Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya...

"You killed my father. Prepare to die."

I will give you three guesses what movie I watched with my grandparents this evening. But I'm getting ahead of myself...

My day has been long but very enjoyable. Jack and Brenda are visiting today and tomorrow. I spent my morning helping dad move Christmas trees and decorations back to the shed (finally!). Everything was piled on the back porch.

Jack and Brenda didn't make it into Poplar Bluff until 2 PM, so my parents and I went for BBQ at Spencer's. I hadn't had BBQ in quite some time, so I really enjoyed that.

I've laughed so much today! We always have a blast every time they come to visit. We spent much of the afternoon running around. We went to Rowland Stollen Bakery and got stollens for breakfast in the morning. Went to Walmart and got a 12 pack of Pepsi - a necessity when there are Gillespies around. :)

Tonight was the middle-agers' dinner/movie night at church, so Mom, Dad, Jack, and Brenda all went and ate lasagna and watched Mamma Mia! I'm so glad I didn't have to watch it. What can make a chick flick worse??? Answer: ABBA music!

So I ended up at the grandparents' house. We ordered pizza and watched The Princess Bride on their new 52" HD LCD tv. I couldn't believe they had never seen such a classic movie!

Time for me to call it a night though. Church in the morning.

Peace.

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giving blood

Well, I've decided to give blood today. It will be my first time, but I want to do it... just for the heck of it. They're doing a blood drive at the college today, and I'm participating. Usually I just ignore it, but not today. This sign convinced me...



Haha...

Anyway, needless to say, The Dark Knight was amazing! I really think Heath Ledger did an outstanding job with his portrayal of The Joker as a truly maniacal, psychopathic, deranged murderer. Very, very well played.

Tonight is the MAD Camp performance at church. I'm really looking forward to that, as I do every year.

Let's see... in other entertainment news... I watched Scream for the first time earlier this week. I didn't have extremely high expectations for it; therefore, I was not disappointed. :-) I actually enjoyed it in spite of the fact that everyone in the world except for me saw it at least ten years ago. Not the best acting ever, but find me a slasher that does contain great acting and I'll kiss your foot. I thought the ending was actually fairly well done, and not totally predictable.

The other night, I was waiting to go to Blythe's for her birthday dinner, and I stopped at Hastings just to pass some time. Now, I have never enjoyed anime. This stems from my deep-seated hatred for Dragonball Z and Pokémon, two of the most over-sensationalized piles of crap ever to grace American boob tubes. I never caught onto the whole playing card/trading card craze, and I consider it to be ridiculously boring; this is why I've always looked down my nose at anime. Well, I decided to look around at Hastings that evening, and I saw a manga entitled Death Note. I picked it up and read the cover, and lo and behold... hey this has a plot -- a good plot that doesn't involve stupid little cards with stats on them!! By the time Blythe called me to tell me to come over, I was 150 pages into this manga, and I didn't want to put it down. I didn't get a chance to go back to Hastings for two more days, but I went as soon as I could. I finished the manga, and went to the anime section... There it was -- Death Note on DVD... Oh yeah... Rented volume one, watched all four episodes on it that night... and craved more. I'm dying to know what happens next. This story really sucks you in, and I'm afraid it may just start an endless love affair between me and well written anime and manga. We shall see. I kinda knew that it was out there, but I avoided it because I didn't want to be associated with Dragonball Z and Pokémon. I will simply have to tell people that I'm a fan of good anime!

Lisa just loaned me a Ted Dekker book called Blink. I hope it will be a quick read. Here's another thing I try to avoid -- Christian fiction. So, I kinda want to read this, but I also kinda don't. Not that I'm anti-Christian by any stretch of the imagination -- I'm just anti-poor-writing. I'm going to go give it a chance. Will post more later.

The Dark Knight

Well folks, Heath Ledger's legacy, the movie that drove him to the edge of insanity, was released today to much critical acclaim. I am quite anxious to see it, and would have gone to a midnight showing if I could have. Alas, it was not meant to be. In fact, I probably won't get to see it until Sunday at the earliest. Tonight my parents have a wedding rehearsal and dinner to attend, and tomorrow is the wedding. I'm not involved, so I could go, but I don't want to have to go twice... heck, yeah I do, but I'm going to wait for them anyway... Just cause I'm a nice guy. I definitely want to see it as soon as possible though! Could he possibly have out-performed the one -- the only -- Jack Nicholson?! We shall see.