A Typical Day

 In honour of going back to work today, I thought I'd write a pharmacy related post. I have mentioned time and time again that I live in a retirement community. So you can imagine the majority of customers that stroll shuffle through the doors each day.

 I'm taking a page from Nicole at Not Before My Tea and I'm writing out a list- of the typical customers that will walk through our pharmacy doors in a typical day.

//1  Mr. Inquisitive.This is the customer with ALL of the questions. It doesn't matter how busy I may be, or how busy the pharmacist happens to be, this person will always ask as many questions as he feels because he's curious and doesn't care that he's holding up a bunch of people.

//2  Mr. Ignorant. This customer acts like he doesn't understand that things cost money. He just assumes that certain items are free until he is told otherwise. Or he jokingly asks if he has to pay for it, secretly hoping I'll take pity and let him have it for free. (I don't.)

//3  Mrs. HOW Much!? The old lady that is shocked and appalled at our prices. every. single. day. I know, things are rather expensive in a small pharmacy like ours. But, I just can't stand it when someone knows that a bottle of vitamins will be $8.99 just like last time and has to sigh and go on and on about it before finally handing over the cash.


 //4  Mrs. Trusty Pants. This customer is often one of my favourites because she is usually kind and sweet. She doesn't look at the price of any item because she trusts me. She will fork over any amount of money for a pack of gum and not think twice about it. She also carries around an obscene amount of cash in her wallet. It's a damn good thing she lives in the kind of community that we live in because in a big city she would be fresh meat for any criminal.

//5  The Junkies. There is always a handful of these folks. I usually refer to them as the All Stars. Sadly this person is completely addicted to his prescription medicine. This person will say and do anything to get this medication even when it's too early. He will give every excuse no matter how ridiculous. He has no shame and will say whatever it takes to get what he wants. Often the worst of the bunch.

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 //6   Debbie Downer. Oh this person is always sick. This person's boss is such an asshole. This person has had everything bad you can possibly imagine happen to her. She doubts that the new anti-depressant she's been prescribed will work. She doesn't think that her family will ever understand how hard her life is. She just wants to talk about herself. She chooses to talk only to hear her own voice and she has absolutely zero interest in anyone else. This person, is a real treat.

 //7  The Over-Sharer. Ahh, yes. This person will tell you about her poop, she'll tell you that she hasn't had sex in over a year and that she definitely thinks her husband left her because he was sleeping with her best friend. Oh dear, this one is even more of a treat than Debbie Downer because she doesn't get how uncomfortable she is making me...

 //8   The Friend In Real Life. This is always complicated because working in a pharmacy leads to some pretty personal issues. I try to be as discreet as possible and as disinterested to what this friend is in to pick up. I also take pride in the fact that I am very professional and never even consider sharing this kind of information with anyone.

This is my friend Holly. She came to the pharmacy once or twice. No big deal, but she's my friend and was a customer. LOL- hey, I needed a picture..!!

 //9  The Proud Blue Pill User. Yes, this man is often very proud that he is still having sex. So proud that he likes to order his blue pills in a loud, booming voice from the front doorway. He orders his pills and announces to us (and whoever else is waiting in the pharmacy) that he will be back after he has some coffee.

//10 The Perv. The perv is always an old man, in my case. He doesn't care that his jokes are very inappropriate and make the (again, twenty something year old) pharmacy tech very uncomfortable. He comments on my appearance and how I look good enough to Insert Inappropriate Verb Here. He is usually sexist as well as inappropriate and most likely a little racist too. He thinks he's a real charmer and is often pissing his Depend wearing pants because he's also currently shitfaced as well. (For the record- I have not come across a perv with all of these qualities. I was just putting together a few pervs to create the worst possible perv I could imagine.)

This is actually my brother in law Joe. He doesn't read my blog, so this is even funnier.

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MHB- Week Sixteen- Cardio-less

 It's my last week being off on maternity leave, as I'm sure everyone that is a regular reader is sick of hearing about! But it is. It can't be my last week of working out though. I can't let that happen. So even though it's going to be a big adjustment and a total challenge, I have to keep up with the hard work. I plan to wake up at 6 to workout, then shower and be ready for work by 7. Then I'll get baby girl up and have her ready and fed by 8:45. Ship her off to daycare and myself off to work..! Busy mornings are ahead for me but that's what happens when you add another human being to the mix! All part of the package deal.

