Have A Great Weekend!

I just wanted to pop in and tell everyone to have a great weekend!  I am not planning on doing much this weekend except veg out and watch the rest of the Walking Dead.  I am on Season 5 about halfway through.  I might go see a movie, either The Girl on the Train or Ms. Peregine’s Home for Peculiar Children.  I started reading the Peculiar Children book but haven’t finished it.   I’m leaning more towards The Girl on the Train movie. 

A few cute pictures of my niece!  We went shopping at Marshall’s the other day and my mom found these adorable pajamas.  They glow in the dark and have candy where the skeleton’s belly is. Kali loves going on walks in the neighborhood so I took her around while she was wearing her pajamas.   She wanted to “scare all the neighbors”.  When a car or person would come by, she would “roar” at them.  They were scared, clearly.

We also went to Trader Joe’s!  My mom had never been so we went and Kali found a little kids cart.  She was very proud of herself.  Now that is the only store my parents can go when Kali is with them because she LOVES to push the cart. 

Have a great weekend!  My 2^nd 10K is coming up next weekend.  Has anyone signed up for any races?

Veronica Mars Movie Premier

A year ago, my sister Laura mentioned that one of our favorite TV shows, Veronica Mars wanted to make a movie based on the series and was using Kickstarter to fund it.  Laura and I both contributed to it and officially became backers and received updates about the movies progress.  Originally, the goal of the Kickstarter campaign was to raise $2 Million, but the Marshmallow united and raised that in 11 hours, and by the end of their campaign, they had raised over $5.7 Million with over 91,000 backers that donated.  Talk about fans!

A year to the day that the Kickstarter campaign was kicked off, the Veronica Mars movie was released.  The movie is on a limited release at AMC Theaters throughout the country (and will be available for digital release soon too) and backers were the first ones invited to the special movie fan event the night before.  I have always wanted to attend a movie release party...what does that mean?  Bucket List item!!!!!!!  Yep, #2 for the year.  Technically, it says 'attend a mid-night movie release' but I meant a movie that you have to stand in line for, get tickets early, and perhaps a fan item.  This movie premier was at 8 pm on a Thursday, not quite midnight, but it still counts to me!

About a month before the movie release, they sent out an email to Backers letting us know about the premier fan event and that they would let us by them starting at 7 am before they were released to the general public at 9 am.  Whoo hoo, two hours.  Laura drops the boys off at school at that time, so I was in charge of waking up early and buying them.  Well, I forgot to wake up early, but still was able to purchase them after a bit of a freak out when my phone wouldn't work!  I got two tickets and we were all set to go to the premier, we just had to wait about a month before it actually got here

The fan event premier was held at AMC Theaters in Sugarland, TX.  I had no idea how close Sugarland was from me, I thought I had to travel down 59-S, but I didn't.  It turns out, I only had to drive about 10 miles down Highway 6.  Cool.  Anyway, I got there early to pick up our tickets and scope out the line.  It was about 5 pm and there were already about 10 people waiting in line.  There were two theaters opening up for us, so I decided  to go ahead and get dinner first and then come back to get in line.  I have to sit about 3/4 of the way up or to the top at the movies, otherwise I get motion sick.  Plus, my cousin Stephen and his new wife, Lauren decided to come with us. I was told earlier that there were only 38 tickets left (out of two theaters), so I went ahead and bought their tickets for them, just in case it was to sell out.

This is about at 7 pm when they were letting us inside.  Keep in mind that this is about halfway through the line and there were about 100 people in each line.  Crazy marshmallows!

I officially got in line about 6 pm and there were about 30 people in line (two different lines, one for each theater) and I wasn't worried about not getting a seat since I was so close in line.  I was more worried about saving 3 additional seats, but luckily, once I found the row I wanted to sit in, the people next to me were great about helping me save them.  They let us go in the theater right at 7 pm, and they gave us a lanyard and a reunion t-shirt.  I loved it so much that I wore it on Friday!

Laura, Steven and Lauren got there about 7:15 pm and they got there free goodies as well.  I wanted to get a drink, but the line was outrageous!  I figured they would have more lines open for such a big theater, but only the main one was open and the line was about 30 minutes long.  Crazy!  If you wanted food or just drinks, you still had to wait in the same line so it took forever!  I debated whether or not to get a margarita at the bar, but decided against it.

