Archive for October, 2006
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Who’s Voice is in it
Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci
Should you see this movie?
I think so. It was funny, heartwarming, bitter, and surprising all in one. I think there may be a lot of different cliches wrapped up in a different setting in this movie, but I think both Hathaway and Streep did an awesome job, and it was an entertaining movie. It’s like one big long cat fight, but with wounds a little more deep, and with fashion men. None of the stars are first rate so you may not go to just see one of them, but it is fun for the guys to see Hathaway go from a regular girl next door to a real hottie by the end of the movie.
29th October 2006
Sarah got up and took the kids to church to prepare, and then she came back and got me, and we went back for the service. We got out pretty quick after the service because I had to start packing, and we needed to get some things as well before 1 pm. We were running around like mad, and we even made time to go to the mall and buy me a new pair of jeans to replace the POC pair I had from Penny’s that ripped in two pieces in the crotch area, and I only had them for one year. I don’t like paying for Gap jeans, but they are pretty good quality, so I may need to stick with that from now on.
We had to pick up my boss at 1:00, got there a little late. He has a very beautiful home, very large.
We got to the airport with plenty of time, I said a tearful goodbye to Sarah for the week, and we were off.
I am writing this all, now that I am back. I can’t really talk too much about my trip since it is all business related, but I can talk about my day on Saturday when I got to take a look around the city of Melbourne.
28th October 2006
We woke up later because of how late we were up, so we had to rush around a little to get ready. We switched cars with the Johnsons at Rick’s party, so we had the van to head up to the northside. We took out all the seats, and then headed up around 11:30 or so. We were going up to Westfield to pick up a new dishwasher for Sarah and the kitchen. I had found a lady in the classifieds that was trying to sell a kitchen as a set, a double set of appliances that they got by accident when they moved and had to sell off. It had never been used, brand new, so we thought it would be a good deal.
Sarah hadn’t been in the process, so when we got there, she looked it over, and then asked if they could do a little better on the price. We ended up getting it for $275 brand new, so pretty decent deal, and we won’t have to worry about it working or not. Then we headed over to Zionsville to look at an Entertainment Center deal I found in the paper also. It is a nice piece of furniture, but huge, and would never fit in the basement and I will need help to even move it, two people won’t be able to do it more than likely. So, even though we had planned to use the van for that as well, it wasn’t going to work out on this trip, so maybe the second weekend in November.
Since we were on the northside, we had to stop at Chipotle and split a burrito for lunch, yum. The trip to get home just seemed to take forever though, and it wasn’t until 3 pm or so that we got back.
I then spent the rest of the day trying to figure out how to put the thing in. Wasn’t too hard I suppose, but a lot of stuff I am not used to, and laying on my side was highly irritating, and working in tiny spaces makes my blood boil a little. In the end, I did get it in, by around 7 pm or so.
We had a little dinner, and then I went up to the school and swapped cars back with Johnsons. There was a concordia band in for the night, and we were supposed to be hosting some students, four actually, all college guys. You never know what you get with College guys from Concordia that are in Band, but they seemed like nice enough guys. However, I was extremely ticked at the band, because someone that was in charge of the tour essentially required that we pack a lunch for every student. They didn’t ask, they put it in a way that was quite offensive to me. I ended up writing an email to the school about it, because this was not stewardship. It was never a money thing for us, but a manners thing. We probably would have sent food with them anyway, but when someone makes it seem like it is required after you open your home, and use a night of your precious weekend to get four big college guys and open your home to them, it just didn’t sit right in how a Christian organization should be. But Concordia has always been a racket, so to some extent I expect no less.
All of the running around during the day, and the frustration really tired me out, so Sarah and I went to bed early at about 11:00, tomorrow was a big day.
27th October 2006
It was a good day. I left work a little early because of our little trip coming up to Australia, so I had intentions of going to the gym since it was only 1:00 pm, but that didn’t end up happening. I came home, relaxed a little bit, watched part of a movie, but made a ton of calls for tomorrow arranging plans and such.
