Someone and the Chocolate Factory

I'm not a fan of the Willy Wonka movies. I never have been and I never will be. The old movie, from the 70's, was a little scary, and the Johnny Depp one freaked me out. I was more of a Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin viewer.

What are the Oompa Loompas anyway??? Little people with orange skin. That's what they are. I think they would be even more creepier if they were average sized. So thank you for making them small.

You're probably wondering why I'm blogging about Oompa Loompas. Well, for starters - I see that AT&T commercial with Gene Wilder singing "Pure Imagination" about ten times a day, and then I get that song stuck in my head for a good three hours.

Second, I almost hit a little orange skinned dude on my home today. They are EVERYWHERE!

Literally...

My roommate and I were talking the other day about how her fiance uses the term "literally" wrong.

For example: He will say, "I'm so mad that I'm literally going to rip my head off and throw it at the door!"

Yeah...so she corrects him.

Well, my niece, Caitlyn, takes sayings to the "literal" degree. She's only 8 though ;) Like the other day (wow, I use "other day" a lot...but this was literally the "other day", the first "other day" was about 3 weeks ago) I was looking at The Philosopher's Handbook (part of the wonderful giveaway that I won from Sam over at Thoughts, Writings, Coffee...) and I said-

"This looks very interesting, but a little too heavy for me to read right at this moment."

My 8-year-old niece replies, "Can I hold it to see how heavy it is?"

I couldn't help but laugh. It was too sweet!

As you all know, I got a Wii for my college graduation. Yep, I'm a grown-up! I haven't bought any games yet, and my nephew (who is going to be 11 next month) left me this note this morning:

Property of
Billy Bodenburg
To Aunt Kinsey
you may borrow
the game until the
end of June at
the very most
amount of time.

(It was stuck in the Super Mario Bros. Wii game in the bathroom so I would see it right away)

It was a great start to my day. Plus, the game is pretty much amazing. After he got home from school we played it. He was Mario and I was Luigi. He also thought it was funny to pick me up and throw me (in the game, not in real life).

So I'd like to literally end this post by thanking Sam for the wonderful prizes. I've read 9 of the 50 Books You Must Read Before You Die (on the bookmark)...so only 41 more to go!

Oh, and go see Hot Tub Time Machine it was so funny that I literally laughed my head off...did I use that right?

Weekend Update

Friday: Graduation day. My sister, Tyne, told me to scream "I'm graduating today" when I woke up...like Monica did on Friends for her wedding day - "I'm getting married today!" But she told me not to trip. I didn't trip, or scream it at 7:30 AM, but I did run and hug my roommate Codi, and I did tell her that we're graduating today. Just in case she didn't know ;)

Three of my siblings (Blake couldn't make it) and my parents

The ceremony went well. It was two hours long, and I'm glad it's over. My family all made it except for my brother and his wife, and my brother-in-law. Plus all my nieces and nephews didn't come since they were in school or too little to sit through a graduation ceremony, but everyone came for my little parTAY at my house back home.


I got a Wii from my folks, and money from my siblings. Tyne bought me a travel bag for all my bathroom stuff. I was very pleased with all my presents.

Saturday: We put on a baby shower for my sister-in-law April. Good food, good friends, and a lot of fun!!

I missed Betty White on SNL, but I DVRed it. Gotta watch it soon!

Sunday: Mother's Day!! We went to church and I got a graduation present from a friend of the family. As I opened the box (which obviously held a necklace), my nephew, Connor, in the backseat said, "I hope it's a Wii game!" It wasn't, naturally, it was a beautiful necklace.

We had brats on the grill and lots of other good food back at the house. Let's just say that I ate really well this weekend. It makes up for all the junk I've been eating in Winona.

It was a wonderful Kinsey Bodenburg/Sandra Bullock Weekend!!

It's Kinsey Bodenburg Weekend

If Sandra Bullock can get a whole weekend devoted to her on the ABC Family channel, then so can I.

Don't get me wrong, I love Sandra Bullock. She's a great actress and she sounds like a wonderful person. I'm just saying that she probably wouldn't have gotten an entire weekend devoted to her on tv, if Jesse James never broke up with her.

