Love & Other Drugs

Tonight I watched Love and Other Drugs starring the gorgeous Jake Gyllenhaal. I think you could literally get lost in that man's eyes... anywho... cute movie. Will warn not for children or a movie to watch with your parents, that would be awkward lots of "whoopie" if you know what I'm saying. Love the quote at the end and I know it's supposed to make you feel all lovey dovey and movies like this probably aren't good for me, just like I shouldn't have read Pioneer Woman's book, but I really hope there are these make believe nice guys and hopefully one day I'll find one if I'm lucky... but here's the ending quote.

"You meet thousands of people and none of them touch you. Then you meet one person and your life is changed...forever."

Makes me rememberthat your whole world can change in an instant and all it takes is one chance meeting. That can apply to anything, works going not so great lately but I just have to take a breath and realize it won't be like this for long and this too shall pass. So I'm trying not to stress too much and just live each day as they come... cliche' I know, but I'm beginning to see the cornier the saying the more solid and true it is. And I keep going back to probably the nicest thing that has ever been said to me and that came from the Mrs and I thank you so much for that!  

"Regarding the age of 25, this much I know is true: I've seen more lives change in that one 365 day period in a person's life than any other age. I predict the same for you, and I also predict they will all be amazing changes."

Ok this was a little deep for a Tuesday if I'm honest, but it's true. I've become a sponge for optimism, dreams, and possibilities and I love absorbing life stories and lessons from all you guys. Page Turner says I'm lame for hanging out with old folk like her and OL, but I'm just soaking in all your knowledge so I'll be prepared when life throws something at me... but anywho Jake Gyllenhaal's butt should win an award for something and the movie was pretty good too ;)

Eye Candy: Patrick Wilson

I haven't done an eye candy post in awhile and I'm crushing bad on Patrick Wilson lately. I first saw him in the Watchmen as the second night owl and then recently starring alongside Rachel McAdamsin Morning Glory, enjoy!

I Need to Be Famous and/or Rich

I think it takes a full week away from work to finally be able to relax and begin to absorb the "so this is how famous and/or rich people live" state of mind. I'm so sad that just today I got in my groove of no worry and no agenda scheduling.

It sucks to be a poor person who has to work for a living. You go to work for 7 hours 45 minutes add 2 hours for commute and your whole day is gone. I could do so many things if I didn't have to go to work. I could sit and watch OWN all day (aka today, I love the behind the scenes show and I really don't want the Oprah Show to be over with) and I could just up and go somewhere whenever I wanted and not have to use PV or PT... I really need to look into winning the lottery or a career change.

Alas, my week of make believe has come to a close. I'm really not looking forward to going back to work tomorrow, especially since I was gone one day, literally one day, and I had already gotten an SOS from OL. Things are not going to be pretty from what I hear... sad face.

And after sitting myself in front of the television today, I have added another job to my list working for a magazine I have O or Martha Stewart in mind, so if anyone knows an "in" for me at either of those magazines go ahead and put in a good word for me ;) until then I'll keep buying my lotto tickets and hope for a very rich man to ask me to marry him also keep an eye out for any of them too.. there you go you have your homework assignments :)

Nashville Trip 2011: Part 2

As we drove out to where the Opry is located we drove past the Opry Mills mall, which is where the Opry land theme park used to be.  The mall is still closed from the 500 year flood they had last May. During the flood, the Opry had 4 feet of water at center stage. Everything we saw in the building had been replaced and they were able to save the circle of wood that was taken from the Ryman. All the repairs to the Opry house were completed in 4 months, but the Opry never missed a beat and was housed in another building for their weekly radio show, it's the longest running radio show ya know so they couldn't just up and stop. The backstage tour was very cool, we came in the artist's entrance and got to look at a few of the dressing rooms and even got to walk across the stage, it was very cool, I'd love to see a show there sometime. http://www.opry.com/

Every Opry member has a mailbox backstage

All the dressing rooms have a theme

A great quote by Brad Paisley (click to make it larger)

The lockers for band members and artists

This chair rail shows the flood line from the flood in May

The green room area where the artists wait to go on stage

The view from backstage area looking out

Stage

The circle

A.Drama.B and I in the circle

After the Opry tour we headed back to relax a little bit ordered some pizza, watched TV and listened to the Tuesday night Opry show on the radio. Then we waited for our hearse to arrive for our Ghost tour!

