If you've seen 85 movies or more, you apparently have no life.

Copy and paste and mark an x next to the films you have seen.

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
( ) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest
(x) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
(x) Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
( ) Airplane
Total: 6

(x) The Princess Bride
(x) AnchorMan
(x) Napoleon Dynamite
( ) Labyrinth
(x) Saw
(x) Saw II
( ) White Noise
(x) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
( ) The Princess Diaries
( ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
Total so far: 14

(x) Scream
(x) Scream 2
(x) Scream 3
(x) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
(x) Scary Movie 3
(x) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
Total so far: 23

(x) Harry Potter 1
( ) Harry Potter 2
( ) Harry Potter 3
( ) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
( ) Little Black Book
( ) The Village
( ) Lilo & Stitch
Total so far: 25

(x) Finding Nemo
(x) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
( ) White Chicks
(x) Butterfly Effect
(x) 13 Going on 30
( ) I, Robot
( ) Robots
Total so far: 31

( ) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snickt: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
( ) KingPin
(x) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
( ) King Kong
Total so far: 37

( ) A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
(x) Dumber & Dumberer
(x) Final Destination
( ) Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
( ) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber
Total so far: 42

(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(x) Practical Magic
(x) Chicago
(x) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
(x) The Whole Ten Yards
Total so far: 50

(x) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child's Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
(x) Bride of Chucky
( ) Ten Things I Hate About You
( ) Just Married
(x) Gothika
( ) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
(x) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
( ) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
Total so far: 55

(x) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
(x) Lucky Number Sleven
(x) Ocean's Eleven
(x) Ocean's Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
(x) Bourne Supremecy
( ) Lone Star
(x) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
( ) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
Total so far: 62

(x) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
( ) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
(x) My Bosses Daughter
( ) Maid in Manhattan
( ) War of the Worlds (the original, not the Tom Cruise one)
( ) Rush Hour
( ) Rush Hour 2
Total so far: 65

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She's All That
(x) Calendar Girls
(x) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
( ) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
(x) The Terminator 2
( ) The Terminator 3
Total so far: 73

( ) X-Men
( ) X2
( ) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
( ) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
( ) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
(x) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2
Total so far: 81

( ) Swimfan
( ) Miracle on 34th street
(x) Old School
(x) The Notebook
( ) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf's Tribe
( ) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-year-old-virgin
Total so far: 84

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
( ) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
( ) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Total so far: 88

( ) Baseketball
(x) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) Devils Rejects
(x) Elf
( ) Highlander
( ) Mothman Prophecies
(x) American History X
( ) Three
Total so Far: 91

(x) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
(x) Shaun Of the Dead
( ) Willard
Total so far: 96

( ) High Tension
(x) Club Dread
( ) Hulk
( ) Dawn Of the Dead
( ) Hook
(x) Chronicle Of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
(x) 28 days later
( ) Orgazmo
() Phantasm
(x)Waterworld
Total so far: 100

( ) Kill Bill vol 1
( ) Kill Bill vol 2
( ) Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
(x) Kingdom of Heaven
( ) The Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave aka the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) Army of Darkness
Total so far: 101

( ) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
( ) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
( ) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
( ) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
( ) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
Total so far: 102

(x) The Matrix
(x) The Matrix Reloaded
( ) The Matrix Revolutions
( ) Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
(x) Team America: World Police
( ) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
(x) Hannibal

Grand total: 107. Either I have no life, or my mathematical skills are atrocious.

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Events that changed my life:
1. Discovering cream soda-flavoured milk
2. Publicly admitting that Simply Red is my favourite band of all time
3. Realising that a bastard who is temporarily being nice is still a bastard

People who made me infinitely happy:
1. Me
2. My Writing & Editing lecturers (Rod, Clive, Gill)
3. Jonathan (especially when he had too much to drink at Tash’s party)
4. Some of my Journ colleagues (Dustin, Alex, Melissa, Nic, Pete, Erin, Sarah, Siphokazi, Leon)
5. My Anthro lecturers (especially when they had too much to drink at the end of the year Anthro function)
6. Owen Wilson
7. My 50-year-old neighbour for being a St. Germain fan

Things that rocked my world:
1. Writing & Editing
2. Beating Alex’s Helicopter Game score
3. Awesome parties (Tash’s birthday, Yogi’s birthday, Anthro end of the year function)
4. Getting into Journ 4
5. Getting into postgrad res
6. Banana, cream soda and chocolate milk
7. Random chats/messages/notes to Floh
8. Catching up on all the Berlin International School gossip
9. Losing 7kgs in 16 days
10. Being employed as a reporter for Rhodos
11. Watching the movie Closer over and over again
12. Peanut butter milkshakes and toasted sandwiches at Red Café
13. Teaching a 3-year-old to lift her glass and shout cheers, give Eskimo kisses, and do The Monkey
14. My holiday

