What's On My Mind...

Hi folks,

My name is KP and I'm the Head Writer for  TheTwoCents.com. It's a TV site that I started just over a year ago. I'm just a normal guy with a real job, but I LOVE TV. I tried to keep up with my favorite TV shows on my own, but just couldn't do it on the site.

SO - I'm looking for other fans of my favorite shows to do weekly recaps and/or reviews, in your own style, for our site. We have a bunch of staff writers but we don't have anyone for Big Bang Theory. 

If you're at all interested, please email me at kp@thetwocents.com or let me know by visiting TheTwoCents.com and using the Email button. I'd love to hear from you.

If not - enjoy the rest of the new season!!!

-KP

The "Party Planning Committee" in Scranton has added two new events to thier list they posted the other day.

One is the Dunder Mifflin Stockholders Meeting presented by the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce (Sunday, October 28). This would be a fun presentation I would have to guess!

The other is a little more interesting to fans of TheTwoCents!!

Bloggers' Breakfast (Sunday, October 28)!!

That's right! And guess who is a part of it? US! TheTwoCents.com will be a part of the Blogger's Breakfast! So, if you're going to Scranton - we finally get to meet!

So, I'm dying to know - who IS going to Scranton? What do you think of this?

It's the next to last week! Have you got your entry in yet? Every week someone wins! And the grand prizes keep expanding!!

Owners of some of your favorite “Office” fansites are bringing you a contest to help fight the summer repeat blues!

Are you the Ultimate Office fan? Do you consider yourself the Dunderhead of all Dunderheads? Do you have what it takes to join the Dwight Army of Champions, go head to head with Michael's jokes, out-weird Creed, out-drink Meredith...you get the picture! We are looking for you! You probably visit a fan-site to two from time to time, why not take a chance to win some nifty gifties while doing it?

The owners of TheTwoCents.com, TheOfficeChat.com, OfficeQuotes.net, LifeInTheOffice.com, JelloStapler.com, Flonkerton.wordpress.com, Mtt.Just-Once.net, TheOfficeAlliance.com and The Office Live Journal Community are combining to bring you this summer-long adventure through cyberspace!

You could win:
PRIZE LIST FOR GRAND CHAMPION:
- Dwight Bobblehead from NBC Store
- TheTwoCents Coffee Mug
- Call of Duty video game
- TheTwoCents Magnet
- A Flonkerton Journal
- A Flonkerton Button Pin
- Bobby Ray Shafer (Bob Vance) Autographed Script Cover Copy
- Hat from Coopers restaurant/bar in Scranton
- Office Alliance Mini-Button
- Michael Scott talking Pen

Head over to www.TheTwoCents.com for all the info!

That's right, after giving you an interview yesterday with Christopher T. Wood (who played the Chili's manager in "The Dundies") we will be back today with an interview that's special for tonight's repeat of "The Negotiation"!!

TheTwoCents was able to get in touch with David Denman who plays "Roy" on "The Office" and he gave us his Two Cents & Five Answers!! We will be posting that interview at some point today!!!

Also, have you submitted your Week Six Office Scavenger Search entry yet? If you win this week, you will be in the Hunt of Champions and look at all the stuff you could be winning as the grand champ!

PRIZE LIST FOR GRAND CHAMPION:
- Dwight Bobblehead from NBC Store
- TheTwoCents Coffee Mug
- Call of Duty video game
- TheTwoCents Magnet
- A Flonkerton Journal
- A Flonkerton Button Pin
- Bobby Ray Shafer (Bob Vance - Vance Refrigeration) Autographed Script Cover Page
- Hat from Coopers restaurant/bar in Scranton

And MORE may be added!! 

So, head over to www.TheTwoCents.com to read the interview and get all the Summer Scavenger Search info!

Owners of some of your favorite “Office” fansites are bringing you a contest to help fight the summer repeat blues!

