Friday was my birthday. Not the best of the best. However, Saturday was much better. Zoe made me breakfast, Rob and Zoe watched the dog all day and Rob and I went to see the Transformers movie.
Loved the movie! Loved, LOVED! Well, loved the blow-em-up stuff. The excellent, creative, realistic-seeming battles and computer animations. As Rob observed: it was a good movie once the talking stopped. Meaning of course that the writing was targeted to the loudly braying 18-24 year-olds next to us, but the the battles were soul enhancing in their beauty, realism and creativity. The main actor was very good at portraying a smart, somewhat manipulative teenager, although the female lead was too pretty. Maybe it was just that they tended to shoot her through a yellowish filter that seemed to stylize her face slightly. One thing, they allowed her and the kid to have pimples--a touch of realism which I marveled at.
Sunday we went to see the 7/11 that was decked out to be like a Quickie Mart from the Simpson's Movie. The trip up was sort of stressful for Zoe--she drove. Liz, Hai Tu and Scarlet got there at 3:30 (they were all supposed to meet at 4) and called, giving her a hard time. It was raining, there was traffic and we didn't get there until 4:30. So, from the girl's perspective it wasn't really worth the effort. I expected it to suck way more than it did so I was fairly happy.
They covered the front of the store with a cartoon front; replaced the outside sign with a Quickie Mart sign and most of the inside signs with joke signs. There were stand ups of the main characters all around the store and they sold Buzz cola, Krustie-O's and the huge, cartooney pink iced doughnuts from the advertisments for the movie. I bought Zoe, Mary, Scotty, Rob and myself a doughnut; some Krusty-O's and Buzz Cola for Christmas presents.
Afterwards, we went to Checkers for dinner and they all came home and hung out. Liz and Hai Tu went home, and Scarlet, Scotty, Mary and Zoe watched movies. Darwin and I crashed! I'm still tired today for some reason.
I've been making paper wands. Why? I dunno.
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