Q IS FOR QUATRO DE' MAYO: A FAMILY EVENT

My theme for A to Z this year is a wildly different, but very exciting, HERE'S TO YOU all month long. 26 posts to be precise. The most difficult part was narrowing down the 26. All of you deserve your own post. What you will find here is a post by the featured blogger, with traveling music chosen by me that complements said post, and two links. One will link back to the original post and the other to the main page. This year's A to Z is all about making new friends!

Quatro De' Mayo: A Family Event, penned by Gossip Girl at ~*~Whatever~*~, sums up fairly accurately why this blog works so well. Gossip Girl writes about what she knows. That means she covers local politics, job woes, family melodrama, fishing, hunting, and other stuff the Hubs likes to do, and even menopause. In other words, pretty much everything is on the table and served up for seconds. Sometimes it's funny and sometimes it's serious, but its always interesting!

Cue the traveling music:





Quatro De' Mayo: A Family Event by Gossip Girl
6/10/13

We used to have a family reunion for years. The last one we had was like six years ago. After everyone was gone I swore to my parents that I knew I was adopted, "You can tell me. I won't get upset." It made sense that I was adopted after that day. I was the only one feeling that everyone attending got on my nerves! I have a relative that I'll call Skut Farkus. It's fitting she looks just like him. Seriously I am not lying. Growing up she even acted like him right down to being the neighborhood bully. She was 45 the last reunion and still acted like Skut Farkus and even today still looks just like him. She was asked to leave the funeral of a family friend and was even escorted out of the funeral home and that was two years ago. Now my cousin Farkus either takes too many meds or not enough, haven't figured out which!  After everyone had left and I was helping my mom clean up I told her that this was the last one that I was coming to as we talked about a few things that had happened that day. That was last one that my mom and dad hosted. My sister got the brainy idea to start it back up this year and that she would play host to this day of disaster. I am hoping there are prizes for those who don't want to be there because six years ago when we had the last one it was a total disaster. I used to think we were the only family that has that one family member who comes to family events just to ruin everything which is why I was trying my best to ditch this one. I tried all of the excuses like... I'm allergic and my doctor told me to stay away from things that cause too much stress, stuff like that, but since my sister was hosting the event I couldn't ditch it! When she asked what I was bringing I told her scorpions. No, I swear I plotted going to the pet store to bring a couple, just in case! I have no clue how she did it, but even though Farkus showed up, it went off with no fights or arrests. I am still amazed it happened like that and that is not the Jack talking either!


You been to any family reunions like this one? Me either. That's why it's fun to read Gossip Girl. She writes about all the juicy stuff!

A to Z and Love Is In The Air ~ I'm Sorry

Are you participating in the April A to Z Challenge this year? If so, have you chosen your theme? As soon as talk began to circulate about the Linky List going up, my mind churned with ideas, and I am zeroing in on mine! Deciding on the theme is the most difficult part of this enterprise. Well, maybe writing the posts ranks up there, too. And then when April hits visiting all the sites and making the comments AND writing posts. ::scratches head:: Okay, the whole thing is a Freakin' Challenge, hence the name.

If you haven't heard of the A to Z or signed up, follow THIS LINK for the details and the Linky List. The gist of this challenge is posting something every day in April, but Sunday. Last year was my first experience with A to Z. I learned a lot. For instance, having HALF of your posts written when April 1st arrives is NOT going to cut it. In mid-April my life flipped to chaos. Write them ALL before it starts. I also learned when the posts are written ahead of time that it's a lot of Fun. Why?  Because it is all about reading new blogs and meeting new friends. Awesome. Amazing. Wonderful. When your posts aren't written it's none of those things. So, learn from me... do it (you'll thank yourself later), but make the posts short, and write them before it starts!

If you're wondering why I am not on the Linky List yet, well... I MUST commit to my theme before I sign up. It's just my way.

Now, let's get down to the romance!

I am tagging all of these Love Is In The Air (even though the hop is over) and the following is a list of all the posts with links, so that you can watch any of your favorites that you missed.

Moonlighting 

Roswell - Michael and Maria

P.S. I Love You

The Gilmore Girls

Buffy/Angel and Firefly/Serenity

Grey's Anatomy (dedicated to Unicorn Bell)

Lois and Clark (Smallville) and Some Kind of Wonderful

When Harry Met Sally and The Way We Were
The Princess Bride and Serendipity 

Castle and Firefly

Back at the beginning of this thing I asked YOU to share what you think are the most romantic moments on the big and small screen. I posted four of them over the weekend. I will still post them if you share in the comments!

Speaking of comments, some of your comments crack me up! Over the weekend I ran all movies and several of you indicated you'd never seen those TV shows. Hahahaha. I realize I must be more clear about what I am posting, since I am doing both.

 This is from a TV show.

I am going to confess right here that I love a prime-time soap. I grew up in the days when Dallas, Dynasty, Knot's Landing, and Falcon Crest all were riding the high in the TV ratings.  So, it now won't come as any shock that I caved and watched Gossip Girl on the CW. As far as I was concerned, the only people worth watching on that show were Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Blair (Leighton Meester). I had a devil of a time choosing JUST ONE scene for Love Is In The Air.

When you love someone you APOLOGIZE.

Another bit of business for the record... I hate that quote from Love Story by Erich Segal: "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That is just Crap.

Roll the footage, please:


"I'm sorry for losing my temper the night when you told me Louie proposed to you.

I'm sorry for not waiting longer at The Empire State Building.

I'm sorry for treating you like property.

I'm sorry I didn't tell you loved you when I knew I did.

And, most of all, I'm sorry that I gave up on us, and you never did."

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And now for the movie fans, here is a clip from a Movie.

We are on the apology roll, so this seems fitting.

Roll the footage, please:


That was a very early Heath Ledger movie called 10 Things I Hate About You.

"It's not every day you'll find a girl who'll flash someone to get you out of detention."

Are you participating in the A to Z Challenge? Have you chosen your theme? What aspect of the challenge do you find most difficult? Do you watch any prime-time soaps? Think Erich Segal was right about apologies?  Like the clip from Gossip Girl? 10 Things I Hate About You?