Thursday Treasures (re-scheduled due to Mardis Gras)

1. Bondi Bands - a true miracle of "keeping the sweat and hair out of your eyes" technology. I only wish I had discovered them for college marching band camp back in the day. There would have been a lot less eye-burning. I bought one and I have used it religiously for workouts, and I just ordered a couple of other colors because I like variety and I'm not sure I want to be "the chick with the yellow headband" at my gym. But seriously, they have eliminated the need for me to carry a towel to mop up my face.

2. Snow. It's snowing out as I type this (obviously, see picture above). I love being in the cocoon of snow and mist (when I'm not driving, that is). My hope is that we will get enough accumulation at some point so that I can sled in my backyard. That's the dream!

3. Morningstar Farms Buffalo Wings - Love em. So yummy and so much healthier than real chicken and sauce.

 

4.  Amazing DIY projects that even I would have the patience and ability to do like this one or this one.

5. Making awesomely bad movies into impromptu drinking games. Here's an example of a drinking game I made up for The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon, posting the rules on gomiso.com while I watched*

(This movie does not take place at the Grand Canyon. It is not shown, nor is it ever mentioned.)

• Drink every time something is factually inaccurate (i.e a coal miner using a pan instead of a gold miner)
• Drink every time there is a scenery shot that is so obviously not Arizona 
• Drink every time Michael Shanks does not make eye contact with the person he is talking to
• Drink every time there is terrible CGI 
• Drink every time the period costuming is really off (ie Michael Shanks' umbrella) 
• Drink every time there is a prop failure (ie the 'dead horse' that's a hide thrown over a box) 
• Drink every time Michael Shanks' accent morphs into something else 
• Drink every time Shanks says Quetzalcoatl 
• Drink every time a character does something unnatural or that doesn't make sense (ie. MS says "everybody down!" and that one dude leaps up) 
• Drink every time they try to force sexual tension that doesn't exist

You may be drunk with the bad CGI one alone. You're welcome.

*I'd like to caveat this by saying I love Michael Shanks, but sometimes good actors do bad movies.