Summer Movie List!

Just as with the last list, this is part of my summer goals and I hope to get through about a quarter of these movies over the summer.

• Breakfast at Tiffany's
• The Omen (the original and the remake- for scientific comparative purposes)
• Good Will Hunting
• Downfall
• An Officer and A Gentleman
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• The Factory
• Cargo
• Break Up
• The Dark Hours
• Jack's Back
• Equus
• Keep Your Distance
• House on Haunted Hill
• Terms of Endearment
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Gardens of the Night

And to be honest, there are way too many to list. but if you think the list is lacking or that I should know something about a particular film, drop me a comment, I always appreciate your comments!

Let's set some goals!

So summer is approaching, (only 3 weeks of the semester left, AAAAAHHH!) And I'd like to set some summer goals so that I can not waste my summer( it wouldn't be anyway but still, time to be uber productive!) So here's my summer goal list:

1. Make the most of my internship at Living History Farms- I'm super excited for this opportunity and want to use it to its fullest, including making friends with other interns, networking with employees and volunteers and doing well in the academic portion of the program.
2. I want to take tons of photos over the summer and post them here for you guys!
3. I'll be posting my summer book list in my next post.  I want to read at least half of those books over the summer.
4. Summer movie list will come after the book list! I'll prolly be working on this list forever but i wanna get through.....lets say a quarter of them over the summer.
5. I want to go to Zombie Burger!!!- I've never been there and hear that it's awesome, so I might just have to treat myself.
6. I should prolly learn how to drive...(don't make fun, I never got around to it)

So those are my goals for the summer! What are yours? leave them in the comments!!

New additions

So with 3 weeks til finals and move out, I've realized that I've accumulated a lot of new stuff over this academic year(I had a pretty good job at the college dining service) and to be honest, I'm pretty happy about it. I mean I'm not even groaning over having to figure out where it'll go at home(we might be moving anyways so if it stays packed nbd, but more on that at a later time). I just thought I'd share with you the new additions to the traveling show of my life and let you judge if its money well spent.

1. Owl Bank(for all of my important extra change needs!

2.Alice in Wonderland plushes.(so soft and cute and cuddly and fun)

3. Books!! (Including: Alice in Wonderland, Pride and Prejudice, Maus, etc.)

4. Movies!!(Love expanding my movie collection and the 5 dollar bin at walmart had some great finds this year)

5. Harvest Moon: Tree of Tranquility(Okay, so I love Harvest Moon to begin with and i'm not going to debate the "It's stupid cuz it's farming" thing because I will never be a good farmer outside of this game and its still a better game than Farmville)

6. An addiction to Geek Chic Cosmetics (I found this company online, they're based out of Oregon and have totally awesome makeup lines based off of fan bases for shows like: My Little Pony, Legend of Zelda, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, etc.  The pricing is supper reasonable when you take into account that all products are handmade, vegan and cruelty free and in certain cases gluten free. Plus the colors are truly inspired and lovely, I'll prolly be posting about them more but click the company name to get to their site and see for yourself.)

7.  Mustache Magnets(Found these at the University Bookstore and had to have them.....i don't think I need to explain )

So there you have it! comment and let me know what you think!

Oddities of the day

So today started weird and ended well. I woke up to the balloons above stuck in the tree outside my window. Then me and my friend, Rachel went to the Residence hall carnival outside our dorm. It was super small, but had some Blank Park Zoo animals, including an alligator, a huge rabbit and a screech owl. Then we started filming a movie, its something we've been planning for a little bit. It's sort of a combination of all the different Hallmark movies combined. I was originally just supposed to do the makeup and costuming for it but was thrown in a speaking role when one of the other actresses didn't show up. I play the oldest child with mommy issues, LOL. It went really well and we're filming again next saturday.

Family Friendly Halloween Movie List!! Halloween Series: Part 4

So this is for after the trick or treating when you and the kiddies settle in with their newly acquire loot of candy and are ready for some good old fashioned family fun movie time.

1. Casper (1995)- This is probably one of my favorite movies from childhood, I had such a crush on the "real boy" version of Casper



2. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (1966)- This is probably a classic from when you were a child too, so its great to be able to share this with your kids.



