'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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Gordon "The Wrecking Ball" Cole

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Smorgy

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I'm not very good a blogging these days

It's been awhile...

I know i said i'd get better at this but life really has just gotten in the way.

Fork This has been non-existent (but that is about to change).

Work has been beating both BJ and I up on a daily basis. End of financial year is FINALLY over but we are still trying to recover.

Gordon is now 6 months old... He's grown so much from when we got him. He is still a crazy fun pup who loves life. He's awesome!

And Cooper is still a grumpy old man (but he secretly loves his brother).

We decided recently to create a little more debt for ourselves and go back to the USA in August to celebrate our 1 year wedding anniversary and the 10 year anniversary of The Dawn and Drew Show at Farmageddon.

We leave on the 3rd of August and are just counting down the day for a much needed break.

Tonight we are looking forward to catching up with friends over some good drinks, good food and a few rounds of Cards Against Humanity. Time to break out the expansion packs.

xx
Smorgy

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Tiny Worlds

My latest craft craze has been Terrariums. I'm really enjoying finding different jars, succulents and accessories for them. 

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Smorgy

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Stolen Jeffy's (Homemade Salted Twix)

Last week I attempted to make Homemade Twix for the first time.

They were super easy and delicious. For my first try I kept things simple. Shortbread biscuits, a can of Caramel top n fill, rock salt and chocolate melts.

Lay out the biscuits on a baking tray, spread the caramel over the top, sprinkle rock salt (optional...but delicious), refrigerate overnight, cut up, coat in chocolate and consume.

In our house when we make something that we know we'll make again we give it a special name for future reference. These were renamed 'Stolen Jeffy's' due to a story which has been told in the Carter family long before I was around about a twix bar which belonged to my father in law. It was consumed by someone else in the house and no one ever owned up to it. To this day you cannot mention Twix without Jeffy ranting about his stolen one. 

BJ felt the name was very appropriate. 

Everyone seemed to enjoy them... Except for my niece Kaia who said 'They don't taste as good as they look'. Thanks Kaia.

'Perfectly Salted' - BJ Carter

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How I Met Your Mother Finale Party

At the start of April it was time to suit up and say goodbye to How I Met Your Mother.

We have always enjoyed the series even though we feel it started to drag a fair bit, and this last season being completely focused around Robin and Barney's wedding was getting old... But the finale was almost perfect.

I don't want to post any spoilers incase people haven't seen it but the last episode really wrapped everything up beautifully... I just wished it had of ended about 2 minutes earlier. Then i would have been completed satisfied.

BJ and I love finale parties but we had been a bit preoccupied and even though we had plenty of ideas, we hadn't implemented any of them.

Sadly, in the end everything we had for our finale party was made the day of, during my lunch break.

Pictured: BJ and I suiting up, The all important graphs, an intervention sign, and a blue french horn above the TV.

Unfortunately i didn't get photos of everything. We did have some sumbitches to enjoy and i decorated a bottle of pineapple soft drink to look like a real pineapple.

The next finale party we have will be for Californication, which i feel is going to be a bit of a challenge but i will do my best.

xx
Smorgy

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