Because I'm just not that into you

New Years eve was good. I spent it watching movies alone or that isn't quite the truth. I got a call from a certain special gentleman friend around 10pm asking what I was up to. He was at a really dull party and thought he'd want to bring in the new year with me. It didn't take him that long to come over and we watched quite a few movies until we fell asleep on my sofa around 6.30am.

I started out at 6pm watching For Richer and for Poorer starring Tim Allen and Kirstie Alley (that was before she turned into Fat Actress) where they play a rich couple. They have a marital crisis of grand proportion and they go into hiding in an amish community because the IRS are after them for something someone else has done. Massive fun, all around.

Then Nine to Five came on - gotta love Dolly Parton. Massive hilarity occurred with her, Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda. I'd never seen that before and I must say it was great. Then again I did expect as much, but I was surprised about the storyline because I didn't know what it was all about. I just knew the song - love that!

After Dolly Parton, we (by then my special gentleman friend had arrived) put on Ghost starring Dirty Dancing hottie Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. I had missed that on TV earlier that day and really wanted to watch it again and my special gentleman friend has a thing for him. It was fun although more sweet than funny. It's strange how I remember that as a comedy more than romance.

Then it was around midnight and we were laying on my sofa watching the firework over the rooftops through my living room window. It was gorgeous. We had Champagne and cake.

After watching the firework we popped in White Chicks (I blame Bingowings because he mentioned Tori Spelling looked like them a while back) which is hilarious. We both enjoyed that quite a bit. The crude humour and of course the shapely Wayans Brothers made it a real winning movie.

When the movie was over we watched the Hallmark channel for a bit. There was an interesting movie/series about finding four bits of a tablet so that one could get some kind of huge power thing. It was very Indiana Jones except it starred one of the guys from the original 90210 Beverly Hills show. He was in the final seasons of it and so we had a long debate what his name on the show was, and we never figured it out. My special gentleman friend thought his name was Matt and for me it might as well have been Randolph because I stopped paying attention after Brenda left. He looked good though, although maybe a bit too much like a goody goody.

We lost interest in it when they mixed in a bit of the Tomb Raider plot so we debated if it was time for bed or if we should watch another movie. It was about 4am at the time, but we figured we might as well keep going. Picking a movie proved difficult but after a heated discussion we'd settled on two. Cold Mountain (my choice) and 2 Fast 2 Furious (his choice). We played paper, rock, scissors and I won.

I thought Cold Mountain would last 1 hr and 30 minutes or maybe 1 hr and 45 minutes. It was 2 hrs and 25 minutes! To our surprise it didn't feel that long. The movie was great and we both enjoyed it. Once it was finished he didn't feel like going home and I was very tired so we just shut our eyes and fell asleep. He woke up around noon and made breakfast and so we just sat and talked and watched some random TV, finally ending up on Channel 4 where they showed the movie Gossip.

At 2pm it ended and they started a Gossip Girl marathon. I'd never watched Gossip Girl so we watched that - all 8 episodes. That show is so gay it's not even funny! I liked it though. Except for one thing that really bothers me. The "xoxo Gossip Girl" comment in every episode. It really gets under my skin but my special gentleman friend told me to get over it and enjoy it for what it is and I said...

He may not understand why I love High School Musical but he accepts it (and I can't for the life understand why I don't love him!).

My special gentleman friend also loves Battlestar Galactica. Now that, I don't understand. Well, maybe a little bit because I do like Jamie Bamber

the show does seem rather too complicated for me, and there is no help from anyone who watches it. They all just say "keep watching" and that's so frustrating because by episode 6 I usually have some clue what's going. This show is really kind of eh? though. Because I don't know how they ended up in space flying around in that fleet of 45.000 humans or if the blonde woman in the red dress is a figment of the doctors imagination or what. She is a cylon though, I think I've figured out that much. The same goes for Sharon but then I'm not completely sure, and Starbucks really bugs me. So does the doctor - he is so annoying isn't he? I hope he dies but then the whole blonde woman plot would fall flat on its face wouldn't it.

Battlestar Galactica does seem like a well thought out show. The only two characters I do like are Jamie Bamber (because he is totally hot) and the President. I may just not be all that into it. Maybe episode 7 gets better? I may see a pattern here... is that why you are all still watching it?