And The Oscar Goes To....

What a night for The Oscars. I don't want to add to all the drama of the things that went wrong so I will just show you my best dressed for the evening. 

It actually goes to 2 ladies this time: 

Brie Larson and Taraji P. Henson! My God they both looked stunning. Brie wore a custom Oscar De La Renta black velvet dress. She is one of the most prettiest people to me. And she seems so nice! Taraji wore Alberta Ferretti and no that's not black....it's navy and velvet too! With her hair like that and that choker, I couldn't keep my eyes off her when she was presenting. 

And in case you missed it, here are the nominees and winners.

BEST PICTURE

"Arrival"

"Fences"

"Hacksaw Ridge"

"Hell or High Water"

"Hidden Figures"

"La La Land"

"Lion"

"Manchester by the Sea"

"Moonlight" (WINNER)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

Casey Affleck in "Manchester by the Sea" (WINNER)

Andrew Garfield in "Hacksaw Ridge"

Ryan Gosling in "La La Land"

Viggo Mortensen in "Captain Fantastic"

Denzel Washington in "Fences"

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Jeff Bridges in "Hell or High Water"

Mahershala Ali in "Moonlight" (WINNER)

Lucas Hedges in "Manchester by the Sea"

Dev Patel in "Lion"

Michael Shannon in "Nocturnal Animals"

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

Isabelle Huppert in "Elle"

Ruth Negga in "Loving"

Natalie Portman in "Jackie"

Emma Stone in "La La Land" (WINNER)

Meryl Streep in "Florence Foster Jenkins"

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

Nicole Kidman in "Lion"

Viola Davis in "Fences"

Naomie Harris in "Moonlight"

Octavia Spencer in "Hidden Figures"

Michelle Williams in "Manchester by the Sea"

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

"Kubo and the Two Strings"

"Moana"

"My Life as a Zucchini"

"The Red Turtle"

"Zootopia" (WINNER)

CINEMATOGRAPHY

"Arrival"

"La La Land" (WINNER)

"Lion"

"Moonlight"

"Silence"

COSTUME DESIGN

"Allied"

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" (WINNER)

"Florence Foster Jenkins"

"Jackie"

"La La Land"

"Fantastic

DIRECTING

"Arrival" - Denis Villeneuve

"Hacksaw Ridge" - Mel Gibson

"La La Land" - Damien Chazelle (WINNER)

"Manchester by the Sea" - Kenneth Lonergan

"Moonlight" - Barry Jenkins

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

"Fire at Sea"

"I Am Not Your Negro"

"Life, Animated"

"O.J.: Made in America" (WINNER)

"13th"

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

"Extremis"

"4.1 Miles"

"Joe's Violin"

"Watani: My Homeland"

"The White Helmets" (WINNER)

FILM EDITING

"Arrival"

"Hacksaw Ridge" (WINNER)

"Hell or High Water"

"La La Land"

"Moonlight"

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

"Land of Mine"

"A Man Called Ove"

"The Salesman" (WINNER)

"Tanna"

"Toni Erdmann"

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

"A Man Called Ove"

"Star Trek Beyond"

"Suicide Squad" (WINNER)

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

"Jackie"

"La La Land" (WINNER)

"Lion"

"Moonlight"

"Passengers"

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

"Audition (The Fools Who Dream)" from "La La Land"

"Can't Stop The Feeling" from "Trolls"

"City Of Stars" from "La La Land" (WINNER)

"The Empty Chair" from "Jim: The James Foley Story"

"How Far I'll Go" from "Moana"

PRODUCTION DESIGN

"Arrival"

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them"

"Hail, Caesar!"

"La La Land" (WINNER)

"Passengers"

ANIMATED SHORT FILM

"Blind Vaysha"

"Borrowed Time"

"Pear Cider and Cigarettes"

"Pearl"

"Piper" (WINNER)

LIVE ACTION SHORT FILM

"Ennemis Intérieurs"

"La Femme et le TGV"

"Silent Nights"

"Sing" (WINNER)

"Timecode"

SOUND EDITING

"Arrival" (WINNER)

"Deepwater Horizon"

"Hacksaw Ridge"

"La La Land"

"Sully"

SOUND MIXING

"Arrival"

"Hacksaw Ridge" (WINNER)

"La La Land"

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"

"13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi"

VISUAL EFFECTS

"Deepwater Horizon"

"Doctor Strange"

"The Jungle Book" (WINNER)

"Kubo and the Two Strings"

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story"

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

"Arrival"

"Fences

"Hidden Figures"

"Lion"

"Moonlight" (WINNER)

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

"Hell or High Water"

"La La Land"

"The Lobster"

"Manchester by the Sea" (WINNER)

"20th Century Women"

The Walking Dead Monday

Reviewing: TWD: Season 7: Episode 11: Hostiles and Calamities

SPOILERS AHEAD! If you have not watched or don't want to know what happened, STOP reading now.

