The Lake House
I never heard much about this other than an ad here or there when it came out, and it probably is more of a DVD movie than a theater movie anyway, but I do have to say, I really like it. I have seen it 3 times in the past couple weeks cuz it is the featured movie on my flights, but I really do enjoy it, and I even figured out the plot twist long long long before it even became evident that it was going to be the plot twist, and even though I have seen it 3 times, I still get that thick throat slightly choked up feeling at the same points, just like I did the first time even though I had it all figured out.
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Does Whatever A Spider Can
You are Spider-Man
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You are intelligent, witty, a bit geeky and have great power and responsibility.
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Dear Delta
You really need to get your things figured out….
It was really nice of you to call me with the automated phone call at 6:40 this morning to tell me the flight was delayed, luckily it was only 5 minutes before my regular alarm went off, so I was not too upset at being woken from my slumber.
However, you really need to organize yourself a bit more, you told me the flight was delayed til 10:45 when you called me, but when I checked online just before 9, it was 10:30 – ok, I can see that, but when I showed up at the airport at 9:55 and went to check in, I was told the flight was leaving at 10:15.
That is not nice, I now had to run to security, cut everyone else in line and get nasty looks from them, and then sprint to the gate, and then down the stairs and then down the hallway, and they get grabbed by the ground crew cuz my bag needed to get put under the plane cuz it was a regional jet… and then get dirty looks from everyone on the plane for delaying them and being the last person to get on the plane….
Here Is How It All Went Down
Posted by nedster in Annoucements, Fun, Personal on 2006/10/22
I apologize if any exact details are left out but you get the idea….
Friday night, my sister and BF went out for dinner to a Thai place they go to all the time.
They are having their dinner and have been making jokes and comments about the “crazy guy” in the kitchen through the course of the night.
So they are talking about their up coming trip to Jamaica and her BF throws out a question to her.
“What if while we were down there we just ran over to Grand Cayman and got married?”
My sister responds “We can’t do that, you know my family, they would kill me if I ever did something like that”
“Ok, but you did not answer the other part of the question about us getting married”
“Well, we can cross that bridge when we come to it”
“What bridge?”
“You know, that bridge, the one really high up over a deep dark precipice that is shaky and make of planks and rope and sways a lot in the wind. That bridge”
“Oh, ok….. What the hell is he doing in there?” *Looks towards kitchen*
She turns around to look at the kitchen and says “What are you talking about?”
She turns back around to face him and sitting on her plate of noodles is a small little wrapped up box….
and well, that is all of the story that I got…
I think it was a pretty smooth way for things to go down!
So as a Follow up to People Hinting
So I pose this question to the world as more of a rhetorical question, but I suppose that if you happen to have any real insight into an answer I suppose that would be appreciated.
Why the hell can’t people just tell you something instead of trying to be subtle about things?
More specifically, women doing this more than guys, and even more specifically in the world of dating in general.
If you are not interested in going out, then just tell me that! Don’t pretend to try to make plans with me and have them fall through, and don’t tell me “yeah, I am definitely still interested” if you really are not. Just because you canceled some plans we had one weekend, that doesn’t mean I am going to take that as a hint that you are not interested in getting together because I especially won’t take it as a hint if I ask you about rescheduling and you say you need to check your work schedule but you do want to reschedule.
Sorry, but your statement of interest trumps any hint you might be trying to give me.
Also, in this dating world, I am not a fool, I know that you are in contact with more than one person, but if you meet someone, and you want to explore that with them, then it would be really really really nice to update those other people who you have been talking to about your change of situation.
You women need to realize that men have a fine line to walk with regards to dating and trying to find someone to date. We struggle with trying to find a nice even middle of the road for communication where we will be in communication with you enough to make sure you know we are interested in you, but we also need to make sure that we do not over communicate and freak you out and make it look like we are obsessed with you, even though we have never met.
Honestly, many of you make that really tough with “subtle” hints instead of just speaking your mind.
We are grown men, and no matter what Colonel Jessup may have said, we can handle the truth.
/rant
Ok, So the Series of Events…
Posted by nedster in Annoucements, Personal, Stuff on 2006/10/22
My sister is getting a whole bunch of kitchen cabinets from my aunt because she is doing a remodel of a house down in Mattapoisett that my cousins bought together.
So I went to my mom’s house to meet up with my sister and my mom to get a truck and go get them and bring them back, in the mean time my sister and her boyfriend met me there so that I could give them back the noise canceling headphones I borrowed to see if I wanted to spend the $50 on a pair of Sony, or spend the $300 on a pair of Bose or Brookstone.
