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In reference to the title of my blog "Time's a wastin'. " This is a song that was sung by Reese Witherspoon in the movie, "Walk the Line." It is one of my favorite movies of all time. The combined talent of Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix is amazing! I still marvel that they both did all of their own singing. I enjoy biopic movies (ie: Ray, Finding Neverland, The Pianist, A Beautiful Mind, Diary of Anne Frank, Catch me if you Can, Selena...to name a few). I enjoy a lot of movies. Andy and I have Netflix, and I always look forward to getting that next movie in the mail. We recently saw "Music and Lyrics" with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore. It was okay. I liked the song that they wrote together in the movie, it was pretty.

I've been inspired to write about movies after last night's AFI special of the top 100 movies of all time. I was surprised to see some of the placements. For example, Ben Hur was #100, falling 28 spots from the list 10 years ago. I was surprised to see such a dramatic drop--and especially that "Toy Story" followed it at #99. I thought that was a strange pairing. I was glad to see that "The Shawshank Redemption" and "12 Angry Men" was added to this year's list. Not to mention an appearance by M. Night Shyamalan's "The Sixth Sense." I love all his movies. I still have not seen "Citizen Kane" which has claimed the #1 spot consistently throughout the years. So, I don't know if that is a deserved honor or not. I also began to see a trend with Tom Hanks movies, he was in 5 out of the 100 movies. Maybe they should have also included "Castaway" in the list.

Question for the readers: What is your favorite movie genre, or if you can dare to name your favorite movie, what would it be?

First addition!

I've decided to start a blog mostly for the reading pleasure of my sisters. I like to read their blogs and keep up with their lives. Now that my life is getting busier and my family is expanding, I think it's time to start recording my journey not only for others to read, but for me too. Today I am tired. I am at my job in which I spend eight plus hours sitting at a computer taking phone calls. I work with the public, and sometimes that can be interesting. One interesting thing I've noticed while working at a doctor's office: how do you say your date of birth? Do you say November 28th, 1982, or do you say 11-28-82? One older gentlemen calls and would say, for example, 28th day, 11th month, 1982. I've noticed that the older population has a lot of different ways to say their date of birth, and most of the time, I don't understand what date they are trying to tell me.

Mostly I am tired today because I got home late from our meeting last night. We were in Milledgeville, IL--near Rockford. We met some great people at this church. They were a blessing to us. They had a missionary cupboard and I got a new tie for Andy and some thank you notes. I also took a pink baby blanket in hopes that our baby will be a girl and I can use it for her. If not, it will make a good gift for someone else. I also took a green blanket for myself, or for a bed in the future. I just wanted it because it was green. :) They also gave us a box full of grocery items. I am excited about this because it has a lot of cereal and cracker type stuff, and that is my basic menu right now.

Deb asked this weekend what types of food really don't sound good to me right now, so I thought I would record everything that has consistently sounded gross to me in the last 2 1/2 months: Doritos, salad, okay I can't go on because just thinking about this is making me gag. Instead I will talk about the foods that always sound good to me: mac and cheese, pizza, chicken fingers (maybe from Arbys?)--basically all forms of chicken. Glad to see that my main staples in my diet have not changed! :)

Well, hopefully this is just the first of many thought provoking entries by me...thanks for reading!