Tampa Film Fan

tag! i’m it!

Lady Wordsmith, Poet Extraordinaire, tagged me a while back. I’ve finally had a chance to play along:

I am thinking about:
-all the things I have to do
-all the movies I want to watch and books I want to read

I said:
-”Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” — The Princess Bride
I want:
-The Husband to like his new job
-a new computer
-to work only one job
-to have a baby one day
-to get lots of traffic on my blogs
-to be mentioned by Steve Persall or Rick Gershman in the St. Pete Times

I miss:
-movie matinee prices of $3.50
-when the “AMC” of the AMC channel actually stood for “American Movie Classics” and they played classic films without commercials
-my mom
-the days before *69 and Caller ID when you could make prank phone calls without getting caught

I hear:
-my mother’s voice in my head telling me to stand up straight
-the TV blaring

I wonder:
-why people answer their phones or text someone in a dark movie theater instead of watching the movie
-if Hollywood has run out of original ideas
-why The Husband can’t see the crumbs on the counter when they’re plainly visible
-where good manners and general politeness have gone
-how I’ll look when I’m 50

I am:
-in love with reading like Francie in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
-shy like the second Mrs. DeWinter in Rebecca
-strong and resourceful (and Southern!) like Scarlett in Gone With The Wind

I dance:
-to my Dance Dance Revolution 2 game, in my living room, away from people

I sing:
-badly, loudly, and only in the car by myself

I cry:
-when watching sad movies
-when other people cry (especially older men who are reliving their war memories in documentaries)
-when I miss my mom
-when I’m extremely angry and/or frustrated

I make with my hands:
-my blogs
-a good meatloaf
-I can do a halfway-decent job of gift-wrapping

I write:
-about my obsessions — movies and books — in my two blogs
-a to-do list every day
-in my gratitude journal every night

I confuse:
-which way to change the clocks in the spring and fall (”spring forward” and “fall back” don’t help, because I think of it differently)

I need:
-a million dollars, a personal trainer, a housekeeper, a personal assistant, fame, glory, adulation, diamonds. Well, not really, I suppose. I need weekends vegging out with the Husband, blogging, good friends and a new computer.

I should:
-quit making lists of what I “should” do

I start:
-all kinds of projects and plans without ever finishing them. I enjoy the planning more than the actual completing.

I finish:
-books I read and movies I watch, no matter how terrible. What if something wonderful happens at the very end?

I guess I’m supposed to tag someone else. I tag:

Wendy over at Fire on the Poop Deck, because she’s witty and funny and probably won’t kill me for tagging her (and I wouldn’t mind a link on her popular blog).