Thursday, February 14, 2019

Good Bye Old Friend (New Car Post)

We bought a new (used) car, a 2015 Town & Country Touring with 39K miles on it. Our last car had served us very well and we were all sad to let her go. This blog entry isn't to show off our new vehicle but is mostly just for personal reference so we can remember our beloved car, "Monorail Red".

Monorail Red was a 2006 Dodge Grand Caravan. We bought her in 2008 with 13K miles and she was relatively low maintenance for most of the time we had her. She took us to Florida at least 8 times. We drove her to Maine. She took us across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge on our way to Ocean City dozens upon dozens of times! There were countless trips to Dutch Wonderland and Hersheypark, not to mention numerous roundtrips to Columbia, MD to visit my mom.  
The automatic door on the drivers side stopped working in 2016. The reverse beeper stopped working at one point, only to mysteriously start working again years later. The front was dented and rusted from hitting a deer. The car whistled over 60MPH, the felt on the ceiling was starting to droop, the pop out cupholders were broken and one of the front seats was held together with duct tape...but we loved that car! We spent a lot of time in it! We got it when Elias was 5 1/2, Tanner was 2 and it's the only family car London has known.

There was also a carefully curated collection of stickers on the inside, in places most adults don't put stickers.


For the last 5 months we had the car, the display readout constantly said "Service Tire System Soon" even though I got all new tires and the garage assured us nothing was wrong.
London, sad to see the car go, right before we officially traded it in.


Thank You For Your Service Monorail Red
2008 - 2019

Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Every Movie I Saw in 2018

A record setting year for me in movie consumption as I continue to shove every film I can into my eye holes and ignore the new Golden Age of Television. I got out to the theater quite often and even saw a few of my all-time favorite films on the big screen for the first time in a long while, such as Airplane! and Gremlins. I watched some classics with my son, who is growing into quite the film buff! And I watched alot of great kiddie classics with my youngest daughter. All in all, it was a good year for movie watching!


