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movie review: the girl with the dragon tattoo

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I saw my first trailer of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo a few months ago. I’m pretty sure the BF had to hold me down — I was practically leaping out of my uncomfortable and gross theater seat — my excitement was so out of control. 

And for the last week, I’ve been stalking fandango for pre-screening tickets. Full on stalking.

Sidenote: if you have not yet read the three books, beginning with the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, you should. I don’t say that about any many books. But this series is incredible.

After I read all three books, I attempted to watch the Swedish version of the movie. But the subtitles were awful. And Mikael Blomkvist was incredibly unattractive {yes, that’s important, when he’s portrayed as a super-stud in the books}.

So yesterday I hurried my butt from work to the closest Regal. Who needs food when you have a giant Coke Zero and a bucket of popped corn? {turns out, I did. I was starved by the time that movie let out!}

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And I loved every second of this 2 hour and 38 minute movie. 

The best part? Direct dialogue from the book! The movie followed the book almost exactly. There were only a few artistic liberties taken with plot and none that I can think of with the characters. {and, yes, we dissected the movie, looking for differences, afterward!}

I give this movie 5 out of 5 stars! 🙂 Now go see it!

monday mantra.

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This week I will be doing yoga every day! And for the rest of this month, actually! I’ve made a decision that one of the things that my life has been missing lately is regular yoga. Like, every day. Both as a physical and mental workout. So I will be doing as much yoga as possible for the next 30 days!
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I believe that family will be brutally honest with you. But that’s one of the things you have to love about them.
I’m addicted to working on things around the house still. There are not enough hours in a weekend to accomplish everything on my to-do list! But it’s still nice to see progress made; even if it isn’t completed overnight.
I wish to find what I’m looking for.
I’m happy to have such an amazing family and friends.
Soundtrack/Mantra for the week: “It takes a long time to grow an old friend.” — John Leonard
...and my weekend in bulletpoints:
  • Worked out twice.
  • Saw Super 8.
  • Bought my bridesmaids dress.
  • Worked in the yard with an axe and a shovel.
  • Watched a movie on the couch.
  • Did zero cleaning.
  • Went to lunch with my dad.
  • Got in a lot of laughs.
  • Crashed at 10PM on Sunday wondering where my weekend went.

    memorial day weekend recap.

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    I know another week has come and gone, but this past week was so busy that I haven’t had a second to breathe, let alone talk about our awesome Memorial Day weekend! It was crazy busy, but fun!

    Friday night we had reservations at the VegiTerranean — Chrissie Hynde’s {of the Pretenders} restaurant in Akron. Our food was absolutely amazing! 

    {me and my veggie chicken scaloppini, a close-up of BFs risotto, and BF with his risotto}

    After dinner, we met up with my parents and went to Rockin’ on the River to see Journey cover band, Frontiers. It was fun, but we were surrounded by incredibly drunk people, so we left early.


    On Saturday we went to a Memorial Day party on the west side of Cleveland. We had fun, we ate, we laughed, we drank; and then we went to Trader Joe’s — cause obviously that’s the next logical and fun thing to do! Well, that and we needed to restock our freezer with Trader Joe’s stuff. 

    {PS. The city of Akron is in desperate need of a Trader Joe’s. So Trader Joe’s, if you’re listening, please get on that. Thanks}

    On Sunday we didn’t have a whole lot planned, but ended up not relaxing at all.

    We went to a matinee to see The Hangover 2. I’ll say this about the movie itself: It was funny, but not nearly as funny as Bridesmaids. And then I have this to say about the girls in the back row talking the whole time: You are the most rude whores on the face of the earth. Do you think that those couples left because they didn’t like the movie? No. It was because you said every single line of the movie BEFORE it was said in the movie!! Thanks, Regal Cinema; that’s exactly why we never go to your theater anymore. END RANT. {Sorry, much needed.}

    My movie experienced was kind of ruined by these chicks. Grr.

