Slow Day = Movie Day!

So the other day I had gone through the movies on the Hallmark Channel and set a bunch up to record.  I love Hallmark Channel movies.  They are uplifting and good ...  Lifetime Movies, well, they are man hating most of the time.  Not always do you want man hating.  

So I set up a bunch that sounded/looked interesting.  

So I had a bit of a movie-marathon going on early this morning ...  since I couldn't sleep.  

I started out with The Last Cowboy....  which, I love Jennie Garth.. always been a fan since the 90210 days.  

This movie was good, I thought I had seen it already - but after getting past a little bit - I realized I hadn't.  I had, however, seen SOMETHING like it.   Anyway - Jennie's character left home long ago after her Momma died.  Her and her Daddy butt heads.  Her uncle and grandpa - though - were really important to her - but she had to leave and spread her wings.  Her grandpa dies and she comes home the day he's buried.  Both Jennie's character and her Daddy are holding their grudges high and strong.  Fast forward a bit and she moves back home to be there to help run the family ranch, and surprise, she has a little boy - and her Daddy instantly falls in love with that little boy.  

ALSO Jennie's character brings back a Bradley Cooper - woohooo.... who can hate that?

Anyway - it's about Jake (Jennie's character) helping her family save their ranch and her finding her way back home.  It's good.  

I then switched it up to another Jennie Garth movie.  Karen Kingsbury's A Time To Dance....

Now - this one was really good.  It was about couple, Abby & John, who were highschool sweethearts.  Now, twenty years (ish) into the marriage they are having trouble connecting as romantic partners.  She feels he's got one foot out the door ...  At some point, it is pretty clear, they just stopped communicating.  It came down to it, it was a sweet movie.  

Also by the same author was THE BRIDGE parts 1 and 2.  

Immediately - the girl who played Molly I knew from another show/movie.  It was bugging me horribly.  And then........ I realized that she was Rebecca Sutter on How To Get Away With Murder.  It was like BAM!!!  r

Anyway - Molly is a girl who's trying to get away from "home" where her over protective Dad has her whole life planned out from running their million dollar company to who she is going to marry.  She's more than willing to go along with the "plan" but when she leaves to go to college, she realizes that it's REALLY not what she wants.  Not at all.

She also manages to fall in love.... the boy, Ryan, shows her this amazing bookstore called "The Bridge" where it's not just about books, it's about the people and making connections and community. It's the type of place I would want to live in.  LOL ...

Though things are complicated.  And that's why there is a part two.  In part two, The Bridge has fallen on hard times.  A threatened death (he didn't die) brings people back and reconnects, and allows them to express and share how important The Bridge is, and all the people, especially Charlie and Donna who opened the book store after they lost their baby girl right before she was supposed to be born (much like my best friend losing our little Jackson.) ...  so that part of the story line was like a knife in the heart and only the first few minutes of the first part of the movie.

All good ....  they were all good.

I'm so tired right now.  As I am writing this part, it's about mid afternoon (2:30pm).  I have a really big headache, huge headache.  Migraine - because it's wrapping around my head.  It's in the front, back, sides...  just hurts.  I am so tired.  I couldn't sleep last night, at all.  I remember thinking at 5am that I would just stay up until tonight and *hopefully* sleep tonight.

That didn't happen.  Around 6am I started getting really tired, to the point where I put my laptop down and curled up.  I still didn't think I was going to go to sleep, but knowing my body - it was my usual pattern.  So I curl up and sure enough I start getting heavy eyes.  Pretty soon I'm sleeping.  Nathan wakes me up whispering stuff in my ear.  I can't understand him.  About five or six times later, I finally figured it out - he wants a jolly rancher.  So I grab one, and while I was trying to open it, I kept falling asleep.  "Mom" and I'd wake up, try to open it again, drift off.  "Mom" wake u, try to open it, drift off.  Over and over that went on until I finally managed to open it.   I guess when Kaedyn woke up he asked for French Toast, so around 10:30 this morning DB woke me up with some.  I ate and ended up falling back to sleep.

Well, I guess I ended up losing my fight with sleep again....  It's about 4:20 now.  I've been up for about an hour again ... so odds are, I'll be awake for awhile (yay!) ...

