Wills:
Since we will be traveling to Russia again, someday, we have been needing to get our wills into place. Just in case.
I say "wills" (plural) because, yes, we BOTH need to do our own will. Seems strange, because I believe if one of us kicks the proverbial bucket and the other one is still around, all assets go to the surviving spouse. No questions asked. But maybe that's just a Kansas thing.
I signed up with Prepaid Legal about a year ago, with one of the main reasons being that they do your will for free. And your spouse's for $20, I found out later. Not a bad deal, I think.
Except....
Who wants to think about dying? Not me, buddy. We have procrastinated and procrastined. Then, when we got to the actual paperwork (a fairly easy 5 page form), there were Decisions.
Big Decisions.
Like who would take custody of Alex if we both go down in a fiery plane crash? Who would manage distributing the assets from our mondo estate (1 mortgaged house, 2 cars, and 3 iPods)? How about who makes the decision to continue life-supporting services, should one of us be unable to make that decision? Who gets Murphy (our dog)?
Gulp. Like I said, you just don't think (or WANT to think) about this stuff on a daily basis.
Anyway, I finally got the paperwork done today and in the mail. Now I'm prepared to die. EEK!
Water Horses:
Alex & I went to see Water Horse: Legend of the Deep tonight. What a great movie! And not just a kid movie either. It's about the legend of the Loch Ness Monster, and rated PG, so I was a bit concerned that Alex might have nightmares for the next 10 years if I took him. But the only other option was Enchanted, and, with or without Patrick Dempsey, I would have needed at least a bottle of wine before venturing to that piece of cinematic excellence.
Anyway, to test my Scaredy Cat theory, I went to the movie's website and showed him the movie trailer. He was not scared and wanted to see all the trailers. Dude, there were about 10 snippets of the movie available to watch! I felt like I saw the whole thing before even leaving the house. But there was more to the movie after all.
It was very well done, the scenery was amazingly beautiful - made me want to visit Scotland. And the effects related to the "monster" were superb. There were some perilous scenes and some gunfire, but Alex was pretty un-fazed by that. He enjoyed the cute monster parts (when the monster is small) and there's plenty of comedic parts in the movie.
I've always been intrigued by the legend of the Loch Ness Monster, and this movie attempts to put some explanation behind the legend. I thought it was very well done.
Although from the minute we sat down and someone rattled a popcorn bag, all Alex could say was "Mommy, I need a snack." (looking pointedly at the bag-rattler). I managed to put him off until we got home (I'm not buying a $10 bag of popcorn when we have popcorn in the fridge!), then he had two crackers and crashed.
Let's hope the monster stays out of his dreams. And mine too.
4 comments:
ohh come on.. the whole point of going to the movies is movie popcorn... otherwise my as well wait for it to come on dvd! lol
I bring the "movie candy" from Target...LOADS cheaper. Also, Enchanted was enjoyable...my DH and I laughed and laughed. It really scared my 5 year old though.
I am not a Movie Popcorn Nazi. I would have happily bought movie popcorn, if I had not made Alex 3 homemade blueberry pancakes right before we left for the theatre. They were good too....mmmmmmm.....
can you come make me some blueberry pancakes?? Damn now I am going to have to go to IHOP this weekend for pancakes... you are evil i tell ya :) first popcorn now pancakes :)
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