 I stole this from their website http://www.nashvilleghosttours.com/ so you could see our pimpin ride, we didn't have the canopy on for our tour. Every time we went by someone they would hoot and holla at us, it was pretty cool. We decided that this would be a good idea for the drive-in so if you ever see a hearse for sale cheap, let us know!

Our first stop was the old Capital records building, it now sits empty after several tenants had moved out due to crazy happenings, which made it that much more creepy. It is haunted by two sisters who used to live in the mansion that was torn down to build the tower. Google Jacob Schnell mansion to find the story.

Outside the music studio where Kevin Hughes was murdered, he was going to blow the whistle on a pay for play scheme where the record companies would pay the radio and charts to push their singles higher on the hits list. http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=132437&page=1

Belmont Mansion

http://www.hauntedhouses.com/states/tn/belmont_mansion.cfm

http://belmontmansion.com/

Nashville City Cemetary

http://www.thenashvillecitycemetery.org/

The oldest single residence home in Nashville, now a fancy restaurant

http://www.smithhousenashville.com/

The Tennessee State Capital

http://www.prairieghosts.com/cap_bldg.html

The Hermitage Hotel

http://www.thehermitagehotel.com/homepage.aspx

http://www.thecabinet.com/darkdestinations/location.php?sub_id=dark_destinations&letter=h&location_id=the_hermitage_hotel

The Redneck Comedy Bus Tour took us around Nashville and pointed out some sights we had already seen but gave us some good stories and was really funny, we had a good time and was a great way to end the trip.

http://www.theredneckcomedytour.com/index1.html

If you love country music Nashville is a must see, there are so many more things to see and do we just didn't have enough time. The weather was perfect and the company was great, I had such a great time and it was definitely nice to get away for a little while... I just wish the warmer weather would have followed us home, I'm still waiting on Spring to get here!

We got to visit all those places with the Total Access Attraction Pass you pay $50 then get to pick from a list of 17 activities and free entry to the Parthenon, it paid for itself in two visits, totally worth it. Hope everyone enjoyed the pictures, leave comments of places you visited in Nashville that I didn't get to see so I can add them to my list OR better yet leave me some comments on places I need to see next, I'm leaning towards Savannah, GA because everyone knows I heart Georgia! Shoutout to my Georgia fans! (hopefully you'll be up for a visit soon otherwise I'm definitely going to have to come visit y'all!)

Nashville Road Trip 2011: Part 1

Day 1: Driving, Metropolis, Margaritaville, Downtown, The Stage, Sleep

Metropolis, IL and their Giant Super Man

Got into town and headed to Margaritaville for dinner and a hurricane. A.Drama.B was cornered by the man on stilts making balloon animals and he made her a shark fin, she then had to help demonstrate Jimmy Buffetts Fin song to the entire restaurant, don't worry we did get it on video.

After dinner A.Drama.B and I headed back downtown while KStew and BWurm rested at the room. Poor BWurm had been looking forward to this trip for awhile and had gotten sick the Friday before we left but he was a trooper and still had fun... at least I hope they did. We parked ourselves at The Stage on Broadway and had a few drinks and listened to some great music.

Day 2: Parthenon, Country Music Hall of Fame, Grand Ole Opry, Ghost Tour

The Parthenon:

Country Music Hall of Fame:

The front of the Hall of Fame Museum

Hank Willams Sr's guitar

One of Hank's stage outfits

Hank Williams Jr's guitar and stage shirt

Johnny Cash's guitar and black suit

Hank III's boots he wore to every show. Note the duct tape... I think I will retire my boots before they require this type of maintenance

Garth Brook's guitar

The pretty trees in bloom outside the museum, I told you they had spring there!

Aww look at pretty ABo sitting in the museum lobby.

I have more pictures to show you all so I'll split this into two posts so I don't overwhelm your senses, and you can soak it all in. Check back tomorrow for pictures from the Opry, Ghost stories and a redneck tour.