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I got many inches hacked off of my hair. It's shorter than it's been since high school. I hate it and wear it in a ponytail almost every day because then I just look like I have a shorter ponytail but it's not that noticeable. I cannot speak of it anymore until it grows back. I also got new glasses. Sweet Jesus! It was time. Mine were old, dirty, nasty, smudged, scratched, and hein. My new ones are cute and clear and clean, and I love them. Even though they really emphasize my crooked ears. My dad told me not to be ridiculous and that they can be adjusted. He told me he has crooked ears, too. I'd been wanting to see March of the Penguins since first seeing the trailer online. And I finally did see it. And I'm here to tell you that it really all came down to the baby penguins for me. Unless you are made of stone, the baby penguins will probably be what it all comes down to for you, too. The shots are incredible, and the footage is dazzling. The narration is primarily ridiculous unless you buy into the concept of penguins in love. Not animated, fictional penguins, but actual penguins. In love. Which I do not. But I think it's still totally worth seeing because it's all really breathtaking and beautiful to behold. I also saw Wedding Crashers, which is probably my favorite kind of movie to see with my little brother because it is easy to be silly with him and his explosions of laughter are contagious. This movie made me laugh very hard and made me semi-fall in love with Rachel McAdams because she is just the prettiest thing I think I've ever seen and I want to be as nice and as pretty as she is. It is strange, I know. I am now planning to watch The Notebook just because I want to see more of Rachel McAdams being lovely and hope some of it will magically rub off on me. The latest film on the list is From Here to Eternity, which I'd never seen but watched on the airplane thanks to my traveling partner's laptop DVD player. And lo! It was just enchanting. Come on. The most famous scene is the beach makeout scene between Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster, of course, but I know Deborah as Anna in The King and I and of course from An Affair to Remember so it was strange for me to get into her character in this movie and sad as it may be I only know Burt Lancaster as Archibald "Moonlight" Graham (and I love him in that role). So yeah, famous beach scene, glad I've now seen it, but Montgomery Clift. Monty! When he blew that bugle -- just stop. There was no preventing the tears from shooting out of my eyeballs. And Donna Reed is beautiful in it and the women wear clothes that are divine. It is a very good movie, and you should all see it immediately. Okay, I have now seen The Notebook. My mother, little brother, and I watched it last night. And I'm here to tell you that I was crying like a little baby. I love Gena Rowlands, but I didn't care for the overall plot framework. I realize that's basically the crux of the entire story, but whatever. I just wanted to see Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling make out and be in love and ignore the entire nursing home aspect. My Rachel McAdams love was already pretty strong and sure, but I had never really laid eyes on Ryan Gosling before. For some reason, in my mind, I mistakenly pictured him as the actor who played the retarded kid on Freaks and Geeks. I knew that he dated Sandra Bullock and was like decades younger than she was, to which I said, go Ryan Gosling and go Sandra Bullock, but I'd never really paid attention to him. I had no idea. WHY HAD NO ONE EVER TOLD ME ABOUT RYAN GOSLING? I mean, I saw him on the MTV Movie Awards earlier this summer when he and Rachel McAdams fully made out on stage, and I was intrigued, but then I just forgot about him. All I could think was that I wished my sister had been watching it with me because she just would have flipped her lid over this guy. I think that he and Rachel McAdams just need to become the king and queen of the universe. My little brother acted like I was pretty much the dumbest person alive to be acting like the love between Gosling and McAdams in this movie was the best thing ever because everyone in the world apparently already knows this, especially adolescent girls. I do not know when I reverted so fully back to my teenaged self. I have clearly lost my mind over The Notebook, and every single time a Kelly Clarkson song comes on the radio, I reflexively turn it up all the way. I am going to Mexico for a whole entire week. I have made no arrangements for the pets. I have not really thought about anything past a week away with my man, whose hotness far surpasses that of Montgomery Clift and Ryan Gosling combined and I speak the truth, o, paradise.
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