I may be the only one out there, but I was bored and a bit insulted....

So after a rather long, uneventful week (for the girls that is...I was planted in my office working diligently as I try to get my arms around my new job...) we decided to treat the girls to a hamburger and a movie yesterday. We chose this cute new hamburger "joint" right next to the new San Tan Theater simply because it was next to the theater and we didn't want to take the chance of being stuck in the front row of the ever awaited WALL.E. The hamburger was descent, Jessica gobbled up her peanut butter and jelly sandwich (yes...she gets taken out to eat and this 5yr old orders a P & J). Greg finishing first, graciously stood in line and got us a prime location in the theater as me and the girls window shopped until it was time for the movie. With our pre-bought candy in hand (yes, I'm a smuggler...can't bring myself to pay those prices) we anxiously sat through all the previews and a very cute "short". Finally the feature begins and wouldn't you know it...there's a power outage and everything goes pitch black. They turn on the generator powered lights and instruct us to stay in our seats and wait. A few of us decided to go ahead and make one last dash to the restroom while there was a window....we did NOT want to take the chance of missing any of the feature once it started back up. It was less than 10 mins of waiting before the power was back up and the event that we had worked up all day for was before our eyes again.

I often get razzed by Rachel for falling asleep during movies. This time when she asked me if I thought if I was going to make it through...I informed her that I only fall asleep if I'm over tired or I'm bored with the movie. About half way through, Greg leans over and asks me if I'm drifting off...and I told him no, but only because I'm annoyed. If it weren't for that fact...I'd certainly be enjoying the dark, cool, quiet opportunity to catch some zzzzzzz's.

I may be the only one out there, but I was bored and annoyed by this waste of film. I think Rachel was right...it would have been better as a "short". It was 2 llloooonnngggg hours of this admittedly adorable robot, but the message was WAY over done and frankly I was insulted. Don't get me wrong...I'm all for being responsible for our environment, for being conservative with our resources, for recycling and not wasting, but this was over kill. I also found it highly hypocritical of the film makers to so boldly bash consumerism when the Disney store down the block was literally sold out of their WALL.E paraphernalia.

As you can tell...this struck a nerve and for those of you who know how opinionated my husband is, can probably imagine how this movie sparked conversations that lasted through out the drive home and the rest of the evening. Although I do believe that as a person who is blessed to be on this earth at this time, it's my duty to be responsible and take care of this beautiful planet...but this movie if anything turned me more against that industries ranting and raving than otherwise.

The one bright point that came of this whole topic is how grateful I am for my job. Where did that light bulb come from? Of course coinciding with the topic of the movie, gas prices were brought in to the conversation (as it is in most conversations these days)...I suddenly realized how lucky I am to have the job that I have. Besides the fact that I don't really want to work and that I've had to travel more than I care to to right now...I am fortunate enough to have a job that I get to do from the comforts of my own home. I don't have to wake up at the crack of dawn, scramble to figure out what "cuter than someone else's" outfit to wear and best of all...don't have to get in a car and worry if there's enough gas in it to get to work. The thought of having to budget $500 a month for gas these days is overwhelming to me...and I'm soooo grateful that I don't have to!!! That's more money in my pocket to do things like....go to more movies that I actually like.

One of my faults.......

As last year this same time...Heidi and family headed to Arizona to visit Troy's family. Luckily for us it's only a 2 and a half hour drive and up in the mountains...we had such a great time last year, so we gladly took the drive up again this year. Yes...this is still Arizona with pine trees and temperatures below 100 in June. Troy's parents have this great house with the perfect setting for family fun...large lawn, trampoline, zip line, 2 labs with never ending energy and of course Joyce and Lee and their warm welcoming spirit. We were introduced to geocaching, but weren't all that successful...I think we qualify more as "muggles" than geocachers. As last year, we had a great time, it was well worth the 5 hours in the car...we look forward to the same next year.

Every single day I wake up and head to my office and fire up my laptop. Monday through Friday it's to work, but believe it or not...on Sunday's it's to blog. Then why so long between posts you ask? I start out by reading others blogs and get discouraged because I haven't quite figured out how to make mine as creative as theirs. So in the Lisa fashion...instead of just posting...I put it away. I've always been this way. I remember as an 8 year old...scared to death to perform at the end of our 8 week ice skating class and so I faked a stomach ache. I remember as a teenager wanting so bad to be in something in school, but more afraid of failing so I wouldn't try out. As an adult I tend to go with out rather than taking the chance of not getting exactly what I want.

I remember Gabe as a freshman wrestling and struggling through each and every match but finished the season. I remember Dami snow skiing ALL day and spending 95% of it in the slushy snow but he did it ALL day. I'll never forget the day that I drove up to witness Joel trying to ride his bike for the first time on his new leg...all sweaty just going to the end of the block and back, but he did it. Rhyannon going out for the water polo team and fighting so hard to become an asset to her team mates. Ally playing goalie on her soccer team even though she hated it. Rachel never missing a track practice even though she knew she wouldn't make it to the finals. Jessica, scared to death to jump off the side, but going to swimming lessons with a smile on her face for 2 solid weeks.

I know it's a bit extreme to compare my fear of not creating a cute blog to the accomplishments of my kids, but I have to recognize that this is a fault of mine. How the heck am I going to get better if I don't "do"? So...with that being said...even if I can't make my blog as cute as Miq's or Amanda's...I will suck it up and do it. Maybe somewhere along the way I'll get better.