Joe Biden Comes to Jupiter

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Click here to see a picture from PalmBeachPost.com of Adrienne at the Joe Biden rally in Jupiter. She is on the bottom left on page 8. The back of Chloe’s head is in front, Diego is standing next to her with his head turned, and Alli is on the bottom right (no idea who the lady is next to Diogo with the sun glasses on.) Fun, fun, fun for a bunch of high school kids!!!

Monster Mash Birthday Bash

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Today is Erica’s 13th birthday!!!! (Not possible!) She celebrated with a Halloween party. Fun times were had by all!

I made Adrienne’s Cleopatra costume and Erica’s Greek goddess costume:

They had fun sorting through their loot. They pitched the candy they didn’t like and traded with each other for their favorite things. It was adorable! Happy birthday, baby girl!!!!!!

One of the Best Shows Ever

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I can remember a few summers ago when my girls wanted to watch reruns of this show. I didn’t know anything about it. All I saw was a program on the tv with a teenage girl who had a boyfriend. Could you blame me, in this day and age, for not allowing them to watch it?
Then somehow one afternoon it came on when all three of us were watching tv together. In the episode a mom and her daughter went on a road trip to Harvard because it was the girl’s dream to go to Harvard one day. WHAT?! WHAT KIND OF SHOW IS THIS??!! I have to say I was immediately hooked.
Fast-forward to today…we own all seven seasons on DVD. One summer we spent days and night and days on-end watching episode after episode. A few hurricanes ago when schools were closed for more than a week we did the same thing.
Last year the show went off the air. We bought the final season when it came out on DVD, but it pained me to even think of watching it. We all loved this show so much (even Neil) that we just couldn’t stand the thought that it was over.
Erica was home sick all week. Guess what we did? Yup. We even cried and cried and cried and sobbed and sobbed during the final two episodes. We just kept saying to each other, “It can’t be over!”
If you have never seen Gilmore Girls, rent the DVD’s from Netflix. Or, better yet, keep an eye out for the DVD’s in the coming weeks in the Target sales flyer. For the past few years they have had the seasons on sale for only $14.88. They usually start putting them on sale in early November.
You won’t regret it. How this show never won an Emmy award, I will never know. It is infinitely fantabulous.
Do you agree?

Rosebud

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Okay, I just don’t get it. When I was in college I had to write a six page essay on the lighting in this movie (and it’s in black and white). I actually wrote three whole pages on the scene where he is a young boy playing out in the snow with his sled and he is taken from his parents. I have said many times how much I absolutely love old classic movies, and even old movies that aren’t classics, but when it comes to Citizen Kane, I just don’t get it. (Kind of like Wicked…I just don’t get that either.)

Yes, the lighting in the movie is fantastic and it serves its very own role in the film, but other than that, well, the fact that this movie is considered in some circles to be the best movie ever made.?? Hmmm. Feel free to leave me a comment and explain to me what I am missing because I really do want to know. Please tell me what I am not seeing.

Erica and I watched it tonight. (She has been home sick all week, so bedtime is off.) She thinks people consider it a classic because it is unlike any other film ever made. I thought that was a brilliant observation for an almost-thirteen-year-old. I guess that’s the appeal…there was never nor has there ever been another film like Citizen Kane.

It still doesn’t do much for me. It’s not one that I care to watch over and over again, like Rebecca or any other Alfred Hitchcock movie for that matter. And then, of course, there’s The Godfather. (I almost have the script memorized for Part I. Yes, that is a personal goal of mine…to memorize the script. Okay…I’m weird…but you are all my friends, so what does that make YOU???!!!!)

I’m just saying…