Month: May 2011

What Book is that? Quiz – guessing closed

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Tell me the title of the book for 8 points and the author for an additional 2.  If you tell me what they all have in common you’ll  get an extra 10 points!  You have until Friday at noon to submit your answers.

A few rules…No cheating.  No looking at other commenter answers, but feel free to browse around the net to find the answers this week (you can always come back and add an answer if you find it later).  Yes, we’re going by the honor system…Your first answers will be the only ones accepted…Have fun!

This round for every participant I have (currently at $18)  I will put in a $ for a B&N gift card or a Babies R Us gift card for the winner. Even if you play only once you are eligible to win the second prize (something special I pick out) and you will be adding money to the kitty for the winner.

Answers to last week’s John Candy Quiz here.  Current Leaderboard here.

1. Try Dying by James Scott Bell  2. Worth Dying For by Lee Child  3. The Lincoln Lawyer by Micael Connelly  4. A Death in the Family by James Agee  5. Town House by Tish Cohen  6. Fault Lines by Anne Rivers Siddons  7. Kill the Messenger by Tami Hoag  8. Full Tilt by Janet Evanovich and Charlotte Hughes  9. The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster  10. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

Monday Movie Meme- Flight

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Feature Presentation…MONDAY MOVIE MEME
Flight is something humans have been fascinated with for a long time. The movies are filled with flying dreams and realities. Here are a few examples we came up with. Share on your blog films focused on flight, things that fly or become airborne, linking back here so that others can find you. Visit the Bumbles for other participants.
Well, there are so many movies so I thought I’d go exclusively with planes.
1. The first one that comes to mind is, of course, Airplane (1980).  It’s been too long since I saw this comedy in the air and I should remedy that.
Reporter: What kind of plane is it?
Johnny: Oh, it’s a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol.
2. As unromantic as I find Adam Sandler, I fall for him every time I see this scene from The Wedding Singer (1998). 
3. Harry and Sally meet on a plane years after losing touch in When Harry Met Sally (1989), but this is a quote that stuck with me.
Harry Burns: You take someone to the airport, it’s clearly the beginning of the relationship. That’s why I have never taken anyone to the airport at the beginning of a relationship.
Sally Albright: Why?
Harry Burns: Because eventually things move on and you don’t take someone to the airport and I never wanted anyone to say to me, How come you never take me to the airport anymore?
Sally Albright: Its amazing. You look like a normal person but actually you are the angel of death.
4. What happens after the flight ceases to fly?  Well , you may end up eating things you would never have considered before.  Alive (1993) is all the more scary since it is based on the true story of a 1972 crash.
5. And for my last airplane movie I’m going with a Tom Cruise movie all about flying, Top Gun (1986). 
Maverick: I feel the need…
Maverick, Goose: …the need for speed!
For all of you movie lovers I hope you’ll check out this post about writing a 5 word movie review for charity.  So far I’m up to $38.

Sundays with Gage – Happy Spitter?

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Gage has Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD).  It’s relatively common, up to 35% of infants have some degree in the first three months.  Gage was only diagnosed after his scary stay in the ICU and is now on medication.  This week we’ve been to our pediatrician twice and the GI doctor once because his spit-ups/vomiting became worse after we started him on vegetables last weekend.  The doctors have assured me that he is fine and this excessive spitting up shall pass.  Someday.  Until then they only want Gage to be a “happy spitter”.  Do you think he looks like a happy spitter?

GERD is not fun and most pediatricians are reluctant to diagnose it in infants because it is mistaken for colic and/or it passes on its own after a few months.  After Gage’s non-diagnosis in February our pediatrician thinks that GERD may have been a contributing factor, although not the sole reason.  I will take as much spitting up as necessary as long as Gage eventually grows out of it and we don’t have any more scares like the one we had.

I’m hoping next week to have a report on his first teeth (I feel two poking through).