Movies of 2011 *Updated*

The Award Season Awesome:

• Being Elmo: the Puppeteer’s Journey
• 50/50 (Blu-ray)

The Awesome:

• Super 8 (Blu-ray)
• Captain America: The First Avenger (Blu-ray)
• Tucker and Dale vs Evil (Blu-ray)
• The Muppets (Blu-ray)
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Blu-ray)

The Award Season Good:

• Moneyball (Blu-ray)
• Margin Call (Blu-ray)
• Like Crazy
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Blu-ray)
• War Horse
• The Artist  

The Good:

• Super (Blu-ray)
• Hanna
• Thor (Blu-ray)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Arthur Christmas 
• Fright Night 
• Beginners

The Guilty Pleasures:

• Pirates of the Caribbean: on Stranger Tides (Blu-ray)
• X-Men: First Class (Blu-ray)
• Crazy Stupid Love (Blu-ray)

The Just Okay:

• Limitless
• Paul
• Water For Elephants
• Attack the Block
• The Ides of March
• In Time
• Hugo
• The Adventures of Tin Tin
• The Iron Lady 
• Cars 2 
• A Dangerous Method
• Contagion 
• My Week With Marilyn
• The Descendants
• We Bought a Zoo 
• The Help 

The Bad:

• Jane Eyre
• The Lincoln Lawyer
• Sucker Punch
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 2
• Drive
• Red State

The God Awful:

• Battle: Los Angeles
• The Conspirator
• Green Lantern 
• The Three Musketeers

*Saw on Blu-ray

*(Blu-ray) = bought

Resolutions for 2012

Back-story: Every year I try to do resolutions for the New Year and every year, I don't get where I want to be. Reasons for past failures: not specific enough, not measurable, unrealistic, no real hard deadlines, no accountability, etc. I have tried: publishing them on a blog, making them baby steps to a bigger goal, setting deadlines, etc. I need to try a new tactic. Tim Ferriss (author of 4 Hour Week, 4 Hour Body) has his best friend make his resolutions for him and vice versa. Couple that with Chris Hardwick's ideas in The Nerdist Way about treating your life like a D&D game and this is how I came to the below idea.

My Plan: I would like my family and friends to help me come up with 10 resolutions. I will take suggestions and do the top 10 best goals (assuming they give me that many) in return, if I pick theirs, they get to harass, torture and pester me to keep on track...or encourage, if that is their thing. If there are some really great ones I can't narrow down, I will have a vote. I have my own goals I'll be doing as well, but I'm hoping they can keep me on a track with these.

Rules:

• They must be S.M.A.R.T (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Timely).
  
• I would like these to be accomplished by July 1st and then I will do mid-year resolutions if this works out.
  
• I am not jumping out of an airplane or doing anything I normally would never do. However, I am willing to leave my comfort zone.
  
• They can be positive or negative goals (i.e. read 5 books or don't eat out more than once a week).
  
• They can submit more than one goal.
  

Categories for you to use in coming up with ideas:

• Finance (saving/being more frugal)
• Health (weight loss goals are the part of the main adventure. These are for side quests)
• Brain (reading/learning/etc)
• Writing (Non-fic only. I am not a Fiction Writer)
• Photography (non-homework related)
• Social (doing more with friends, writing letters, thank you cards, etc)
• Exploring Seattle
• Travel or Misc (Being Girlier, expanding music knowledge, using etc less, etc.)
  

Things to keep in mind:

• I work 3:30p to midnight.
  
• Starting in Feb. I will be taking 2 MFA classes in Photography while still working full time.
  
• I do need to sleep.
  
• I can listen to stuff while I work.
  
• I will keep you all updated on the goals as well as the people who came up for that specific goal.
  

My family and friends are awesome and very creative. I look forward to seeing what they come up with and I am totally willing to do the same if they want to do this style as well.