It's Time to Light the Lights! It's Time to Meet The Muppets!

For my entire life I have been an avid Muppet fan! I just love those cute little puppets! My brother and I share this special Muppet bond, in which we watch Muppet movies and The Muppet Show together all of the time, so it was only natural that we have completely fallen in love with their newest film, The Muppets! I feel like everyone has mixed feelings about this movie, so let me just tell you why it is so wonderful!

First off, Jason Segel. He wrote it, he stars in it, he sings and dances, and he will someday be my husband. Really, what other reason do you need? But I will tell you anyways. I love that this movie is not just the Muppets acting out another existing story like Treasure Island and A Christmas Carol (which of course are wonderful as well), but this movie is in fact about the Muppets themselves and their real to life struggles and stories (because we all know that Muppets are real, right?). There is some serious character development in this film. And for a person who loves and watches the original Muppet Show, it is fantastic! Long forgotten Muppets are brought back to life, like Lew, or the Pigs in Space! And how can you pass up the truly phenomenal musical numbers??? "Life's a Happy Song" and of course the OSCAR WINNING number, "Man or Muppet." Oh, and the humor! Totally cheeseball, and I absolutely devour it up! Like, I literally just belly laugh through the whole movie! And the tenderness! There are some seriously tender moments in this movie! And if all of this does not convince you, just read this lovely quote...

“As long as there were singing frogs and joking bears, Swedish chefs and boomerang fish, the world can’t be that bad of a place after all.”
-Walter

See, don't you just want to watch and fall in love with this lovely movie???

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The Splendor of Weekends at Home

After months of having to work every weekend, I have had the pleasure of being able to have the last not one, but three weekends off of work! And it has been stupendous. I have been able to spend some much needed quality time with the fam. Some highlight of my past few weekends include having a birthday girls night for my Mamma with my Grammy, Aunt Becca, and my cousins, Ireland and Bentley. I brought some delicious Blimpie sandwiches, and made a plethora of treats, including Muddy Buddies and Lunchlady Peanut Butter bars. Can you say YUM?! And then we watched Footloose, although we did not necessarily get much movie watching done, because it is honestly much more fun to watch the baby, Ireland, to dance around the room to the music of the movie!

In my family March is a big birthday month for us. Including both sides of the family we have seven birthdays. So that means a lot of parties, and my particular favorite...cake! On my mom's side of the family we have a specific birthday delicacy, Red Velvet Cake. You have not had Red Velvet Cake until you have tasted my Grammy's. There is nothing quite as heavenly on the entire face of the earth. And with all of the birthdays we have in March, we get quite a lot of this deliciousness in this particular month.


And how can I not mention the highlight of my last weekend...THE HUNGER GAMES!!! I have been a Hunger Games lover for a very long time, and therefore have been looking forward to this movie for quite a while. Like, I would check the casting on IMDB daily to see who was the most recently person cast, that is how crazy I am. I love these books so much, so much so that they are almost up there with Harry Potter, and heaven knows how much I love my HP! So I really wanted this movie to be good. I bought midnight showing tickets for myself, my parents, and my brother at the new Farmington Cinemark, and I bought an incredibly epic Hunger Games shirt on Amazon, and then I was set! Then came the time when I actually went to the movie. Once the movie started, I literally had a hard time containing myself, and that lasted pretty much throughout the entire movie. I sat in this state of constant excitement for over two hours, it was glorious. The movie as I suspected was perfectly cast, and everything exceeded my expectations. It was one of the first movie adaptations of a book that everything was basically how I imagined it in the books! It was nothing less than spectacular!

Well there are some highlights of my last few weekends, which have been absolutely splendid. I really missed being with my family, and the past few weeks have really been a godsend. Just two more weeks and I can go home two days for Easter, and then in five weeks I can go home for the summer!

