Month In Review: January & February 2014

JANUARY

♥ Spending a few days in Florida with my family and missing snowstorm Janus

♥ Having LASIK surgery

♥ Going on a fancy dinner date with Justin

♥ Learning that it is quicker and cheaper to go to Urgent Care as opposed to an ER

♥ Having a Stephen King movie marathon with my friends

FEBRUARY

♥ Having an amazing eleven year anniversary date with Justin

♥ Being able to see without glasses

♥ Going to Lisa's engagement party & having her ask me to be one of her bridesmaids

♥ Celebrating Valentine's Day with Justin

♥ Seeing an advance screening of Non-Stop (2014) with Matt

♥ Having the opportunity to giveaway 20 tickets to Non-Stop in NYC

♥ Having a movie date with Lisa to see the advance screening of Endless Love (2014)

 

JANUARY

♥ Old Cheesy Bread & Not Being A Charity

♥ Frozen Pier

♥ Gimme Stitches

♥ Cesar Chavez National Day Of Service

♥ Pantone 2014 Color Of The Year Wishlist

♥ My Mini Florida Vacation
♥ Conspiracy Theories & Tears In The Library

♥ Florida In Instagram

♥ I'm Having LASIK Today

FEBRUARY

♥ Valentine's Day Wishlist

♥ Valentine's Day "Mix Tape" Playlist & Endless Love Giveaway

♥ LASIK Update

♥ Endless Love

♥ Hello Geeky

♥ Going To BeautyCon New York

♥ Inappropriate Phone Calls

♥ Sticky Note Art

♥ Birthday Wishlist

♥ All Gold Everything
♥ Eleven Years
♥ Non-Stop

 

♥ Eating Lipstick ♥

♥ Flashes Of Style ♥

♥ It's Not Her, It's Me ♥

♥ Door Sixteen ♥

♥ Illustrated Bites ♥

♥ Junebugs & Georgia Peaches ♥

♥ Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening (2010) ♥

♥ Parks and Recreation (2009 - Present) ♥ 

Endless Love...

Last Monday night I had the opportunity to go to an advance screening of Universal Pictures' newest offering Endless Love (2014), which an adaptation of Scott Spencer's 1979 novel of the same title.

Endless Love stars Alex Pettyfer (Magic Mike) and Gabriella Wilde (The Three Musketeers) in the story of a privileged girl and a charismatic boy whose instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.  

Directed by Shana Feste (Country Strong), the romantic drama co-stars Robert Patrick, Bruce Greenwood, Rhys Wakefield, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Rigby and Joely Richardson. Scott Stuber and Pamela Abdy (Identity Thief) of Bluegrass Films are joined by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage (Gossip Girl) of Fake Empire to produce the film from writers Feste and Joshua Safran (Gossip Girl).


Genre: Drama/Romance
Cast: Alex Pettyfer, Gabriella Wilde, Bruce Greenwood, Joely Richardson, Robert Patrick, Rhys Wakefield, Dayo Okeniyi, Emma Rigby, Anna Enger, Fabianne Therese
Directed by: Shana Feste        
Written by: Shana Feste, Joshua Safran & Scott Spencer
Produced by: Pamela Abdy
Rated: PG-13
Release Date: February 14, 2014

Seeing Endless Love (2014) was kind of a treat for me because it's not the kind of film I see in theaters. Not because I don't enjoy romantic dramas but because typically with such films either my friends would go see it without me on a whim (I'm talking about all three of you; Erin, Amy & Maria) or Justin would make fun of me for mentioning them. So normally I don't get to see something like this until it's playing on demand on a day where I'm home sick -- That's how I get my romantic fix on.

While I can't compare Endless Love (2014) to the original 1981 film adaptation or Scott Spencer's novel because I'm honestly not familiar with either, I can tell you that as your average everyday movie going female seeing it just days before Valentine's Day that it was cute in a cheesy way.

If you're unaware of any of it's predecessors and enjoy teenage love with a big dash of parental disapproval and meddling, you will enjoy Endless Love (2014), especially if you see it with your girls. Lemme know if you've seen it or are planning on seeing it!

And for good measure, here is a little interview with Alex Pettyfer....

CLOSED: Valentine's Day "Mix Tape" Playlist & Endless Love Giveaway...

In honor of Valentine's Day being only two weeks away and Universal Pictures' upcoming film Endless Love, starring Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde -- Which is a remake of the 1981 film of the same title, both based off the novel "Endless Love" by Scott Spencer and the origins of the song "Endless Love" by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross (Bam! Some pop culture knowledge for you). I thought we should take some time, get a little sappy, a little old school and make some "mixed tapes" for our loves.

At this point as a couple Justin and I aren't really very sappy-sappy with one another because we've been dating almost eleven years, so if I was making him a mix it wouldn't be sappy at all. It would be full of alternative and rock songs (He actually made me a similar mix to the one below entitled "Made With Lots & Lots Of Justin Love" forever ago) like these...


For those of you who love some sap here are some of my favorite and classic love song. And we obviously need to start with Endless Love...


Here is an actual mix I made Justin forever ago...

Yup, I know... It's really bad. Justin made fun of me the other day when he found it.

Now that we are done grooving and being cheesy, lets get to the free stuff!

 A story about a love affair with many obstacles but, by choosing love; we learn that love really does conquer all!

One (1) lucky winner will receive a prize pack with the following...

• Two (2) Endless Love T-Shirts
• Beanie 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

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This post and giveaway were sponsored but I did not receive monetary compensation. I'll be receiving my own Endless Love prize pack identical to the winners.