Lessons learned from motion pictures.

Life lessons we would never learn if it weren't for movies:

• If you are a girl who has never been asked on a date or hit on, all it takes is some contacts, a new hairstyle, and a new wardrobe and you will be the hottest new kid on the block.
• The only time you will ever run out of gas, have engine trouble, or pop a tire is when you are in the middle of nowhere at night... never in a high speed car chase.
• If you are ever faced with a group of 10+ men who want to kill you by way of martial arts, you will be able to defeat them all. Each man will wait patiently around you until you have knocked out his predecessor.
• All foreigners speak English to each other, even when they are alone.
• In the event of your pending death - as you are lying on the floor with a loaded gun pointed at your head - the assailant will explain his every reason for killing you, giving you ample time to make your escape.
• If you start singing or dancing at any moment in time, anyone you bump into will know all the words and steps and will join right in.
• If you run away from a killer, he will be able to keep his slow paced walk and still catch up to you.
• Partnered police officers are always the exact opposite of each other.
• Also, the partners usually hate each other. If they don't hate each other, one of them will die.
• If you have face stubble, you have a dark, mysterious past.
• Ancient Romans had English accents.
• In a matter of seconds, your laptop can hack into any computer system undetected and with no problem, including major government organizations.
• A detective can solve a case only if they are suspended from duty or ordered not to pursue said case.
• If your dad has any kind of job, he will automatically forget about your 8th birthday.
• You alone will able to kill 20 men with a gun, but 20 men - each with his own gun - wouldn't be able to touch you.
• Your mom will make a big breakfast that no one in the family has time to eat. Every morning.
• In the end, the loyal, pining best friend gets the girl. The misogynistic babe magnet always gets what's coming to him.
• Time and distance are the only thing that makes the heart grow fonder.
• When a slew of liscenced to kill government officials are after you, you will always outwit and out run them.
• You will fall for the bad boy (you think you can change him), he will take a chance on you (because of that one quality that no other girl has), he lets you down with his bad boy demeanor (you couldn't change him the way you were expecting), you will break up with him (breaking first your heart; and later, his), he will change for the better (into the person you first wanted him to be because you "inspire him" to be a better person), and you two will live happily ever after (or at least until the credits).
• It is easier to date the President's daughter than be tracked down by Secret Service.
• Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment.
• If you're in a major battle, the only important people will be fighting near each other, and only with each other. All others will weakly pretend to fight.
• Radioactive matter will never give you cancer, only super powers.
• Guns never need to be reloaded.
• You must always investigate any noise you hear.

Movies seen in theaters: 18

DvDs bought: 58

Irony.

It's June! I can't believe five months have already come and gone for 2010.

My sister Brandy is coming down in a few weeks to visit for several days... I am thrilled! I miss her so much and haven't seen her in so long. We're planning to do some fun things while she's here, so that's exciting. I am positive that the fun we have will make it's way into my blog. :o)

The girls and I can check another activity off of our bucket list. We completed it yesterday, I just haven't gotten around to writing the blog yet. I'm actually turning it into a "scary" story, complete with pictures. We'll see how it turns out. We are having such a blast with this list. It keeps us busy and having fun in new, exciting ways. I definitely encourage everyone to make a bucket list... it makes it easier to complete the things you want to do.

Emily has actually had something crazy but ironic happen to her. (I hope she doesn't kill me for sharing this xD) Friday night, Emily, Ashley, Bubba, and I went to dinner and Starbucks. While at Starbucks, one of the guys working there starts talking to Emily; to us it seems like they know each other. When we sat down outside, she told us that this guy remembered her from months and months ago when her and Shelly went to this location to study. This guy (we'll just call him "Chase" for the purpose of the story ;D) came over and talked to them several times throughout the night, making witty comments and flirting a little. So, as she tells us this story, we encourage her to go back in and flirt becasue "flirting is so much fun!" She walks back in to "go to the restroom" but he was with a customer so nothing happened. Later, he came out on the patio and talked to us a little while he cleaned up. It wasn't really a big deal, just flirtation and small talk.
Then, on Sunday, Em, Ash, and I decided to visit a new church. As we're sitting down and looking around, at almost the exact same time, Ash and Em look at each other and freak out... Chase was on stage with the praise team. How random! We didn't even know he went there. We got to talk to him a little after church and told him we would probably be visiting again because we liked the church very much.

It's just crazy to me how things work out sometimes. I love it when things like this happen because I classify them as movie moments. Em and I had just been talking about movie moments a few days before this happened, so it was just so ironic that she had one. Oh, how I love motion pictures. :)

Have you had any "movie moments" that you would like to share?