Keebles World

I finished up all three seasons of DuckTales, which brought the total up a whopping 75 animated series eps! I know I said after DuckTales I was done, but I decided that since I finished late afternoon Sunday, I might as well finish up everything. Besides, considering that I'm one day away from going at this for a hundred days, what's the harm in doing a bit more, right? I did the Disney's Magical Fireplace DVD first. I did it without the Christmas music and I noticed that it was running on and on, but I didn't realize that it was on a loop until about four hours in, so that pretty much wasted the rest of the afternoon and part of the night (that's what I get for spending too much time on YouTube when I'm supposed to be video watching). I moved on to Fraggle Rock next. I only have the first season on DVD because they are so expensive and I never got around to purchasing the others. Apparently though, they have repackaged them and they are cheaper now, ...

It took me three days, but I managed to finish the second season of Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers . Granted, I was not paying attention to much to season 1, let alone season 2, but after the first couple of episodes of season 2, I started studying the packaging because I thought I had them backwards or the discs were labeled wrong or something. The season 2 discs started before all the characters met and they formed the Rescue Rangers, but I finally read the top of the box which said it included the first 5 pilot episodes. Why those weren't on the first series disc, I just don't know and I certainly don't understand why they felt the need to run them before the second season instead of having them in a bonus section (which neither season had any of). But anyway, another 27 episodes to add to the total (and a really short post to boot!). I tried to start season 1 of Duck Tales last night, but I was spending so much time watching YouTube videos of Disneyland vloggers, I f...

You might have noticed that I didn't post stitching progress Sunday night. That's because I had none. I somehow managed to scratch my cornea on Monday and haven't been able to wear my contacts. I can't see well enough with my glasses to function, let alone stitch, so I tried to spend the week researching trip stuff, but I ended up doing everything but. I did manage to finish off the last of the non-series discs though, if nothing else. Friday I made it though the final DCOMS starting with Twitches and Twitches Too . I'm not really sure why I have these discs, I never really cared for the movies, but alas I do, so I watched them. Same with Cheetah Girls 2 . I'm not sure why I have the second one and not the others, especially since I liked 1 and 3 much better. I probably meant to get the other two and never got around to it. I also found my Jonas Brothers: The 3D Experience Concert DVD and my Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds...

Believe it or not, I am actually FINALLY wrapping this all up. I should finish up the last of the live actions tonight, leaving nothing but the three series of Duck Tales and the two series of Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers (or at least I hope I don't find more hiding somewhere). Those might take a while to get through each season, so I think I've give a seasonal review instead of an episode by episode one (for no reason other than pure dee'ole laziness). So, on Wednesday night, I did the other Jonas disc, I Heart Jonas . There were seven episodes of the first season on it and it got me in such a Jonas mood, I ended up spending the rest of the night watching as my favorite episodes from the second season of Jonas as well as my favorite Sonny With A Chance eps on YouTube. More than once I drifted over to iTunes tempting myself into buying them, but I managed to hold off. Thursday, I completed the compilation discs with my Austin & Ally: All The Write Moves disc. T...

I decided I just couldn't take the remaining live actions I have left (at least not yet), so I started last night with my Sonny With A Chance: Sonny's Big Break Vol 1 disc. One thing you should probably know about the Disney Channel shows...they don't typically release them in their full seasons on disc. This really sucks because I do tend to watch and rewatch TV shows if I have the entire season on disc. Instead, you get a compilation video collection, much like the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse discs, of four or five random episodes. That's what this disc is. But, when it comes to Sonny With A Chance, I don't really care. It was one of my favorite Disney Channel shows ever and I hated that it ended, so I'll take what I can get! One of these days, I'm going to get them all from iTunes (which you can still do, or you can watch a lot of them on YouTube, but most of them are copyright infringers, so the videos don't stay up long), I just can't justify...

Good thing I was busy with trip stuff last night because I am seriously dragging the bottom of the proverbial Disney lake. When I was a kid, I never "got" Tron . I was a techy kid (or as techy as one could be in the 80's), but I still didn't get it. I saw it once, cataloged it as crap, and left it at that. Once the second one came out a couple of years ago, I thought, well, maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance and I would rewatch it before I watched the new one. Nope, didn't help. I know that movie has a huge following, but I just can't wrap my head around it. It may have been a technologically amazing movie for the time, but I find the graphics to be extremely cheesy and lazy with colored lines in a black world. The story doesn't make sense to me either. It's just a total loss. So speaking of the second one, Tron Legacy , where I thought the first one was bad, this one makes the first one look good! Granted, the graphics are more...

