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This week's Chick Flick is.....{drum roll}.......

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Easy A with none other than Ms. Emma Stone!

Following a class assignment to read The Scarlet Letter, Olive finds herself being caught up in a few lies that spread like wildfire, ruining her reputation. What starts as a small white lie to a friend, turns into a bundle of false accounts about Olive's love life. She handles it with some grace, some humor, and a self-sewn A on her newly acquired wardrobe.

Add in her (smokin' hot) childhood crush, a jealous best friend, and a (pre-crazy) Amanda Bynes enemy for a quotastic {yes, we made that word up!} movie.

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We also truly hope to become parents as funny as Olive's one day. 

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Also, the Pocket Full of Sunshine scenes are hilarious!
Prepare to have this gem stuck in your head all day.
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And, any true chick flick lover understands the love of John Hughes and hopeless romantic desires.

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Good job, Easy A. Good job.
We applaud your humor and ingenuity.
You'll always be a favorite in our movie collections!

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It's the Holiday Season [Hump Day Hugs]

Well, Halloween has come and gone, friends. This can only mean one thing - the holiday season is upon us! And, in time for the hurried season where we run around like chickens with our heads cut off, we have the perfect hump day hug to get you ready!

Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power, or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect.

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It's so easy during the holidays to get overwhelmed with everything that has to be done - all the presents that have to be meticulous picked and bought and then mailed, the cards that have to be signed and sent, etc. So, it's not hard to imagine that we get caught up in the power and possessions and prestige that they bring us.

This season, we're challenging ourselves and you to realize where your happiness truly lies - in the ones you love that will always be there, even when the three Ps - power, prestige, and possessions - aren't.

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Book Hangover

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It seems to be a common trend for chick lit to take a direction towards Mr. Darcy, and I seem to be convinced I have to read them all. Of all the Austen-themed books out there that I've read, this has been my favorite. 

Katherine Roberts is a prestigious professor and keeps hidden from her colleagues her obsession for Jane Austen and a racy romance novels. One set of "trashy" chick lit novels she loves are written by an author Lorna Warwick, whom she has been exchanging fan mail with. Lorna has a secret, she's really a he, Warwick Lawton, and he has fallen in love with Katherine. Katherine is attending a Jane Austen event at Hampshire and hopes to meet Lorna, but instead keeps coming across the frustrating Warwick. 

There is also another love story line in this book. Robyn has been with the same unappreciative and unadventurous man since high school. She has been saving up for so long for her Jane Austen getaway. Once she gets to Hampshire, her boyfriend, Jace is a pest and keeps popping up and ruining her weekend. Robyn meets Dan at the at Hampshire, and she just can't seem to stop herself from thinking about him and how to get rid of Jace.

This book was funny, sweet, and flowed seamlessly while doing justice to the Jane Austen theme. I highly recommend it, especially if you Jane Austen.  

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I read this book in a little under 48 hours. I was looking for a quick read that I could just breeze through because sometimes you just need that in a book, and this one fit the bill! I loved that it mostly occurred through twitter convos too.

Abby Donovan - the heroine of this story - is a writer who has been praised for writing the great american novel. Some years later...she's still working on novel number two, and she just can't seem to get past chapter five. Unknowingly, her agent sets up a twitter account for her, which is how Abby meets Mark Baynard. He is off on his own adventure to inspire himself to write his own great american novel...supposedly.

The two interact through direct messages only and connect almost immediately. Your heart leaps into your throat when he sends her a message and they banter back and forth. Oh, but the end...the end, the end, the end. I re-read three times I loved it so. I won't spoil it for you, but I will say that it brought tears to my eyes each time I read it.

Reading this book is time well spent.

Hump Day Hugs: The Next Attempt

As we mentioned before, the last series of hugs we did kind of got away from us. It just wasn't me or Cassie. We found a new list we wanted to adapt to our weekly posts.

Today's Hump Day Hug is:

Be Forgiving of Yourself and Others

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We both have been working hard to be healthier and more active. Sometimes it's very easy to get so caught up in it that you give yourself no slack, no credit for the success. 

Forgiveness within yourself and forgiveness towards other are very important for progression and continuing on through life without a heavy heart.

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We are human. We make mistakes and then we learn from them. We must forgive ourselves for what we have done in the past. We can't expect others to forgive us if we can't even forgive ourselves.

