Our wild and crazy weekend...

Brokeback Mountain made us cry our eyes out on Friday. It's really a fascinating story and it made us realize how lucky we are to be surrounded by supportive families, friends, and colleagues. It was so powerful it made us want to walk out of the Angelika arm in arm, but then we looked around and remembered we were in Plano and not Oak Lawn. We're not big into that p.d.a. anyway so it was okay. Heath Ledger was amazing! What a departure from playing Billy Bob Thornton's son in Monster's Ball. Jake Gyllenhaal was loveable too, and then... Wow. I want to see it again.

We got up yesterday at 6:30am to go to Walmart. Walmart is a blast when no one else is there! We had a few last minute Christmas things to get for our nieces Jada and Ciara, plus we needed some beef jerkey and nuts for our road trip, and I needed some new $5 long-sleeved shirts for layering. We spent most of the two hours we were there just piddling around and browsing through fun crap like the pre-packaged sausage and cheese log gift sets. I love that stuff! Cheese logs are the greatest...especially the ones rolled in chopped nuts. That's some down home snackin' goodness right there. I don't think God meant for cheese to spread, but I sure like it when it does. Gift sets are the greatest. We saw crocks full of mustard, assorted jams and jellies, mugs with the hot chocolate powder already in them (time saver), and even a collector's pickup truck full of pistachios. I loved it all and I wanted to roll around on the floor in a big pile of those pretty boxes, but we moved on to rum extract and brown sugar before I had the chance. We didn't buy any gift sets, but we got plenty of warm fuzzies just being in that aisle, which is probably the point anyway. Warm fuzzies provide a bigger payoff than a bite of a cheese log anyway.

I'm distraught about the end of the Colts' perfect season, but as long as they go on to the playoffs, win the AFC, and advance to the Super Bowl and win that, I'll be okay. Exhale... They play at the Seahawks this weekend and we'll be in Nebraska and away from our NFL Sunday ticket, so I'm already stressing about whether or not my parents will get the game. Could be a Super Bowl preview. The Cowboys just plain suck now, huh.

I'm in for Cruz today. Yay! I love that.