Are you the Ultimate Office fan? Do you consider yourself the Dunderhead of all Dunderheads? Do you have what it takes to join the Dwight Army of Champions, go head to head with Michael's jokes, out-weird Creed, out-drink Meredith...you get the picture! We are looking for you! You probably visit a fan-site to two from time to time, why not take a chance to win some nifty gifties while doing it?

The owners of TheTwoCents.com, TheOfficeChat.com, OfficeQuotes.net, LifeInTheOffice.com, JelloStapler.com, Flonkerton.wordpress.com, Mtt.Just-Once.net, TheOfficeAlliance.com and The Office Live Journal Community are combining to bring you this summer-long adventure through cyberspace!

Every week a different site from above will host the Scavenger Hunt and you, the Dunderheads, will attempt to collect all the information asked for each week! You don’t have to go search crazy, all the items asked for each week will be Office specific content listed on one of these above nine sites. Then you gather up the requested info, email it to the host, and BAM your entry is submitted!

Every week, starting the week of July 9th, one entry will be selected to advance to the “Hunt of Champions”. Entries with the most correct requested information will be entered into a random drawing and one champ per week will be announced. The week leading up to the Season Premiere of “The Office’s” 4th Season will be the “Hunt of Champions” to crown the biggest Dunderhead out there!

The winners of each week will compete and the grand prize winner will receive an Official Dwight Bobble-head from the NBC Store as well as some other swag the site owners can round up!

RULES
(All entries must follow all the rules or they will be considered void)
- Only one entry per person/per week
- Residents of the Continental U.S. do not pay shipping for prizes. Hawaii , Alaska and International entries will have to pay for the shipping if they win.
- Hunters may only win once, but may participate in as many weeks as desired for fun.
- All entries MUST include full name, city/state, e-mail and phone number.
- This contest, and sites included, are in no way associated with creators of “The Office”, NBC or any of its websites/affiliates.

HOST SCHEDULE
(check these sites every Monday for the official Scavenger Hunt Task List)
July 9th http://www.thetwocents.com/
July 16th http://www.lifeintheoffice.com/
July 23rd flonkerton.wordpress.com
July 30th http://www.jellostapler.com/
Aug 6th http://www.theofficealliance.com/
Aug 13th mtt.just-once.net
Aug 20th http://www.officequotes.net/
Aug 27th community.livejournal.com/theoffice_us
Sept 3rd http://www.theofficechat.com/
Sept 10th HUNT OF CHAMPIONS

PRIZE LIST FOR GRAND CHAMPION:
- Dwight Bobblehead from NBC Store
- TheTwoCents Coffee Mug
- Call of Duty video game
- TheTwoCents Magnet
- A Flonkerton Journal
- A Flonkerton Button Pin
- Bobby Ray Shafer (Bob Vance - Vance Refrigeration) Autographed Script Cover Copy
- Hat from Coopers restaurant/bar in Scranton
... MORE TO COME!!

WEEKLY WINNERS
- Week One: Amanda R, Ohio
- Week Two: Hayden H, Arkansas
- Week Three: Andy S, Texas
- Week Four: Michelle C, New York
- Week Five: TBA

Sincerely,
Your Office Site Admins

TheTwoCents.com is all "The Office" ALL DAY today!

The bobblehead give-away contest submissions end today 7:59pm EST!

We have a new Two Cents & Five Questions interview up with Bobby R Shafer who plays Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration!

That's not the ONLY Two Cents & Five Questions Office interview we'll do today!!

We have news stories, fan videos, pictures, website links, etc etc etc. Everything you need to be able to enjoy Office Finale Day!!

We will update all throughout the day, so come back often!!

So head over there now and enjoy!

-KP
www.TheTwoCents.com

I just got word about some live entertainment during the autograph session during this Saturday in Scranton!

Check it out, and be sure to enter our Bobblehead Give-Away for the finale at

www.TheTwoCents.com

-KP!

The reviews have started to pour in at www.TheTwoCents.com!! 

The Office Forum's Mod's review will be up soon too!!

