Friday was St. Stephen's Day and the Second Day of Christmas, after work instead of coming straight ho
me to celebrate I met up with a fellow Hoffman Institute classmate/graduate and her three lovely daughters (two of which are also Hoffman grads). We all enjoyed an entertaining night at both Campbell's and Chowning's Taverns...after which I did come home to watch Bad Santa.Okay, so Bad Santa isn't necessarily one of the greatest movies or anything, but it was fun to see my hometown Pendleton, Oregon's own Sherriff John Bunnell and the late greats Bernie Mac and John Ritter in action.
Plus it is always entertaining watching some lovable loser find a way to redeem himself. Once the movie was over I was pretty much spent for the day and decided to go to bed without watching the planned second feature of the night.
Saturday was St. John's Day...it was a long full day of work, it was fun having my classmate and all three of her daughters during the day to see a portion of our Revolutionary City program...then that night I was scheduled to work an evening program. One of the daughters had to return home, so my four person fan club was reduced to a three person fan club for the evening show and three hours later I was finally done working for the day. We decided to have our own little pizza party back at the hotel and after some delicious pizza and much laughter I decided to call it a night without watching any movies.
Today marked the Fourth Day of Christmas. I spent the morning at church and then the park with Portia. After which I met up with my fan club for lunch before they all had to leave town. It was sad to see them go, and I felt bad that I hadn't had more time to spend with them, but it was great having them here all the same.
Portia and I came home and I decided to try and get back on track with Christmastide 2008, so I popped in Love Actually. I honestly had forgotten how much I liked this movie. It was a great reminder that no matter how bad things get in the world we need look no further than the important people in our lives for hope and inspiration. Which I think is something we can all afford to be reminded of from time to time.I followed up this movie with a showing of Elf which was absolutely hilarious! I m
ean how can you not get into the Christmas spirit when Buddy the elf is around! "I like smiling, its my favorite!"I think this movie could fill any old Scrooge up with Christmas spirit!
During the movie I had a friend here in the neighborhood get a hold of me and wanted to watch a movie, so I went over and took Serendipity with me for us to watch. I know that for some people considering Serendipity a Christmas movie is a stretch...but for me I have always considered this movie as such.
It is a wonderful movie about living your life to the fullest. My favorite moment in the movie comes when Dean, the obituary writer for the NY Times says to his friend Jonathan (the main character): "You know the Greeks didn't write obituaries. They only asked one question after a man died: "Did he have passion?""
I know that I personally hope that when my life is over the answer to that question, should anyone ask, would be "Absolutely!"
It was a refreshing reminder of how I should be and want to live my life...plus it was really nice watching it with a good friend who could appreciate the movie as much as I do!
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returned home after the movie to play around with Portia. I decided to finish the night as I had originally intended on spending this Fourth Day of Christmas by watching Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas.Yes, yes I know...it's not as good as the original cartoon version and that most people complain that it has Jim Carrey in it. I personally like this version and it contains what I maintain is a great Christmas time song Where Are You Christmas?, of course, I personally prefer the Faith Hill rendition of this song that is included at the end as the credits rollout.
So now I am back on track with my Christmastide 2008 schedule...it only took a minor detour was all! Tomorrow (yes I know the timestamp says it is the 29th already but I haven't gone to bed yet so it's still tomorrow as far as I am concerned) marks the Fifth Day of Christmas and the second to the last day of the year 2008.
It is amazing to me how far I have come in one year's time for very nearly a year I have been here in Viriginia, a world away from my true home of Oregon and all my dear friends and family still out in the Pacific Northwest. I must say I know you all are sick of the snow but I would gladly trade you my 60-70 degree weather for some snow to snowboard in or build an igloo or have a snowball fight in...seriously if it weren't for the movies I have been watching this week I would have never known it was Christmas cause it surely doesn't feel like it around here!
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