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Sunday, June 22, 2014

Advice To Myself


  1. Read e-mails before sending them.
  2. Don't eat anything for breakfast that would be too rich as a desert.
  3. Don't buy anything just because it's on sale.
  4. Four-inch stilettos are for runway models and podiatry patients.
  5. Make sure you get or give five hugs a day.
  6. Don't spend more than thirty seconds a day regretting the past.
  7. Don't spend more than thirty seconds a day worrying about the future.
  8. Call your siblings once a week, your parents twice.
  9. Listen well.
  10. Rent a foreign movie every now and then.
  11. Don't straighten your hair if it wants to be curly.
  12. Eat your vegetables. 
  13. Listen to your mother.
  14. Don't dwell on hurtful words.
  15. Make an effort to say helpful words.
  16. Don't drive faster than you want your kids to drive.
  17. Watch less than a sitcom's worth of TV a day.
  18. Set goals. 
  19. Spend less on coffee than you do on groceries.
  20. Write out your grandparents' life stories.
  21. Read a book a week.
  22. Organize your bills.
  23. Apologize quickly.
  24. Don't procrastinate.
  25. Remember names.
  26. Be nice to yourself--you may be the only one to be nice to you all day.
  27. Eat a favorite food once a week.
  28. Find a friend to exercise with.
  29. Be a kid every now and then--swing on swing sets, giggle at cartoons, or drink chocolate milk.
  30. Learn to say no.
  31. Drink eight glasses of water a day.
  32. Pick out a new recipe and serve a fun dinner every now and then.
  33. Fill the ice trays as soon as they're empty.
  34. Learn a new hobby.
  35. Make banana bread when bananas get too ripe to eat plain.
  36. Get your oil changed when you should.
  37. Meet two new people a week. 
  38. Work hard.
  39. Don't work too hard.
  40. Be nice to animals.
  41. Don't beat yourself up for not cleaning the baseboards.
  42. Clean the baseboards.
  43. Get a pedicure or a foot massage when you need to de-stress.
  44. Take walks.
  45. Stock your car console with monts, maps, and change.
  46. Make copies of everything in your wallet in case it gets stolen.
  47. Keep insurance and credit card phone numbers in a safe, yet easily accessible place.
  48. Drink green tea.
  49. Have fun.

Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Maleficent


    Maleficent is a Disney movie based on 'Sleeping Beauty'. Sleeping Beauty is only from Princess Aurora's side and not Maleficent's. We knew nothing about how and why she became a cold hearted evil fairy.  In the beginning she is just a innocent little girl who befriends a human. At 16 he kisses her and tells her its true loves kiss and then he ditches her (typical). Now an adult and quiet powerful the king tried and failed to take over the magical forest. Anyone brave enough will marry his daughter. The boy who she befriended as a child, who had dreams of living in a castle takes the challenge. She tells her a story of his absence (typical), but unbeknownst to her it is all just LIES. He literately tried to stab her in the back, but he couldn't do it, so instead he cuts off her wings. Imagine her horror when she wakes up? (No wonder she turned into a cold hearted snake. The one person she thought she could trust turned his back on her all because so he could get his hands on riches.) Well he marries the princess and they have daughter. (You know this part.) The fairies wishes and Maleficent's appearance and her curse, the cottage in the woods. Ok, lurking in the shadows is Maleficent and her raven Diaval. Something happened. Something changed and not even Maleficent really understood it. Now a teenager, Aurora spends most of her time in the magical forest with Maleficent. She tries to take back the spell before her 16th birthday, but a curse is a curse and even she couldn't undo it. Aurora meets Philip who was traveling through the forest while she was practicing what she was gonna say to her 'aunts'. It was love at first sight. They go their separate ways and that's when her 'aunts' tells her the truth. Aurora confronts Maleficent and then races off to the castle to confront her father who locks her up in her room. Maleficent races towards the castle to Aurora to keep her from pricking her finger. But the curse is calling her and she pricks her finger on spinning wheel in the dungeon. Maleficent sneaks into the castle with Philip in hope that he will be one to wake her, but it wasn't so. Maleficent felt so bad. She swore that no harm would come to her while she slept and kisses her forehead. That broke the spell and she awoken and forgave her. While they were leaving the castle Maleficent is captured and the guards are trying to kill her. She turns the bird into a dragon. Maleficent tells Aurora to leave and she runs into a room where low and behold are Maleficent's wings. She frees them. Maleficent carried the king away and told him she was done, but he couldn't have none of that. he fell off the tower in an attempt to take her down. Aurora is crown Queen of both faeries and humans.