twenty-eight: days and more

If you know much about me, you know I hate picking favorites. And while I'm learning a lot about my need to assert myself more---even in simple things like what I want and like---I'm still not ready to declare anything an absolute favorite. I don't know that I ever will.

So while these aren't my favorites, some movies I absolutely love are:

• Charlie's Angels (is it "the Chad"?)
• Finding Nemo
• 28 Days (look at my package!)
• You've Got Mail
• Father of the Bride 2 (every party has a pooper...)
• Up Close & Personal
• The Mexican (tit for tat, tat for tit, wah wah wah...)
• Oceans Eleven
• French Kiss (lactose intolerant!)

What are some of your favorite most loved movies?

just a girl

Back when Niel and I were engaged, the Notting Hill movie soundtrack was one of very few CDs I owned. Since we were going budget-style on our wedding, we supplied all the music for the big event. Consequently, many of the songs from Notting Hill were played at our reception.

One night, months before our wedding, Niel and I drove to town to use the ATM. As usual, Notting Hill was in the CD player. In Harrismith, they pretty much roll up the streets at 5:00, so town was fairly empty. As Niel waited in the car while I walked up to the ATM machine, he opened the car windows and blared 98°'s I Do (Cherish You) from the soundtrack. We both laughed really hard as he belted out the words.

Needless to say, our first dance together at our wedding was to that song.

Notting Hill was on TV yesterday while we were holed up inside our rental house at the lake (it was freezing outside!). I hadn’t seen it in years but it still made me laugh. And my favorite part, as always, was when Julia Roberts walks back in to the travel book shop towards the end of the movie and says, “I’m just a girl standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”

I looked over at Niel and my eyes whispered the very same thing to him.