Dec 17, 2009Spending Your Christmas Vacation

Yeah that's right. Another Christmas entry to add to the others I've already posted here.

I really can't wait to get out of school if you can't tell. Just yesterday I was forced to wait outside because they were only using one metal detector for about 100+ kids. That wouldn't have bothered me if I WASN'T STANDING OUTSIDE IN THE FREEZING COLD THE WHOLE TIME.

I already told you guys that I get out next Wednesday, which better come quickly or I'll explode. What I didn't tell you is how I was going to be spending my vacation.

On Christmas Eve I will be going to my cousin's house.there will most likely be a lot of people that I won't talk to. I'll probably spend my time behind the view finder of my camera. The one thing I'm really looking forward to doing is making the heaviest cheesecake you can imagine. It will be fun and awesome to make as well as nice to finally be able to take decent pictures of it.

Yes, I am talking about my camera. Can you tell I'm excited? Well if you can't, I am. :P

Back to my story... after we leave my cousin's house, I need to go to church for. Then I finally get to go to bed.

On Christmas day, I open presents (if I have any, didn't ask for anything) and go over to my grandmother's house for lunch. Once again my camera will be glued to my hands pressing the shutter button hundreds of times.

Don't get me wrong, I love going over to my grandmother's house, but why shouldn't I be able to take pictures?

Now that you've heard about what I'm going to do, what are you going to do over your vacation or day off? If you're having family over or are going to someone's house, do you converse or are you a semi-antisocial snail like me?

Dec 15, 2009Review of Disney's "A Christmas Carol"

Last Saturday I went to the movies with three of my friends to see A Christmas Carol. I had completely forgotten what this movie was about, but once my brother said the name "Scrooge", I quickly remembered.

Anyhow, I didn't know that the movie was in 3D (my friend texted me like 20 minutes before the movie began). I should have brought my glasses, but even if I had, it would have been very tricky to get both them and the uncomfortable 3D glasses on my face. I should probably look into contacts because of situations like this... and because I think they are one of the coolest things next to overhead projectors.

I won't give away much from the movie, but if I had to summarize it in one word, I would probably said, "weird".

The movie begins with the camera going through the air on Christmas Eve having 3D snow flying past you. All of the scenery is done very nicely. Then again, what doesn't Disney that has nice graphics? The first ten minutes of the movie is totally filled with 3D effects, which make my already crappy (20-40-somethingish) vision worse. For normal people's eyes, it was probably interesting and cool, but for me it just made me dizzy. I closed my eyes for a minute or two and just listened.

The basic story line of the novella is the same, Disney just makes the transition from spirits very quickly. They probably could have stretched it out more since the movie only ran a little over an hour. My favorite spirit was probably the first one because of how it was depicted, but my friends enjoyed the second one since they laughed like the whole time he was playing. :P

Do I think this movie was worth $10.50? No. Did I enjoy it? A little, but it was mainly to see my friends. Would I recommend it? If you are expecting Disney awesomeness, no; if you have a free movie pass and have nothing else to see (though, you should totally see Ninja Assassin instead), sure go ahead.

Have you seen any movies lately? If you have, did you enjoy them and would recommend them? If you haven't, what movies would you like to see?

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