Name that movie!

"Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will."

Trivia Tuesday on a Thursday! Has the world gone mad! I figure I need to catch up for my lack of posts so here is a bonus!

This is definitely a movie I love to watch on a Sunday when I am cleaning, doing homework, or folding laundry. And once I hear it's featured song I am singing it ALL day!

Here's the quote!

Name that movie!

Rusted Root - Send me on my way

There are a couple of reasons why I adore Rusted Root, although I really don't know any other songs besides this one. Young girls might recognize it as the song from the movie Matilda.

One is a more sentimental one. My dad once told me my maternal grandpa, Grampy, liked this song. This came as a surprise because my grandfather is not the Rusted Root kind of guy. After he passed away my freshman year of college it was nice to listen to it, close my eyes, and think of him.

The other reason is because I saw "Rusted Root man" aka Michael Glabicki, lead singer, in concert my freshman year of college, or was it sophomore? The whole thing is a blur. Either way, our group of friends made it in to the Blue Gator, underage, something I am sure Jessie had a hand in, and listened to him play. You'll remember I don't recall any of their songs beside this one. So, after a few very freshman drink orders of cranberry and vodka, much "noodle dancing" and obnoxious requests for this song ensued.

As soon as it came on you better believe we were ecstatic! (Cue group girl call, "Wooooo!!!" here). On the walk home of course we called friends high off of the excitement of seeing a concert... in Athens... in a bar... underage! My favorite recollection though is CT calling her parents at somewhere around 2am to tell her parents she was going to "Marry Rusted Root Man and have his babies." Sorry, Lauren. I think Chris is an amazing consolation prize! This is when I fell in love with the girls on the 4th floor of Jeff Hall and some of my best friends from college. I miss those days!

Anyone else like this song?

CoCo is back!

I was most definitely Team Coco when the whole "Battle for Late Night" happened in the spring and  certainly missed Conan! Tim and I don't have cable so we weren't able to catch the premiere episode last night, and I hate to admit that we are old and are in bed by 11, but I did find this video online and it made me so happy! I LOVE the homage to the Godfather in there! When we are home over the holidays we will definitely be getting our Coco fix!

Name that movie!

Here's the quote. This one should be pretty easy. A clue is that it is the 25th anniversary of this film. Tim LOVES this movie and saw it in theaters.


"Don't you realize? The next time you see sky, it'll be over another town. The next time you take a test, it'll be in some other school. Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what's right for them. Because it's their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it's our time. It's our time down here. That's all over the second we ride up Troy's bucket."

Name that movie!

Sorry!

I know I have been MIA lately on the blogging but I promise I will make up for it. We have been super busy with guests and events for the past 2 weekends and incredibly busy with graduate school. It's only going to get worse as the holidays approach but I have some down time to blog. I promise I won't leave you hanging!

How adorable is my sister?!

Lindsey works nights, as in 8:30pm - 5am, at an emergency room in Indy. Sometimes the ER isn't too busy and so during a lag times she was helping a mom at work create an invitation to her son's birthday party. The woman is having a "Cars" themed party but doesn't have the money to buy the Disney invites. So, Lindsey created an invite for her to look like a NASCAR pass. Adorable. It looks so great!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween from Amelia Earhart and The Count.

We had many guests this weekend and a jam packed schedule. Everyone (Matt, Abby, Erica, and Erica's friend Kelley) got in on Friday. I had an event to chaperone in Santa Monica for Delta Gamma so we all met there when I was done.

Saturday we did the Venice Beach tour and after lunch and a search for hair extensions we got into our costumes. Matt and Abby were Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf and Erica and Kelley we miss North and South Dakota 1984. We ventured down to Hermosa Beach and hopped around. We had a blast. Mechanical bull riding may have been involved. Spending Halloween in 70 degree weather versus 40 degree in Ohio isn't bad either!

Not sure Matt was the Big Bad Wolf or Larry's Dad

All the girls!

Halloween in Hermosa Beach is beautiful!

Name that movie!

Well, I thought that was going to be hard but apparently it was easy. The movie was the 1989 version of Batman. I have to say, Michael Keaton was definitely my favorite Batman but I do love seeing George Clooney in the spandex suit. I haven't seen the recent Batman movie with Heath Ledger as the Joker but I just love the pizazz that Jack Nicholson gives off... and the cheesy 80's music during the parade. Who do you trust?

Who's portrayal of the winged avenger was your favorite?

Name that movie!

Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?

That's your movie quote for the day. Can you guess what movie? Don't think too hard because "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." ;) (That's a clue for the actor not the movie!) Who can get it first!

