Party Central

This weekend was a little odd. I had my friend Rebecca over for dinner in which I made pecan encrusted cod with brown butter sauce and roasted red potatoes and brussel sprouts. It was yummy. I also made two birthday cakes. I had a killer migraine that just grew on Saturday. Saturday I made my brothers birthday dinner for Sunday and laid in bed a lot. Sunday came and I still had a migraine but hosted a lovely birthday party for my brother. My brother was sick too, so it felt okay that I wasn't my normal perky self.
Even sick, I love to host a party and all the stuff that goes with it. All the cooking and getting ready, that is so fun to me. Trying to figure out what to make, what food goes with what. Theme parties are super fun to me. My next party will be my anual pizza party. This party is crazy. I make like 10 - 15 pizza and about 40 people come to my little house. Good times. As you can tell, I have been in the party mood lately. Not sure why, but it's good.

Party over here!

I love to throw a party, always have and always will. When I was a kid I used to throw neighborhood parties all the time with Koolaid and popcorn and we would rollerskate in Karen DeCooks basement. Yes, I threw parties that were at other peoples houses. You need one person to plan things or it's all talk and no play. Last night I had a movie night. Okay so I was hoping to watch 3 movies. I had it all planned, Christopher Guest night. We started with Waiting for Guffman, one of my all time favorite movies. It is so funny, I laugh like crazy everytime I see it, and it's been like 20 times. Oh, I could do a post of quotes but that would only be entertaining to me and like 5 other people, which actually may be more than the amount of people who actually read this, hmm. Anyway, we then watched For Your Consideration, and half the people fell asleep. So we only made it through two movies again! But it's only January. I think the next movie night, will start at 4 pm and we will call it Movie day or something. But I had a good turn out and lots of goodies and fun times. If you are interesting in coming to a movie event which consist of 3 movies, even though we have not made it through 3 yet, let me know. Any suggestions for the next trilogy?

In other news, my brother and sister-n-law and niece are back from Florida, and I am so happy. I know they want to go back to the 85 degrees. I mean coming home to 8 degrees cannot be fun. But I missed them a lot. I start back in school on Tue. I think we are studying the Pauline letters and church planting. Fun times.

Movie Day

So today I am having a relaxing day. I went to lunch and to the movies with my friend Katt. We saw The Orrphanage. It was really good, spooky, but not as spooky as I thougt. It's one of the movies where after you spend a few hours putting it all together, I would love to see it again. Just so you know it's not scary like it looks in the previews. I believe it was produced by the same guy who did Pan's Labyrith. (which I loved!) I now just finished watching Once, which is a modern day musical. Very good, the music is great, it's real raw and European. I think I might watch one more movie tonight, we will see.

Airport

I went to visit my friend Banning at the airport. She had a layover on her way back to Paris. I love Banning, so I of course don't mind hanging out with her wherever she is. She is one of my friends who I can talk to for hours and it never seems long enough.

When I am at the airport though it makes me want to go somewhere. It makes me a little sad, unless of course I am the one on my way somewhere. I am ready to get out of Michigan! I am going to NY in April to see Banning dance with Mikhail Baryshnikov! Whoohoo! I have amazing friends!

Juno

I saw Juno today and thought it was super wity and warm. I really enjoyed it and it was so much more funnier than I was expecting. Elle Page is so cute and quirky, I don't know how you can't fall in love with her. I love quirky lovable people, who have an odd flair to them that make them stand out. It can be so refreshing. Like this movie, it takes a topic that can be hard and uncomfortable and makes it real yet funny and warm all at the same time. Like I said, refreshing.

I don't bend it like Beckam

Yesterday I did my first Yoga lesson on DVD. I laughed more than I exercised. My body don't do that. Seriously the lady looked like Gumby. I guess I thought it was going to be a lot of stretching but not like a rubber band. So I switched over to Pilates. Pilates is a little more pratical and it's not so spiritually weird. I am not super comfortable bowing to mountains I can't pronounce. Now the hard part is to keep doing it. You have to start somewhere right.

Updating

I am updating and adding a little flair to my blog. Let me know what you think. I am hoping to be better at all of this. I am also hoping to take more pictures and add to my Flickr site more often. Oh dreams, everyone has to have them.

Almost a Trilogy

My friend Allie, Rebecca and I have attempted to have a night of Trilogy watching two times now and have only made it to two films out of the 3. The first time we watched the first 2 of the Lord of the Rings trilogy extended version and at 3 am I was done. This time I chose the Baz Luhrmann trilogy (The Red Curtain trilogy) which contains Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge and Strickly Ballroom, we didn't get to Romeo and Juliet. I have a goal this year to watch a whole trilogy at one time, I think we may need to start earlier. But I love these movie watching events. And for us they are events. We get really into it, watching them on the big screen and having thematic foods and inviting lots of people. Good times. Any ideas for the next trilogy?