Because of you!

Welcome to my page! I was inspired by a co-worker today to finally create a blog, so here we are. You can access her page by clicking my title, I belive. Still getting used to this.

My hopes and dreams for this page are to share my thoughts on music, art, movies, food, relationships, and well, pretty much anything that strikes my fancy.

My fiance', Jonathan (affectionately called Baby, who is currently rocking out to "On the Road Again" on Guitar Hero: World Tour to promote our band, TheHeys), suggests for my opening post to piss and moan about our disappointment with Angels and Demons (the movie). Now, I'll give my take on things. I didn't read the book, so my disappointment truthfully stems from how much it didn't stack up to The DaVinci Code (movie). I'm so completely gullible, which is why I'm a perfect candidate for folklore, urban legends and conspiracy theories. The obvious typically alludes me as well, making the most predictable movies fair game. Having noted those two things about my movie-going personality, Angels and Demons was a total disappointment.

*SPOILER ALERT* Do not continue if you have not seen the movie and/or might be upset if you discover some of the plot!!! ...

So yeah, as soon as Ewan McGregor walked on the stage, I knew he was the bad guy. I can NEVER predict that stuff. I'm normally an edge-of-the-seater through the cheesiest of romantic comedies! Not only did I know he was the bad guy, I knew he was going to be manipulative and play the victim. That disappointed me. I wanted the creepy, stiff old man to be the bad guy with all my might! Honest! Jon's biggest complaint, as others who have read the book, is that they leave out so much and totally change the events and underlying plot. Total bummer.

Okay, in my attempts to be a more positive person, because complaining comes all too naturally for me, I'll highlight the good parts. I totally loved the history of the Illuminati that was infused along with the Catholic church. History never ceases to amaze me. It doesn't take much, to be honest, but how things were/are/can be so secretive to the public realm amazes me. Being so gullable (with a hint of paranoia at times), I sometimes wonder if someone is yanking my leg as we speak! The government has always hidden things from the people. Most probably for the greater good, but nonetheless, it gets you thinking. I digress!! (As I often will, I apologize in advance!) Okay, so good points... the main chick was totally cute. Tom was looking pretty good too. The pool scene was neat. Wonder if that was really him swimming?...

Enough of the mushy gushy. Overall, on a scale of 1-10, this movie gets a 5.7.

Tomorrow I am attending the funeral of one of my former student's baby that passed this past weekend. That will be tough. I never got to meet the little guy. Lord be with the family during this hard time! Especially Rosy and the father!

R.I.P. Corbin

Tomorrow also marks the final day of school for our students. Friday is our last mandated day. We are going to the Sports Emporium in Mechanicsburg and the negative Nancy in me is not looking forward to this at all. Maybe it's because I have a terrible headache and the thought of screaming teenagers and flashing lights right now might kill me.

So, I think this will suffice for now. Good night!

Upcoming May/June events (not in order):
*Reading A Thousand Splendid Suns through a school summer book club
*Canada/New York trip with gram
*Gram staying with me for numerous weeks
*Vacation Bible School
*Two summer graduate classes
*Teaching my summer enrichment class: Career Explorations
*Appreciating the decision to postpone the wedding until next June