3D Yogi Bear? Seriously? WHYYYYYYYYYY????? Did the powers that be learn nothing from the whole "Garfield" experience? In Zombieland even Bill Murray said he regrets Garfield. Don't even get me started about Alvin and the Chipmunks.
See what happens when I'm home alone? No, that's a lie. This happens when David is home too. My snark knows no bounds.
Miss you sweetie!
~Emily
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Movies movies movies
So over the last two weekends we have watched a bunch of movies. I meant to blog about the first batch last weekend but I lacked the motivation and brain power to do so. So I will do it here in one happy movie post.
Drag Me to Hell
IMDB Page. This movie was written and directed by Sam Raimi (Spider Man, The Evil Dead and Army of Darkness are also some of his works). I liked Spider Man, and I thought maybe this would be good balance to the girl movies I had picked up. I was wrong. This movie made all the girl movies I have ever seen look brilliant. The lead actors were Alison Lohman and Justin Long (you know, the guy who plays Mac on the PC/Mac commercials). They are both talented actors and I have enjoyed them in other work they have done, it was just the movie that was bad. It was more gross that scarey, and it wasn't funny cheesey like Army of Darkness it was just, well, bad. On a positive note, I did learn a valuable life lesson: When buying something second hand take just a minute and think about it. You never know. It's quite possible an angry, juciy, gypsy put a curse on that item and by taking ownership of said item you become the cursed one. Is it really worth it? Watch this movie and you decide. (Also, don't eat while watching this movie.)
Easy Virtue
IMDB Page. This is a remake of a 1928 movie that was directed by Alred Hitchcock. The 2008 remake was directed by Stephan Elliot and starred Jessica Biel, Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth (to name a few). To sum this movie up, a young Englishman marries an american woman with a passion for speed and a bit of a past. The young Englishman takes his new bride home to meet his family and events unfold. I thought the movie was casted well. The story was amusing, and the music was perfect (but only if you are a Cole Porter fan). If you want a movie that you can just sit back and enjoy I would add this to your list.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaur
IMDB Page. We are Ice Age fans so we went ahead and added this one to our collection. All the actors came back to lend their voices to the characters we know and love.
My Life in Ruins
IMDB Page. This movie stared Nia Vardalos, writer of and lead actress in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. This was a sweet little store about finding love in the last place you would expect to.
The Ugly Truth
IMDB Page.
Star Trek
IMDB Page.
So yeah, I ran out of steam. Star Trek was too awesome for words.
Drag Me to Hell
IMDB Page. This movie was written and directed by Sam Raimi (Spider Man, The Evil Dead and Army of Darkness are also some of his works). I liked Spider Man, and I thought maybe this would be good balance to the girl movies I had picked up. I was wrong. This movie made all the girl movies I have ever seen look brilliant. The lead actors were Alison Lohman and Justin Long (you know, the guy who plays Mac on the PC/Mac commercials). They are both talented actors and I have enjoyed them in other work they have done, it was just the movie that was bad. It was more gross that scarey, and it wasn't funny cheesey like Army of Darkness it was just, well, bad. On a positive note, I did learn a valuable life lesson: When buying something second hand take just a minute and think about it. You never know. It's quite possible an angry, juciy, gypsy put a curse on that item and by taking ownership of said item you become the cursed one. Is it really worth it? Watch this movie and you decide. (Also, don't eat while watching this movie.)
Easy Virtue
IMDB Page. This is a remake of a 1928 movie that was directed by Alred Hitchcock. The 2008 remake was directed by Stephan Elliot and starred Jessica Biel, Kristin Scott Thomas and Colin Firth (to name a few). To sum this movie up, a young Englishman marries an american woman with a passion for speed and a bit of a past. The young Englishman takes his new bride home to meet his family and events unfold. I thought the movie was casted well. The story was amusing, and the music was perfect (but only if you are a Cole Porter fan). If you want a movie that you can just sit back and enjoy I would add this to your list.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaur
IMDB Page. We are Ice Age fans so we went ahead and added this one to our collection. All the actors came back to lend their voices to the characters we know and love.
My Life in Ruins
IMDB Page. This movie stared Nia Vardalos, writer of and lead actress in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. This was a sweet little store about finding love in the last place you would expect to.
The Ugly Truth
IMDB Page.
Star Trek
IMDB Page.
So yeah, I ran out of steam. Star Trek was too awesome for words.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Friday, YAY!
I am sitting here on my nice cozy couch with my warm lap top on my lap. I just consumed a cup of earl gray (or is it grey?) tea and some shortbread. Men in Black is on and David is all cute and snoozey on his couch. All those lovely things mean today is Friday. I'm looking forward to a weekend of hopefully getting some projects finished around the house that I have been wanting to do for a while and watching movies. I don't want to use my brain if I don't have to. Happy weekend to the two people who actually read this blog! :)
~Emily
~Emily
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Caller ID
I am a secret ninja. Ok. That was a lie. I just like to think that in my head when I can see who is calling on my work caller id. So imagine my disappointment when one of those "out of area" or "Salem" people call. That means I have to use my brain and try to associate a phone number (if there is one) with a client. That takes a lot of brain power. So what really amuses me is those people who call, but won't leave a voice message if no one picks up. Instead, they will call every five minutes until someone answers. And what happens when I answer? I put you through to the bosses voicemail. I don't see how my involvement in the process was necessary but ok.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
My Job-Funnies
For those of you that don't know, I work in a law office. This job has allowed me to see a side of people that not everyone gets to see. When people call, or come into the office they have (or think they have) been seriously wronged and are coming to us for justice. I think we have been lucky with our clients so far, we have a pretty good group and I enjoy working with just about all of them. However, we do get some pretty wackadoo calls and I have learned SOOO much about people. Thought I'd share some of my giggles and frustrations along the way. No names or specifics are being given to protect the crazy (someone needs to look out for them).
