It's Friday, and May the Odds Be Ever In Your Favor

Guess who's seeing The Hunger Games tonight!  THIS GIRL.  

So, a couple of confessions before the curtains go up: 

1. I have been really strangely resistant to reading these books.  I bought the first book about 6 months ago when my book club read it and, for some reason, I couldn't finish it.  I stopped right as Katniss runs out of the Cornucopia at the start of The Games and just couldn't muster the desire to pick it back up again.  Then I tried listening to it on audiobook during my workouts and while on the road trip with my sister, but on audiobook this thing takes like, 11 days to finish or something.  Didn't happen.  But then my friends decided that they were going to see the movie on opening night, and I really wanted to go because the trailers look great, so I pulled the book out on Tuesday night and finished it on Wednesday.  At 3 a.m.  And now I'm wondering what the heck was wrong with me all these months.
2. Are we doing teams for this series as well?  Because if so: Team Peeta.  Everyone else can suck it.
3. Finally, I'm obsessed: The soundtrack for this movie is SO GOOD.  They've completely got the tone of the book down in terms of music.  Folksy, country, sad, intense.  I'm in heaven.

Knowing my personality, I'll be completely destroyed at the end of the movie and will be able to think of little else until I finish the next two books.  It's a cross I bear, getting too emotionally involved with fictional characters.  

Really, you should have seen me after I read Romeo & Juliet for the first time.  I don't think I spoke for three days.  ;)

[Photo source: http://www.thehungergamesmovie.com]

It's Friday, and You Must Love The Civil Wars

I mean, you have to love them.  What's not to love?  I actually had a hard time choosing which videos to play this Friday (like that never happens to me, right?), and because I was tired of fighting with myself I decided to just put three of them up.

There was a time about 2 months ago where all I would listen to was this song.  It got to the point where Nate knew all the words -- would even sing them when I wasn't around -- and would have no idea where it came from.

But there's also this one, which is the first song I ever heard from them.

And then, of course, there's this song, which is huge right now (so yes, it's a little overplayed) and fits in just perfectly with the way I imagine "The Hunger Games" -- from what I've read which admittedly isn't much yet -- would sound if it were a melody.

Are you a fan of The Civil Wars? (Note: If you're not, don't say so or we can't be friends anymore).

It's Friday, and I Have a Problem

You know how every once in a while you'll come across something -- a song, a passage in a book, a blog -- and you just can't stop looking/reading/watching/listening?  Yeah, that's me right now.  Except it's not even just one thing, it's two.  On repeat.  For days.

And because crazy likes company, I'd like you to watch them.  And love them.  And inevitably become as obsessed with them as I am.

Everyone in the entire world has seen this video by now, but I can't help it, she's hilarious.  And my absolute favorite from here on out.

And then, of course, there's Gotye.  Oh, Gotye, Gotye, Gotye.  Could you have created a song whose melody could get stuck in my head any more than this one?  No, because that would be cruel and inhumane.  I mean, I have a life, you know.  I can't just sit around listening to this song over and over.  (Except that I am).

If, like me, you watch these videos and become a lunatic as well, let me know.  We can form a club.  A Club o' Crazy.

It's Friday, and I Sew

Being without a steady stream of income has very few perks.  Very, very few.  But for me, one of those perks undoubtedly has to be the fact that it's taught forced me to change my spending habits.  Where I used to have a tendency to be shopping every time you turned around -- spending more money than I had on things I didn't really want and definitely didn't need -- I now have to be very picky about what I spend my money on (i.e Do I really want this?  No, like really, really want this?).

As a result of my new found frugality, one of my favorite things to do these days is to take jeans I no longer where because they're ill-fitting or out of style, and skinny them.

So because it's Friday, and I now apparently sew, here's the vid that -- along with a BFF who actually knows what she's doing in front of a sewing machine -- taught me what's up:

Just Because

Because I can't stop watching old episodes of Glee right now.  Because Santana and Mike Chang are my favorites (even though he wasn't my favorite when he was on SYTYCD).  Because FUN is awesome.

And because it's Friday.

Have a great weekend!

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