3. Hocus Pocus (1993)- I make a point to watch this movie once a year at this time so, it's clearly a great flick.



4. Little Vampire(2000)-I think the kids in this movie are just too cute, pluegreat message about overcoming fears and the like.



5. Nightmare Before Christmas(1993)- This one is from my childhood, I was probably like 5 when I first saw it. That said, it scared the crap out of me so wait for this one til the kids are alittle older.



6. Corpse Bride(2005)- I think this is sooo cute, it falls in the same category as Nightmare Before Christmas though, so better for kids alittle bit older.

That's my list for you! By the end of it, it's time for the kiddies to hit the sack and for you to pick up the mess of candy wrappers and costumes. Stay tuned for more super Halloween fun!1

Memory Lane

My night was spent doing what every senior should do at least once during their summer before their first year of college: looking back.......okay so maybe I didn't do my walk down memory lane quite as poeticly as that but it was awesome. I spent my night making lanyards with Emily, Playing N64(Smash Bros, Harvest Moon, SuperMario 64) with my boys(Daniel, Chad, Jeff and Nate)and watching Adventures in Babysitting with my little group. It was soo much fun to look back on things that were once such a big part of my life and see how far I've come since then.

Xmen movie review!!

So for my first movie this summer, X-men: First Class did not disappoint. Of course there were some small snags along the way. The director of the first 2 movies came back as a producer which helped considering that when he left the series went down hill (excluding Origins, which I haven't seen yet). The writers were a mash up of previous writers from the series and writers from Thor. This would seemingly be a great mix but there were points when the dialogue was choppy and campy at points. The action was well thought out and exciting. Castings....decent, though I'll never get past a Professor X with a full head of hair. Over all I'd say it was great and definately worth the watch. :) Also best cameo ever by Hugh Jackman(sexy man) :)

XMEN!!!!!!

Ok, so tomorrow night, I'm going to the midnight premier of the new x-men movie, and I'm super pumped since I love this comic series and have seen all the other movies and equally loved them. So naturally I have to do something special for it. I knew that one of my favorite characters, Mystique, would be in it, so I figured why not come up with a make-up look inspired by her to wear to the theater. So this is what I came up with.

I love it personally. Im going with a group of friends, so idk what lyssa and jeff will think. I know Daniel and Chad will love (Daniel because I did it, Chad because he's as crazy a fan as I am of these films.)

Getting into summer

So summer has started going and I'm seriously into the flow. My days are filling up with plans, starting with:

• cookouts


• swimming outings


• midnight movies


• days at Adventureland


• trips around Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska.


• concerts


• much more :)

Thursday is the start of all these plans, starting with a friend's grad party, going to the X-men: First Class midnight premier, and ending with 3AM pancakes. Sounding pretty good to me. Not that all the plans take away from plain old relaxing time. Heck, despite 2 cookouts, a visit with my grandparents and a couple parties, I've still been able read 4 books cover to cover in the past 3 days. It's gonna be a good summer from what I can tell :D

Late Nights and future plans!!!

Ok, so today I was pretty exhausted. I fell asleep at 5 and woke up at 9, didn't even wake up for supper. Now that I am awake, I can't get back to sleep. So what do I do?? Surf the internet, of course. In my random search of the web, I came upon a trailer for the Green Lantern movie. Now, I love comic books, I know a lot about the random facts of said comic books characters too. Normally, I'm more of a Marvel then a DC girl, but there are times when I lift that, this being one of them. And that's because it looke like they're largely sticking to the correct story line!!! I mean Ryan Reynolds, no offense but maybe not the best pick for Hal Jordan but as long as the story line is right I don't care who they cast. After watching the trailer and being extremely bored I made 2 decisions: 1. I was going to see the movie when it came out(result of trailer), and 2. I was going to make a makeup look based off of the Green Lantern to wear to the movie when I go(result of boredom) . So this is what you get.



So moral of the story: this is a great boredom buster!! So maybe anytime I find a movie I wanna see, I'll create a look for it, prolly not but still. And no this isn't interchangable with the Incredible Hulk, cuz that would require purple along with the green.