I’m feeling a little random today, so why not write a random post, filled with some of the things I’ve been mulling over for the past day or so? I could write three seperate posts, but I’m far too lazy for that. :lol
So we watched the Survivor finale last night. We DVR’d it on Sunday night so we could watch our Sunday ABC lineup. Of course, yesterday afternoon during a routine scan of the headlines on MyYahoo, I caught a headline about the finale, giving away the winner. Greeeeaaaaat. But I wanted to watch it anyhow. :)
It was good. I enjoyed it heartily. Ian continued his downward spiral into utter stupidity, culminating in perhaps the stupidest thing any survivor has ever done: after going 12 hours in an excrutiating endurance challenge, Ian gave up. Not just gave up because he thought Tom would take him to the final two. No, he wanted to give up with Tom’s promise he’d take Katie to the final two. :wtf I’m sorry, but that was just retarded.
Katie nearly surpassed Ian’s idiocy with some of her TC answers. TWOP says they were cruel to her and that is true, but if I know anything about the jury at the end of these deals, they aren’t always very sweet to the final two. I was in several unfortunate online Survivor games and ended up in the final two more than once. And being grilled by the jury was always the most soul-sucking moment of the entire game. I can’t even imagine how it compares in person.
However, Katie did not play a really good game, and they called her on that. She rode coattails and lazed around camp. A lot of the jury didn’t care for that and I could hardly blame them. So they chose Tom to win in what people are calling a “lopsided” vote. Frankly, I’m surprised Katie got the one vote. But it was from Coby so perhaps that explains it. :roll
Good season, all said and done. Will I watch the next one? Maybe, maybe not. We’ll see what the buzz says. ;)
So my cycle has neither ended nor begun. I am officially in limbo-land. Now, I trust that :bfn on Saturday was telling me the truth. So I don’t honestly think I could be pregnant. What seems more likely, actually, is that I’m willing AF to stay away. In hopes, of course, that I will be able to order my Clomid when she does finally rear her head. Who knows why. And who knows when I’ll be able to purchase some Clomid either. All this stalling could be for naught after all. Its all a timing game right now. I doubt I can will AF away for another two weeks until payday. ;)
The long awaited Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith comes out Thursday (or, more precisely, late late Wednesday night so it is actually officially Thursday morning.). We have tickets, of course, to see this monster come 12:30 pm Thursday afternoon. We bought these tickets off fandango.com weeks ago. H is *very* excited to see this movie. He plays with a lightsaber and Star Wars legos every day and is watching The Empire Strikes Back as I type this. The boy is into it.
But, it is rated PG-13. Now that the film has been released at Cannes, and more people have seen it and reviews are flooding the internet, more details about why the film got that rating are coming to light. As a parent, does this concern me? Sure it does! I’m very worried about taking him to see this movie. I don’t want him to be scarred in any way from it. On the other hand, he wants to see it so badly, he’s been waiting weeks for this. Do I think he can handle it? Yes, I do. Otherwise I wouldn’t take him. He’s seen other PG-13 movies before and he is very good about hiding his eyes at the appropriate moment. And I’ve warned him many times that he may have to hide his eyes a lot during this movie. He’ll respond with, “Like when Anakin falls in the lava, right?”
Right.
I read a review this morning that made the most sense of any review I’d read so far about this issue. This really does depend on the child. What terrifies one, may not terrify another. H has seen all of the Star Wars movies as well as all the Lord of the Rings movies. Lucas usually tones down the violence and from the review, that seems to be the case here as well. There are a lot of dark themes throughout this movie, but I’m sure most of those will go over my son’s head. He knows, already, the basic story of what will happen. Most importantly, he knows its make-believe. And if I feel for an instant that H is getting too scared or what is happening on screen is too intense, I will not hestitate to leave the theater with him until the “bad stuff” is passed.
I want him to have fun, most of all. I want him to be able to look back on this day, years down the road, and remember how much fun he had going to see this movie. I want this to be an experience for him, and a good one at that.
I’ll be giving my review on it either Thursday afternoon or Friday, let you all know how it went. Right now, I’m thinking its going to go great. :)
This is me. I'm a thirtysomething stay at home mom to three kids. For years I was a stay at home mom to one kid and trying very hard to have more. It took a LONG time (ie: 6 1/2 years), but finally Liam arrived and charmed us with his blue eyes and ginormous, round head. Then we got a shock: I was pregnant again and this time it was a GIRL. Our hearts and home are full at last and now that we're done having babies, we get to relax (snort) and watch them grow (not too fast now, you hear?). Thanks for coming by, feel free to dip into my archives, read my About and History pages (just don't do Jackson's Story without tissues!) and make yourself at home.
