Two Thumbs Up!

So after viewing the film mentioned below, the verdict is two thumbs up. The RM is very funny! It is also realistic regarding how it feels when life "blesses" you with multiple challenges all at the same time. The film was realistic too when addressing friends who encourage you to take dangerous paths and the dilema of having to choose between old friends and what you believe is right for yourself.

Just a couple of examples, the lead character fantasizes of a triumphant homecoming greeting at the airport from his family. Instead he is not met at all and ends up taking a bus home because his family thinks he is coming home NEXT month. When he walks up to his home and rings the bell, no one answers so he goes to the back door. Again no one answers but he hears someone singing in the shower and spies a ladder which he climbs to ask to be let into the house. He shouts "Hello" into the room only to have a stranger pop his head around the shower curtain. It seems as if his family has moved to a new home and the letter announcing this has missed him while he traveled home from his misson in Evanston, Wyoming. He has other expectations too ~ a waiting girlfriend for whom he plans to use his BYU college funds to immediately buy an engagement ring and ask to marry him. Why? Because he was also told by his boss that he would hold his job for him so he assumes has instant income so why not get married AND go to school?

I'll let you rent the movie and find out what happens with all of that. Oh, and just let me plug in a Tongan exchange student and massive food storage too if you need anything else to let you know these people know what they are talking about when it comes to LDS life!

We really belly laughed so many times. It was a lot of fun and I really recommend both of the films we have seen so far.

I have gout again in my big toe in my right foot. My new doctor was trying to get my medicines as low as possible in order to save my tummy but obviously the dose I was at was too low so UP we went again and I'm in PAIN again. I am very tired of that. I am used to the chronic pain of the end-stage knee arthritis and the degenerative disk in the spine but when you add anything additional, it just pretty much pushes me past the DING, DING, DING place for pain.

Anyone who deals with daily chronic pain knows what I am talking about. You don't get used to it, you just push it to the back of your head and "get on with life". That is why I do have a threshold for pain but it is obviously high since I deal with a high level every day already. It's just a pain! LOL

Today is picking nits day. In a throwback ritual of some kind to ape days of yore, Keith is getting a hair cut, getting ears plucked, eyebrows trimmed, stache and other facial and neck hair trimmed and colored, and head hair colored. He also is doing the whole facial thing too - skin sloughing and moisturizing, etc. He takes really good care of himself and that is why NO ONE ever guesses his age.

I did my things yesterday - skin stuff that is. I am doing nails today and hair on the 16th I think. I really like preening - maybe it's the Leo in me.

That's our exciting life for today. Take care and go check out these films.