Most Sensational, Inspirational, Celebrational

I don't know if there is a better feel good movie than the new Muppets movie. I am sitting here at this very moment watching it and enjoying every second... no matter if you are a muppet fan or not, you will like this movie.

Excerpt from my personalized dictionary:

Happiness- Driving in a car that has Muppets' "Life's a Happy Song" blasting and singing along to every bit of it :)

Doggies

Ozzy.

I have a dog named Ozzy that my mom named after "The Wizard of Oz" because he is the same type of dog as Toto. Why she didn't just name him "Toto" I'll never know, because now I am stuck with correcting everyone who meets the thing that he is in fact not named after Ozzy Osbourne, and no, he is not on a crazy train. I'm sorry to all of you dog lovers who read this, but I just had to say something. I don't like dogs, I don't like pets. Baby animals are cute and wonderful, and cats are pretty cool, but dogs? No. Ozzy is alright, but he is not my favorite thing my family owns. He has advantages, I suppose, like he can roll over if you bribe him, he can shake your hand, he can make himself look cute once in a while... but the cons totally outweigh the pros. Ozzy looks like a dirty mop (and smells like one) almost all of the time, he whines when he is inside the house until you let him outside, and once he is outside he barks until you let him in, he throws up in the house, he steals your food, and we have to pay for his food and junk. Anyways, I think I've bashed my dog enough for the day, allow to me move on...

 I have a few inspiring quotes for all of you.

- "If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't either."- Unknown    Even if you thought this person was a saint, and he/she was the kindest and truest friend ever, you should not keep your good opinion of him/her if your dog barks at them, because they must really be an awful human being underneath all of that goodness.

-"They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation."- Jerome K. Jerome We are a selfish, selfish, species.

-"To err is human, to forgive, canine." -Unknown Hah, dogs definitely err. If they didn't, I wouldn't ever be cleaning up dog poo/vomit on the kitchen floor.

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's."- Mark Twain   Okay, Mr. Twain, have fun there. I'm sure it rains dog treats and smells like bacon.

"Bulldogs are adorable, with faces like toads that have been sat on."- Colette

   The uglier things are, the cuter they seem to be.

"The average dog is a nicer person than the average person."- Andrew A. Rooney  Yeah, well, so is the average hamster, or iguana, or dolphin. Wait... is a dog a person?

P.S. Deep down I do love my dog in a strange way. Really.

Wrong Time?

I love the classic movies, you know, the ones from the 30-60s, from RKO, MGM, etc. Actors like Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Jimmy Stewart, Katherine Hepburn, to the later ones such as Gregory Peck, Gene Kelly, Audrey Hepburn, Doris Day, etc. They just make me feel happy inside, and they're what I grew up on! Sometimes I secretly wish I could have lived back then, honestly, I know actors better from that time period then I do now! Actors required so much more talent back then! They had to act, sing, and do some crazy-awesome tap dancing!

I also find myself longing to live back in the early 1800s, in Jane Austen's time, or later while Victoria reigned and Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the Bronte Sisters were the novelists... but I've realized something recently, and that is that I am in the exact spot in time where I am supposed to be. If I lived back in the 1800s, I wouldn't be able to watch all my classics, and be so in love with them! If I lived during the  30-60s, I couldn't enjoy all of my favorite BBC period dramas! AND I'd be an old woman presently, or a dead person.

List of the Best .

Okay, well I have a lot of favorite movies, but what I really like are British period dramas. I was going to write a list out by hand  for a couple people, but instead I think that this will be way easier. They are relatively long movies, averaging about 4 hours. But they aren't actually movies, they are mini-series.  I am going to rate them by which I think the general public would enjoy the most, since people who aren't used to these kind of movies will find them harder to understand, and more difficult to enjoy. They become much more enjoyable once you understand the classes and ettiquette of the day. I will also mark my favorites and also there are little notes below the chart about a few of the movies. So this is how it'll go:
Pink = Easy to Watch and Understand.
Blue = A little bit more difficult to understand.
Green = You probably won't like this until you've watched some Blues and Pinks.
I love them all, but My Absolute Favorites = Highlighted
Friendly Warning= Purple Highlight  (explanation underneath chart)
 Title /Company /Date/ Based On the Novel By
North & South / BBC/ 2004/Elizabeth Gaskell
Jane Eyre /Masterpiece Theater/ 2006/ Charlotte Bronte  
Emma / Miramax / 1996 / Jane Austen
Emma /BBC / 2009 / Jane Austen 
Pride and Prejudice/Focus /  2005 /Jane Austen
Pride & Prejudice / A&E / 1995/Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey/ Masterpiece Theater/2007/ Jane Austen
Mansfield Park/Masterpiece Theater / 2007 / Jane Austen
Becoming Jane/  Miramax /   2007/  (biography)
Persuasion/  BBC/2007/Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility / Columbia/ 1995 / Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility / BBC /  2008/  Jane Austen
Wives and Daughters/ BBC /  1995/  Elizabeth Gaskell 
Cranford /  BBC/ 2008 /  Elizabeth Gaskell
Little Dorrit / BBC/ 2008/ Charles Dickens
Bleak House /BBC/ 2005/Charles Dickens
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall /BBC/1996 /Anne Bronte
The Scarlet Pimpernel/Literary Masterpiece/1982
Miss Potter/Alliance Atlantis/2006/biography
Horatio Hornblower/A&E/1998-2003/ C.S. Forestor

