Fall Utah Shakespearean Festival

Next weekend, we will be going to the Utah Shakespearean Festival in Cedar City. We, meaning my aunts Kaye and JoAnne, and Margel. I have made arrangements to leave work on Friday about noonish and go down to see the evening performance of Tuesdays with Morrie. Margel will come later. On Saturday, we will see The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged and The Women in Black. I'm really looking forward to seeing the Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged as one of my favorite actors down there, David Ivers, is directing it. It should be good.

I'll give my reviews in my next blog.

Love Happens

Saturday night, Margel, Kaylynne, Tonja, and I went to see Love Happens. It starred Aaron Eckhart and Jennifer Aniston and was a pretty good movie.

Dr. Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart) is a self-help guru who is on the verge of a lucrative multimedia deal. But there's a problem: though he advises his patients to confront their pain, Burke has never come to terms with his wife's death. Eloise Chandler (Jennifer Aniston) has had enough of men and dating, and is busy concentrating on her floral business. When they meet, Burke and Eloise feel an instant attraction, but wonder if they'll be able to let go of their painful pasts and embrace the future.

It's not going to win any awards but I liked it.

Mad Dash Against Cancer

I had mentioned in my previous post that I didn't stay overnight at the scrapbookers weekend. This is why. I was in a 5k. It was held at the American Fork Hospital benefiting the Huntsman Cancer Center there. I enjoy 5ks especially when they are for a good cause.

I averaged about 15 minutes a mile which is my normal. I can't seem to go much faster than that for some reason. The most important thing to me is that I finished. That is my goal for each race I'm in, to finish.

I'm not sure when my next one will be but there is a Halloween one coming up in about 3 weeks that I am planning to do.

Cousins weekend

This weekend, we had a scrapbookers weekend with a few of my cousins. It was held in the Pleasant Grove rec center. My cousins, Margel, Kaylynne, Tonja, her daughter Kalysta, Mitzy, her daughter Jennifer, and Katie were all there. Tonja is the one who heard about it and got us all signed up for it. Thanks Tonja!!

Thanks to Margel, we have pictures. The first picture shows from left to right, Mitzy, Katie, Kalysta, Tonja, and Kaylynne at our table. This must have been taken after I had left.

There was a contest of who could come up with the craziest outfits. The second picture shows me, Margel, Tonja, and Kaylynne modeling our outfits. Guess who won!! We built our outfits around the socks. Pretty crazy, huh!!

The weekend started on Friday and ended on Saturday. Everyone stayed there except for me who had a 5k race the next day. I don't think any of them got too much sleep. Tonja didn't sleep at all. Guess she was too into her scrapbooking to sleep!!

There was a few classes and other contests being held throughout the whole time. They fed us dinner and brunch the next day.

It was a fun time to get together as cousins and catch up with each other. I don't have any sisters but these cousins are the closest people I have to being sisters. I'm grateful that we are so close.

Spider experience

Friday night, we had game night at JoAnne's home in Provo. Kaye, Margel, Marylynn, Mitzy, Katie, Tonja, Alene, and a bunch of kids were there. All of a sudden the kids started screaming about a spider. When we looked at the spider, it looked quite a bit like this. For those who know their spiders, it was a hobo spider. Needless to say, total chaos was happening for quite a while. I still get the willies thinking about it. Anyway, Tonja and Mitzy killed it and we got a better look at it.

I sure hope I don't run into one of those again!! It was a scary looking thing!!

Patrick Swayze 1952-2009

This past week was a sad one in the entertainment world. Patrick Swayze passed away on September 14th from pancreatic cancer. He was just 57 years old. He had been battling the cancer since 2008.

He was an accomplished dancer and actor who starred in such movies as "The Outsiders", "North and South", "Dirty Dancing", and "Ghost". The last two were his best known movies.

Labor Day

Tomorrow is Labor Day so I have the day off from work. I'm not sure what I'm going to do.

Labor Day means that summer is just about over. I don't like that idea. The summer just went by way too fast for my taste!!

The Proposal

Last night, I went to see this movie with my cousins, Margel, Kaylynne, Tonja and her daughter Kalista. They had all seen it and said that I needed to see it. It starred Sandra Bullock who is a favorite actress of mine so I decided to go see it.

Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is the executive editor-in-chief of a book publishing company, Colden Books, who forces her assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) to marry her in order to avoid being deported to Canada. He grudgingly accepts, under the condition that he is promoted to the position of editor. When the government investigates, the two are forced to spend the weekend with his parents in Alaska in order to sell the lie. The family suggest they could marry the same weekend, and they reluctantly accept. They start to fall genuinely in love as they spend more and more time together. Because of this, during the wedding ceremony, Margaret decides she cannot do this to Andrew and confesses the business arrangement in front of everyone--including the immigration officer handling their case. She is then told that she has 24 hours to get back to Canada, and thus goes back to New York to pack her things. Upon doing so, however, Andrew shows up at the office and confesses his love for her in front of the entire office staff, proposing marriage all over again.

Except for a couple questionable scenes, I really liked this movie. I will probably buy it when I goes out on DVD. It's definately a chick flick.