'New To Me' Movies of 2014

Every year I keep a list of movies I've never seen before and set a goal of how many I would like to see for the year. For 2014 I had 75 as my goal and I achieved that (and then some).

So in no particular order here is my top 10 movies of 2014. 

1. Her
2. Dallas Buyers Club
3. The Princess Bride
4. The Jerk
5. Mud
6. The Grand Budapest Hotel
7. The Way Way Back
8. A Mighty Wind
9. The Kings Of Summer
10. Guardians Of The Galaxy

With special mentioned to The Room and Frankenhooker for being two movies that i will never forget.

And here is the list of everything I watched in 2014:

January

1.     Anchorman 2 – 3/5

2.     Gangsta squad – 4/5

3.     Saving Mr Banks – 3.5/5

4.     Her – 4/5

5.     Dallas Buyers Club – 4/5

6.     Wolf of Wall Street – 3.5/5

February

7.      Blue Jasmine – 3/5

8.      Robocop – 3/5

9.      Nebraska – 4/5

10.   Princess Bride – 5/5

March

11.  Barton Fink – 2.5/5

12.  Veronica Mars 4/5

13.  The Jerk – 4/5

14.  Mud – 4.5/5

April

15.  The Room – 0/5 (But will be watch many more times)

16.  Drag Me To Hell – 3.5/5

17.  Captain America: The Winter Solider – 3/5

18.  Serendipity – 3/5

19.  The Grand Budapest Hotel – 4.5/5

20.  In Your Eyes – 3/5

21.  The Queen of Versailles – 3/5

22.  Vulgar – 3/5

May

23.  Filth – 4/5

24.  The Way Way Back – 4/5

25.  Ender’s Game – 3.5/5

26.  The Big Bounce – 2/5

27.  Afternoon Delight – 3/5

28.  A Mighty Wind – 4/5

29.  Last Vegas – 3/5

30.  The Double – 2/5

31.  Manic – 3/5

32.  Hope Springs – 2.5/5

June

33.  Julie & Julia – 3/5

34.  Eat Pray Love – 2/5

35.  Before Sunrise – 2.5/5

36.  August – Osage County – 4.5/5

37.  22 Jump Street – 2.5/5

38.  Only Lovers Left Alive – 3/5

39.  Transamerica – 3/5

July:

40.  Frankenhooker – 2.9/5

41.  Mighty Aphrodite – 3/5

42.  The Kings of Summer - 4.5/5

43.  The Great Buck Howard – 4/5

44.  Living In Oblivion – 3.5/5

August:

45.  Step Brothers – 3/5

46.  Guardians Of The Galaxy – 4/5

47.  Cuban Fury – 2/5

48.  Spiderman 2 – 2/5

49.  The Fault in our Stars – 3.5/5

September:

50.  Sunshine Cleaning – 3/5

51.  Locke -3/5

52.  The Station Agent – 4/5

53.  Spirited Away – 4/5

54.  Chef – 4/5

55.  Frank – 3.5/5

56.  In The Soup – 3/5

October:

57.  Swimming With Sharks – 2.5/5

58.  Jersey Boys – 3/5

59.  Event Horizon – 1.5/5

60.  Wish I Was Here – 4/5

61.  Happy Christmas – 3/5

62.  This Is Where I Leave You – 3/5

63.  The Story of The Descendents & All – 4/5

64.  Machete Kills – 4/5

November:    

65.  Gone Girl – 3.5/5

66.  Lust For Love – 3/5

67.  Land Ho! – 3/5

68.  Sound Of My Voice – 3/5

69.  Let’s Be Cops – 2.5/5

70.  Interstellar – 4/5

71.  The Kings Speech – 4/5

72.  Godzilla – 2/5

73.  Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – 3.5/5

74.  Rudderless – 4/5

75.  The Imposter – 3.5/5

76.  Hunger Games: Mockingjay – 3/5

December:

77.  Tusk – 4/5

78.  The Skeleton Twins – 2.5/5

79.  Mistaken For Strangers – 4/5

80.  20,000 Days on Earth – 3/5

81.  X-Men: Days of future past – 3/5

82.  St Vincent – 4/5

83.  They Came Together – 3/5

84.  Afflicted – 3.5/5

There were some really amazing movies watched this past year and some really unforgettable ones. I have decided to aim for 80 movies this year and I'm already three in. 

xx

Smorgy

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Sooo... What's new with you?

