Now, if you don't already know what today's post is, then go back and read the past two days'! The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is my "middle favorite" of the Santa Clause movies. The second one is my favorite, the first one I said isn't necessarily my favorite, and this one's right there in between!Watching this movie is the first time that I can remember ever seeing Tim Allen acting in something, so it's just what I used to always associate him with. The Santa Clause isn't necessarily my favorite Christmas movie, but I will stop and watch it every time I know it's on TV! Last year, I even asked for this movie for Christmas because it was FINALLY on DVD! (We had it on VHS, though.) So now, I do own all of The Santa Clause movies on DVD, ha!Alrighty! Time for Matt's favorite Christmas movie! Another wonderful movie, duh! I remember being so excited when this movie came out. While it's pretty much the same as the original cartoon Grinch show that comes on, I also love the parts added in to How The Grinch Stole Christmas, like Cindy Lou Who running into the Grinch in the back room at the Post Office and getting all wrapped up. The Holiday Cheermeister is also a fun part added into the movie to go further into the relationship between the Grinch and the Whos. Hope I didn't just ruin parts for you if you haven't seen the movie yet, haha! And Jim Carrey does a faaaaaaaabulouuuuuus* job playing The Grinch and I can't picture anyone else playing the part.
This might be the strangest post of these 25 Days of Christmas. Why? Because I have NO idea what the name of the movie is!
Okay, you guessed it (or most likely, you didn't)...but I have another ABCFamily movie for you! The first time I saw this last year, it was one of those Saturday mornings when I woke up and just turned on ABCFamily. If you may not know, all day Saturday and Sunday, ABCFamily just plays movies, so it's great! On that morning when I turned on the TV, it wasn't quite December yet, but they were still playing Christmas movies (okay in my book). The movie Snow was on, and although it sometimes takes me a while to get into movies I've never seen before and know nothing about, I was quickly interested!Today I'm going to talk about two movies. (Wait, what?!) Yeah, that's right, though. I'm pretty sure there are way more versions of this movie that I could talk about, but today I will talk about two versions of A Christmas Carol that I've watched this season. The first time I can actually remembering seeing A Christmas Carol, was when one of my high school teachers and advisors, Ms. Dick, invited Abby, Matt and me, along with a few other friends, to go see the Christian Youth Theater (CYT) Production of A Christmas Carol. A sweet friend of ours from school, Samantha, was in the performance so we really wanted to see her! Ever since then, every time I see or hear about A Christmas Carol, my mind always goes straight back to that performance!! (P.S. If you've never been, you NEED to go to a CYT production. I've been to several shows since then, and they are just incredible!!) Okay, so for today's movies! :So this movie was originally scheduled for later next week, but since it came on ABCFamily at 12am last night/this morning, I figured I'd post it today! I mean, hey, it's my blog, I can rearrange the schedule, right? ;)There's nothing I love more than a good 'ol DCOM (Disney Channel Original Movie). Sure, they're still putting out new movies on the Disney Channel, but none are as good as the old ones. And, for whatever reason, Disney Channel only plays these good movies Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights at 2:30am. Because that's a convenient time to watch them, right? Negative. (However, Saturday night, I did wake up in the middle of the night, wide awake, and got to watch 'Twas the Night!) Luckily, I've found a majority of those good 'ol movies on YouTube and enjoy watching them!
Anyone who goes or went to Longwood can tell you that one of the best things about the school is all of the traditions! The holidays are the BEST at Longwood! I can remember walking to 8am classes in the mornings of November and being so excited about seeing wreaths hanging up on the buildings, red bows, candles, and THE TREE! There's even a tree lighting ceremony, similar to the Grand Illuminations in the Richmond area.
If you didn't know, Matt has a blog, too. Right now, he's a Student Blogger for Longwood, but once he finishes up with that, he'll have his own blog. One cool thing Matt has incorporated into his blog is Vlogs (Video Blogs, for those of you who don't catch on to that...haha). I was pretty excited to find out that I was going to be there while he was in the first stages of a new Vlog--a tour of Longwood's campus!
I love this time of year, not because of the colder temperatures, but because of how pretty everything is outside!! Before the trees are completely dead for the winter, I love the pretty colors of the leaves changing! One thing I've really missed is not being at Longwood to see the big pretty tree on the corner at the Cunninghams. (If you go to/went to Longwood, you know which one I'm talking about.) This past weekend, I went to visit Matt for the last time while he's at Longwood. Still not sure how all of these "lasts" have been happening! Craziness. We specifically knew that we were going to set aside some time over the weekend to just walk around campus and look at all of the reds, oranges and yellows on the trees. Yay!
I mentioned a few weeks ago when I was telling you about a part of my past that I retired, that I'd been changing a lot of stuff lately, one of them being my outward appearance. If you're friends with me on Facebook, or you've seen me in the past months, you already know what this is. But, if you don't, I CUT MY HAIR! Doesn't sound like a big deal to you? Well, it IS. I hadn't had my hair cut since my junior year of high school, other than an occasional trim. So, after this long time of not cutting my hair, I ended up with this massively long, curly, tangly, (rat's nest--according to Matt, haha), stuff hanging from my head and mostly getting in the way. I've been saying I wanted to cut it, just never did. I didn't think I would make it through the summer without cutting it, because having my hair on my neck and back while driving on riding in the car made for such an itchy mess. It got on my last nerves!! After cutting my hair, the one question most people asked me was, "What does Matt think?" Well, just so you all know, he was GLAD. I complained about my hair so much, kept saying I was going to cut it but never did, but I think it mostly had to do with the fact that he would find my hair EVERYWHERE, including his car. Yeah, that's annoying. 
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Several weeks ago, my Dad participated in an Over the Edge event called Toss the Boss. This is a huge fundraiser for the Special Olympics and I had never heard of it before, but it's pretty cool! Each participant raises a minimum of $1,000 before they then repel down the Suntrust building in Richmond, VA. The Suntrust building is 26 stories, or 400 feet high. NO THANK YOU! I was quite content on the ground watching. C&F Bank, where my Dad works, raised $13,000 and if I remember correctly, raised the largest amount...I hope I'm remembering that right. They had some employees repel on Thursday, but Dad was scheduled for Friday morning.  |
| This definitely reminds me of our old dog, Chestnut, and this is the image that comes to mind: most dogs will pick up sticks in the yard to chew on/play with. Our dog? No. He would find an entire tree branch to carry around and play with! haha. The funniest times were when he'd have a branch that had little tiny branches with leaves on it, too! As dangerous as this probably was.....it was funny to throw these branches and see him fetch them. Oh, I miss our puppy :( |
A lot of things have been changing for me lately. I've gone through and cleaned out a ton of my old clothes (I've done this in the past, just not to the extent I did this time!), I changed my outward appearance (more on that soon), and I've retired a part of my past. For the past 5 years, I've been driving my little Grand Am around as OMG MALP. For those of you who don't know, for the past 8+ years, I have been very good friends with another Mallory! During high school, we became known as Mal P and Mal M. We were pretty much always together (a lot of the same classes!), so our friends had to have some way to make it known who they were talking to! To this day, when I see some friends from high school, they still call me Mal P! When trying to come up with a license plate idea for my car, the MALP part was easy, and I still cannot remember why I decided to put the OMG in front of it, haha. Wouldn't just MALP have been fine? haha, who knows! 
Ever since we were little, my sister and I, along with our cousins Gabrielle and Alison have been super close! It's pretty funny because our names are similar in ways: You have Abby and Gabrielle (Gabby), and Alison and Mallory (Mal). So, we're the Abs and the Als! haha.