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros - Home

It's the fall. In our household that means that Saturdays are dedicated to the Buckeyes and college football. Sundays is all NFL all the time (even if we are rooting for the Brownies despite their low percentage of taking home a win). Monday nights are again devoted to football as well. I get excited when football is over but then we get into college and professional basketball. Without cable I am a slave to Tim's television preferences because there's not much else on anyway.

What does this have to do with what I am listening to this week you ask? Well there is a very fun NFL commercial that plays on our television every week and the whistling at the beginning reels me in like a snake charmer and I find myself whistling it all day. There was just one problem, the song only lasts 30 seconds on the commercial. That's why God created google.

This is an amazing group! I LOVE this song!! It has been a great pick me up for a run as well as when I am burning the midnight oil studying. I think the neighbors have had enough of it but every week I see that commercial and I get excited all over again!

Enjoy! Go Browns!! ;)


Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Empire of the Ants

Well, one of the things we love most about Netflix is the crazy amount of cheesy Grade B or C (or even D) horror films that Netflix has available for instant viewing. Tim usually gets to choose the movie with my power of the veto if it just seems like we are going to be wasting time by watching a movie. Sometimes they seem like they could be really entertaining in the cheesiest way and at the end you are asking for your last 90 minutes back because you know you never will. Sometimes we don't even make it through the movie but it is fun playing Russian Roulette with these fantastically awful horror films.


Today's Netflix Friday movie is Empire of the Ants. It is supposedly an adaptation of H.G. Wells' Empire of the Ants. I am guessing they took a lot of creative interpretation with it since I have never read Empire of the Ants but it cannot be this bad! Released in 1977, it stars Joan Collins so we thought it had to be somewhat good. Hilariously entertaining? Yes. Feeding off my disain for insects which most certainly include disgusting ants? Yes. Cheese-tacular? Of course! A waste of our time? That's up for debate since Tim fell asleep. Good? Definitely not but a night full of our own mystery science theater commentating was perfect!

Here's the premise according to Netflix:

Vacationers on an isolated island find themselves at the mercy of voracious ants when a toxic spill turns the pests into rampaging, radioactive reprobates. Stumbling into the ants' creepy lair, a sleazy land developer (Joan Collins) and her clients are horrified to realize that the ants are having a human picnic. Seems these bugs are hell-bent on exterminating mankind and taking over the island. Can anyone stop them?

Watch it if you think you can stomach the giant ants and non-stop ant screeching!

It's a girl!! x2

My beautiful sorority sister, Jessica, and her husband, Josh, a fraternity brother of Tim's, had twin girls today! I will say being a twin means that I have a special place in my heart for twins... and girls to boot! I can't share pictures of the girls because I haven't asked for permission but I can tell you they are beautiful and look like they are going to be spoiled rotten!

For a wedding gift Jess bought us the sewing machine that I registered for. Before we left to come home after the wedding I made Jess' girls, Tatum and Quinn, quilts (which you can see in the pictures). I have only made a quilt once before and I am certainly not an expert. I can't do all of the intricate sewing that most quilters can do but it was certainly a learning experience and a lot of fun!!

Lots of love and congrats to Jess and Josh on their new little ones!Love you, Beans!

Name that movie!

Well, we had a couple of answers on facebook and one here for what movie this song was from and they were all correct! This might have been a little too easy! Don't forget to post your answers here!!

There are so many great one-liners in the trailer!

IMDb

Bobcat Battalion

This weekend, at OU's Parents' Weekend, Ryan took his commitment oath at Ohio University for the Army ROTC Bobcat Battalion. We could not be prouder of the amazing young man Ryan has become. He's very handsome too! Thankfully, mom and dad got to be there and took this picture of Ryan in one of his uniforms. Congrats Ryan, we love you!

Name that movie!

Anyone who knows me knows that movie trivia is like "my thing". I have entirely too much useless knowledge for my own good. Celeb trivia, movie, television; bring it on. Tim likes to do random one-liners that takes me months to figure out without any hints or clues. Mostly it's because they are movies I have never seen before or our slight age gap (because he's an old man ;) ) makes me a little slow on the uptake.

So here's today's trivia:

This song is a remake of a very classic song from 1956 by the sisters, Patience and Prudence, as well as by the Lennon Sisters from the Lawrence Welk Show.

Most importantly, the song, Tonight You Belong to Me, was used in an amazing 1979 comedy. This movie is definitely a favorite of ours!

What movie is this song from?

Hint: He was born a poor black child... (is that too easy?)