DB just told me we can get Marshmellow fixed on Tuesday.  Livvy we're going to wait.  She's a bit more expensive and if we get him fixed before her, she's not going to get pregnant because she doesn't get outside and he's the only male cat in the house (now).  We don't want kitties.  We love kitties but we don't want anymore. We know she'll be hitting her first "heat" soon and we just hope to avoid that.  She is at least 7 months old, so we know if it hasn't happened yet - it will happen soon.  So we're going to get him fixed, vaccinated, chipped and wait to make sure she's not knockered up before getting her fixed next month.

I shared with my best friend something I wrote in my blog (which was on an entry a few days ago) and I wanted to make sure she read it.  It was about her and my sister Heather and their grief right now, being lucky enough to be their rock at the moment.  She wrote this back to me.  I didn't ask her if I could share it, but I need to share this.  I need to be able to go back and read this when I'm having low moments, and I do have them.... more than I share.   But this year it's about being real...  and I'm being real here. So this is someplace I want to keep this.  It means so much to me - SO MUCH to me - that she wrote all this up for me.  I cried when I read it.  REALLY cried.  I just love her so much.

I am so grateful to have you as my best friend, my rock, my person. I truly am and I don't know how I would have survived all the shit I've been through without you. Honest to God. I've told you things that no one else knows and I feel like you know me better than anyone on earth. I trust you wholeheartedly. When you talked about how much compassion you feel and how when we hurt, you hurt, I feel the same way. It's a terrible feeling when someone you love is going thorough hell. And you have not only me going through hell, but Heather too. And I know it's taking a toll on you but you're strong as hell and you take on that burden when you don't have to. You have helped me more than words can say. You listen to me go on and on about my grief. You are grieving too and I know that. I know how excited you were about Jackson too and you made me feel very special during my pregnancy. You listened to all my fears and you calmed them when you could. You set me straight when I start to lose my grip, and you've always done that. It's scary to put so much of yourself into someone else's hands - but there is only one person who I trust that much, with every single thing about myself and that person is you. As much as I love my husband - my soulmate - I have still after 10 years not fully opened up to him. Partly because I'm afraid if he knew everything about me that he would look at me differently. I never have that question when it comes to you. I know you would never judge me or think badly of me. You accept me for who I am, flaws and all. And I accept you for who you are as well, flaws and all lol. I know in past situations I've been kinda judgy and haven't always been there for you the way I should have been. I feel like those times have been very few but I still regret them because I wasn't being the same kind of friend to you that you were to me. But I can't change the past. I can just make sure I do better in the future as I grow and change and believe me - what I'm going through right now is changing me in so many ways and really opening my eyes to who and what are important in my life. Who truly cares about me and puts them self into an awkward and painful situation in order to be supportive of me. 

I consider you to be my family too. You and I share a deep bond that goes way beyond friendship. It started the moment we really 'met' on AOL lol. We bonded over our preemies and we were the only people who truly understood each other's pain and also joy in the little things we witnessed along the way. You opened yourself up to me and I remember us chatting for hours and telling each other our life stories lol. When you went through the whole thing with Keith, I know I was one of the few friends who stood by you. I know you lost a lot of people or were afraid to tell them about the situation for fear that they would judge you for what HE did, which I knew was not fair or right to do. Even though I was young and still pretty inexperienced with life, I felt that bond with you instantly and I felt very protective over you. I still feel that way and even though I tend to show that with an angry side to me (like when Dennis has done stupid shit in the past), I know that you know that it's coming from a place of love. 

Anyway I just wanted you to know how much I love you and how much I appreciate you always being there for me, sharing my joys and also my sadness and never waivering in that. Thinking back to when we first met, my God how our lives have changed since then. In good ways and bad. And looking into the next 15 years I'm sure there will be more joy and more sadness for us both but I know you will walk through it with me and I will do the same with you. I love you to the moon and back!

This...... ^^^^^  made me laugh so much it's ridicules.

I saw this floating around FB today and - I had to repost it.  DB goes on and on, getting on Cal's case about swearing.  He says "It makes you sound uneducated when you swear so much."  And he's absolutely right.  One hundred percent..... CORRECT.  (Trust me that's a big deal, he's not right often.  so when he is... he likes it in big letters! LOL...) ...

So I saw this ..... and I had to post it, tag him and Cal in it and say "Sorry DB, your argument is invalid" and I laughed and laughed......

A lot of today was spent with me editing his paper for him.... and re-editing and re-RE-editing .... and ... by the time we got to number four with the edit, I just got pissed at him.  I was like ....