When Sarah got home, we got ready and headed over to Rick Kerr’s house. There was going to be a little party that was also a surprise gift shower for him, his daughter just had their first child earlier in the day perfectly coinciding with the plans. It had been in the works awhile to give him some stuff to be a more prepared grandpa, so it just worked out perfectly that she was born on the day of the party. It was fun, we don’t get together enough with the faculty anymore it seems. When we first came down it seemed like more times a year, but maybe it wasn’t, I don’t know, I just know that every time we get together I just hope that it goes for awhile, even though I know eventually people will retire and the makeup will change. I just hope it stays the same.
Everyone was curious about my Australia trip. I was more than content to not speculate though and just hear about what was going on with other people, instead I really heard more about little kid gossip than anything else.
After the party we headed quick over to the Styf’s to check out the end of Rachel’s candle party. It was only briefly, because Kenny and Laurie were coming over to enjoy some wine, and Kenny and I were going to play video games.
All of that fun commenced a little later than I expected, but it was still fun. We played the game all night, watched the Tigers lose for the final time and wrap up the series, and the girls stayed upstairs for awhile and talked. Eventually we all started a movie and that is when we started to pass out around 3:00 am. We didn’t intend it to be that late, just too much stuff planned for one night.
26th October, 2006
Tonight I put in the new light fixture that I bought to work in the game. I went to Menards to get one, I was pretty sure they wouldn’t have a matching bulb for the one already there and they didn’t. When I took out the old one, it was stapled down to the cab, and pretty tight for slack, but with the new fixture, I have no problem with that. I can plug it into the receptical and have no issue. It looks pretty awesome lit up finally.
26th October 2006
Another busy day hitting deadlines at work. But I was able to come home earlier in the afternoon and relax a little. I sat down and started to watch a movie, but I also talked Justin, Christine, and the Grubbs. Sarah came home at a reasonable time, and we chatted some about the day. Then I went downstairs and worked on the R-Type a little, installing the new light fixture I got and tacking down the wires to the inside. As of right now, it is finished, but I have it wheeled out still into the room to use it for testing of my Mame setup.
Got to play the game for awhile while we watched the baseball game. Stupid Tigers, what did I say? They ended up losing it on errors, that is what is the most frustrating. So now, they have to win three games to take the series, and that is not likely. I hope they learn this time around and can do it again soon. The young pitchers and their errors and other mistakes, and some of the hitters especially Granderson and Polanco. They look like a broken record, they swing at so many sweeping curve balls and fastballs up and in (respectively) that it’s embarrassing.
25th October 2006
What a day. Worked about 10 hours, but it flew by because I was so busy, big day tomorrow too. After I left work around 6:45, I went to the gym for a hard workout. When I got home I didn’t feel like doing much of anything, watched part of a movie, talked with my parents, and then watched LOST when it came on because the Tigers game appears to be rained out for tonight. Hopefully that will be a good thing and work in their favor, but hopefully I won’t miss any of the games this weekend.
24th October 2006
Class today went ok, getting to the school is killing me with construction at the Washington street exit. I don’t think I will even be on time to my funeral, but this makes things worse. There was only one of the two students I am working with, teaching graphics, so I sat and worked with her for the whole class and she did really well.
After class I had to run an errand and return some movies Sarah got for last Friday before I headed into work, which made my day longer. The day was busy, lots of stuff to do for tomorrow, and it appears I may be taking a little trip very soon, so I had some preparation to do for that.
Got home and quick took care of some things, ate some dinner, and then Sarah and I ran out to the BMV to get updated address changes. We thought we’d get a sticker like Michigan, but in a state that has to have it’s own time zone since the dawning days of corn, stickers just don’t cut it. The state needs more money and instead issued us completely new cards with the updated info. It took longer than we wanted, so once again, late in getting to the movie.
Got home and watched the ball game as the Tigers lose game 3 to the Cardinals and go down 2-1. They need to rock Suppan, they can’t wait until the game after. They messed up in losing at home in game 1, so now if they don’t win tomorrow I think they are toast. They aren’t the Red Sox, the have a solid lineup, but no stand outs that can just win a game all by themselves.
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