My Britishness is Flaring Up Again

It is finally Spring Break, hallelujah! Since I have to work all week I am staying up in Logan, and therefore have the apartment all to myself. I could walk around naked if I want to! But on this my first night of sweet solitude I have opted to read Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason in nothing but my silk robe, while drinking a cup of herbal tea (caffeine free of course.) I feel quite British and Bridget Jones-esque yet again tonight. And I love it! May I also point out how charming and pretty my new vintage teacup is that I bought at an antique shop this weekend!

Are You There Spring Break? It's Me, Danielle.

It is the week before Spring Break, and it is going on and on for a million years. Between work, studying for test, finishing assignments, and reading a whole book for my lit class, I feel like I have so much to do, and so little time to do it. Honestly, I don't know how other people do it, because I am kind of going insane. The only thing helping me keep my sanity is that Spring Break is only a few days away. And believe me, while I am doing all of the things above Spring Break is always right there in my mind keeping me going. I have already planned out the wonderful things I will be doing. This weekend I am going home for my Mamma's birthday, and then I have to come back up to Logan for the week so I can work. But that time in between work is what will truly be choice. I have already decided that my week will consist of doing some lovely watercolor paintings and watching as many episodes of The Cosby Show as I possibly can. That is all I want. So please, Spring Break, come as fast as you can!

Such Love For Steve Carell

As you may see, my movie of the week is Dan in Real Life. It is one of my favorite movies of all time. If you have not seen it yet, I highly suggest that you go do so...this very moment! Now of course we all know Steve Carell for his comedies, and although this movie has great comedic moments, it is more so a tender movie about a dad and his daughters trying to figure out how to live life without their mother. I cannot emanate how much I love this movie. I was even telling my best friend Caitlin the other day that anytime is a good time to watch Dan in Real Life. So with that being said, go do yourself a favor, watch Dan in Real Life, and then be filled with such great tenderness and love.

Now, let's talk about how wonderful Steve Carell is! Of course we all love him on The Office! I mean, who can't? As much as I still love the show, it just is not the same without him. And then you have such great comedy movies like Get Smart, Evan Almighty, Dinner for Schmucks, and Date Night. And of course the animated features in which he voices, such as Despicable Me, or Over the Hedge. Which of course will have you rolling in your seat with enormous fits of laughter! And then the comedic but also tender, Crazy Stupid Love. Definitely one of my favorites! And of course there is the darkly funny and offbeat, Little Miss Sunshine. Steve Carell has played so many different kinds of characters! The man is hilarious! Anytime I need a laugh, or have had a bad day, I like to watch something with Steve Carell in it. Nothing can put a smile on my face quite like some Steve Carell humor. Pretty sure I would marry this man if he wasn't already married, or the same age as my parents haha.

Future Scooby Doo Artist???

In my Multicultural Literature class we are reading this fantastic novel called, So Far From God. This book is an absurdist novel filled to the brim with kookiness and elements of the nautical and crazy. The book is set up to be read like episodes of a Spanish soap opera. So that right there will tell you how funny and crazy this novel is. In the latest chapter I read there was this monster called the Malogra, that attacked one of the sisters and violently disfigured her, but don't worry, the crazy sister named La Loca prayed for her to heal, and she was just fine haha. But in class today we were asked to draw the very first image of the Malogra that entered our heads. So here is mine.


Upon showing and talking to my dad and Gavbo about it. We decided that it definitely is a Scooby Doo villian. I don't know, maybe I have found my hidden talent of monster drawing, and now know that I am destined to be an illustrator for Scooby Doo hahaha??

Insomnia At Its Worst

Blah....For some reason I have not been able to sleep this week. So Keiana got these fish, and the tank has a light and it is incredibly noisy. And for some reason I cannot sleep with that kind of noise going on, so Sunday night I could not sleep. I maybe got two hours of sleep. And tonight, well...this morning now, it is now 6:30 am and I still haven't fallen asleep, wide awake as ever. But at least my insomnia has helped me to study for my big Jazz exam today. Luckily my roommate Megan shared the same inability to sleep this morning and we made crepes at 5:30. Party! Well, hopefully I will get some sleep tonight. I need it.

In a nutshell, this is what my night consisted of. Studying Jazz, and eating cool ranch Doritos.