Where everybody knows your name (and that name is "brother" or "sister")

Heh. "Why can't Mormons send flowers?"

It's a cake

I finished Lindsay's baby scrapbook a few weeks ago. I've been wanting to post pictures, but I don't want to spoil it for her and I don't know if she'd be able to not peek (although we sisters all seem to relish a surprise and are surprisingly good at not shaking our presents, as it were).

But her open house is this weekend, so I'll post pictures after that. (Let's hope I remember to take pictures before I wrap it. My wrapping paper obsession doesn't allow me to destroy a perfect wrapping job.) The pages are not phenomenal by any means, but you all had such great ideas for the pages and I'm pretty dang proud of it. Plus I used the cutest papers ever. Ever.

So, I know you're probably not waiting on pins and needles, but I have nothing else to blog about so here's your baby scrapbook present update.

(The creepy baby shower cake is from one of my favorite blogs. Try not to read the entire archive. I dare you.)

Irony: An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning

You know, the crap that was the last 4 months of 2008, and the crap that has happened since January 20, is definitely less depressing when accompanied by Christmas carols.

I got this from my sister-in-law's blog, and it's hilarious.



p.s. Yes, I'm not sure "irony" fits here either, at least perfectly, but that's all I could think of for the post title.

You know it's true . . . everything I do . . .

This morning as I ran on the treadmill I nearly finished watching Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. That movie is so iconic and is one of the very few movies that take me back in time (to 1991--can you believe how long ago that was?!).

I remember my mom wouldn't let me watch the movie because it was too dark, so I had to go to the Sorenson's house to view it. The beginning made my skin crawl (maybe that's why my mom didn't want me to watch it).

That one Bryan Adams song (you know the one) was playing everywhere, all the time, and I longed to dance to it at my wedding (in 1991--by the time I got married the song's kitschiness factor was too high, sadly).

You seriously don't remember The Song? ;)

I think that's when I first realized how awesome Morgan Freeman is. And he didn't even do a voice-over.

Snape is the villain. When I saw the first Harry Potter movie I thought, "Hey, that's the Sheriff of Nottingham!"

Best line: "Because it's dull, you twit, it'll hurt more!"

I love that Kevin Costner doesn't even attempt an accent.

The version I'm watching has a bunch of weird, random added scenes that bug me. The witch is Nottingham's mom? What?! I can totally see why they took those scenes out, but why did they add them back? Why can only LOTR add deleted scenes that actually help the movie? Don't get me started on Beauty and the Beast . . ..

When Robin Hood saves Marian, the cheesiest line of the movie (and maybe of all time) is uttered, but it still gives me chills every time: Marian: "You came for me." Robin: "I would die for you." Awww.

The F word is in the movie. I only realized that a few years ago. Scandalous. IMDB tries to say he says, "Fie me," but that's not what he says (I hope "fie" isn't some random cuss word either, like "bugger" [which they also say a lot in the movie]).

Could you imagine being a butt double? Ha.