CRAZY WEEKEND

I haven't posted for the past two days because of our birthday party and a couple other reasons that I will go into later on in this post.

Birthday: Had a wonderful time. Thom, Kathy, Lil'Man and Matthew came out to our house. Mom made home made pizza that was extraordinary, and we watched "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time". Now I'm not a big Jake Gyllenhaal fan, I thought he was pretty good in the movie "Day After Tomorrow" and I've never seen Brokeback Mountain. I was seriously disappointed in one major part of this movie, and that is that they have a Caucasian playing the role of a Persian. His acting was fine, I just couldn't get past the fact that they made this, what is to me, MAJOR whooopsie... Thom says that it was because he looked like the character in the game, but I have to disagree. Now I've not played the game, but from the pictures I Googled, I find someone with exotic features who is obviously not Caucasian. So I dunno, I might be over reacting, but I guess I'm just fed up with Hollywood doing whatever they want with whatever they want without regard. The movie has some incredible special effects, which are at times confusing when they are happening, but are explained later on. Then, following the movie, we had strawberry birthday cake, which was awesome. Unfortunately we did give Nathan some, and he had no interest in going to sleep despite the lateness of the hour. He was very cute eating the icing though.  Matthew went home late Saturday evening, Thom and Kathy stayed the night.

Sunday we watched "Where the Wild Things Are" with Nathan. I really enjoyed the movie, though I don't remember the story from my childhood. The movie was very strange, but I found that I enjoyed it when everyone else thought it was bad. I don't know why I liked it so much, as I've always liked the monsters in the book, I thought they were really well done in the movie. Carol, the most popular of the monsters, and Max were great. I don't remember much of the other monsters, and they too were good, but there was something about the friendship between Max and Carol that I really identified with. After the movie, Thom and Kathy and Lil'Man went home. I dozed off in the recliner watching TV, and woke like one or two in the morning and couldn't get back to sleep. I did some WOW'ing and Facebook updates through the morning till about three in the afternoon when I laid down for a nap. I had no idea where the time went.

I was awoken at 7pm with a call from Thom. Kathy had been in a car accident (She's fine, Praise God Almighty) however their van radiator was smashed into the frame of the van, and has to be repaired. Thom was calling to see if I could come out and get them and they would spend the night at our house again and I would take them to work this morning. So, it's been an eventful few days... and while I deeply felt the loss of my time spent in the Word, I was happy to do them this morning with Mom and Nathan. 

I do have news on the employment front. I put in an application to Family Video here in Lindenhurst on Grand Avenue. I have to return Diana's call from yesterday. She is the manager of the Family Video, and she called while I was napping and had already left for the day when I woke. I'm excited about the prospect of finally getting back to work. I wish I had spent my time off more productively, but I'm putting the cart before the horse.

I need to re-arrange my room before I go back to work, or at least make some strides in that direction. The East wall needs a baseboard to cover the half inch gap between the wall and the floor. The dampness from the crawlspace is mildewing my legal cabinet, and my comic trunks are on that wall as well. I haven't decided on a layout yet, which I guess is my first step. I would like to put our desks back in the frontroom, but with the current furniture that we have, I don't see that as a possibility. I don't know at this point. I guess we'll see.

I will write more later, hopefully I'll be meeting with Diana today, and I'll have that update as well as my devotional posting.