Christmas Movies Number 4: Home Alone

Why I picked it: Well.. It's pretty obvious that this is a classic Christmas comedy. It's mostly of the slap-stick type, but it is the kind you like to watch over and over again. This movie also shows the the importance of having a family around for the holidays, even if you or others can be pain in the butts.

This movie taught us all about love, responsibility, facing our fears, and home security. When I was younger, after watching this movie, I kind of wanted burglars to break into our house. That way it would give me an excuse to set up booby traps. I mean seriously, who wouldn't want to do that? I should also note that Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, was a good sequel. It just didn't make my list because the original is such a classic.

Probably my favorite part of the movie...

Christmas Movies Number 5: Gremlins

There is actually a debate on whether or not this is a Christmas movie, but it pretty much takes place on Christmas Eve. Lets see, there are Christmas decorations, Christmas music, movies, snowmen, cookies, and Santas... so why wouldn't this be a Christmas movie? Well... it is a Christmas movie and it's number 5 on my list.

Why: Well because it's just a funny movie and it brings something a little different to the genre. I mean who doesn't want to see cute little fury things multiply and then turn into little monsters that terrorize a town on Christmas Eve.?

When I was younger, I always wanted Gizmo as my pet. I'm pretty sure I would remember the following rules.

1. Never bring him into bright light, especially sunlight because that would kill him.
2. Never have have him come in contact with water(unless I wanted more)
3. Never, ever feed him after midnight(because that makes him turn bad)
hmm... I think I have a new one...
4. Never get him to say the phrase, "Deal... or no deal"

One of my favorite scenes is when all of the gremlins are in a movie theatre watching Snow White.

Ten Years and Running...

This month marks the tenth year anniversary for my nickname, "Chunk". It's hard to believe that it's been ten years since I've been in Jr. High. So many great memories...

So... Chunk... here's to another ten+ years.

Preview: Chunk's Favorite Christmas Movies

Starting Monday(tomorrow), I will be counting down my top 5 favorite Christmas movies. So Mon-Fri, you will be seeing a different title, poster, clips, and why I like the movie.

Movies, Games, Parties, and the Holiday Season

My posts have been too short lately and that is never a good thing. I'm very sorry for my lack of... everything. So I have a few things I could probably talk about.

Movies - So I have been watching a lot of movies lately. Most of them are from this past summer. It was a really good summer for movies. Look forward to me discussing or throwing in a mini-review of all the movies I've been watching lately.

Games- (Well, video games to be more specific) So a few months ago my Xbox 360 died on me. I didn't really do anything about it until like a week ago, when I decided that I should just ship it in to get it repaired. So I shipped it in to microsoft and now they are repairing my 360. It will take 2-3 weeks, but that's nothing compared to the 2 months that I've been without it. Now I like video games, but I'm not someone who sits there and plays constantly, I usually play about 2 or 3 days a week. I'm just looking forward to getting this system back so I can get back into playing Rock Band, the best party game ever. So yeah, another system I own, is the Nintendo Wii and I've been playing that with my friends lately. Every time my friends come over, we end up playing Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros. Melee. Both are extremely fun games. Lately I have been craving some Nintendo 64 action... Goldeneye 64, NFL Blitz, RUSH 2, etc. Which kind of brings me to my next topic, "Parties".

Parties- I guess this kind of goes with movies too, but I've been in kind of a party mood lately. A few weeks I had four friends over for a little get together. Yeah, I know four people isn't necessarily a party, but for my small apartment, it is a rockin party. We played games, watched movies, ate pizza, talked, and joked around. It was really good time. It was the first party or whatever that I had in that apartment and I've been living there for over 2 years now. Well now I am thinking about throwing another mini-party, one with a Nintendo 64 theme. So basically we are just gonna play N64 games and Goldeneye 64(the best first person shooter ever period) being the main game. So planning I am.

Holiday Season- Yep, the holiday season is here.... Ok let me rephrase that...The CHRISTmas season is here. That sounds better. Lets just not forget that He is the reason for the season. I guess I kind of say that to myself as a reminder to myself. I guess around this time of year I kind of get into a "Blah la la la la" mood. It's a good mood, but I just end up getting blinded by other things, such as... Christmas Lights(the way the Ingalls look at them), Christmas movies, gifts, food, etc. that I just never look into the real reason of the season. Christ the King is born. I will celebrate that with my friends and family. Yeah!

Well... a post, kind of "nerdy" at times, but it was something to read. I don't feel like looking over grammer or spelling, so if something is wrong... just deal with it. Haha... I type this at the end of the post, so you have already dealt with it. I mean, I should just type that warning at the begining and not the end, but oh well, I'm lazy. Haha... Just don't judge, I guess.

Well, have a good one!

Hello December

That's all I've got.

Happy Thanksgiving

Oops... another tiny post.

Awesome Weekend!

I had a great weekend!

More on that later...

It's Party Time!

...On Saturday night!

OH YEAH!

South Park: Elementary School Musical

Yes, I know that South Park is kind of a naughty show, but last night I started watching the episode entitled Elementary School Musical. If any of you are familiar with South Park, then you probably know that they make fun of a lot of stuff, mainly stuff to do with current pop culture. Well last night's episode was pretty much ripping on High School Musical. So yeah, anything that's gonna make fun of that kind of stuff, is gonna be funny to me.