The movie started out with someone from AMC interviewing the stars of the film on the red carpet.  Let me just say, Ryan Hansen is hilarious!  So funny.  Other cast members were funny too, but his answers were the best.  Then the recap of the TV series came on to catch anyone up that didn't see the show, but I had already seen the first 8 minutes of the movie online.  Throughout the movie, each time an old character came back, the audience cheered.  Even the characters that weren't too popular during the series.  The one-liners in the movie were so funny too.  I don't want to give away spoilers, but it was an awesome movie with a few surprises.  One person seemed out of place (James Franco), and I am not sure why he had to be included.  Don't get me wrong, I like James Franco, it just seemed weird that he was in the movie. (BTW, that wasn't a spoiler!)

GO SEE THE VERONICA MARS MOVIE TODAY!!!  IT IS SO GOOD AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A FAN TO UNDERSTAND IT.  Seriously.  GO!

I loved attending the fan event at AMC Theaters! I followed them on FB and Twitter so I can be in the know about other fan events that are coming up.  Hopefully I can start going to these things more often!  I thought you had to know someone to attend these sort of events, turns out you just have to follow their social media pages. :)

My Sweet Friend

My sweet, sweet, sweet friend Krista sent me a surprise in the mail today.  I went upstairs at work to get the mail and noticed a DVD in my box with my name on it.  I have recently ordered a few DVD’s, but I had gotten them all already, so I thought it just forgot about one.  Well, I opened it and I got this surprise!!

Krista had been telling me to renter/buy this DVD for awhile, but I hadn’t done it yet.  She knew that I had been nervous lately about my upcoming marathon so she secretly ordered this DVD and wrote this note for me.  I actually cried when I read it.  (I have been really emotionally lately!)

Run Fat Boy Run description:  Five years after jilting his pregnant fiancée on their wedding day, out-of-shape Dennis decides to run a marathon to win her back.

I honestly have the best friends a girl could ask for and Krista is no exception.  If you remember, she was the one from whom I got my running inspiration.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Krista for my movie!  I can’t wait to watch it.

Breaking Dawn

I wasn't going to be one of 'those' people who saw Breaking Dawn on the first weekend it was out.  Honestly, I didn't want to fight the teenagers crowds to see a movie that the previous ones weren't great (good, not great).  I went to the mall today and stopped at the theater to see how busy the theater was and I was surprised to find that there weren't a million kids running around.  I went to the window and she said that so far only 10 people had bought a ticket for that showing (4 pm) and it probably wouldn't sell out. 

I was going to buy a water at the concession stand, but the icee's were calling my name and the small bottles of water were $5!  $5 for a small bottle of water?  Ridiculous!  

Everyone said that the movie was wonderful and the best out of all of them, but I just thought it was ok.  The ending did surprise me a bit but other than that I knew what was coming.  Breaking Dawn was my favorite book out of the series so I knew what would happen, except I did forget who J. Jenkins was and the role he played in the story. The movie seemed to go on forever.  Everyone kept saying that it didn't seem like two hours, but it absolutely did feel that way to me. 

After the movie I went to get my hair cut and went home to pack up my apartment for the big move on the first. I dislike moving and packing very much.

Pitch Perfect

We went to see Pitch Perfect today at the theater and it was really funny.  Since I don't have t.v. at my house I don't see movie previews as much as I used too.  I was watching a YouTube video or something and I saw the preview and couldn't wait to see it.  (edited to add:  I do have A t.v. at my house, but I don't have it hooked up to cable or even one of those antenna boxes.  I can watch dvd's on it, but no t.v. shows).

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Since I moved on this side of town I haven't been to the movies yet so I looked on Fandango to see what theater was closest to me and what time the movie started.  Lucky me, the theater closest to me was a the mall (destiny?!) and I needed to buy a new pair of black heels for work so I stopped by Macy's on the way. 

The movie started at 12:55 pm and I hadn't ate lunch yet so I got a drink and cheese sticks (not healthy!) and found my seat.  There were literally about 5 other people in the entire theater with me so I found a seat at the top easily.

The movie is really funny and I laughed a lot of the time, although some things that were said were inappropriate.  I was singing along (not out loud) to most of the songs that they sang, and I really want to buy the soundtrack now!  I wish I could sing. :/  The movie is predictable but still worth seeing.

Go see it!