-KP
www.TheTwoCents.com

Hi gang,

I've started a fun blog of links, news, movies, rumors, tv, etc etc etc over at

keithp23.blogspot.com

Please check it out there. Thanks!

-KP

Hey gang,

I've been trying to see all those movies that people say "you really need to see this", so I thought I'll keep a record of it here. I took the AFI top 100 movies of all time, combined with the top 250 user voted movies from IMdB and the remaining not mentioned that were on the list of 100 people I surveyed for their top movies a year ago..deleted the foreign movies no one has ever heard of and here's the list in alpha order. So as I pop in Raging Bull to watch on recommendation, here's what I've seen. I'll also update as I add to the list so look for the updated tags! Tell me what you think. Do this yourself. Tell me what I need to add. Etc etc etc....

12 Angry Men (1957)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
8½ (1963)
A Christmas Story (1983)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Alien (1979)
Aliens (1986)
All About Eve (1950)
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
All the President's Men (1976) Recently Viewed: 01/25/07
Amadeus (1984)
American Beauty (1999)
American Graffiti (1973)
American History X (1998)
An American in Paris (1951)
An Officer and a Gentleman (1982)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Annie Hall (1977)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Back to the Future (1985
Batman Begins (2005)
Before Sunset (2004)
Ben-Hur (1959)
Big Fish (2003)
Blade Runner (1982)
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Boot, Das (1981)
Braveheart (1995)
Brazil (1985)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Recently Viewed: 01/20/07
Brief Encounter (1945)
Bringing up Baby (1938)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Casablanca (1942)
Chinatown (1974)
Cinderella Man (2005)
Citizen Kane (1941) Recently Viewed: 01/01/07
City Lights (1931)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Crash (2004/I)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Die Hard (1988)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Donnie Darko (2001)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Duck Soup (1933)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Easy Rider (1969)
Ed Wood (1994)
Empire of the Sun (1987) Recently Viewed: 01/25/2007
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Fantasia (1940)
Fargo (1996)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High Recently Viewed: 12/22/06
Fight Club (1999)
Finding Nemo (2003)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Forrest Gump (1994)
Frankenstein (1931)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Gandhi (1982)
Giant (1956)
Gladiator (2000)
Glory (1989)
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Goodfellas (1990)
Grease(1978)
Great Expectations (1946)
Groundhog Day (1993)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
Harold and Maude (1971)
Harvey (1950)
Heat (1995)
High Noon (1952)
Hoosiers
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
In Cold Blood (1967)
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
It Happened One Night (1934)
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Jaws (1975)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
King Kong (1933) )
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Léon (1994)
Life of Brian (1979)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)Recently Viewed: 01/15/2007
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
M (1931)
M*A*S*H (1970)
Magnolia (1999)
Manhattan (1979)
Memento (2000)
Metropolis (1927)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)Recently Viewed: 01/15/2007
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Modern Times (1936)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Munich (2005) Recently Viewed: 12/22/06
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
My Fair Lady (1964)
Mystic River (2003)
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Network (1976)
North by Northwest (1959)
Notorious (1946)
Oldboy (2003)
Office Space (1999)
Old School (2003)
On the Waterfront (1954) Recently Viewed: 02/25/07
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Out of the Past (1947)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Patton (1970)
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Platoon (1986)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Raging Bull (1980) Recently Viewed: 12/19/06
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Ran (1985)
Rashômon (1950)
Rear Window (1954)
Rebecca (1940)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Rocky (1976)
Rocky Balboa (2006) Recently Viewed: 12/27/06
Roman Holiday (1953)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Rudy (1993)
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
Scarface (1983)
Schindler's List (1993)
Se7en (1995)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Shane (1953)
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Shrek (2001)
Sin City (2005)
Singin' in the Rain (1952) Recently Viewed: 01/06/07
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
Sleuth (1972)
Sling Blade (1996)
Snatch. (2000)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Spartacus (1960)
Stagecoach (1939)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Stand by Me (1986)
Star Wars (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Super Troopers (2001)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
The African Queen (1951)
The Apartment (1960)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
The Big Sleep (1946)
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The Conversation (1974)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951))
The Deer Hunter (1978)
The Departed (2006) Recently Viewed: 02/26/07
The Elephant Man (1980)
The Exorcist (1973)
The French Connection (1971)
The General (1927)
The Godfather (1972)
The Godfather: Part II (1974)
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Goonies (1985)
The Graduate (1967)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Great Escape (1963)
The Green Mile (1999)
The Hustler (1961)
The Incredibles (2004)
The Insider (1999)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
The Killing (1956)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Lion King (1994)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Recently Viewed: 02/26/07
The Matrix (1999)
The Money Pit (1986)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Notebook (2004)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
The Pianist (2002)
The Prestige (2006)
The Princess Bride (1987)
The Red Violin (1998)
The Searchers (1956)
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
The Shining (1980)
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
The Sound of Music (1965)
The Sting (1973)
The Straight Story (1999)
The Terminator (1984)
The Thing (1982)
The Third Man (1949))
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Usual Suspects (1995)
The Wild Bunch (1969)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Tommy Boy (1995)
Tootsie (1982)
Top Gun 1986)
Touch of Evil (1958)
Toy Story (1995)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Trainspotting (1996)
Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Unforgiven (1992)
V for Vendetta (2005)
Vertigo (1958)
Walk the Line (2005)
Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
West Side Story (1961)
When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
Young Frankenstein (1974)
Z (1969)

