Of Movies and Polish...

So, quick public service announcement: Be careful when you rip the tags off clothes, especially when it comes to those long plastic attachments...Today, I went to go pull one off and instead of breaking, I actually tried to garrote my finger! It actually cut into my skin from the quick pulling I did to get the tag off. Even with that amount of force, the tag didn't break off. So...Be careful! The cut isn't deep or anything, but it hurts and stings when stuff gets into it (i.e., nail polish remover). It was one of those "special moments" or one of those "impressive moments"...Jury is still out on which. :)

My dumb cat has a swollen bottom lip again (I've been calling her Bubba). Ugh. It'll go away (it did before), but we're not sure what triggers it. This is the 2nd time this has happened and I thought we fixed it, but apparently not. We've stopped her dry food in the hopes it'll go back down again (we *think* it might be her dry food - not sure), but why it flared up now (she's been on this dry food for months now), who knows.

Movies first and then nails...

Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, etc) - Well...Considering I didn't read this part of the book word-for-word (I stopped right when they knew the Volturi were coming and then skimmed the rest so I read a few chapters in), I thought two things: 1) I definitely didn't miss anything by not reading all of that word-for-word and 2) I thought the movie was better than the book. Granted, they are two different medias and they were appealing to two different things (imagination vs seeing). The book has more inter-personal relationships in that regard, which is why the first half of the movie is kind of boring. There is a lot of talking and a lot of convincing of people. There's just not a lot of action. The last part of the book (or the last quarter of the book) is the big confrontation, but you mostly bypass all of that. In the movie, they do a big scene at the end and then do a twist. That twist was an amazing idea. The big scene is not in the book in the movie sense of creation; however, you can't read someone's mind on the movie screen and the twist was executed in a way that allowed you to do that and surprise the viewer. It was clever and I enjoyed that. With all that said, I still don't like KStew or RobPat. I like Lautner (not necessarily for his acting, but I like him as Jacob for whatever reason), Greene (she is an amazing Alice), and Facinelli (he mostly embodies what I always imagine Carlisle to be like). The end credits were interesting where they did a nice montage of all the actors through all 5 movies. That was a kind of nice send off for the series and made me wonder what they did for Potter (I can't remember...it's been a while!). With that, it wasn't too bad, but it's by no means a great film or story. Breaking Dawn still ruins the entire series for me. Grade: C

How weird, went to go find my BD, Part 1 review and I apparently totally forgot to write it? Weird! It at least was in my record list so my count was accurate. I will say, I ALMOST didn't want to see Twilight in theater (really want to see Silver Linings Playbook) because I didn't want it to get anywhere near Harry Potter's records. :P

Hope Springs (Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell) - Interesting movie. It was cute. The acting, of course, is excellent. You could totally see both sides and the issues, not to mention the emotion. I mean, they're in therapy and Carell has this calm demeanor trying to figure out what is wrong between them and what they each want. They have to get into character acting and it was good. It was also nice seeing the progression they both took to get their marriage back on track. You could also see how much they both did care for each other, but they just got into a rut and couldn't figure out how to get back into showing their adoration and love for each other. I liked the end credit scene too. It was cute. Wasn't fantastic, but wasn't a bad movie rental. Grade: B-

With those 2, I am up to 88 movies! I'll break 90 for sure and won't do my end-of-the-year recap till probably around the 31st or 1st of the new year. I will be watching probably up to the last day of the year (Looper comes out the 31st). Wonder if I could push it and make 100...It's feasible, but I don't know.

I did read over 50 books for the year! Yay! I've been a reading fiend the last few days, but it helped that I found a good new YA series to read.

With that...On to nails.

           

Left-Right: Darling Diva Polish A Christmas Story over Rescue Beauty Lounge Moulin Rouge, KBShimmer All Decked Out, Smitten Polish The Holly and the Ivy

I always miss my long nails, but like having the shorter nails for my touch screens...At any rate, Christmas polishes! Woohoo! The Darling Diva Polish is AMAZING. It is soooo sparkly! It's just red and green, but since they reflect, the photo makes it look like there are more shades when there are not. It's a really nice polish. I like the KBShimmer one, but wish the green was just a little lighter. In some darker lighting, the green is almost black. With that said, I really like the polish. The stars are purposefully meant to be fewer in the bottle because there's only one star at the top of the tree (as a topper), but I was still able to find them pretty easily. The Smitten Polish one has a matte top coat on to give it that, well, non-shiny look. I like it. It looks like frosting. I'm going to put a shiny top coat on top tomorrow to change it up.

With that, time to head to bed to read! Gotta work tomorrow.