babble and movies

It’s just a teeny bit distracting here today. Although it’s Reading Day (a.k.a sleep all day/ play video games all day/ watch TV all day/ do anything but actual work all day) we’ve been quite busy with other things. Mainly panic and stress from people who are supposed to be graduating next weekend. Or their mommies.

And we’ve been shorthanded all week. The perpetually-sick receptionist finally called in Monday and yesterday. Today she’s back with tales of how her entire family has had the Horrendous Nasty Horrible Stomach Virus From Hell and it’s reaaaaaaaaally contagious and she’s probably still contagious herself because she still doesn’t feel all that great, so gee, she really hopes we don’t all get it too!!

I’ve washed my hands 45,978 times today and I’m wearing several layers of antibacterial lotion topped with hand sanitizer. I’m thinking a necklace of garlic cloves and a giant cross to wave at her when she comes too close might not be a bad idea.

Our other office person rear-ended some guy yesterday while coming up the mountain (we aren’t sure why – that’s not where she lives) where they are widening the highway and it’s under constant construction. She didn’t see him stopped, slammed her brakes on, skidded and still hit his trailer hitch at about 15 mph. She called the highway patrol but when they were still not there after 45 minutes she called her dad and he said it’s okay to leave the scene of a fender-bender if it’s not over $300 damage. She drives an old clunker which got its grill bent, and she said there was no damage at all to this guy’s garganto monster truck. She took pictures of the unscathed hitch. Which was a very very very good thing.

Because later in the afternoon, she discovered that this guy is now claiming $80,000 personal damage and $150,000 damage to his truck.

This poor girl is a 26 year old single mother who has no help from her kid’s father (he’s currently in jail) and of course has no money at all. She also has incredibly poor judgment, despite being really smart – I won’t go into all the amazingly stupid things she does involving her lowlife friends and her even lower-life sponging brother, but just leave it at she’s VERY poor. And the real reason she was eager to leave the scene was that her inspection sticker has expired and she was afraid she’d get a ticket for it.

Never never never leave the scene. I guess this guy could have still tried to claim damage, but at least the police would have been there with both of them and there would be some sort of verification beyond a picture of a trailer hitch taken with a cell phone.

Anyhow, she’s not here today either. She did come in (she couldn’t call in because her pay-by-the-minute phone is out of minutes) and then went back home feeling like she has the Horrendous Stomach Virus too, although we’re all thinking it’s more likely stress.

So, we’re short handed. And I can’t concentrate because our third office person, my sort-of boss whose job I should get when she retires, is a chatterer when she gets stressed out herself. So she has not shut up for five minutes today. And she’s in an office down the hall so she keeps talking down the hall at me which I’m finding just a tad annoying. And let me just say that I REALLY like her. I am very fond of her, I have no complaints about her – I just wish she’d shut the hell up!!! Ten minutes, just ten minutes of quiet, that’s all I ask!!!!

Oh, well. How about this fun movie thing that I’ve seen several places but swiped directly from Clanky? I actually don’t really understand how it’s divided up, so I’m thinking you add some movies of your own. At the end. Yes, I’m totally making up rules. So if you want to play copy it and check the ones you’ve seen and then make up some rules of your own!!

(X) Rocky Horror Picture Show – I saw it in the theatre a number of times when it first came out – throwing rice and water and yelling stuff and all.
(X) Grease
( ) Pirates of the Caribbean –  I have no idea why I still haven’t seen any of these – I love Johnny Depp.
( ) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
( ) Boondock Saints
( ) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
( ) Neverending Story
(X) Blazing Saddles
(X) Airplane – "Do we have clearance, Clarence?" "Roger, Roger!"

Total: 4

() The Princess Bride
() AnchorMan
() Napoleon Dynamite
(X) Labyrinth
() Saw
() Saw II
() White Noise
() White Oleander
() Anger Management
() 50 First Dates
() The Princess Diaries
() The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement

Total so far: 5

() Scream
() Scream 2
() Scream 3
() Scary Movie
() Scary Movie 2
() Scary Movie 3
() Scary Movie 4
() American Pie
() American Pie 2
() American Wedding
() American Pie Band Camp

Total so far: 5  – No, really, I DO watch a LOT of movies!!

(X) Harry Potter 1
(X) Harry Potter 2
(X) Harry Potter 3
(X) Harry Potter 4
() Resident Evil 1
() Resident Evil 2
() The Wedding Singer
() Little Black Book
() The Village
() Lilo & Stitch

Total so far: 9

(X) Finding Nemo
(X) Finding Neverland
(X) Signs
() The Grinch
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre
() Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
() White Chicks
() Butterfly Effect
() 13 Going on 30
() I, Robot
() Robots

Total so far: 12

() Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
() Universal Soldier
(X) Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events
() Along Came Polly
() Deep Impact
() KingPin
() Never Been Kissed
() Meet The Parents
() Meet the Fockers
() Eight Crazy Nights
() Joe Dirt
() KING KONG

Total so far: 13 – Who is coming up with these???? Not me, obviously.

