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To beat the heat, I saw some movies recently.

The A-Team.  You've probably seen the show, but maybe, like me, don't remember it so well.  I didn't think I'd really like it, but they did just enough background/overview (something I sometimes get bored with in action/comic/revival movies), a lot of set up, and super funny MacGuyvering.
The explosions were generally loud enough to cover the sounds of the loudest possible foods we could have brought with us, so that was good too.

I had the hardest time with the practical end of things, which I think I'm just supposed to ignore in a movie like this.  Oh, we're stuck on a burning island, and have to be in LA in a minute?  Face says "give me 20 minutes" and comes back with a boat.  Where did he get the boat?  Where did they get ANYTHING?  Noone knows.  But it's NBD.   It was way more fun than hanging out at my poorly air conditioned house.

Yesterday I saw The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo at the Bourse.  I think this movie (or maybe just the book) has been out forever, and the theatre was still pretty full (on a Monday) so a lot of people must like it.

This is not a date movie.  I'll start with that.  It's pretty rapey in a couple parts, and that's weird to even sit next to your bf and watch, let alone someone you're trying to impress. 
So, it's a cold-case, young girl disappears, we're still trying to find her 50 years later thing.  It has a law-and-order bend, but the good kind - like when you see one good episode of one of these crime shows that makes  you think they might be okay?  
I want to say it was a mix of Castle, Lost (the Dragon Tattoo girl is a total goth Kate Austin), Hard Candy, one of the Hannibal movies (but maybe not the one), and HappyTown (is anyone else watching that?).  And while something could be a mix of all the bad parts of those, I think this was a mix of the good parts.
It was long, but that was okay.  I like it when a movie is too long, but you don't mind watching it.  (Not like Funny People.  That would have been a good one if it was short.) 
Spoiler:  you'll only see the dragon tattoo during the really sexy parts.  And it has nothing to do with the movie.
Yeah, go see it.
I also want to see Winter's Bone, Breathless (again, while I can) and Please Give.  Anyone?

whimlash

her:  "So, what size do you want?"
me:  "I don't know.  I've never ever done this before."
her:  "probably small...unless you have a wedding or a prom..."
me:  "I do have a wedding later today!"
her:  "medium!"

So now I have these enormous (I mean medium) eyelashes.  Ben told me they make me look "more American".  The whole thing is pretty funny, and an inexpensive enough experiment, plus, my dental assistant likes them.

horns

Some weekend nights just end with challenges.  Like "draw a unicorn/narwhale tub-birth".

good morning

After suffering some great losses at bridge last night, it was nice to "wear whatever I want to work" (a joke because I do this anyway, everyday), and then some other things happened this morning.

First, I tried to put some change in my little piggie bank.  But it was full!

Awesome!  So I took it to the Penny Arcade (which, if you' know, you know:  Penny Arcade is about 100% better than Coinstar.  Doesn't collect any fees.  Let's you guess your total!)  FORTY DOLLARS!  In that little guy.

THEN, a package came.  

 You  might remember I liked a bunch of necklaces from Fred Flare?  Well, now I have one (thanks!).

Hard to see - but it's the fireworks one!  Just in time for Independence Day, actual fireworks, etc.

bay

We got in a car and drove to the Chesapeake bay.  We went through a few states to do so, and I slept during a lot of it (the driving part).  I do remember the songs we sang though, and the rest stop, which has so many magical dragons, and a large, fierce holographic wolf picture, which is now in our living room.

There were so many deer.
When we got there it was water-air, pitch black, cliffs.  I thought it would be a beach!
The whole thing was pretty good.

down the shore

Recently, we took one of those super hot days, and drove to the beach!
It was fun.  We passed 37 police cars of various calibers in 4 minutes.

When we got to the beach, it was cold.  Certainly too cold to swim, and too cold to pay six dollars to get to the sand. The thing about the beach is, it can be cold sometimes.  On days you didn't even bother putting on underwear because you need to be wearing your bathing suit.

We drove back to my house and went swimming in the pool.  The city was hot.

Col wil

Back to town, and a lot of "where have you Internet-bee
n?". Answer: pools. And hot other historics. Now i am back. With Mex food,the gays taking our pictures for their nets, and at least 100 update texts, some awkward goodmornings. The only way I'd wish it, late at night.

Real posts about other states and gossip and the revolutionary war,coming soon. Prob'ly.