G-Force **SPOILERS**

So sunday night we caught the end of G-Force. Yes, the movie with CGI hamsters. The movie was.....Hillarious. Ok i'll admit I was the only one laughing, but still I was totally amused. I am also willing to admit that in no way was it a good movie, but it was so bad that it was funny. What I cant understand is how they got Nick Cage (ok maybe i get that one), penelope cruz, Tracy Morgan, Zack Galifinakis, Will Arnet, and a few other celebs to agree to this movie.

Ok so here is the spoiler....The one BIG hole in the movie comes at the end when Zack admits to the hamsters that they are infact NOT genetically engineered animals and they are NOT CIA special forces or whatever. That part i'm ok with, but then he goes on to tell them they are just normal hamsters.....BUT HE CAN STILL TALK TO THEM, they never explain that. Also when the hamsters rally and remind themselves that even if they arent genetically engineered they tell themselves the facts...That they went to and graduated west point correspondance school.....WHAT? But my confusion passes when all the appliances come to life in the big battle scene at the end.

Great Movie

Best. Weekend.Ever

27 Ended with diamonds, and 28 started with lots of celebrations.

Leslie and Sarah were both in town too, which was exciting

My birthday celebration consisted of renting a (short) bus and going wine tasting at 3 vineyards in VA.

1. The Three Fox Vineyards - Very beautiful property. If you go here, you should picknic outside at thier tables, but thier wine isnt all that good ,so dont make this your only stop. The best thing i could say about one wine was "this tastes like manichewitz" to which laura and peter were quick to point out that wasnt a good thing.

2. Barrel Oak Winery - This was the most delicious one. Even the red wines were pretty good (and I dont like red wine). They also had nice tables indoors for eatting lunch which was nice since it was SO hot that day.

3. LaGrange Winery- This one had pretty good wines too, and heavy air conditioning indoors, delicious sangria, and beautiful places to sit outdoors in the shade.

also it should be noted that Jessica was the MVP for bringing the dramamine so I didnt get motion sick :)

A great weekend all around :)

SO excited

Birthday week is nearing the best day of the year!!! Tomorrow I gear up by taking the day off work and sitting by the pool all day, while leslie busses her way to DC to come join me, followed later in the day by sarah! ahhhhhhhh! Cant wait!

Trivia Night

Last night was a poor showing at trivia. Just Joe and I showed up. That is half, or less than half the usual team. The usual team usually scores just below 60 points (out of the possible 80) which puts us right in the middle of the trivia night teams. We feel pretty good about this since we dont cheat, and at least half the team are engineers so we are screwed when it comes to history questions or obscure sports facts(both are where peter comes in when he shows up).

Anyway, back to last night. Joe and I decided to go even though it was going to be a team of two. We called our team "the better half" and played our best. We came out with 46 points! Thats more than 50% which means that we are totally pulling our weight in trivia night and its the other players that really only need to fill in less than half and clearly arent ;) Who knew that Joe and I were the trivia night super stars! Also we didnt get the lowest score of the night so we felt good about that too.

Movies!

Out of the two new movies I saw this weekend one was the clear winner.

The not winner was Hot Tub Time Machine. It was alright, and definitely could have been worse...but it also could have been MUCH better, and i was expecting a lot more. The movie was only a little funny, but sorta amusing, and i'm glad I eventually saw it but not in the theater.

The winner was Inception. it was awesome. It covered TWO of my favorite categories of movies! Category 1. Leonardo Dicaprio (yes he is his own genre). He was so good and did not disappoint. There were multiple times that he subtly referenced his older movies that I totally picked up on (OK I'm sure he wasn't trying), but there was him strapped to the bed like in Marvin's room, and him holding the vile of poison between his two fingers then hiding it in his hand like in Romeo and Juliet. category 2. Mind bender. This movie definitely kept you thinking throughout the movie and then after you left. All I can say is that you should certainly go see it! And see it in the theater for sure. So good. I cant wait to see it again.

Dispicable Me

We saw that movie last night. I didn't have high hopes, but felt it would at the least be amusing. It surprised me by being much better than expected! All the characters were great, and it was fun since they are all voices of actors I like. If you have free time and looking for something to do, go see this movie.

There is a trend

of me not liking things other people like. We've discussed this before in previous blog posts. The newest one that i'm ready to spark outrage with is Mr. Show. Peter bought the entire series and makes me watch an episode or two every night. I do like david cross and i'm ok will bob odenkirk, and the other side actors i've seen on other things i like (jack black, sarah silverman, that random guy with a funny voice) so I was prepared to like the show. I can see why it might have been amusing when it first aired, but i'm just not enjoying it now. Its made me laugh out loud exactly once so far. Its just not my thing. I hope the rest of the series goes missing b/c i just looked up how many more episodes there are, and i've got about 20 more to go :(

Bumper Stickers

Today on my ride in I saw a sticker that says "my nephew is a marine" which got me thinking how distant can you be and still have a premade sticker for it? Like is there a "my brother in-law a marine" a sticker? or how about "this one kid I once knew is a marine"?

Where Didnt we go this weekend?

This weekend Andreea was in town from Philly and looking for the makings of a fun weekend, and I don't think we disappointed. We met up at Churchkey first where it was incredibly hot (even hotter than it was outside) which forced us to cut that visit short, but that's ok b/c next on the list thanks to Amit was the 9:30 club to dance to Madonna vs Lady Gaga vs MIA. And dance we did. I did find out that the 9:30 club has a shoes policy after someone told on me, so that was mildly annoying. Peter only lasted a short while before leaving 930, but the rest of us stayed until we could dance no more...and then it was on to nellies (the clear choice after madonna/gaga night).

On sat I decided to take andreea to cowgirl creamery for lunch. Good idea, except for the fact that they only make sandwiches in the AM and dont replenish so the meat eaters in the group were out of luck. Sat evening it was levante's and brickskeller for a night of drunk dials and delicious beers.

Sunday it was off to RFD (since most other bars in chinatown lost power) to watch the world cup. I was rooting for netherlands, but really didnt care either way.

All in all it was a fun weekend

Annoyingly inconsistant

So I left my apt the same time today and tuesday, both for early meetings. Tuesday I didnt make it in until 9:30, but today I made it in by 8:30. WTF. This is a general occurrence for me, its super hard to plan what time to leave to make it in for an early meeting. Luckily on tuesday I had a call in number so I could call from the car stuck in traffic :( I still dont understand why the american recovery and reinvestment act has every "shovel ready" project going at once! Its almost like the government hates the environment since so many construction sites cause ridiculous traffic.

Too hot to blog!

So the 4th of july weekend went well. Spent Sat across the bridge with the mann-criss-farmers. Sunday we walked down to iwo jima for the fireworks. Monday We saw get him to the greek. It was just alright. I dont think it was a waste of time, but i'm sure glad i saw it in a matinee. The commercials made it seem way funnier.

Today peter left for a work trip, so 2 things come of this....1 I get to sleep on the diagonal and 2 every time i turn on the TV it will NOT be on some sports game! It will instead be on the Disney channel ;)

BIRTHDAY MONTH HAS BEGUN!

I know you are all equally as excited as I am :) I received my first birthday card last night (from my work) and would have gotten my first slice of bday cake today (from my work--but i skipped it). I think its fair to say, few people love their birthday as much as I do! The count down is on people!