Tonight's episode starts with Dwight and Negan's men standing over the dead body of Joey and Dwight takes off running to look for Daryl. All while Negan and trucks pull up. Dwight realizes Daryl escaped. Negan's men pull Eugene out of back of truck and takes him to Negan. Dwight finds a messed up room and realizes Daryl had been there. Laura takes Eugene down to the cells and takes him into a room and offers him some food. Eugene locks the door after she leaves. In the fridge he notices food and beer. He goes to the CD player and presses play and it plays Easy Street and he starts to move a little. Dwight finds the 'go now' note that was left for Daryl. There is a knock on his door and when he opens it, Negan's men come in and beat him up. * Dwight is in a cell now and Negan comes to visit him. He tells him that when he came back from looking for Daryl, he was short a wife. Dwight ask who and he says Sherry (who is Dwight's ex-wife) and Dwight says it wasn't her. Negan finds that interesting and wants to know if he knows something. Then Negan ask who Dwight is and he says he's Negan. Negan then opens the door and ask Dwight if he knows where Sherry might have gone and sends him on his way to look for her. The doctor stitches Dwight up before he leaves and he thinks Sherry did it. Because she has a kind heart and saw the situation Daryl was in. Dwight goes back to his room to get some things and then leaves. * Laura takes Eugene on a tour of the compound and then takes him out to see Negan. Negan tells Eugene to not be an asshole and say hello. Then he ask his people who they are and they say "I am Negan". Negan and Eugene talk about the bullet in Lucille and he wants to know how he made the bullet. Eugene tells him. Then proceeds to tell him how smart he is. Negan wants to know how he can keep the walkers who guard his place from falling apart. Eugene proceeds to tell him how and Negan loves it. As a token of his gratitude, he wants to send Eugene some of his wives to have a nice evening with him, but no sex. Eugene says thank you and when he walks away with Laura, he smiles. * Eugene is in his room with the wives, Frankie, Tanya and Amber, playing video games and drinking. One of the girls, Frankie, offers Eugene a massage but he declines. Tanya says they can have an educated discussion and he likes that idea. They want to talk about the Human Genome project and he says no because it is classified. But he can show them how to make a bomb and they want him to prove it. So they take him outside with all the items he needs and he proceeds to show them how to make a bomb. They call him Dr. Eugene now too. They love the science experiment and hug all over him. Next day we see Dwight searching for Sherry. He goes to their old home and finds a note she wrote to him and he compares the 'Go Now' note to match handwriting. In the note she confesses to letting Daryl go and that she can't go back because he will have her killed. Back with Eugene that evening, the girls come back and ask for Eugene's help. They need help with Amber. Amber wants the girls help to end her life and they think Eugene could make something for her to just fall asleep. Amber can't live like this anymore and just wants to die. They tell him he is good people and Eugene ask her for her weight. He needs it for the right dosage. * Eugene is down in the common area to get things and cuts in front of everyone for something he needs. The lady barks at him and he comes back at her, telling her how he is in direct contact with Negan, so that's means she works for him. She apologizes and gives him what he needs. He goes back to his room to make the pills for Amber. The doctor ask Dwight if he found her and he says he killed her. Laura takes Eugene down to the furnace area and everyone is there and they all bow when Negan comes in. Negan takes Lucille to the doctors arm and says he found this note inside his jacket, and shows a note that looks like the one Sherry wrote. The doctor deny's it. Negan thinks the doctor let Daryl out for Sherry's behalf. The Doctor says she's the one who ran and Negan say's it's because she thought he would blame her so she ran. Dwight takes out the hot iron and hands it to Negan who puts it up to the doctors face and tells the doctor to tell him the truth and he won't do it so the doctor says it was him. Negan backs off and then throws the doctor into the fire. Negan thanks Dwight for telling him what happened and looks up at Eugene and says he is glad they have another doctor in the building. * Eugene is back in his room playing video games when Frankie and Tanya come in. They want to know if he is alright and if he made the pills. He says yes but they can't have them. He figured out they wanted him to make them for Negan and when the girls threaten to tell Negan, he says he won't believe them. They are replaceable and he is not. They call him a coward and he agrees and they leave. There is a knock on Eugene's door and when he opens it, Negan is standing there. Negan wants to know how he is liking it here and how the girls are saying nice things about him. Negan's needs him to understand something, that he doesn't welcome everyone and he doesn't take things lightly. Eugene doesn't need to be scared anymore and just answer him one question, "Who are you" but before Negan can finish the question, Eugene says "I am Negan, I'm utterly, completely, stone-cold Negan. I was Negan before I even met you, I just needed to meet you properly to know. I'm Negan." Next day, Eugene is instructing people on how to keep the walkers standing when Dwight walks up. Eugene says "You are Dwight, I am Eugene and We are Negan." 