As I mentioned in my stitch post, I apparently missed an entire stack of discs and completely forgot about the numerous series I have on DVD, so I didn't get finished with my Disney Movie Challenge this weekend like I planned. No matter...I'll get through it eventually. Friday started off with my last Disney Treasures DVD, Disney Rarities . There were seven Alice shorts on the disc (for those who don't know about the Alice stories, it's the first series that Walt & Co started animating back in the 20's in Kansas City). There were also seven other shorts on disc one, but it was a pretty long disc, so I didn't get to disc 2 until Saturday. There were twelve shorts on disc 2, including two Humphrey shorts. I absolutely adore Humphrey and have since childhood! Considering he was such a big part of my Disney life, I'm always surprised that so many people don't know who he is. He's all over Wilderness Lodge at Disney World (and he's in a...

I had such high hopes for this weekend, but my heart just wasn't in it. For every hour of stitching, I probably did four hours of Disneyland studying. On a positive note, I got a ton of trip stuff done though, so it wasn't a total waste of a weekend. I only worked on Alice and the B's and I left off here: And only made it to here by mid afternoon today (before I officially gave up the goat): As you can tell, I was even too busy doing other things to pull the thread all the way through. It's also TUSAL time. I keep pushing the threads in my ORT jar down and it looks like they haven't grown, but they definitely have. Since I had a specific path this weekend, my ORT jar pic reflects it: I also discovered yet another stack of Disney movies I haven't watched yet and I forgot all about the TV shows, so I am not even close to being finished with my challenge. I was really hoping to be done with it, but alas, not quite yet. Maybe another week or two.

Sorry folks, problems at work have caused me to have some 20+ hour work days and I have been unable to post #801. I did manage to make it through two Oswald cartoons on my Disney Treasures: The Adventures of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series, but that was it for Wednesday. Starting Thursday, I finished the Oswalds and watched The Ub Iwerks Story , a full-length documentary that was also on the disc and one of the early Silly Symphonies that I hadn't seen yet (at least for this challenge), The Skeleton Dance. Considering the age of this piece, it really is quite brilliant and advanced: I also watched James and the Giant Peach and Frankenweenie . I've been putting both of these off because James freaks me out with the giant bugs and Frankenweenie wasn't a good movie to watch so soon after losing Zachary but, because I was busy with work stuff on the computer, I wasn't really paying attention to them, so neither one of them bothered me. I can say I watched the disc...

Yes, I know that Duran Duran Appreciation Day was on the 10th and today is the 13th, but I wanted to wait to talk about my favorite band until I hit a very special milestone, my 800th post! I seriously cannot believe that I have rant and raved, obsessed, and shared my stitching 800 times! How crazy is that? I'm also within 40 some-odd days of my 4th Blogoversary and I hope I don't forget about it like I did last year. But on with the the important stuff...Simon and the boys (oh, and fair warning, this post is probably going to be huge because it's filled with tons of video clips). I'm not sure of the exact date I first heard a Duran Duran song but I do remember it was early fall 1981 and it was the video to Planet Earth, so the details aren't apparently too fuzzy. I had crushes before, the earliest one I remember was probably Li'l Abner at Dogpatch USA (a long gone amusement park in northwest Arkansas), then Shaun Cassidy, and Andy Gibb, followed by John ...

I finished up the Disney Treasures: Disneyland discs last night. There were two specials on the second disc, first was called Magic Kingdom: The Magic of Television and the second was The Disneyland 10th Anniversary Special. As much as I love these old documentaries about Disneyland, especially with Walt at the forefront, my head was killing me, so I didn't try to watch anything else, just Imitrex'ed myself and went to bed. This is probably going to be the shortest post ever, but there is a very valid reason which shall be revealed tonight. MOVIE TOTALS: Live Action: 97 Full-Length Animation: 110 Mixed-Medium: 11 Animated Shorts: 338 Live Action Shorts: 1 Mixed-Medium Shorts: 3 Animated Series: 84 Mixed-Medium Series: 2 Documentaries: 13 Concerts: 1

I had planned to finish the Disneyland series last night, but instead, my copy of Descendants came in so I had to watch it. It was actually so good, I ended up watching it three times total before bedtime and I didn't even start stitching! I also spent a night worry-free about Disneyland, which was a bonus, until it was time to go to bed and my head started running away again. I dropped regular TV about the time this movie was getting made, so I really only knew the basic facts about it even...the children of the Disney villains wind up going to school with the children of the heroes and calamity ensues, but it ended up being so much more. In the first few moments, they broke out into song and dance, which was a bit of an eyeopener because I wasn't expecting a musical, but not shocking because it is a DCOM movie. This first song actually ended up being my favorite one of the entire movie. I may be anti-modern music, but techno is really nothing but more technical 80...

