Packing, Interesting Things, and Movies.
hello again. It’s moving time for me. I’m moving out of my present arrangement and into a new apartment. It’s a thing of beauty too. The Legend at Keirland of Scottsdale. This is also a mark of the first time I’m going to be moving in with someone. To further that mark, I’m moving in with my girlfriend. It’ll be good, I know, but at the moment, it’s a lil’ nerve-wracking, especially since we walked through the place the other day (During a torrential downpour in Phoenix, thank god, I wouldn’t want to be driving during that.) and saw many many many things wrong with the place. The office says they will fix it, but we’ll see.
All the while, I’ve been sorting. I like to use sorting, others say ‘gutting,’ and even more say ‘Throw ALL THAT SH*T OUT!’ I wouldn’t say I’ve been a packrat, but I’ve collected a LOT of things over the 12 year span I’ve had in this city. So far, I’ve tossed 6 garbage bags worth of stuff, 7….maybe…8….donatable bags of clothes, & I still have about 20% left of the room to sort. What I found most surprising, and I’m not saying that I held onto these things for any apparent reason, but a holographic ruler from the 4th grade (and if you’re googling me and KNOW me from Roslyn-BHS, leave me a comment :P), and some hand-held ballbearing games (kinda like these, fits in your palm, and is not automated…), and of course, many many many books. The books will be donated to the local library (as soon as they put the donation bin out again…dunno what happened to it…) & the games have been distributed across my neices and nephew.
And the best part of the deal? My mom’s friends are giving me and my girlfriend a 52″ TV and a 3-person sofa-bed. Can you say ‘kick ass’?
In between sorting, packing, and sleeping, Joy and I went to the movies and saw the Simpsons Movie. It was hilarious! I was worried though. I haven’t watched the show in years because it stopped being funny and got more policial. The movie was cleaverly done. When asked about the quality, relating to the early years vs. recent years, I said it was mixed. The political didn’t overpower the comedy though. The animation was classic Simpsons style and thankfully no character that was not needed to be a simpsons geek was in it. The story was cute and I’m not really going to start researching this answer, but why did it take over 10 years for this movie to come out? This storyline was topical to today’s standards, but there were plenty of storylines they could have done years ago. But I’m not here to gripe about the movie, just praise it.
I’m trying to think of ways to describe this movie without giving too much away, but it’s all just flash images and whatnot (showing you that I should have written this on Friday night when we saw the bloody picture :p). So in short, I was thouroughly entertained, but I don’t forsee a sequel if this was the process needed to get 1 Simpsons movie on the silver screen. If there are, I’ll be ready.
Final score: :):):):)
