Obama Happy

I can't even express the sense of relief I felt today when I woke up knowing we had a new President in America.

It just felt good.

DAMN good.


:D

Prop 8 is horrible

The Duchess

Chris and I went on a 'date' last Thursday and saw the movie called, 'The Duchess' starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes.

I had been wanting to watch it for some time now and had heard that the costuming was really good so I managed to get Chris to go with me. :)

Overall, this movie was top notch. The cinematography was really good I thought. But, the costuming definitely took the prize as did the overall screenplay. It was absolutely amazing to see the beautiful outfits they wore. They did a great job on that. The hair and makeup both were stunning as well.

I wasn't familiar with Georgiana's (the Duchess of Devonshire) story at all and I couldn't believe that someone lived through what she did. The movie was very hard to watch in some points. It made you sick to see some of what she went through and angry at the same time. It was just heart wrenching to see how Georgiana's life was led unbeknowst in her innocence. Ralph Fiennes did an excellent job of playing a horrible, terrible husband to Keira's beautiful, naive woman. Every man should see this movie to see how not to treat his wife. heh

Anyway, this is definitely a must see for anyone who likes a good, well costumed period piece. Honestly, I went to see it because Keira led the film and she is one of today's most beautiful woman imho. I know it's a good movie when Chris and I are still talking about it in the car on our way home. He really enjoyed it as well.

SIGH

GOSH

it's been forever since i've posted and that may be due to the fact that my internet was down for a whole week (god forbid i have no internet, but if you're used to having it, it sux when it's down).

but, alas, i have it back and can now post more blogs, but i just don't have too much to talk about!

UGH

i need to go do some Wii Fit now.

Time for hula hooping!

And in case you live under a rock and have never seen 'Why Every Guy Should Buy Their GF Wii Fit':

our economy

it feels like the beginning of the end.

where is the light at the end of the tunnel?
where is the greener grass on the other side?
where is the knight in shining armor?

this certainly is no fairytale because i don't
see us having a happily ever after...

so much to say... so little time....

we made it through the hurricane.

we're not in Houston anymore for the time being and should be back soon (unfortunately).

we still have no power as of Friday night (the night of my last blog) and don't know when it will be back on.

there's so much to say about this whole situation, but i don't have time or internet resources to put it all down at the moment...

to sum it all up; Hurricane Ike SUCKED.

pics and story to come later.......

The Calm Before the Storm

Waiting for the storm to come is not too bad. The weather is actually nice outside; slight breeze, sunny. I guess this is what they call the 'calm before the storm.' I had to go back to Kroger to get a few more grocery items. They were open which was cool and there was a lot of people there shopping which put my mind at ease that we are def not the only ones who have stayed behind. My mom called this morning a tad freaked out that we didn't evacuate, but the city has told our county to 'shelter in place.' I would think that if we needed to evacuate, then they would've told us to do so.

When Hurricane Rita came, it was just a nightmare since everyone tried to leave all at the same time. Since then, the city has come up with a good evacuation plan and so far it seems to be working. The higheways are pretty clear, so if we do still decide to leave, we won't have a repeat of our horrific trip to Austin during Rita.

What we are expecting is a lot of rain and wind. It's just going to be a very bad storm tonight in to tomorrow morning. We do plan on losing power, but not for too long. We do hope that our neighbors trees don't cause damage to our house. Luckily we managed to park both cars in the garage last night, so we feel those are safe from harm. We don't have any rooms without windows, however, so if it gets too crazy, we plan to close all of our bedroom doors and stay in our hallway or just go to the garage. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.....


Now we just wait.................................