Titanic

I remember going with my mom, dad, brother, sister and grandma on opening weekend of Titanic in December of 1997. We sat on the edge of our seat for the entire 194 minute movie. There was romance for the ladies and death and destruction for the guys. I went again the following weekend with my boyfriend and loved it just as much as the first time. It’s not my favorite movie ever, but I will never turn it off if I catch it on TV.

After falling head over heels in love with Leo from Romeo + Juliet the previous year, this movie absolutely solidified my insane crush on him. And didn’t we all start girl crushing on Kate? They were so young and cute!

I hate to admit it, but I still love this song.

And now this amazing movie is being re-released in 3D on April 4. You know I’m dragging Jacob with me!

"I'll never let go, Jack. I'll never let go."

Tear.

Is anyone else excited for this, or am I the only sap?

Music Monday - 1992

I love reading the Chart Flashback in Entertainment Weekly. This one particularly stuck out because it could have easily been the soundtrack to 7th grade for me. I loved every single song. I danced to them at socials and roller skated to them at Skateland. And I’m positive that they all made an appearance on a mix tape or two that I recorded straight from the radio. 

Boyz II Men - End of the Road

The Heights - How Do You Talk to an Angel

P.M. Dawn - I'd Die Without You

Patty Smyth - Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough

Madonna - Erotica

House of Pain - Jump Around

Snap! - Rhythm Is a Dancer

Wreckx-N-Effect - Rump Shaker

Mary J. Blige - Real Love

TLC - What About Your Friends

Please tell me you remember these songs too!

Cheers & Jeers

Cheers to SNL’s Jay-Z and Beyonce’s Baby sketch! I never watch SNL live. My kids get up at 6:00am so I can never stay up that late. I read all the facebook updates and tweets about how awesome it was and when I finally watched it Monday, I agreed. It was hilarious. Actually, the entire episode was really good. My other two favorite sketches were Bronx Beat and Super Showcase, but take a look at Blue Ivy right now. Every character was spot on!

Cheers to Lindsay Lohan hosting SNL! I know some people think this is a jeers, but I still have a teeny tiny glimmer of hope for her. Plus, her previous episodes have always been pretty funny. This will be her hundredth chance to prove that she’s well and serious about acting again. She’ll host on March 3 with musical guest Jack White. Don’t screw it up, LiLo! She will also play Liz Taylor in the upcoming tv movie Elizabeth & Richard: A Love Story. Hmmm...

Cheers to Struck By Lightning! Chris Colfer annoys the crap out of me on Glee, but he looks great in this movie and the rest of the cast is awesome. Watch the trailer.

Cheers to Call Me Maybe! Total guilty pleasure song! Canadian Carly Rey Jepsen sings this super catchy song that has been popular up north for a while now. After mention of it on Twitter by Justin Bieber and a fun little video including Bieber, Selena Gomez and Ashley Tisdale, the song is creeping up the iTunes chart. And I love it.

Cheers to Downwardly Mobile! Roseanne and Dan back together? Roseanne Barr and John Goodman are teaming up for a new sitcom about a trailer park. She is the owner and he is the handy man. I’m not sold on the premise, but I love both of them and was such a fan of the show Roseanne, that I’m totally giving it a shot.

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Jeers to Chris Brown/Rihanna remixes. She should really stay away. If you're curious, you can find the remixes of her song Birthday Cake and his song Turn Up The Music on YouTube. I'm not gonna post them though. It's so twisted how they're using their tragic past for promotion. Not cool and I'm done talking about it.

Jeers to the Spice Girls NOT reuniting. I’m bummed. I loved them back in the day! There were rumors going around that they would perform at the Olympics or Jubilee, but Victoria Beckham confirmed that it wasn’t going to happen because they are all too busy. One item on their plate is the musical “Viva Forever” which I am looking forward to! What’s your favorite Spice Girls song? It’s so hard to choose, but I think mine are Stop and Say You’ll Be There. Oh, and Holler! It brings me right back to college when we had The Box on TV. (Did you have that channel? We never called it, but we watched it all day!)

Jeers to crappy TV. A few shows that I used to love are so boring lately. I can’t delete Grey’s Anatomy or How I Met Your Mother because I’ve been with them since the beginning, but they need to step up their game because I’m losing interest fast. I finally gave up on 2 Broke Girls and Are You There, Chelsea. I'll miss Beth Behrs.

Jeers to cashing in on Whitney Houston’s death. Bobby Brown is trying to sell a tell-all book. Whitney’s family sold the coverage of her funeral to benefit Bobbi Kristina. (Don’t you think she has enough money?) And Julien’s Auctions will be selling Whitney’s clothes and jewelry next month, after receiving them from people close to Whitney. This is all so tacky and disrespectful. Her funeral was just a few days ago! Boo!

