happy 4th of juliet

hope everyone had a happy 4th. mine was basically spent keeping in touch with my family via cell phone, playing video games, and watching tv. nothing special. i was feeling somewhat lazy. my grandfather (on my mom's side) had a minor stroke on thursday but they were at the beach where he has a house [well we'll call it a house - it's really two trailers stuck together]. so my mother and aunt traveled down to the hospital at the beach and they are still staying there hence the family cell phone convos. granddad is doing fine now so hopefully they'll be headed home today.

of the movies i perused yesterday they were mostly on the adolescent front:

nanny mcphee 5/10 - cute [again cute actually meaning cute and not badass]. great little lesson film for children about misbehaving. i really loved the use of the bright colors. very visual. extremely straightforward. watch it if you're watching it with your kids, otherwise i say pass.

daddy day care 7/10 - funny. it's a geeky kind of funny what with all the comic book and trekkie references. i'm not the hugest star trek fan but even i realized that kid was speaking klingon...maybe that has to do with the warden epic weapon featured in the comic strip below. eh who knows? anywho i like steve zahn, eddie murphy, and jeff garlin in this film. they work well together. not to mention i adore films with anjelica huston. regardless of the role she's playing she always gives a fantastic performance. seeing as how i just recently saw wall-e, it was nice to put a face to the voice of the captain of the cruise ship since i haven't seen that many movies with jeff garlin in them. very entertaining and worth watching with or without the kids.

nothing much else going on this weekend. i'm at work currently [::gasp:: on a saturday!] trying to clean up my desk as i'm starting school shortly and stephanie will need a clean work area when she comes in to take over my position. hopefully i'll get some reading done today and get a chance to watch charlie bartlett as dad burned it for me and i'm still dying to see it. shortly i'll be getting a copy of in bruges which also looks hilarious and unfortunately did not play at any theaters in the greater columbia metropolitan area ::growl::.

have a splendiferous weekend and as always, enjoy the silence.

-pyper