This version is from a duo called The Bird and the Bee.

Rilo Kiley - Breakin' up

LOVE this song! This is from the band Rilo Kiley and their 2007 album Under the Blacklight. I became a fan of Rilo Kiley when their song "Portions for Foxes" was on the Limited soundtrack a few years back. This song gets me pretty pumped when I am running. I also rocked out to her in the car on the way to and from my forum at LMU this weekend to get ready for the weekend.

Props for anyone who can tell me what 1980s classic the lead singer, Jenny Lewis, is from. It doesn't count if you google her but "what a thrill!" Hint. Hint. ;)

PS I want her legs so I can wear those short shorts!

Rilo Kiley live at the Boston Avalon September 2007

Are you an ally?

I AM. Today is National Coming Out Day. It is an internationally observed civil awareness day for coming out and discussion about gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender issues. I am sure you have seen this as several people's facebook statuses:

(Name) is a straight ally and today is National Coming Out Day. I'm coming out for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality because it's 2010 and you can still be fired from your job in 29 states for being lesbian, gay or bisexual and in 38 states for being transgender. Donate your status and join me by clicking here: http://bit.ly/csfwGi

The video is a message from Ellen DeGeneres. Are you an ally?

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Sending a very happy birthday to Ohio for Dad's birthday today! I am so blessed to have an amazing father like you. We hope it is great!! There's is no greater dad in the world! I may be a little biased but for me it's the truth!

Some of the Sirpilla's at the North Canton 4th of July run.

(Net)Flix Friday

Having movies instantly available on Netflix has been the most amazing development ever. We got rid of cable a little over a year ago (there may or may not have been an argument over the telephone with Time Warner about their service that prompted this cancellation) and watching netflix online through the television is amazing.

By no means are all of the available movies amazing masterpieces but they do entertain most weekend even if it is just to make fun of the movie!

  So I Married an Axe Murderer

In the case of So I Married an Axe Murderer this is a cult classic for me. Tim slept pretty much through the whole thing with his snoring as the soundtrack but I LOVE this movie. There are so many amazing one-liners and Mike Myers is hilarious doing double duty as the main character, Charlie, and Charlies Scottish father. If you haven't seen it yet you must!!

Some of my favorite lines are in the trailer but those here are some additional great ones!

Stuart Mackenzie: I'm not kidding, that boy's head is like Sputnik; spherical but quite pointy at parts! Now that was offside, wasn't it? He'll be crying himself to sleep tonight, on his huge pillow.

Charlie Mackenzie: Hey Mom, I find it interesting that you refer to the Weekly World News as, "The paper." The paper contains facts.
May Mackenzie: This paper contains facts. And this paper has the eighth highest circulation in the whole wide world. Right? Plenty of facts. "Pregnant man gives birth." That's a fact.


For more quotes visit IMDB

A Survivor's Story

For the past 3 days I have been at a forum offered (and required for my program) by Loyola Marymount University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. The program has been filled with amazing speakers Thursday and Friday (I'm not going to lie I was a little bored and pooped out yesterday) and today we closed off the forum with a survivor testimony.

The entire forum was amazing but this took it over the top. Henry, a Polish survivor, came and spoke about his 5+ years that ranged from being placed in a Polish ghetto at age 11 (almost 12), to a slave labor camp, to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and finally to the death march that eventually led to his liberation by American troops at the age of 17. He weighed only 70 pounds at the time of his liberation and the holocaust took the lives of his mother, 3 sisters and nieces and nephews. The only survivors were his 2 brother and his sister (who was already in America before the start of the war).

 His story drew silence in a room full of chatty teachers for nearly an hour. He was so engaging it felt as though time flew by. I barely moved for fear that my distraction and wiggling would force me to miss something in his testimony. I got to have my picture taken with him (an honor not everyone in the room did, surprisingly) and gave him a great big hug, a heartfelt hand shake, and a thank you for telling his story.It truly was an honor seeing him speak today. As time goes on I realize that not everyone will get the opportunity to hear a survivor's story in person. Henry left his enthralled audience (full of teachers) with the thought that teachers are essential to keeping his and other survivors' stories alive. The most beautiful thing about meeting him was that he was so incredibly friendly, humorous, sweetest and a little bit sassy (there could be a lunch date if I go to DC) despite all the obstacles that had shaped his development as a human being. Truly humbling.

