You say HBM I say UK all the way!

It has been way to long since I have posted and it is not like fun things haven't been happening, I went camping with some of my family (see Debbie's blog) which was really fun. I have been listening to Harry Potter. Wait what, YOU HAVE NEVER READ HARRY POTTER!?! You have no clue how many times I have heard this and I don't have much of an excuse other than the first few movies didn't really hold my attention so I didn't think the books would. But for some reason after seeing the trailer for this next movie I decided I wanted to read but ended up listening instead. And I am loving it, hello Jim Dale who I loved already from Pushing Daisies. I love the Weasley's they remind me a lot of my large family with six boys and a couple of red heads and a mother who welcomes friends as their own.

But I am not up late at night blogging for any of those reasons, no I am blogging because you know that book I have been raving about Anna and the French Kiss (see post below), well Stephanie Perkins the author is giving away a copy on her blog. And she is giving everyone chances to sign up more than once and one of those ways is to leave a link to a picture of a Hot British Male in her comments. Some might say but Connie you already got a book why are you posting about HBM's. Obviously I am not doing it to get another copy, I love my copy way to much, because hello it is signed and now lovingly used. I am doing this because I LOVE HBM's and have for a long time. It is one of the reasons I knew Stephanie and I would be friends she called it HBM's I called it UK all The Way! And I just have a ton of pictures just sitting on my computer waiting to be shared. So with out any further ado here are some HBM's...

Hey Jude...you are so pretty sometimes I forget that you are jerk.
James your Scottish charm makes me swoon just thinking about it.
Oh Henry, I have kept an eye on you since I first saw you in Count of Monte Cristo. I knew you could not be so beautiful for nothing.

Christian some think you are crazy but I think we can all have bad days and let's not forget what is written in my high school yearbook "We Hail Christian Bale"

Matthew you are new to my boyfriend list but what a lovely addition you make.

Jim this picture makes me think of a certain boy I read about in a book with lovely messy hair, beautiful brown eyes and he also liked to bite his pinkie nail.

Colin, Mr. Darcy enough said.

Alex you are to young and yet I found myself watching Wild Child on ABC Family last week just so I could say "Hello Freddie".

Rob what can I say you are a mess but sometimes you can be a Beautiful mess, with a fantastic jaw line.

Nine ~ Feb 24th

We left Paris that morning and took a train to London & headed over to Kings Cross Station for our train to Edinburgh Scotland. Where we found the Harry Potter Platform 9 3/4.

In Paris I bought some mini macaroons, then on the train they had these little mini cans, in case you couldn't guess I like mini things.

When we got to Scotland it was VERY cold but thankfully our hotel was just across the street on Princess street. Actually after we got off the train we found the exit to the street, it was a whole of stairs. We were looking at the stairs & Mimi was saying no way, when a girl with pink hair came up to us and said "ok here is the deal you need to take the lift up cross over the tracks take another lift down then there is a ramp." There were really just nice people everywhere we went.

See my princess bed.

We were so happy to be back in a nice hotel with our awesome view & heated towel rack. We rested for a bit, watched part of a Marilyn Monroe movie, Let's Make Love before going out.

We freshened up and were ready to hit the town. This is what we saw as we walked out of our hotel. The lights & the mist were just magical.

Notice the building that says The Scotsman,

I would like to take a moment to give a shout out to some of my favorite Scotsmen.






Chelsea kept trying to take pictures to twitter but said none of them showed how awesome it actually was. The below picture comes the closest to how crazy awesome Edinburgh was.

Here is a cool little alley way.One of the things on our list to do was eat at a pub, Mimi read about this one in Chelsea's book. It is called The Last Drop, it is suppose to be haunted because it is across from where the gallows use to be. The only thing it was haunted by was a cute waiter, good music, good food & a drink called Pooh Bear which Mimi adored (don't worry it was only steamed milk with honey & cinnamon, Imight be wrong about the cinnamon maybe it was nutmeg.

When going up the stairs Mimi said look Scottish chairs, so I ran and sat down in the Scottish chair so she could get a picture of me in it.

Chelsea told us to hurry because the lift was coming, all the lifts were small we could never fit all three of us with all three of our bags in one. Thankfully we didn't have any bags this trip up.

Do you see how pink my cheeks are, that is how cold it was outside.

When we got back to the room I closed the curtains to the window by my bed then went into the little nook it made and sat behind the curtain with my pillow looked out the window at the castle & wrote in my journal while listening to Travis.

