"Warrior", and Putting It Off Till Tomorrow

Since last fall, all my kids during the day are toddlers except Izzy, and she's not the one making most of the mess.  Toddlers are messy little punkin-heads, with their 1 minute attention spans and rare ability to stop and think about putting a toy away when it gets boring.  Add to that the fact that one of them sleeps in our main living space and is a light sleeper, meaning I can't clean anything up during nap time.  All of this adds up to a pretty substantial mess by the end of the day.  A mess that needs to get cleaned up at night or my next day is ruined, because if the day starts off particularly messy then my mood isn't right and we all have a bad day.  So I've been cleaning up in the evening.

Last night though we had a Christmas dinner with Spencer's dad's relatives about an hour away, which we left for immediately after work and didn't get home until 8:30.  We got our sleepy children to bed and collapsed into an exhausted heap on the couch to watch a movie that Spencer had really liked and knew I'd like to.  The movie was Warrior (click the link to get to the imdb site and click Watch Trailer) which I figured I'd like but had no idea just how much!  Warrior unexpectedly jumped to my favorites list!  It's thrilling, powerful, has some phenomenal fights, and still manages to tug on the old heart-strings. Tom Hardy's not bad to look at either. You might think because it involves MMA fighters there would be a lot of blood, but if blood makes you a little woozy don't worry, there's not much of it at all.


Anyways, after the movie was over it was so late and I was so depleted by the movie that I didn't have anything left to put into cleaning the house.  Spence helped me get it a little bit presentable, I got the dishes taken care of, and I went to bed.

Of course things were a bit cluttered with toys when my first kiddo arrived at 7:15 but once my kids woke up and after I gave them a few minutes to relax and have breakfast, I put them to work.  I told them they needed to have the upstairs picked up all the way and their room cleaned before they could go to the movie they had planned with Nana.  That worked great!  I was able to feed and change the baby and keep an eye on the 1-yr-olds while they did in 5 minutes what would have taken me 15 (actually more since while I would have been picking up, the toddlers would have been right behind me dumping more toys out.).

Moral of the story: See the movie Warrior because it is better than you might think, please and thank you.  Also, sometimes it works to your advantage to put off till tomorrow what could be done today... just as long as you've got good little helpers with plans they don't want to miss out on later!

Movie Quiz Answers and Winner!

When I announced this little contest last weekend, I knew it would be fun for me to put on, and boy was I right! I hope you enjoyed the game too!  There were a couple movie stills that stumped people more than others (number 1 and 6 in particular), but it was a VERY close race!  All of the scores ranged from 13 - 15 correct, and had there been a tie in the top score, the winner would have been the person who got that score first. 

1) 300

2. Die Hard

3). Inception

4) The Goonies

5) Newsies

6) Vicky Christina Barcelona

7) Enchanted

8) Knight and Day

9) Finding Neverland

10) Braveheart

11) Star Wars 3, Revenge of the Sith

12) The Princess Bride

13) Public Enemies

14) Batman Begins

15) Home Alone (the first one)

16) The Notebook

17) Walk the Line

18) Bruce Almighty

19) Kill Bill vol 1

And the winner, by a margin of 1, is Jodi!  Congratulations!  I just need your email address and you should have your $10 amazon giftcard in the next few days! 

Here's the link to the original post, submitted answers are in the comments below the post.

Thanks for playing everyone!! This was really fun!



Movie Trivia Quiz With Prize Giveaway!

Because it's Valentines Day, and because my hubby and I got to know eachother and started hanging out at Champps for Movie Trivia night, and because I love movie stills, this seems like a great day to put up a movie still quiz!  The best part? There is a $10 Amazon.com e-giftcard in it for you! You will need to have an email address for me to send you the giftcard through. 

Rules:
Be the FIRST person to correctly identify these movies, and be specific in the titles.  I don't care who directed them, but make sure if there are any sequels that you put which one it is.

Put your answers in a comment under This post.  Comments are currently under moderation so none of them will show until the contest is over.

If you do not have a blogger ID then the easiest way to comment may be as "Open ID/URL", feel free to leave the URL space blank. But be sure to leave a name and an email address somewhere in your comment then so I can contact you!

This contest will start Sunday February 13 at 6:00PM Central time and will end at 11:59PM February 17.  If in all that time nobody answers all the stills correctly, then the winner will be the person who gets the most stills correct!  The winner will be announced Friday February 18th.

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Movie Trivia Time!

edited: answers are now at the bottom.

I put this up on Facebook for fun, and because I didn't blog on thursday or friday last week, I'm putting it here too for fun. 

Now if this blog made any money, and I had spare cash to give away, there would be a prize for the winner.  But Babydoll's birthday is tomorrow and the little dear wants a present, and a cake.  She's so demanding that way. 

So the prize is praise, aknowledgement, and your name next to "And The Winner Is..."

Name the movie quotes, without looking them up online.


‎1. Well I may be an outlaw, darlin', but you're the one stealing my heart.


‎2. As your leader, I encourage you from time to time, and always in a respectful manner, to question my logic. If you're unconvinced that a particular plan of action I've decided is the wisest, tell me so, but allow me to convince you and I promise you right here and now, no subject will ever be taboo.

‎3. Now let's cut the stupid cake because I know the fat guy's gonna have a heart attack if we don't eat again soon...

‎4. George: This is Jack. Second in line to the throne. And that one's Michael. He's only five.
Michael: And I'm in prison for it.

5. Please excuse my father. It makes him feel young and powerful to treat us like idiot children.

6. You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

‎7. So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day.

8. What's his type? Wilting flower? Bright and bubbly? Or smoldering temptress?

‎9. --- Do you know if the hotel is pager friendly?
--- What do you mean?
--- I'm not getting a sig' on my beeper.

10. There's a lot of people out there, and they ain't just gonna go away. They got voices now and they're goin' to be listened to. Putting them in jail is not going to stop them. That's the power of the press, Joe. So thanks for teaching me about it.


****Nobody played on the blog post, but I got people guessing on Facebook, many of the quotes were figured out!  Here are the answers!****

1. Thelma and Louise


2. Kill Bill

3. The Wedding Singer

4. Finding Neverland

...5. Legends of the Fall

6. Wedding Crashers

7. The Notebook

8. Moulin Rouge

9. The hangover

10. Newsies