Last night my best friend and I went to see the movie Mona Lisa Smile. It did not get all that great of reviews and I have to admit that there were some weak story lines, but overall I really liked the movie. Kirsten Dunst plays quite the bitch in the movie and does a really good job at it. Julia Roberts and Julia Stiles are both excellent in the movie. I really enjoyed it. I do not think that I would have ever been able to survive the 50's though.... pink chiffon, poofy, pink, long skirts, eewwwwwww.... :o) The previews showed some great potentials for other movies, Adam Sandler has a new one with Drew Barrymore that looks cute called 50 First Dates, Jennifer Garner has one that is called 13 going on 30 that looks really cute, Steve Martin and Cheaper by the Dozen, and the Mandy Moore one called Chasing Liberty. All of them look like they would be great chick flicks. I am sure that I could get my hubby to go to the Jennifer Garner one. :o) And of course the Adam Sandler one. What guy doesn't like Adam Sandler?? :o) It was nice to just get out and have some time to my self. Of course it was a teenager night and every single one of the kids had a cell phone, everyone was on the phone playing games, then in the middle of the movie the lady behind me had left her phone on, it rang and she ANSWERED the freakin' thing and talked for a good 5 minutes... it was annoying to say the least! I managed to bite my tongue, but I was not a happy camper.

Everything else seems to be pretty calm around here. We found out my hubbies great-aunt has Leukemia and has refused treatment. She is 87, is in the final stages of the cancer and has decided that she has led a full life and does not want to go through the pains of treatment. They are letting her go home for Christmas and do not think that she will live all that much longer. So if you are a prayer, please pray for her. Hubby seems to be doing ok with it. I do not think that it has really hit him.
Hubby has been hitting his business stuff pretty hard and it looks like he is going to make it on his own. He is really excited about the prospect of it and loves the thought of being able to work for himself. He had a few clients on the side while he was still working full time and now that he does not have that job anymore he can concentrate fully on his business and really get it going. It looks positive, he is good at what he does and he has a lot of contacts so I am praying that it is going to turn out the way that we want it to. He has a big job coming up in January that has been pending for a couple of months and they have finally decided on a time frame so that will be something else that will come up soon. Who knows maybe after a couple of years I can take some of the classes that he took and work with him. :o) He has talked about it several times, but with the kids so little it makes it hard to think of anything else but the kids and raising them.
SInce hubby has been home I have managed to get a little more time to myself and have been able to visit my grandparents more than I normally get to. It has been great to just sit and talk to them. The stories they have, the life that I never knew... the partying, WW2, my great grandparents that I barely knew... it is soo amazing. To think that my grandparents were quite the partiers, it is strange :o) Then of course our talks almost always turn to politics and after the Saddam thing I, of course, had to stir the pot and ask them if they actually thought that any democratic president would have been able to do it. They said that they thought that maybe they would have but that they would not have gone after Iraq the way Bush did. Then I brought up the name Donald Rumsfeld... I struck a cord with that one. I think that he is a great guy that is a no BS type of person. I respect that and think that we need more of that in the government. They are amazed that I am Republican considering I was raised in an all democratic family. My parents, aunt, grandparents etc. There are a few in my family that do not care about politics at all, they are too consumed in their own lives to really care about anything else. My grandpa has always been really involved in politics and have been friends with the Gephardt family for years. I have even met Gephardt, of course I was a kid and did not know the difference at the time, but it is amazing to see how people change and how my eyes were opened :o) My grandparents feel they went wrong somewhere :o) Well, I am off to finish cleaning my house while the hubby is working with my dad :o) Everyone have a great day and wonderful weekend!!