Dr. Pepper Temptation

So for lunch today, I ate at the Pizza Hut buffet. It's something I do now and then, because hey, I like the buffet! So anyway, I walk in and the waiter walks me to my table. He asks what I would like to drink and I tell him, water. I go to the buffet and load my plate with pizza and I head back to my table to see another waitress setting down a glass of pop on my table. Well, this waitress happens to know that I usually order Dr. Pepper so she assumed that I wanted some. I told her that I just ordered water instead. She said, "Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead and have this Dr. Pepper for free." So I sat there eating my lunch, with a glass of free Dr. Pepper, waiting for me to drink. I didn't give in though. I stuck with the water, but oh was the temptation high.

12 ft High Club

This is a really random little story, but it was something I was thinking about a few days ago. It's kind of funny... maybe not to some. It's little something about when we were sitting on the runway in Florida, waiting for take off.(Dating back to the family cruise vacation)

So like our plane is in line, waiting to take off... well, it was our turn for the runway, but we just sat there. I begin to wonder what is going on? Is there something wrong with our plane? Another plane?

Me: What's going on? Why aren't we taking off?

Nate: I think somebody is in the bathroom.

It turns out he was right, there was someone using the restroom or something. We had to like 15 minutes before they came out.

Me: So why are they taking so long? Are they trying to join the 12 feet high club?

...At the time, it got a laugh from my family, but it probably isn't funny anymore. It's just one of those times where you just have to be there or something.

Somebody probably asks, "What's the 12 feet high club?".... then Billy Idol will smile.

Haha... but still, I laugh.

Say it is SOto!

Congratulations to Geovany Soto for winning the NL Rookie of the Year Award.

This young catcher was probably one of my favorite Cubs this year and I look forward to watching him as he goes further in his career.

Go Soto Go!

Weekend... It's Here!

I'm very happy that it is the weekend! Even though I always have to work on Saturday, I still have Sunday off. I actually work six days a week(something that I'm not a big fan about), so Sunday can never come soon enough.

Now, I don't want this to sound bad or anything, but I kind of wish that on my one day off a week, I could just have the whole day to myself. However, my only day off is Sunday. Sunday has church in the morning and now The Effect in the evening. Sometimes I just wanna stay home from church all together, so I can have more of a personal time. Yes, this sounds bad, but don't worry. If I'm only gonna have one day off a week, I'm glad it is Sunday, because if it wasn't, I would probably miss out on Sunday mornings. So basically, I'm saying that I wish I had another day off, like most people. The second day off can just be all about what I wanna do. Just to make things clear, I'm not going to start skipping church or anything, just so I can have whole day to myself. I was just stating how I feel about just having one day off in general.

So.. that being said, I'm looking very forward to Sunday. I'm glad that I have started going to The Effect. I really feel it's something I need right now. I needed it a long time ago, but due to my selfish attitude, I wanted nothing to do with it, so I stopped going.

The Bears play the Titans on Sunday and I guess I'm just gonna go with the Bears losing... unless Sexy Rexy can show up with a good game against the undefeated Titans.

Chunk's Truffle Shuffle

I've been doing some blog hopping and I came across Lord Denethor 's post on hitting shuffle on the iPod and listing the first 15 songs that play.

Well, I decided it would be fun if I were to do the same thing. Now I do not own an iPod, but I do own a couple of sweet Creative Zen players. However, both of them are currently without battery power, so I am gonna use my computer instead.

1. Shut Your Mouth - Starflyer 59
2. Whole - Pedro the Lion
3. Avenues & Alleyways - Rancid
4. Don't Look Back - Boston
5. American Gigolo - Weezer
6. Tomorrow I'll Be You - Thursday
7. Brass Monkey - Beastie Boys
8. All of the Hype - Five Iron Frenzy
9. My Name is Jonas - Weezer
10. I Ain't the One - Lynyrd Skynyrd
11. So Kill Me - MXPX
12. Spice Drops - Ghoti Hook
13. Once Upon Your Dead Body - Coheed and Cambria
14. Just a Girl - No Doubt
15. Wouldn't Believe It - The Get Up Kids
(lets just go to 24, because I'm 24)
16. Dookie - Green Day
17. House of Faith - Geoff Moore and the Distance
18. Eight Hours Away from Being a Man - Roadside Monument
19. Bop 'Til you Drop - The Ramones
20. Pollution - The Hippos
21. Something - The Beatles
22. Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jet
23. Take It and Run - Dropkick Murphys
24. 6 to 8 - AFI

Lets Talk "Change"

I'm thinking my blogs need to start to change or something. I always seem to get on this habit of writing out a small blog post, kind of like this one.

Hmm...

At least I have a more consistent blog... something I couldn't say a year ago, or even two years ago.

Seriously though, Nappanee needs a Wendy's! ...or a Taco Time.

Working at a grocery store, you can run into times where you are surrounded by pop. Oh how I crave a Dr. Pepper right now.

A Thought about Obama

First off, I would like to congratulate Mr. Obama for winning the presidential election and being the first African American to do so.

Now... before I get serious with my thoughts about the election(..which will probably be another post) I would like to just throw out this one thought....

Wouldn't it be really cool if Barack Obama had an Afro? I mean, we could call him FrObama.

Can we see what that would look like? Anybody with some form of photo shop or any other form of advanced technology? Anybody... CNN? ...Bueller?

Happy Election Day

yep.

I Refuse

I refuse to get all political on this blog.

God is in control. I pray.

Currently, my heart isn't right with God... so I pray. It's getting there... I still pray.

I'm asking for prayer.
-for my heart
-for my attitude towards others
-for my relationship with God to grow

Thanks.

Thoughts On...

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