so what did i think of the movie? i really enjoyed it. what i didnt' enjoy was the movie going experience. some people just dont' know how to keep their opinions to themselves! they started laughing and ahaaing at inappropriate times and i just got really annoyed. when i watch movies, i like to be in my own little world absorbing the scenes, characters, evaluating my own thoughts and when i get interupted, i become very perturbed. after the movie, i wasnt' sure if i enjoyed the story, but after talking to parkin about it in the car ride home, i appreciated it more. my brother, the ultimate star wars fan, the reason i became a star wars fan, called me this morning to talk about it cuz he knew that i went to watch it last night. he loved it and we agreed that it was a good lead into episode III. i had some questions and he helped me understand certain parts. i do want to watch episode: I again. i should have watched it before going to see II to get into star wars mode. oh well. parkin already had II on vcd but we had to watch it on the big screen first. well worth the wait.
dana and brian invited us to their new apartment for lunch this morning. what a cute place! i really liked it. the kitchen was very spacious. brian is a good cook and he made us some yummy tacos. their bedroom next door was nice too. parkin and i had food coma after our scrumptous lunch and fell asleep on the bed. hehee. off to the side, they kind of closed off a section and are going to make either room for a daybed or a little breakfast area. they have really good ideas for what they plan to do to the place. i can't wait to see the final outcome, but as it is now, i love it. i'm so happy for them that they decided to move into an apartment together.
after lunch, brian and dana had to get going to work, so parkin and i headed out to check out a church that i found online. it was a nice place, but a little dark. what i've been telling people that i'm looking for is high ceilings, bright, and stained glass around. this place has high ceilings and stained glass, but it was a little dark inside. so it's on my list of maybes. tabitha called me about a church in woodside/palo alto that i need to find. it sounds promising! her friend is getting married there this july and is having the banquet at the same place parkin and i are going to have our banquet! lucky i dont' know that friend. hehee
when we finally got back to parkin's place, we watched the season finalie of will & grace then ER. around 6:30, i headed out to burlingame to meet up with some old college friends for dinner at steelhead brewery. originally, i wasnt sure if i wanted to go, but thinking of mike's death, i didnt' want to miss the opportunitiy to see people i dont' see often enough. my old college roomate camille was in town from la visiting her boyfriend... ex-boyfriend? (i really dont' know the story behind that), so my other ex roomie susan called me up. friends paul, dave and tony also made it out. i hadn't seen all of these guys and girls for almost 2 years.
camille is an interesting character. i lived with her for about 2 years along with susan and shirley. after she graduated, she moved back to la, where she grew up with her family and began med school. anyways, i hadn't talked to her or even emailed except for the occassional foward that she sent me. when she found out that parkin and i were engaged, the first things she emailed me was, "i'm invited right?" err.... umm.... when parkin and i started talking about prospective invitees, she was really not in my mind of guests. i haven't talked to the girl since she moved home, and there was no communication on her part or mine... so how did i answer? i didn't. i went around the question and answered other questions she messaged me. when she replied to that email, she said once again that she was happy for me, then to told me not to get married the second week of may because she's graduating that weekend. sooo, along with not talking to me for 2 years then inviting herself to my wedding, she mandated that i should not get married during her graduation weekend. hmm... ok.
of course i would love to invite every person that has come into my life in the past 24 years.... but i can't. i can't afford to take in consideration everybody that i've lived with or known. weddings are expensive! every person counts and i would like to have most of my guests be friends of the present... people that care to keep in touch with me now. i know that i dont' talk to my old school friend sandy often, we dont' talk for years at a time, but from time to time, she calls me and does email me... not the superficial stuff like chain forwards of 'you are my friend, send this back to me and 10 other friends and see who really cares'. she sends me cards and sweet letters. she is someone i am inviting because i know she truly cares to keep in touch with me, even tho she lives in vegas and i here in cali. i didn't feel the same way when she wrote, 'am i invited to the wedding?' when she asked me that, i replied with 'of course' because i dont' have to try so hard at our friendship, it's always there. we both made the effort to hold on to it.
so anyways, camille is on list b. list b is our reserves. if we find that we do have extra room, we will sort of do a lottery. hehee. yeah, we're retarded. but if camille is going to be invited, she won't be able to bring a guest. i'm mandating that.
i would have loved to take pictures today, of course i had no camera... BUT peg emailed me today. she and aric are going to let me borrow their old digital camera! YAY! that is soooo sweet of them to let me use it. they trust me! hehee. but err... my life isnt' very exciting, so don't expect too many pictures. i'm usually just here in my office working... not much to see. hehe. watch, when i do have the camera, i still won't have pictures to post. ha!