You'd be surprised how many people see this and think it must be a joke or something. Serisouly, use your noodle. If you've worked for LNT for a long time or got hired before this started as a full time worker or someone looking for a permanent job, wouldn't you leave and get another, more stable job? Thats whats going on. Plus, no one can resist a going out of business sale. The influx in traffic and sales is HUGE, so of course they need temp workers! (unfortunately though, the only ones who get the severance package are the ones who were hired before this started, doesn't seem quite fair but oh well)
So Failblog, FAILS.
Oh and so do people who think this is just a major marketing ploy, and that suddenly we are going to take down our signs and be like "Psych! We just wanted you to THINK we were going out of business so that you'd spend more money here!"
_Sam
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Hopefully we will be able to get an apartment tomorrow. We have a couple options to choose from, and I just hope the apartment with the best location looks decent and has a comfortable feel to it (the floor plan didn't look promising). If not, then we are going to have to go with the other units that are further out. It is possible that we might not be in our new apartment for long. Which is both good and bad. I hate moving, and with that temptation so close, I might just be living out of boxes for a couple months until I we get the word. lol, I'm a bad wife.
My mom is also on her way to the hospital as I type. A few weeks ago she went into the ER with stomach pain, everyone thought it was either scar tissue (from all the other surgeries she's had) or her apendix. With those as the two possible options, the doctors decided to do an exploratory surgery: remove her apendix and clean out any scar tissue. What they found was a hernia, not her appendix, that was causing the problems (they cleaned out the scar tissue as well, just to be on the safe side).
The surgery went fine and she was taken to recovery. Over the next couple of days the doctor started getting concerned about her pain level, he thought it was a little to high to be just post-op pain. He went ahead and scheduled her for more tests to make sure they didn't miss anything. That night, her incesion popped. And instead of just blood, brown ooze started seeping out. They gave her a little bag set-up that caught the ooze and scheduled her for surgery the next day.
It was clear from the type of ooze seeping out of her incision that it was from a perferation in her instestine. Which intestine though, would determine the severity of the situation. If it was her large intestine, then she would get a "poop bag" that would bypass the damaged part of her colon, she would have this bag for several months until they were positive that the infection was clear. Once the infection was gone, they would remove the infected part of the colon and reattach the ends.
The other option was that it was her small intestine. This is what ended up being wrong, and is not nearly as severe as the large intestine. They removed the perforated portion and stitched her up. The day before Thanksgiving she got to go home and they assigned her a nurse that would come to her house to clean her wound-vac and her incision and make sure she was healing properly.
Today when the nurse came he was worried that an infection may have started and that they should take my mom to the hospital to be sure. He recommended coming via ambulance to avoid the wait in the ER, which is what my parents are doing now.
Just pray for her, she gets worked up really easily and my dad doesn't handle stress well. He wants to take care of everything for her, and all my mom wants is some control so things get a little tense, which isn't good for her healing. And my little sister is probably going to be having a tough time too, she's only 7.
Lonnie made a snack for me today before he left for work. I miss him so much when he's gone, and I hate being stuck at the house with nothing to do. He's making such a sacrifice for me, working a job he doesn't like and working extra shifts at the other, he's so good to me, I wish I could do something for him in return. But I also know there is nothing much I can do. I wish we had a W/D hookup in the apartment itself, so that I wouldn't have to use quarters or make myself presentable to do clothes. Then I could just set a load and wait and there would be no walking with a heavy basket of laundry to the other end of the world. (it's really not that far, just 1 building over, but still too far).
I'd start packing, but I'm alwasy scared that I'm gonna need something. Oh, and I have no boxes. I tend to pack right before I move so that I don't miss anything for too long. I can't wait to have Lonnie's cats back either. I'm going to miss my baby girl (my cat, Princess) though, but Lonnie needs his Jessie-kins and Allie-goose, and I'm tired of that psycho woman calling me all the time. She called me last minute on Wednesday saying she needed a check NOW for the expsenses. Sheesh. If she would have called me that morning or yesterday we could have planned something but she wouldn't be over until after 5 or 6 and then we had church and his parents were visiting. She called me again today. I'll call her back tomorrow, I don't feel like talking to her atm.
Thanksgiving was wonderful. I enjoyed the food and the company. The two good days I had in a row caught up to me and I've had nothing but bad, bad, bad since Thursday. >.< I just wish I could find things that I want to eat, but NOTHING sounds good to me, or tastes as good as it sounds. Tacos were the best, but I can't begin to explain the toll that that takes on my system. ugh, hopefully this stage of the pregnancy will be over soon and I can start being myself again. I'm looking forward to that. I'm tired of being cooped up in this dinky apartment all the time.