Main points of this week show:

• Way to go for Eugene. Being the front runner this episode. I still don't know if he is just playing along and has something up his sleeve, or for the first time he actually feels wanted and likes that. 
• I totally didn't see that coming with the pills. I never thought they wanted them for Negan. Amber played her part of looking sad and drinking that they had me fooled she wanted them for herself. 
• Why did Dwight go back to Negan? Why didn't he go looking for Sherry? Was it so he could tell Negan he killed her so they would stop looking? And why blame the doctor? That's the part I don't understand. He had the pretzels and beer so he obviously wanted to run with her but he went back. 
• Eugene is having a better time at the Sanctuary than Daryl. Eugene is playing along and look where it is getting him. I know Daryl has morals but Eugene is sleeping in a comfy bed and gets really good looking pickles rather than a dungeon and dog food! 
• I totally had Sherry being the one who let Daryl go, even though I thought maybe Dwight or Jesus had something to do with it too. She tried to help Daryl before and failed and this time, Daryl allowed her to help him get out. Good for Sherry and I hope they never find her! 
• In her note to Dwight, she says the reason she let Daryl go was because she knew Daryl reminded Dwight of what he use to be before Negan. Ouch-that burned a little to Dwight as he broke down and looked at their wedding rings. 
• Both Bobby and I laughed when Easy Street came on and Eugene kinda danced to it. 

Feel free to leave comments, thoughts and/or ideas on what you liked, loved, hated or think might happen.

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Five on Friday

one. Mimi's love

Saturday night, Bobby and I had a date night (a post Valentine's/13 years together dinner) and my parents came out to keep Brody for us. About half way through dinner, my dad sends me this picture. It is probably one of my all time favorite pictures. It just sums up my mother and her love of her grand-babies. Plus his Brody's love for his Mimi. 

two. Haircut 

Brody got his second haircut today. Last time we took him (his first) he was amazing. Not so much this time. He cried so much and we had to take a few breaks. But Bobby's barber was amazing as always and patient and never complained. 

three. Zeke the tiger

When we went to the zoo yesterday, I had in mind that I was going to get Brody a new stuffed animal from there. He loves stuffed animals and sleeps with like 50 of them so I knew he would want it. He picked out the tiger himself. Which is great because there was a $45 giraffe sitting next to it and I prayed he didn't pick that. He got the name from The Walking Dead. I came up with Shiva, since that's the tigers name but when Bobby said how about Zeke (like King Ezekiel, plus Shiva is a girl) I thought that was great. Plus Zeke is a Dallas Cowboy player so it was a win win. I do realize I spelled his name wrong in the picture below. 

four. Miguel and Brody

These two are the cutest. They are 3 months apart and are really sweet to each other. Miguel is in Brody's Little Gym class as well as Library day on Friday's. But we also go to the park together when the weather is great. I love Miguel's mom, Gabby, so it's a win for me too! We did a zoo day Thursday with them and they both were wonderful. 

five. National Tortilla Chip Day

That is what today it! I love it. I love tortilla chips with queso, guacamole, salsa, by themselves, crunched up in a taco salad, as nachos, ummmm.... every other way you could eat them too! A little history lesson for you: They were invented by a lady named Rebecca Webb Carranza in the late 1940's when she would take the tortillas that the machine would reject and cut them into triangles and deep fry them. They became a popular snack and she would sell them for a dime a bag. Yumm! 

