Hi, everybody.
Work has been kicking my arse of late, which is the reason behind the extended absence.
SPOILER WARNING - I'm going to give a movie review lower down, so if you haven't watched
The Departed yet, and plan to, you might want to skip it. I plan on ruining the ending in pretty specific detail.
Since we last talked, a number of things have happened. so i guess i'll just type whatever comes to mind.
First, I had a birthday.
Turned 27 on 02-27-2007. That should be all sorts of good luck or something. haven't won the lottery yet, though.
Daylight Savings Time is here. boo! exclamation mark.
radio signals suck when i leave the house and it's still dark, so i didn't get to enjoy my usual sports radio talk this morning. Maybe this is a sign that i should get satellite radio.
This also means the return of Working in the Yard season. We have centipede grass, which looks all brown and gnarly in the winter, but also means that i only have to mow seven or eight months a year.
So i have mixed emotions right now. I'm inherently opposed to performing manual labor, but there's also a pretty cool feeling when your yard looks better than your neighbors' and only marginally worse than the yard-obsessed people elsewhere in the subdivision.
The people we bought the house from were big-time green thumbs, which means our garden looks muy shitastic compared to how it looked a year and a half ago. so we're going to get rid of the high-maintanace stuff (those are easily identified by their prominent being-dead characteristics) and go with fewer plants.
I, actually, just want to pay people to take care of the garden, but courtney's too lazy to do that.
we went to Home Depot yesterday and bought some weed killin', plant diggin' up stuff, along with some waterhose roll-up thingies. some people down here call it a hose pipe, i call it a waterhose, mmhmmm.
Had some delicious crawfish from Sammy's in Baton Rouge and some very-good-but-not-quite-great crawfish from the Boiling Pot in Madisonville. If the Boiling Pot had potatoes and corn, it could have earned a higher ranking. they had some good flaor, but not eye-sell-shut spicyness that i like in a crawfish. Sammy's provided all the above.
***SPOILER ALERT***
Watched
The Departed this weekend. Good movie.
Aside from the occasional "Ok, i guess i missed something" moments, my biggest problem with the movie is that I like there to be a clear winner, even if it's the bad guy.
After DiCaprio got plugged, I was rooting for Damon to get away with it.
When everybody ended up getting killed, i was kind of like "eh."
***END SPOILER***
So now, I'm just going to take up some space, so people who don't want to read the review, don't accidentally glance up and see something.
BEGIN POINTLESS SPACE TAKING-UPPING
Man, this is really considerate of me.
A lot of people wouldn't go through this much trouble.
But there's no length i won't go to for my friends.
A real saint, i tell ya.
END POINTLESS SPACE TAKING-UPPING
So, I give The Departed a 7.67 out of 10. I'd definitely recommend it. And i'd watch it again, but probably wouldn't buy it unless it was one of those 4 for $20 deals or something like that. But I also don't typically buy many DVD's. even the ones i really like.
