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I love Las Vegas. And the deals right now are unreal - if we didn't have a puppy that I wanted to see grow every day we would be on a plane heading for Vegas!

I was just listening to my Itunes library on shuffle and Con Te Partiro by Andrea Bocelli started to play. It is a beautiful song and I immediately thought of our first trip to Vegas and how we could watch and hear the fountains from our room every night. It was a very special Las Vegas treat.

Since I don't have any video that I shot, I am grabbing one I found on YouTube:

As you probably already know, I am obsessed with all things seatbelt. Here is a post I made last fall about my seatbelt purse and the seatbelt chairs I love by J Persing.

But it gets better - designer Inghua Ting has a seatbelt hammock that is awesome! They are all recycled seatbelts - the hammock’s seat belts are all end of line — that is, they were made for vehicles that are either no longer in production or have changed their safety specifications.

Ms. Ting says she has lately been receiving plenty of lime-green belts from a factory that had intended them for use in British ambulances. She also has a steady supply of bright orange belts, courtesy of a manufacturer that made them for tractors and other heavy-duty machines.



You can find the hammocks online at BranchHome.com.


About the Ting Sling:

Designed with the professional practitioner of the relaxation arts in mind, this handmade hammock is as comfortable to curl up in as it is cool to look at. Woven from end-of-the line seat belt webbing otherwise destined for the landfill, Sling is durable, weather-resistant, and the most stylish thing to swing between two trees since Tarzan hung up his loincloth. Mounting hardware and rope are included for easily adjustable installation. Sling is is available in your choice of six webbing colors.

About the designer: Founded by Royal College of Art graduate Inghua Ting, TING is motivated by the challenge of producing luxurious, modern designs that are innovative, functional, and — most importantly — sustainable. With a goal of producing high quality products with a minimal environmental impact, TING strives to maintain a zero carbon footprint while placing an emphasis on social and ethical responsibility. Fittingly for a company whose creations are made of reclaimed seat belt material, everyone in TING's London studio bikes to work.

I saw someone talking about P!nk and her song Glitter in the Air on Facebook tonight. I've loved this song ever since I saw P!nk perform it on TV at the Grammys on January 31 of this year. I found the video and I wanted to share it here in case you missed the performance. It was incredible!

I posted about the Eminem and Rihanna song Love the Way You Lie last month and here is an incredible cover of the song - these kids are awesome!!!

The other night I was scrolling ahead on the cable box to see what movies would be on Turner Classic Movies this week. I like to record ones that I've always wanted to see or classics that I have seen but don't own on DVD. Tonight on TCM - Better Off Dead. And that's not all - it is followed by Ferris Bueller's Day off and Risky Business. My first thought was "What are these movies doing on TCM?" and then it hit me - it has been about 25 years since these movies came out and they are classics!

Then today I saw a blog post about all of the great movies from the Summer of 1985. I couldn't believe it - so many of these movies were a major part of my life growing up. I wanted to live *in* these movies.

What I also couldn't believe is that in 2010, 25 years later, I have only seen one movie in the theater. That movie was Hot Tub Time Machine - and the funny part is it stars John Cusack from the 1985 hit Better Off Dead. In Better Off Dead one of the main lines you hear in the movie is the newspaper boy saying "I want my two dollars!" and that line made a cameo in Hot Tub Time Machine.

I love the theme of many of these movies - rebellion!!!

I want to have a weekend of movies to watch the following (I've seen them many times and I could watch them again and again):

Back to the Future (an absolute classic!)
St. Elmo's Fire (I feel like I know these characters - I have people like every one of them in my life)
Desperately Seeking Susan (I wanted to be Rosanna Arquette's character)
Better Off Dead (French fries, French dressing, French bread. And to drink....Peru!)
National Lampoon's European Vacation (In Europe - Ellen Griswold: Clark, you're on the wrong side of the road. Clark Griswold: Yes I know, honey, I'm also on the wrong side of the car. )
Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Cheesy movie and I loved SJP back then)
The Breakfast Club
The Jewel of the Nile (I wanted to look like Kathleen Turner when I was 31 someday...)
Just one of the Guys (Cheesy but oh so cute movie)
E.T. (another classic!)
The Legend of Billie Jean (Cheesy but good)
Cocoon
The Goonies (this was just on TV the other night)
Teen Wolf
Real Genius
Weird Science
Fletch
Cat's Eye (This one scared the heck out of me! I saw it late one night on HBO in my room when I was probably too young to be watching it)
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (oh yeah, you read that right!)

I love Kathleen Turner:


And Madonna and Rosanna Arquette: