I'm gonna give you my review of the Time Traveler's Wife.
First of all, if you know nothing at all about it. It's a romance. And I'm not all that into romances. That doesn't mean I'm going to be all biased or whatever. But this'll be my report, take it with a grain of salt. And I haven't read the book.
[Pause good song is playing right now]
Alright, I'm back. I don't know where to start. The whole time travel thing makes perfect sense to me after watching that movie. Perfect golden sense. But my sister who saw it with me didn't feel the same way. And since that's somewhat important to understanding the movie I'll try and quickly explain it as I see it. There may be other ways of explaining it but I think this fits everything.
1) All events (past, present and future) are set, meaning that they can't be changed by someone moving through the gears of time.
2) Every person has a normal birthday, death-day and years in between. Eg. I'm eighteen now, the age that I am naturally right now. (Normal) This rule includes time travelers.
3) Time traveling basically means to leave your "Normal time", what we think of as the present, to another time.
4) You can time travel more than once at the same time. This would happen like this: If I were a time traveler my eighteen-year-old self could time travel to 2 years ago, but also at the same time my 48-year-old self could travel to the time when I would normally be eighteen.
5) Rule #4 can sometimes mean that there would be two ages of the same person alive at the same time. This might be hard to understand. Here's the scenario: So the 18-year-old me goes to the normative 16-year-old time, and if the 16-year-old version wasn't timetraveling when I got there, there would be two of me. Understand? You can look at like this. The normal time is the home time. Timetravelling means leaving the home time to visit another time. You go as a visitor, a guest and the host-age version of you could either be there or not depending on whether or not they are time traveling sometime else.
So if the host of the home time is there to greet you when you leave your present home time as a visitor by time traveling to them, there would be two people as yourself during that time who are different ages. This can play out into a lot of different situations.
That's the best I can do. I hope that makes a bit of sense.
Now, what to say about the movie? Um, okay. So the movies, called the Time Traveler's Wife. I found that having that the movie followed Henry (the time traveling husband) wherever he went, that the focus on him was over done. I think the balance to it all was off.
There was one time in the movie when he was gone for two weeks after they married. And I'm not sure that I can say that I recall seeing anything about the wife during the time. Just her being upset when he got back. I think that they might have just glossed over her by showing her cleaning or working for like two seconds. In that time there was so much potential to dive into her character. They could have shown her having a conversation with a friend expressing how she felt, rather than just leaving it to the audience to guess. It's not like we can have a conversation with her ourselves.
You do see quite a bit of the marriage though, the good times and the bad times. Different important events. [SPOILER, not really but kind of] The birth of his daughter and his death.
[OK, SPOILER'S PAST] In the end, I thought to myself "Okay, pretty good movie. Interesting scenarios and what not. I guess that's as good as it gets for a movie, what more do you want?" (Yes, I do talk to myself) But in that thought there's the idea that movies can only take you so far into a story is there. I really think that movies have such potential to be great with an equally good idea. So I'd label this movie average. I think it lacked character depth beyond the events that were shown on the screen. I buy movies that I think are trully great, and that's a rare thing.
So would I watch it again? If somebody else bought it on dvd when it comes out or paid for me to go to the theatres with them, I would see it again. I wouldn't, however spend my personal money to watch it again. I might be interested in reading the book, but I find it hard to take time to read fictional stuff, and again - the money. I won't spend my own on it.
Sexuality/modesty? Well, it's rated PG-13 and it's about a marriage. They have sex undoubtedly. Later on they have a daughter... so, y'know, it happens. In one of the first scenes they have sex before even marrying. The guy hardly knows her though she's known him for like her whole life. But that justifies nothing. As for what you see on screen, both naked butts but no breasts or frontal reproductive parts. So yeah... I wouldn't let 13-year-olds see it. My brother's 12, I wouldn't let him see it a year from now, definitely not because of this content.
There's some cursing and violence, though sadly that's somewhat expected.
I did like the movie though. Pretty good. Maybe a 3.5/5 for how much I liked it. After seeing it though, I just wanted to come home, grad my Bible and read some real romance about Jesus Christ and His bride.
