Category Archives: Romance

To Wear a Corsage

Posted on June 4, 2012 by judisunshine

So I was catching up on “Parenthood,” which is a GREAT show that not nearly enough people are watching (Go! Go! Forget my blog; go to Hulu and watch this glorious piece of art!) and one of the episodes featured … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Friends, Going Out, Miscellaneous, Romance, School, TV, Video Games, Women | Tagged " corsages, 1993 graduation, Amber, banquets, Beverly Hills 90210, body image issues, cheerleading uniform, comedy clubs, emo, Eternity perfume, feeling fat, glamour, gray hoodies, Grey's Anatomy, Hattie, high schools that are like "Footloose, Huntington Townhouse, important nights, Jericho Terrace, Lauren Graham, limousines, Mae Whitman, Mickey's Castle of Illusion, Mrs. Teasley, On Demand, Parenthood, prom, prom dress, royal blue, Sarah Braverman, Sarah Ramos, Sega, Sugarplum Lynbrook, the best years of your life, Thomas Jefferson tugboat, Tri-County Levittown Flea Market, Vanilla Musk, West Hempstead High School, X chromosome | 5 Comments

Ready to Fly

Posted on May 24, 2012 by judisunshine

If a wave rolls down from heaven With the turning of the tide You’re pulled in all directions Only for awhile ~ Colin Hay, “The Flying Song” I’d tried before, many times. Flying. Here and there, I’d been able to … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Dreams, Driving & Other Transportation, Family, Friends, Going Out, Miscellaneous, Romance, Superheroes/Villains, Supernatural :o, Women | Tagged 1995, basements, broken glass, brown refrigerators, church, Colin Hay, crushing weight, Dreams, flying, flying in dreams, Flying Song, Grandmother, IMAX, Mickey Mouse ice cream pops, Nightmares, pink and purple wind, Ready to Fly, secret passageways, waking yourself up from a dream | 8 Comments

Cupcakes, Wine, or Beer?

Posted on May 8, 2012 by judisunshine

So we’re speeding towards that time of year To the day that marks that you’re not here ~ Azure Ray It’s been a year. Today, it’s been a year, since. I’d never lived in any other state in my entire … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Cats, Childhood, Driving & Other Transportation, Family, Food, Friends, Miscellaneous, Movies, Romance, Women | Tagged Azure Ray, beer, Chip, Colorado, cupcakes, Doctor von Rockenstein, Grandmother, hardest day of life, JFK airport, May, Mean Girls, mother, New York, November, Oneonta, pizza, Townhouse Lounge Manitou, wine, yellow roses | 2 Comments

Goodbye, Cigarettes.

Posted on May 4, 2012 by judisunshine

‘Cause I don’t know who I am, who I am without you All I know is that I should ~ Missy Higgins As Jerry Seinfeld said, a breakup is like pushing over a soda machine. Smoking cigarettes is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Food, Going Out, Miscellaneous, Romance, Women | Tagged blackened lungs, breaking up, cigarettes, gaining weight, Jerry Seinfeld, losing weight, Marlboro Lights, Metabolife, pushing over soda machines, rebellious spirit, smoking | 5 Comments

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 10: Two of a Kind

Posted on May 3, 2012 by judisunshine

Right off the bat, you sort of know what you’re getting into with this movie, because there are John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John on the root menu, smiling, with matching feathered hair and Olivia Newton-John in blue ’80s sunglasses. So … Continue reading →

Posted in AcTING!, Apartments & Other Domiciles, Cats, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Movies, Music, Romance, Women | Tagged '80s, 1983, actresses, Airplanes, angels, Beatrice Straight, blonde wigs, cabs, Captain Kangaroo, carnations, carriage rides, Carrie and Big, criminals, Dawson's Creek, deep moral fiber, E.T., Edna Garrett, fate, feathered hair, fencing, fluffy hair, food fights, foxy, freeze frame, fried chicken, Gavin De Becker, Gene Hackman, Grease, Gremlins, GTA, Hallelujah chorus, headshots, high tea, Home Alone, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, inventors, jean jacket, Joey Potter's mugger, John Travolta, Just Shoot Me, karaoke, loan sharks, Manhattan, montage, movie epiphanies, Mr. Carosi from Saved by the Bell, mustaches, nutcrackers, Oliver Reed, Olivia Newton-John, pie in the face, pink and gray color combination, pink suit, Plaza Hotel, police, Poltergeist, portraits, punished spontaneity, refusal to date Batman, relationships, Richard V, roommates, root menus, sexual tension, Shakespeare, shout outs, soundtracks, spinectomy, SSCS, Stephen King, suit jackets, sunglasses, Sunshine, The Gift of Fear, The Merchant of Venice, throwing marshmallows off of buildings, tight pants, Turbo, Two of a Kind, TWoP, waitressing, Weird Al, what really matters in life, Zack | 1 Comment