"WHY DO YOU ASK FOR MY HELP WHEN YOU DON'T EVEN USE IT?"

Which was met with the blank blinking "What?" stare that husbands get when they know they are in trouble but they just can't figure out why ......

So .... over and over I made the SAME corrections.  He had only brought up the last page the last couple times, and I was like I know I made this correction on the last THREE papers!  So I called him out on it, and he stumbled with excuses "Oh I didn't see it" ...  and then I asked him if he made the other changes?  He told me he did, I told him I bet he did NOT make them.  Told him to bring me up the first draft I marked up, and I grabbed my pink pen and I remarked them all to be sure he could SEE them.  I don't care if the changes - like wording or what not - was made.  Those are just matter of opinion and depends on the writer's writing style.  Most of them, though, were structural and grammar corrections.

And it was really pissing me off.... LOLOL....

Fast foward and there were a few changes that I thought needed to be changed back from what he had them as, changed them, and yeah.  Eventually - I think he landed on something we were both happy with.  And I get SO OFFENDED if he gets anything less than an A on his papers I help him with.  Seriously ... LOL... it's horrible.

I need to go back to school.

Kaedyn was not a happy kiddo today.  He's really lonely today and really wants to play Pokemon Monopoly which neither DB or I have the energy to play right now, and of course the bros all have better things to do.  So there were a lot of tears too :( ...   (sigh)

Watched a bunch of our typical TV that we enjoy.

TO TELL THE TRUTH ....  show I used to LOVE watching as a kid.  LOVED it.  So tonight it's on (double episode) and on the first one was 3 sets of twins.  Well the premise of it was the celebrities were supposed to guess which one of the sets of twins owned a restaurant named TWINS that staffed only identical twins...  LOL.... Well I knew right away who those were (I saw them on a twins documentary) ...

So there is something they do in every show, and that's a game called "Before You Go" ...  where the remaining two people (or in this case, two sets of twins) where there is a truth told about one of the remaining two and the celebrities have a 50/50 chance to get it right.

So the second truth was, the two sets of twins then paired off (one man, one woman) ... because the two sets of identical twins had married identical twins.  Well one of these married sets of identical twins had HAD identical twins (which I guess is a chance of 1 in just less of one million.)

So the celebrities take turns asking funny, pointed, and trying to screw them up - questions - towards the one truth teller and the two (or one as the case may be) liars.

celebrity Rachel asked "Couple #1: Do you feel left out because you do not have twins"

Couple #1 answered Mom: "No, not really" (which everyone took as her slipping up and saying she doesn't have twins.)  Dad: "Well, because we do have twins"

I was like HOLY SHIT SHE SCREWED UP and so were the celebrities ... LOL...

The truth tellers (everyone guessed couple #2) ... it was couple #1...  ROFLMBO ... the thing that kills me the most was DB  guessed #1 at the beginning ....  UGH!  Dammit.

Lots of laughs ensue during this show....

I have nailed the rest of them though!  LOL....  these twins were tricky!!!

Oh - BTW - there is a rule on the show that the "truth tellers" have to tell the truth, and the others can lie lie lie....  so ...  when Anthony pointed that out and said "This is the rule. Why did you say?"  The Mom said this.  "Rachel asked "Do you feel left out because you do not have twins" and I said "No, not really" because I don't, since I have twins!"

I can honestly say - I didn't say a damn word on Facebook all day today.  FB Messenger is a different story, but I didn't post anything on FB at all ...  Just had to put that out in the universe that I didn't make a peep today.  I did on Twitter though ...

The top two tweets are from my catching up on The Bachelor ... which - BTW - I flucked up.  Not the tweets, but watching the show.....  

I have to say, I cannot STAND Corinne... but boy o' boy - everyone it talking about the twit.

But this is what is going on .....  I watch The Bachelor ON DEMAND because I don't record it.  So I went to watch it - and they have been airing 2 hours worth ... and so they split it up into "Part 1" and "Part 2" ...

So sometimes Part 2 is listed before Part 1 of that episode ...  so I got mixed up.  Episode 4's "Part 2" was completely missing.  So I ended up watching part 2 to episode 5 and ... once I figured this out, it made a lot more sense how the people from the group date from the first part of the episode, were on a group date again during the part two! LOL...  ooops....