In My Mailbox (94)

Only three cards and one swap. Sad... But some nice ones. This wonderful vintage postcard came from Emmen, Netherlands. Wonderful isn't it?

Sent: june 27th 2013
Received: july 1st 2013
Distance: 187 km (116 miles)
Travel Time: 4 days

This card from Rivne, Ukraine came wita surprise. A money bill, money from Ukraine! I don't thinks it's worth much, but how great is that.

Sent: june 23rd 2013
Received: july 4th 2013
Distance: 1,421 km (883 miles)
Travel Time: 11 days

This card came from Stuttgart, Germany. This is actually my favorite of the week. Lovely contrast between the black & white and the brght colors of the balloons. Amazing!

Sent: may 29th 2013
Received: july 5th 2013
Distance: 357 km (222 miles)
Travel Time: 37 days

I also got a card from Banten, Indonesia. I send her a card and as a thank you she send me this one. I really love it whn someone appreciated your card and actually thanks so for it.

Thanks Renate, Vika, Marion and Qonita for you wonderful and amazing postcards this week!

Quotables: "The Avengers"

This is the ultimate superhero movie! Filled with fantastic and good looking actors and actresses, loveable characters and great quotes. Here are some of my favorite quotes from "The Avengers".






Tony Stark: [to Thor] No hard feelings Point Break, you've got a mean swing.

Steve Rogers: Is everything a joke to you?
Tony Stark: Funny things are.

Steve Rogers: Stark, we need a plan of attack!
Tony Stark: I have a plan: attack!

Steve Rogers: Doctor Banner, I think now might be a good time for you to get angry.
Bruce Banner: That's my secret, Cap: I'm always angry.
[Banner hulks out and punches the Leviathan]

Steve Rogers: Thor, what's his play?
Thor: He has an army, called the Chitauri. They're not of Asgard or any world known. He means to lead them against your people. They will win him the Earth. In return, I suspect, for the Tesseract.
Steve Rogers: An army. From outer space.
Bruce Banner: So he's building another portal. That's what he needs Erik Selvig for.
Thor: Selvig?
Bruce Banner: He's an astrophysicist.
Thor: He's a friend.
Natasha Romanoff: Loki has them under some kind of spell. Along with one of ours.
Steve Rogers: I wanna know why Loki let us take him. He's not leading an army from here.
Bruce Banner: I don't think we should be focusing on Loki. That guy's brain is a bag full of cats. You can smell crazy on him.
Thor: Have a care how you speak! Loki is beyond reason, but he is of Asgard and he is my brother!
Natasha Romanoff: He killed eighty people in two days.
Thor: He's adopted.

Tony Stark: I thought we were having a moment.
Pepper Potts: I was having 12% of a moment.

Tony Stark: [to Bruce Banner] You really have got a lid on it, haven't you? What's your secret? Mellow jazz? Bongo drums? Huge bag of weed?

Nick Fury: Having trouble sleeping?
Steve Rogers: I've been asleep for 70 years. I think I've had enough rest.

Natasha Romanoff: [watching the aliens come toward them] This is just like Budapest all over again.
Clint Barton: You and I remember Budapest very differently.

Tony Stark: [Discussing S.H.I.E.L.D] An intelligence agency that FEARS intelligence? Historically, not awesome.

Agent Phil Coulson: You're at 114 Solenski Plaza, 3rd floor. We have an F-22 exactly 8 miles out. Put the woman on the phone or I will blow up the block before you can make the lobby.

Steve Rogers: How can you not trust Fury?
Tony Stark: He's a spy, he's THE spy. His secrets have secrets.

Agent Phil Coulson: [on the phone] I'll brief you on everything when you get back. But first, we need you to talk to the big guy.
Natasha Romanoff: Coulson, you know that Stark trusts me about as far as he can throw me.
Agent Phil Coulson: Oh, I've got Stark. You get the big guy.
[Natasha looks nervous, realizing he means the Hulk]

Natasha Romanoff: Gentlemen, you might want to step inside in a minute. It's going to get a little hard to breathe.
[as the Helicarrier starts to power up, Steve Rogers and Bruce Banner walk to the edge]
Steve Rogers: Is this a submarine?
Bruce Banner: Really? They want me submerged in a pressurized metal container?
[Rogers and Banner stand at the edge and they look over as the Helicarrier starts to slowly rise out of the ocean to fly]
Bruce Banner: [smiles] Oh, no, this is MUCH worse!

