Monday, March 9, 2009

Watchmen

This weekend Mike and ventured out to a show. He was anxious to see Watchmen, and I didn’t want him to have to go alone (plus he said he’d pay AND get me some popcorn ;)).
The movie itself was pretty good - the story, the acting, the camera shots - all good. Some were even great. The reason I left feeling torn was because of the level of violence. It wasn’t anymore violent than many other movies in our time, but it was much more graphic than I’d anticipated. The critics said violent, they didn’t specify that each fist fight would include slow motion shots of blood spurtting from someones face. They didn’t explain that it wasn’t implied violence, but actually shown.
The worst part of it is that none of it was necessary to make the story stronger somehow. And yes many people probably enjoyed that extra bit. The “effects” they say. Ewe. Simply ewe.
When we left the theatre, I really wanted to like it. But I couldn’t decide if the good things outweighed the insult of a moviemaker thinking this is what the American public enjoys. Or if it is what the public wants, in which case I’m repulsed. Or if I should be relieved and joyful that it bothered me (at one point plugged my ears and squeezed shut my eyes and hummed to avoid having to watch someone be slaughtered) so I’m not as desensitized as others may be.
I’ve resolved that I’m just disappointed. I wanted to enjoy it and be excited for the obvious sequels, but I can’t. And I certainly can’t give any more money to it. Boo.
Anyone know a good movie, an all the way around really good, movie for us to catch?

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Friday, March 6, 2009

Home Sweet Home

Mike and I found a house we love. It needs work, but we could move in and work slowly. It has lots of room for us to make improvements and grow. Our future family could be there for many, many years.
But we own a home now. And we can’t rely on it selling. It’s smaller, but adorable. We do fine here, but squeezing a family in here is going to make it tight. And since the economy is what it is, we thought we might as well look just to see what’s out there. I was NOT planning on finding something so perfect. Sigh. Now we have to see if there is any possible way to get this great place. I’m not holding my breath, and once tomorrow comes, I’m done dreaming about it. I’ll drive myself crazy. But seriously, you should see this place! It’s a 4 bedroom, den, loft, 2.5 bath, wood throughout main floor, red brick patio, on a cul-de-sac fully landscaped, fireplace, basement, 2.5 car garage. LOVE IT!
Keep your fingers crossed that there is some possible way to move forward with this!!!

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

1. How I use Facebook

I want to write. I’m just at a loss lately, ok fine for the last several months, FINE year or so. Humph - of what to write. I don’t want to only put life updates on this site and it seems my head is so full of so much lately that the simple things I’d blog about in the past seem so mundane that I don’t want to waste time typing it. I would LOVE a project similar to Flickr 365 my friend Chrysty participates in, but for blogs. Something to guide me on the days that I want to post, but don’t have much worthwhile to say. On my search through cyberland, I didn’t find something like this exactly. Not even on the Blog 365 site. But I did find another bloggers site that listed possible post titles and a challenge to write about them.
So here we are with #1. How I use Facebook. I plan to do as many as apply to things in my life (there are a few that are specific to this guys line of work). So come back often and let’s get back in the swing of this, shall we?

There’s much discussion about social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and others. I have accounts on all three mentioned sites. I enjoy them when I use them, but I do feel that there are many times I have to limit myself to it’s usage so as not to neglect other things in my life. My friends, all who have accounts as well, vary on their opnions about these sites. Some of us are on it soley to reconnect with friends and be a part of the “in” crowd. Others of us joined to help network our careers. My social networking webpage accounts started with MySpace. I signed up so that I could read my brother’s posts while he was at war. Then I started getting friend requests from our mutual friends and then more and more and I was glad to see how people from high school had continued their life. I was happy to be in touch with those who I thought I would only see are reunions. It was a lot of fun. And then Facebook was introduced to me. I held off for a while, but before long was a member at that site as well. I know visit that site daily and MySpace not at all. Then Twitter came into my life. I love that one, but can’t update as often as I’d like and so have let it fall by the wayside. My focus lately has been Facebook. I even showed it to my parents who started accounts and are having fun being a part of this web generation. Facebook has many uses and purposes, but for me it’s to stay in touch with people from my past or present. I don’t “friend” anyone I don’t know. I don’t comment and chat with friends as much as I should, but I appreciate that I can check-in on them and them me. I like to add pictures to share my life. I would love to use the applications to give my site more personality, but it’s not a necessity when I’m really there to visit with friends. I have a link to site, so it’s marketing on a teeny-tiny scale. I may pump that up a bit. If I ever had a different career path that warranted it, I would certainly take advantage of what can be done through these sorts of sites. Until then, I’ll stick to cyber stalking my friends and family!

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