Some Movie Remakes That I Think Are Cool

Posted on April 19, 2012 by judisunshine

So like five years ago at Boulder Creek, my friend Jay accused me of acting like a fuddy duddy because I was worried that kids on wheelies were going to fall and kill themselves on the sharp-edged fireplace in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Buffy, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Family, Friends, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Romance, TV | Tagged 000 Corpses, 1985, 1994, 21 Jump Street, 30 Rock, Angles, Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley, Boulder Creek, Brea Grant, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, butthourt, childhood, Christian Bale, Claire Danes, Colleen Dewhurst, Diane Keaton, early '90s, Elizabeth Taylor, Father of the Bride, fireplaces, Footloose, fuddy duddy, Funny Games, Gabriel Byrne, get off my lawn, getting older, Grease 2, Halloween, Halloween II, haterade, High school, hijinx, hold your horses, Hollywood, House of 1, Jaden Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Jonah Hill, Joss Whedon, Kevin Sullivan, Kimberly Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Larussu, Little Women, Megan Follows, movie remakes, Naomi Watts, Never Been Kissed, nostalgia, Passion perfume, period pieces, Poltergeist, Prince Edward Island, Ralph Macchio, restaurants, Richard Farnsworth, Rob Zombie, Robbie Williams, snow, Steve Martin, Sunrise Mall, Susan Sarandon, swans, tense expressions, terrible blender arguments, The Devil's Rejects, The Karate Kid, The Strangers, Them, Tina Fey, too soon, Trekkies, Trini Alvarado, uphill battles, Vampire Diaries, violent movies, wheelies, white lights, Winona Ryder, You're all right | 2 Comments

A Few Good Men

Posted on April 5, 2012 by judisunshine

Warning! Spoilers for the series mentioned ahead, if you haven’t seen them! So a lot of times, sensitive dudes get crap for showing their “feminine” sides. And I think that’s sad. Because as a woman who likes guys, I think … Continue reading →

Posted in Buffy, Celebrities, Entertainment, Friends, Lists, Miscellaneous, Movies, Romance, Superheroes/Villains, TV, Women | Tagged accidental pregnancies, Andy Botwin, Angel Batista, Anya, awesome guys, Ben Covington, BMOC, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Callie, Chris Messina, Cordelia, David Zayas, Dawn, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Dexter, Emma Nelson, Eric Dane, Faith, family, Grey's Anatomy, Hunter Parrish, J.J. Abrams, J.T. Yorke, James Gandolfini, Julie Bowen, Justin Kirk, Lexie, luminous redheads, Mary Louise Parker, McSteamy, Nancy Botwin, nicholas brendan, Nina Dobrev, Ryan Cooley, Scott Speedman, sensitive guys, Silas Botwin, six feet under, Six Feet Under finale, suffering, Ted, Tony Soprano, weakness, Weeds, Willow Rosenberg, Xander Harris, Zeppo | 8 Comments

Today I Am Home

Posted on March 30, 2012 by judisunshine

So my new apartment is in a house that was a small hotel back in the early 20th Century. Wait, do you capitalize “century?” Either way. Now it’s divided up into three apartments. My place RULES, but the walls are … Continue reading →

Posted in Apartments & Other Domiciles, Childhood, Family, Friends, Miscellaneous, Romance, Women, Work | Tagged Amethyst Cream, Annie, apartments, Baldwin, bang, Benjamin Moore, boarding houses, clunk, Colorado Springs, drunken "Glee" singalongs, exes, Full Bloom, furniture from the garbage, Hempstead, historical buildings, hotels, How I Met Your Mother, Jamaican Aqua, landlords, Lemon Yellow, Lily apartment, Long Island, Manitou Springs, marriage, masking tape, memories, Merrick, Morning Sunshine, move outs, Moving, Oneonta, Plainview, purple walls, relationships, shenanigans, staying home from work, sweep, tenants, vacuuming, voyeurism, Warbucks mansion | 8 Comments

A New “90210,” 15 Years Later

Posted on March 23, 2012 by judisunshine

Last Saturday, the day after my reunion (woohoo, more on that another time though), I managed to finally, after 15 years, catch the episode of “90210” where Brandon uses Kelly as a decoy at some college government thing because Josh … Continue reading →

Posted in Body Image, Celebrities, Childhood, Entertainment, Friends, Miscellaneous, Romance, TV, Women | Tagged belly shirts, Beverly Hills 90210, Brandon Walsh, Brenda Walsh, Change Partners episode, cheating, Claire Arnold, college, dating, DEA, double standards with sex, Dylan McKay, Generation X, Generation Y, High school, Kelly Taylor, Muntz, Steve Sanders, unfriendly to ass years, Valerie Malone | 2 Comments

Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night 9: Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo

Posted on March 21, 2012 by judisunshine

My brother recapped it first! Click here for his take, and awesome site in general! We begin with an extensive montage, where everything that you remember from the mid-’80s flashes across the screen in lots of color! Boomboxes! Fashion! Dancing! … Continue reading →

Posted in Entertainment, Friends, Going Out, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Miscellaneous, Movies, Music, Romance | Tagged '80s, 1984, aerobicizing, all-purpose room, Annie, Audiotron, boombox, bow ties, breakdancing, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, Britney Spears, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Byron, Chatterton Elementary School, city hall, cockblock, community, cut-off shirts, Dead Man's Party, destroying records with knives, developers, Electrorocks, ginormous earring, headbands, helium balloons, Ice-T, Intentionally Cheesy Movie Night, Merrick New York, mimes, Miracles, Mr. Bundles, mullets, nunchucks, Oz, Ozone, Paris, Pepsi, Princeton, Ralph Macchio, rapping, rec center, Rhonda, save our streets, Seth Green, sleeveless leather vest, South Shore Christian School, The Karate Kid II, Turbo, twisty red headbands, WASPs, Willow, Willow Rosenberg, Xander | 2 Comments

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