channeling Siskel and Ebert for a moment...

I have GOT to stop reading books before I see the movies they're based on. Tonight I saw Charlie St Cloud. While the movie was really good, I can't help but feel cheated because the book was so much better then the film portrayal of the story. I thought the ending was corny and had nothing on the way they ended the book. Of course the book didn't have this though:

HELLLLLOOOOOOO ZAC EFRON'S ABS!!! seriously though, I'm not a "zefron" groupie, but he was delicious in this movie haha.

Anyway, I'm getting off track here, the point is that I feel like these movies are taking really great books and destroying them on film. Take twilight (I know, I know, another adult Twilight groupie, feel free to eye roll) for example. The books were great, but the first movie was TERRIBLE. thank god for Rpattz's good looks or that movie wouldn't have gone anywhere. New moon got a little better, and Eclipse has been the best so far but they still aren't great. And "The Lovely Bones" was a GREAT book, but a terrible movie! I could go on and on with examples of great butchered novels, but seriously, why does hollywood feel the need to butcher an already great story to make it "better"? Just once I'd like to find one movie that stays really close to the original plot and have it be successful. Is that too much to ask for?

With all of that being said, Charlie St Cloud really was a good movie and I did enjoy it, so all in all it was an enjoyable night at the movies. :) I'll stop my ranting now.

i promised i would send this video around ... so, i figured posting it here counted! enjoy some captain jack sparrow doing his own rendition of "david after dentist"

it's always something

so I drive around today and my car's fine. after work i decide to take saige to the mall to get her an early birthday gift (unicorn crocs) and get some dinner. on the way home my car starts bucking and shaking and not driving right. of course that threw me into a panic attack because i had saige with me so i immediately call pat. i get my sister to pick me up and leave my car in valley forge park. pat comes down and drives my car home (thankfully, there's no way i could have done it) and he thinks it's the coil (whatever that means?) and he's going to fix it tomorrow. thank goodness, he really does come in handy, no matter how much crap we give him. thankfully i'll be able to take my mom's car to work tomorrow, so at least i'll be able to get around. well, at least saige is really enjoying her new crocs! we bought her backpack and lunch box for when she starts kindergarten in a few weeks too ... i still can't believe it! :( I can't believe she grew up so fast! time needs to slow down a little bit. well, it's time to end my crazy day on a positive note ... jersey shore!! haha, i love my reality trash!

the never-ending case of the whines ..

Don't get me wrong, I love saige more than I could ever love anything .. but this week she's really trying my patients haha. She started bible camp two weeks ago which is during nap time. This means she no longer takes a nap during the day. I figured this was a good time to start breaking her of a nap because once she starts kindergarten she won't nap anymore anyway. Well, I think the combination of no nap and being outside/active most of the day is taking a huge toll on her. So far every day this week when we've come home from work she's been whining SO much, and she's actually fallen asleep twice on the couch at like 5:30 which never happens. I'm at a loss as to how to fix this. I could just take her out of bible camp and let her nap instead, but she really loves bible camp so that would upset her if she couldn't do that anymore. No idea what to do in this situation! I'm hoping Thursday and Friday go a bit better, I'm not sure how much more whining I can deal with!

fresh start

I've been in the livejournal world for so long that I've got virtually no friends left on there ... so, it was time to move to something more "adult"!

I don't generally blog about any topic in particular, just whatever is going on in that brain of mine at the time, so scattered and jumbled posts are generally my style.

I guess I should post a little about myself on here just to get the ball rolling. Lets see, I'm 27, I have a 4 year old daughter (who will be 5 in two weeks - where did the time go?) named Saige. I work in a daycare that I've been at for the past 8 years. I have great friends and great family. My hobbies .... lets see. I love to read ... pretty much anything I can get my hands on. If i'm not into it by the middle of the book, it goes back on the shelf never to be finished. One of my favorite places to be in the world is on a big comfy couch with a book in the middle of Barnes & Noble. I love love LOVE music. I can immediately relate a lyric to any given situation in life. I'm more of a homebody then a partier. I'd rather be at home with a book or a friend then out somewhere loud and crowded. I guess that makes me kind of an old soul, but I'm ok with that. Most of my time is spent with Saige (which is how it should be obviously). I'm not in a relationship and haven't been for a while ... and don't see myself being in one any time soon haha. I'm going on my first real vacation (at 27 years old, pathetic i know) to disney world in two weeks for Saige's birthday, so I'm super excited about that. My first plane ride ... yikes.

Well, that about wraps me up for now...hopefully I'll keep up with this! :)