Princesses of Poultry

Have you seen the new Muppets movie yet?

If not, you are missing out on two hours of cheesy music numbers, hilarious celebrity cameos and the entire Muppets gang!

Here are some of my favorite things from the movie:

1. Jason Segel. I love him in How I Met Your Mother. Laughed myself silly watching him in Forgetting Sarah Marshall...vampire puppet musical was genius. He wrote and starred in the movie and his awkward dance numbers were worth the matinee price of this movie! I had tears in my eyes (from laughing) during the Muppet or Man song...not sure why but it cracked me up.

2.  Celebrities Galore. I couldn't wait to see what celebrity was going to pop up next in this movie. Jason's HIMYF costar Neil Patrick Harris answered telethon phones with Whoopi, Selena and the kid from Modern Family. David Grohl was the drummer in the Moopets tribute band in Reno and Jack Black took his role as Animal's anger management sponsor seriously!

3.  Great Music Numbers. There are some incredibly cheesy songs...it's the Muppets, what did you expect? But even my 4-year-old nephew turned to me and said "I like this song" during the Princesses of Poultry - Camilla and the Chickens version of Forget You!

Listen for yourself and get some highlights of the movie.



4.  Cheesy Lines. I love how the movie didn't take itself seriously. From the suggestion that rounding up the gang was taking too long so they should "use a montage" to gather the rest of the characters up to Fozzie questioning if a big explosion was in the budget to Kermit's call to President Carter and Molly Ringwald when looking for a host, I probably laughed more than my nephews did during the movie.

5.  New storyline. Even though there were many nods to the past, there was actually a plot to the movie and it kept both the kids and adults in the theater engaged and entertained.

My only disappointment...No "Pigs in Space" skit!

Dreams of NYC

The Big Apple better watch out...my posse and I are heading your way soon.

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Well...at least two of my sisters, a friend and I are taking our first trip to NYC. I'm going to consider them my posse because the trip was my idea!

I am probably more excited about this trip than I have been about a vacation since my first (and second) trip to Kauai...or paradise as I call it.

I'm not sure if my excitement is because I've never been to NYC and there's so much to do and see...

OR if it's because so many of the shows I watch on TV are set in the city.

Here's how I'm envisioning our visit going...

Cue dream sequence music...


We'll be picked up at the airport in a taxicab by Ranjit from How I Met Your Mother...

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and he'll drop us off at MacLaren's where we'll suit up and be AWESOME!

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The next morning we'll get up and grab a coffee at Central Perk.

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Before heading out for a day of sight-seeing and shopping.

We might even end our evening at a fabulous bar doing some karaoke like this Fab Four...

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What? You don't think ANY of that will happen. Really?

OK, I admit that my dreams of hanging out on the couch at Central Perk with Monica and the Gang probably won't come true.

But what about all the cool places I see in the reality shows that revolve around NYC.

We could stop by Mood and pick up some fabrics...

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and run into Tim Gunn who will tell us to "make it work!" I think this would totally be the way he'd look at us if we were to try and design an outfit for him!

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Or we could just go into Second Time Around - the cool upscale resale shop featured on Bravo's Fashion Hunters.

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I'm pretty sure I still can't afford anything in the store even if it's priced 75 percent off the original price but wouldn't it be fun to browse?

Then we could grab a bite at one of the city's many food trucks...

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Maybe we could even find the Korilla truck from the Great Food Truck Race show. I'd love to find out if they really did add money to the till.

No matter what we end up doing, where we end up visiting and who we end up seeing, I know the trip will be great.

Any suggestions on must dos while we are in town? Send them my way!

I'm not Crazy...How I Met Your Mother is New

I've been looking forward to this Monday night for a while. It's the start of the fall TV season - at least on network television. Now, I'd be more excited if a) I didn't have DVR (I heart DVR) and b) Big Bang Theory was still on Monday nights.

I really liked starting my Monday night with How I Met Your Mother and ending it with Sheldon and the gang. One of my all-time favorite lines came from Sheldon last season: "I'm not crazy. My mother had me tested."

Bummer...we still didn't meet the mother...sorry I'm watching TV as I type!

Back to the regularly scheduled post...

In my younger years (and possibly still) I was known in my family for knowing what TV show was on when. I may have even once told a friend that it was time to quit dating a guy because the new TV season was set to start.

Now, the real reason I wanted to stop dating said guy was that he had - what I would call - an unhealthy love (and too large of a collection) of firearms AND he had the habit of NOT returning DVDs rented in my name on time (I hate late fees). Two very big no-nos in my book.

But what a great excuse to break things off with someone. So much more original than "I have to wash my hair" OR "My dog died."

So if I don't post anything for the next few weeks, you'll know what I'm doing, because you know Cougar Town is new on Wednesday too!

I have to "go wash my hair."