1. The Care Bears Movie (1985) Amazon Prime
2. Scrooge (1970) Amazon Prime
3. Gilbert (2017) Hulu
4. Cops and Robbersons (1994) DVD
5. The Disaster Artist (2017) theater
6. Man of the House (1995) Hulu
7. Roger & Me (1989) DVD
8. Cinderfella (1960) DVD.com
9. Peter Pan (1953) DVD
10. Battle of the Sexes (2017) DVD.com
11. Scooby-Doo & Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2018) Redbox
12. Girls Trip (2017) DVD.com
13. Bowling for Columbine (2002) DVD
14. Ski Party (1965) TCM
15. Fast Food (1989) VHS
16. Snoopy Come Home (1972) DVD
17. Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986) VHS
18. Pillow Talk (1959) DVD
19. Yogi Bear (2010) DVD
20. Brigsby Bear (2017) DVD.com
21. Big Red (1962) DVD
22. Bon Voyage! (1962) DVD
23. The Flintstones (1994) DVD
24. Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984) Sony Movie Channel
25. Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992) Hulu
26. Home Again (2017) DVD.com
27. The Post (2018) theater
28. A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018) Netflix
29. The In Crowd (1988) MGM
30. The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) TCM
31, MacShayne: Winner Takes All (1994) DVD
32. Meet the Parents (2000) Netflix
33. Groundhog Day (1993) DVD
34. The Producers (1967) TCM
35. Moana (2016) DVD
36, Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) DVD
37. Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982) DVD
38. Woody Woodpecker (2017) DVD
39. It Happened One Night (1934) TCM
40. In Search of the Castaways (1962) VHS
41. The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Animation (2018) theater
42. Alice in Wonderland (1950) DVD
43. Bringing Down the House (2003) AMC
44. Wonder (2017) Blu-ray
45. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017) DVD.com
46. Black Panther (2018) theater
47. West Side Story (1961) HBO
48. Strangers on a Train (1951) TCM
49. Smart Cookies (2012) DVD
50. Ratatouille (2007) DVD
51. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988) DVD
52. Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower The River (1968) DVD
53. Hardly Working (1980) VHS
54. Step Sisters (2018) Netflix
55. Personal Best (1982) HBO
56. Summer of '42 (1971) TCM
57. Z-O-M-B-I-E-S (2018) Disney Channel
58. Rebel Without A Cause (1955) TCM
59. Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run (2015) DVD
60. Texas Lightning (1981) Amazon Prime
61. St. Helens (1981) VHS
62. Rat Race (2001) DVD
63. The Florida Project (2017) DVD.com
64. Saps at Sea (1940) DVD
65. Paddington (2014) Netflix
66. The Lego Batman Movie (2017) Blu-ray
67. Crocodile Dundee (1986) VH-1
68. The Great Race (1965) DVD.com
69. How To Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) HDNet Movies
70. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) DVD
71. Thumbelina (1994) HBO
72. The Princess Diaries (2001) DVD
73. Snatched (2017) HBO
74. Clambake (1967) HDNet Movies
75. Toy Story 3 (2010) DVD
76. Pitch Perfect (2012) Paramount Network
77. Finding Dory (2016) Blu-ray
78. The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018) HBO
79. Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure (1977) VHS
80. Cheech and Chong's Next Movie (1980) Sony Movie Channel
81. I Can Only Imagine (2018) theater
82. Ferdinand (2017) DVD.com
83. History of the World part 1 (1981) DVD
84. Still Smokin (1983) Sony Movie Channel
85. Spaceballs (1987) IFC
86. To Be or Not to Be (1983) HBO
87. Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975) DVD.com
88. Super Troopers (2001) DVD
89. Sgt, Stubby: An American Hero (2018) theater
90. The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea (2000) DVD
91. The Twelve Chairs (1970) DVD.com
92. The North Avenue Irregulars (1979) DVD
93. My Neighbor Totoro (1988) DVD.com
94. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) DVD
95. Captain America: Civil War (2016) DVD
96. Avengers: Infinity War (2018) theater
97. The Onion Movie (2008) DVD
98. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) DVD.com
99. Spaceship (1981) DVD
100. The Crocodile Hunter: Colission Course (2002) DVD
101. Putney Swope (1969) DVD.com
102. The Apartment (1960) TCM
103. Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer (1985) VHS
104. Twice Upon a Time (1983) laserdisc
105. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) DVD
106. DC Super Hero Girls: Intergalactic Games (2017) DVD.com
107. Justice League (2017) DVD.com
108. Deadpool 2 (2018) theater
109. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) DVD
110. Lady Bird (2017) DVD.com
111. Heavy Metal (1981) Sony Movie Channel
112. Where To Invade Next (2015) Amazon Prime
113. Frenzy (1972) DVD.com
114. Spellbound (1945) TCM
115. Lifeboat (1944) library DVD
116. Bachelor in Paradise (1961) MGM
117. It's A Great Life (1943) Amazon Prime
118. Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer (2011) DVD
119. Neighbors (1981) Sony Movie Channel
120. My Dog, The Thief (1969) VHS
121. She's The Man (2006) TBS
122. Jaws 3-D (1983) DVD
123. The Incredibles (2004) DVD
124. Jurassic World (2015) DVD
125. Early Man (2018) DVD.com
126. Weird Science (1985) IFC
127. Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) theater
128. The Kissing Booth (2018) Netflix
129. Incredibles 2 (2018) theater
130. Muscle Beach Party (1964) HDNet Movies
131. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) theater
132. Suburban Commando (1991) DVD
133. Daphne & Velma (2018) DVD.com
134. Downsizing (2017) DVD.com
135. Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) DVD
136. Where The Boys Are '84 (1984) Amazon Prime
137. Carpool (1996) Netflix
138. Ant-Man (2015) TNT
139. Summer Rental (1985) DVD
140. How to Eat Fried Worms (2006) DVD.com
141. The Final Year (2017) DVD.com
142. Sydney White (2007) Freeform
143. March of the Penguins (2005) DVD
144. Table 19 (2017) HBO
145. It Came From Outer Space (1954) VHS
146. Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) theater
147. Blockers (2018) DVD.com
148. Tomb Raider (2018) DVD.com
149. Blazing Saddles (1974) theater
150. Critic's Choice (1963) MGM
151. 44 Pages (2017) Netflix
152. Up (2009) DVD
153. The Pirate Movie (1982) DVD
154. Teen Titans Go! To The Movies (2018) theater
155. Dudley Do-Right (1999) DVD
156. The Monster Squad (1987) Amazon Prime
157. Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986) DVD
158. Max Keeble's Big Move (2001) DVD
159. Game Night (2018) DVD.com
160. The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) DVD
161. Goldfinger (1964) MGM
162. Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985) Hoopla
163. The Love Bug (1997) VHS
164. The Last Movie Star (2017) Amazon Prime
165. A Wrinkle in Time (2018) DVD.com
166. Cactus Flower (1969) TCM
167. Yellow Submarine (1968) Amazon Prime
168. Flight of the Navigator (1986) DVD
169. The Great Outdoors (1988) DVD
170. Ready Player One (2018) DVD.com
171. RV (2006) library DVD
172. Holiday in the Sun (2001) DVD
173. Bring It On (2000) DVD
174. Airplane! (1980) theater
175. Santa Jaws (2018) SyFy
176. Freaky Friday (2018) Disney Channel
177. Aquamarine (2006) DVD
178. The Package (2018) Netflix
179. To All The Boys I've Loved Before (2018) Netflix
180. Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (1988) library DVD
181. Police Academy (1984) DVD
182. Super Troopers 2 (2018) DVD.com
183. Rumble in the Bronx (1995) HDNet Movies
184. A-Haunting We Will Go (1942) library DVD
185. Peter Rabbit (2018) DVD.com
186. Dark Skies (2013) SyFy
187. When Innocence Is Lost (1997) DVD
188. Eighth Grade (2018) theater
189. Action Point (2018) DVD.com
190. Murder on the Orient Express (2017) HBO
191. The Mountain Between Us (2017) HBO
192. RBG (2018) CNN
193. Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) Netflix
194. Mad About Mambo (2000) Hoopla
195. Wimbledon (2004) DVD
196. The Bandit (2016) DVD
197. Hello Again (1987) VHS
198. Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Uni...(2017)Netflix
199. Book Club (2018) DVD.com
200. Wedding of Dreams (2018) Hallmark Channel
201. Rear Window (1954) DVD
202. 21 & Over (2013) DVD
203. The Layover (2017) HBO
204. Tag (2018) DVD.com
205. Stiff Upper Lips (1998) library DVD
206. The Happytime Murders (2018) theater
207. The Miracle Season (2018) DVD.com
208. Odd Jobs (1986) HBO
209. The Brass Bottle (1964) DVD
210. Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018) DVD.com
211. Hollywood or Bust (1956) TCM
212. Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) Paramount
213. Reversing Roe (2018) Netflix
214. Fahrenheit 11/9 (2018) theater
215. Once Bitten (1985) Amazon Prime
216. Evil Roy Slade (1972) library DVD
217. Christopher Robin (2018) theater
218. Night of the Creeps (1986) Sony Movie Channel
219. Wreck-It Ralph (2012) DVD
220. Show Dogs (2018) DVD.com
221. Eight Days a Week (1997) DVD
222. Gremlins (1984) theater
223. Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) DVD
224. Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (2017) DVD.com
225. Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) nDVD
226. Psycho II (1983) DVD
227. The Old Man & the Gun (2018) theater
228. Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978) VHS
229. Halloween (1978) blu-ray
230. The Addams Family (1991) Freeform
231. Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992) DVD.com
232. Madhouse (1990) Sony Movie Channel
233. Generation Wealth (2018) DVD.com
234. Hocus Pocus (1993) DVD
235. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) DVD.com
236. All I Want For Christmas (1991) library DVD
237. The Holiday Calendar (2018) Netflix
238. Beyond Tomorrow (1940) DVD
239. Young Pioneers' Christmas (1976) DVD
240. Follow That Bird (1985) DVD
241. Christmas Comes to Willow Creek (1987) Amazon Prime
242. Uncle Drew (2018) DVD.com
243. Stroker Ace (1983) DVD.com
244. It's A Gift (1934) TCM
245. I'll Be Seeing You (1944) DVD.com
246. The Seventh Seal (1957) theater
247. The Christmas Chronicles (2018) Netflix
248. The Star (2017) Netflix
249. A Bad Moms Christmas (2017) DVD.com
250. 3 Godfathers (1948) library DVD
251. A Very Nutty Christmas (2018) Lifetime
252. Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) theater
253. Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) theater
254. The Princess Switch (2018) Netflix
255. The Nutcracker (1993) Netflix
256. Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever (2014) DVD
257. The Man Who Came To Diner (1942) TCM
258. Holiday Affair (1949) DVD
259. Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) DVD
260. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) theater
261. The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971) DVD
262. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) DVD
263. Tiny Christmas (2017) Hoopla
264. Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! (2011) DVD
265. Vice (2018) theater
266. Jingle Bell Rocks! (2013) Hoopla
267. A Christmas Story (1983) DVD
268. Trail of Robin Hood (1950) TCM
269. A Very Brady Christmas (1988) DVD