Dear John

Here's some awesome opinions I have based on that ole DEAR JOHN movie.

It was ok. Actually, I liked it. Except Channing Tatum has the personality of wet cardboard. He was more like Dear YAWN. He's not exactly a barrel of laughs. GREAT actor too (see the picture). ha! If Amanda Seyfried's character liked him because of his personality, then she would LOVE me, because I'm slightly more interesting than cardboard. However, I am led to believe that she liked him mostly because he's in the Army and could die at any moment. Girls like guys that could potentially die heroically.

I would be inclined to say that she only liked him for his muscles, but I don't remember him ever taking off his shirt. Then again, I might have just blocked it out because my mind has very little space left and I'm not going to waste what space is left on dudes taking off parts of their clothes. I have no need for that. So forgive me if I'm wrong, but I think he kept his shirt on the whole time, which I think is suspicious. Pretty sure he's hiding something. Now what's he hiding? i don't know. Maybe he's part robot. Maybe he's preggers. Maybe he has a tattoo of Big Bird on his abs. Not sure, but something is certainly fishy.
 Anwyay, back to my awesome critique of the movie. I was amazed at how similar it is to The Notebook. It's pretty much the same story! Watch those movies back-to-back and clearly you will see how insanely similar they are!  Writing letters is nice and all, but seriously, you're probably gonna need a leetle bit more than that to sustain a relationship. So nice try.
I was a bit confused by her last letter. She said something like "I just love you TOO much. That's why i had to marry someone else." what?!??! In what world does that make sense? Maybe in the world of preteen girls, i guess.
     However, despite everything, I still came out wanting to punch Amanda Seyfried square in the kisser! And that's a good sign, because it means the movie made me feel. I love movies that made me feel. That's what a good movie does. You should be stirred in one direction or another. I felt vindicated when she was mean to him. Yet, I still liked her because she was still a sweetheart, but I was mad at her. I was hoping the movie would end with her face exploding, but it didn't. Not sure how I feel about the ending. She doesn't deserve him. Which, in my opinion, the whole movie is really about grace. I think that's the one thing I took away from it. Watch it, it's clearly about grace. The character of Tim blew my mind. THAT dude was super gracious and HE is the kind of guy I want to be. Though a flawed man, he continually showed grace. That was awesome.
  So probably the best thing I got from the movie was that example of grace. The second best thing I got was "Paperweight" by Josh Radin & Schuyler Fisk. whoa. LOVE that song. Tell me that sucka doesn't make you feel! awesome. I. LOVE. it. I think it was originally made for that Zach Braff abomination The Last Kiss, but since no one saw it, and those that did are brain damaged enough from having seen it that they've forgotten it, they recycled for the delightful Dear John. a perfect, lovely song.

   Also, I'm glad that Amanda Seyfried has found tremendous success since the days of Veronica Mars, but she does NOT look like Sara. sorry. She doesn't.

  So there's my opinion about a movie that I saw one time.

I'm watching the P90X infomercial, and to be honest, all of the women look better before the p90x. I don't have any freakin' clue why you'd want a woman with muscle or much tone or any kind of hardness to their shape! Women are just grown up girls, and girls are supposed to be soft and cuddly! Blah. Women should not have abs. That's not an opinion, that's a fact. A fact that I formed out of my own brain, because it's true.
However, P90X is amazing, and I want to do it so badly! I just need to find someone who can get me bootlegs! I hate working out at home, but i love working hard.

In conclusion, women, don't work out so hard. please. gross. No Abs! No Biceps! stop it!

Freaky Friday

The thing that I just can't get past when watching Freaky Friday is that when that little girl was stuck in her mom's body, she would've had to use the bathroom using her's mom's lady parts. and that makes me feel SICK. That poor little girl. How vomitacious! That movie should be rated R!! So perverse and sick. That movie disgusts me!

One brief observation....

I always tend to listen extra hard for God to tell me what I want to hear. I'll be tempted to interpret the littlest things to indicate that He's answering me with what I want.

But when He's telling me no, I'll look for any excuse to not believe that what He's actually saying. I'll write it off as nothing if it means that I don't have to hear Him tell me no.

Foolishness. sheesh.

I had a frustratingly cool dream last night. The kind that makes it hard to want to ever wake up. I keep having these stupid, awesome dreams too. argh!! She was cold, yet completely wonderful. mmm!

It can get a little discouraging at some point when you've written a lot of people and no one writes back. I've written about 5 people who just never responded. I was thinking about this over the weekend. A couple years ago it would have really bothered me that they ignored me and there would have definitely been an element of hurt. But now, it doesn't really bother me! I don't really care until it's several people all not responding, and even then it's still only a little discouraging and nothing more. I just feel bad for creeping people out or whatever the problem is. But oh well! I just like to talk to people! I'm sure my friendliness is misinterpreted as something else, but too bad.

My homegroup has been reading When People are Big and God is Small this semester and it's been an incredible experience. It really rips apart my fear of man issues. I think my issue is most visible when it comes to wanting to impress a woman. I honestly don't care what people think of me except for when it comes to a potential lover. (At least, i really don't think i care, but digging through it all is part of the process). But the fact that I care what a woman thinks has helped me realized how highly misguided my motivation can be. I don't feel like that's always my motivation, but that fact that the only person whose opinion I care about would be a potential ladyfriend, shows me how my priorities are a little off-kilter. At the same time though, I think it's good to want to impress a woman and catch her attention. Kinda. ok, so I should probably finish reading the book, huh? Yeah I'm still processing through everything, but I can definitely feel the effect it's had on me.
From an encouraging perspective, it's helped me to realize how free I am from having to give a hoot about living to win anyone's opinion. It has helped me to really love how God has made me. I think my personality has made it easier for me not to live for people's approval. Or perhaps I'm still blind to where I struggle with that.

Sorry, I'll probably end up blogging this more cohesively at some point after I've processed more thoroughly. 


I ate more horribly this weekend than I have in the last millennium. No lie, I'm 7 pounds overweight right now. oh my mercy.

Eli has a really sweet Hurley case for his phone. I had no idea they made those! i love Hurley.

and I love youuuuuuu!