Quotable Friday
“Life Moves Pretty Fast.
If you don’t stop and look around once in a while,
you could miss it.”
A Great Quote today from another character from a John Hughes Movie!
So I was watching ‘Top Gun’ and… he’s in that movie too!
So I’m flipping channels the other night, and Top Gun was on… and I stopped flipping, and started watching it (I know, I know, why did I do it? It is so 1986. It is so ‘Tom Cruise just tightening his jaw while he delivers his lines’).
Do you remember who is in this movie?…
Well, a ton of people are in this movie…
But do you remember who is in this movie that you have probably forgotten is in this movie??
Tim Robbins?! Yes, Tim Robbins is ‘Merlin’ in this movie. I’m not a HUGE Tim Robbins fan or anything (I don’t have anything against the guy either), although I loved the Shawshank Redemption, but I had this weird moment when I turned to my husband and said, ‘Hey, there’s Tim Robbins!… He’s Merlin?!’
So then I look him up on Wikipedia and find out he was in The Sure Thing too … who knew?
And this is continuing my whole (unexpected) recent Karma thing because I quoted from ‘The Sure Thing’ in a post from last week about Jake Ryan vs. Blane McDonough…
Don’t remember Blane? Of course you don’t, that’s the point. But I digress…
So I still can’t believe I sat there and watched ‘Top Gun’…
The Weirdest Karma Coincidence- it can only go on a blog
I believe in Karma…
If you’re nice, you attract niceness.
If you are cranky and mean, you attract crankiness and meanness. Pay it forward- yada, yada, yada.
So last Wednesday, I wrote the post, Jake Ryan vs. Blane McDonough. Blane McDonough is the guy from Pretty in Pink, and I even wrote in that post that I didn’t even remember ‘Blane’s last name and I had to look it up…(McDonough).
So fast forward to yesterday, Monday, less than a week since then, and I find myself quoting a line from Raising Arizona on my other blog- HouseHold Tips Blog…
It’s a quote from the Nicolas Cage character- H.I. or ‘Hi’ and I didn’t remember this, but guess what
Hi’s last name is-
MCDONOUGH !!!!
IS THAT NOT SO WEIRD? … albeit, trivial
But it’s not like McDonough is ‘Smith’ or anything…
I’ve decided this is ‘Good Karma’
Have You Been Corrected By a Stranger… about Your Child?
Have you ever been corrected by a stranger… that you are giving your child wrong information?
Well, it’s now happened to me.
The setting: McDonald’s for a ‘special breakfast’. I know, I know, but we don’t go to McDonald’s a lot.
The situation:
My son says to me, while eating pancakes,
“Mom, Albatrogen can fly and sleep at the same time; can any other animals do that?”
To which I reply,
“I’ve never heard of an Albatrogen, and I don’t think any animals can sleep and fly at the same time.”
When an elderly man sitting at the booth next to us cleared his throat and offered, “Umm. He’s right. I think he was trying to say, ‘albatross’, and they CAN fly while they are sleeping.”
“Yeah, Mom- albatrosses!”
And then my son informed me that they learned the other day in KINDERGARTEN that albatrosses can fly and sleep at the same time…
and I did not know this animal fact.
I now have learned, upon further research regarding albatrosses, that a more accurate term might be ‘soaring’ rather than flying. They can sleep while they soar, locking their wings and relying on the wind to soar or glide.
But I didn’t know that before; I think I was learning that I shouldn’t pick my nose in Kindergarten, and that sharing is a good thing. Ah, how times change.
The elderly gentleman was nice about correcting me. And I’m glad he did. I’ve learned something and my son has too. And he didn’t have a tone like, ‘You idiot, your 6-year-old knows more than you do,’ which is always nice 
I don’t know if I would have done the same thing, however. I’m on the fence about it. I think I’m leaning toward the whole, ‘Mommies go through a lot and are learning as they go every day, and I’m sure she’ll eventually figure out what he meant and then they’ll go look it up and figure out that albatrosses DO fly, or rather, soar, while sleeping…’
Would You?
Quotable Friday
“If you limit your choices only to what
seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect
Yourself from what you truly want,
And all that is left is a compromise.”
Jake Ryan vs. Blane McDonough
So EVERYBODY knows who ‘Jake Ryan’ is… I won’t even dignify it with an answer.
But who is ‘Blane McDonough’? …
Blane is the guy from Pretty in Pink…
Remember- ‘Blane’… (Andrew McCarthy).
Yeah, I know. I had to look up Blane’s last name on Wikipedia… I didn’t even remember it.
Which brings me to my topic today; it’s a topic for the ages-
Sixteen Candles vs. Pretty In Pink.