Unrelated after thought: Is Winner's only a Canadian store, or is it in the States too? I got a great Billabong sweater that I'd never be able to afford in an actual Billabong store or West 49 or wherever Billabong stuff is sold. Winner's is a liquidation store, what would I do without it?
Sunday, August 23, 2009
"I should go for more walks"
Ahh too funny. I haven't been to my home church all summer but today I went today. The guy that I've mentioned a couple times saying that I like (two years older, strong Christian leader - pastor in training, body builder) - I still like him, he gave the sermon today.
It was one of my mom's friends, a woman in her 70s who never married, very nice ladie, she drove me home. She was talking about how he was so great. He spoke really well. And we were talking about him for a few minutes or so. She asked me where he lived and I told her that he lived on a nearby street. She told me I should go for more walks. That I should stop letting my mom walk the dog all the time.
Too funny. Clearly she meant I should get to know him more because he's a good guy, which is exactly what I want but she doesn't know that I like him. I'm asking God to arrange things so that I can marry him. But more than asking for a husband when I'm eighteen or even a boyfriend, what I'd like most to have with this man right now is a good solid conversation about church. I'd like to know what his plans are and what he hopes for when he goes to plant church. But he's a solid guy and I'd like to get to know him better.
On a different note, I have an interview tomorrow. I applied for an intership with MBC/Fair Havens. All the references and things got worked out. I wrote a bit about this in my last note. But yeah, if anyone reads this before tomorrow, if you could be praying that the interview goes well tomorrow. But more importantly that no matter whether the interview goes well or not or whether I get in, that my trust remains in Jesus for my purpose and for this coming year, for a future spouse, and whatever else might come my way.
That is what is on my mind. That's all folks! You can go home now. Seriously. OK.....
It was one of my mom's friends, a woman in her 70s who never married, very nice ladie, she drove me home. She was talking about how he was so great. He spoke really well. And we were talking about him for a few minutes or so. She asked me where he lived and I told her that he lived on a nearby street. She told me I should go for more walks. That I should stop letting my mom walk the dog all the time.
Too funny. Clearly she meant I should get to know him more because he's a good guy, which is exactly what I want but she doesn't know that I like him. I'm asking God to arrange things so that I can marry him. But more than asking for a husband when I'm eighteen or even a boyfriend, what I'd like most to have with this man right now is a good solid conversation about church. I'd like to know what his plans are and what he hopes for when he goes to plant church. But he's a solid guy and I'd like to get to know him better.
On a different note, I have an interview tomorrow. I applied for an intership with MBC/Fair Havens. All the references and things got worked out. I wrote a bit about this in my last note. But yeah, if anyone reads this before tomorrow, if you could be praying that the interview goes well tomorrow. But more importantly that no matter whether the interview goes well or not or whether I get in, that my trust remains in Jesus for my purpose and for this coming year, for a future spouse, and whatever else might come my way.
That is what is on my mind. That's all folks! You can go home now. Seriously. OK.....
Thursday, August 13, 2009
bit of a word
So I thought I'd just leave a quick update date for y'all.
I got back from the cnc canoe trip on Monday. Four days long, lots of fun. Now I'm hanging around home, trying to go through the application process for an 8 month internship with two Christian camp type places. Getting accepted would also mean going to Costa Rica in January for month. So I'm hoping and praying. But I still need to finished apply and getting my references in order.
That's pretty much it. Pretty much the first time a quick update has been "quick".
But just a thought... Am I the only who things having a vlog would be super cool? I got a video camera for my birthday, so I suppose it could happen. It would require creativity. Sounds fun. Check out Strawburry17 on youtube. Just found her today on there; she seems pretty neat.
I got back from the cnc canoe trip on Monday. Four days long, lots of fun. Now I'm hanging around home, trying to go through the application process for an 8 month internship with two Christian camp type places. Getting accepted would also mean going to Costa Rica in January for month. So I'm hoping and praying. But I still need to finished apply and getting my references in order.
