Bestest Comedy Ever

When I was 14, my dad took my sister Holly Jo and me to see one of the most underrated and hilarious movies ever - "Clifford."

No, not Clifford the Big Red Dog - Clifford the Martin Short character.

Short plays a ten-year-old boy in this black comedy who comes to stay for a few weeks with his uncle (played by Charles Grodin) and slowly drives the uncle literally insane. What makes it so funny to me is that Short is actually playing a ten-year-old - not playing a 40-something year-old man who thinks he's ten. He actually embodies how a kid acts.

Here are some of my favorite moments from the film. If you like it, go rent it. You will not be disappointed. And you might name a future pet "Stefan."



"Look at me like a human boy!"



"San Francisco!"

February Reading Recap

1. Austenland by Shannon Hale

I honestly didn't expect to enjoy this book as much as I did. I was totally prepared for full-scale hokey-ness, but I was really pleasantly surprised. I, like pretty much every female in the world, have a thing for all things Jane Austen. This story, about a many times jilted single girl from America (appropriately named Jane) who is given an opportunity to spend three weeks in a make-believe Austen-themed wonderland in England, read exactly like my favorite kind of movie. I wasn't at all surprised to read in the afterward that the book had originally started out as a screenplay. I even found myself fist-pumping the air after some particularly breathlessly romantic moments for Jane.

I just saw that they're making it into a movie with Keri Russell as Jane - I'm totally stoked to see it.

2. The Land of Later On by Anthony Weller

This was a pretty intriguing plot - Kip, a 40-something jazz pianist who has been afflicted with multiple sclerosis, decides to kill himself in order to escape the pain of missing his girlfriend, Lucy, who had died four years earlier from leukemia, and also because he can no longer play his beloved piano. He doesn't believe in the afterlife until he literally wakes up there, and then he makes it his mission to find Lucy. With extra characters like Walt Whitman (didn't see HIM coming) helping him on his quest, this was supremely entertaining.

My only gripe is that the ending felt unbelievably hurried. It was almost as if Weller didn't know how to wrap it up, so he just ended the book. I would have enjoyed a little bit more of the story.

Washful Thinking

I've mentioned this before, but I truly detest the tiny bathroom in my apartment. Every other room in my one-bedroom abode is small, yes, but functional and cozy (well, I like to think they are, anyway).

But the bathroom? The bathroom sucks. There's barely enough room to turn around in it, much less keep the laundry organized - because yes, the washer and drier are both crammed into this Munchkin-sized space.

I love the sound of the washer and dryer (or is it "drier"? I'm never sure. We'll go with "dryer.") running. I don't know why - maybe it's the comforting swish-swish that reminds me of being a kid and being around my mom when she was doing household chores. Or maybe my parents put me on the dryer to lull me to sleep when I was a baby.

If I had the laundry room below, I think I might just camp out there all the time. It's so cheerful. And spacious.

I'm totally jealous.

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Things I Need to Remember

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I do. I mean, I would.

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I really think that some guy should just ask me to marry him, because we would have the coolest wedding ever. I have all these decoration ideas, song playlists, and great dresses just waiting to make their debut.

The rest of the whole marriage thing?

We can work on that.

But the wedding?

I got that covered.

Things to Remember

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Pinterest Depression

"Pinterest makes me want the things I cannot afford, and to be the person I'm not. In order to have the money to do the things/have the things on there, I have to not be on there, and in order to be the person I want to be, I have to be active and not sitting at the computer."

-from an email my BFF Ashleigh sent me yesterday

Truer words were never spoken.