Weighing myself

Lately, I've been looking at scales. While I'm not a big fan of weighing myself (it's not an accurate representation of fitness), I feel like I should be keeping track of my weight. Currently, I don't own a scale. I haven't owned one for well over a decade. I suppose I don't need anything fancy, but it would be nice if it wasn't awful. Something cool would be nice. Any suggestions?

Oops

Since I completely forgot to post anything yesterday, I will give you the awesome new trailer for the live action Space Battleship Yamato movie coming out later this year.

Horsey dreams

One of my life dreams is to own a farm where I have enough room to have horses. I've wanted horses for almost my entire life. With any luck, my husband and I will be able to make this dream come true in a few years. I've been spending quite a bit of time looking at horse tack - saddles and bridles and whatnot. Then my thoughts turned toward storage. I think I'd like a set-up similar to the one at the farm I used to take riding lessons at. But I guess that would depend on how our barn is set up. I don't want to wait any more!

Cool shower invitations

A couple of my friends are currently pregnant or have recently had babies. That means I've seen my fair share of baby shower invitations. When I was pregnant, my shower was a surprise so I didn't get to see the invitations. What is the most creative baby shower invitation that you have seen? I'm not talking about just a pink or blue paper with the information written on it. Maybe a stork-shaped card with the information on the bird's belly or something like that. There has to be something awesome out there. Normal is boring!

Movie review: The A-Team

Over the weekend, my husband and I took in The A-Team. Both of us are children of the 80s and fondly remember the television show so we were intrigued to see how it would play out on the big screen. Needless to say, both of us enjoyed it immensely.

When the movie begins, our four favorite military men aren't together yet. Hannibal (Liam Neeson) is working with Face (Bradley Cooper), but they are separated and haven't met B.A. ('Rampage' Jackson) or Murdock (Sharlto Copley). The way the guys get together is a bit of a stretch...but try to look past that part. Once the Fab Four have been united, things take off.

Eight years later, the boys are in Iraq doing their thing. Hannibal gets them unofficially assigned to a mission retrieving a set of lost/stolen plates for a US Mint printing press. Of course, just as they were completing their mission, things go haywire. The plates are, once again, stolen and their commanding officer is killed. The team gets the blame and the four of them are carted off to four different prisons. If you've watched the TV series, you know that they have to break out of prison and try to clear their names.

While I know that the movie needs to set up the back story, it seems to take forever to do so. Luckily, you don't really realize how much time has passed setting everything up. It's not until the boys are tossed in jail that you go "Wow. We're only THIS far into the storyline?" The action is amazing and it keeps you going from scene to scene. The main downfall of the movie is Jessica Biel's characters. I understand that the writers felt they needed to add a female character in order to keep the movie "gender friendly." However, that's just not the basis of the series. It's OK to skip adding female characters JUST to have a chick in the group. She was completely unnecessary and I felt that she brought down the movie just a little. But not enough to skip seeing the movie entirely. If you get a chance to see this in theaters, jump at the chance. I think that the action deserves the big screen.

A laptop for me?

I can't decide if I want to get a new laptop computer, just for me. On one hand, I can't say that I really need one. On the other hand, it would be very useful for things like...updating TGW when I'm away from home. Granted, we still need to replace the battery on our current laptop. But that is supposed to be going to my daughter once it is fixed. (Woo, she'll finally have her own computer!) Though....that one is big and heavy and I don't really like it very much. Maybe I'll talk to the husband about getting HER a new, lighter one and I'll keep the crappy one.

JDorama review: RH Plus

Title: RH Plus Broadcast dates: 1/2/08 - 3/26/08 Number of episodes: 13 Genre: Supernatural drama Cast: Miura Yuu, Tochihara Rakuto, Ojima Naoya, Takano Hassei Plot: Four vampires, living together as a family, secretly help the police with unsolved cases. What is good: The change in eye color when they "vamp out" is pretty awesome. What is bad: The plot gets annoying after the first few episodes. Letter rating: C- Overall: I really wanted to like this drama. After all, vampires are awesome. Unfortunately, RH Plus is very heavy on the 'drama' aspect and not in a good way. Makoto (Yuu) was abandoned as a child, which the writing wants to beat you with every single episode. We get it. He had a crappy childhood. It didn't really need 12 episodes to attempt to overcome it. On top of that, the acting is cheesy at best. As much as I wanted it to get better, it just didn't.

Newness!

As you can see, we have gone through a bit of a redesign. Besides the beautiful new template, I have also listed every jdorama that I have reviewed on the right side of the page. They are categorized by television series, movie, and special, depending on how it was released. I hope that this will help those of you that come here solely for my reviews. Now you don't have to slog through years of reviews to find the show you want to read about! There will probably be some other changes coming as well. I'm thinking about revamping the format of my reviews, but I haven't reached a decision yet. Please let me know if there are any other changes you'd like to see!