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[kimana517]

Yay for a normal post!

+ Our Halloween night was fun, but felt nothing like Halloween. We had fun though.

+ Saturday morning we woke up early to go with Isaac's coworkers to the Florida Baptist Children's Home. We cooked a meal on the grill and then served it. Sadly, we didn't get to interact with the kids (some orphans, some temporarily there till a parent gets their act together) much. This was my first visit to an American orphanage. I felt bad for the kids there, of course, but it just reaffirmed my desire to adopt kids from other countries. To the orphans in El Salvador, the FBCH would be like heaven. The kids don't go hungry, and they have house parents so they get attention and affection, and they're taught the Truth, not the cult of Mary.

Saturday afternoon I slept for 4 hours on the couch! That was not expected, but much-needed. We watched Ghostbusters, which I hadn't seen since I was a teenager. That night Isaac went to play football with some friends, and I watched Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which I hadn't seen since it was in theaters last year. It is amazing that that movie is 2 hours long and there is SO MUCH left out of it.

+ Sunday was pretty much engulfed by our Olympian Fun Fall Festival. After lunch we set up for it, which took so long we only had about an hour and a half between it and the actual festival. We had 13 kids come, though, and 6 of them don't attend church anywhere; their only exposure to God is through our club. We had a ton of candy left over again, so that was great. Hehe. I did face painting, and tried a few new things this year that went over big.

+ Monday's activities have slipped my mind, save for watching SNL's Presidential Bash that evening. Very entertaining.

+ Tuesday I voted in the morning and did not have to wait in line at all. Bwaha. I then went out to lunch at Olive Garden with Grams, Ange, and the kids. It'd been ages since I'd been there. I do love their Five Cheese Ziti al Forno, breadsticks, and raspberry lemonade. *licks lips* As mentioned the other day, we went to AAAC's house that night for a small election party, which was a total blast and an excuse to use the chocolate fountain again. =oD I was up way too late that night though, and I've paid for it since.

+ Yesterday I spent the day cocooned in the house. I felt like crap for staying up so late without being able to sleep in, and I was still royally ticked about the election results, so I did not want to see any news or newspapers. I was able to take a bit of a nap in the late afternoon, and I convinced Isaac to join me. We skipped the gym in favor of something more fun, and then finally went to see Fireproof. (We've been saying we were going to see it ever since it came out.) We were both pleasantly surprised by it. I had no idea it was funny, and I was expecting nearly all the actors to be bad, like in Facing the Giants. Instead, only a few of them were really wooden, and the rest, while not likely to win an Academy Award, were quite good. It was well-made too - as good as any indie film I've seen. And of course I bawled my eyes out. Hehe. I also had fun spotting people who were in Facing the Giants. We went to the movie at 7, and still hadn't had dinner, but thankfully it was free small popcorn day for people in their Movie Watcher club, so we snacked on that and then went to Steak 'n Shake. We hadn't been there in months, and they have 4 meals under $4 now - and they're good ones - so that was awesome. It was a great little impromptu date night. =o)

Oh yeah, and when we were on the highway heading down to the theater, we kept seeing all these cops go by very quickly, some with lights on, some without. We got around the bend and saw the cops (now all with lights on) blocking the entire highway. We were right behind them. We still don't know what was going on, but we saw them arrest 3 girls in their late teens/20s who looked stoned. We're guessing they were driving recklessly and, to have so many policemen there, probably refusing to pull over at first. Isaac was pretty freaked out, because the cops had their guns drawn and we were so close to them, but I figured any bullets would've had to go through 3 cop cars to get to us. Anyway, it made us late for the movie, but it was pretty exciting.

+ Someone in Greece bought one of my Supernatural shirts! That is so cool. What will be even cooler is if when we're there in June, I see her wearing it. Yeah, yeah, Greece is a decent-sized country, blah, blah, blah. It would still be cool.

+ Off to watch Survivor and then Supernatural. Happy almost-Friday!

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[bluiidmommy.livejournal.com]

Can I assume your sleeping patterns have returned to normal? I hope so.

That's great that those kids can hear the Gospel, even if they don't have families. I wouldn't wish orphan-hood on anyone, but at least they have love.