If you would like to hear Henry's story he speaks at the USHMM in DC every Friday (amazing for an 82 year old!). You can also read his story at http://www.ushmm.org/remembrance/survivoraffairs/meet/detail.php?content=greenbaum and see his podcast on his attempted escape from the slave labor camp at https://www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/podcast/detail.php?EventId=9DD9BA02-90DA-408C-BA1D-ADD93ECB7B95

It was a beautiful end to the week on campus and I made great new friends (one's even a DG and I am going to snap her up to advise with me!)

BEAUTIFUL day on campus!!

Just for Fun

If Grover were going to audition for the Old Spice commercial this would be his submission. And it's all because he smells like a monster and knows the word "on".

LOVE this. You can see it again on youtube here! What do you think? I literally laughed out loud!

One Egg Banana Bread

This is one of the yummiest and, most importantly, easiest recipes for banana bread. It literally took me less than 10 minutes from mixing bowl to the oven. And it's even easier when I get to use our new Kitchen Aid mixer!!

Mangi!,

• 3 large bananas , well mashed (I usually freeze my bananas before they spoil and then thaw them while I prepare the rest of the ingredients, then mash)
• 1 egg
• 1 stick of butter, melted
• 1 1/2 cup of flour
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or to taste because I like it a little sweeter!)
• 1 cup nuts or chocolate chips, optional

Mix all ingredients in a mixing bowl; put into a well greased loaf pan. Bake at 350° for about 60 minutes, or until a knife inserted in middle comes out clean. Let cool slightly before serving.

Tim and I love a small sliver with a little scoop of ice cream at night or in the morning as mini muffins on our way out the door.

I used fresh bananas tonight but usually my frozen bananas are much browner.

Love orange!!

First time mixing in mini chocolate chips. Delicious!

Teacher Tim

Tim is an amazing teacher. He is modest to this fact but every classroom I am substitute teacher in at least 1 student tells me that Tim is their favorite teacher. Whenever I walk into his lab there is always a student in there working with him for deeper understanding. He is most definitely a role model for me as a teacher. I would have loved a teacher like Tim in high school. :)

*Note: A student took the video. What fell from the ceiling at the end is the match from being shot out of the bottle.

What's on my ipod?

Now that the weather has finally started to cool down I am running outside again. I ran all summer long in preparation for the wedding and then stopped and I actually missed it. Not something I thought I would ever say. If I want to run a half marathon in February I better kick it into gear!  I hope to share some new, old and new to me songs with you!

Here's a new song on my ipod. I first heard it chaperoning Delta Gamma's semi-formal. It's the radio edit of the song for 2 reasons: I'm kind of a prude for some words (not that I don't say the word I just don't broadcast it across the worldwide web) and I want to keep the blog "clean". Enjoy!

Cee Lo - Forget you

Just for fun!

Tim wearing Larry as a scarf. There's a video that accompanies this but I have been forbidden to share it. :)

Let's Play Dodger Baseball!

One of the perks of Tim working in a private school is that many of the parents will often offer a game from their season tickets to many of the Los Angeles' many attractions to teachers. He's seen the LA Kings with some of the guys from work and even "peed next to Cuba Gooding Jr." while at the private after party at the Staple's Center.

I have finally been available to reap one of these benefits. Our good friend Jane was offered 4 tickets to the "Dug Out Club" at Dodger Stadium. It wasn't a particularly exciting game but the dugout club alone is worth it! The all-you-can-eat buffet includes prime rib, crab legs, parmesan polenta, gourmet sausages and so much more. I was so full I almost had to waddle out to our seat... which happened to be 2nd ROW BEHIND HOME PLATE!!! The all you can eat followed us there! I was too full to even look at the menu but I did ask for a bag of peeling peanuts and cracker jack (It is a ball game). 

We had a blast with Jane and our other teaching buddy Drew. Being in the second row allowed me to get an up close and personal look at the opposing team in their wonderfully tight baseball pants. I even got to see a couple of the DGs from USC I advise. Tim got to add to his "famous people I've peed next to list" by being in the bathroom with Arsenio Hall (It was a slow night in the dugout club). It was a GREAT night with great friends!

Don't you just love baseball pants!

Casey Blake. If he can't play for the Indians he may as well be a Dodger!

Here it is!

Well, folks, here it is! Our first official family blog. I had such an great time writing my bride's blog (until wedding planning was in full force and there was no time to blog) and people really seemed to enjoy all the updates of what was happening during our engagement.

There really isn't anything miraculously exciting going on in our lives out here but we are having fun and doing interesting things and we wanted to share them with our friends and family. Los Angeles is quite a ways away from many of those we love and this is just our way of giving you an extra special glimpse into our ever changing life together. Check back often and enjoy!

XOXO

- Lauren