Oh Boy Oh Boy

I was questioned on who my favorite celebrity crushes are by Melissa and I couldn't just email her back. I had to really think about it because if you ask me a question I am going to answer it as truthfully as I can. I asked her if I could have fictional people and she said they have to be real so here are my real actor crushes...

1) James McAvoy...Scottish, amazing eyes & amazing talent.

2. John Krasinski...The closest thing to Jim Halpert this world has to offer.

3. Lee Pace... One tall drink of water.

4. Milo Ventimiglia... Use to watch Gilmore Girls just to see him now I watch Heroes.

5. Taylor Kitsch... Ever since I have watched Friday Nights Light season 2 I have been hooked.

Honorable mention...Sam Worthington

I know Melissa didn't want my fictional list but I actually already wrote this back in June but never posted it...

I was reading a authors blog who had read on some other blogs who were putting up their YA boy crushes. I might have agreed with one on their list but most of them I was shocked and appalled. So I decided to do my own.

These are not really in any order just listed.

The Hunger Games by Suzzane Collins

Peeta/Gale

The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

Jace Wayland/Simon

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Edward Cullen/Jacob Black

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Zane/David

Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Owen Armstrong

The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

Wes

This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen

Dexter

The Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Po (really the only thing I liked about the book)

The Countess Below Stairs by Eva Ibbotson

Sergie (the funny thing about him is he is not even the hero, he is her cousin)

Anne of Greengables by L.M. Montgomery

Gilbert Blyth

Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen

Mr. Darcy

Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Aragorn

Enna Burning by Shannon Hale

Finn

How To Take The Ex Out of Ex-Boyfriend by Janette Rallison

Jesse

Sing Sing Sing

While driving and listening to a song I find myself often wondering how that song came about. There are a few songs that I wish I had the qualities that could inspire such creativity & truth. Now I figure that will never happen but maybe someday I can get a guy who can not sing to sing to me...

James McAvoy in Penelope


I love James McAvoy so much. It just breaks my heart that he is married. I know that is silly but when they are married I can not even dream.

Colin Firth & Rupert Everett in The Importance of Being Earnest

You should rent the video it is great.




Lee Pace - I like you even if you are really not British.

Gerard Butler - PS I Love You ~ For Mimi


Gerard you might not be Irish but you are Scottish.

Ryan Gosling - Lars and the Real Girl

Don't Stop Me Now

Just one more reason to love James McAvoy.

Also I saw Penelope last night and it was brilliant. James is very charming in the movie even if he does not have his accent. My favorite part was when he sings, very fun movie.

Has anyone ever told you you look like???

Does anyone besides me get this question a lot? A couple of Sundays ago a couple girls from my ward came up to me at different times and said since you've gotten bangs you look like Reese Witherspoon. Little do they know this all started back when I was around eleven years old. I had a neighbor who looked like Paul from the wonder years, but with out the glasses.

I had been teasing him probably by calling him Paul or something and he said "oh yeah well you look like Nonnie" my response was something like "who the heck is that". He told me "It's the girl from the movie A Far Off Place". So of course I had my mom rent the movie so I could see who I looked like. Nonnie turned out to be a young Reese Witherspoon. Over the next few years I would hear you like like the girl from Man in the Moon or Fear. I don't think it was till after Legally Blonde came out when people started to actually say "has anyone ever told you that you look like Reese Witherspoon". Now honestly how am I suppose to respond to that question? I say yes then they look at me like I should be saying more. Which use to annoy me because come on how do I know if they mean it as a compliment? For all I know they could think Reese Witherspoon is ugly. But I have gotten use to it now and so I simply smile and say "yes, thanks that is so nice of you to say".

Sometime I can actually get a kick out of it. Like when someone asks me the question then look at their friend and say "don't you think she looks like Reese Witherspoon" and the friend will either say "no" or nothing at all. The awkwardness that follows always makes me laugh. I think the funniest was when I went to go see Legally Blonde with my friends back when it came out and my friend Courtney started looking at me and then back at the screen and making loud comments.

Now I must say that when I see Reese I don't see myself I can see that we both have blue eyes and a pointy chin but I do not expect or care if others think I look like Reese Witherspoon or not. I am glad that she seems to be a nice person and makes good films I would hate to have my movie twin be a skank or something. Also I get to have the benefit of seeing how nice I would look next to James McAvoy.

(I know I only wish... but fun just the same)

I notice that this post still receives some traffic...so for anyone who is surfing and is wondering if I really do look like Reese you can see a picture of me as Reese here.