MONDAY-

Day 1- Full Body Strength and Conditioning. This is that workout I mentioned before that is only done once a month in the Beginner Calendar. Lucky for me, I get to do this workout more than once a month. It is ... challenging. In the first set of pictures I'm demonstrating the entire first 5 minute round. It includes doing 10 air squats and 5 hindu push-ups as quickly as I can for a full five minutes. The idea is to get your lactic acids flowing right away, like you could in a fight, if an opponent is coming at you right away. (Like I'm some big tough fighter girl or something. Ha.)

 The other picture shows the Alternate Dumbbell Y Press. I should have had my arms a bit higher.

Goals: My hindu push-up form is lacking. I'd like to do this exercise more (gasp) just to build up the muscles in my arms that I use when I do the hindu push-up. I find that I'm a bit weak yet, to do demonstrate the best form.

TUESDAY-

Day 2- Cardio. Buuuuut, I skipped it. I know, I know I shouldn't be skipping any of my exercises. But I woke up Tuesday morning, super tired and my body, more specifically my ass and legs were uber sore from the big workout on Monday morning. So, I decided that more sleep and no running was what I needed. Alina had her one year shots this morning and did very well. I have two pictures of her at Public Health; getting weighed in the big girl chair and playing with the other kids toys in the waiting area. The pictures of us swimming were actually from Monday morning, but I thought they were cute enough to share in Tuesday's recap. Although, sitting in a pissy kiddy pool doesn't really count as exercise..

WEDNESDAY-

  Day 3- Explosive Power Training. One word- wow. It's pretty intense. Round one had my heart fluttering and I was completely out of breath after the five minutes were over. In the photos above I'm showing two exercises- the Jump Squat and the Ice Skater.

The exercise I'm showing above is pretty simple because it's just jumping with one knee raised up and swinging my arms in different directions. This was the first time that I did this entire workout and it was both awesome and challenging.

Goals: To do it again and to do it all better.

THURSDAY-

Highlights from our Thursday.

 Day 4- Skipped Cardio... again. Well my little one had her first year shots on  Tuesday and she really hasn't been herself since. She's been really docile, sleepy and it seems like her little cough has gotten worse, with the return of her runny nose. Sigh. She woke nearly every hour Wednesday night into Thursday morning, so I was up a lot checking on her and making her more comfortable. Needless to say- I was in no mood to get up and exercise. Alina did two hours at her new daycare today. She was really out of sorts and ended up crying hard when someone came to the door and it wasn't me. (Awww.) She wasn't herself, I was sad and that was basically our Thursday.

FRIDAY- 

 Day 5- Fight Conditioning. In the photo above I'm showing part of round one and how I'm circling in one direction in one stance and then I switch directions. After that, I switch stances and do the same. It gets the heart rate going pretty effectively. 

 The other photo is of me showing a Standing Guard Pass with Two Punches. It's more difficult than it looks because you're going from a standing position to down on your knees and back up over and over again. Because I cheated a bit this week and didn't do any of my cardio workouts, I felt like this workout was a great way to end the week. I was pretty tuckered out.

Goals: I want to set my goals low because I'm headed back to work on Monday. So I'm just going to go for DOING the workouts next week despite my new busy schedule.

Improvements: I was punching with force, like there was an opponent opposite me. It really made a difference.

Here's a list of all of my Mission Hot Bods over the last few months- take a gander if you're interested!

MHB- Week 1     MHB-Week 2     MHB-Week 3     MHB-Week 4     MHB-Week 5                                                                                                                                                         
MHB-Week 6     MHB-Week 7     MHB-Week 8     MHB-Week 9     MHB-Week 10    

MHB-Week 11     MHB-Week 12   MHB- Week 13   MHB-Week 14  MHB-Week15

Okay I'm about to get all lame up in here.. with my song choice for #backthatazzup Friday.. It's a song that the Dixie Chick's sing for their children and I couldn't agree more with the lyrics. I know, I know.. I promise I'll slow down with the sappy sadness posts as soon as I get this whole returning to work thing over with next week... Until then- you're stuck with my sap...!

Dolly

 I was filling out Alina's birthday card the other day. (A day late, but she's a baby, she doesn't know the difference...) I decided to jot down a bunch of names that we've been calling her throughout the year. A lot of the names won't stick but I wanted to be able to look back years from now and remember some of them.

 When Alina was just an idea in my tummy, we nicknamed her Peanut. It's funny how we always referred to the baby as Peanut for a full nine months and then she was born and we quit calling her Peanut right away. Other favourites that we call her are Monkey, Boo Boo, Pete (Sleepy Pete), Stinky or Stew (Stinky Stew), Bo Bina (Alina Bo Bina) and Betty, to name a few.

