I don't know if I'm ever going to catch up with my movie reviews. The list of "to be reviewed" movies is now 17 movies long and growing longer. I guess the writer's strike has got me watching a lot of movies on Netlflix and TiVo.

Well, I saw at least one movie per day over the weekend. It started off with the short Friday. My sister and I drove out to Orange to see The Savages. If you can deal with cursing and are anywhere near the age of when you'll have to start dealing with parents or grandparents and nursing homes, I would definitely recommend this one. Funny we should see that on the same night that we celebrated my grandma's birthday. We all went to the Cheesecake Factory and then had cake at my grandma's place. It was a nice time. I would have to say, though, that my (maternal) grandma is probably in better physical and mental condition than my dad, and she's eleven months older than he is. Dialysis is rough on him, although he's following all doctor instructions well. We have to talk to him like a kid a lot. Not sure if I mentioned it on here, but he hit another car recently, with no injuries. His car had to be given up, since insurance called it a total loss. We think he may finally be giving up his driving privileges when his license expires. He's stubborn, though, so it's too soon to say for sure.

Saturday we met up with our realtor in the morning to sign some paperwork. Everything's on time so far, assuming that the seller's bank completes all of its paperwork on time. So far it's been smooth sailing. Ric went off to work, so I sat at home watching a couple of Fred Astaire and Ginger Roger movies. I went over to my parents' to do laundry and played Wii with my sister. Later on, we walked a couple miles each way to have some Chinese for dinner and to get out of the house and get some exercise. That night, Ric joined us at the cheap theater to see Beowulf, which was a lot better than I had expected (but then again, my hopes hadn't been very high).

Sunday I got up early and met up with Liz for the first service at church. The music was so much better, but it certainly was early! I think I'll try going early a few more times and see if I can't make a habit out of it. I spent the morning watching tv and working on finances with Ric, and then in the afternoon we went to see There Will Be Blood. We watched a little bit of tv together until I went to take a nap and ended up sleeping for 15 hours. Guess I was tired!

Monday I slept in. I had plans to go to the cheap theater, but when I got there, the line was so long that I decided to skip it. So then I went to the park to go jogging, and after just one lap it started raining. Strike two! I ended up grocery shopping and getting home early. Since I had so much extra time with my day, I made up for the missed workout by playing Wii sports for over an hour. Boxing and tennis are great for cardio, if you do them right. Then I folded laundry, deep cleaned the bathroom, and scrubbed the kitchen floor while listening to the second half of the Brit Box, which is like living my youth all over again via CD. So much fun. It made me want to share with Erika, so I gave her a call and we chatted for a long time. After that, Ric and I went out to coffee, and when we came back I finally finished watching the first Thin Man movie (I TiVoed all of them), which I started about a month ago and kept getting distracted from. Oh, and I watched more of the Sarah Connor Chronicles, which was about 0.5% better this week, but still a mess.

Up this week: more cleaning of the house in preparation for leaving it! We're moving in a couple of weeks, so I'm trying to start ahead so I don't have to work as hard later on. We're selling our fridge to the landlord, since the new place comes with a fridge. I emailed him and he's going to discount our prorated February rent. I know he doesn't legally owe me anything, but I personally think he has nerve to charge us any rent for February, considering how much money he has put us in the hole. Oh well. No other big plans for the week, which is just what Ric wants.

Holy. Crap. Police are saying it's a possible drug overdose. This is just sad, especially in the wake of Brad Renfro's death. People die of drug overdoses every day but somehow it still doesn't get through to folks. I guess they think it won't happen to them or they just don't care. This definitely will make the release of The Dark Knight bittersweet.

Sorry, I've been away from the compy for quite a bit. I saw Cloverfield this weekend. I thought it was really good. Lots of people seem to be complaining about the hand held camera. This makes no sense to me because the trailer made it pretty clear that the movie would be filmed in this style so I don't know what these people were expecting.

Not much else going on. I've been hanging out with my friend Matt who is visiting from New York and is planning on moving out here. I had my first class of the Spring semester on Thursday. I think I'm going to have my work cut out for me this semester but I'm confident that I can handle it. I'm also working on my first web application using PHP and mySQL. It's sort of slow going because I've been so busy at work these days and now school is starting. Hopefully I will get it done sometime in the near future. I just thought it might be a good idea to do a project on my own to show to future employers and to demonstrate my abilities as a web developer.

Hope you folks all had a good weekend.