Movie Moments: "Drive"

The best movie experiences are the one where you expect nothing much and you’re eventually blown away. That’s what happened when I saw “Drive” for the first time. What an amazing movie! Here are my favorite scenes.

Moment # 1: The getaway
Driver is waiting in his getaway car, for two robbers. They have a five minute window and they make it right before the sirens come closer. Driver tries to escape an them, he stays calm and collected at all times.

Moment # 2: “You wanna see something?”
Driver takes Irene and Benicio home, but first he wants to show them something. He takes them for a drive, they have a great time.

Moment # 3: Hands
Driver takes Irene out. In the car Irene looks at him, smiles and takes his hand.

Moment # 4: The chase
Driver is helping Standard with his final job, so he can pays his depths. Something goes horribly wrong, which leaves Standard dead and Driver speeding up.

Moment # 5: The hammer
Driver looks up Cook and brings a hammer to the party. First he smashes Cooks hand and the threatens to hit a nail right in his eye.

Moment # 6: The elevator
Driver and Irene are in the elevator when he sees the other passenger is carrying a gun. Driver wants to protect Irene and he pushes her back, kisses her and than he smashes up the guys face.

Moment # 7: Driver kills Nino
Driver just found his friend Shannon who was killed. He wants payback and the person he needs to start with is Nino.

Moment # 8: Driver calls Irene
Driver gives Irene a call to tell her he’s going away and that the time he spend with her and Benicio is the best he ever had.

Moment # 9: The last showdown
Driver meets up with Bernie Rose and he is about to giver Rose the money. Rose stabs him, but Driver fights back and stabs him too. Driver is sitting in the car and when he blinks we see he’s still alive and Rose is lying dead on the ground. Driver drives off, but leaves the money.

Favorite Moment: Moment # 6: The elevator

Top 5 Thursday: "Sherlock" Episodes

I always loved reading Sherlock Holmes stories. I was already interested when I just read the concept, Sherlock Holmes' adventures but than present day. When I started watching, I just fell in love with the show. Amazing! Only six episodes, but I have my favorites. Here is my top 5.

5. A Scandal in Belgravia
Sherlock meets his match in the form of Irene Adler. A woman that can outsmart him and confronts him with something new: love.

4. A Study in Pink
The episode where it all began. It’s fun to see how Sherlock and Watson met and how they start to work together. Great first episode, because I went in blank and came out Sherlocked!

3. The Blind Banker
An episode with a unexpected twist for Sherlock and Watson.

2. The Reichenbach Fall
One of the most exciting season finales I’ve ever seen. What an adrenaline rush I got from this episode. And now I’m still waiting for season 3.

1. The Hounds of Baskerville
This has always been my favorite Sherlock Holmes story and it was fun to see it in a modern day version. This was the first episode that was frightening and it was a fantastic episode.

They Almost Made the Top 5: The Great Game

Weekly Photo Challenge 2013 - Theme # 26: Lunch

Here is this weeks theme.

Lunch is probably my favorite meal of the day. And it's never the same. Today I was in the mood for fruit, so I ate fresh strawberries. While watching this photo, I want more....

Pic Spam: Jennifer Carpenter

In my last pic spam I shared pictures of Michael C. Hall. This time it's his "Dexter" co-star and on screen sister Jennifer Carpenter.

50 Books Challenge 2013 Update - June

I read five books this month, I'm happy about that.

# 20. The Secret Garden by Frances H. Burnett - 2,5/ 5
# 21. Mr. Popper's Penguins by Richard Atwater - 3/ 5
# 22. George's Marvelous Medicine by Roald Dahl - 4,5/ 5
# 23. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll - 5/ 5
# 24. The Neverending Story by Michael Ende - 4/ 5

Average: 3,8

Favorite of the month: Through the Looking Glass

Summer vacation just started Friday, so i have plenty of time to read this month. So I decided to go with the following theme.

I was looking at my bookshelves and there were a lot of books I still had to read, so I choose this theme to catch up on that. To make my TBR pile smaller.