After I posted the below entry I read my horoscope - oh well.

Pull back to reconsider your options, instead of charging ahead with a recent decision. You may not have as clear a perspective as you think, so try to keep your plans to yourself for now. Expressing your thoughts and feelings may not be all that productive, for your dreams can cloud the horizon. Be careful; if your thoughts are fuzzy, you might end up misleading yourself and others.

AL EAST CHAMPS!!! YEAH BABY!!!

The big day this week is Thursday of course, because that's THE OFFICE! But while waiting for that wonderful day, let me catch you up on what's been on so far.

'Til Death
The new sitcom for Brad Garrett (of Everybody Loves Raymond) is ok. I think I laughed once or twice. It's very hard to see him in a new role so soon after the old show. Jolee Fischer plays his wife, but she's not nearly as funny as he is, so that's tough. Eddie Cahill ('shitbrick' from the American Pie movies) plays the newlywed husband next door. The show has had 2 episodes and here is how the show works. Brad tells Eddie how married like "REALLY" works, Eddie goes home and gets freaked, it works out fine with his wife and then Brad gets yelled at by his wife. 2 shows and both the same thing. I hope they have something else in line for this or Brad Garrett could start the Raymond curse all by himself.

KP DVR Must Scale (5 stars the best) ***
I'll give it a few more chances on the DVR. There's some promise there.

Men in Trees
Ooof. Anne Heche is a relationship expert or 'coach'. She writes books for women on how to be independant and find the right man. Can anyone say Carrie from Sex in the City? Until, of course, she's on a book tour and accidentally has her fiance's laptop and he has a slideshow of pictures of him with some other woman. She doubts all she is. Where's the book tour? Some bubblejunk town in Alaska with like 98% men. (Including that HUGE guy who played Jerry on ER and was the big bully in Parker Lewis Can't Lose). She decides to stay in this hick town in Alaska to find out what men are really like. So, yeah - it's Northern Exposure. Except here's the problem with that comparison. Exposure was GOOD with really good writing. Men in Trees - not so much.

KP Scale: *1/2
I won't be adding it to DVR

Happy Hour
It's a new idea, a bunch of 20 somethings hanging out in a city sitting around discussing relationships and jobs. Notice the sarcasim dripping from 'new idea' like raindrops off a clogged gutter. I liked this when it was funny and called Friends. This show is NOT funny. The cast is a bunch of no ones, all of whom have NO chemistry and NO comic timing. The writing staff must be rejects from the UPN or WB network comedies. This this is awful. The entire episode I spent wondering if the lead character is suddenly single cause he was dumped or figured out he was gay. It was awful. An awful awful show.