Stuff that sucked (chocolate salty balls):
1. Finding out that I have a hormone imbalance and having to inject myself every morning
2. Family feuds
3. June exam results
4. Living in res
5. Contracting an incredibly ruthless stomach bug
6. Accidentally putting my sunglasses in the washing machine
7. Unreasonable and lazy colleagues
8. Having my laptop dropped
9. The Black Eyed Peas remixing Sergio Mendez’s “Mas Que Nada”
10. Smelly, dirty, slimy water

Repeat-worthy things for 2007:
1. Making more of an effort to keep in contact with old friends
2. Warthog sausages
3. Dropping a dress size

Mistakes I have learnt from:
1. All-nighters don’t work after your first year
2. All-nighters are especially ineffective when you try pulling them for a 30 page mini thesis
3. Washing your clothes in dirty water will not leave them white

I'm curious to know whether any of you believe in making resolutions and what your resolutions for 2007 are. The last time I remember making a resolution was in 1999, and I can't even remember what it was. Next year I would really like to put more effort into maintaining relationships with old friends, particularly with Christian and Floh. I would also like to put less time and effort into following the Britney Spears/KFed saga.

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I’ve had a significantly better week.

My doctor found out that I have a hormone imbalance. This may explain why I put on weight even when I fast and why even cheesy TV ads make me burst into tears. I’ve been injecting myself with this hormone and B-vitamins for less than a week now and have lost four kilos. So very chuffed about that.

My exam results were fine, but I still have no idea whether I'll be accepted into Journ 4. Leon has more or less convinced me not to worry about it, though.

My ticket is booked and I’m flying to Cape Town in just over two weeks for Jonathan’s brother’s wedding. I’ll probably spend a night in Cape Town with Jonathan’s sister and then the two of us will drive to Hermanus. I’m nervous about meeting Jonathan’s relatives but looking forward to seeing him again. He’s off to the Philippines for awhile on Monday.

I’m leaving for our good friends’ game farm on Saturday and will spend a couple of days there. We’ve spent Christmas there since I was 8. Instead of the usual game drives and long walks it seems we may spend Christmas indoors listening to Van Morrison and drinking too much due to the unusual windy and rainy weather we’ve been having. Regardless of how we spend our getaway, I’m so excited about going. We’re having a crayfish braai (barbeque to you non-South Africans) on Christmas Eve, waking up insanely early on Christmas morning to open presents, having a Christmas lunch consisting of lots and lots of roast lamb, turkey, tongue, all sorts of fish roe, and smoked salmon. Boxing Day will probably be spent eating leftovers and playing 60 Seconds.

I hope your Christmas shopping is going better than mine. Yesterday I went to the shops to look for a present for my sister and ended up leaving without one – armed with a dress and two pairs of shoes (black and white striped pumps and peep-toe platforms) for myself instead.

Aside from world peace and an end to starvation, what do you hope to get for Christmas this year?

Labels: christmas, family, love, narcism

...hope you're reading this. Just wanted to tell you that I'm not ignoring you (again). I wanted to reply to your email after my exams but our domestic dropped - and broke - my laptop. Am using my mom's computer now but I've lost your email address. Please give me your address again so I can reply.

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I am shamelessly intolerant. If I catch a man being rude to a waitress on a date, I will never agree to see him again. If an acquaintance makes a politically incorrect remark, they automatically lose the chance to ever become one of my friends. If I catch a boyfriend picking his nose, I immediately deem him as inappropriate to procreate with.

But what is it about family? Regardless of how many times members of my family disappoint me; I find it impossible to give up on them. When someone in my family hurts me, I try to convince myself that I am overreacting or make excuses for their behaviour; then when they manage to do something kind I erase all of their wrongdoings from my mind - until they hurt me again, that is. I’ve never been married (or even been in a terribly unhealthy relationship) yet I strangely find myself acting like a battered wife. They would tell you that I’m just being overly-dramatic, though. And that psychologist who told me my family was poisonous and that I should move away from them as soon as possible? Well, she was off her head! That man I loved who convinced me my family was not a normal or healthy one? He was obviously trying to brainwash and alienate me! That friend who feels uncomfortable around my family? That’s because I have only told her my exaggerated side of the story!

Today someone in my family, whose behaviour I have constantly excused and forgiven, did something inexplicably cruel to me. Instead of apologising and attempting to justify it, this person accused me of making it up and tried to come across as the victim. Had anyone else done this to me, they never would have heard from me again. But because of some sanguineous connection, I know I will forgive them even if they fail to ask for my forgiveness.

Labels: family, narcism, rant