I'm also beginning to realise that I made some choices about my wedding, that weren't very nice. I didn't realise at the time that anyone cared about anything I did (well, besides that I didn't, but there isn't much they could have done about that). And now I'm begining to think I would change some things if I could, like who my bridesmaids were or maybe the location. I was just so ready to get it over with that I didn't stop to think about what I wanted. Truth be told, at the time I had no idea what I wanted, there were to many people wanting to share their opinions with me at the time that I couldn't think clearly. I mainly just wanted to get it over with because hardly anything about the process was fun for me. Don't get me wrong, I'll never regret marrying my Lonnie, there wasn't a part about that that was unpleasant. I feel almost cheated somewhat, like if everyone could have just shut up and enjoyed this moment with me I might have been able to think clearly enough to make good choices and create my dream wedding. Oh well, whats done is done. Maybe in 10 years or so, or whatever is an appropriate time to wait, we can have our vow-renewal ceremony and I can make it everything I every wanted or imagined a wedding to be.
Hopefully, one day you will get the day you have always imagined. But don't ever forget your wedding day...your unity with Lonnie and the paths you chose for your life won't change just because of the people you have in the wedding or the location. I have members of my family that did not come to the wedding and the same people are not speaking to me to this day because of decisions we made for OUR wedding day. They didn't agree with the way we chose to do a few things and they have just shut us out of their lives. Just live your life as a servant to the Lord and everything else will fall into place.
Also, only you and Lonnie will know what is best for your family. Sometimes we all have to listen to opinions...but take them as they are someone elses OPINION and do what you feel is best!!
Apparently my long drawn out analysis of Twilight offended some people.
I really don't understand that. It's not like I'm dissecting a person or someones religion, its a movie, and I tried to stay as analytical as possible.
For me, I'm very hard to please when it comes to literature or movies. I prefer theatre and classics (mostly poetry), like things prior to the early 1900s. Every now and then a movie will come along, like V for Vendetta or LOTR (minus the few cheesy lines, "Legolas what do your elf eyes see?" "They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!") that I could watch everyday and never get tired of it, but most of the time I grin and bear it an watch movies for humor more than quality, like Wild Hogs or Kate & Leopold. Same goes with books.
This also affected my school life. Mostly, I wrote my English papers last minute, but when I put my mind to it, they could be really good. Friends caught onto this, and I would often find myself "editing" others papers. I couldn't help it, when something sounded weird or there was too much repition, I just had to take out my red "Pen of Knowledge" (as it was affectionately dubbed by my peers, originating in our RP games) and put in my two cents. 'Course people got mad sometimes when I would start laughing or practically crossed off half their essay or (in the case of my Creative Writing class, their novela), but I was being honest. Mostly it was grammar related things, or sentence structure issues (like a thousand commas in bizzarre places).
My point is, I'm naturally attuned to being critical of The Arts. With that said, I think I did very little complaining about the movie. There were 4 mains problems for me that affected my ability to enjoy it, but the rest were things that no one besides me probably even noticed or cared about, especially if they hadn't read the book.
So why do people get so upset?
I'd appreciate the insight from you non-critical minds, I can't but help to see this logically, its not my nature to be personally attached to Art, so to speak. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it a great deal, I like the depth and the layers to a good book or song or painting, but I'm not gonna get mad at someone who can't appreciate it the way I do or sees a different angle.
So, insight?
_Sam
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First I would like to say I think they did a FANTASTIC job translating the book into a screen play. The cuts they made made sense, even if it was a little weird for me having both dances condensed down to one. And the changes they did make flowed nicely with the story line for the most part.
What I didn't like:
How it was filmed in general. The cinematography bothered me because it wasn't like other movies. All things considered, I guess that made sense (that they wanted to film in a different style than the regular first person POV movie) and it took me a while to get use to.
The lack of music or background in many of the scenes bothered me a good deal. Sometimes it seemed appropriate, but other times just plain awkward.
My biggest problem with the movie, which is why I only give it a B, is how very un-Edward and un-Bella many of the lines and exchanges were. "Edward" did several things in the movie, like being rude to the receptionist, that was very much not-Edward. Bella, a witty a hilarious character in the book, only cracked one sarcastic comment the entire movie (When asked by Jessica why she wasn't tan from all the sun in Phoenix, Bella replied "Guess that's why they kicked me out.")
Everyone is pretty well aware of my general distate of the actor they chose to play Edward, no where near my vision of attractive, let alone god-like, but besides that, as an actor, he did a fairly good job with the cheesy lines he had to work with.