Academy Awards list 2017

Dear Diary,

You know they are my favorite!

You know I have my Champagne ready and I will have my pizza ordered!

And you know I will have my heels on! 

Here is the list of the 2017 nominations for The Academy Awards! 

Printed this blog out and follow along Sunday, February 26th on ABC at 7:30pm central 
(red carpet starts at 6pm central)! 

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

NOMINEES

CASEY AFFLECK

Manchester by the Sea

ANDREW GARFIELD

Hacksaw Ridge

RYAN GOSLING

La La Land

VIGGO MORTENSEN

Captain Fantastic

DENZEL WASHINGTON

Fences

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

NOMINEES

MAHERSHALA ALI

Moonlight

JEFF BRIDGES

Hell or High Water

LUCAS HEDGES

Manchester by the Sea

DEV PATEL

Lion

MICHAEL SHANNON

Nocturnal Animals

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

NOMINEES

ISABELLE HUPPERT

Elle

RUTH NEGGA

Loving

NATALIE PORTMAN

Jackie

EMMA STONE

La La Land

MERYL STREEP

Florence Foster Jenkins

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

NOMINEES

VIOLA DAVIS

Fences

NAOMIE HARRIS

Moonlight

NICOLE KIDMAN

Lion

OCTAVIA SPENCER

Hidden Figures

MICHELLE WILLIAMS

Manchester by the Sea

ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

NOMINEES

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS

Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner

MOANA

John Musker, Ron Clements and Osnat Shurer

MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI

Claude Barras and Max Karli

THE RED TURTLE

Michael Dudok de Wit and Toshio Suzuki

ZOOTOPIA

Byron Howard, Rich Moore and Clark Spencer

CINEMATOGRAPHY

NOMINEES

ARRIVAL

Bradford Young

LA LA LAND

Linus Sandgren

LION

Greig Fraser

MOONLIGHT

James Laxton

SILENCE

Rodrigo Prieto

COSTUME DESIGN

NOMINEES

ALLIED

Joanna Johnston

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

Colleen Atwood

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS

Consolata Boyle

JACKIE

Madeline Fontaine

LA LA LAND

Mary Zophres

DIRECTING

NOMINEES

ARRIVAL

Denis Villeneuve

HACKSAW RIDGE

Mel Gibson

LA LA LAND

Damien Chazelle

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

Kenneth Lonergan

MOONLIGHT

Barry Jenkins

DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)

NOMINEES

FIRE AT SEA

Gianfranco Rosi and Donatella Palermo

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

Raoul Peck, Rémi Grellety and Hébert Peck

LIFE, ANIMATED

Roger Ross Williams and Julie Goldman

O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA

Ezra Edelman and Caroline Waterlow

13TH

Ava DuVernay, Spencer Averick and Howard Barish

DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)

NOMINEES

EXTREMIS

Dan Krauss

4.1 MILES

Daphne Matziaraki

JOE'S VIOLIN

Kahane Cooperman and Raphaela Neihausen

WATANI: MY HOMELAND

Marcel Mettelsiefen and Stephen Ellis

THE WHITE HELMETS

Orlando von Einsiedel and Joanna Natasegara

FILM EDITING

NOMINEES

ARRIVAL

Joe Walker

HACKSAW RIDGE

John Gilbert

HELL OR HIGH WATER

Jake Roberts

LA LA LAND

Tom Cross

MOONLIGHT

Nat Sanders and Joi McMillon

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

NOMINEES

LAND OF MINE

Denmark

A MAN CALLED OVE

Sweden

THE SALESMAN

Iran

TANNA

Australia

TONI ERDMANN

Germany

MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING

NOMINEES

A MAN CALLED OVE

Eva von Bahr and Love Larson

STAR TREK BEYOND

Joel Harlow and Richard Alonzo

SUICIDE SQUAD

Alessandro Bertolazzi, Giorgio Gregorini and Christopher Nelson

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)

NOMINEES

JACKIE

Mica Levi

LA LA LAND

Justin Hurwitz

LION

Dustin O'Halloran and Hauschka

MOONLIGHT

Nicholas Britell

PASSENGERS

Thomas Newman

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)

