Real Life Movie
27 Apr 2009 Leave a Comment
Tonight John and I saw “He’s just not that into you.” I’ll be honest I went out of pure curiosity. I had heard mixed reviews about this one, so I thought it could go either way. But I was impressed. It’s the first movie I’ve walked out of in a long time with that, “I just saw a good movie feeling.” John too! Amazing.
I think what we liked about it was that it not only focused on the lives of single 20 and 30 somethings in Baltimore, it showed real life of these singles (and one married couple). It revealed how guys are and how girls are. I can totally relate to the girls…in one scene the girls thought they finally had it all figured out. One girl thought she finally “knew” that this one guy was into her. After being confirmed by her friends, they immediately jumped online to look at places for the “new couple’s” destination honeymoon. And the guy hadn’t even asked the girl out yet…”but the signs were there.” LOL! How true, and easy we girls go there. But hey, if we know we can go there, would we just want to stop ourselves first? You would think, right? Anyway, not what this is about!
The movie explored the truth about relating to the opposite sex. Bottom line ladies, if a guy is into you he’ll make it happen. If he’s not into you, he won’t call. Its not because he’s intimated, not because he’s out of town, working late, or with a dead grandmother. As the title of the movie informs us, “He’s just not that into you.” It’s ok though…because its not about getting him into you…its about being yourself and sometime there will be someone who’s into you. The anticdote at the end of the movie stated, “life isn’t so much about finding someone who’s into you, its more about finding who you are and doing that.” (quote my own)
Aside from the trials of the married couple and the husband’s girlfriend, the movie seemed very relatable. Overall, I would reccommend this movie for anyone to take a look at how men and women relate. Take it for what it is…a real-life look at how we are. We can laugh during the movie because we relate and know of its truth!
A Weekend of a Few Things
05 Apr 2009 Leave a Comment
in Friends, Movie Reviews, Prayer
On Friday I received a rejection letter from a job I had applied for while I was unemployed. I laughed. I find it funny that I’m still being rejected, even after I’ve been employed (i.e. accepted) elsewhere. This sure doesn’t do a lot for the self-esteem…lol! I mean come on, getting rejected after the fact. Its really not that bad.
On Saturday, I was able to connect with my best friend, Laura for a bit. It was a good time, as always. We haven’t been able to do get together as much because of our schedules, so it was good to re-connect and pray together for life. This was followed by a movie with John. We saw, “The Knowing.“ Let’s just say I thought it was going to be another one of those “end of the world-type-movies.” It was of sorts…but not what you’d expect. It was going along ok and then took a weird turn south. It take a stab at biblical truths, tries to tie them in with fantasy and new age stuff. It’s really a commentary on the beliefs of the world. Sad really. I wouldn’t recommend it.
Saturday night was interesting and distrubing. I went to bed early because I was very tired. Then I was woken up by the disturbing sounds coming from the apartment above me. It sounded like my new neighbors were having a good time. Good for them…crappy for me! 
Needless to say, I invested in some good earplugs today.
Then today I drove up to Westlake to go to my friend Carol’s baby shower. It was great! Such a celebration of life. I won two games!! Yeah for me! I won the BINGO with the gifts game and the “don’t say the word BABY or you’ll loose your clothes pin” game. I ended the day with like 18 clothes pins. But the most fun (besides seeing little Carol with a big pregnant belly) was catching up with my friend Leah. Leah is much like me in her sensitivity to the Lord’s movement. He has been moving her and people around her much like He’s been doing here with me and those around me. It was awesome to talk with her about what the Lord is up to in her area and in her life. It never ceases to amaze me that when we get together, after not talking for months on end, that we pick up right where we were and can totally tell where the other is at. What a blessing to have established such friends earlier and have been able to keep up with them…even if it is mostly on facebook. 