() A Cinderella Story
() The Terminal
() The Lizzie McGuire Movie
() Passport to Paris
(X) Dumb & Dumber – sad to say. I’ll never get over it.
() Dumber & Dumberer
() Final Destination
() Final Destination 2
() Final Destination 3
(X) Halloween
() The Ring
() The Ring 2
() Surviving X-MAS
() Flubber

Total so far: 14

() Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
() Practical Magic
() Chicago
() Ghost Ship
() From Hell
() Hellboy
() Secret Window
() I Am Sam
() The Whole Nine Yards
() The Whole Ten Yards

Total so far: ummmm – still 14

() The Day After Tomorrow
() Child’s Play
() Seed of Chucky
() Bride of Chucky
() Ten Things I Hate About You
() Just Married
() Gothika
() Nightmare on Elm Street
(X) Sixteen Candles
() Remember the Titans
() Coach Carter<br/>() The Grudge
() The Grudge 2
(X) The Mask
() Son Of The Mask

Total so far: A whopping 16!!!

() Bad Boys
() Bad Boys 2
() Joy Ride
() Lucky Number Slevin
() Ocean’s Eleven
() Ocean’s Twelve
() Bourne Identity
() Bourne Supremecy
(X) Lone Star  – oooooh, ooooh, ooooh, I LOVED this one!! FINALLY!!!!!
() Bedazzled
() Predator I
() Predator II
() The Fog
() Ice Age
() Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
() Curious George

Total so far:  17. Hang onto your seats!!

(X) Independence Day
(X) Cujo
() A Bronx Tale
() Darkness Falls
(X) Christine
(X) ET
() Children of the Corn
() My Bosses Daughter
() Maid in Manhattan
() War of the Worlds
() Rush Hour
() Rush Hour 2

Total so far:  21!!!

() Best Bet
() How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
() She’s All That
() Calendar Girls
(X) Sideways – loved this one too
(X) Mars Attacks
() Event Horizon
() Ever After
(X) Wizard of Oz – about 90 times
(X) Forrest Gump
() Big Trouble in Little China
() The Terminator
() The Terminator 2
() The Terminator 3

Total so far: 25

() X-Men
() X2
() X-3
() Spider-Man
() Spider-Man 2
() Sky High
() Jeepers Creepers
() Jeepers Creepers 2
() Catch Me If You Can
() The Little Mermaid
() Freaky Friday
() Reign of Fire
() The Skulls
() Cruel Intentions
() Cruel Intentions 2
() The Hot Chick
(X) Shrek
() Shrek 2

Total so far:  26 I’m starting to think 14 year olds came up with these lists.

() Swimfan
(X) Miracle on 34th street
() Old School
() The Notebook
() K-Pax
() Krippendorf’s Tribe
() A Walk to Remember
() Ice Castles
() Boogeyman
() The 40-year-old-virgin

Total so far:  27

(X) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
() Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
() Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(X) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
() Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
() Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Total so far:  29

() Baseketball
() Hostel
(X) Waiting for Guffman
() House of 1000 Corpses
() Devils Rejects
() Elf
() Highlander
(X) Mothman Prophecies
() American History X
() Three

Total so Far:  31

() The Jacket
() Kung Fu Hustle
() Shaolin Soccer
() Night Watch
(X) Monsters Inc.
(X) Titanic
(X) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
() Shaun Of the Dead
(X) Willard

Total so Far:  35

() High Tension
() Club Dread
(X) Hulk
() Dawn Of the Dead
(X) Hook
() Chronicle Of Narnia The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
() 28 days later
() Orgazmo
() Phantasm
() Waterworld

Total so far:  37

() Kill Bill vol 1
() Kill Bill vol 2
() Mortal Kombat
() Wolf Creek
() Kingdom of Heaven
() the Hills Have Eyes
() I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
() The Last House on the Left
() Re-Animator
() Army of Darkness

Total so far:  ummmmm….. still 37

() Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
() Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
() Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(X) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope – How sad is it that I had to go look and see what the heck the first one was called??? I didn’t even know it HAD a name, other than Star Wars. And I saw it SEVEN TIMES the summer it came out.
(X) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(X) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
() Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
() Ewoks The Battle For Endor

Total so far:  40

() The Matrix
() The Matrix Reloaded
() The Matrix Revolutions
() Animatrix
() Evil Dead
() Evil Dead 2
() Team America: World Police
() Red Dragon
(X) Silence of the Lambs
() Hannibal

Total so far:  41

OKAY!!!!!  Again, I am pretty sure 14 year olds came up with most of these lists. Fourteen year old boys. And I’m adding my own so I’ll have at least a COUPLE of movies I’ve actually SEEN. Being the Woman Who Has In Reality Seen A Million Gazillion Movies.

And I see so many movies that I’m just putting down ten recent ones from my Netflix queue. Thanks VERY much.

(X) Northfork
(X) Inland Empire
(X) Coffee and Cigarettes
(X) Capote
(X) Repo Man
(X) Miss Potter
(X) Little Miss Sunshine
(X) Howl’s Moving Castle
(X) Once Upon A Time in the Midlands
(X) For Your Consideration

Total so far: 51

HA!! Take that, kids!! And back to the instructions…..

Now add them up and……

put "I’ve seen ___ out of 239 249 movies" in the subject line and repost

 Or not. Or whatever.