Thank you all for being so awesomely patient while I was away last week. I’m still coming down from the Alt Summit high, and my brain can’t really formulate thoughts or words, so I will hopefully have a full Alt report up later this week. Until then, here’s the winner of the iTunes gift card from the relaunch giveaway!
It’s comment number 12, Barb! Yay Barb! Email me at megan@crazybananas.com with your mailing info and I’ll get that gift card in the mail for you!
And just because I can’t write a post without some sort of photo, here’s a random image I took with my iPhone of a yellow rose in my hotel room last week using my Photojojo macro lens attachment…
Today is a big day at Crazybananas headquarters. I can’t wait to share what I’ve been working on with you all, and I think you’re going to love it! Please bare with me as the site might seem a little….well….off today. I promise, if you stick around, there might be something fun in it for you (yup, a giveaway is headed your direction!).
This past Friday night, after a two hour crying fit by a certain 2-year-old who will not be named (ahem.), I decided I needed to turn everything off and just veg out. My new jobs are amazing so far, and I’m loving the flexibility, but the trade off has been that I’m constantly connected. At any moment I could be updating the Crazybananas Facebook page at the park while pushing a swing or retweeting a post for Sweet Lemon Magazine or emailing sources for Design for MiniKind research or setting up lunch appointments for Umbrella Medical Systems. The connectedness is amazing…and also overwhelming. So when my phone died around 9 p.m. on Friday, instead of charging it, I left it as it was and snuggled up on my couch for movie night. I knew I wanted something a bit comedic, romantic, and sweet, so I started searching through Netflix and ended up finding The Decoy Bride.
Now, I’ll be honest here…I totally picked this movie because it stars the 10th doctor from Doctor Who, David Tennant. But it turned out to be perfect! It also stars Kelly MacDonald (from Trainspotting, Nanny McPhee, Boardwalk Empire, Gosford Park and on and on and on) and she was so, so good.
(Nerd Sidebar: Both David Tennant and Kelly MacDonald were also featured in the Harry Potter movies. Tennant played Barty Crouch in the Goblet of Fire and MacDonald was Helena Ravenclaw in the Deathly Hallows: Part 2!)
The movie didn’t get great reviews, and I’m sure it’s not for everyone, but I loved it. It takes place on a small island off Scotland, called Hegg, where an author and his movie star wife sneak off to get married in secret. Of course, things don’t go as planned, and the author ends up marrying the only single girl on the island (recently returned from the big city) to throw off the press. It sounds horrible, but throw in Scottish accents, the best actors, beautiful scenery and a little bit of an indie film vibe, and it was the best rom-com I’ve seen in ages. Turn off your phone, get a bottle of wine and enjoy!
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Hi everybody! I’m back in the real world after a totally surreal week with my family in Colorado. My in-laws rented a cabin in Grand Lake and it was incredible. Snow everyday, not too freezing cold, wood burning fires and lots of food and drink. We were insane gluttons and I think I gained about 15 pounds while we were there. I’m not much of a skier, but I still got to do tons of outdoor activities including sledding, snowball fights, snowmobiling, a ride in a horse drawn sleigh (on Christmas Eve!) and lots of hot cocoa. The girls had a spa day at an amazing place in Devil’s Thumb and Trent got to snowboard (for the first time in years) at Winter Park. Lucy even skied for the first time, and she LOVED ski school. I don’t know what else I can say, except I couldn’t be more thankful for my in-laws and this incredible family that I have somehow found myself lucky enough to be a part of. Incredible.
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From everyone in the Crazybananas home, we want to wish you all a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and a very Happy New Year! Thanks for being such incredible supporters of our site this year. It means so, so much. Your gift is this video…we hope you like it!
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