IT'S OSCAR NIGHT - I JUST LOVE IT!!

Ever since I was in love with movie stars when I was a teenager, I've watched the Oscars.  Most of the time I had actually seen the movies back then, because there wasn't as many of them, and I had my favorite stars and movies that I wanted to win.  Now I wait and see the movies on Pay Per View or DVD instead of paying a fortune at the theatre.  And we can record the Oscars and watch them the next day - while fast-forwarding through the commercials, which is what I'm going to do.  I hope Les Miserables wins a lot, and I am sure that Anne Hathaway is going to win best supporting actress, but I'm not sure of any of the others.  I just saw "Argo" the other day, and it was really good, and might win for best picture, but I can't see why Ben Affleck wasn't nominated for Best Director.  I think he has been nominated for something though - is it actor?  Who knows?  At any rate, there's too many categories and so forth to keep up with anymore, so I just watch the stuff I'm interested in - which is mainly the movies I have seen.  They show so much of each movie, that it helps me decide whether I want to see the movies I haven't seen yet, which is most of them.  I did see "The Life of Pi", and it just won for Cinematography.  Good choice there.  Well, that's all I have to say about this - got to watch while I can.  Talk to you later.

SHOPPING WITH MY DAUGHTER GETS EXPENSIVE!!

We've been in Jupiter, Florida, since the day before Thanksgiving, and I've been shopping with Laura, my oldest daughter, every day except one.  She loves to shop for bargains on jewlery, and we really hit the "mother lode" in one pawn shop.  I got caught up in the buying spree too, and I bought a beautiful, hand-tooled turquoise and silver ring that I just love!  She, however, went berserk and spent a lot more money than I did.  I can't even begin to tell you what she bought, but it was mostly rings, and one solid gold Noah's Ark bracelet that was so beautiful.  She has a special charge card that she puts all her jewelry purchases on.  I wonder why she does that - Ha!!

I must admit that I have really had a good time with the shopping - puts me right in the Christmas spirit.  We saw two good movies this week too - "Lincoln", which was great because of the wonderful acting, and then today we went to "Breaking Dawn, Part II".  Both of us have read the "Twilight" books, so we were excited about seeing the last film.  It was the best one, I think.  We will be going back home on Thursday, the 29th, so I'll keep in touch.