These aren't tears, they're manly eye..sweat...gross...

Hi folks. Lopez here. I'm not crying right now. If you didn't hear, I said this morning that I cried while watching the movie "Bridge To Terabithia". I've never cried so much for a movie in my life. It was crazy. I won't tell you why I cried because I don't want to give anything away, but it really got me going!

So, I guess there is no manly way to describe tears, but if you can think of one, please let me know!

It was a pretty good movie too. I liked it. What about you? Any movie make you cry a lot? More than the usual sad movie? We want to know!

That's about it for today. It's hard to see the screen with teary eyes.
I'm off to get a tissue.

Enjoy!

-Lopez

Back To School

Lopez here! And it's back to school time! Yay! Or Boooooo! Depends on your age I guess.

We talked about what kids "had" to have before they went back to school and it's the usual stuff. Little kids want stuff with Sponge Bob or Disney Princess. Older kids want high tech stuff.

I don't really remember my first day of school. From any year. I do remember a picture I have in a Ghostbusters shirt with my lunchbox getting ready for a big day at school. I look small in the picture, so I think it's a long time ago.

I don't remember asking for anything before school started. I think I was just one of those kids who didn't ask for anything. Though, my mom might say the opposite, but I'm sure she's getting me confused with my siblings (yeah, right).

I think my favorite thing was getting new shoes. I actually still get a new pair every year around this time. It makes it feel like the first day of school again.

What did you "have" to have for your first day? Did you ever get it, or did you just beg a lot?

With that, I think it's time I got some new shoes! I'll talk to you tomorrow!

-Lopez

Aliens or med students?

How was your weekend! Lopez here with more bloggin for your noggin!

Well, I had a weird dream this weekend. I dreamt I was having some sort of surgery done to me. I can't remember what it was, but I remember having the crazy dream. Then I woke up thinking I was in a hospital bed. Luckily I was just in my own bed. Unluckily, I did not really have a bed pan, so I had to get up.

I think when people have dreams like that, they are abducted by aliens! That or med students who need the practice. Either way, I think I have some sort of implant in me so they can keep tabs on me. Spooky!

I'm sure some folks out there have had some weird dreams. What has happened to you? I never dream that I'm a super hero or anything like that. Anybody out there ever dream that? Let me know!

I have to go. I guess some men all in black are here to talk to me. I wonder what they want...

-Lopez

Canada Candy...or Canandy

Hi. Lopez here with candy fun. Canada has great candy. I don't know why they don't sell some of the ideas here. I've said before that the Wunderbar (I pronounce it Vooondurbar) is my favorite, well, it now has some competition.

Here's what they do in Canada (sort of). They take two yummy candy options and say, "Hey, wouldn't be awesome if we just put these two great things together?"

Would you like to know the answer? IT'S "YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It would be awesome!"

The Wunder bar is caramel and peanut butter crunch, like eating a Caramello and Butterfinger at the same time.

Mr. Big is a fun bar I tried. All they did was shove a vanilla wafer inside of a Payday. Seriously! It's awesome too!

Then I tried a Coffee Crisp. This is really good. It's just coffee flavored wafer covered in chocolate. So good.

I forgot the name of one of the bars I had. BUT, I'll explain it to you. When I think of Malted Milk Balls, I think of Whoppers. You know that inside "malted?" part? (I guess that's the malting process). Well, do that with caramel, and that was another great bar.

Finally! The bar that you can sometimes get in the International section of the supermarket is the Aero Bar. It's just a chocolate bar with air bubbles in it. Silly you say? Well, for some reason, air bubbled chocolate tastes fabulous. They have it in Mint and Caramel. All flavors are good.

Find them all. Eat them all. Repeat if necessary (which it is).

I hope I've put everybody in the mood for candy. What is you favorite candy? I would love to find out!

Also, a little F.Y.I., I heard that Canada has different "regulations" for their jelly bean ingredients, so I don't know if they taste different, but I am going to find out someday. I like candy research.

I've blabbed enough, it's time to shush up and eat something with sugar.

-Lopez

beautiful hair

Hi. Lopez here again. AND I just got a new hair dryer. I. Love. It. My old one was held together with duct tape, but it worked, so I didn't care. I get a little rough when it comes to my hair. I'm sure many of you can understand.



My NEW hair dryer is red and sexy. It also came with attachments. I kid you not! A diffuser and a concentrator. I prefer the concentrator. I spent, like, an hour at Target in the hair dryer section making sure it had a concentrator.



It's sad to see the old one go, but she was tough, so it's ok.

That's all I got today. I did buy some rainbow twizzlers also. I'm having a torrid affair with them these days. It'll pass when I find a new candy to drool over.

Oooh...I'll have to tell you about Canadian Candy. I forgot to do that. Maybe tomorrow...

Enjoy!

-Lopez

Legends

Well, it's Lopez here with some somber news. Many of you know that I'm a big fan of comic books. Well, about ten years ago or so there was a writer/artist team on Spider-Man that I loved. It was writer Todd Dezago and artist Mike Wieringo (Ringo for short). Ever since then I bought everything they've worked on because they're both so talented. I had the honor or meeting Todd a few years ago and we've kept in touch and he's told me wonderful things about Mike. Sadly, Mike died last week at 44. It came out of nowhere and it's a shame that such a talented artist isn't with us anymore.

I know most, if not all, of you don't really know who he is, but you should check him out. He and Todd did a comic called Tellos that you should buy and read to your children. It's an all-ages fantasy story that is perfect for the family.

You can get a collection of the Tellos comics soon. I'll let you know. Before that, you can check out some websites to see how cool he was.

Mike's Website: http://www.mikewieringo.com/

Todd's Blog: http://perhapanauts.blogspot.com/

I could go on a while about his awesome art, but hopefully you'll check it out.

Enjoy

-Lopez

Heroes (not the TV show, even though that is awesome)

Hi again folks. It's Lopez back from vacation. I had to spend yesterday catching up on a LOT of stuff. I say "stuff" to keep the language clean on this blog.

I hope everybody had a wonderful week. I saw that Dina posted once. Not too bad, Dina.

Well, on vacation, I saw pretty flowers in Halifax. It was cool. I saw a bunch of other stuff too, but I really can't remember it. Hopefully it'll all come back to me. It's too early to remember vacation and when you're back at work, it's like you never left. Oh well...

Anyways, I saw that kids picked their parents as their heroes in a recent poll. Yeah, not Spider-Man or Superman, but their parents! Now, unless your parents are Spider-Man, I don't get it. That's just silly. My parents might be cool, but I don't think they've ever saved the universe from certain destruction. If they did, they didn't tell me.

It is good to see people pick their parents, though. Who would you pick?

I'm off to fight Galactus. Avengers Assemble!

-Lopez