From The Past: November 24, 2004

I am posting less and less, but it’s not totally my fault. I’ll let my fifteen-year-old son take about 70% credit for that and I’ll take the rest. Since we now have dial-up Internet, I have to wait until the phone is clear. The problem is that the phone is NEVER clear. I either post before he gets home from school or not at all. It’s a pain trying to get him off the phone most of the time. Sometimes he surprises me and gets off immediately, but most times I get questioned. Why do you want to use it? How long will you be on? Who are you going to call? Can’t you just use your cell phone? I always answer the same: when you pay the phone bill, you can stay on longer! Otherwise get off!

Ashley’s class at school walked to the movie theatre to see The Polar Express. She gave it an 8 out of 10 saying that some parts were cheesy. I still haven’t seen it, but now that I know how she feels, I hate to make her watch it again. Oh well, I guess it will be out on video next year!

I also wanted to see Christmas with the Kranks at the theatre, but from all of the commercials I feel as though I’ve already watched the entire thing. I guarantee that I could tell you the entire story. There’s no way that I’m going to pay $7 to see a movie where I know everything that’s going to happen. These movie people should learn when enough is enough so that they don’t spoil it!

Currently (2020): I have to add a few comments to the above post from 2004. Andrew was hilarious when he would get on the phone with his friends. He liked to play Kingdom Hearts on his Playstation. So he would call his friends who were playing through it as well and they would literally sit there and breathe over the phone while they played. There was very little actual talking going on. That’s what was so annoying. Now, it’s just funny to think about.

Also, I am so glad that we finally watched Christmas with the Kranks. It’s in my top 10 list of favorite Christmas movies. It never fails to make me laugh and warm my heart.