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Oct15

Garden State

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Garden State

I am writing this mere minutes after having finished watching this movie.  IMHO, everyone should see it.  It is a well-acted, well-crafted movie that has a message without being preachy, reaches emotional levels that are rare in most commercial films, and is thoroughly enjoyable.  After our only experience with Natalie Portman being her portrayal of Queen Amidala, we were surprised to see that she had so much talent.  And Zach Braff was amazing.  It’s always good to see people who look like real people in movies nowadays, but throw in the benefit that he developed and grew a character, filled it out and made it real – it was wonderful.  I’m not going to give a plot synopsis.  For that, we have IMDB.com.  Just get it and watch it.  I’m thinking that, despite the presence of a couple of age-inappropriate scenes, I’m going to show it to the daughters.  It’s that good.

Oct9

Time Flies. . .

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Time Flies. . .

So Friday, the inspector, the buyers, one of the parents, and several realtors were at the house for three and a half hours. This was stressful for me, and add that the buyer had arranged for a window guy to come and do an estimate, and we had our mortgage banker coming over for signatures, and the phone didn’t stop ringing between the bank, the lawyer, and the realtor. After that was all over, my kids had friends over – lovely children, but still, a house full of screaming girls. My stress level was over the top.

Saturday dawned with me feeling much calmer, and after a chat with my realtor, and a call from the lawyer saying we were out of attorney review, my friend calls to have a nice day together getting costumes for the kids and having dinner and getting out of the house. It was a good thing. I also got all the laundry washed and folded – Bonus!

Today has been mostly lazy except for some cleaning and packing. I’ll do some more tomorrow after we’re all finished with the Sunday papers (I already used up the stuff we had in recycling for packing!). The kids have a day off, I’ll let them play and laze around after they pack another couple of boxes. I’ll call the mover, pack more things, throw more things away. . .