Jeers to a serial killer in my hometown. No joke. This guy has killed two people and attempted another (all by stabbing) in the past nine months. He doesn’t fit the description of a typical serial killer because he’s young (they think 20 years old), his victims are totally random (19 year old woman, 50 year old man, 61 year old woman) and the attacks happened in the middle of the day, on pretty busy streets. My parents and sister still live there and when I went to visit this weekend, the town felt very eerie. The FBI is involved, there are posters of all over the city, everyone is on edge and they’re all being told not to walk anywhere alone. I was totally creeped out walking from my car to Starbucks just a block away. Scary stuff!

Man Candy Monday – Paul Rudd

I’ve loved Paul Rudd since the moment he played Cher's step-brother turned love interest in Clueless. He seems like such a nice guy and he’s an amazing actor. I’ve never seen him play the same character twice. He’s also totally hilarious and very cute!

I always look forward to his movies. Here are some of my favorite characters he plays.

Josh in Clueless

Paris Romeo + Juliet

George in The Object Of My Affection

Kevin in 200 Cigarettes

Andy in Wet Hot American Summer

(Watch this now!)

Mike in Friends

Chuck in Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Ned in Our Idiot Brother

Bobby in Parks And Recreation

I can’t wait to see him in upcoming movies The Perks of Being a Wallflower (based on the book), Wanderlust (with Jennifer Aniston), and This Is Forty (the spinoff of Knocked Up).

I'm linking up with Join The Gossip for Man Candy Monday!

Music Monday - This Year's Love

My first two boyfriends were serious relationships back to back. One was throughout high school and the other was right after high school for a year and a half. When we broke up I vowed to stay single for a while. I dated a handful of guys (including my husband) and had a ton of fun being young and free.

Then I went off to college (I stayed in my home town for two years for junior college before I transferred to a university). I hung out with two guys but both of those flings ended quickly and left me feeling not so great. I think I imagined I’d go off to college, meet the love of my life, get married and have kids - just like the movies. But the guys I dated were not at all husband material. I was just having fun again. After they ended, I really started thinking that I was ready for a relationship.

Enter Jacob. He was my best friend. He expressed interest in me time and time again, and we dated off and on, but I always shot down the idea of getting serious with him. It might have been a combination of being homesick and feeling ready for a boyfriend, but one weekend while he was visiting me, I asked him if he wanted to give “us” a chance.

We lived 100 miles away from each other, but we talked on the phone every night, emailed between classes and saw each other twice a month. It wasn’t as hard as I thought it was going to be. He was thoughtful and sweet and it almost felt too easy, but was it going to last? This song was on the radio at the time and said exactly what I was feeling. I still love it.

 

David Gray - This Year's Love

This year's love had better last

Heaven knows it's high time

I've been waiting on my own too long

But when you hold me like you do

It feels so right oh now

I start to forget
How my heart gets torn

When that hurt gets thrown

Feeling like you can't go on
This year's love, it better last

Obviously, it lasted. Not that it wasn’t rough at times, but our ELEVEN year dating anniversary is this weekend, we've been married for five years and have two beautiful boys, so it was all worth it. I love you, Jacob.

January 13th

I’m 33 today. Whoa. That was a weird thing to type. 33 is soooo old. I’ve never really been one to freak out about birthdays or aging, but if you mention how big my kids are getting I’ll cry all night long. Instead of focusing on my old age, I thought I'd take a look through history to see what else happened on this very important date.

1915

An earthquake hits Avezzano, Italy and kills nearly 30,000 people.

1929

Wyatt Earp dies in Los Angeles.

1930

"Mickey Mouse" comic strip first appears.

1939

Doc Barker of the Bloody Barkers gang is killed while trying to escape from Alcatraz.

1943

Hitler declares total war.

1961

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is born.

1966

US performs nuclear testing at Nevada Test Site.

1966

Patrick Dempsey is born.

1968

Johnny Cash performs and records his famous album at California's Folsom State Prison.

1969

The Beatles release Yellow Submarine.

1972

Nicole Eggert is born.

1976

Michael Peña is born.

(Yeah. I had to include a picture with Jake Gyllenhaal. Hey, it's MY birthday!)

1977

Orlando Bloom is born.

1979

YMCA files libel suit against Village People's YMCA song.

1979

I was born.

(Check out my ever so stylish dad!)

1982

Air Florida Flight 90 crashes into DC's 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 people.

1992

Michael Jordan retires for a second time. (He retires for the third and final time in 2003).

1992

Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer pleads guilty.

1993

Bobby Brown is arrested for simulating a sex act onstage. For the second time.

1994

Shawn Eckardt and Derrick Smith are arrested for the attack on Nancy Kerrigan.

1999

Britney Spears opens for 'N Sync in Denver.

2001

An earthquake then mudslide kills 840 people in El Salvador.

2002

President Bush faints after choking on a pretzel.

2008

The Golden Globes are cancelled due to the Writers Strike. Winners were announced at a press conference.

What. A. Day.