I Watch Movies, Read Books, and Eat Food

First of all, I apologize for the ugly color scheme and layout of my blog.  I never settled on anything that I was happy with, and since I write on this this basically once a year, I never cared enough about the look of it.  If you can stand the hideousness, please enjoy this list of my least favorite films from 2017! 10. Pitch Perfect 3 I'm sorry, Twin, Jet, and Kenneth!  I had a blast hanging out and seeing this with you guys, but the more I think about the actual movie...the more upset I get.  I am not ashamed to admit that I loved Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2!  I think they are both great and funny and uplifting.  I love the characters, and I love the friendship they have with each other.  That's why I was super excited to see this movie!  I wanted more of that!  More fun, silly, strong female friendships and great singing!  But what I got was a steaming load of crap!  I'm 100% certain every single person who worked on ...

March is coming to an end, and I thought I'd write an entry to review my progress with baking!  I know we're not quite at the end of March yet, but I know I will not be able to bake anything until next month because I am going to be very busy!  So I will wrap up Q1 now. January: I started out by making quick breads.  I did not even know what quick bread was when I started!  It is bread that does not require yeast.  Instead you use a leavening agent (such as baking powder or baking soda) to make the bread rise.  This was the right move on my part.  If you are just learning how to bake like myself, I highly recommend starting with quick breads. February: In February I graduated to yeast bread.  I started with a basic honey wheat bread that turned out okay, except for the fact that I burned it.  Because of this, I now literally sit in front of my oven and watch the contents during the last five or so minutes of baking.  Pat calls it m...

Happy Oscar Day!  I gotta say, 2016 was a pretty good year for movies!  Overall I was quite pleased with the films that came out this year.  It was a challenge picking just 10 of my favorites.  What were your favorites of the year?  Here are mine. 10. Hacksaw Ridge That Mel Gibson might be bat shit crazy, but he makes freakin' good films!  This movie tells the true story of Desmond Doss who served in WWII without firing a single weapon.  He wants to join the military as a medic, but because it's against his religion to kill, he refuses to touch a weapon, even through training.  Everyone thinks he's a joke and a coward, but he proves them all wrong when he rescues something like 75 wounded soldiers from the battlefield to safety.  It's an amazing story and an amazing film!  Andrew Garfield did a fantastic job!  He won't win, but I'm glad he was recognized for his work.  I see a very bright future ahead for him.  Also, S...

It's that time again!  As always I will post my ten favorite films of the year on Oscar night, this Sunday!  Please enjoy this list of movies that I really did not like from 2016!  What were some of the films you hated? 10. Zoolander 2 I will admit that I laughed quite a few times.  It was pretty funny and I think they did a decent job at making a film that the fans of the original Zoolander would like.  But it did fall flat overall, and I think they were trying too hard at some parts.  In the beginning of the movie, Derek's Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Want to Learn to do Other Stuff Good Too collapses, killing his wife and injuring Hansel.  Because he's so dumb, Derek is deemed unfit to keep his son, Derek Junior, who gets sent away to an orphanage.  Derek and Hansel have a falling out and don't speak to each other for 15 years.  Meanwhile, famous celebrities are being murdered and posting their farewell messages to social me...

Now that we're halfway into January, I have figured out what my resolution will be!  It's a two for one-er! 1. Learn How to Bake, Specifically Bread      I've always wanted to learn how to bake, but I've never been good at it.  Like...never.  No matter how simple the recipe, I always found some way to mess it up.  But lately, as my skills have improved in the kitchen, my baking skills got a little better as well, and I effed up less and less each time I baked (which happened maybe once a year!)  So this year, I decided to finally face my fears and become full blown Betty Crocker.      Why was baking so hard for me you ask?  Shouldn't it be easy?  Yes.  Don't you just follow the recipe and throw it in the oven?  Yes.  What's so hard about that?  Math and precision, is what's so hard about that!  When you bake, you have to be accurate with your measurements, which for a normal person isn't h...

I've received a few requests to blog about my cooking because if you follow me on Instagram, you know I cook quite often.  I've done this before, but several years ago.  So in my blog revival efforts, let's do it some more! This is one of my go-to recipes.  I make this often.  Often enough to where I don't need to follow a recipe.  Which is problematic when I want to share the recipe with you.  So let me warn you ahead of time:  This will probably be one of the worst recipes you read because I don't measure anything (This is why I don't bake!), and because it's so flexible, you can interchange a lot of the ingredients.  Look at the pictures to get a rough idea of how much ingredients I used today, and maybe use some of my alternative ingredient suggestions. Okay, first and foremost.  Turn on some music.  I recommend Lady Gaga's latest album - it's really good! Cook your rice in your rice cooker.  White rice.  Don't be a h...

Remember when I used to write movie reviews?  Let's do that again! My Twin, who has been very active on her blog(s) lately, has inspired me to revamp and revive my own blog.  I've always liked writing and sharing my thoughts on my favorite things: movies, books, and food, so I figured why not try to do this blogging thing again?  I used to do it all the time back in my Xanga days!  Oh, Xanga!  So I thought what could be more appropriate to bring my blog back than with a review of a Ben movie? Obviously I liked it!  Ben plays an autistic accountant who also happens to cook the books for the world's most dangerous gangsters and dirty crooks!  The FBI is closing in on him, so Ben decides to take on a legitimate job to throw the FBI off his trail.  He takes a job at a robotics corporation that needs him to look at their finances and pin point a mistake that a staff accountant, played by Anna Kendrick, identified.  Because Ben is a autisti...