The wife seems to have picked up the DVD of the much talked about movie called 10,000 B.C. the other week, and I was not informed of the purchase, it appears that the DVD immediately got taken upstairs, never to be seen again by our children. I only just now found out about the purchase while watching TV and a commercial came on about the movie and I stated an interest in watching it, that is when the wife spoke up and said that we already owned the movie and that she would enjoy watching it with me, later that evening.

We made a mistake in deciding to watch this DVD in the bedroom, usually when we watch a movie at night while in bed, one or both of us would fall asleep and miss most of the movie, which surprisingly enough didn’t happen this time.

We should have watched this very slow moving and very dark and shadowed film in the living room on the large screen HD TV to have gotten the full effect of it all. There was a few times where there where sub tittles that neither one of us could read on the screen on our regular sized television set that we have in our room, so we were pretty much clueless on most of what was going on.

We have decided to give the movie another chance, this time on the large screen in the front room and hopefully this time it will prove worthy of the money spent on this disappointing (at this time) movie. It was so boring that neither one of us could believe that we were still awake at the ending of it. I think we were both trying so hard to figure out what was going on that couldn’t fall asleep if we had to.

With only one month left before school starts up again, the wife and kids are all ready looking forward to the up and coming holidays that will be here before you know it. Our youngest came across a website that has some pretty entertaining Halloween Costumes that has caught her attention, and has got the other kids looking at them also.

You have to understand that it is normal here in this house for our kids to wait until just a few days ahead of Halloween, to finally get in the mood and then they have us drive them all around town trying to find a costume at the last minute, and of course by then the selections are pretty miserable and shabby. Then the arguing starts and no body comes home happy.

So I am all for ordering the costumes ahead of time this year.  And I’m curious as to which ones they finally decide upon, time will tell.

School begins here in our town on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008, that is well over a month away and already the TV is full of commercials advertising their “Back to School” merchandise. All of our kids have in hands, their lengthy school supply list and the wife is planning on taking them to Wal-Mart this week-end to get all that they need, in order to get the best buys for their money. You just can’t beat Wal-Mart’s prices for their school supplies, but the kids are not crazy about buying their Fall wardrobe from there, they are begging their mother to take them to the huge Mall that is 2 hours away from here so that they will have their own “unique” wardrobes in order to start the school year in style.

This particular Mall that they want to drive all that way to has tons of stores that are no where to be find around these here parts, and most people do their “Back to School” clothes shopping here locally at this tiny poor excuse of a Mall, so no one will be wearing what they will be sporting! At least that is the plan. 

We have been having “wet basement” issues for years now, due to our french drain blockage and the wife has finally taken it upon herself in researching and educating herself on the Internet and thinks that she has found a company that goes by the name of b-dry.com that deals with the French Drains Companies faults that we the home owners have to pay to fix the situation.

French drains can be found in many basements but they have a problem that causes them to slowly clog up with sediments and the results of that can be costly to fix, such as having to fix or replace the basement walls. We certainly don’t want things to get that bad off here at our home!

I’m glad that my wife has taken the initiative and contacted b-dry. We are awaiting the appointment that has been made and verified by them, and I’ll keep you posted on our progress!

My wife never ceases to amaze me, just today, for no other reason then she felt like doing something nice for me, she went out and purchased a brand new high definition 47 inch plasma TV! Now with the new tube mounted on the wall and my fathers day lazy boy chair squarely in front of it, the Friday night fights and the UFC fight nights on TV are more like front row seats ringside. She is a darling of a woman, which makes it extremely difficult for me to try and explain to people just what she sees in an uncouth old lout like myself. So I usually just leave that up to her, and she usually just grins and makes the sign of the size of the “fish that got away” story!