Theater Thursday

Theater Thursday is here! This week's featured movie is The Wedding Planner. 

The Wedding Planner stars Jennifer Lopez as Mary Fiore, a successful San Francisco wedding planner. She has it all. A great job, a doting dad and good friends but she doesn't have a man in her life. She's been set on making her career and is now getting a chance to plan the biggest wedding of the year for Fran Donolly (Bridgette Sampras) a wealthy CEO. 

When a freak accident happens that causes Mary to be pushed out of the way of a runaway dumpster her life is flipped upside down. Her rescuer also turns out to be her doctor, Steven Edison (Matthew McConaughey). Instantly there is a connection between them and Mary realizes that she likes him. She invites him to an outdoor movie and sparks fly. 

When she meets with Fran to sort out some wedding details, Mary is finally introduced to Fran's soon to be husband... which turns out to be a shocking surprise. 

If you've never seen this movie, you should check it out! It's cute, funny and romantic! 

Another Full Time Job

Planning a move that is long distance has become a second full time job.

If you've ever moved then you know exactly what I'm talking about. I waited over a year to finally get to move and in that time, I could only so much to prepare. Now that I actually know the exact days of moving the pressure is on. 


I have been full go since finding out and have been trying to check things off my list. I have so much to do still and a few things are still up in the air. As some of you probably already know because of twitter, I'm trying to buy a house in Sacramento. The housing prices are lower than they have been for years and the rates are the lowest they've ever been. Plus I'm a firm believer of putting my money into something I'll own instead of paying rent and it not being mine.


So far I've been packing and going through clothing. I've also booked a moving truck. I got one where they drive it across country for me and that scares me to no end! I won't actually see my stuff for almost a week and it'll just be out there in the world. Crossing fingers that nothing goes missing! (the company I'm using was actually recommended to someone I know who used them about a year ago).


The biggest thing that still needs to be done is finding a place to live. I've got my lender ready and my realtor has been sending me houses. In two weeks I'm going to fly out and spend two days looking at houses non stop. I'm praying that I can find a home that I love in those 48 hours and get my offer in and it be accepted. Once I've got that in place I'll feel so much better! 


Any advice? I'm learning really quickly that I need to get rid of a lot of stuff and only taking what I'm really not willing to part with. The move gets closer day by day!

It's About Television & Netflix

This past week I spent a lot of time boxing things up, spending time in the pool and watching television. I have this weird obsession with anytime I get a new dvd, I won't put it on my dvd shelf until I've watched it. So literally right now with everything going on (preparing to move 2600 miles away), I've become a little behind in watching dvds. 


It would be easy if it's just all movies but most of them are old tv series'. This past weekend I finished up season one of...

Has anyone besides me seen it? It takes place in Napa, California and all about a families struggle to have a successful winery. It's from the 1980's and completely awesome. It always makes me pretty excited because I'm only going to be living a short distance from Napa. I feel like I need to go there and explore because you can tell some of the scenes were obviously filmed there in the town. 


Also sitting in the pile, is Charles In Charge, Taxi, 24 season 2, The Six Million Dollar Man and on and on. I can't decide what to start next but I think I'll end up going with Season 2 of 24. I hadn't started watching it till this winter and I was instantly hooked. 


When I move, I'm not for sure if I'm going to have cable for while (ok well at least at first) so I might have to get netflix again. Did I ever mention the experience I had with netflix? No? Well let me tell you about it. 


So I had netflix. I had been holding out for a long time. I like to buy dvds. I can't help it. There's something about knowing that I own it if I want to watch it over and over. Taking the plastic wrapper off and alphabetizing it on my shelf. Hence why I have so many dvds. Well Josh wanted us to get and share a netflix account. Ok fine, no big deal we'll just choose the online option and not the dvd service. For the first month I swear I only watched like maybe 1 thing. The second month maybe 3 things. 


About three months into it, I was like yeah we're not using it enough to pay the money for it. So I went to cancel it. Um no.... they had just billed me and they don't do partial refunds etc. So I was like ok we'll try to use it for the next month then cancel it. So the end of the month comes and I realize that if we cancel it, everything will be gone from our history so if we ever go back to it we'll have to start over. Boo! So I decide to put a hold on the account for like 4 months. Well guess what happened 4 months later. We forgot to cancel and of course they billed us. BOOOOOO


I watched that calendar for a good month on the day that I could it got cancelled. Needless to say, I was not a fan of Netflix.