Disney Pin Trading

I teased it in my post yesterday about how I became addicted to Disney Pin Trading. Now I’m going to out my full addiction with pictures (NOTE: I don’t have a professional camera nor a studio, so not all of these pictures are great)!

My Collection

For those of you who don’t know, Disney sells collectible pins. Not very exciting I know, especially since they cost from $7.99 to $12.99 a piece. Here is wear it gets addicting. Disney Cast Members (what they call employees) in most departments are encouraged (and in some departments required) to wear pin lanyards while working and you can walk up to a cast member and trade with them. You can give them any pin you have and take any one they have. The cast members are not allowed to say no to any trade (as long as it is one pin for one pin).

Beautiful Blogger Award…

Yea…that is right. Someone thinks I’m beautiful! Apparently 2nd most beautiful of her blogging friends apparently!

My good (real life) friend Kati on her blog, What a World…, nominated me for the “Beautiful Blogger Award.”

Here are the rules for accepting this award:

1. Thank the person who nominated you for the award.
2. Copy and paste the award on your blog.
3. Link to the person who nominated you for the award.
4. Share seven interesting things about yourself.
5. Nominate your own seven Beautiful Bloggers.

Here we go…

1. Thank You Kati!!!!
2. Done above
3. Done above
4. Seven INTERESTING things? This may be up to someone else’s interpretation but here goes:

• I’m a HUGE Disney pin fan. I love going to Disney (or even just Downtown Disney) and scouring employees pins looking for good ones to steal from them. I’ve been thinking about blogging about this…maybe soon?
• I have the most beautiful girlfriend in the world. Straight up! I’m beyond lucky to have found someone so amazing who just fits with me (which isn’t easy BTW).
• My hair is falling out. So much so that it creates “Joe Bunnies” (as JC coined them) that appear in the bathroom and try to escape. I’m worried that one day my hair may lead to the downfall of the human race.
• As I said in my post yesterday, I’ve read more books this year than I had in many many years (maybe my whole life). I have a hard time getting into books and lose interest quickly. I also will develop headaches after long periods of reading. Lame.
• I have recently started singing in a church choir again and am REALLY enjoying it. The choir at Tuskawilla Presbyterian Church is REALLY good and Pastor Chris has interesting sermons. It finally got to the point where I decided to join the church. As of Valentine’s Day I’m an official member! They had to vote on us, scary, and I passed!! Woo Hoo
• I don’t have a lot of self-confidence. Prime example, this list! Writing seven things about myself is really hard. I’d much rather talk about a movie or some stupid internet fad then about myself. I also get REALLY nervous when I sing in front of people. I’m ok in the choir but I sang a solo at Christmas and will be singing a duet (with JC) coming up. I’ll probably have a heart attack that day
• Last thing! I’m going to Italy this summer!!! WOOO HOOOO. I’m going with JC and some of her family. We will be visiting Venice, Florence and Rome. Maybe even going to squeeze some roller coastering in!!

5. I don’t think I know seven bloggers personally and one that I DO know tagged me (which means I probably can’t tag her!). I’ll tag Jessica, Joe and Rob.

Thanks again Kati for tagging me and I hope everyone enjoyed learning some “interesting” things about me. I’m beautiful!

Free 8×10 Photo Today Only!

Today at Walgreens online you can get on 8×10 photo printed FREE! This is part of their 7 days 7 deals sale (which I somehow missed until today).

All you have to do is upload a photo and enter the code “FREEPHOTO” in the coupon code box. You can pay for them to mail it to you or select your closest store and go pick it up. FREE STUFF ROCKS!

I used Walgreens Photo online before Valentine’s Day to make a FREE collage for my wonderful girlfriend and it was easy as pie, so I highly recommend this online printing!

Dexter

For the past few years I have subscribed to Showtime for one reason. Dexter. Little did I know that the AMAZING television show was based on a novel, “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay. After reading my first book in many years, 1984, my girlfriend recommended I read the book. She received it for Christmas from her brother.

Shutter Island Review

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The title is not lying, this is actually one of my good ol’ movie reviews! Trying to get back into the swing of blogging every once in a while. I hope you enjoy it!

On Sunday night, JC and I went to see Shutter Island (avoid Wikipedia links if you haven’t seen the movie and don’t want to read spoilers). It is really nice to have a new movie buddy and we’ve seen a few movies recently. None have really made me want to run out and blog though.

On Valentine’s Day I brought her to a wonderful dinner at Portobello Trattoria at Downtown Disney and then we caught a showing of Valentine’s Day. I enjoyed the movie and it has everyone in it. EVERYONE. Cute, romantic comedy and I believe a perfect Valentine’s Day movie. Don’t expect me to write a post about it and don’t expect me to buy the DVD. But if you want to rent a cute movie next Valentine’s Day? Check it out.

Back to the real reason for the post, Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. This movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio and brought up an interesting thought on my part: Have I ever seen a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio? I can hear you, well, most of you. You just scoffed at the notion that I hadn’t seen a DiCaprio movie. I have never seen Titanic. Of course I’ve seen parts of the movie, but I’ve never seen it from beginning to end, something JC plans on changing. While working on this post I spent time going through every film on DiCaprio’s filmography (thanks to Wikipedia) and I can honestly answer the previous question. No, I have not seen any of Leo’s movies.

I WON! Again!

So, here we are again. I have not written much again. I know! I suck! What am I gonna do about it? Well, I don’t know. I’m not online nearly as much as I used to be, so it is more difficult to put together the edge of your seat, check your feed everyday content that I used to put up. Sorry. What I can tell you is that you get a post for today and I’ll have one for tomorrow! WOO HOO!!

So, with that of business taken care of…guess what…I WON!!!!!

My great friend and AMAZING blogger, The Keeper of Monkeys, held a 1,000 comment contest and I DIDN’T have the 1,000 comment. But giving her sister and other half of the Two Florida Girls a prize from Two Florida Girls would be a bit lame. So I apparently had the 1,001 comment. I was the default winner!! WOO HOO

I get to pick out something from the Two Florida Girls Etsy shop. I’m not sure what I’m going to get. They have some great stuff, but I’m thinking that I might get something for a lady in my life. Which one? I dunno. I’ll figure it out soon though Kt!