Whoosh! And here I am chez Powers. No, not my house - Sweet Husband's family's house. Yup. New Year's with the In-Laws.

It's not too bad... not really. We were put in Sweet's youngest brother's room (this is the half-brother, the rest are steps) and for some reason... well... the sheets are stinky. So we changed them. Also, we're both suffering from headaches and I'm not sure why. I ended up taking some Advil and mine went away, but Sweet's head is still aching. Is it the familial stress? The stinky sheets? The vague smell of mold and mildew in the air? (In-law's aren't exactly Martha Stewarts, if you catch my drift.)

And I'm on their PC to update y'all. It's about an hour to go before the New Year. There's some people in the other room watching some snowy college bowl game while I'm struggling to type on this keyboard. My fingers are slipping a lot for some reason.

We saw 'Proof of Life' today. Eh. Meg Ryan is NOT an actress. Don't try to tell me she is. She isn't. Any competent actress could've pulled off that role. I learned nothing about the character watching that movie. Russel Crowe, on the other hand, can NOT look bad no matter what he's wearing. Blood, grime, sweat or a well-cut suit & tie. He's wonderful. The husband/kidnap victim character was interesting, too. He, like Crowe's character, grew & developed. Not Ryan. The same whiny idiot from beginning to end. Meg Ryan is not an intelligent woman... or at least, can not play intelligence.

I think the movie should've been scripted differently, too. The married couple should've seemed more in love, more bonded than they were. Instead, they seemed like strangers. However, if they were more of a 'matched set,' then the wife's pain could've been more realized & poignant. She could've had a scene where she breaks down in front of Crowe, sobbing about how she misses her husband's touch, his smell, his taste - whatever. Crowe, having fallen for her (because she needs him so much), takes her in his arms and makes love to her, which she desperately needs (the attention, the presence of a man, etc.). Then - the audience knows she's cheated on her husband (who's not being treated entirely badly but not entirely well, either) plus they know that, for Crowe, the lovemaking was his only chance with the wife, and now he's got to go risk life & limb to rescue her husband.

Instead, all he did was kiss her. Big deal. IF it had gone as I just laid out, then the wife could've had a crisis moment where she didn't know if she loved Crowe or her husband, and Crowe would've had to tell her she did - that the sex wasn't a cheat or anything, but simply the 'proof of life' that she was still living & breathing & all that. See? Instead, Meg Ryan is supposedly enough - just on her whiny self - to make a man rethink his entire life's work. Yeah. Like I believe that.

And before any of y'all think I am jealous of Meg Ryan, I wasn't the only person in that theater today who thought so and I wasn't even the first person to say so! Nyahh!

I'm going to try and surf a little before midnight. My sister-in-law Karen is supposed to be coming by. I like her. And I want to see what else I may be missing elsewhere.

Just so you know... I'll be coming home tomorrow and taking Tuesday off work. I need to recuperate from this weekend!!!

One last thing: It's COLD!!
posted by SPowers at 11:17 PM | Remember It!