Snagged from kwsapphire (though I, like her, am blatantly violating the rules by not putting the subject in that they say I should use. Dun Dun Dun!)

Put "I've seen __ of these 168 movies" in the subject line and repost. SUPPOSEDLY if you've seen over 85 movies, you have no life. Mark the ones you've seen. There are 168 movies on this list. Put your score in header and re-post.

I'm also changing it up to x the ones I've seen and * the ones I started to watch but were so horrible I couldn't get through them. I'll count them as halves. (Note, not all the ones I stuck it out to the end were good, just sometimes I give up on movies and sometimes I watch til the end.)

( list behind the cut )

Grand Total: 72

Most of these are from either having Blockbuster online for like two and a half years or caught on HBO.

Tags: meme

Countdown: ONE WEEK left until my birthday!
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Cake Or Death
This is TOTALLY cake.

Love knows someone at work who's partner is involved in Tampa Theater. Eddie Izzard is coming to Tampa Theater in June. For two sold out shows. Said person has access to get reserved tickets. Like first or second row reserved tickets.

So guess who's going to get to see the sold out Eddie Izzard show next month? *SQUEE*



Holy freakin crap!

Countdown: T-Minus 8 days until my birthday!
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Temping
I'm over at the temp job this afternoon, covering for poor Kelly who's been sick all week. She came in this morning but just wasn't feeling well enough to make it through the entire day, so she called and asked if I could come in. Which of course, I totally did not mind at all. I was already alert to the chance she might not make it today, or all of today since I knew she was sick.

So it's weird being back here again. Haven't been for some time now and it's funny when people come by and say, "Hey! You're not Kelly!" The old-timers of course remember me as I've been working with them here on-and-off for something like three years now, but anyone newer is just more confused than anything. Heh. It's just funny though the double-takes you get. Happens every time too. :)

Alright, well, I didn't really have anything earth shattering or monumental to say, just wanted to kinda say hi from a new location. Since Kelly is so efficient, even being sick and out for a couple days, I don't really have anything she needs me to do, so I'm the warm body in the chair manning the front desk and phone.

So, ta for now!

Well That Sucks
...or doesn't as the case may be.

Tried to vacuum this afternoon, only to find the brush wasn't spinning. No biggie, this happens a lot when it gets tangled with hair or something. Open it up, cut out anything clogging it, put it back together, turn it on...and still no spinning.

Love takes a look at it too. We both look over it but can't find anything wrong. It just literally will NOT spin. So, enter Google-fu. Turns out the brush assembly has ball bearings inside it that can just randomly seize up. If they do, no vacuum and no visual clue as to why it's not spinning.

The brush assembly is available online through their site for $17.95. I'm going to run to Tarjay and Hel-Mart tomorrow and see if I can't find it in person (and thus get it sooner) first. Because opening up one's vacuum cleaner to look for problems makes a mess. On a carpet you can't vacuum up.

So, to any of you with a Bissell Cleanview PowerTrak that experience a random roller brush stoppage (and possible nasty burnt rubber smell) you might need to replace the whole brush assembly like I do. At least it's apparently a $18 fix versus a $200 new vacuum purchase.

Just means I have crunchy carpets until I get the replacement part. (Ew.)

Random Observation #2
I just got back from a quick trip to the local Tarjay (to return the aforementioned shrunken shirt) and the library. And though it's not an uncommon observation, I'll state the obvious anyway: there are way too many bad drivers out there. I won't get into the cell phone driving scourge today (though we all know the epidemic that's become!) but rather something a little more basic. People who drive too quickly and too impatiently because apparently the whole world will blow up and DIE if they don't go faster than me.

I'm not a putzy driver. I don't drive as slow as my Grandmother car might indicate. But, it IS an 18-year old 4 cylinder with 127,000 miles on it. One can't "gun it" from a stop. So, yes, it may take me longer than average to reach full speed. But is that extra 15 seconds really that horrible that you must endanger everyone else on the road to violently and crazily swerve around me?

And, once I do reach speed, I consistently do five mph over the posted speed limit. No more, no less. I'm not going "slow" I'm going whatever is permissible by law. And yes, if that means it's only 30mph speed limit, you'll see me doing somewhere around 34 or 35. Why? Because (a) I'm not a dumb kid anymore who speeds just for the hell of it (b) I'm aware of the speed limits because as an attentive driver, I, ya know, pay attention to that sorta thing and (c) it's not worth a ticket. Been there, done that, grew up and learned better. So what's the excuse of the people who are as old or older than I am that blaze past me in this well-known, well-policed neighborhood? Shouldn't they know better too? And look, when you go hurtling past me, don't give ME a dirty look as if I'm the one doing something wrong. Hello? Which one of us is breaking the law again...? Oh yeah, that's right. It's you.

I'm just so blown away with the rush-rush-rush, me-me-me impatience of drivers these days. Given the ever increasing price of gas, it's in your best interest NOT to guzzle a ton of it gunning as hard as you can off the line and maintaining an even speed that's appropriate to the speed limit of the road you're on. If you're not into driving like a decent human being because it's the Right Thing To Do, at least do it because it's the Right Thing For Your Wallet. The rest of us will still thank you for it.

Tags: frustrated, random, stupid people

Countdown: T-Minus NINE days until my birthday on May 16th!
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Random Observation
Clothes which shrink weirdly and wrongly resulting in a misshapen and ill-fitting sack after one washing suck. Thank goodness I kept the receipt.

Tags: random

Countdown! T-minus 10 days until my birthday on May 16th!!
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Mystery Bruises
I'm shaving my legs this morning and I see something on my left knee. What's that? I think. Is it a bruise? *poke* OW! Yeah, I guess it is.

What's up with that? I'm always finding mystery bruises, mainly on my legs, that I never know how I got. I don't recall bashing my left knee into anything in the last couple days and yet, there it is. So I must have done something at some point. This seems to happen with annoying regularity too. I don't know they're there until I bump them, discover them while shaving or otherwise accidentally observe them.

Is this just a weird me thing? Do you guys find random mystery bruises too? (Even if you don't, please just fake it and say that you do so I don't feel so odd. ) I normally have to bash myself pretty good to get a bruise, but I clearly don't recall smashing around into stuff but just as clearly, I guess I must be doing it more often then I realize.

Tags: health, wtf?