Captain Jack Sparrow

This is just one of the many reasons I'm the luckiest woman in the world.

Paris Syndrome

"PARIS - Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday."
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Ok so how can anyone seriously be so deliusioned by what they've read and seen that they truely believe that a city and it's residents will be perfect? There is no where in the world that I would expect to not have some kind of down side. I'll admit I picture Paris being glamorious and I'm sure parts are, however I don't expect the entire city to be such. I'm not that dense.

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Lacey

My own little Princess Lacey, her "brother" was Darth Vee

A new year

So this is a bit early but close enough. Another year older. A week and two days away from my first wedding anniversary. It's been a very LONG year. Stressful, full of changes. Getting used to being a home owner and having to take care of all the problems that come along with it. Getting used to being a wife and all the problems that come along with that. Anyone who says the first year is the easiest is full of shit. It's not the honeymoon year. It's the hard one. But we made it and I think, I hope, we will have a stronger marriage for it. One thing for sure I know without a showdow of a doubt I love my husband with everything that I am.

This year also brought my brother-in-law and sister-in-law into my home. I love them both very much. And I am glad they are part of my family. It's been stressful for us and them to have them living here. But I hope that things will improve now that we've gotten our concerns more out in the open. It's hard having 5 grown people living in a house as small as ours. Everyone has a limited amount of personal space and those that are married have even less because Neri is the only one lucky enough to have her own room (bitch ;) ). But we will make do because we are family and we love each other even when we don't always like each other.

well it's getting late and I think I'm going to go for now.

AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies

This is the list Neri, Gehnen and I went though a few nights. I've seen about 15 of these movies, Gehnen saw I think he said 50-something, and Neri saw 77 (bitch) so I'm gonna go down the list (maybe not in order) and try and watch most if not all.

The list

1. Citizen Kane (1941)
2. Casablanca (1942)
3. The Godfather (1972)
4. Gone with the Wind (1939)
5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
6. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
7. The Graduate (1967)
8. On the Waterfront (1954)
9. Schindler's List (1993)
10. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
11. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
12. Sunset Boulevard (1950)
13. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
14. Some Like It Hot (1959)
15. Star Wars (1977)
16. All About Eve (1950)
17. The African Queen (1951)
18. Psycho (1960)
19. Chinatown (1974)
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
21. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
22. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
23. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
24. Raging Bull (1980)
25. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
26. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
27. Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
28. Apocalypse Now (1979)
29. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
30. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
31. Annie Hall (1977)
32. The Godfather Part II (1974)
33. High Noon (1952)
34. To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)
35. It Happened One Night (1934)
36. Midnight Cowboy (1969)
37. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
38. Double Indemnity (1944)
39. Doctor Zhivago (1965)
40. North by Northwest (1959)
41. West Side Story (1961)
42. Rear Window (1954)
43. King Kong (1933)
44. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
45. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
46. A Clockwork Orange (1971)
47. Taxi Driver (1976)
48. Jaws (1975)
49. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
50. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
51. The Philadelphia Story (1940)
52. From Here to Eternity (1953)
53. Amadeus (1984)
54. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
55. The Sound of Music (1965)
56. M*A*S*H (1970)
57. The Third Man (1949)
58. Fantasia (1940)
59. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
60. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
61. Vertigo (1958)
62. Tootsie (1982)
63. Stagecoach (1939)
64. Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
65. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
66. Network (1976)
67. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
68. An American in Paris (1951)
69. Shane (1953)
70. The French Connection (1971)
71. Forrest Gump (1994)
72. Ben-Hur (1959)
73. Wuthering Heights (1939)
74. The Gold Rush (1925)
75. Dances with Wolves (1990)
76. City Lights (1931)
77. American Graffiti (1973)
78. Rocky (1976)
79. The Deer Hunter (1978)
80. The Wild Bunch (1969)
81. Modern Times (1936)
82. Giant (1956)
83. Platoon (1986)
84. Fargo (1996)
85. Duck Soup (1933)
86. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
87. Frankenstein (1931)
88. Easy Rider (1969)
89. Patton (1970)
90. The Jazz Singer (1927)
91. My Fair Lady (1964)
92. A Place in the Sun (1951)
93. The Apartment (1960)
94. Goodfellas (1990)
95. Pulp Fiction (1994)
96. The Searchers (1956)
97. Bringing up Baby (1938)
98. Unforgiven (1992)
99. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
100. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Neri making fun of me.

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