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If Your Life Were a Christmas Movie

From AMC, the If Your Life Were a Christmas Movie, It Would Be... quiz. From the site:

How many times have you heard someone say, "My life is just like a movie." Too often to count probably. Yet what if your life really was a movie? In particular, a holiday movie! What would it be like? You can find out with AMCtv.com's personality quiz If Your Life Were a Christmas Movie, It Would Be... Is your glass of eggnog half-full or half-empty? Your answers to seven questions will let you know whether your life looks more like Miracle on 34th Street or White Christmas

My results, not much of a surprise!

If Your Life Were a Christmas Movie, It Would Be...

Do Dolphins Dream?

Did you know dolphins sleep with one eye open?  Dolphins are always partly conscious when they sleep to keep from drowning.  They keep one eye open at all times to watch for predators. 

If they ever do fall sleep with both eyes shut, it's not on porpoise.

Clipart courtesy of Free-Clipart-Pictures.net

The Last 40 Miles

From the website: “The Last 40 Miles,” based on a true story, follows an inmate on his final journey from Texas’s death row in Livingston, to the execution chamber in Huntsville. During the ride, his memories, the scenery flashing by and the unexpected compassion of the guard escorting him keep him company.

Trailer; movie due to be released in 2013

The Last 40 Miles - trailer from Onalaska Films on Vimeo.

The Last 40 Miles on Facebook

The video in this post has some "real" (not animated) scenes of the drive from Livingston to Huntsville.

Mustang Sally - The Commitments

Original post: 9/6/07. I had noticed this video on YouTube and wondered when I had posted it in this blog. I did a search and found the original vid had been taken down. Here's a "bump" to celebrate finding another version!

Best Texas State Parks

And the winner is my favorite state park!