When I was a wee one my mom started to call me Dolly because she said I looked so much like a doll. I had rosebud lips, full, dark hair and I was pretty like a doll. The nickname absolutely stuck. My mom still calls me Dolly or Doll, now that I'm older. She was pretty embarrassing about it for my entire life. She would call out to me in stores with that name or even last year, when I was working she would ask for Dolly on the phone and quickly correct herself. My boss would say, "It's for you ... Dolly." Bah! But lucky for my mom, I am a nice daughter and haven't given her too much grief over her slip ups. After all, it is like my 'other' name.

Me.

 What is with nicknames anyway? Some can be so overpowering that they become the person's name. I remember when Rob and I named Alina, we thought about other names that people might end up calling her; Ally, Lena or Al. I liked all of those choices and hope that if her name changes over the years, it doesn't change too much.

 Rob has a friend named Mark, that has been called Beaver since high school. If I was his mother I would be horrified. You take that nine months (or longer) to really put a lot of thought into a great name for your child and then one a-hole in his 15th year changes everything. I still get confused when Rob calls him Mark.. I have to go "Oh, you mean Beaver.."

  There's always that person that calls everybody by some kind of nickname. I had a friend like that in high school that called me by my last name. I know someone now that calls me by the name of my home town. I do enjoy being called something different for some reason. But I know that not everyone feels that way. I also know that some people get really offended when you shorten their name. I ended up calling my co-worker by a shortened version of her name for awhile until I finally clued in that she introduced herself as her full name, every single time.

 Madonna is well known for her nickname, Madge. Apparently her ex Guy Richie swears she was nicknamed Madge because it is short for "her majesty.." Madge is known for hating the nickname and lucky for her, she is more well known as Madonna. Robert Van Winkle more popularly known as Vanilla Ice also had a big dislike for his nickname. He earned it by being one of the only white dancers in a break dancing group. The name stuck and he went with it. I will say that if someone asked me who Robert Van Winkle was, I would probably think they were referring to Father Time.

 So all nicknames are certainly not liked. Me, personally I don't mind being called Dolly by my mom. Is it because I'm completely used to it? Probably. It also reminds me that my mom still thinks of me as her little doll, which is kind of cute in a puke in your mouth kind of way.

 What do you think of nicknames?

Do you have a nickname and what's the story behind it!?

Are you offended by the idea of someone give you a shortened version of your name or a nickname?

One Years Old- Two Parties

 What a weekend!! Not only did Alina turn a whopping ONE years old! But we hosted not one but two birthday parties for Alina. Did we split the parties into two days like normal people? Well, no we didn't! We had her baby party at 2 and the family party at 6 pm. I don't think I would have attempted such a task without knowing that my mother in law Andrea would be in town. She's the party hosting queen. So I wanted to make her proud and see that I could host the hell out of a party too!

 First thing- the cake. I made Alina's cake and followed this blog post as my guide... It was very helpful and I think  I did a really good job!

 I made really cute treat bags for the babies but I failed to take a picture of them and I'm really, really sad about it. There were Cookie Monster, Elmo and Big Bird bags. I drew the faces and glued them onto the bags. They turned out really nice. I bought a bunch of goodies for the treat bags like cardboard books, shakers and I made homemade apple sauce for the little ones. I sent Andrea a Pinterest inspired project; Sesame Street fruit and veggie platters. She works in the melon department at a grocery store in Ontario, so this was right up her alley. She did an awesome job! Rob decorated the house for me and had Alina all ready for her party by the time the guests arrived.

The Baby Party

The Family Party

 It was a great weekend of babies, family and friends. Alina is now officially a YEAR old. We have one week left together and I still can't think too much about it... On Wednesday, Rob's folks arrived in town in the afternoon. So when I was taking Alina to a play date, I couldn't help but feel nostalgic about it. It was our very last play date and our last day alone together before I return to work. On the drive home, she fell asleep and she looked so sweet and peaceful. I couldn't help it, my tears started to flow and I felt sorry for myself. When I parked, I took some pictures of her and one for my blog, to show my raw sadness! (Side Note: Rob took the Jeep to pick up his parents with and I had the truck. We don't normally have her in the front seat, but for today I did.)

 I'm okay though.. I'm a little bit excited to get back to work. I'm anxious to get into our new routine and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to getting this first day or week over with, so that I can get over this sinking feeling. But every time that I get too sulky, I think about how lucky I have been to have this little squirt in my life to begin with. AND- I feel completely blessed to have had this full year with her.

