Meet Mr. Nobody

This is Nemo Nobody

Here he is with glasses.

Here he is without glasses.

Here he is with long hair.

Here he is in a snazzy sweater vest.

Here he is as a young boy

and as an old man.

Here are his parents.

Here are his parents preparing to go their separate ways. Should Nemo go with his mother, or with his father?

Here are the three girls Nemo could choose to have relationships with: Jean, Elise, and Anna.

Here is teenage Nemo with Jean.

Here is teenage Nemo with Elise.

Here is teenage Nemo with Anna.

Here is adult Nemo marrying Jean.

Here is adult Nemo marrying Elise.

Here is adult Nemo marrying Anna.

Here is Nemo rinsing his mouth.

and here he is... drowning.

It is this last picture that inspired my desire to tell you about Nemo, and the fact that I have Jared Leto on the brain, because in less than 7 days I'll be seeing him in the flesh...but mainly it is because I had a near Mr. Nobody experience today. Mr Nobody is a movie about this boy named Nemo, and all the different ways his life could have turned out, depending on the choices he made. It's a brilliantly executed film with terrific acting, and an interesting message...that we ARE the choices we make. Some choices we make are right, some are wrong, maybe both are right, or both are wrong, but either way, one choice can change are life forever. Anyway, so back to the reason behind this post. In the movie, there's a part where Mr. Nobody is driving down a road parallel to a lake, when all of a sudden a bird flies straight into his windshield and splatters. It surprises Mr. Nobody to the degree that he swerves off the road, resulting with his car sinking into the lake. Yes, this is the Mr. Nobody moment I almost experienced today. A bird took a dive right at my windshield. Luckily I wasn't driving by a lake at the time. Actually, I'm lucky I don't drive by lakes often in general, because birds seem to see my car driving down the road, and tend to experience sudden death wishes when doing so. That's right, birds fly directly at my windshield...ALL THE TIME! Does anyone else have this problem? I dunno, but thanks to Mr. Nobody, whenever it happens, I think of him, and it makes me grateful that I'm not by any lakes. As much as I don't want the little birdies to die a sudden death by flying into my car, I kind of appreciate their attempts because without fail it will result with my pondering Mr. Nobody, which means I will be thinking about Jared Leto, and I'm ALWAYS okay with that :)

Have You Ever Tried...

sleeping without a top/flat sheet on your bed?

Where is it written that we need to have a top sheet under our comforter? I guess I'm not one to think outside the box, or maybe I'm a conformist, but I've always slept with said top sheet. Then one day I read an email from my brother who is currently living in Germany, and he mentioned that one of his favorite things about living in Europe is that no one sleeps with a top sheet on their bed. Then my dad mentioned that when he lived in Denmark, the "no top sheet" idea was also one of HIS favorite things. What an interesting concept! All those times of waking up in the middle of the night because I'm all tangled in my sheets or because all my bedding is falling completely off the bed, could have been solved simply by removing my top sheet. Why didn't I think of that?! Well I tried it, and simply put, it's amazing. No more getting tangled in my sheets and I actually prefer the feel of the underside of my comforter vs the sheet I used to sleep under. Not to mention, it speeds up the process of making your bed in the morning.

Rapunzel Rapunzel. Let Down Your Hair

How does Rapunzel wash her hair?

In one of the songs on Tangled, Rapunzel sings about the things she does while locked in her tower and she mentions brushing her hair. But I was wondering, how does she wash it? Even brushing it seems slightly impossible, although she claims to be able to do it. Brushing hair is one thing, but washing it is something entirely different. How does she do it? Or maybe magical hair doesn't NEED to be washed, but if it needs to be brushed, I would come to the conclusion that it also needs to be washed.

All I know is that if Rapunzel had grown up like a normal teenager, not locked in a tower, and some guy she didn't like asked her out on a date, she could legitimately use "I'm washing my hair" as an excuse not to go.

Don't You Love It When...

People say "Merry Christmas?!" (I just did a "don't you hate it when," so I thought I'd follow that with a more positive, "don't you love it when?")

Anyway, I love it when people say Merry Christmas. Working at the movie theater this Christmas season I got to talk to a lot of people, and one thing I noticed was how almost everyone who mentioned any kind of "holiday" greeting, flat out said, "Merry Christmas." This made me extremely happy because it seemed like people were trying to boycott the whole PC-ness of the phrase "happy holidays." I've always felt that the whole ordeal revolving around the Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays issue was slightly ridiculous. If you're taking the time to wish someone "happy holidays", then most you most likely celebrate Christmas, so why not just say "Merry Christmas"? Whatever idiot introduced "happy holidays," and caused a stir over the political correctness of saying "Merry Christmas," should die. Harsh but true.

I also love how people become so much kinder towards others. Example: At work one day, these kids (probably about 11 yrs old) were ordering food at concessions, and of course they were short on money because all the stuff we sell is BLOODY EXPENSIVE. I would have offered to pick up the difference but I hadn't brought my wallet to work so I didn't have any cash. They were really embarrassed and kept putting stuff back in hopes to make it into their price range, when some random stranger who wasn't in line for concessions or anything, but was just watching, offered them a coupon she had gotten for a free popcorn. With that free popcorn coupon, the price dropped by about 6 bucks and the kids were able to afford the food they wanted. As I worked the past month or so, I noticed several acts of kindness such as this. Unfortunately I've also noticed how these events occur less and less as that Christmas spirit fades away come the new year. It's too bad we can't all be so kind, all the time. I know many people maintain that kindness all year long, and I envy them, for I'm sorry to say that I tend to be one of the ones who becomes more self-absorbed with the end of the Christmas season....I think I just found one of my New Year resolutions.

Don't You Hate it When...

You've been talking to someone you think is kind of attractive, and then the next time you look in the mirror you notice something embarrassing on your face. Even something as little as smudged eye makeup, or something as bad as a huge booger hanging out of your nose...which I suppose could happen, but I would think you could feel that. Either way, it kind of sucks. And then you can't help but worry that it was there when talking to said "attractive" person. This didn't happen to me today, but I was just randomly thinking about how much that sucks.

Sidenote: I came home from work tonight, snuck in the front door VERY quietly so as not to wake my nieces and nephew who were sleeping on the living room couches, fumbled my way through the dark house and maze of toys to the key basket, and very lightly placed my keys in the basket so as not to wake my sister who was sleeping on the family room couch, when HOLY CRAP I see a person sitting on the other couch. This person is not either one of my parents, or my brother-in-law, or my sister, cuz as I mentioned she was sleeping on the OTHER couch, and the person is too big to be either one of my nieces or nephew. Now, this whole thought process happened a lot quicker in my mind then it takes to read, so basically...I saw a dark shadow belonging to a skinny person, of which there are none of in my house at the moment, and I FREAKED OUT. Then I realized it was the dummy we made last night of my brother Evan. He's in Germany right now but we wanted him to be there for our New Years Eve festivities and so yes, we took some of the most Evan-like clothes and stuffed them full of sheets, and then cut out a huge picture of his face and made an Evan dummy. We've now decided he's going to accompany us on all our family functions for the two years he's gone :)