Bella on the other hand, let me down tremendously. Now I don't know if it was her fault or the directors fault, but throughout the entire move she was very devoid of emotion. Her lines were pretty much the only clue that she was in love with Edward, and when she supposedly left to return home to Phoenix, you could hardly call her exchange with her father angry or emotional. In the book she was animated and full of witty comments, this was not the case in the movie.
This moive also seemed to be full of ugly people. Jacob, who looked so cute in the other photos, had too high a forhead in the move making him look really odd. His two friends (don't know who was who) both looked oogly, one even having something close to a unibrow. And that actress in the restaurant? She was just plain creepy. Of all the character though, Mike, Charlie, and Renee were my favorites. They all just seemed so perfect at their roles. Charlie didn't look like how I imagined, but he played a perfect "single father with a teenage daughter" I he always kept me laughing. I loved when Bella called her mom and she asked, "Bella are you being safe?" I wish I could seen more of those characters.
As far as the set goes, the Cullen house disappointed me. I can't imagine how they were going to pull off the wedding. Like others mentioned before, it would have been nice to see Carlisle's cross, even if it wasn't part of the actually dialogue or story line.
Another thing I noticed, that has nothing to do with the quality of the moive, was the amount of diverstiy in Bella's school. Now don't get me wrong, I have nothing against diversity, but in a small town where everyone grew up together in the Northwest corner of the US, I didn't expect to see black people, let alone Asians. It struck me as kinda odd and out of place, but didn't subtract from the movie at all. I also liked how they worked out Laurent. I had to go re-read the book again to make sure I didn't miss the glaring detail that he was a black man with dreadlocks, and was comforted to know that I didn't miss anyting that major. SM describes him as olive-toned with jet black hair. Black olive maybe? ;) Oh and Victoria only had 1 leaf in her hair :P
And the biggest dissappointment of all: we didn't get to see Edward's Meadow! Of course there was that scene that only the book-lovers could recognize as his meadow, but it wasn't pointed out in a way that anyone else in the audience would recognize it. Which has me thinking about how the scene in New Moon is going to play out when Bella goes there and is cornered by Laurent.
Most of the things I had complaints with I didn't really notice until I had gotten home and started re-reading the book. The lack of music and weird cinematography, Bella's blah acting, and Edward's out of place lines and actions were the big killers for me and pretty much colored my view of the entire movie.
With that said, someone who has never read the books would enjoy this movie greatly. As a standlone alone, totally seperate from the books, the movies does well (besides the aforementioned glaring problems), so my grade is a B-. When comparing it to the books, I'd give it a C for poor characterization (the passionate kissing scene with Bella in her panties) and altering of the story line (including "animal attacks" from New Moon, the "modern" look of the Cullen house) and leaving out details that devoted readers were looking forward to (Carlisle's Cross and study, Edward's meadow).
I'm not looking forward to New Moon. Mainly because I hated the first 2/3rds of the book anyways (no Edward!), a little bit because they made Jacob so ugly, and a lot because I don't like "Bella and Edward" as portrayed by their respective actors.
_Sam
I'll leave you with this: cheesiest line in the WHOLE movie "Don't worry Jasper, you won't hurt her."
I about died right then. >.<
Another scene that made me just want to scream was the fact that Carlisle had to TELL Edward to stop sucking Bella's blood, that he was killing her. That was VERY UN-Edward. Edward stopped on his own, and I was dissappointed that they portrayed him as so weak. I also don't see why they felt in necessary to switch from a gouge in the head to a slice in her femoral artery. But thats a minor detail.
Never watched or read the books. LOL My cousin Trey keeps telling me I need too. I'm not into vampires. And thank you very much for that video. I now have it STUCK in my head. :-D I love the Lord of the Rings.
When it comes to movies made from books....I can get a little critical. They always mess it up. Like there were several in LOTR that I was like "Hey! They didn't do that! They *insert the correct part*" or "Wait a minute! That happened *insert correct time that part entered*" I do try to over look them though. (not very good!)
You aren't being very helpful! :) I was able to fully enjoy LOTR because I never read the books. Tolkein and this obesseion with detail that I didn't like. I tend to skim over parts where the author trys to paint the picture in more than 100 words, by that time I've made up my mind what the scene is anyways. :P
Hehe sorry. I love books so i tend to read more books than watch movies. I did enjoy the movie trilogy just as well. (never mind the fact that im still on the third book. I just had to go ahead and warch the last movie!)
I know what you mean. Ill do that with a few books. And some parts i think tolkein couldve left out.
Thanks to formal training in critical analysis/reading, I can't read or watch anything with a guard down. I'm forever analyzing, mostly from a Feminist point of view, specially attuned to female characters (the Freudian Critique weirds me out). People who dozed through English classes, like I suspect some of your rough critics did, don't understand.