Which one is the better movie?
Before I make my argument,
I must tell you why I’m taking valuable time from my life to even write this…
A few weeks ago I read an interesting article in Vanity Fair on John Hughes, the creator of both films, and then I just read a blog post on Culture Brats, that I found via StumbleUpon, (I know, I can’t believe I’m being so ‘social media-savvy’ either) that discusses this very topic. Karma? Or maybe I just have Sixteen Candles on the brain right now?
Anyway, while the blog post on Culture Brats was extremely well thought out,
and I respect both sides of the argument…
It really comes down to one question:
Jake Ryan vs. Blane McDonough
and is there seriously anyone out there who can make a good argument for Blane ?
“Anyone… Anyone?” (to quote from another John Hughes movie, Ferris Buellar’s Day Off)
Jake Ryan was cool and and popular and a dreamboat… and kind and honest and liked a girl for the whole package- what was inside and out.
Who didn’t daydream about Jake Ryan? I did. And I’m not the daydreamer type.
Did you ever, honestly, pine over Blane? We was a wimp; he only stood up for himself and ‘his girl’ at the very end of the movie… and he seems kinda-boring!
Who would you want to date- Jake! or Blane...
‘Blane’ doesn’t even sound cool in comparison to ‘Jake’!
To quote from another great movie, The Sure Thing’ from 1985 (substituting ‘Jake’ for ‘Nick’)-
“Yeah, Jake. Jake’s a real name. Jake’s your buddy. Jake’s the kind of guy you can trust, the kind of guy you can drink a beer with, the kind of guy who doesn’t mind if you puke in his car, Jake!”
And what about Farmer Ted (Anthony Michael Hall) vs. Duckie (Jon Cryer)?
Farmer Ted totally wins! I’d kinda wanna be friends with Farmer Ted. He’s a nice guy, basically. He actually a ‘cool geek’. And most importantly, he doesn’t get Samantha, but he recovers and isn’t pining over her.
But to get back to Jake Ryan, because he’s dreamy-
Jake still holds up today! I’d date Jake (if I were single) right now, wearing exactly what he wore back then. Blane and his friends in linen pants and linen blazers?! That didn’t even look good back in the ’80’s’ !! And the story! That still holds up too! In fact, I said in my Movie Review of Twilight,
“Teen angst, first love, plus vampires thrown in… and they are good vampires– are you kidding me?
This movie is 16 CANDLES and Jake Ryan is a cool vampire.”
So there you have it: Proof that Sixteen Candles wins over Pretty in Pink and thus,
Jake Ryan wins over Blane… whatever his last name is
But we already knew that, didn’t we
What do you think?
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Mom! Can I Have A Urinal ?!
We recently went out to dinner… that’s not uncommon. I had to excuse myself to go to the restroom, and my son announced that he had to go too… that’s not uncommon.
We each finished our business and were washing our hands and my son said,
“I really like those stand-up toilets. You guys (irony, maybe?) don’t have them in here.”
I told him that stand-up toilets, or rather urinals, were just in men’s bathrooms (and he didn’t ask me why… yey).
So he decided right then and there, that ‘he was going to have Dad take him to the bathroom from now on.’
Yey Again! Cool! My husband and I don’t have to give each other the look when we are seated, ready to eat, and our son says he has to go to the bathroom! It’s all him now! Our little guy has become a Big Guy and he wants to use stand-up toilets! Hurray!
So none of this is all that uncommon… until we got home,
and my son asked in a very sweet voice, as I’m tucking him into bed,
“Mom, can I have a urinal?… Can we get a urinal when we put an addition on our house?”
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Quotable Friday
“I have not failed.
I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
By way of,
Montgomery County Police Officer Dead; Widow is Expecting Triplets in June and Has a 14-month-old son
Last Friday I headed to Home Depot for track lighting. My son was happy, at camp.
Traffic was stopped at the big intersection of Georgia and Connecticut Avenues.
‘What could be happening?’ I thought…
And then I saw a Huge Motorcade of Police Motorcycles, and then Police Cars… I’ve never seen a Funeral Motorcade that long, and unfortunately, I’ve seen a lot of funeral motorcades.
‘O God, it’s a Cop.’ I thought.
It was a police officer’s funeral procession. It was the funeral procession for Hector Ayala, who died in a car crash while responding to a fellow officer’s call for assistance for a fight in progress…
…on Easter Morning.
I learned later that day that Sergeant Ayala’s widow, Melissa, has a 14-month-old son,
and is expecting triplets… in June.
And then I thought about her,
and it knocked the wind out of me. It was like I had been punched, but no one was there. I had trouble breathing for a moment, and then had to take a few, slow, deep breaths.
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