And The Winner Is.... My Oscar-Movie-Watching-Journey-For-Real-This-Time

So this year I'm actually going to stick with watching the Oscar-nominated films.

I kind of dropped the ball last year.

(It helps that I've been sick (not that I want to be sick), so I haven't really been able to do much of anything else)

SO!

As of this weekend, here is my Oscar-Watched list:

1. 4.1 Miles
   
2. 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
   
3. 13th 
4. 20th Century Women 
5. A Man Called Ove 
6. Allied
   
7. Arrival
   
8. Blind Vaysha
   
9. Borrowed Time
   
10. Captain Fantastic
    
11. Deepwater Horizon 
12. †Doctor Strange
13. Elle 
14. Ennemis Intérieurs
    
15. Extremis
    
16. Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them
    
17. Fences
    
18. Fire at Sea
    
19. Florence Foster Jenkins
    
20. Hacksaw Ridge
    
21. Hail, Caesar!
    
22. Hell or High Water
    
23. Hidden Figures
    
24. I Am Not Your Negro 
25. Jackie 
26. †Jim: The James Foley Story 
27. Joe’s Violin 
28. †Kubo and the Two Strings
29. †La Femme et le TGV 
30. La La Land 
31. †Land of Mine 
32. †Life, Animated
33. Lion
34. Loving
35. †Manchester by the Sea †
36. Moana
37. Moonlight
38. †My Life as a Zucchini
39. †Nocturnal Animals
40. O.J.: Made in America
41. †Passengers
42. Pear Cider and Cigarettes
43. †Pearl
44. †Piper
45. †Rogue One: A Star Wars Story †
46. Silence
47. †Silent Nights
48. Sing (Short Film)
49. Star Trek Beyond
50. †Suicide Squad
51. Sully
52. Tanna
53. Timecode
54. Toni Erdmann
55. The Jungle Book
56. The Lobster
57. The Red Turtle
58. The Salesman
59. The White Helmets
60. †Trolls
61. †Watani: My Homeland
62. †Zootopia 

MOVIE COUNT: 16/62

Week #1 Update...

Here's an update on the Oscar-nominated movies I've seen!

1. 45 Years
2. A War
3. Amy
4. Anomalisa
5. Ave Maria
6. Bear Story
7. Body Team 12
8. Boy and the World
9. Bridge of Spies
10. Brooklyn
11. Carol
12. Cartel Land
13. Chau, Beyond the Lines
14. Cinderella
15. Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
16. Creed
17. Day One
18. Embrace of the Serpent
19. Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
20. Ex Machina
21. Fifty Shades of Grey
22. Inside Out
23. Joy
24. Last Day of Freedom
25. Mad Max: Fury Road
26. Mustang
27. Prologue
28. Racing Extinction
29. Room
30. Sanjay’s Super Team
31. Shaun the Sheep Movie
32. Shok
33. Sicario
34. Son of  Saul
35. Spotlight
36. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
37. Steve Jobs
38. Straight Outta Compton
39. Stutterer
40. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared
41. The Big Short
42. The Danish Girl
43. The Girl on the River: The Price of Forgiveness
44. The Hateful Eight
45. The Hunting Ground
46. The Look of Silence
47. The Martian
48. The Revenant
49. Theeb
50. Trumbo
51. We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
52. What Happened, Miss Simone?
53. When Marnie Was There
54. Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
55. World of Tomorrow
56. Youth

10/56

I watched 6 movies since the list came out!! So, YAY! I've just gotta keep plugging away!

Need Help Keeping Track of Your Oscar Watching?

If you need a little help keeping up with your Oscar-nominated movie binge watching,

here's a little checklist sheet I made!

For a copy of the full-res PDF, click here :)

It's That Time of Year Again...

It's officially OSCAR season!

The list came out today, and I'm pretty excited to attempt to out watch my last year's self!

I watched 40/60 movies last year!

So, I've got QUITE a bit of work to do!

Especially because it wasn't easy trying to find theaters that were showing so many of the movies. Luckily I think the greatest distance I had to travel was about an hour away.

(So, not too terrible!)

So, without further ado, the list of Oscar-nominated movies, and my checklist of initial movies I've seen thus far!

1. 45 Years
2. A War
3. Amy
4. Anomalisa
5. Ave Maria
6. Bear Story
7. Body Team 12
8. Boy and the World
9. Bridge of Spies
10. Brooklyn
11. Carol
12. Cartel Land
13. Chau, Beyond the Lines
14. Cinderella
15. Claude Lanzmann: Spectres of the Shoah
16. Creed
17. Day One
18. Embrace of the Serpent
19. Everything Will Be Okay (Alles Wird Gut)
20. Ex Machina
21. Fifty Shades of Grey
22. Inside Out
23. Joy
24. Last Day of Freedom
25. Mad Max: Fury Road
26. Mustang
27. Prologue
28. Racing Extinction
29. Room
30. Sanjay’s Super Team
31. Shaun the Sheep Movie
32. Shok
33. Sicario
34. Son of  Saul
35. Spotlight
36. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
37. Steve Jobs
38. Straight Outta Compton
39. Stutterer
40. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared
41. The Big Short
42. The Danish Girl
43. The Girl on the River: The Price of Forgiveness
44. The Hateful Eight
45. The Hunting Ground
46. The Look of Silence
47. The Martian
48. The Revenant
49. Theeb
50. Trumbo
51. We Can’t Live Without Cosmos
52. What Happened, Miss Simone?
53. When Marnie Was There
54. Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
55. World of Tomorrow
56. Youth

4/56

So, I have a lot of watching to do!