PURPLE HIGHLIGHT EXPLANATIONS:

-Becoming Jane- has a nude scene in it so you can borrow an edited version (like mine!)  if you wish
-Sense and Sensibility (2008) - the first scene should probably be skipped, but there is nothing else in it besides the very first scene .
-The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - it is really depressing, the main character is abused by her husband
- If you want more info on these things, you can go to imdb.com and open the movie pages and view the parents guide at the bottom of the page. -

BBC Period Drama Trailer

I love this mix up! I have been watching a whole bunch of period-drama montages and this one is one of my favorites.

Chocolat' and Charm

I borrowed the 2000 movie Chocolat from my aunt, and I have been so inspired by the chocolaterie, (not that i plan on becoming a chocolateer now, though it is considerable.... ) and so twitterpaited (and I am sorry, I hate that word "twitterpaited" but I can't think of another word to describe it) by the handsome character that Johnny Depp plays. He is a great actor and he could be so good looking if he didn't make himself look like a hippie, just flushed Tim Burton movies down the toilet and recognized his true potential as the hottest man alive. Don't get me wrong, he hasn't quite taken my Freddy's  place. Maybe its just Roux's (johnny depp's character) scorching brown eyes that get to me.

Oh goodness, I just love movies about food! I think I need to read this book...

Confidence. = Happiness.

I, being a not-so-self-confident young woman, have decided that my lack of self-esteem is not doing me any justice whatsoever and is in fact ruining my teenage years. Most teenagers, almost all teenagers, are insecure. That is the honest truth and nobody can argue with that! And I confess I am one of those people! So what do I do? I drop it! I decided to stop trying to find probalems with who I am, and being jealous of other people on occasion, because I am stuck with my personality and my body for the rest of my life! I want people to like me for who I am and not for who I think that everybody else will like better. So thats it! I want to be myself, and I will be myself! And I am going to have the greatest sixteenth year in the history of sixteen year olds! If you have ever observed, people are usually different at home then they are with their friends and at school, so this is what im going to do, im going to alter my life so that i am the same person everywhere i go, im just me! and i'll need to improve my attitude at home, and at school somewhat, but i think that this is a good plan and i am already feeling a sparkle of self-sureness.... what do you think?????

Never Judge a Book by its Movie

So... guess what best-selling series I started reading again today? You guessed it- the twilight series. Now hear me out, I am not an obsessed fan, though I did realize when I was reading The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner that I truly do love the books :) . I was obsessed with the series in 2008, when I first read them. This will be my fourth time reading the 1st book, the only other book in the series I have read more then once is New Moon. My favorite is Breaking Dawn though.
Starting to read the series again made me realize how much I hate the movies, Kristen Stewart's buck teeth, man voice, and forever-blinking eyelids is not the Bella Swan that is in the books for me, she is just a bad actress in a cheap, lame movie. For me, The books are a whole different world then the movie , the characters are all different, the setting is all different, the story is different. The story is better.
I was hesitant when the first movie came out because I thought it would ruin the books for me. It did in someways, it definitely made the series seem more lame. But now as I am reading Twilight , I am able to force the bad-actors from the movie out of my mind and bring the characters that I found the first time I read it back to life, as well as the settings.
So I am still a proud owner of all 5 twilight books, and I got to admit, kind of embarassed to own the first Twilight movie.

R.M. + J.C.

I am almost done reading William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet for English Class. I LOVE it! Lots of people say they didn't like it, but I really am enjoying it! I think it is amazing... If you want to like it, you can. People just dwell too much on the fact that she is 13 and he is 16, not really understanding that that was normal back then. Another reason people don't like it is because they don't believe in love at first sight, and so they say, "Romeo and Juliet didn't really fall in love at first sight, that's impossible!" Well, they actually really did! It says it right in the play. It is fiction, and anything can happen in fiction. It doesn't mean it has to happen in reality.