I have nothing against the RPtaz as his TB fans call him. I'm sure he's a very nice young man and he was a lot cuter as Cedric Diggory than he is as Bite-Me Boy. I'm just sick of seeing him everywhere and I don't think he's hot, like, at all. His fans remind me of Leonardo DiCaprio's fan when he became popular in the '90s with R&J and Titanic. Remember all those screaming girls? Perhaps you were one yourself! I was friends with a Leo fangirl. It was the most fucking annoying thing in the world. She dragged me to see R&J with her. (Her third time, my first). But to give Leo some credit, at least he can ACT (though I'm willing to give RPatzzzzz some time to show his skills, maybe he needs a better movie than Craplight) and he wasn't stuck with some stupid vampire character.

But seriously? Number 2? Sexiest Male Movie Star OF ALL TIME? Fuck that shit! Let him prove himself first, then put him on the damn list.

In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly they compared the book to the movie of Where the Wild Things are and one of them was the running time:

Book: It takes about two minutes to read.
Movie: Roughly 98 minutes long and definitely better than reading the book 49 times in a row.

LOL! Okay, I know the book is short, but two minutes? I think five minutes is more accurate! Geeze, EW!

Last Friday my mom came to Omaha and we went to the Henry Doorly Zoo, in hopes of riding the Skyfari, the newest addition at the zoo that lets you see it from above on a chair lift, but it was closed due to it being "too cold". (Please. It was only 53 degrees). But we still had a fun time, regardless.

Since most of the animals that are kept outdoors were either inside or being lazy because of the cold weather, we mostly checked out the indoor exhibits. We saw this lizard that looked like a snake, except it was classified as a lizard because it had ears and eyelids. Anyway, this lizard is crawling up the wall in its habitat and we're like, "OMG! It's just going and it has no legs!" Then the lizard falls towards us and we both shriek and jump back. It was pretty funny.

We also checked out the Desert Dome, where, you guessed it, desert-dwelling animals are kept. Apparently, it's the world's largest INDOOR desert (whoo! Go Omaha!) and features flora and fauna from the Namib Desert in southern Africa, the Australian Outback, and the Sonoran Desert of the southwest United States. We saw kookaburras (sp?). They are so cute! My mom says, "Oh, like the bird in the song?" LOL.




But the coolest thing we visited that day was the Kingdoms of the Night exhibit, which is located underneath the Desert Dome and is pitch-black (except for a few lights) and features nocturnal animals (as you may have guessed). Obviously we saw bats (LOTS of bats!), but there were also animals that I didn't even know were nocturnal (aardvark and porcupine) and tons of animals that I had never even heard of (one was a cat-like animal with the face of a rat and had a tail that was two feet long and another looked like a cross between a rabbit and a kangaroo).

It's made to look like you're in a cave when you walk through where the bats are. (You know, cuz bats live in caves) and when you look up, it goes on forever! Seriously, I didn't even know we had gone down so far. There are stalactites and stalagmites everywhere. (Now I forget. Do stalagmites go UP or DOWN?) There's also this gapping hole off the track that you could easily fall into if you're not watching where you're going. My mom and I were like, Uh, that's not very safe. Actually this is what it looks like:



My favorite thing in the exhibit, though, was the swamp (that's the world's largest indoor swamp to you!) It was really realistic, thus really creepy! You walk over a floating boardwalk and it's like you're in the Everglades or somewhere like that because it smells like a swamp and they even have sound effects. Of course the main attraction is the alligators, but there were also beavers and uh, I can't remember the other animals. But it was really cool. Hopefully the next time my brother and his wife come to Nebraska, I can take them there to visit.

It's only October 10th and already it's snowed! Usually we don't get our first snow until at least December! In fact, one year it didn't snow until December 31st!

I hate snow! I am so pissed off!

Somebody posted that at a message board I sometimes frequent that was conducted at another site:


What do you feel is the biggest Best Picture Oscar upset in history?

A)'How Green Was My Valley' over 'Citizen Kane' (1942)
B)'Rocky' over 'Taxi Driver' (1976)
C)'Annie Hall' over 'Star Wars' (1977)
D)'Dances With Wolves' over 'Goodfellas' (1990)
E)'Shakespeare In Love' over 'Saving Private Ryan' (1998)
F)'A Beautiful Mind' over 'LOTR: Fellowship' (2001)
G)'Crash' over 'Brokeback Mountain' (2005)

Okay, I know what you're thinking: here she goes again with the whole Brokeback Mountain vs. Crash thing, but personal preferences aside, I can prove to you that G is really the biggest ( Best Picture Oscar upset in history )

Okay, so there are these two residents where I work named Hoag and Tom. Tom moved in a few months after Hoag and they became fast friends. Probably because they live next door to each other and mostly because they're both preverted old men who like to flirt with anything with a vagina. Seriously, they flirt with other female residents, they flirt with the staff, they flirt with the granddaughters of residents. You're probably thinking that it's cute because they're just being harmless old men. Uh, wrong.

First of all, if you're a female and waiting on their table, they'll tell you how beautiful and wonderful and blah blah you are and how you look like [insert sexy movie star]. The other day, this new girl (young and cute, so Hoagand Tom especially liked preying on her) started and Hoag told her she looks like Carmen Electra (she doesn't, and I bet Hoag is the only old dude who even knows who Carmen Electra is). Anyway, they do this EVERY SINGLE FUCKING DAY and it gets really annoying. They'll also try to grab your hand and rub it. :::shudder::: And Kaitlin (the new girl) told me that Tom invited her up to her room, but they might need "adult supervision". Dude, seriously? That shit isn't even funny to joke about. The girl is 17. I bet Roman Polanski is their hero. :::rolls eyes:::

Then today, I'm pouring coffee for them and Hoag says to me, "I hope you have fur-trimmed panties to keep you warm during the winter" and I say really coolly to him, "Excuse me?" and he repeats what he said. I tell him he's being inappropriate and he says, "Oh, am I?" Then Tom says, "Oh you're making her embarrassed." Um, no I wasn't embarrassed, you disgusting pig, I was disgusted.

I told the med-aides about what Hoag said to me and what Tom said to Kaitlin and Sheryl told me they left a note for the executive director about Tom and Hoag and how they've been acting inappropriate towards us. Randy will probably have a "chat" with them, but I'm sure nothing's going to be done about it. They'll probably keep acting the way they do. I really wish they would kick Hoag out; he is such an ass. He was actually kicked out of his previous home for crude behavoir, but this place cares more about the money than how their employees are treated. I HATE waiting on their table. The next time one of them says something like that to me again, I'm going to "accidently" spill coffee in their laps.

I found this photo of Violet Affleck with a My Little Pony and that made me squee a little because I used to be obsessed with MLPs when I was little and Jennifer Garner is one of my favorite celebs. Violet is adorable, she looks just like her mom.



More cuteness

Jennifer does NOT look like she's 37 and Seraphina is really adorable too. They are soooo cute!