First post of 2014... Mid April.... How embarrassing!

I know what the three of you who read this are thinking... Where have you been?

My last post for 2013 had me promise a lot of things I haven't delivered yet:

'2014 will include more blogging, more Fork This, as well as a lot of goals I am setting for myself and will work hard to achieve. I plan to have another VERY productive year.'

So this year I've slacked on the blog, We had a Fork This hiatus for a couple of months and my goals have been put on the back burner a bit.

But all that is about to change.

So here is what's new...

We have a new family member!!

FBI Regional Bureau Chief Gordon Cole

We brought Gordon home at the start of March, he was 8 weeks of age and weighing 598grams. He is now almost 14 weeks old and a week ago just cracked 1kg. Gordon is a mid-hair chihuahua, he's chocolate and tan with white socks and a white half collar. When we got him he had blue eyes but recently they turned more of a hazel colour.

Gordon LOVES the hell out of Cooper and just wants to play with him every minute of the day... Cooper tolerates Gordon and tries to keep his cool while Gordon is biting on his tail and barking in his face.

We started puppy school last week his homework is to practise 'sitting' on command. 

He is absolutely insane and we love him soo much.

Once we got Gordon we finally get back into Fork This and there are LOTS of Gordon related episodes that are not to be missed

 

  

Oh and we've done some cooking on the podcast too

We also finally painted the craft room and now I'm just in need of the perfect set of shelves to organise the shit out of all my stuff. BJ has started his 'manly' project of sanding back and re-staining an outdoor bench. He has also created a few delicious burgers that are now on regular rotation in our house. The newest one being a replica of a McDonald's Big Mac, which we've named a 'Bernie Mac'. 

We spent all of March having a Parks and Recreation marathon which we've loved every minute of and also recently watched The Room for the first time and it is now ALL we talk about. We plan on going to a screening of it soon which we are really looking forward to.

Coming up is Easter weekend, followed by Anzac Day so we are getting two long weekends to enjoy.

And here are my goals by the end of these two weeks.

* I will blog about our How I Met Your Mother season finale party (Which was pretty pathetic compared to previously finale parties we've had)

* I will attempt to make my first Terrarium. I have brought everything i need, just need a little motivation to put it all together

* There will be at least two new food related Fork This episodes filmed

Now, to get back to a lazy Sunday with my boys. Gordon is currently trying to take Cooper's duck off him. Cooper thinks licking Gordon's face will stop this from happening.

xx

Smorgy

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2013 Wrap Up

Wow! What a year!

2013 is coming to an end and I have to say it's been my most favourite year yet.

I was lucky enough to marry the love of my life and go adventuring around the USA for a glorious month.

I was able to see friends that I have been apart from for far too long and celebrate over and over again with everyone I love.

BJ and I had the wedding we truly wanted. We wanted to have a fun day with family and friends but didn't want to spend a lot of money as we wanted to honeymoon in America and continue a month's long celebration. We made a lot of the decorations and call in favours where ever we could. It was such a relaxing, joyful day and i would not change a thing.

The honeymoon was amazing! 

It had been years since we saw some of our friends overseas and we did not want to waste a second while we were over there. We kept ourselves very busy and had lots of adventures. (We finally saw Niagara Falls.... Wow!!)

We were both very much overworked this year. Saving every cent we could for our wedding/honeymoon. As well as working hard to save up our holiday hours. But it was worth it to have the honeymoon we both dreamed of.

This year we have also brought a new family car and finally got rid of BJ's egg mobile.

Tonight BJ, Cooper and I are going to hang out together with some homemade burgers (which I can hear BJ making right now) and celebrate the wonderful year we are saying goodbye to. We will bring in 2014 together. A NEW year which I plan to be just a good... If not better.

xx
Smorgy

PS: 2014 will include more blogging, more Fork This, as well as a lot of goals I am setting for myself and will work hard to achieve. I plan to have another VERY productive year.

PPS: Thank you to everyone who helped make this year soo amazing. Happy 2014 Everyone!


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