That's pretty much it. Pretty much the first time a quick update has been "quick".
But just a thought... Am I the only who things having a vlog would be super cool? I got a video camera for my birthday, so I suppose it could happen. It would require creativity. Sounds fun. Check out Strawburry17 on youtube. Just found her today on there; she seems pretty neat.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
I'm almost Georgian, but not really
So anniversary week was this past one. I spent most of it with 10 crazy Georgian relatives of mine. If I've counted correctly, there was 16 people all living in my granparents' house with two washrooms with only one having a shower. I really don't see that part of my family enough the last time I saw my oldest cousin who is now 30 was six years ago. Now her children that I knew are much bigger and she has a new baby girl (she is so cute!!! absolutely adorable - 10 month old and one of the most beautiful [headbutting] babies I have ever seen, without being bias of course...)
Hey, so I did some research on google to find what her kids would be to me and they would be my first cousins once removed (not second cousins). I can't really explain it well over this blog why but the "removed" part comes from the fact there's an extra generation seperating her from the common ancestors (my granparents). There's 2 for me and 3 for them. Their children will be my first cousins twice removed. Well, I guess you can look it up yourself and figure it out.
But I really don't see them enough of them. Seriously they're such great people. I played Settler's of Catan/Cities and Knights/Seafarers too many times. (If you like stragety games, they're the best board games you can find!). I went to the park and played freeze tag almost everyday with my cousins. I'll tell you a funny story about one of the first nights when I finish this little list. I played a number of games that forced the creativity out of me with one of my cousin's 7 year old daughter. Ummm. Lots of other stuff. Not having a TV and a big family is fun! I had my first Boston Cream this week, they're good!
So the story. Twas probably the Tuesday I think. We (meaning me, my siblings, 2 of my guy georgian cousins, and their oldest nephew and niece, hope that makes sense) were at the park playing freeze tag. It's getting late and my brother's trying to ambush me into getting tagged, when one of my cousins who we'll call Josh, realized that he got a gash in his toe (smart of him not to wear shoes) and was bleeding. So we leave the park. Josh's nephew is the first to get home who exclaims to all the adults at home "Josh is bleeding Josh is bleeding!" His mother, Josh's older sister, who we'll call Rachael jets outside still holding her youngest calling for her "baby". I, thinking she was freaking out the entire time we were at the park about her daughter being out, reply "I've got your baby!" (because I was walking with her - we were tight). But instead Rechael comes running to Josh and tells him to get on her back. So he gets on even though it's just a relatively minor cut, and she's trying to run back. I'm watching the whole thing and decide that I could be help and try to pick up Josh's feet, resulting in them both falling to the ground. Thinking she had just been pushed cries out "Who did that?!" At the time, I was trying not to laugh because I thought it was hilarious but nobody else did. Amongst my surpressed laughter I apologizingly admit to it. I actually apologized many times through out the week. Her bruised knees kept bring the subject up. But after they fell she realized that it wasn't as serious as thought and walked the remaining 20 feet. Joshy got some booboo juice and a waterproof Joe Jonas band-aid later on.
I don't know if I've written that in a way that sounds funny but I couldn't couldn't stop laughing the entire. One of my other cousin is a practising comic, maybe if I were him I'd be able to tell it better but he didn't witness the scene. (Andrew Duvall, I haven't seen the videos but apparently he's on youtube, though not his best stuff. It might not all be clean, he's not a Christian so far as I know) I guess it was more the expressions and the whole rediculous drama; I guess you would have just had to have been there... :S I don't know.
More importantly in my mind, I really want to get to know my cousin Rachael better. I'm drawn to her in a way that perhaps a youger sister is drawn to an older sister. But I can't tell you for sure since I don't have any older siblings. I just want to know her better. I'm intrigued by all the things I could ask her about that I don't know about her. 11 years ago she was in a similar situation to Dragonfly. Unwed and expecting her first child at nineteen. Fortunately, God blessed her with a man who married her and accepted both her and her son. But for example, I could ask her what it was like to go through that or being married.
