Hey everyone.

For those of you that don’t know, a tornado went through Kim’s neighborhood Monday night. She and her family are okay. They lost power and her computer has been fired.

The topic discussion on Books for tonight has been postponed until August 20th.

Tonight at 10 pm Eastern, there will be a GNI Unplugged on Talkshoe. Come join us for a chat on anything we want. Got a topic? Come live and request to talk. http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/16412

Please keep Kim, her family and neighbors in your thoughts and prayers.

If you haven’t listened to the show yet, minor spoiler warning - I loved the movie. I loved the music, I loved the acting! I enjoyed it all from beginning to end. (It also didn’t roll the credits in the beginning of the movie during the introduction, which I love. The title of the movie is shown and then it starts, credits are for the end! okay, back to Mamma Mia!)

(there’s more here if you click this link…)

For everyone who missed my tweet Wednesday night, I listened to all my podcasts!!!! I had no podcasts to listen to Wednesday night, so I listened to the Rent Broadway soundtrack. Thursday morning two podcasts downloaded so I got down to 0 again (it wasn’t as exciting the second time but still counts in my mind). But then last night/this morning about 9 shows downloaded, so I am not currently at 0, but I got there, I got there twice!

I really wanted to post Wednesday night but I forgot how to log in to the website. I have now starred the email from Kim with the directions so next time I can find it faster.  I couldn’t find it Wednesday and it was already past my bedtime (way past actually) so I gave up and went to bed.

It is really cool that I have finally gotten to 0 after months of trying ( I can’t remember what month Rachel and I started our war, see GNI Unplugged #2 for more details). Its kinda cool. Yay for me!

now if i could just beat Rachel at a war. maybe one of these days when i grow up and stop cheating ;~)  [wait, i didn’t say i would stop cheating did i? hehe. ]

So I can’t decide what to announce my movie pick as for our next movie show which we’ll review The Princess Bride. (Have you watched it? I haven’t yet but I have it from Netflix. There is still time!)

I need help to decide what to tell you all to get from Netflix for April. I’m sorry for not posting this sooner but I was busy at school right before Spring Break! (yay for Spring Break)

You can only vote for one movie. I might pick one of these 3 movies (no promises), but I can be swayed in the comments so if you have a better idea make your argument in the comments and I might just pick your movie (no promises).

So last night I was babysitting and the 7 year old asked to play monopoly. She had never played before, so I got to teach her. It was quite fun. The whole time I had Jaime’s voice in my head from the Cheating Show “I even cheat at monopoly.” I didn’t cheat as the banker. I didn’t give myself any extra money and I should have cuz she kicked my butt. I did cheat though. She was in jail and rolled double 5s to get out of jail, if she had moved those 10 spaces she would have gotten free parking which mostly had my money in there, so I made her roll again! I made my own rules. It wasn’t cheating. ;~) Then a few rolls later, I landed on free parking.

Don’t feel bad for her, once she learns how to cheat at Monopoly, she will be worse than me or even JME. She was really cute playing. She doesn’t yet understand big bills so she was confused on how I got changed when a property costs $160 and I paid $200. She kept asking for change, she would have to pay $200 and ask if she could pay $300 and get change. I gotta work on that with her. I will probably play again with her on Saturday night and she will kick my butt again.

There is a reason I am posting this blog. Let me tell you a story. Last summer, Rachel and I started a podcast war. The goal was to see who could listen to all their podcasts and get 0 podcasts on iTunes. At the time, we both had a lot of podcasts to listen to. Well, its now been about 9 months or so and I have not once gotten 0 podcasts and Rachel has about 50 times. I am desperate to win one of these days and once I do, everyone will hear about it. I realized that both Rachel and I have posted one blog here at GNI so if I can’t beat Rachel at the podcast war, I can beat her at the blog war here at GNI with Words from Maggie or Words from Rachel posts. A war that I just started without her knowledge! I heart you Rachel! you know that. I know I can’t beat Kim or JME at blogging they just blog too much.

Okay, back to my snow day and enjoying myself. Later!

Since Jaime did the first co-host blog, I thought I would test the waters with my own. Mine maybe a little long but I am linking to something cool. Wait, is that considered cheating?

It is really okay that the other girls didn’t like my movie pick. Everyone has different movie tastes. I thought it would have been better received because I find it so funny. But James is right; comedy is subjective. I am not sure how it came off during the show, but I was amused by most of what they were saying and of course came up with better responses later to some of their comments. It was just the first time we disagreed. After everyone loved The Pursuit of Happyness, I hoped everyone would love Wet Hot American Summer. I do agree with Jaime that we won’t always agree and that makes it fun.

The main reason for my blog this morning is a link I found on http://imdb.com/ this morning, 12 Small Roles With a Big Impact from EW.com. So I followed the link, and guess who number 2 is?

*drum roll*

CHRISTOPHER MELONI, Wet Hot American Summer!!!!! YAY!!!!

Here is what EW said, it may be in the upcoming magazine not sure.
“From David Hyde Pierce’s awkward advances on Janeane Garofalo to Paul Rudd’s too-cool-for-camp ‘tude, this quintessential ’80s-revival camp movie has many bizarre and irreverent moments. But one performance that never ceases to amaze me is Christopher Meloni’s turn as the deranged camp chef Gene. Best known as Det. Elliott Stabler on Law & Order, Meloni displays a natural comedic touch with his insane non-sequiturs (”Now finish up them taters, I’m gonna go fondle my sweaters”) and ability to carry himself in an unthinkably small sleeveless t-shirt. Whether he’s talking to a can of vegetables, humping a fridge, or commandeering one of the greatest ”vision quest” montages in cinematic history, Meloni truly makes his presence felt. — Chris Schonberger” http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20047112_1,00.html

I love Christopher Meloni and this just proves to me that other people like my movie pick. I swear I am not bitter! (being bitter is a whole high school inside joke) There is a really funny picture on the site too. Not sure I was able to sing Meloni’s praises as much as I wanted during the show.

On the other hand, I have rented Wallace & Gromit: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit and can’t wait to watch it. I wanted to get it right away just in case I can’t find it when it is closer to the the show.

Be proud of you who are!!!

~Maggie