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[chestnutcurls]

Happy late birthday, Lauren! I'm sorry I forgot to get on and wish you a happy day. I'm glad it was good. :)

I've been on LJ for two and a half years, and I have never seen so much going on with my LJ friends as I have these last couple of weeks. Life-changing events are apparently the order of the day. It amazes me (in good and bad ways) how God works.

I'm having one of those missing-Florida episodes. On Saturday I listened to my Gloria Estefan CD for a while and then ate a mango. That's as close to the beach as I can get right now. LOL.

This weekend was good. I easily finished everything on my to-do list, which I think was an act of divine intervention. On Friday night a bunch of us went to see Van Helsing, which we all agreed was hilariously awful. Best line:

Friar: You're supposed to die.
Frankenstein's Monster (hanging precariously off bridge): But I want to live!
Friar: Okay. (helps)

Afterward we stood outside the theater making fun of the movie, and I laughed so hard I couldn't breathe. Good times. On Saturday night, after a nice dinner at my parents' and dessert at Sonic, my mom took Debs and I to a local church production of You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown. For an amateur production, it was pretty impressive. Besides, it's probably my favorite play - if I could choose a musical to be in, that would be it! I spent the night at my parents' and then went to church with them in honor of Mother's Day. They sang "Jesus, What A Friend For Sinners," which pleased me because they've never been much for hymns there. Evan and Ryan met us at Shogun (a Benihana knockoff) for lunch, and we all had a good time. Evan says our pastor did a great sermon on marriage, so I was disappointed- I haven't gotten to hear a marriage talk with Evan since we started dating. :P Oh well. We spent the afternoon at the house, playing Ping-Pong and Scattergories and kicking a beach ball around in the backyard. I'm so glad my sister is back, though I'm afraid she's going to get very bored. She's only working two days a week all summer. That sounds great to me, but logically I know that after a while, I wouldn't know what to do with myself.

Okay, that's enough.

Comments

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Yes...it was truly sad.

[anulyra.livejournal.com]

She can come take you to lunch every day. ;)

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's not a bad idea. I wanted her to come to lunch with me today, but she turned me down last night because she was "not hungry." Twelve hours before the actual lunch. :P :)

[anulyra.livejournal.com]

Dork! ;)

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

:) No, that's just how she is. She's a little Phoebe-ish sometimes.

[yakk0dotorg]

the best line in Van Helsing was
Dracula: Why do you torture that creature?
Igor: It's what I do.

[yakk0dotorg]

i forgot to add that I thought it was a pretty good movie myself, but I'm easy to please movie-wise.

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

LOL

[thetenthshadow.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Van Helsing simply because I knew it wasn't trying to be Shakespeare... :P I thought david "Faramir" Wendham stole the show as the Friar...he was just priceless. but yeah, hokey plot, bad dialogue... :)

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Hey, I didn't even recognize Faramir! What is wrong with me? He seemed taller in LOTR.

[thetenthshadow.livejournal.com]

I think he was taller, actually...or he stooped a lot in this role!

[follow-through.livejournal.com]

Mom wanted to see "Van Helsing" this weekend. I was like, "Um, no thank you." It does seem kind of corny. I just can't dish out $10 for it.

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Don't. I'm so serious. Go see Mean Girls instead.

[aftondays.livejournal.com]

rofl...that is a great line. We saw Van Helsing on Friday night and it was fairly bad, but not as bad as I expected. I'd seen so many horrible reviews of it that I was thinking it would be much worse than it was. hee hee

I know what you mean about so much stuff happening with LJers lately. Some good, some bad...

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Yeah, none of us had seen any reviews, so we were all still expecting something on par with Underworld. Oops. :)

[sabrespawn.livejournal.com]

My birthday was saturday. Does the pic help you remember? Good grief it is such a bad one.

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

I'm still drawing a blank...sorry! :(

[sabrespawn.livejournal.com]

Ok, that didnt work. It was supposed to be a pic of me. I tell you what, read my bio, check my pic in my user pics, and if you are still clueless, I will tell you.

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Sorry...I'm still not sure! You look familiar but I don't know what classes we had together or anything.

[angelic-1.livejournal.com]

I have yet to see "You're a good man Charlie Brown" Wouldn't have a clue what it was about. Hmmm
AS for marriage sermons - yes I have the same problem, everytime there is one it seems either Geoff is on sound so we are not sitting together which makes things different or for one reason of another one of us isn't there to hear it. We do listen to focus on the family a bit though so I guess that makes up for it.

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

It's just about the Peanuts characters (Charlie Brown, Snoopy, etc.)- basically a bunch of the strips brought to the stage and interspersed with original songs. :) There was a Broadway revival in 2001 and I have the CD. It's awesome.

[angelic-1.livejournal.com]

I figured it would be about peanuts - I was never really in to them much - oh I am such a sinner I know! hehe. I always wondered why Charlie was such a push over and snoopy seemed to do all his thinking for him!

[jazzypoet.livejournal.com]

Aw! You should come back to Florida someday. :-) *hugs*