End of the Year Wrap Up

It's the end of 2011 and I must say I am not sorry to see it go.

I have some random thoughts for my last 2011 post.
So come for the ride with me all over the damn place.

Over this holiday I have watched a few PPV movies.
Dish Network gave us 6 free pay per view movie certificates as a part of their good customer service because I was inconvenienced. I know! Customer service!  That in itself is a holiday miracle!
We watched 3 of them last week.
Rick chose 2 of the movies and I made 1 choice.
Rick's choices are those of a 12 year old boy.
He chose The Change Up with Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman and his 2nd was My Idiot Brother with Paul Rudd. (more like my idiot husband)
Let me just say I am thankful they were both free.
I didn't hate them like I would a violent movie or any movie with Tom Cruise but these were not great movies. I could do other things while these movies were on and I wasn't worried I was missing anything. There were a few laughs but really not movies one should have to pay to see. Of course I loved my choice and better yet Rick thought it was the best of the 3 as well.
Crazy Stupid Love was my movie of choice.
I love Julianne Moore in everything. Steve Carrell and Ryan Gosling aren't so bad either.
Seriously Ryan and Steve were great together.
Did any of you see this movie?  Did you like it?  I would love to hear what you thought.
The more I see of Emma Stone the more I like her too.
I thought she was excellent in this movie and I loved her character as well.
It had a nice twist that was unexpected.
Grown up movie as opposed to Idiot Brother. Although I love Paul Rudd.
We have been watching a lot of TV of late due to well, being broke.
(Hence why 2012 has got to be better.)

The other interesting thing I saw on television was on Rock Center with Brian Williams.
This young man of 23 in Australia was in a coma and his finance read online about how Ambien, the sleeping aid, had helped some people come out of  a coma.
She begged for this medication and his doctors and nurses all told her no.
She told another one of the doctors that her finance was moaning at night etc and needed sleep so they gave it to him. It worked! The first dose she gave him for a week and nothing happened.
Then she doubled the dose and he awoke. He just opened his eyes and began to speak.
He has had several strokes so he also has that impairment along with the coma but it was simply amazing to me to watch.
Sadly it only lasts about an hour which is so heartbreaking.
He gets the medication 4 times a day right now.
She is doing this on her own because no doctor would support this.
So dosage wise she is just guessing.
They are now doing clinical trials here in the US to see if the drug can be approved for this use.
One of the things that I found interesting, scary and sad was that when the family was told by the doctors that he was in a vegetative state and to just allow him to die he heard it all.
He said he wanted to shout, "I'm still here, I'm still here" 
Wow is all I can say.  This would be a wonderful discovery if it happens.
I haven't been able to stop thinking about this since I saw it.
BTW, I really like this show. It's not celebrity driven.
Just news you don't see, stories like this. So far so good.

In other random items.....
I had a new follower leave me a comment and I went to her blog to read her.
However blogger says I am not invited to view her blog.
She now follows me but I can't read her blog.
So Kath, if you are reading this may I read your blog?
(Mommy Needs Her Sippy Cup is the name of the blog.)

I don't make resolutions. Never have.
But there are a few things I hope we rid ourselves of in 2012
I want to never see the Kardashians or anyone named Kardashian ever again.
I don't care what they do, how many sex tapes they make and how many times they marry. Make them go away in 2012!!
The same can be said about Ole Orange Misogynistic Donald Trump.
If there is justice in the world he will be kidnapped and forced to sit in a room with duck tape on his mouth, his hands tied to prevent his rude ranting texts. The room will have with no mirror to admire himself or any PR firm to boost his ego. Keeping the rat bastards trash talking to a minimum verbally and through his ranting texts. He should not even be relevant. That would please ole Peg. Hell, add Congress to the same fate while we're at it.

My anniversary is Saturday. YIPEE.
So while you are all celebrating the coming of a new year I will be celebrating my anniversary with my Big Man. We got married in a flowered filled gazebo overlooking the ocean in Jamaica on a warm and sunny day December 31st 1993.
That makes 21 years of living together and 18 years of marriage.
It's been a great ride!  I look forward to the next 18 years.

See you all next year!
Happy New Year.