MHB- Week Fifteen- Awesome

 This was a great week for me and working out! I felt awesome, I had tons of energy and I feel really positive about continuing my workout when I return to work on the 17th..!!

MONDAY-

 Day 1- Strength and Endurance Workout. I did it, with some grunting and groaning along the way. In the photos above I'm showing a burpee.

 I am demonstrating a rotating bent over row in the photos above. It's one of those exercises that I enjoy doing because it just feels good.

Goals: Keep up my positive and upbeat energy!

Improvements: Last time I did this workout I mentioned that I wanted to push myself until the very last second of each round in the workout. I definitely did that and it felt great.

TUESDAY- 

Demonstrating a combination of punches and kicks.

As promised an example of the "Uchi Mata" kick I mentioned demonstrating last week.

 Day 2- Fight Conditioning Workout. It's official; I'm no longer getting together with my mom friends to do stroller fit workouts. My RushFit calendar has changed up when I do cardio, so I'm going to stick with the program. Plus, my last week with Alina is next week and my in laws will still be in town. So I think I'll probably just go to the gym on cardio days.

Goals: I need to work on the Scramble in the last round. I ended up quitting ten seconds early because I thought I was finished and then it was too late to get back into it. I bet I could improve my form if I watch the foundation section of the workouts. It's at the end of each workout and George St. Pierre and Eric Owens demonstrate slowly how to do each exercise properly.

Improvements: I'm consistent and I think that's an improvement from last month!

WEDNESDAY-

Day 3- Cardio. I felt very really good doing this workout and I felt like I had lots of energy. I am still doing The Cardio Machine Workout created by Lisa at Happy Fit. I modify the workout to suit me from week to week.

Round 1- Run at a Speed of 6 at an Incline of 6.5 for 30 seconds. Jog for another 30.

Repeat twice.

Do 20 wall push-ups and a half head stand at the wall.

 

Round 2- Run at a Speed of 6.5 at an Incline of 7 for 30 seconds. Jog for another 30.

Repeat twice.

Do 20 Rotating Curls with 5 pound weights and a half head stand at the wall.

Round 3- Run at a Speed of 6 at an Incline of 6.5 for 30 seconds. Jog for another 30.

Repeat Twice.

Do 20 wall push-ups and a half hand stand at the wall.

 Goals: To increase my speed and incline next week.

Improvements: I feel like I had lots of energy and so I think it's time to challenge myself again.

THURSDAY- 

Day 4- Abdominal Strength and Core Conditioning Workout. I am adjusting to the interruptions very well and keeping up with my exercises despite them. As you can see in the picture above, my little friend joined me. We set up Monster's University on the tablet for her to be distracted by while I finished up. She's a good sport!

Goals: Focus on my workout even more. Pause the workout when Rob needs me to help him find his headphones because he's late, instead of running out of the room and missing half of an exercise.

Improvements: I wanted to focus better on my workout with the interruptions and even though I was interrupted and missed a few seconds of an exercise, I still feel like I've improved.

FRIDAY-

 Day 5- Cardio. The last day of the week and my workouts for a couple of days! Hurray! There was another lady in the teeny, tiny gym so I went to the SCBA Room at the fire hall and did some skipping instead. To be honest, it sucked. Skipping is really hard and I kept whipping my legs and hands with the leather skipping rope.

Round 1- Skip for 1 minute and rest for thirty seconds.

Repeat twice.

Do 20 wall push-ups and a half head stand at the wall.

 

Round 2- Skip for 1 minute and rest for thirty seconds.

Repeat twice.

Do 20 wall push-ups and a half head stand at the wall.

Round 3- Skip for 1 minute and rest for thirty seconds.

Repeat Twice.

Do 20 wall push-ups and a half hand stand at the wall.

 All in all it I felt that even though I didn't get a chance to do the cardio machine workout, the skipping did the trick too. 

 It is Friday, my in-laws arrived from Ontario on Thursday for Alina's first birthday this weekend! I can't believe that last year on this day, I was as big as a house. My mother in law brought Thunder Bay's Infamous Persians for me to snack on. I swear the Persians induced my labour! Today, after the gym I came home and fit into my skinny jeans! No joke, the one pair of jeans that I haven't even attempted to try on, fit me on my one year anniversary of my fattest day in history! It's a good day! 

That infamous Persian and the last picture on my phone before SHE arrived!!

