'As You Like It'

Last night, I watched 'As You Like It' with Jess. It's based on the Shakespeare play and maybe that's most of the reason that I was confused throughout the whole movie, but it could also be that we had the volume turned down a little low at the beginning cuz Jess's niece was over and she was sleeping. Whatever the reason, I spent most of the movie being confused about what was going on. It wasn't until about half-way thru it that I realized that 2 of the main characters were Rosalind and Orlando, which are the characters in the play that Josie's English class is discussing in 'Never Been Kissed.' Even after this dawned on me, I still didn't really know anything that was going on.

It wasn't a bad movie and some parts of it were actually pretty funny, but of course, it's Shakespeare, so everything is painfully drawn out and the issues seemed like they could have been handled more effectively in about 1/3 of the time. But, it was still pretty good.

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Tonight is the Lynard Skynard concert and I'm pretty excited about it! It looks like I'm going to end up driving to the Allen County Fairgrounds tonight because it appears that Jake doesn't want to drive. This will make my 6th trip in the past 7 days to Lima. I'm not too happy about so I'm going to try to talk Jake into driving once he comes over. :)

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While I was at the mall yesterday taking my brothers school clothes shopping, I picked up a few things for Jake (because his birthday is Wednesday). I got him 2 nice shirts from Old Navy because it's been a while since he's gotten any new ones. I picked him out one short-sleeved shirt and one long-sleeved shirt. Both of them can be either worn for casual-wear or dressy-casual, so they're pretty versatile.

After we finished up in Old Navy, we crossed the little hallway and went into Spencer's. It didn't take me very long to get his presents from there because I already knew what I wanted to get him. They had some Captain Morgan's paraphernalia which I saw the last time I was in there, and I had decided that I would go back and get him some of that stuff. I ended up picking him up a Captain Morgan's throw, which is made out of material that somewhat feels like a hoodie, and I bought him 2 glasses that have 'Captain Morgan's' on them. I figured he can use those for his rum -n- cokes. I also plan on picking him up a bottle of CM Spiced Rum for his party.

I ordered him a book online that's called 'Tigerheart.' I figured he would like it because it sounded like it was pretty similar to 'Peter Pan,' which he's a pretty big fan of. So, all of these presents should make for a pretty good birthday. I always go a little crazy when it comes to buying birthday and Christmas presents for him, but I don't think that I went as crazy as I usually do this time. I'll probably make up for it around Christmas. :)