For The Love

I’m 26, a human mother of two and dog mommy of one. Traveling is my passion. New Year’s Resolution: Donate blood. Wrestling with my spirituality and having an ongoing existential crisis.

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Happy Music Monday! Post Malone <3<3

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Stupid Movie Wednesdays

Wednesday’s are for stupid movies.

I am pretty new to the hump day ritual that my friend Travis’ group of friends have, but I did partake in one months’ worth of stupid movies. And boy, it did not disappoint. The first movie I watched was Step Brothers, which I had seen before. They spent the entire movie just quoting it, and honestly it only added to the hilarity. Afterward, they spent 10 minutes discussing random facts about the movie, such as budget, who was president, and who won the Super Bowl the year it was released. I was impressed with this ritual and had to return.

The following Wednesday, the movie selection took a sudden nose dive into a mountain as we embarked on watching Tusk. This is when I realized that I had to start drawing imaginary boundaries on what I was willing to watch and what I wasn’t. Tusk was by far one of the most disturbing movies I’ve ever watched. It’s about an American asshole who goes to Canada for some reason, ends up at this creepy old man’s house who inevibilty drugs him, amputates his legs, and turns him into a WALRUS out of Human flesh. There is no happy ending. There are like 10 different monologues during the movie that completely throw you into REM sleep, AND somehow they got Johnny Depp to play a Canadian detective. It was the worst. I made a mental note to inquire beforehand about what the movie was going to be prior to showing up.

The third Stupid Movie Wednesday I attended was to watch The Room, which let me tell you is a FANTASTIC representation of good terrible movies. This was my FAVORITE movie. Also, James Franco made a parody movie about this movie called The Disaster Artist that I haven’t seen yet, but will be watching soon. Despite the acting being awful, there were several unnecessarily long sex scenes. But this movie (which is what the GIF is from) was outstanding. Everything about it was amazingly terrible and I’d watch it many more times if I had to.

The last movie I watched with those guys was Troll 2. It was Travis’ pick. I was unimpressed, however it did have its moments. It’s called “Troll 2” but the evil characters in the movie are actually called “Goblins”. The masks of the goblins were inconsistant and there were two that were just plain hilarious. It was as if they ran out of all the other masks and found two random ones on the fly. There are several funny memes I’ve found about this movie, but overall, this movie is a PSA about vegetarianism and table manners at its core. The effects are consistant with its release year (1990) and the actors were probably pulled off of the street. Still not as bad as Tusk.

I don’t have any plans on going tonight to Stupid Movie Wednesday and I’m not sure what movie is going to be shown. It was a wonderous experience though. I may have to create my own Stupid Movie night in the future

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My First Traveling Memory

[On Tuesday’s, I’ll post about my past, present, or planned future travel experiences.]

It was June or July 1998. I had turned 5 years old in March of that year. My mom and dad had a video camera and brought it along, so there is a VHS tape of this trip somewhere. Thinking back, I’m not sure how my parents drove from Columbus, Ohio to Maine with three kids in the back seat of a truck but somehow they did it. Especially since my older sister Andrea, and I didn't get along and I picked on my little brother Eric, relentlessly. Unfortunately, I don't know where in Maine we were headed, probably Portland, but I’m not entirely sure. With a trucker’s map of America in her lap and the video camera on her shoulder, my mom guided the way (barely though because Dad would get mad and take the map from her. This all set in motion years of frustration during trips for my father and eventually, we stopped going on vacation). We made a pit stop in Niagara Falls, New York. I had no idea I was looking at Niagara Falls. My dad to this day will say, “The Canadian side is much nicer to look at.” Once we arrived in Maine, we went to the beach, swam in the campground pool, went up in to light houses. Apparently, I made friends with a Native American boy who was staying at the same campground. There is a story floating around about a pizza that was devoured almost instantly. According to my mom, we almost got swept away by the high tide that was coming in during one of our beach trips. I remember when I started school that autumn, telling the kids in my class that I had swallowed a little bit of the Atlantic Ocean, so I probably fell down in the water. I felt so cool that I had swallowed ocean water. I don't remember the trip home, but it is probably because the trip we took the following year to Oregon holds better memories than this trip.

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My New Year’s Resolution is to donate blood; as much as I can, as often as I can. After giving birth to Allie and Nick, I realized the importance of blood donation. Anything could have happened and I could have needed a blood transfusion. My first time donating was February 15th, and it didn’t quite go as I had planned. In general, I get faint smelling hospital smells and I once almost fainted watching a civil war amputation reenactment. Turns out, I will never be able to work in the medical field ever. I almost passed out just holding the bag my blood was going to go in to but it’s okay. I am O+ and my blood is in need. Everyone’s blood is in need.. The next time I donate (April 11th) isn’t going to be easy. I will probably nearly faint again but it’s okay. My blood could save someone else’s life one day. Almost anyone can give, just check The American Red Cross website to see if you can!

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When I listen to this song, tears well up in my eyes. I actually understand the pain and know the relapse one goes through when you are in a relationship that you can’t quite let go of. I feel this song physically. It is so relevant. “You’re my boomerang.”