KP Scale: 0
Leaving it on the DVR one more week just to see if they cancel it or not yet and to find out if that guy's gay or not. My vote for the first cancelled show of 2006.

The Class
I watched this last night. The premise is a guy is celebrating the 20 year anniversary of the day he met his fiance, in third grade. 1986. Yup - a bunch of 28 year olds. He decides to throw a party for the fiance and invite anyone he can find from their third grade class. The pilot episode was tough because they needed to introduce so many characters and their storylines in only 22 minutes. So, it was disjointed and didn't have any laugh out loud moments. But I'm going to stick with it, I kind of like the idea and I'm curious if they can get past introductions how it will play out. The blonde girl from Joey is in this and that's probably the only person you'd know from watching it. My big problem with this show is we have stock cliche characters. The geek who is thinking of killing himself (always a comedy bombshell), the lazy guy still living with him butt-in Mom (up, that's 2 stereotypes in one house), the cynical girl who just makes fun of everyone but really does have a heart, the fat girl who is now thin and loving it, the heart throb who is now gay.... yup, they are all there.

KP DVR Scale: **
Will stay on the DVR, but if they stay all over the place, it won't be on DVR long.

How I Met Your Mother
Ok, 5 people sitting around a familiar bar talking about relationships and jobs and life. But this one IS funny. Neil Patrick Harris and Alyson Hannigan are great in supporting roles. The lead is funny in a more hip version of Ross from Friends. The lead female is VERY attractive and seems like a girl you would totally want to hang out with. Critics have said this show has forgotten it's a sitcom and adds a little too much of the relationship drama. Which is true. I would agree, but it's not taking away from the show, for every dramatic moment there's Doogie Howser with some funny quip. He's just full of catch phrases waiting to happen. This season picked up literally right where last one left off. I think it's still very entertaining and I was glad to see it come back this season.

KP DVR Scale: ***1/2
Staying locked on the DVR

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
I can't tell you how much I've been waiting for this show to premeire. And last night it finally did. And I wasn't the least bit let down. Aaron Sorkin, writer of Sports Night and West Wing is back and he brought his boys. Bradley Whitford, Timothy Busfield, Matthew Perry all from West Wing. Sorkin hasn't dropped the ball at all. This show in GENIUS! And I'm saying that just from the pilot episode! Sorkin gives his audience a little credit. He doesn't feel he needs to slap you across the face with exposition to explain who every character is. He lets YOU just watch and learn. The show is about the dramas behind a Saturday Night Live type show. The first 10 minutes is amazing. Judd Hirsch cameos as the show's producer and dives into a Sorkin-esque monologue destroying religion, politics, television, the FCC and reality shows all in 56 seconds. It was amazing. I wanted to stand up and applaud. Perry and Whitford are amazing in their roles - written especially for them by Sorkin. Of COURSE there are shades of Josh from West Wing and Chandler, but that's just the internal nature of those 2 actors and what they bring to a role. I was totally sold on them being different people though. Tommy Schlamme is back directing and it shows. The show is seemless. Other characters like Amanda Peet, Stephen Weber and D.L. Hughley are really going to make this show work I think. He also brings in Sports Night's Felicity Huffman to cameo as herself as the host of this show for the pilot! Sorkin has a loyalty to his actors as only few do (Kevin Smith and Christopher Guest come to mind). You need to watch this show people.

KP DVR Scale: *****
Put it on DVR and throw away the remote.

Hello there, how ya been?

I had a tri-level weekend this past few days. What do I mean? Well, the weekend usually consists of Friday night, Saturday and Sunday right? Right. So each day was it's own unique day. Here's what I mean.