The night before the bunch left to return home my sister and I were chatting with her while I was giving her a back massage (people tell me I'm good) and the whole thing was just very good, like it wasn't just meaningless banter, I got to know her better from it.
It was also just nice because it was late at night and her three children were in bed. I love them all and their southern talk so so much but sometimes it just seems like her attention is somehow always taken by them. And sometimes, in those moments, I'd wish she could just take a brake from parenthood and give me some attention because we only have the week together until at least another year.
She was saying that she hadn't been able to get any good rest that week because she'd been worrying about our Papa and how her parents would react if the dreaded news were to arrive ever so shortly after the 60th anniverasry. The following day she credited the good rest she got to the massage I gave her, but I told her that I had prayed that God would give her rest. So I'm thankful that she got some much needed rest.
I almost went back to Georgia where I would've been able to stay at her house to help babysit or pack for her family's new house they're moving to and I would've been able to have more one-on-one, face-to-face conversations with her. That was my parents slammed reality in to my face telling me that I simply didn't have the money to get back... They simply weren't willing to let themselves spontaneously go into dept for the adventure of my life. They also wouldn't let me go into dept to them for it either, but I don't think they're honestly to blame. I'm an adult now. I have to gain independancy one day. I have to be able to provide for myself one day. And doing that wouldn't really help me out in the long run. The sense is all here, although the fun was in the thought of going. But not really. Getting my hopes up was fun like getting all pumped to hear your first joke, anticipating the punchline and then having the comedian die right before you hear it is fun. Rather disappointing.
So the actual anniversary was very good on Saturday the 18th. I served food. My Papa got to dedicate his great granddaughter, Rachael's youngest, to the Lord. There was probably 3- maybe even 400 people there. And the whole thing was very beautiful.
Just shortly now, a note on camp. I called one of my friends who went, asking for the report. ........And they had no kids. I'm not joking. The community that had planned to come cancelled, so they essentially did PR work in the city to get a good name out for Eagle's Cove by doing day camps in different areas.
What I've learned is that you should never think that you know everything about any situation when bringing it before God in prayer, and that all plans belong to God and that He's big to handle any given task.
I think that's all I really have to say right now. Quite a bit, eh?
Hey, so I did some research on google to find what her kids would be to me and they would be my first cousins once removed (not second cousins). I can't really explain it well over this blog why but the "removed" part comes from the fact there's an extra generation seperating her from the common ancestors (my granparents). There's 2 for me and 3 for them. Their children will be my first cousins twice removed. Well, I guess you can look it up yourself and figure it out.
But I really don't see them enough of them. Seriously they're such great people. I played Settler's of Catan/Cities and Knights/Seafarers too many times. (If you like stragety games, they're the best board games you can find!). I went to the park and played freeze tag almost everyday with my cousins. I'll tell you a funny story about one of the first nights when I finish this little list. I played a number of games that forced the creativity out of me with one of my cousin's 7 year old daughter. Ummm. Lots of other stuff. Not having a TV and a big family is fun! I had my first Boston Cream this week, they're good!
So the story. Twas probably the Tuesday I think. We (meaning me, my siblings, 2 of my guy georgian cousins, and their oldest nephew and niece, hope that makes sense) were at the park playing freeze tag. It's getting late and my brother's trying to ambush me into getting tagged, when one of my cousins who we'll call Josh, realized that he got a gash in his toe (smart of him not to wear shoes) and was bleeding. So we leave the park. Josh's nephew is the first to get home who exclaims to all the adults at home "Josh is bleeding Josh is bleeding!" His mother, Josh's older sister, who we'll call Rachael jets outside still holding her youngest calling for her "baby". I, thinking she was freaking out the entire time we were at the park about her daughter being out, reply "I've got your baby!" (because I was walking with her - we were tight). But instead Rechael comes running to Josh and tells him to get on her back. So he gets on even though it's just a relatively minor cut, and she's trying to run back. I'm watching the whole thing and decide that I could be help and try to pick up Josh's feet, resulting in them both falling to the ground. Thinking she had just been pushed cries out "Who did that?!" At the time, I was trying not to laugh because I thought it was hilarious but nobody else did. Amongst my surpressed laughter I apologizingly admit to it. I actually apologized many times through out the week. Her bruised knees kept bring the subject up. But after they fell she realized that it wasn't as serious as thought and walked the remaining 20 feet. Joshy got some booboo juice and a waterproof Joe Jonas band-aid later on.
