This, That and Then Some
Today I dropped out of my online classes. I wasn't finding the time for them and I really found them boring.... What I really want to do is Computers. They wouldn't let me switch my major; so I cancelled out of my currrent study and will sign up for the computers ones at a later time. I want to pay off the bill first. I actually thought they would make me pay for the whole semester, but they didn't - they prorated it out. So Polt, you won't be proctoring for a while (but I will need you at some point).
Diet is still going well. Yesterday I felt like I was starving the whole day, and though I ate more than planned; I was still within my daily intake. Today I had to force myself to eat. Can't figure it out!!
CC - we really need to see "Avatar". Everyone keeps telling me it's a "must" for the special effects alone and they all highly recommend to pay extra and see it in 3D. So a trip to the mall must be forthcoming..... and yes, you ARE going.
Thinking of movies...the theatre CC and I always loved going too and that closed down last fall (for the umpteenth time); is being renovated and reopening in the Spring. Because the building is being leased by a Church (they hold their services there), the company that is going to run the theatres (a company owned by a church member) has opted not to show "R" rated movies. I have some mixed feelings about that. Probably alot of the movies we see aren't "R" rated, but there are those that are and though I somewhat understand their reasoning; I also see it as a version of censorship (book burning). Why can't *I* make that decision? They seem to have a lot of things planned but insist that it will be "affordable"; but I can't see that happening. I don't know if the renovations will be enough to compete with the mall.
Tomorrow I'm leaving work early and Cooper and I are heading to a vaccine clinic at Petco. It'll be a long wait in line and I want to be near the front.
Diet is still going well. Yesterday I felt like I was starving the whole day, and though I ate more than planned; I was still within my daily intake. Today I had to force myself to eat. Can't figure it out!!
CC - we really need to see "Avatar". Everyone keeps telling me it's a "must" for the special effects alone and they all highly recommend to pay extra and see it in 3D. So a trip to the mall must be forthcoming..... and yes, you ARE going.
Thinking of movies...the theatre CC and I always loved going too and that closed down last fall (for the umpteenth time); is being renovated and reopening in the Spring. Because the building is being leased by a Church (they hold their services there), the company that is going to run the theatres (a company owned by a church member) has opted not to show "R" rated movies. I have some mixed feelings about that. Probably alot of the movies we see aren't "R" rated, but there are those that are and though I somewhat understand their reasoning; I also see it as a version of censorship (book burning). Why can't *I* make that decision? They seem to have a lot of things planned but insist that it will be "affordable"; but I can't see that happening. I don't know if the renovations will be enough to compete with the mall.
Tomorrow I'm leaving work early and Cooper and I are heading to a vaccine clinic at Petco. It'll be a long wait in line and I want to be near the front.
Aw, and I was so looking foward to the proctorationing...
As for the theater, yeah it ticks me off too. not because of censorship, because the govt's not doing it, and you still get a choice of which theater to go to.
I'm torked cause of the hypocracy. They'll not show R, presumably because as good Christians they'd never want to see an R movie or worse. And yet, there was a movie a few years ago with Harrison Ford as a guy who slept with a lady, her daughter AND her mother. It was a 'romantic' comedy. Is that subject REALLY something a 'good Christian' should see?
or what about the JLo movie where she was a wedding planner and ended up meeting and stealing Matthew McConnohey (sp?) from his own bride so the two of them could be together? Is THAT a 'good Christian' value?
And what about that Mel Gibson flick, with all the blood and violence in it, the Passion Of The Christ? It had more blood and violence than many 'R' rated movies, and yet I'm sure the theater would show it.
Yet what about a movie like the 'R' rated Brokeback Mountain, which had NO blood (other than a bloody nose) and no violence that I can recall in it and was Academy award nominited several times over? We all know THAT would NEVER get shown in this particular theater.
instead of going the no 'R' route, they SHOULD be saying, "We'll only show movies that appeal to Christians who think we do." I wouldn't have an issue with it then, no hypocracy involved there.
Course I still wouldn't go to the theater anyway.
HUGS...
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