Hold Dear

Movies.

Been spending some time just sitting lately. SO much going on in life right now and I am getting pretty good at recognizing when I need me some couch time. Time to lounge! During said lounge time, I watched a couple of movies. First one was Off the Map. I'd never heard of it but the box looked interesting so I thought I'd try it. Sam Elliot and Joan Allen were in it and it was WONDERFUL! I HIGHLY recommend it. Lovely and very thoughtful.

Then the other one was Little Manhattan. Bradley Whitford was the only actor in it that I recognized. This one was SO CUTE and SO SWEET. I just loved it! Glen saw it on one of his business trips awhile ago and he recommended it. I just got around to watching it and I am so glad I did. You will be too!

See ya laters.....

Movie Time.

We watched a couple of movies this weekend. Friday night the whole fam-damily went to out for sushi and went to see Ice Age II. It was okay. It was cute and funny here and there but not near as funny as the first, in my opinion. It just seemed like they threw in all the standard "formula" elements, i.e., love story, comedic morons, dance numbers. The best scenes were, of course, with Scrat. SO silly! Laughed big time at those scenes.

Then last night we watched "Everything is Illuminated" with Elijah Wood. It was very good. I liked the Ukranian translator character. "Pardon my English, it is not so premium." Just a very bittersweet story. There was one VERY disturbing scene in it though. Both Glen and I had to avert our tender little peepers.

We also have "The Squid and the Whale" which I'm hoping we'll get a chance to watch tonight.  Jeff Daniels is in this one and it sounds pretty good.

On the 24th of this month, we're going to switch to the Blockbuster's new deal of getting movies in the mail, ala Netflix. $9.99 a month and you get three movies at a time. We currently do the deal at Blockbuster where you can rent two movies at a time for $24.99 a month. We never switched to Netflix just because we tend to be very impulsive with what we want to watch. But for $10 a month and three movies, we gonna give this deal a go.

So it's 6:30 here and we're still lookin' at another two hours of daylight. I just LOVE this time of year when we first switch to daylight savings time. Love the sun!

See you later! Love youuuuu.....

Good Movie.

Glen and I watched a really good movie Monday evening. "Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" and it was a very nice movie. It was a story about this guy, Mark Bittner, who lives in San Francisco. He is this musician, non-comformist, optimistic, gentle spirit who was looking for something to do with his life when this flock of wild cherry-headed conures (green parrots) kind of find him. It's a very sweet, gentle story with a fun little ending -- there are a couple of sad parts because of the whole cycle of life thing -- but hang in there. When you watch the DVD, be sure to watch the update in the extras. There's a couple of good life lessons mixed in there too.

I highly recommend this movie and Renee, when we come visit you, we want to venture out and see if we can see any of these parrots!

Love ya...