A Review, Preview, and Overview walk into a bar...

Sorry for the really bad title, couldn't resist making a joke because all the words ended in "view". Anyways, this post is gonna contain an overview of my superb Winter Break, a movie review, and a preview for the coming weeks, so buckle in for a long post (don't worry though, i'll put a lot of pictures in to keep it interesting) First off, let me say that the reason I haven't been updating is because my parents purchased a 46" Sharp Aquos flat screen High Definition LCD TV. When a TV has that many words in it's name, you know it's good. And it is. My basement (newly cleaned and re-arranged) has become my new home, whether I'm watching TV, or playing my DS, or my latest obsession: my new Xbox 360. I will get to that in due time though. I kicked off my Winter Vacation by hanging out with my two bestest buds, Mike and Hunter. All three of us are obsessed with Perez Hilton, and from time to time, Perez will post pictures of his fans on his webpage, and, vying for our 15 seconds of fame, we took pretty fantastic pictures. They look something like this...
Yeah, I think you get the drift... it was a really fun night, about as much fun as the rest of the nights I spent with them over Winter Break, which was like.... 6/10 of the nights, maybe. We had our second annual trip to the O'Hare Oasis on the night of the 25th, which was fun, then on the 26th we celebrated Mike's B-day. Wooo! Thennnn Ginnie (Mike's mom) threw a pizza party for us (Mike, Hunter, Dani, Scott, Eliana, and I) on the 29th and we went bowling with Dani and Eliana afterwards. It was pretty heated, let me say. Oh yeah, on the 28th Liz and I celebrated our 18th month together :) It was really fun. Then on my birthday Mike and Hunter took me to the city even though I wasn't in the best of moods... And that night I saw, and talked, to Liz. New Years Eve Hunter, Mike, Alyssa, Liz, and I planned to go bowling but some greedy people decided to rent the whole bowling alley (who does that?!) so instead we went back to my house and just hung around and eventually ended up watching Poseidon, which is always good for a laugh. Then I got my Xbox 360 which was fantastic :) I've had a bit of a financial crisis though due to a mix of 1.) Me taking a weeks vacation and 2.) my hours being cut. The rest of break I basically spent playing Rock Band (words cannot describe how fun that game is) and hanging out with a healthy mix of Steve, Greg, Mike, Hunter, and Liz, aka all my friends haha. Ummm... That's about it for Winter Break. I saw a lot of movies, I Am Legend, Atonement, Charlie Wilson's War, Awake, but none of those compare to what I saw on Saturday of this weekend, which brings us to the "Review" part of my title...

Juno is my new second favorite movie, of all time, period.
I normally go through phases but I carefully analyzed this film and determined that it trumps Donnie Darko and is almost equal to my #1, Fight Club. The script was written in such a way that the dialogue is actually believable, and Ellen Page steals the show. This is the exact kind of humor I expect from a movie, with sarcasm and wit galore. The cinematography was perfect as well, as all the angles seem to capture the feeling of the movie perfectly, and the display of the changing seasons showing perfectly life's struggles as per the Archetype Handbook. The soundtrack as well, is a soft folksy kind of soundtrack, which perfectly matches Juno MacGruffs character and perfectly emphasizes what is going on in the movie. None of the actors/actresses have been better and even Rainn Wilson's somewhat cameo is even worthy of praise. Go out and see this movie, it's fantastic.

As for what is in the future for me (hence, Preview) I have a bunch of college stuff to do still, including FAFSA and submitting my roommate preference for UIC. Portillo's has upped my hours though from 8 back to 21 which is fantastic. I did the math (hell, I'll even do it here)
21 hours x $7.65 = $160.65, $160.65 x 2 (we get paychecks every other week) = $321.30
THEN we have to take out for taxes: 321.30 x 15% =$48.20, so 321.30 - $48.20 = $273.10
So that's roughly $273.10 every two weeks, which will probably come out to being more seeing as on nights I close I'm usually there for an extra forty-five minutes. Anyways haha, I'll be working a lot which is good cause I need cash, DESPERATELY! That is all for now! Hopefully you made it through this whole thing O:-)