I'm free from the bondage of child care! Hurray!!!

In other news, something utterly lame that happened to me: At some point in the past 5 years, someone taped a lot of garbage over the last half of Die Hard! Outrage, thy name is ME. I originally taped Die Hard approximately 6 years ago I think? I think it was sometime in 7th grade...It was a Saturday night, and I was home alone (as usual for most of my teen-type years) and flipping channels, when I came upon Die Hard playing on TNT. I stopped and watched it, mostly because I had heard the name a lot, and then after like 5 minutes I was hooked. I think I had to stay up til like 1 am to finish it, which was a big deal back then since I usually went to bed at 10, and also because the next morning we had Stake Conference in Oakland at like 9. Luckily it was TNT so of course they were playing it over and over all weekend, so the next morning I grabbed a blank tape and had it recording while we were at church. After that, Die Hard became the movie that I watched everyday after school while I did math homework. Is it weird that I did that? I guess our family has always been pretty tolerant of multiple-movie-viewings. Remember that phase when Becca watched The Matrix every day for like 3 weeks? Oooh, fun list time!

Movies I Watched About Once a Week in Middle/Early High School:
1) Die Hard
2) The Matrix
3) The Scarlet Pimpernel (the one with Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour)
4) The Princess Bride
5) L.A. Confidential (I taped that one off TNT too. Man, thanks TNT!)

To this day I mostly hate it when people quote Princess Bride (as they are wont to do, especially on BYU campus) because most of the time they do it wrong, and I ALWAYS KNOW, havign seriously watched that movie more times than I can count and knowing basically every line by heart. Although the flip side is it's nice when you find someone slipping something into conversation aside from the standard "Hello my name is Inigo Montoya" and "Have fun storming the castle!" because then you can tell that they too watched that movie kind of too much in their youth.

Anyway, back to my woe: The original Die Hard is now forever barred to me, until cross-your-fingers TNT pulls the reel out of storage and runs another marathon! Come on, guys! The 4th sequel just came out! It makes sense!