Wow, no blogging for a whole week...and I'm still sick, argh! Well, let's give a quick recap of the Thanksgiving weekend.

Wednesday...after a slow day at work before the holiday weekend, I had dinner with my aunt and uncle and her family in OC. My uncle just recently came back from Paris and showed me some pictures of my family and other stuff. (I have less than 20 days before I leave for Paris, woohoo!) I also got to see my youngest cousin, Cameron, who is 2 years old. I am the oldest of our generation. I've never really felt close to any of my cousins primarily because they are all still children, ha ha.

Thursday...went to the Hays family's house for Thanksgiving who have pretty much adopted me for all holidays I don't go home for. The funny thing about Thanksgiving is it is a major pig out holiday, but I don't have the appetite like I did when I was in high school. I eat more than normal for one meal and then I'm not hungry for the rest of the day which means I actually eat the least on Thanksgiving out of all the days of the year. Still, it was a good meal. I sure don't eat that well very often.

Friday...went to the big sale at Best Buy to see if there were any good deals. The cool thing about Best Buy in Westwood is nobody is there during the holidays so the huge sale goes pretty much unnoticed. There was plenty of parking and plenty of room to walk around in the store. I didn't mind that at all. I was already planning on buying a digital camera. I knew it would cut a huge chink in my cash flow. Unfortunately, the sale didn't help me on the camera, but I did get a 256 MB memory card for it for half price. I got a Canon Elph S400. It's a really good camera. Then I went to Simi Valley to hang out with my friends, Dave and Esther. I took some pictures of the fire damage all over the hills with my new camera. This camera takes excellent pictures. I'm definitely satisfied with my purchase. We saw the movie, The Haunted Mansion. I wanted it to do well, but it was pretty mediocre. Dave said it was the worst movie of all time. I wouldn't say that, it's just forgettable in my opinion. It's not nearly as good as Pirates of the Carribean. I did enjoy the nods to the ride, but the plot was not very deep nor interesting. It seemed like this would have been a better TV movie than a theatrical release. I wonder what's going to happen to Eddie Murphy. He's made alot of stinkers lately.

Saturday...Giovanni asked me if I could help one of his friends move in Santa Clarita. I figured I've had plenty of time on the weekend to relax and have fun and the sacrifice would be no different to anyone else helping. I'd sure would want the help if it were me. So I decided to help. It's always nice to meet a member of our enormous church outside of our fellowship group anyways. This guy was a man from Italy by the name of Adamo. He is a hair stylist and chef and actually cuts John MacArthur's hair. We had alot of hands, but it was a hard day. We made three trips in a fairly good sized U-haul truck. The last trip was the hardest where we had to move about 20 very large potted plants. Adamo grows his own ingredients for his spaghetti sauce. It took about 8 hours to do all the moving. I felt sicker after that. I got home at 7pm and fell asleep right away. I woke up for church the next morning. 12 hours!!! I felt alot better though.

Throughout the weekend I watched the mega-documentary of The Two Towers DVD. It's 6 hours long. Although it's an epic, I enjoyed it very much. I can't wait for the next movie. It's too bad it's going to be another year before the Return of the King extended DVD comes out. Then all of this trilogy craziness will be over. Just watching the sheer complexity involved in making any of these LOTR movies is enough for me to never want to make a movie. It's way easier just to be an actor. But even they had alot of trouble because of the makeup and prosthetics they had to wear and also the injuries they sustained while working. I like all the little stories they tell about certain things in the filming process or how they came up with a certain idea or what things happened by accident. It makes me wonder about all the other movies that were made that probably have stories just as good, but never made it to a DVD. This movie was definitely made with DVDs in mind. That's why the content is so good.