So I get there and everyone is in the kitchen, I take the headphones out of my bag and my sister puts out her hand palm down to get them from me. Since the Brookstone ones were in a case with a caribiner on them and the sony were in a bag, I had attached them together. So in being the person I am, I hung them by the string across her middle finger.
She turns to her BF and says something, “See what I mean?”
My other sister then reaches over, and moves them from the middle finger to the finger next to it, and says “So how did you like those headphones?”
I start off into an explanation about which ones I liked and did not like and I am interrupted slightly by my sister’s BF who says “It is a family trait isn’t it?”
I stop and look at them and say “What do you mean by that? Because I connected and attached together the 2 things I was going to give you?”
At this point they all shake their heads and my other sister then grabs me and my head and pulls me forward and puts my face about 2 inches from my sisters hand and says “How bout them headphones”
To which I then pause, realize that the headphones were not really what they were talking about.
My response now……
“DAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNNNNNNNNN”
Sitting on my sisters left ring finger(the one my other sister moved the headphones to) is a quite large multi-diamond ring glistening in the poor lighting of my mother’s kitchen.
She got engaged the night before, and was attempting to be subtle to make me notice the ring, yeah, it did not work. This seems to be a trend with women lately, and I will cover that in another blog.
So now I get the back story, and realize exactly why my sister’s BF, now fiance, made the comment about it being a family trait. Both my mother and my sister did not realize that she had the ring on either when she walked in and was pointing around and asking ridiculous questions about where to put George’s(her dog) food for when he goes to my mom’s house to be dog sat while they were in Jamaica in a couple weeks.
Yeah, for some reason my family is all oblivious to subtlety like that, we get fixated on a task and block out things that don’t really matter or pertain to the task at hand, this is both a good thing and a bad thing at times I suppose, but at least we get the job done!
I heard the story about how he did it and I will share that in another blog later, it was kind of a nice and cute story.
I Am A Failure
Yes, it has been 8 months and I thought things were going well, I had all my ducks in a row and things had not failed yet.
I have always been able to do it when I wanted to, it goes all the way back to high school, if I wanted to do it I could, never a question about it, I just did it.
It is who I am, people know it and are amazed at times, and sometimes they think I am a freak because of it, I may be a freak but it is for many different reasons than that.
So it all came to an end last night, I was careless and did not think, my mind was on the headphones I was borrowing to test out to see if I wanted a pair, and then there was the security delays.
I should have skipped that bottled water, but the trail mix was a bit salty so I had to get it, and then finish it off before take off, and then somewhere over the Great Plains it happened…..
I had to get up out of my seat on the airplane and use a airplane lavatory, I can’t believe it, it was unheard of!!
I am such a failure….
Small Town Benefits
Food and Drink.
Small towns, although I think this technically qualifies as a city, they have a WalMart and a Target, and more than one Grocery Store.
but still, for example…
I went out to dinner tonight at a place called The Drake – Willie Maze Sports Bar, I had a small 8 oz fillet, Texas toast, and a Caesar salad for dinner. Then on top of that I had 2 tall Citron and Sprites with enough booze in each for 2.5 drinks and then finished it off with a piece of caramel apple pie with a scoop of ice cream(yes, I remember my blog, I have been good so I splurged a little) but the total for all that was only $16. $$16 that is practically unheard of to get all that for that money!!
And it was really really good too! I can do without the pie next time, but I think I will be back to The Drake again while I am here.
I talked to a nice old guy who was next to me at the bar, gave me a heads up on where to check out for lunch and breakfast while I am here….
and yeah… Prop planes suck….. way too much lateral movement on a take off and landing for my tastes….
I Feel Bad
Posted by nedster in Annoucements, Personal, Stuff on 2006/09/25
Cuz I got word that my uncle died this morning, and while it is sad, it is also a blessing from what I have heard, but I am not really upset by it. I am more upset about not being very upset.
I have not seen him in probably 10 years, and had a chance to go see him a couple weeks ago but had other things that I had to get done so I was unable to do so.
I wish I could say I have happy memories of him as a child, but I don’t.
When I think of him, the only things that come to mind are gross smelling cigars, beer, gin and tonic and how red his face and nose was all the time, along with his house that smelled funny.
So I dunno what, if anything I should be feeling at this point, I guess it is kinda life…
Not sure on funeral arrangements yet….
I Think My Boss Hates Me
I am going to the booming metropolis of Watertown, SD this week…. it looks to be the middle of nowhere.
I sent a couple of emails to people from there who are on MySpace asking what kind of stuff there is to do, but no response yet.
This is where it is located:
and this is the plane I will be taking to fly into the local airport….
this is gonna be a LONG week….