Surgery for my dad

Tomorrow my dad is going in for a knee replacement surgery on his left knee. I know it's a pretty routine surgery nowadays but I'm still worried. I know my mom is a nervous wreck and I feel bad I won't be able to be there for her and for my dad after the surgery. Hoping my brother steps up... Anyway, here's praying everything goes well.

No, Fox, that doesn't really make me feel better

So imagine a team that had BOTH World Series Ace pitchers on their staff! How great a team would that be? Oh right, that was the Cleveland Indians last year. So yeah I don't think anyone in Cleveland is too excited to be watching Game 1 of the World Series with the Phillies and their starting pitcher, Cliff Lee, take on the Yankees and their starting pitcher, CC Sabathia. Here's Fox's acknowledgement of the suckiness:

"You Still Have Lebron" is what it says at the top of the screen. Yeah, great. Lebron is awesome but he's not won us a championship. In fact, he hasn't even won us a game this season yet. :-(

Second Place Showing in Trivia

By the way, we placed second tonight in trivia! Very exciting. It got us $25 in gift certificate money for the bar where the trivia takes place plus a bunch of Halloween loot, like candy and fake bugs and a jack-o-lantern pen that has punching arms. I am very proud of us but I do feel like we probably could have won first place again (we won once before) had we actually listened to each other. We had the correct answer to at least 5 more questions but let someone else on the team convince us we were wrong.

Basketball Season!!

Tomorrow is the start of the NBA season and I cannot tell you how excited I am. Go Cavs!! I just bought a ticket to the Cavs vs. Knicks game next Friday night in New York City. I bought bus tickets to go up there about a month ago but I've been struggling to find game tickets. I just kept trying and trying and finally, success! I know it's not the best seat but it's better than nothing. Should be interesting to see all the Lebron wooing in person. Anyway, I'm planning on going to see the Cavs in a few different cities this season. New York, Washington, Philadelphia and, of course, Cleveland. And who knows where else? I might make a trip up to Boston too.

Advance Movie Screening: Amelia

I get these free advanced movie screening passes every so often (seems like once a week lately) and last night was no different. I got to see Amelia, starring Hilary Swank as Amelia Earhart. I'm a huge fan of Amelia Earhart's. I wrote my first in-depth research paper in college about her and her feminism, plus my grandmother always claimed that she was a distant relative of ours. I never really believed her since she never could explain the connection but who knows? Anyway, I was eager to see the movie because of the story it told, not so much because of Hilary Swank. She is one of those actresses that I'm not a big fan of. Personally, I mean. When I've seen her on talk shows, there's just something about her that I don't like. Her acting is fine enough. That being said, I found her really grating as Amelia. There is talk (supposedly) of her being nominated or even winning another Oscar for this portrayal and wow, I hope not. Maybe Amelia herself was grating so Hilary did a bang-up job but I think it was more the performance that was grating. I was more fascinated with how they were able to make her so full of freckles, which I'm pretty sure are not natural to Hilary.

As far as the movie goes, it was your average biopic. They overdramatized some stuff and left out a lot of information but it showed an interesting snapshot of her life from the time she was asked to be the first woman to cross the Atlantic until she passed away - basically it's Amelia in her 30s minus one flashback. If the ending happened exactly as portrayed, then it's ridiculous that there have been any rumors that she survived. They were literally in the middle of nowhere.

I would recommend this as a rental or a wait-for-cable viewing unless you are desperately fascinated about Amelia Earhart.