Friday - raining ALL day. Gross out. Long day at work. Woke up with stomach pains and questioning the bagged salad I had bought with spinach in it. That's what I get for trying to eat healthy. BUT I had plans with Kristen, so I was really hoping this would pass. By the middle of the day the stomach was feeling ok and by the time I got to leave work it was all good. Kristen called after I got home and her stomach was also all messed up. But she was ready to go out so she came down and we popped in my car and off to Milford we went. We saw the new Zach Braff movie, "The Last Kiss" at the new movie theaters in Milford Post Mall. First off, this theater is GREAT. It's huge and stadium seats. Aside from some REALLY annoying 14 year olds in the back row who needed to narrate the whole movie (apparently they couldn't understand why Zach Braff wasn't a doctor in a hospital). The movie was very well written, very well acted and very well fitted with music. HOWEVER - this is a DEPRESSING movie. It focuses on 5 different relationships and how NONE of them really work. Great. Just what everyone wants to see. Then we leave the theater and while waiting in the lobby the piano player (yes, they have a piano player in the lobby of the movie theater) is playing "Brick" by Ben Folds. Yeah, add on the depressing. Then Kristen and I walk down and try the new Blue Turtle restaurant in the mall. We waited 15 minutes to get in, the potato skins were all fried out and you aren't allowed to substitute any sides there AND it's not cheap. BUT, we got beer, so it was all good. They had Stella on tap, so I was happy enough. We then went back to my place and both of us almost literally fell asleep watching tv, yeah, we're exciting people! haha. All that being said - it was a very fun night. Nice and mellow and relaxed which is exactly what I enjoy about this. So - Friday = Nice, Mellow Relaxed

Saturday - I got to sleep in a little bit and then off to pick up Mom at her house. We were heading up to my Great Aunt's house in New Milford to pack her furniture. She's at the early stages of Alzheimers and moving to a 'home' closer to my Uncle's family in New York. She's getting out of the hospital this week and my Uncle wanted to have her new 'apartment' ready and waiting for her with her own stuff. So with Dad and my brother working, sis in law home with the girls, Mom and I headed up to New Milford ourselves to meet with my Uncle and my recently graduated from college cousin. Uncle was very happy to see me, he and I did all the heavy lifting and truck packing while my Mom and cousin sorted through all the knickknacks and towels and whatever else my Great Aunt may need. 4 hours later the truck was packed and we visited with the Great Aunt for a little while at the hospital and then back home. I think she knew who I was, so that's a good thing, but it's just so sad to see someone who has always been so independant and sharp as a tack to just be lost in her own mind. Very hard to start packing up that house, no doubt we will do more as they try to sell the house. I can't believe I won't be going to New Milford too much longer. Life is so fragile. Turns on a dime. That night I installed my new DVD/CD burner and made some CDs. Gina hooked me up with some great new music and a software trial program that can take stuff off your ipod and put it on your PC. So, Saturday = physical labor, contemplative, music making and upsetting.

Sunday brings the weekend full circle. I had an mental workout at the movie on Friday, a physical and emotional one on Saturday and Sunday was devoid of any of it. I didn't leave the condo. I sat around all day. I did some cleaning, but that's about it. Watched the Yankees lose BOTH games of a double header. grrr. But other than that, I did NOTHING all day. The highlight was the fresh air coming in the windows. So Sunday = NOTHING.

There ya go - for all the 0 people who read my blog, that's what I did this weekend.

WATCH THIS


OK, if you don't like StarWars, you can stop reading....but....

Most of my friends know I was in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged. It's a hilarious comedy that has 3 guys do all of Shakespeares stuff in 2 hours. It was written by The Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) who also did an abridged version of US HIstory and The Bible. All very funny stuff. Being in the Shakespeare one is probably my favorite experience on stage...

WELL.... the RSC asked George Lucas for permission and he LOVED the idea. They do all 6 StarWars movies in 20 minutes. It's in 2 parts on YouTube and you HAVE to check it out

Part 1

http://youtube.com/watch?v=s6zv1HADbII

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=couCxHkDHkk&NR


Let me know what you guys think!