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"...because I'm still in love with you.."

So this posted yesterday without any explaination.  Haa haa! Whoops!

This was my Valentine's Day image, stuck inside my brain...and then it manifested itself at night. Tomas visited, and didn't want to talk, didn't want to laugh or smile or tease like we used to -- just wanted to hold me, like a lost teddy bear he found.

...and the truth?  I'm not his lost teddy bear.

I've been missing him and his family, yes, but more than that...

...I feel excited for what's coming, and maybe who's coming.

It pains me that he still loves me and misses me like that, but that's where the video comes in.  It helps me heal from the hurt of us not working, from the guilt of ending it.  I wasn't in love with eat.pray.love the movie, but this scene...I just love this scene.

Happy almost 4-day-weekend, boogie bots.

I hope everyone 'got some' last night.

...got some chocolates.  What?

Paperman

If you haven't seen this sweet short, here it is.  It's all kinds of adorable, and the thought that two people are meant to be together hits a heart string.

I watch this and relate to the huge stack of papers that makes up his job, and the need for something else...

Happy love month.

Get me to Friday.

a little Walking Dead humor

DiSCLAiMER: If you do not watch AMC's The Walking Dead, then this post is of no use to you. Please direct your attention to my sidebar comprised of other delicous areas of possible interest.

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Okay, ya'll.  Duh! The Walking Dead is my favorite show, and last week was majorly intense.  I would have to say up there with the Sophia-in the barn-episode, and my all-time life-jerker Rick-kills-Shane episode.

I'm so excited to watch tonight, and what makes any The Walking Dead episode x10 better is when I know there is no work to wake up to the follow Monday! Such is tonight's episode.

Below are some Walking Dead humorous this-and-that's I found floating on the internet.  Enjoy!

See ya tomorrow!

Five Friday Favs :: FICTIONAL HUNKS

T.G.I.F., readers and peepers!  

Welcome to another edition of Five Friday Favs where I feature five certain things that are my favorite.  For today's installation, I bring you five of my favorite fictional hunks. ;)

I've been watching a lot of love-story movies lately.  Some for the first time (The Vow...ugh!) and some over again (The Notebook, Hope Floats, etc.)...but lately, I've been a studier of LOVE.  I'm dying to know what makes it true, and how two people know they're the 'ones' for each other.  

I should probably look somewhere else besides the T.V., but then my bouts of Autumn agoraphobia kick in and I'm in no mood to leave the house. ...and these guys are pretty fun to look at, rewind, look at again, rewind... ;P

For one reason or another, they've always been my favorite...

Ah, Noah...  who wouldn't list him as their favorite?  ...and you know, at first look, he isn't even gorgeous, but it's his actions.  One of my favorite favorite things in the whole movie, is when Ally bursts out of her parents house crying, and he wipes the tears from her eyes and holds her face... ahhhh... 

 

That moment right there...that tenderness is what I want.

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1998 Crush Alert! My going-into-eighth or ninth-grade self walked out of Armageddon completely smitten with A.J.  Hot Damn! Did you know they put fake teeth in Ben Affleck's mouth to make him look hotter?  Supposedly, he had baby-teeth in his mouth, and they weren't right for the big screen.  Ha! I'm getting off topic...

I adore the graham cracker scene, and again the tenderness and transparent love...BUT my favorite favorite scene is when he sings to her.

 

Holy YES! A moment like that right there...that is what I want.

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Justin Matisse.  He might be a little country and a little forward and a little too Harry Connick Jr. for me, but there's so many sweet moments.  I love the part where he declares that Bertie (Birdie?) played by Sandra Bullock still has the spark she once had.  When someone believes in you more than you believe in yourself...that's what I want.  I also love love love the line dancing scene, and when the music slows up, and he just HOLDS her.

  

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Keanu Reeves from Speed still does it for me.  Not so much Keanu Reeves from The Matrix, but as Jack Traven from Speed, YES!  I can't even pinpoint what about him...probably strickly how hot he was... :P  I think that's all I have to say about that. 

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Lastly, from one of my favorite movies and best love stories of all time, ♥ Patrick Swayze ♥ as Sam Wheat from Ghost.  My sister and I kind of have a human-being crush on Patrick Swayze...I don't know how it started, but we just LOVE him.  We think he's a great man.  Did we know him like that? No, but we just love him...okay?! We do. We quote his brilliance and bring him up randomly in conversations.  We just love him.