    After the movie, we decided to get a few things done around the house and then go work out. That was pretty much the extent of our Sunday. But the real fun was on Monday!

    Part of BFs birthday present was a tandem hang gliding flight. My dad has been hang gliding since before I was born. I have done a tandem flight before and pretty much grew up on the ‘airports’ where they hang glide from {obviously the term airports is used loosely, considering these are pretty much open fields}.

    So early Monday morning we packed up the car and drove over 2 and a half hours to a field southwest of Columbus! My mom and dad met us down there and my sister, who lives in Columbus, met up with us too!

    Photos of the BF from his big adventure 🙂


    After spending a few hours on the air field, the BF, my sister and I went to grab a late ‘lunch’ at the Grandview Cafe {FYI their hot dogs are incredible}, followed by Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream. 

    It was our first time at Jeni’s and I’m pretty sure I sampled every single flavor. To top it off they have ice cream macaron sandwiches!! It tasted as amazeballs as it sounded. Some of Jeni’s flavors include Cherry Lambic Sorbet, Queen City Cayenne, Backyard Mint, and Goat Cheese With Red Cherries! Crazy flavors, but oh-so-amazing.

    With our bellies full, we drove the two-plus hours home and spent the rest of the evening (like, an hour) relaxing. 

    The nice, long, Memorial Day weekend flew by. And then my four-day work week both dragged on and flew by. And now, here I am, Sunday night of the following weekend, wondering where the heck the time has gone! It’s June 5th already! 

    hello, weekend.

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    With the hustle and bustle of the holiday season, I’m desperately needing this weekend.

    Here’s what I’ll be doing to unwind…

    – starting the weekend out with an early morning yoga class.
    – falling asleep early on the couch.
    – baking yummy christmas cookies.
    – going on a double-date to see the movie tron: legacy.
    – eating southern bbq.
    – sleeping in.
    – finishing a book.
    – snuggling with my fur babies.
    How will you be spending your weekend?

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    hello, weekend.

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    I have been waiting to say this all week: Happy Friday!

    Seriously, I don’t know what it was about this week, but I have been majorly jonesing for the weekend in a major way.

    Plus, we have plans that I’m very much excited for!

    Tonight is date night!

    As soon as I get home from work, we are going to see the movie RED {the movie starring John Malkovich – yay! –
    and Mary-Louise Parker – double yay    !}.

    After the movie, we are going to my favorite
    little Mexican restaurant,     Mariachi Loco! We pretty much eat here once a week, but we haven’t been in three weeks. I’m going through salsa withdrawls. BF knows it, so we are going. It feels like twelve years has gone by since I last ate their super delicious salsa!


    And our weekend just starts there! We have tickets to the Akron Zips football game against the Western Michigan Broncos tomorrow afternoon.
    Hopefully we will have beautiful, Ohio, fall weather!
    {fingers crossed!}


    To top it all off, Sunday my favorite {and first ever} yoga teacher is teaching a class while visiting Cleveland Yoga from California. I’ll have to share my story about my first ever yoga class sometime. But for now, just know, that Diana Vitantonio is an incredibly inspiring teacher to have. She moved to California a couple of years ago.
    And I am so excited to be attending a visiting teacher class taught by her!


    What are your plans this weekend?

    movie review: the town.

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    BF and I have pretty much created a Monday night ritual. It’s $5 Bargain Movie Night at the Cleveland Cinema affiliate theater, Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill.

    But I definitely have come to look forward to these little date nights of ours.

    Well last night we saw The Town. It was pretty good. It wasn’t my favorite movie of all time {cause let’s face it, nothing beats Transformers}, but it was definitely worth a watch.

    It was difficult at times to keep my full attention and I could have done with it being slightly shorter, but the acting was good. Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner AND {most importantly} Jon Hamm? I was in heaven. Absolute.heaven. {If heaven was a place where people only talked in the thickest Boston accents known to man, that is.} So the movie was worth a watch. I’d give it a solid B+.

    True story.

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