Warlock? Really?
A woman called upset because someone she looked up to had betrayed her and caused her to make some poor choices. In her next breath she told me she shouldn't have been surprised because this person is really a warlock and can't be trusted. I had to bit my tongue. I had to take it all down and give my boss the potential client memo without laughing.
Keep in mind, I am a World of Warcraft (addictive computer game) junkie and one of the classes/characters you an play in the game is a warlock so I was thinking about that as the potential was talking to me.
You Think This Will Make Me Want To Help You?
I wouldn't do these things to your attorney.
You saw my post about insisting on scheduling an appointment, making said appointment and then client no-showing? Well, the follow up to that... don't show up the next day and expect to see the attorney. My boss is kind so he met with him anyway. Saying you stay in a house with a bunch of people and your alarm isn't working and you slept through your appointment because no one woke you is lame. Even lamer-saying you didn't think you needed to call and let anyone at the office know what happened. You just look like and ass now.
This just bugs me, my boss is more tolerant than I. Just showing up. We have a few of these types. They just show up whenever hoping the boss is free for a few minutes (which usually is more like 20-30 minutes). I don't see what is so hard about calling to see if the boss is available, or to let someone know you are coming in. The exception to this? People who drop in to drop off a payment. People who just come in hoping for time with the attorney make me crazy. This goes for clients-because they should know how busy their attorney is, and for potentials-who are hoping to get some free attorney time.
Service/therapy animals. I may have already written something about this and how much I hate people who abuse the service/therapy animal boundaries. I hate people who call to complain that their boss won't let them bring their therapy cat to work and want an attorney to tell their boss the cat has to be allowed. The sad thing? The cat probably does need to be allowed because those laws are sooo tricky and you can't question a person to much about why they need the animal in the first place because that is violating their rights. Oy. MY (my very own) opinion is if you need a therapy animal-maybe you should be seeing a doctor more regularly and not going out into the world until you can do so without animal comfort. Having said that-I am not directing that towards people who really need an animal, like a service dog or people who have a serious medical condition and have an animal to assist them should they have a stroke or seizure. I'm not totally heartless!
Alright, time to go to the job. I'll add more as I remember them/come across them :)
~Emily
Warlock? Really?
A woman called upset because someone she looked up to had betrayed her and caused her to make some poor choices. In her next breath she told me she shouldn't have been surprised because this person is really a warlock and can't be trusted. I had to bit my tongue. I had to take it all down and give my boss the potential client memo without laughing.
Keep in mind, I am a World of Warcraft (addictive computer game) junkie and one of the classes/characters you an play in the game is a warlock so I was thinking about that as the potential was talking to me.
You Think This Will Make Me Want To Help You?
I wouldn't do these things to your attorney.
You saw my post about insisting on scheduling an appointment, making said appointment and then client no-showing? Well, the follow up to that... don't show up the next day and expect to see the attorney. My boss is kind so he met with him anyway. Saying you stay in a house with a bunch of people and your alarm isn't working and you slept through your appointment because no one woke you is lame. Even lamer-saying you didn't think you needed to call and let anyone at the office know what happened. You just look like and ass now.
This just bugs me, my boss is more tolerant than I. Just showing up. We have a few of these types. They just show up whenever hoping the boss is free for a few minutes (which usually is more like 20-30 minutes). I don't see what is so hard about calling to see if the boss is available, or to let someone know you are coming in. The exception to this? People who drop in to drop off a payment. People who just come in hoping for time with the attorney make me crazy. This goes for clients-because they should know how busy their attorney is, and for potentials-who are hoping to get some free attorney time.
Service/therapy animals. I may have already written something about this and how much I hate people who abuse the service/therapy animal boundaries. I hate people who call to complain that their boss won't let them bring their therapy cat to work and want an attorney to tell their boss the cat has to be allowed. The sad thing? The cat probably does need to be allowed because those laws are sooo tricky and you can't question a person to much about why they need the animal in the first place because that is violating their rights. Oy. MY (my very own) opinion is if you need a therapy animal-maybe you should be seeing a doctor more regularly and not going out into the world until you can do so without animal comfort. Having said that-I am not directing that towards people who really need an animal, like a service dog or people who have a serious medical condition and have an animal to assist them should they have a stroke or seizure. I'm not totally heartless!
Alright, time to go to the job. I'll add more as I remember them/come across them :)
~Emily
Monday, October 11, 2010
Long Weekend-Never Long Enough
It was time for a long weekend at the beach. We got lucky, it was cooler and overcast most of this trip. We even go rain on our last full day there. Here are some pictures from that lovely stormy rainy day!
This horse did not seem to thrilled to be out in the rain.
Pretty waves :)
I enjoyed the peace and quiet-I'm ready go back!
~Emily
Monday, October 4, 2010
The Tattoo I Want!
I am kind of addicted to the tv show LA Ink. At some point, I really want to get a tattoo, or two. I really want an owl. I have a thing for owls. Corey Miller does AMAZING owls, this is sort of what I have in mind:
I'm still thinking about it. I won't rush into anything... but someday....
~Emily
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