Plus, who wouldn't love a guy that is curious about your work in the middle of the night and tries to help put you back to bed? ...

 

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Thus conlcudes this edition of Five Friday Favs!

Who would make your list of favorite fictional hunks?  
Any not inlcuded here?

See ya tomorrow!

LOVE, Disney-style...

Yeah.

Love me some kitty boops.

Little known fact:
My first cat was named Dinah after Alice's boo.
[ I was pretty obsessed with that movie growing up. ]

Happy Sunday! 

My Pursuit of Happyness

The strangest thing happened the other morning.
My dreaded Monday morning to be exact.

I opened my eyes around 3AM and blurrily watched one of the first scenes of The Pursuit of Happyness, with Will Smith.  I saw it a few years ago, and remembered I liked it, but watching it Monday morning was different. 

In between sips of coffee and lesson-planning for the day, and avocado-toast biting and worksheet-hunting, with a new set of eyes -- a set that has been searching frantically for their own version of happyness -- I watched the whole movie.

After watching this man face obstacle after obstacle after obstacle in the pursuit of 'getting happy' and making the life he desired for himself and his son, I realized it was a sign for me to persevere...to persist and maintain my purpose in spite of difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement.
The movie came to me -- that Monday morning -- at just the right time.

Chris Gardner (who Will Smith portrays) had to cram his pursuing in about 6 months time.

I'm going to be doing specific pursuing with a deadline of 5 weeks.In 5 weeks from today, it'll be May 31st.  By the end of May, I want to have sent out what I need to send out, and feel like the month of May has set me up for BIG and GREAT things come June, July, and August...my happy months.

I've already re-joined WeightWatchers -- ready to get my health back on track.

I'm preparing for the rest of this school year to be as painless and smooth as possible.

I'm going to be spending all my free time these next five weeks pursuing...

...trying to create positive and productive {movement}.

xOxO,

the money-collection jar

People start funds for all sorts of reasons.

I think I've got a pretty good reason.

Now I'm in search of the perfect see-through container.

To see it, and to save for it, is to believe it.

(Wow. I sound like my father's daughter.)

Happy Fride.

xOxO,

See Carl & Ellie's fund @ 1:53.

 
Uh! This movie.

image credits: here, here, & here

right on the money...ball

I watched this movie last night and I was moved to say the least.

Press PLAY to listen to my heart.

song: The Show // artist: Kerris Dorsey

"I'm just a little bit caught in the middle

 life is a maze, and love is a riddle

I don't know where to go, can't do it alone

I've tried, and I don't know why

Slow it down

Make it stop

or else my heart is going to pop

'cause it's too much

yeah, it's a lot

to be something I'm not

I'm a fool outta love

'cause I just can't get enough...

Yeah I'm just a little bit caught in the middle

life is a maze, and love is a riddle

I don't know where to go, can't do it alone

I've tried, and I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment

I'm so scared, but I don't show it

I can't figure it out

it's bringing me down

I know

I've got to let it goooo...

...and just enjoy the show.

The sun is hot in the sky,

just like a giant spotlight

The people follow the signs

and synchronize in time

It's a joke nobody knows

they got a ticket to the show...

Yeah I'm just a little bit caught in the middle

life is a maze, and love is a riddle

I don't know where to go, can't do it alone

I've tried, and I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment

I'm so scared, but I don't show it

I can't figure it out

it's bringing me down

I know I've got to let it goooo

and just enjoy the show -oh -oh -oh Oh.

just enjoy the show -oh -oh -oh Oh.

I'm just a little bit caught in the middle

life is a maze, and love is a riddle

I don't know where to go, can't do it alone

I've tried, and I don't know why

I'm just a little girl lost in the moment

I'm so scared, but I don't show it

I can't figure it out

it's bringing me down

I know I've got to let it goooo

and just enjoy the show

dum dee dum

dah dum dee dum

just enjoy the show

dah dum dee dum

dah dum dee dum

just enjoy the show

I want my money back

I want my money back

I want my money back

just enjoy the show

I want my money back

I want my money back

I want my money back

just enjoy the show."