NOMINEES

AUDITION (THE FOOLS WHO DREAM)

from La La Land; Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

CAN'T STOP THE FEELING

from Trolls; Music and Lyric by Justin Timberlake, Max Martin and Karl Johan Schuster

CITY OF STARS

from La La Land; Music by Justin Hurwitz; Lyric by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul

THE EMPTY CHAIR

from Jim: The James Foley Story; Music and Lyric by J. Ralph and Sting

HOW FAR I'LL GO

from Moana; Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda

BEST PICTURE

NOMINEES

ARRIVAL

Shawn Levy, Dan Levine, Aaron Ryder and David Linde, Producers

FENCES

Scott Rudin, Denzel Washington and Todd Black, Producers

HACKSAW RIDGE

Bill Mechanic and David Permut, Producers

HELL OR HIGH WATER

Carla Hacken and Julie Yorn, Producers

HIDDEN FIGURES

Donna Gigliotti, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping, Pharrell Williams and Theodore Melfi, Producers

LA LA LAND

Fred Berger, Jordan Horowitz and Marc Platt, Producers

LION

Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Angie Fielder, Producers

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, Lauren Beck and Kevin J. Walsh, Producers

MOONLIGHT

Adele Romanski, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, Producers

PRODUCTION DESIGN

NOMINEES

ARRIVAL

Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Paul Hotte

FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM

Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Anna Pinnock

HAIL, CAESAR!

Production Design: Jess Gonchor; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

LA LA LAND

Production Design: David Wasco; Set Decoration: Sandy Reynolds-Wasco

PASSENGERS

Production Design: Guy Hendrix Dyas; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena

SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)

NOMINEES

BLIND VAYSHA

Theodore Ushev

BORROWED TIME

Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj

PEAR CIDER AND CIGARETTES

Robert Valley and Cara Speller

PEARL

Patrick Osborne

PIPER

Alan Barillaro and Marc Sondheimer

SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)

NOMINEES

ENNEMIS INTÉRIEURS

Sélim Azzazi

LA FEMME ET LE TGV

Timo von Gunten and Giacun Caduff

SILENT NIGHTS

Aske Bang and Kim Magnusson

SING

Kristof Deák and Anna Udvardy

TIMECODE

Juanjo Giménez

SOUND EDITING

NOMINEES

ARRIVAL

Sylvain Bellemare

DEEPWATER HORIZON

Wylie Stateman and Renée Tondelli

HACKSAW RIDGE

Robert Mackenzie and Andy Wright

LA LA LAND

Ai-Ling Lee and Mildred Iatrou Morgan

SULLY

Alan Robert Murray and Bub Asman

SOUND MIXING

NOMINEES

ARRIVAL

Bernard Gariépy Strobl and Claude La Haye

HACKSAW RIDGE

Kevin O’Connell, Andy Wright, Robert Mackenzie and Peter Grace

LA LA LAND

Andy Nelson, Ai-Ling Lee and Steve A. Morrow

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY

David Parker, Christopher Scarabosio and Stuart Wilson

13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI

Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Mac Ruth

VISUAL EFFECTS

NOMINEES

DEEPWATER HORIZON

Craig Hammack, Jason Snell, Jason Billington and Burt Dalton

DOCTOR STRANGE

Stephane Ceretti, Richard Bluff, Vincent Cirelli and Paul Corbould

THE JUNGLE BOOK

Robert Legato, Adam Valdez, Andrew R. Jones and Dan Lemmon

KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS

Steve Emerson, Oliver Jones, Brian McLean and Brad Schiff

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY

John Knoll, Mohen Leo, Hal Hickel and Neil Corbould

WRITING (ADAPTED SCREENPLAY)

NOMINEES

ARRIVAL

Screenplay by Eric Heisserer

FENCES

Screenplay by August Wilson

HIDDEN FIGURES

Screenplay by Allison Schroeder and Theodore Melfi

LION

Screenplay by Luke Davies

MOONLIGHT

Screenplay by Barry Jenkins; Story by Tarell Alvin McCraney

WRITING (ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY)

NOMINEES

HELL OR HIGH WATER

Written by Taylor Sheridan

LA LA LAND

Written by Damien Chazelle

THE LOBSTER

Written by Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA

Written by Kenneth Lonergan

20TH CENTURY WOMEN

Written by Mike Mills

Love, Me

Source: https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2017