Today I went to the mall. It was the first time in a long time. I used to love to go to the mall. Mom & I used to love to go to the mall – we’d do a lot of people watching. When I got to college, I found that most people didn’t want to go to the mall just for the fun of it. A lot of my friends either had to have money to spend there or some purpose for going. So my mall-going style changed. Now I am mom to three boys. When they were little, I would go because the mall was somewhere dry they could play. Now they are too big for the play place.
Today was nice. The mall was practically empty, since we were there at 2 in the afternoon. It was nice to look around and the boys were good. They didn’t complain too much. 🙂
My voice is gone … hopefully it will come back tomorrow. We have co-op in the morning. Jeff likes the quiet, though, I think. 🙂
Tonight we watched two interesting movies. The first was “Mr. Magorium’s Magic Emporium”. It was okay, but it seemed to be long (the boys got bored) and was too predictable. Jeff thought the movie was trying too hard to be something special. I didn’t really get the whole thing – it seemed disjointed.
After the kids went to bed, Jeff & I watched “Pillow Talk” starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson. I don’t think I’ve seen too many of Rock Hudson’s films. He seems like he should be a certain kind of actor, but then he comes off as something else. In this movie the part he played would have been better suited to Cary Grant, Gregory Peck or Spencer Tracy … Jimmy Stewart would have even done well in this part – better than Rock Hudson. Jeff got bored, so he started looking up things on Rock Hudson. Rock Hudson was gay, and was one of the first Hollywood men to die of AIDS. Apparently he knew he had it and still slept with his partner. His partner sued Rock Hudson’s estate after he died because of this. I don’t understand that. I don’t understand why we haven’t quarantined people with AIDS. I understand that it isn’t “catchy” – you can’t get it through casual contact, but still. If people weren’t so selfish, we’d have less of an epidemic on our hands. And if it had been contained earlier on, we’d have even less of an epidemic than that!!! Anyways, I digress.
“Pillow Talk” was touted (on the Blockbuster site) as being a more modern “Shop Around the Corner” (because it was filmed before “You’ve Got Mail” 🙂 ). Rock Hudson’s character was mean and I ended up not wanting them to get together. It would have been more reasonable for Doris Day’s character to fall in love with Tony Randall’s character after seeing who Rock Hudson really was & what he was like. And Tony Randall helped Rock Hudson win Doris Day back! That didn’t make any sense, either. So we didn’t really like the movie. You all should watch it and then comment. 🙂
Yesterday I found out Barak Obama & his wife manage to squeak by (and are just recently out of debt) on 1.6 million a year. She just got a raise from 100K a year to 300K a year. But they are just middle class like you and me.
Oh and one other thing – Jeff sent me a link to this article. I liked the article. It is about a man who went to Iraq to fight in the war and was wounded. I especially liked this quote –
“His bloody watch sits on the table, but there isn’t much to say about it. The war is always there between the father and the son, sometimes in the form of silence and sometimes as an argument …
The father ends up saying: ‘I am in favor of peace.’ To which Jeff responds: ‘But someone has to achieve that peace.’ The father repeats: ‘I am in favor of peace.’
This only upsets Jeff … he raises his voice, his body tenses up and his words become deliberately hurtful: ‘And what are you doing so that we can have peace? How much longer do you think you’d be sitting around drinking coffee in fancy Berlin cafĂ©s if people like me didn’t exist? If there was nobody to make sure you could live in peace? If there was nobody to fight terrorism?'”
Amen, brother. If only other people would listen to Jeff.