I don't know if I've written that in a way that sounds funny but I couldn't couldn't stop laughing the entire. One of my other cousin is a practising comic, maybe if I were him I'd be able to tell it better but he didn't witness the scene. (Andrew Duvall, I haven't seen the videos but apparently he's on youtube, though not his best stuff. It might not all be clean, he's not a Christian so far as I know) I guess it was more the expressions and the whole rediculous drama; I guess you would have just had to have been there... :S I don't know.
More importantly in my mind, I really want to get to know my cousin Rachael better. I'm drawn to her in a way that perhaps a youger sister is drawn to an older sister. But I can't tell you for sure since I don't have any older siblings. I just want to know her better. I'm intrigued by all the things I could ask her about that I don't know about her. 11 years ago she was in a similar situation to Dragonfly. Unwed and expecting her first child at nineteen. Fortunately, God blessed her with a man who married her and accepted both her and her son. But for example, I could ask her what it was like to go through that or being married.
The night before the bunch left to return home my sister and I were chatting with her while I was giving her a back massage (people tell me I'm good) and the whole thing was just very good, like it wasn't just meaningless banter, I got to know her better from it.
It was also just nice because it was late at night and her three children were in bed. I love them all and their southern talk so so much but sometimes it just seems like her attention is somehow always taken by them. And sometimes, in those moments, I'd wish she could just take a brake from parenthood and give me some attention because we only have the week together until at least another year.
She was saying that she hadn't been able to get any good rest that week because she'd been worrying about our Papa and how her parents would react if the dreaded news were to arrive ever so shortly after the 60th anniverasry. The following day she credited the good rest she got to the massage I gave her, but I told her that I had prayed that God would give her rest. So I'm thankful that she got some much needed rest.
I almost went back to Georgia where I would've been able to stay at her house to help babysit or pack for her family's new house they're moving to and I would've been able to have more one-on-one, face-to-face conversations with her. That was my parents slammed reality in to my face telling me that I simply didn't have the money to get back... They simply weren't willing to let themselves spontaneously go into dept for the adventure of my life. They also wouldn't let me go into dept to them for it either, but I don't think they're honestly to blame. I'm an adult now. I have to gain independancy one day. I have to be able to provide for myself one day. And doing that wouldn't really help me out in the long run. The sense is all here, although the fun was in the thought of going. But not really. Getting my hopes up was fun like getting all pumped to hear your first joke, anticipating the punchline and then having the comedian die right before you hear it is fun. Rather disappointing.
So the actual anniversary was very good on Saturday the 18th. I served food. My Papa got to dedicate his great granddaughter, Rachael's youngest, to the Lord. There was probably 3- maybe even 400 people there. And the whole thing was very beautiful.
Just shortly now, a note on camp. I called one of my friends who went, asking for the report. ........And they had no kids. I'm not joking. The community that had planned to come cancelled, so they essentially did PR work in the city to get a good name out for Eagle's Cove by doing day camps in different areas.
What I've learned is that you should never think that you know everything about any situation when bringing it before God in prayer, and that all plans belong to God and that He's big to handle any given task.
I think that's all I really have to say right now. Quite a bit, eh?
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Camp Week
Hey so, this is the beginning of the week of camp for my friends who are going up to Thunder Bay. If you guys could just be praying that God would do some really great things up there whenever you think of it, much thanks to youu.
This week I'll be at my grandparents. I get to see all my cousins together again. I'm so excited!!! I love it when we're all together. But another prayer request - my Papa had mini stroke recently so his well being is something of concern, espescially before the anniversary. Pray that he would get better please.