Last belly shot picture before A arrived last year and today! in my skinny jeans!! Woop woop!

   To see how I started my Mission Hot Bod and the weeks that followed- feel free to check these posts out-

MHB- Week 1     MHB-Week 2     MHB-Week 3     MHB-Week 4     MHB-Week 5                                                                                                                                                         
MHB-Week 6     MHB-Week 7     MHB-Week 8     MHB-Week 9     MHB-Week 10    

MHB-Week 11     MHB-Week 12   MHB- Week 13   MHB-Week 14

 It is also #backthatazzup Friday with Yoga Pants. So I give you a song that makes me think of my little girl. Moments before she was born, the sun lit up the entire hospital room and it was by far the most beautiful thing I've ever experienced. Here's one of my favourite George Harrison tunes; "Here Comes The Sun." 

Crazy Shit Rob Does! Chapter Four

 I missed posting about my crazy husband last month and I blame that on the fact that there were only twenty eight days in February. But don't think for one moment that Rob wasn't any less crazy for the month of February.. If this is your first time joining me for a chapter in Crazy Shit Rob Does then please feel free to check out some of the crazy things he's done in the past:

Chapter One

(Rob and Alina and aaaaall the funny photo ops you can imagine...)

Chapter Two

(Fun with Rob and his texts.)

Chapter Three

(His obsession with his Bear Grylls survival knife.)

 Chapter Four; "Crazy Shit Rob Does ... randomly out of nowhere."

 Oh boy, this topic could take me forever to write about. Rob is constantly doing random shit. I'm serious, at one point in our lives Rob decided that Wednesday was going to be "Prank Day" and oh, was I so excited to see what "Prank Day" would bring me. I remember he disappeared and when I went into the kitchen he had opened every single cupboard and drawer. He basically opened anything that could be opened. So I laughed and started closing everything, meanwhile he's laughing like a maniac opening everything in the living room. It was really, really funny but it's insane how crazy bad your kitchen looks with every cupboard and drawer opened. What a mess! I ran after him for several minutes trying to close everything. It was completely ridiculous. But really, really funny.

Look how messy it makes my kitchen look!! (And yes, I did this all by myself while Alina was napping. I'm going to sure miss being on maternity leave..)

 He also decided one day and I'm not sure if this was an official "Prank Day" because that day didn't really last long. I think he ditched that idea seeing as he probably didn't want to limit himself to only one day of the week. Sigh. One day he decided that he was going to stack everything. I'm watching t.v. and what gives him away is always that mischievous giggle he has. It's a high pitched giggle, similar to an evil clown. He started stacking everything on the coffee table. Of course this throws my anxiety through the roof, seeing as I am always nervous about things falling over and spilling or breaking. So he has a guitar capo and a kleenex box and plates and cups with liquid in them teetering in one giant tower of future mess in front of me. As I dash to take a part that tower he's off stacking another tower of disaster nearby.

 Months ago I took this picture of Rob in the dryer. There was no reason for him to be in there, other than the fact that he wanted to see if he could fit. I'm just glad he found a way out of the dryer. Any emergency calls would go through our local fire department. So if my curious husband needed assistance getting out a dryer, he would be met by a group of his fellow fire department friends. I'm sure that would be a story that would be told time and time again. "Remember when we had to "rescue" Rob from his dryer?"

 Just recently Rob dropped his sawzall and it hit his leg and the blade went in at least an inch. He wanted to show me his wound, but first he had to make some adjustments...

For those of you that do not know what a sawzall looks like.. and introducing Rob's nasty wound.. with eyeballs drawn to make it more.... tolerable... funny?

  Yes, I also realize I'm just as disgusting for taking pictures of it. I'm the reason Rob is like this- I totally encourage this behaviour...

 Random. If there was one word to describe Robert, it would be random. Then the next word would be fun. Even though Rob is super random with the shit he comes up with, he also makes my life incredibly fun to live. 

An oldie from 2006- he said, "My Reeeeebs!"

Haley's Favourite Oscar Moments- 2014

 If there is one thing that I try to blog about as soon as it happens, it is award shows. I love award shows especially now that I can record them and skip through all of the boring speeches. The Oscars are like my Super Bowl. I often try to celebrate as best as I can. One year my friend Holly came by, we dressed in fancy dresses, drank fruity martinis and we snacked on jujubes in martini glasses. It was really fun to watch and judge the dresses and bad nominations with a friend! Unfortunately I always think about doing something fun, like a themed party with cocktails and guests the day of, leaving me no time to properly party plan.

