Updated to add: You guys are GOOD at the guessing. Thanks! for playing along. I will admit that it was a pretty loaded question, my guessing game, and while no one answered “You, kerri, were clearly raised in a non-Christmas-moving-watching vacuum and thus have not seen EITHER It’s a Wonderful Life, OR A Christmas Story, and Chris, because he is more apt to choose movies like The Exorcism of Emily Rose when we are visiting a video store, even on Christmas, or Easter for that matter, has never seen Elf,” quite a few of you answered the question in some way correctly, and so prizes I shall send you. If you email me your addresses, of course. Unless I already have your address, which is the case with most of the winners, I think. So, without further adieu, the winners, in no particular order because my Russian Teacake coma does not lend itself to “order”:
Kim / Anne / Jenie / UrbanUrchin/ Hänni
1. To play and beat! Chris in Scrabble.
2. A room in my (not yet existing, or, at least, not yet inhabited by me) house that looks like this. Growing up, I remember thinking that Beauty and The Beast was the greatest! Disney movie ever made, simply because The Beast gifts Belle an ENTIRE LIBRARY. You can keep your bulging biceps, hunting trophies, and castles by the sea, Gaston. He gave her A LIBRARY. I just don’t see anyone beating that gift. Never mind it was entirely imagined. And, you know, a cartoon. Hey. It’s my fantasy world, and in my fantasy world I have a library. With comfy couches and first editions. Rest assured you can sit on my (imaginary) couch anytime. I know the hidden book geek in you totally wants to.
3. To curl up with endless amounts of popcorn and (preferably clear, organic!) root beer, and begin what is to be heralded as YuletideMovieMagic 2006, wherein Elf, A Christmas Story, and It’s a Wonderful Life will be watched, among, no doubt, last-minutely chosen others, some for the very first time. Ever.*
4. A cheeseburger HappyMeal. With a toy that doesn’t make little kids (and big kids alike) want to punch Ronald McDonald in the kneecaps for being such a cheapskate.
5. The feel and taste of hose-water on my lips. (Notice that this would be a gift undoubtedly impossible to receive this time of year, unless of course I did not leave in the Bitter, Bitter (And Did I Mention DRY?) Winter Cold that is Eastern Washington. So, the feel and taste of hose-water on my lips, and a plane ticket to some place with hoses still intact and, more importantly, weather still sultry-like.)
6. An explanation of where, exactly, my daily posting motivation trekked some ten days ago, before it showed up on my doorstep yesterday morning, dry-heaving and finally home from (I’m guessing) many a daily siesta and, quite possibly, a ten day stint in Tahiti. I would tell you for sure where said motivation went when it disappeared so unexpectedly and without warning last week, but, well, said motivation isn’t be so forthcoming with recent vacation information. All I know for certain is: said motivation was missing, seems now to be happy to be back and is eating all of my Cheerios® , is sun-burnt, has a new tattoo, and smells overwhelmingly like Tequila.
7. To be able to make something, with my own hands, as awesome as gourmet amigurumi. Does that read like jibberish? I KNOW. But here, look at these. The mermaid and the chihuahua are my favorites.
8. A pug dog. Like, say, this one. The attached ipod being an optional but not wholly unappreciated accessory, of course.
9. A merry wee Elf to mail my Christmas cards, cook me cheesy hash-browns, and clean anything I don’t feel like admitting is dirty.
10. Honestly, save having my babycarrot sister and brother Will here for Christmas, and getting to see Hans So Sporting Her Holiday Pants, and buy her a Maker’s on the rocks, not a single solitary thing.
* Never one to miss an opportunity to play a mildly competitive sort of game, or, rather, to make someone wholly uncompetitive, and surely not a game, a competitive game (and also because I very well may get that merry mail-sending Elf in my stocking), I will choose and mail (rad) prizes (that will not be bottles of Tequila from Tahiti; nice try) to whomever can guess which one of us (Chris or myself, I mean) has NOT (ever) seen which movie(s) afore-listed. Ready? Settttt. Guess!
This week I have been:
Writing, editing, and organizing grant proposals, and preparing gargantuan-sized grant budgets feverishly, to meet deadlines both old and new.
Snuggling with my pug and enjoying any downtime I have been able to muster.
Writing! I’m so excited about three different stories I have in the works, and thanks to a recent prompt by Danny, I’ve been sitting down daily to translate my excitement into actual words on a page. (Not unlike snakes on a plane. Only → Read more...
This post inspired by my friend and partner in movie quote crime, Home Sweet Sarah.
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Some of the most memorable places I have stood, in no particular order:
On The Great Wall of China. Next to my sister as she took her wedding vows. In front of the Kremlin in Moscow. Next to my favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. Priest Lake. Specifically, my family’s Priest Lake dock spot. On Mt. Seorak, South Korea. Poolside for countless summers with friends, and cousins, and awesome(ly ridiculous) bikinis. At the base → Read more...
Full disclosure: I initially considered titling this post !!!!!!!!! but Wordpress started laughing at me, and threatened to throw spam.
At this point to say I cannot contain my already typically excessive exclaiming is to understate. HOW am I going to refrain from blurting out, “Hawaii! I’m going there!” from now until I leave at the beginning of September? Better yet, Maui! + getting to see my sister in TWO WEEKS = how am I going to sleep tonight? And the → Read more...
Originally aired: January 19, 2007. Watched by Kerri Anne: August 1, 2010. Courtesy of: Netflix Instant Watch. Because: a) I was in the mood for a lighthearted, kid-centric story; b) Netflix told me I would four stars enjoy it and saw fit to leave out crucial somber-tone-revealing plot points in their synopsis; c) Netflix is a lying liar face; d) ALL OF THE ABOVE.
Starring: A slew of great Spanish actors you’ve probably never heard of, most notably Ivana Baquero and Maribel Verdú. Protagonist’s → Read more...