In an effort to catch up, this post is going to be different in that I'm only going to be listing the days and the movies I watched instead of descriptions. I'm definitely winding down with this challenge and I just want it over with (well, that and I'm in trip planning mode now and I can't really concentrate on anything else). Besides, with these older ones, it gets harder and harder to find trailers for them and I'm kind of dragging the bottom of my collection now. Thursday I watched, Now You See Him, Now You Don't and The Strongest Man In The World . I'm not sure why I started this series backwards, especially since I know what order they go in, but I figured I needed to finish it that way and, at least with these, it doesn't really matter anyway. I finished the series on Friday with The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and also finished my last Kurt Russell/Disney film, The Horse In The Gray Flannel Suit . Since I had some time left, I also watch...

It wasn't a good week for stitching last week...I spent two days down with a headache and I've been stressing over our trip most of the rest of the week. I ended last week here: And got to here this afternoon before I stopped: I guess I can say at least I finished Aurora, but I washed out on the spinning wheel and decided to spend the afternoon studying for the trip instead. I think it's time to switch stitching projects again. If I thought I could finish the row by the end of the week, I'd keep on, but I just don't think I can because of all the confetti in that spinning wheel area. Switching to trip planning didn't help motivate me either. I think the more I look at stuff for the trip, the more freaked out I get. If I could handle not being prepared, I'd just give up the goat and fly by the seat of my pants, but I'm not built that way. With all the problems that I've been having the past couple of weeks with this trip, I've decided...

There is obviously no method to my madness since I started Tuesday night's Disney movie bonanza Into The Woods , which seems a bit odd after the plethora of Christmas DVDs and animator documentaries. We saw this one in the theater, but I only went because James Corden was in it (I've been in love with him ever since his Gavin & Stacey days). I did actually end up really liking it despite the fact that it seems as though they sing the same song throughout the entire movie and, as a general rule, I don't care for Meryl Streep. But I will admit, this is probably my absolute favorite all-time role of hers. I do typically like to say that I don't care for the bastardization of fairytales where they are changed so much they are unrecognizable, but considering I am not only a Disney animation fan, but also a Once Upon A Time fan, that argument really doesn't hold too much water once I think about it logically. And I've never been much of a Chris Pine fan eit...

I still had a couple of those two-disc combo packs, so I decided to clear them out on Sunday, starting with The Emperor's New Groove . Is it just me, or is this possibly the shortest Disney movie ever? It does have some great jokes and the animation isn't horrible (although it has the same characters styles as Atlantis, including the block fingers, so I felt like I'd been there and done that). The second movie, Kronk's New Groove is surprisingly good for a sequel. Because they were made so close together, the animation style is at least similar and they were able to get the same actors. But with as Patrick Warburton as the lead in this one, I kind of had to keep looking up because I felt like I was in the queue line for Soarin'. Like I said yesterday, I don't have many Christmas things and the ones I do have tend to be Disney related, so one of the last of my double-disc sets is Prep and Landing. I have never watched either of these and I didn't k...

I didn't post yesterday because I'm trapped in Disneyland hell. There is a reason why I've only gone to Disney World for the past 20 years, apparently I can't plan a vacation to anywhere else but. I'm trying to work through all the problems, but I guess it's safe to say that my road trip through the west next year is now off the table. But I don't want to bore you with my DL drama (well, except for the wonderful Heather over at Fantasy Cross Stitch , you might actually rue the day you ever offered to help this spaz!). I started Friday night in a weird direction, with Saving Mr. Banks . I've watched this one before, but it's one of those kind of movies that once is enough. As much as I love the old documentaries about the studios and Walt, I don't particularly care for movies that make me cry. I start sniffling at the moment she arrives at the premier and am usually in full-on bawl mode by the end. I hate that. But it is a very good movi...