sunset today

[likethebeer]

4:29 pm. We've had 9 hours & 1 minute of daylight today. And it's sunny, too.

I watched girly film #2 today: My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Now, really, is that any surprise? Actually, it was 1 of the more promising 1s in the store. god knows I'm not going to go for Tuck Everlasting. I never saw it before. Andrea Martin is a wonderful actress. It was a nice little movie. i hear it made a horrible tv show, though.

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daylight today

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

it's snowy and gray here,..i was hoping to get some daylight tonite,.. but i was told they were out,..o.0

Re: daylight today

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

yeah, it's a long way to the south pole for some daylight this time of year =O

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

there's one that I enjoyed, and I don't think it suffered for the wait.
sometimes I see movies that have been built up as being 'so good' 'so funny' 'so scary', etc., by the time I get around to seeing it, it's not what I was expecting at all, and I end up disappointed. I just thought this one wasn't overdone. and I love a good home-ly (or down-to-earth, or plainjane, whatever you call it these days) girl-gets-the-guy story.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

That's the way we felt about--gasp!--Shrek. We kept hearing how it deserved an Oscar for best movie of the year, and mda's mother & sister were insisting we had to see it, and how wonderful it was. It was ok. There were some inspired moments. The animation was v.good. That's about it, for us. We weren't bowled away (I felt the same way about Forrest Gump. I don't think that that movie was the best of its year).

"home-ly (or down-to-earth, or plainjane"--I like frumpy, myself. I think 1 of my boyfriends called me that once. He broke up w/me about a month later. Oddly enough, he was actually a really nice guy, aside from the frumpy remark.

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

there aren't words to describe how I felt upon finally seeing 'something about mary'. after dozens of friends told me about it and amy backed it up, I saw it as a rental at home. ho hum. but I did like cameron diaz' performance in shrek. I'm a fan of the pixar and pixar-like films, though. shrek 2 wasn't as good, and I just saw ice age and had a few problems with it, but I'm generally in awe of that genre.

I still get teary watching the way we were.
frumpy is as frumpy does, forrest.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Pixar's good. _Monster's, Inc._ is still a favorite.

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

monsters inc and both toy story movies
are on my amazon must-have reminder list

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

I've learned not to trust all that talk, especially if it comes from my mom. livsmama and I have very different taste in movies, also.

My favorite girly movie is "The Farmers Daughter" starring Joseph Cotten and Loretta Young. "It Should Happen To You" starring Judy Holliday and Jack Lemmon is second.

Hey, I thought all your boyfriends were jerks!

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

mda's tastes when he goes to the gas station for movies [we don't have anything in our town like a good video store, even the video store] are centered on aliens, robots, spaceships, and comic book characters. Some of that can be a good thing, but sometimes he picks up movies that have been univerally panned. He doesn't like to read reviews.

Andy, the guy of the frumpy remark, was one of two, I'd say, who wasn't a jerk. We dated for 5 months. He broke up w/me b/c he wasn't in love w/me. But he never lied, and later on I realized that he was one of the few decent ones I'd ever met. Of course, that totally screws me up that the 1 relationship w/a decent guy doesn't end up in at least a little bit of falling in love.

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

Hey, robots!

Sigh, I say to your tale of Andy. Now I want to know who guy #2 was.

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

The other guy was Phil, who had the misfortune of being my "1st boyfriend." I was a junior in high school.

He was attracted to me when we were friends and I was myself, but once we started dating, I subjected him to an expectation of all of the visions I'd picked up over the years of what boyfriends do. Give their girlfriends little stuffed bears to commemorate their 4 week anniversaries; call them all the time, stuff like that. When he didn't do those things, I was horribly confused. My friend SB has kept in touch w/Phil over the years, and I've asked SB at least twice to apologize to Phil for me for saddling him with all of my preconceptions. I just didn't know what I was in for.

mmm--I should mention that mda should be in the list of a decent guy, but he's in a different category. I'm thinking of the past.