I got a video camera which I'm super excited to start using for cool things. I've just kind of been playing around with it so far. I wanna do some video journals - that sounds fun!
Now cool story. When I had finished grade 1 I moved with my family to where I live now. But I always remembered some of my friends from kindergarten and grade 1. I found one of them on facebook like a year ago and was disappointed to see who he had become because it's the total opposite of the kind of friend I would want now. I remember him being fun, smart and creative (and honestly wanted to marry, when we were in grade one). But he's just different.
Then, I find my gr1 class photo. Recheck his fb page. Start looking through some pictures and find the kindergarten photo and tagged was one of my other friends who's last name I couldn't remember. I decided to add her and we've been chatting and I would definitely call her a Christian based on what I know. She's an Egyptian, (how cool, right?) so she's of the Coptic Orthodox "brand" I'll say. I think there's a few minor theological differences but Jesus is definitely Lord. So it's just really cool and I hope to keep chatting with her some more. She seems like a really cool person and as disappointed as I was about the first guy, I'm excited that I found her. Pretty cool... :)
This week I'll be at my grandparents. I get to see all my cousins together again. I'm so excited!!! I love it when we're all together. But another prayer request - my Papa had mini stroke recently so his well being is something of concern, espescially before the anniversary. Pray that he would get better please.
I got a video camera which I'm super excited to start using for cool things. I've just kind of been playing around with it so far. I wanna do some video journals - that sounds fun!
Now cool story. When I had finished grade 1 I moved with my family to where I live now. But I always remembered some of my friends from kindergarten and grade 1. I found one of them on facebook like a year ago and was disappointed to see who he had become because it's the total opposite of the kind of friend I would want now. I remember him being fun, smart and creative (and honestly wanted to marry, when we were in grade one). But he's just different.
Then, I find my gr1 class photo. Recheck his fb page. Start looking through some pictures and find the kindergarten photo and tagged was one of my other friends who's last name I couldn't remember. I decided to add her and we've been chatting and I would definitely call her a Christian based on what I know. She's an Egyptian, (how cool, right?) so she's of the Coptic Orthodox "brand" I'll say. I think there's a few minor theological differences but Jesus is definitely Lord. So it's just really cool and I hope to keep chatting with her some more. She seems like a really cool person and as disappointed as I was about the first guy, I'm excited that I found her. Pretty cool... :)
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Hello again :)
Hi. I guess I'm finished my fast now. I had originally planned on posting something for the first but that turned out to be a bad day. I've been away this past week living with some cousins. Went camping, did some cliff jumping, dog walking, campfires ...oh and some unplanned skinny dipping one evening before the sun even set(nothing happened, no one saw though). Fun stuff!
So obviously I'm out of the loop and have got some catching up to do in time. I was kind of hoping that Sam would have something new up. but I've been learning a lot. I've got a really great C&C group that I actually need to be getting ready to go to right now... but it's awesome, way closer to what church is really is supposed to be like and I absolutely love it!
I should be posting more, summer can get a bit inconsistent but you know, I'm 'round. Feel free to check up on me if you wanna hear from me and you haven't. Ummm. I've really got go turn off my stove. So ya I've miss you guys, thanks for the prayers!
So obviously I'm out of the loop and have got some catching up to do in time. I was kind of hoping that Sam would have something new up. but I've been learning a lot. I've got a really great C&C group that I actually need to be getting ready to go to right now... but it's awesome, way closer to what church is really is supposed to be like and I absolutely love it!
I should be posting more, summer can get a bit inconsistent but you know, I'm 'round. Feel free to check up on me if you wanna hear from me and you haven't. Ummm. I've really got go turn off my stove. So ya I've miss you guys, thanks for the prayers!
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Fast
Tonight at C&C the Spirit of God did something very, very big that shows promise of much more. I learned a lot and I have much to learn. But I'm going to be taking a fast from the blog for a while so I can really really just focus on God during this time. I can't say how long the fast'll be but I'm not just ditching or anything like I did before.
Big things, my friends, God has very big things planned.
Big things, my friends, God has very big things planned.
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