The Holtonian

My own bed finally.....

I hate this computer! I typed a whole paragraph and then with one miss type of a key the whole thing got deleted... and I'm too lazy to write what i wrote again. Basically to sum up, I bought a Sony 5 megapixel camera on friday....
WIth a 50$ mail in rebate and 20 bucks off from the store so I jumped on it. Though there was a glitch as there always is whenever one conducts business with sears, they didn't have any cameras in stock. though i'm not suprised they never carry anything in stock, sometimes i think they're stilll really doing the mail order catalog thing just with a store to throw in a middle man. I'm supposedly getting it the third week of January but I may try to rush it up a bit by calling the chattanooga sears and seeing if they can't speed it up, though i doubt they will. After that it was off to Atlanta.

We went to the wife's grandparents and had a huge old southern meal of roast beef, sweet potatos, green beans, squash caceroll, rolls, corn bread, and a whole mess of deserts. We then watched the wife's cousins open their presents, I had already opened mine down in macon so it was more of a spectator sport for me. Oh and after everyone left Wife, Mother In Law, and I played Settlers till 2ish. We kept playing because I kept losing and after my third miserable defeat I caved and we went to bed. Saturday we went to see Cheaper by the Dozen with the fam. It was generally "eh". Steve Martin was good as the dad i guess, I really liked the Superman guy from the Tv show who played the oldest son. At times I wished the movie could be more about him adjusting to his new school and trying to go from being the all star football player in his rural illionois school to being a football player on a yuppy big chicago school team. Though no such luck. That blond chick who's the teeny bopper girl was dang annoying, she can't act in my book, either that or thats who she is and she wasn't acting she's just dang annoying. Ashton Kutcher is kind of obnoxious too. I like Bonny Hunt though, she's allright. The problem with the movie is there's just too many kids. You can't get a good glimpse of all of them.
After that we went to a wedding where I knew no one so needless to say I was bored out of my mind. The wedding was at a PCUSA church and no offense to any PCUSAer's but you guys are wack! Well not you necessarily, but this one was. Well, not the church, really nothing at all, actually everthing was fine except the woman quasi preacher that gave the "homily" at the wedding. Basically she gave what some would call the "charge" to the couple. Though she only knew the bride, a big hinderance when speaking about a couple, and she kept referring to the bride's affection for teddy bears. She was trying to draw an analogy between a couple loving each other and a person loving a teddy bear. And it all sucked to maintain my normal level of honesty. She kept saying we choose to love our teddy bears and blah blah and we need to choose to love our spouses. Well to me its not that simple. I don't believe I can choose to love my wife, its a freakin command! If I don't do it, I'm deader than a door nail. There's no choice about it. Granted I like loving my wife, I love it in fact, but there are times when its hard. Like when she wipes the floor with me at Settlers. But for me there is no choice, its a commitment. A choice can be made to date someone, a choice can be made to be engaged, but once you walk down that aisle, say your I do's, and go to that honeymoon, boom bam no more choice you're cocked locked and ready to rock...odd choice of words there. Thats the way I saw it when I got hitched. I had made a commitment that was irreversible, my love was bound in that commitment and therefore both my commitment and my love are bound to my wife and cannot be separated. I guess I would agree that you choose to love at the altar when you say your i do's and kiss the bride, after that its commitment and love, no choice. I don't know, basically It felt like anyone who had a half a brain was rolling there eyes at the teddy bear analogy. That and the couple never said officially, "I do" they didn't even say "I will" for all intensive purposes I don't even think they can call themselves married if they don't agree to marry in a verbal form.
Well needless to say the Holton Hensley wedding retained its title for best wedding of 2003. I mean that poor couple didn't stand a chance... I mean come on meatballs and stuffed mushrooms at the reception and an open bar! I mean how cheap can you..... wait we didn't have that stuff...... and that stuff is good.... aw nuts. Well Ok our reception might have lost, but our wedding woooo weeee, I mean me and my wife, our groomspeople and bridesmaids were way more attractive than them. Uh oh, getting shallow and mean, better stop.
Played Civ 3 all day today, good game. Hunt you need to get it, a lot like Civ 2, very simple. Though Still can't really whoop up on anyone.