What about me moments
18 Jan 2007 1 Comment
in Family, Friends, Movie Reviews, My Ever Changing Life, Prayer, Singleness
How many times in life have I stopped in my tracks and thought, what about me? Only to hear in my head, “what about you?” Cause, ya know it’s really not about me. I haven’t had very many of these moments lately, but I’ve begun hearing them in the undertones of others. Its like when I am sitting at a happy moment in life for someone else, watching as their lives are unfolding into everything they ever hoped or dreamed and I ask, ok…what about me? Now, it doesn’t come out in those exact words when talking to or with others. But you can hear it in the voice. There is a change in the tone or even in body language…the head tilt.
I’m reminded of lessons I’ve heard that say, be careful what you wish for because you just might get it. Often times when we wish for something its by selfish motives that we are wishing (or dare I say, even praying for it). There is a scene at the end of Under the Tuscan Sun where Frances, the main character played by Diane Lane, a bitter Divorcee who moves to Tuscany and buys an old run down cottage, is reminded that she got everything she wished for. Although it is nothing like what she imagined it to be. She had wished for a wedding, and a family. Her friend reminded her as she looked out at the crowd gathered to celebrate the wedding of another friend that she had gotten everything she wanted. There was the moment of realization, she said nothing, but she sat down looked over the crowd and smiled the smile of overwhelming peace and rest. And then of course because it is Hollywood a handsome stranger approached…and they lived happily ever after!
And since this isn’t Hollywood, my handsome stranger hasn’t come, but I am sitting, looking over the crowd of my life (my family and friends) and have realized that I have gotten every thing I’ve ever wanted and more! And the best part about it is knowing that there is still more to come!
Self Worth
02 Jan 2007 Leave a Comment
in Movie Reviews, Randomness, Singleness
I’m sitting at my friends’ apartment and we’re talking about the nueances of Myspace. It’s always been a place to meet new friends, connecting with old ones, and a way to keep up with all of them. I signed onto my account tonight to find that I have no new comments and no new mail and no new friend requests. I said jokingly, “no one loves me.” But as I’ve often said, there is always at least a little bit of truth in every bit of sarcasm. I’ve heard similar comments from other friends of mine. The scenario is the same, signing onto Myspace, or Facebook, or yahoo, or where ever they connect to others in cyber-space and having no one to connect with. So are these on-line blogs becoming another way for us to feed into the lies that we are worthless? Are they really benefitial to us? Interesting question…its kinda like when I post things on here and get no response. It is so much more fun when you do get comments.
I think we can all agree that in the days of “you’ve got mail” it was a bit of a ego boast to hear the voice say those three little words. Its as if Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks taught us to that our self worth hinges on that so little, but waity phrase. Remember in the movie when Tom stops writing Meg for a few days, how upset she was. She felt rejected and unloved. The charaters are different, the internet service has changed, but the feelings of rejection are the same.
Second Chance
31 Aug 2006 Leave a Comment
Last night I watched the movie Second Chance. If you haven’t seen it, watch it. It stars Micheal W. Smith. He plays a pastor from a big mega-church in Nashville, TN. His church “The Rock” is the sister church to Second Chance Community Church in inner city Nashville. The Rock is a huge, upper class, suberbia church in a well-to-do area of Nashville. Second Chance is the polar opposite. Micheal’s charater is a haughty man who thinks he’s got all the answers in his comfy chair leading worship for a stadium full of people. He is then told he needs to go to Second Chance to “watch and learn.” It is here where he learns humbleness. It is at Second Chance where he learns “real life ministry.”
When he first arrives to Second Chance he asks the pastor to show him to his office. The pastor says, ‘you want to see you office, follow me’ as he takes Michael through the streets of his community and talks with the drunks, the strung out, the business men and women, and the homeless. That is Michael’s office…the community.
This movie powerfully displays the dynamics and divides that are so often overlooked in the church. We are called to love one another. But, what does love look like? This movie allows us to see that its never too late to get a second chance to love in this life.
