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Van Damme Movie

Christine Eclavea Mercer — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:14:46 +0000

Have I mentioned that I love mindless action flics? I love them. I am sure that I’m the only (heterosexual) woman watching movies for guys who like movies – whatever channel that is. I’m kind of a freak. I will watch the Godfather on one channel and Terminator on another. I’m an equally big fan of Platoon and Scarface.

Imagine my happiness now:

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Must Watch: Officially Badass JCVD Trailer

CSA Vegetable Update

Christine Eclavea Mercer — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:59:04 +0000

We’re still enjoying the vegetables. Though I goofed and forgot to take one vegetable this week, and shorted myself. Not good.

DD ate all of the corn on Saturday again. This time there were six cobs. But four of them were wormy, so ended up being more like halves.

We had a very pretty looking, elongated, squash that was green and white. I don’t remember the name of it. But it was good.

On the way home we listened to Vegetable Town on the Barenaked Ladies Snack Time cd. I forgive them for being Canadian.

Did You Know That Hellacious Is Slang?

Christine Eclavea Mercer — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:51:00 +0000

I did not know. But it was not in the spell checker. I was not surprised. The spell checker doesn’t have every word. So I looked it up.

What I find most amusing is that it is in league with the word bodacious, a word that I associate with An Officer and a Gentlemen, as in bodacious tatas.

Hellatious: adjective Slang.
1.remarkable; astonishing: They’re raising a hellacious amount of money in taxes.
2.formidably difficult: We had a hellacious time getting here in the blizzard.

Also, hel·la·ceous.[Origin: hell + -acious (extracted from audacious, sagacious, vivacious, etc.), perh. with intensive or aug. force; cf. bodacious, splendacious]

I am not so tragically uncool these days

In the World According to Disney and Sappy Romance Novels

Christine Eclavea Mercer — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:31:58 +0000

In the world according to Walt Disney fairy tales and sappy romance novels, love everlasting is based on whirlwind romances and that funny feeling.

I have decided that in real life it is about finding somebody who can put up with your crap. And whose crap you can tolerate in return. Somebody who you can be just so over and like again tomorrow.

If I had figured that out when I was twelve it would have positively driven my mother over the edge. As it was, she was introducing me as her daughter Christine, age twelve, going on thirty. That kind of early onset cynicism would have been way too much. Better for my mother that I kept a copy of The Twelve Dancing Princesses under my bed.

I later graduated to Top Gun who I dated and A Few Good Men who I married. (Think Kiefer Sutherland, not Tom Cruise.) And divorced.

Twice.

I can be a slow learner.

I blame it on Disney. And my mother.

Books: Broken

Christine Eclavea Mercer — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:30:00 +0000

I am reading Broken, the autobiography of William Cope Moyers, a drug addict. It begins very slowly and seems like a second-hand account, setting the scene with a lovely childhood. But it gets interesting once he begins talking about his addiction.

I haven’t finished the book yet. Oddly enough, I heard a dj on a morning show talking about William Cope Moyers, a CNN anchor who suddenly went missing, because it turned out he had a bad drug habit nobody knew about. Then later in the week I noticed the autobiography in the discount bin at the book store.

Historical Fiction

Song du jour

Christine Eclavea Mercer — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:06:22 +0000

I heard this for the first time today. It’s great.

BLUE OCTOBER LYRICS – Calling You

BLUE OCTOBER LYRICS

“Calling You”

There’s something that I can’t quite explain
I’m so in love with you
You’ll never take that away
And if I’ve said it a hundred times before
Expect a thousand more
You’ll never take that away