You Don't Know About Me, But I'm Feelin' 23...

Another year of my life has come and gone.

Not to make that sound negative or anything.

I'm totally ready for year 23.

I've been trying to tell myself that for the last week leading up to the day.

I think I was clinging to 22 because at 22, I was still in the stage of life when everything was so easy.

There were no adult responsibilities, SL (St*dent Lo*ns... I recently made a pact with myself that I'm not allowed to say those words anymore...), finding and working a full-time job.

What about life after 22 sounds fun?

Well... there are lots of fun things about being an adult.

Like, not having to do homework, which is an instant crowd-pleaser.

YAY FOR 23

I just need to stop thinking that I'm two years away from being 25...

And after 25... That means I'm 5 years away from THIRTY. Yes, THIRTY.

I thought I'd have a lot more accomplished at this point in my post-graduate life... But I have only just began.

As scary as growing up is, I'm so looking forward to the ride that is this life that I'm living... And I have some good feelings about the years to come!

Alright, there's my life update.

(If anyone even reads this anymore... Haha)

Wedding Season Is Upon Us...

WEDDING. SEASON.

Being in that post-graduate, twenty-something stage of life is really when they start rolling in faster than the speed of light...

It's almost as if every time I get on Facebook, 

I see something like this:

And then all the love and congratulations from your Facebook friends, family, acquaintances, and random people you met at a party freshman year of college and got a friend request from the next day are coming in like crazy!

THE RING.

Does the ring really matter?

Even though Phoebe offers very nice suggestions, with an engagement tiara, or and engagement Revolutionary War Musket...

Chandler sticks with the ring!

But gosh, there are way too many types!

Good luck deciding on one... 

THEN

THE SAVE THE DATES START ROLLING IN

I love these! They're so cute, and a helpful reminder!

My dad doesn't like these though...

I don't understand why... when I asked he started going into a huge rant and I just took the question back, because I didn't want to know anymore! (Haha)

But really! What's not to like?!

SHOPPING FOR GIFTS

(Bridal shower AND Wedding)

WHAT DO I EVEN BUY!?

So much stress!

I know there's a registry and that sure helps a lot... But what if everything on the registry is way out of my budget, or what if they actually didn't want something but forgot to take it off?

I'd hate for them to hate whatever it is that I buy...

Okay.

So it's time for the wedding...

If all the weddings you have in a season are going to be attended by the same people, that's even more stressful! You can't wear the same thing...

AND you can't match the bride, AND you don't want to accidentally match the wedding party...

Awk.

Sooo...

Picking out an outfit is so much work...

BUT THEN

You attend the wedding and have the greatest time ever with your best pals and it's actually a blast!

(Going back to the first point about seeing the announcements on Facebook...I really hope if the person getting married is your friend, you found out from them first before the rest of the social media world)

Items From My Oscar To-Watch List Continue To Get Crossed Off...

Soo... Here's An Oscar Update:

Movie Count:

Seen: 27

Unseen: 33

1. American Sniper
2. Aya
3. Begin Again
4. Beyond the Lights
5. Big Hero 6
6. The Bigger Picture
7. Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
8. Boogaloo And Graham
9. The Boxtrolls
10. Boyhood
11. Butter Lamp (La Lampe Au Beurre De Yak)
12. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
13. Citizenfour
14. Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1
15. The Dam Keeper
16. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
17. Feast
18. Finding Vivian Maier
19. Foxcatcher
20. Glen Campbell...I'll Be Me
21. Gone Girl
22. The Grand Budapest Hotel
23. Guardians of the Galaxy
24. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
25. How to Train Your Dragon 2
26. Ida
27. The Imitation Game
28. Inherent Vice
29. Interstellar
30. Into the Woods
31. Joanna
32. The Judge
33. Last Days in Vietnam
34. The Lego Movie
35. Leviathan
36. Maleficent
37. Me and My Moulton
38. Mr. Turner
39. Nightcrawler
40. Our Curse
41. Parvaneh
42. The Phone Call
43. The Reaper (La Parka)
44. The Salt of the Earth
45. Selma
46. A Single Life
47. Song of the Sea
48. Still Alice
49. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
50. Tangerines
51. The Theory of Everything
52. Timbuktu
53. Two Days, One Night
54. Unbroken
55. Virunga
56. Whiplash
57. White Earth
58. Wild
59. Wild Tales
60. X-Men: Days of Future Past

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So, as of 8:10pm on Feb. 19, 2015, I still have 33 movies to go.

I'm being realistic with the fact that I know there's no way I'll be able to see all of them... There's no way... Unfortunately, so many of the movies haven't even been released, so there's no way I can see them! Oh well! I've seen more nominated movies now than I I've ever seen before.