Am I right or am I right?

And although I have never been married, or have even had a relationship long enough to celebrate a 3 or a 6 month anniversary...my boyfriend dumped me on Saturday...via text message. He makes me mad, so I'm not going to go into it any further. *ahem* jerk move *cough*

So let's celebrate Sandra Bullock and Kinsey Bodenburg Weekend!!!

Maybe I'll adopt a baby too - after I win an Oscar, obviously ;)

Wednesday Musings: Take Seven

I fell asleep to the Syfy channel last night. The X-Files was on, and I love that show. MULDER!!! SCULLY!!!

A dude called me this morning about furthering my education. Seriously? I'm graduating on Friday and I don't think I'll be furthering my education for awhile. Hello? Freedom!

I'm pretty sure I ate my Erb's and Gerb's sandwich last night with my eyes closed. And I'm pretty sure I ate it all except for one bite which is now wrapped up in the fridge.

I went out for Heather's birthday last night. Which should explain the blind eating.

The "Job Switching" episode of I Love Lucy is on right now. It's probably one of my favorite episodes. That and "Vitameatavegamin."

I used to be able to recite Lucy's Vitameatavegamin commercial word for word when I was younger. "Hello friends. I'm your Vitameatavegamin girl..."

Slams the Door and I never got to finish our doubles tennis match. So it will forever be a tie between us.

I'm going to leave you with a clip from the I Love Lucy "Job Switching" episode. Have a happy Wednesday!

I'm in need of a good summer movie

With graduation approaching fast, and me being bored out of my mind with nothing to do (should I be studying for my last final? nah, not yet)...I've been craving a feel-good summery type movie.

Like Stand by Me, or Now and Then, or Heavyweights.

Yes, Heavyweights. Great movie. I used to have a "thing" for chubby boys.

I'm not even joking. I thought they were so cute, and most of the chubby boys I knew were funny. Hello!!! Two-for-two!

My mom was worried that I was going to bring home a man with high cholesterol and on the brink of a heart attack. I haven't yet :)

So here's some of my favorite clips from these movies. Enjoy!

Stand by Me


Now and Then


Heavyweights

Light as a feather

One of my favorite slumber party memories with my girl friends when I was younger was playing games like "Light as a feather, stiff as a board." We would pick our culprit (normally it was the smallest friend) and gather around her body. With two fingers from each hand under our skinny little pal, we listened as the person at the head of the body rubbed the soon-to-be levitated girl's temples tell a story ( a scary one). In the story, the person would die, and then all of us girls would chant "light as a feather, stiff as a board" over and over.

Then we would giggle and have to start over, because our laughing broke our concentration and that was obviously the reason why our lightweight friend wasn't levitating in my basement at 3:00 in the morning.

Other times we would sneak in the bathroom and try the Bloody Mary trick - which was probably one of the most exciting/funny, but scarier moments during our slumber parties. (We didn't get much sleep at these parties).

We would huddle in the bathroom and turn off the lights. Then we would say "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary" through our tightly clenched teeth and squinted eyes. Unfortunately, we never saw Bloody Mary. I don't know what was wrong with us as children, but the thrill of seeing a child serial killer intrigued us. I blame scary movies.

After the absence of a Mary's apparition in the mirror, we resorted to biting down on Lifesaver's Peppermints. Ya know, the white ones. They spark in your mouth. You have to have the lights off to get the whole effect. Try it.

Then there was the Ouija board. My friend Hayley had one, and after we watched Scary Movie 2 one night, we decided to converse with a dead person. By the way, I recently watched Scary Movie 2, and can easily understand all the references. It's too funny!

Anyway, we got out the obituary section of the newspaper and tried to contact some dead lady. It didn't work. It never worked.

So why did we keep trying? It seemed like almost every slumber party we had, we tried to levitate someone of summon Bloody Mary to rip one of our faces off. We were thrill seekers. Luckily, nothing ever happened...or did it?? (Cue the creepy music).