rainy day
it's been raining pretty much all day, which is supposed to lead to a bunch of flooding and stuff thorugh tomorrow. hooray for spring. and hooray for purple grapes. i love them, way more than the green kind. mom just got some and i ate a huge bunch of them while bumming around earlier. tonight's an eat popcorn while reading a good book or watching a movie sort of night, so i think i'm going to go do something along those lines. but speaking of movies...top five movies coming out soon (that i want to see)...
- revenge of the sith. no-brainer.
- millions. looks really sweet, precious, thought-provoking, and hilarous, all at the same time. plus i'm just a sucker for a british accent
- crash. not a real hyped-up film, but it's coming out this weekend and looks like it could be really deep and challenging
- war of the worlds. hard to go wrong with the spielberg/cruise combo. should be good
- kingdom of heaven. i'm a fan of ridley scott's work, and this looks like it could be another epic classic
how cool would this be? which leads me to the question... what would you do with a hundred thousand dollars? and don't say pay taxes, pay off school, tithe, donate it to a charitable organization, pay off your house or car, etc. i know everyone would do all that first. but what about after you've been wise and judicious with it... how do you blow the rest? my top five ways...
- travel. tour the states/continent/world until my cash supply runs dry. i could probably make it last a few years, live on a meager budget, and just see everything and everywhere i could. alaska, australia, ireland, spain, russia, mexico, peru (criminal intent behind that visit), iceland, the bahamas, south africa, israel, china, and maybe even canada. but definitely not france
- buy a jeep and a motorcycle. pretty self explanatory. maybe it wouldn't use all the money, but it'd be enough for me
- build my own recording studio. not that i'd have any clients or anything, but it'd be really cool to design, plan, customize, and build one to your specs. might stretch the money to the limit, but it'd get you a nice start for sure
- donate my time. if i could afford not to work for a while, there's tons of stuff i'd be able to do and help out in that i wouldn't otherwise be able to. whether it's as extravagant as going overseas as a missionary or as simple as working for free for a charity or some other organization, it'd be well worth it
- run for governor. i'm sure it wouldn't be enough to get me elected (especially since i'm not old enough, i don't think), but i sure couldn't do a worse job than the guy we have in office right now. maine is, i belive, the second-highest taxed state in the nation, and what do we have to show for it? um... not sure. we have nice waterfronts and lots of trees. hooray
i was going through some papers and notebooks last week when i ran across a bunch of my papers from school that i had saved. gosh... i remember living in the library for a couple of them, bringing back piles of books to wade through, and of course getting them done at the absolute last second. it's the only way to go. sort of funny to go back and read dr. baker's comments and realize that i still have no clue about how to use a comma or document APA style. but i learned much more important stuff, i'd like to think. hope so anyways, for what they charge
i got carded for the first time ever last week. i bought a movie at wal-mart and they asked for ID because, you know, you have to be 17 to buy an R-rated movie there (bought man on fire... really great movie, although you'll never want to visit mexico after seeing it. my sis hated it, but it's a fave of mine). so i guess i don't look convincingly older than 17. that's heartening... or something. i guess i'm just blessed with an eternally youthful face. i'll be glad of it when i'm 30, i'm sure
i heard in the end on the radio today for the first time in forever. great sing-along tune. and, the end.
posted by Patrick @ 8:00 PM
5 Comments:
you always have a list of five things. is a list incomplete with only four?
and you don't have to spend money on a movie, you nut. last i checked, we still have our gift certificates from christmas to redeem. two free movies apiece.
lizard breath
yes, it is. must have five.
no, i don't have mine anymore.
trash wednesday!
on second thought, i should have included a red sox seasons ticket package in my top-5 list, but i don't know what else i'd bump out
When he was 10 or 11, Ken and his cousin Grant actually found a treasure half buried in the woods in Florida . They gathered up all the gold bowls, candlesticks, etc. and brought them home to wash them and then to haul them to a pawn shop to exchange them for some cold, hard cash which they would then use to buy tons and tons of way cool stuff. Unfortunately for them, the folks saw the gold, freaked out and called the police. It turned out that the items had been stolen from a Catholic church. They had to return it all...and they didn't even get a reward! All their dreams were dashed!
If I were purely selfish, I'd use my big bucks to buy a good chunk of land, a barn, a couple of ponies and a horse and some goats. Call me Farmer Sher!
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buy land and a motorcycle. land because my family owns land and there is just something about it. it gets on your blood. and a motorcycle because they are freaking fast and its the closest thing to flying that i will ever get.
woots to the following movies:
1. Kingdom of Heaven..ridiculously awesome looking.
2. Revenge of the Sith...cooler than you and me combined..which is rough to pull off..but this movie could do it.
3. War of the Worlds..the original was great...in Spielberg's hands it will hopefully be better
non-woots:
1. Crash...although Ludacris has me intrigued. I didn't know he could actually speak proper english!
2. Millions...not one to see in the theatre..more like a dvd rental..that's my opinion, though.
What I would do with 100 grand? Horns. Straight up.
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