 This year, after making one of Amanda from Rhyme and Ribbons' delicious Mexican inspirted meals, I hurried into the shower to tidy up for my night at the Oscars. I ran out of conditioner the other day and completely forgot to replenish, so I had to try to do my hair with long, wet and tangled hair. I imagine that Jennifer Lawrence and Sandra Bullock did not have this similar dilemma when getting ready. I painted my toes, shaved my legs and slapped on a quick make-up job. When I came out in a long black dress I bought years ago for a wedding, Rob disappeared and came back with Alina dressed in the only dress that fits her. In honour of The Oscars he dressed my girl up for me. I thought that was pretty sweet. I made really yummy martini's.. (One shot of gin, lemon Sanpellegrino and  a dash of vanilla syrup. I squeezed fresh lemon on the rims of the glasses and dipped them in sugar.) I was pleasantly surprised with how good these drinks were, considering I just looked in the fridge and liquor cabinet for my last minute ingredients!

It doesn't look as good as Amanda's dish, but it was pretty damn tasty!

  IF you didn't catch the Oscars and don't feel like looking anything up- you have come to the right place. Here's a list of my personal favourite moments of the night;

 Ellen Degeneres hosted for her second time. She had four wardrobe changes, but my favourite change was when she came out after Judy Garland was mentioned in this:

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 I mentioned Pink when I reviewed The Grammy's  and I have to mention her again. She sang a beautiful version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" to celebrate The Wizard Of Oz's 75th birthday. She was dressed in a sparkling, ruby red gown and sang like a bird, as usual.

 Winner for Best Supporting Actress- Lupita Nyong'o for "12 Years A Slave." I was happy with this win. I just finished watching "12 Years A Slave" yesterday and thought that her performance was dramatic and moving. I was rooting for Jennifer Lawrence or Julia Roberts, but they both won for Best Actress in past years, so I was okay with Lupita's achievement.

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 Winner for Best Supporting Actor- Jared Leto for "Dallas Buyer's Club." I was really excited that Leto won because he had to lose loads of weight for his performance in DBC. Not only did he lose the weight but successfully transformed himself into a sick, drug addicted transgender named Rayon. His speech was by far my favourite of all time. He managed to make three incredible points and he did it with such ease and grace. It was so good that I had to provide the speech, so everyone can enjoy it..



 Winner for Best Actress- Cate Blanchett for "Blue Jasmine." I was just so relieved that Sandra Bullock didn't take it for "Gravity." Gravity started taking a few awards and it made me nervous thinking it was going to become a Titanic or Schindler's List sweep. Luckily, this was not the case! I'm not a fan of Woody Allen films, so I probably won't see this one. But, good job to Cate, she is a great actress.

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Winner for the Best Actor- Matthew McConaughey for "Dallas Buyer's Club." I was really excited that he won. Again, he transformed himself, much like Jared Leto. His performance was moving and I really did enjoy this movie. He seemed genuinely excited to have won and he mentioned his dad watching in heaven and he painted a picture that I think put a smile on everyone's face. I was happy for him. He ended his speech by saying those infamous words; "Alright, alright, alright." Those three words were the first lines he ever spoke in the first movie he was cast in. How good of a movie buff are you? Without googling, do you know what movie that was from?

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 Winner for Best Movie- "12 Years A Slave." I was really happy that I ended up watching this movie on Sunday because I had a feeling I would be curious about it once I watched The Oscars. It wasn't always comfortable to watch, but that is usually the case with these kinds of movies. It is based on a true story of a free African American man in the late 1870's that is captured and sold as a slave in the south.

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Finally, my all time favourite part of The Oscars was when Ellen interacts with the crowd of celebrities. At one point she jokes about ordering two large pizzas and later on in the show she brings an actual pizza delivery guy into the Oscars and has him help her pass out pizza to hungry famous people in the crowd. It was such a real moment and a fun way to put everyone at ease. I love Ellen for this very reason.

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 I also had to jump on the bandwagon and retweet Ellen's picture she took of herself and a bunch of A-Listers at The Oscars. She said she wanted to break the record for the most retweets and she did!

 The Oscars did not disappoint this year. I'm glad that I had the chance to catch them on Sunday night, so I could stay up until almost 1 in the morning, highlighting my favourite moments for those of you that were smart enough to get a good night's sleep instead! I'll be up in a few hours for my workout- wish me luck!

Do you enjoy watching The Oscars!? 

Were you happy with the winners selected this year?