May 21, 2006

  • EDIT ADD: 24 spoliers ahead (if you haven't watched the finale yet)

    24 was incredible. Absolutely incredible.
    Favorite parts from the finale (in no particular order):
    --The look on Logan's face when Jack takes off his helmet in the helicopter. Awesome.
    --The look on the 1st Lady's face when the secret service arrest Logan. Awesome again.
    --Jack getting Christopher Henderson. I think I yelped at that one.
    --Having Joe and Heidi over to watch it with us. I invited Mike, but he didn't want to come. Butthead.
    I'm not boycotting your blog, I'm just not commenting, or really reading all that closely. I can't in that tiny narrow little space you call a text box. But that's cool, Blogger must be pretty awesome. I guess you never tried going premium with xanga, you can do some pretty cool things...like...put cool backgrounds on your blog...and stuff...

    Although I'm not boycotting, I'm pretty sure the Southern Baptists are...your blog and Disneyland, again...hahaha...

    I'll take 60 comments any day. Word to all you commenters out there...

    Friday after work I took Nathaniel to the pool for a little while before dinner. This is important for several reasons:
    1) I don't like to take my shirt off in public, but I did.
    2) I don't usually go swimming because of the aforementioned reason and because I have a weird phobia about touching the bottoms of pools and lakes and other bodies of water, but I did.
    3) Because I did the above two things, Nathaniel's attitude about swimming changed. He went from not wanting to get into the pool at all and being afraid of even touching the water, to swimming laps with me while I was holding onto him--asking me to "give him another lesson!". This was super fun, and Nathaniel wants to go back again to learn some more stuff and get some more "lessons". It just showed me that my attitude significantly affects his outlook on life. It was pretty cool. Go Nathaniel.
    4) I got some water in my ear that will not go away. I can barely hear anything. I feel like I'm 70% deaf right now, not kidding. It's been a little frustrating, especially since I was supposed to work on arranging all day, and I have this huge road block. All of my projects were blasting...and it won't go away. Stupid water!! ARGH!

    In addition, we went out to go see The DaVinci Code last night, but it was sold out until the 10:45PM showing or something like that. So we decided to go to the other theatre nearby to see if we could get in to a showing at that one. But before we left the first theatre we saw this makeshift protestor guy. He was ridiculous. He was standing on a small rubbermaid stool, with a flip-chart on an easel, shouting nonsense and pointing to the nonsense on his easel. I couldn't really make sense of what he was saying, (pause: I'm a smart guy that is working on his Master's Degree and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Arts, and took 6 Bible courses at APU including one with Baloin--thank you very much--not to mention years of being in church and leadership. unpause) but I'm pretty sure it was that everyone was going to hell. Not just non-Christians, everyone. But like I said, it was hard to tell. We stood and watched in awe as he yelled at a bunch of Christian teenagers who were trying to argue against what he was saying, and I'm thinking to myself, boy--this guy is really missing his target audience. Many other thoughts also went through my head, but the strongest feeling I had was of sorrow. I felt sorry for this guy, who was sorely mistaken in believing what he was doing was making a difference to anyone.
    I just think the dumbest thing anyone can do is stand on a soapbox and yell at people to try and convince them of anything. I watched the people around me, and most of them passed by thinking the same thing I was--this guy is a kook. It was sad, just plain sad.

    Well, the other theatre was sold out too, so instead of DVC we went to see Over the Hedge. It was so well made, and hilarious. What a great combination of characters and voices. Steve Carell, William Shatner, Bruce Willis, Avril Lavigne (what!?) and Eugene Levy (plus some more, of course). I loved it, and I'm glad I got to see it before I took Nathaniel, 'cause he would've been talking to me the whole time, and I would have been like, "be quiet! this is funny!" So now I'll take him and have already seen it...Steve Carell was great as the squirrel...oh great movie!! Definitely worth it.

    24 season finale on Monday night (party at my place if you want to come).

    Nertz on Sunday night, you're also invited. Just let me know.

Comments (17)

  • The street outside the theater here was lined with protesters. I think I saw... nevermind, bad joke.

  • I can help you with your ear problem - take equal parts of hydrogen peroxide and alcohol and pour it in your ear. Let it bubble for about a minute. The alcohol will help dry out the water. If it doesn't get it the first time try a couple rounds.

  • You should try "swim-ear." I think it dissolves the water in your ear, or something like that. Makes cool fizzling noises. ;)

    Your story about the dude on the stool reminds me of those people who walk behind the Rose Parade with signs say that "God Is Angry" and other such things.

  • I typed my comment about 2 hours ago, and didn't realized that I hadn't pressed "submit" yet... So, I guess my advice for your ear is a but superfluous, now. :P

  • I tried some stuff, about 20 times...nothing worked yet. It stinks...

  • It is way to go Nathaniel, but also way to go Daniel!  Funny how kids pick up on our phobias and end up getting them.  Don't let the water in the ear thing get to ya either!

  • TONY ALMEIDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  • I would totally come play nertz, (even though I've never played it before) but I have a concert this evening. Handbells. A solo, even. So, yeah. Keep me in mind for the next time, though!!

  • Way to go Dad...it is all about attitude!

    >>I just think the dumbest thing anyone can do is stand on a soapbox and yell at people to try and convince them of anything.

    Oh so true!

  • Did the peroxide or Swim-Ear work? My sisters always get water in their ears when they swim and have had good luck with Swim-Ear. I hope something worked!! If not, just lie on that side for a really long time and let it trickle out. :)

  • He was wearing sandals.

  • that picture is too dark, and no, nothing's worked yet. We've tried a LOT of stuff.

  • Hey, quit boycotting my new blog. It's not nice. Or I'm going to start boycotting yours.

  • namedropper!

    water is so amazing and it is so fantastic to be able to teach your own children to enjoy it, to be comfortable in it, to learn how to motor through it using only their arms and legs, to be able to turn sommersalt,s to pretend your a dolphin or a mermaid (if you're a girl that's always so fantastic) to breath big bubbles under water.  To know it's okay to be scared and take it slow till you get confident and know that person will never try to push you under, but keep with you until you're ready to say to them "watch me swim"!

    it's probably the best time for memories i have with my children.  Billy was a waterdog.  Kristi was a mermaid.  Kenny took the longest to be comfortable in the water, but only because i made the mistake of taking him to swim lessons with a bunch of other people, and he totally didn't like it.   Once it was just "us" in the water, he was totally ready to try stuff.  now i can't call him back into shore when he's boogie boarding.  that can be scary for me. 

  • oh, and be careful about what you put into your ear.  i tried that kind of thing with billy when he was just a little guy.  it doesn't work.  best to see a doctor.  he'll probably stick a long skinny silver thing with a tiny ball at the end of it into your ear and pull out a gigantic ball of earwax.  eeeewwwooo

  • Whatever. Adios.

  • 24 just so happens to be the coolest thing ever. Amen.

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