Face painting's so fun! I would love to try it, but I don't think I'd be very good.

Mmm, Olive Garden. I like the raspberry lemonade okay, but I'd rather have strawberry.

We skipped the gym in favor of something more fun

I cracked up at the nonchalance of this statement!

I think all those cops and guns would've made Jon nervous too.

Your mention of the t-shirt reminded me of something I read once. This family went to Disney World, and while they were there, they kept looking for a car that had plates from their state. They didn't see any, but at the end of the day, they got on the "It's a Small World" ride, and who should be near them but their next door neighbors, hehe.

Oh, and it's Friday now, so happy Friday to you!

[kimana83.livejournal.com]

Eh. Not really, because I've had things to do earlier in the mornings than when I usually get up, or I've been distracted at night keeping me up later. I really need to regulate things.

Isn't it? But at least they don't go hungry or have to go ages without affection from adults. Plus, I doubt most of these kids have HIV, but about half of them do at the orphanage we go to in E.S.

Haha, I'm nothing special at it either. Just drawing something on someone's cheek is really easy. It's the full-face designs that are difficult... which is why I don't do them. But this year I did some swirly, pretty patterns by girls' eyes as well as cat/dog noses and whiskers. That was very simple.

Do they have strawberry lemonade at Olive Garden?

I wondered if anyone would notice that. Hehe. I thought about drawing attention to it by adding something like "wink wink, nudge nudge", but decided it'd be more fun this way.

That's hilarious! I absolutely love that they ran into them on the It's a Small World ride. Ha!

Thanks! Saturday is happy too. =oD

[bluiidmommy.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought about HIV, but that's really sad, too.

No strawberry lemonade, sadly. :(

[chestnutcurls.livejournal.com]

Now that I have your positive review, I really do need to see Fireproof. :) People have been telling me it's good, but I wasn't sure.

[kimana83.livejournal.com]

Haha, well, I hope you don't hate it after I said that! Just don't go in expecting an Oscar-winning movie, and I think you'll like it. Like I said, it's as well-made as any indie movie I've seen, and really touching. But there are definitely a few actors you're like, "Dude, really? That's the best they could get?!" Hehe. But not as many as in Facing the Giants.

[melyndie.livejournal.com]

Something more fun, huh? ::cough::

I saw Fireproof and actually had the opposite opinion of it. I thought it was stupid humor rather than funny humor (and G and I laughed at a lot of things that weren't supposed to be funny), all the actors but the main guy were bad and wooden, and it wasn't a well-made movie at all in my opinion. Granted, I haven't seen Facing the Giants to compare it to, but I thought of Fireproof like a good church play. They had just a few sets, way too many long conversations, very little action (and I don't just mean movie action, but they much more often told you about something rather than showed you), a lot of unnatural dialogue (a lot of it was to inform the audience of things--bad writing), and caricatures for characters (people that were overdone in their personalities). So...it would have been good for a church play (not TOO cheesy), but it was really poorly made for a movie.

I thought the message, of course, was great, though! But it was really heavy-handed and predictable.

[kimana83.livejournal.com]

I wondered if anyone would notice that. =oD

Maybe we didn't think it was stupid humor because we watch a lot of old British comedies - the epitome of stupid humor. We thought the humor was great. (And judging from the laughs of the rest of the people in our theater, so did everyone else. =o) ) I thought all the firefighters except the young one (the one who was told to look for the "hose stretcher") were good, the main girl was usually good, and all the hospital employees except the doctor were decent too. The parents and doctor were awful. The sets and lack of action didn't bother me at all, because I knew going in that it was a drama. And I've seen a lot of movies (esp. indie ones, which is what I compared this to) that had fewer sets than this movie. So since it's an indie movie you have to compare it to indie movies, and it is just as good as any of those that I've seen, except maybe acting-wise. But I'm betting their budget was less than any indie movie I've seen too.

Still, I'm cool with your not liking it. I really liked it and may even buy it, but who says we all have to like the same movies? =o)

[modmerseygirl.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*

I thought Fireproof was great! The ending was extremely touching. :-)

[kimana83.livejournal.com]

Agreed. It was a great movie!