Movie Night!

I see I'm back to my usual ways. I completely forgot about my promise to post at least once a week until I woke up this morning and realized I missed last week.

So, while deciding what to talk about today, I started thinking about the Golden Globes. I saw the show last night with my family and enjoyed it a lot - mostly due to Ricky Gervais. But it reminded me of a lot of movies I'm looking forward to seeing this year, and was wondering if any of you had seen them and were willing to give me your opinions.

My List

Daybreakers - starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill

How to Train Your Dragon - starring Gerard Butler and Craig Ferguson

Shrek 4 Ever Afrer - starring Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, etc...

Karate Kid - starring Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith

Despicable Me - starring Steve Carell, Russell Brand and Will Arnett

Inception - starring Leonardo DiCaprio

Charlie St. Cloud - starring Zac Efron and Amanda Crew

Easy A - starring Amanda Bynes and Penn Badgley

Life As We Know It - starring Josh Duhamel and Katherine Heigl

My Soul To Take - starring Max Thieriot

Red - starring Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, Morgan Freeman

Tangled - starring Kristin Chenoweth

The King's Speech - starring Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush, etc...

Black Swan - starring Natalie Portman

Narnia 3 - starring Georgie Henley and Skandar Keynes

The Tourist - starring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie

Rango - starring Johnny Depp, Bill Nighy, etc...

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 - Johnny Depp and Geoffrey Rush

Scream 4 - starring Neve Cambell, David Arquette and Courteney Cox

Temple Grandin - starring Claire Danes and David Stathairn

So, if you're lucky enough to have seen some of these movies, please comment and give me your reviews. And, when I finally get around to watching them, I'll post mine. =)

I have to get ready for work now, so I'll cut this short. Love y'all!

-Lizzy

Updates & What Happened to ME Time?

It's the last day of the first week of the new year (try saying that ten times fast) so I figured I should do this post if I wanted to stay on track with my new schedule.

First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Hopefully this year will be better than last year - for you and me!

Now that that's over with, you may notice I've made some changes to Shades of Lizzy, as I promised. At the bottom of the page are some nifty new tickers courtesy of the TickeyFactory. They're counting down how much I have to write, read and blog this year. Speaking of blogging, I've estimated that one post a week will equal 53 posts (please correct me if I'm wrong. My math is terrible.), so you should be getting 53 posts, unless I choose to do Blog Every Day in April/August.

Another, unexpected update was the design of the blog. I didn't really want to change the blue and black design, but the black background wasn't working with the tickers so ... oh, well. I may be getting a new banner to match soon, but as I'm short on time, I have no idea when that will be.

Which brings me to part two of this blog. My time. The schedule I said I'd be making? Pretty much non-existent. Work has been crazy, I'm considering quiting, next week (or the week after?) is going to be even crazier because we're taking on more jobs, and I haven't been sleeping well. However, since I have tonight and most of the weekend off, you can expect me to be catching up on some stuff, like my writing and role-playing.

So, that's that. Just wanted to do a quick post to keep you all up-to-date. =)

Have a fun weekend. <3

-Lizzy