A-Z Challenge Day 4- D is for...

My FAV!! DIRTY DANCING!!!

I wish I could remember the first time I saw it. I know I was like 11 or 12.....and remember feeling so awesome when I turned 13 and could "officially" watch it, since it is rated PG13.

The dancing and music and romance and drama.....oh I love it!!! My friends and I used to put it on and dance around the living room, singing the songs at the top of our lungs! And this one time, we went camping and guess what we happened upon?? Yep...a log...over a little creek. It was way tinier than the movie, but that didn't stop us from dancing on it all day with a boom box playing "Hey Baby."

And as I got older, I could so totally relate to the shy nerdy girl dying to be with the hot, popular guy. And like Baby, I did get my chance once. Those memories have stuck with me my entire life!

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Movie Monday

It's the morning after the Oscars...what a great day to start my new weekly feature!!!

I had this idea.....I love love love movies. I love books too...but there's just something about seeing a story come to life on the screen. They can leave such an imprint on our hearts and minds. The best movies make me cry. If I cry, it was good.

I thought maybe I'd do a weekly feature, at least for a little while, and focus on my favorite movies of all time! See what my blogging friends think of my picks!

For my first ever Movie Monday, I'm gonna go with my favorite--of all time. I'd first seen this movie when was about 11 or 12. It came out in 1987, when I was 10, but we never went to the theater back then. Had to wait til it was released on video. I can't even remember my first time seeing it, but it had hooked me fast.



Even at that young age, I identified with Baby, though it wouldn't be until years later that I was really dealing with the emotions she dealt with. God, I can so remember a time in my life when the "it" guy was with me and the song "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" played in the back of me head. I was Baby...shy and unsure, and somehow had caught the attention of the hottest guy around.

But when I was younger, me and my friends used to put the movie on and dance around the living room. We had the soundtracks and listened to them non-stop. I even remember a camping trip where we about wet ourselves when we found an tree trunk laid over a little stream. It was tiny compared to the movie version, but still. We put "Hey Baby" on the little boom box and danced on that log all afternoon.

My bedroom walls had two huge posters- the movie poster shown above, and a black and white shot of Patrick Swayze, laying on his side, during the "Love is Strange" scene. "Come 'ere, Loverboy!"



I cried when Patrick died. He was probably my first huge celebrity crush. And he will always hold a very special place in my heart.

Dirty Dancing is played on TV so much, but you know what...every time....I am a total deer caught in the headlights. I can't turn away. I can't flip the channel.

I still listen to the soundtracks. I know every song by heart.

My favorite scene in the whole movie.......it's so full of sexiness and passion, hunger and desire. My heart completely flutters every time I see it.

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