Re-descovering the joy of the movie quote

So I've started Journaling again.  For any of you who knew me as a teen, I have a history of epic journaling.  One of my favorite parts of my journaling habit is the back few pages where I write down lines from movies or real life that I've heard that make me tender or thoughtful or just laugh real hard.  Here are some of that last category I've written down in the last week.

"To me, breast implants don't seem like one of those things you do discount."
--Me, on the advertisements for our local plastic surgeon

"I just moved my food around so the waitress thinks I've eaten some and will bring us more biscuits... you know, the 5 year old strategy."
--Shane Lewis at Red Lobster while dieting

"She looked more like me when she was born, but now she looks more like her mom."  So, what you're saying is that you look more like a shriveled, smooshy head?
--Scott Hunter on his newborn baby

"To me, this day is a blood soaked, nightmarish hellscape."
--Ron from Parks and Rec on having to talk to the public

"No steak?  Well, then just bring me all the eggs and bacon you have.  Wait, you probably interpreted that as 'bring me lots of eggs and bacon.'  What I said was 'Bring me all the eggs and bacon you have.'"
--Ron from Parks and Rec

Got any silly quotes to add?  Let me know!

Why I'm softening towards the Book of Mormon Musical

My first exposure to knowledge of this musical was Michael Otterson's article and it spoke to my feelings of indignation grown through experience of being laughed at--rather than listened to--for my "unworldly" life choices and behaviors.  

Last week, one of my friends posted a comment on Facebook "I can't decide whether the song 

from "The Book of Mormon" performed on the Tonys offends or amuses me..."  Not having seen the Tonys, I went online to find the performance , and I found myself laughing despite myself.  It sounded a lot like the kind of jokes made about Jewish people in Fiddler on the Roof, and a lot like the jokes that LDS college students at BYU make about themselves in Divine Comedy performances.  I can laugh at the "I Believe" performance for the same reason I can laugh at this.

Like any roast, you've got to be ready to laugh at yourself.  I think any Latter-Day Saint who was honest with themselves would laugh with what the show is poking fun at.

Feeling a little guilty for laughing at something I was SURE was offensive, I wikipediaed the show to read the synopsis.  I learned there that the show was nominated for 14 tony awards, and won 9 of them!  Although I may not seek out that entertainment myself, I think it is wise to know something about it. 

Let me make one thing clear: I do not like South Park.  I think it's gross.  But I can't deny that it's humor is REALLY intelligent until it gets to the gross parts.  

I'll probably never go see the musical for myself for the same reason I have chosen not to watch rated R movies, but not necessarily because I'm offended by the religious jokes.  I don't like watching shows that have the F word in them, nor do I really enjoy entertainment that has themes of the type of inequality to females that occurs in Africa, but if those types of issues were taken out of the show, I think it'd be as entertaining as any BYU satire I've ever seen.  I think I'd watch an edited version of The Book of Mormon Musical, and I agree with the show's biline: God loves Mormons, and He wants some more!

Why June is the best month of the year

1. The days are the longest and there is more sunshine.  Sunshine=happiness.

2. It is the first respite of snow for the Salt Lake City area of the year 2011.

3. The pool in our complex just opened!

4.  Weather is just cresting 80 degrees on most days!  Warm, but still don't need A/C

5. SHORTS!  I own 4 pairs of short pants.  Khaki, white, slack type, and black.  What can I say?  I have very little opportunity to wear them, what with weather only providing cooperative temperatures from June to September and professional jobs in air conditioned to freezing buildings. 

6. Shaven legs.  this is a subset of shorts, really.  I have an excuse to expose my calves and feel like a silky smooth woman.

7. The weight loss that I am encouraged to continue by wearing aforementioned shorts.  In the seasons we shall not speak of, layers upon layers of thick wool clothing creates the illusion of shapelessness, when in fact, there IS a shape, it is just growing larger and larger.

8. Tanning!  If waving to passers by on the porch is a hobby for people in Kentucky, then Tanning is it's equivalent for me.  I really don't care if I even change color as an effect.  Just laying out in the sun, feeling it's heat, hearing the slap of waves in a pool and children playing, even the smell of sunscreen and chlorine adds to the experience.  Hey, I don't have a beach in Utah, this is the best it gets for me.

9. I finish grad school and my licensure test.  By sunset on June 30th, I will be done with it ALL.

10.  I celebrate the day of my birth in June.  This year I will be 26.  Happy Birthday to me!