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Do What You Love [Hump Day Hugs]

This week's hug:

Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent.

We all have different talents. Some are great communicators. Some are artists. Some are meant to challenge your mind. Some are meant to pick you up when you fall. Some are meant to put you back together when you break into a million pieces. The question is: are you using your talents and time to do something you enjoy?

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When you are doing what you love, there is no greater gift than the happiness that comes with it. 

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You are given the opportunity to make the world a happier place because of the positive energy that flows through you when you do what you love because you feel unstoppable.

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There is no weight on your shoulders when you get up each day because you know that no matter what happens, at the end of the day, you'll still be doing that one thing you are meant to do. I think we all want to feel this way about our day. It is something we need to pray for and work for. 

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Happiness comes from within. Find your happy place and work hard to get there. Take your talents and turn them into a career that you can be proud of, that you will love, and that will be worth your time and effort each day.

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Monday, We Meet Again

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I feel as though through this blog, we hope to reach people and have people relate to us. Sometimes, I am worried that what we say won't have any significance. C.S. Lewis says everything so beautifully. Sometimes it's more important to live life rather than try and document it. So all of you, check our blog (leave us some comments) and then go out and live! :)

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I have a deep love for champagne and white wine. There are definitely days where nothing I do will make my day better except enjoying a glass of bubbly. There's something about the feeling of the bubbles travelling down my throat that makes everything better. It's perfectly soothing, especially when enjoyed during a bubble bath.

Krull the Warrior King

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I truly hope that several of you guessed this weeks Chick Flick just by the title alone. If so, bravo! If not, you need to go watch How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days immediately! 

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For those of you who have yet to have the joy of watching this movie, it is basically a hilarious guidebook of the crazy ways women go wrong when approaching a new relationship.

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Kate Hudson plays Andie, a writer for "Composure" magazine. In order to save one of her recently dumped friends from a bad situation, she volunteers to write a How-To article entitled How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. For the article she will begin dating a guy and perform all the common mistakes women do in the beginning to scare a guy off. Trouble is her test subject, Matthew McConaughey, Ben, is also in it the relationship under false pretenses for work. 

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As much as she tries to scare him away, he just won't run! 

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Can they push aside their lies and give the relationship a real shot?

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We'll give you a hint...it's a happy ending!

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So Many Books; So Little Time

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Crazy Little Thing by Tracy Brogan was a book that I did not have the highest expectations for. I was immediately drawn in to the humor the characters possessed. The writing made the characters very relatable and very lovable. This book is about a mother of two, Sadie Turner, who's normally perfectly organized life has been tossed into disarray with an upcoming divorce due to her husbands infidelity. She and her two children escape to her aunt's lake house for the summer in hopes to regain a fresh outlook on her future. 

Her aunt and her two cousins are all trying to set Sadie up with the hot neighbor. Men are the last thing Sadie has in mind for getting her life in order, but even she can't resist the good looks and good nature of Desmond. 

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This week, I chose a dance mystery series that I had an absolute blast reading! It's about a dance teacher named Jenny T. Partridge who owns a dance school. She barely makes ends meet and constantly has to deal with psycho dance moms. And, then of course, there's the super hot detective who she just can't seem to stay away from. Think Stephanie Plum from the Janet Evanovich series but as a dance teacher. This is a series you don't want to miss! It is filled with laughter and mayhem at every turn.

For Beautiful Lips: Speak Only Words of Kindness

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I think there is something very truthful and elegant to this quote. Not everything we think we want is meant for us, and there is always a reason for that. It's best to let go and move past that. Every day should be a new day to choose to love and live in a meaningful way. As Cassie and I both like to remind ourselves, every day is a new day to start over. :)  

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Now, if you grew up with a daddy like mine, you've probably heard something similar to this quote. Whenever anyone did something remotely foolish, he would chime in with a smile on his face, "Don't quit your day job!" Luckily, we knew he was just being a smart aleck and wanted to get a rise out of us.

But, the day I came across this quote, it really resonated with me. It gave me a sense of hope. I mean, everyone's got a daydream, right? Or, if you're like me, you've got several thousand...just ask my husband! So, who's to say you should just give up on it? With hard work, perseverance, faith, trust, and maybe some pixie dust, you can do anything you set your heart on!

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