Yee haw!

S and I had a movie date last night, traveling to Dedham Legacy Place to see Country Strong.

I tried to make it a theme night, like this date we had awhile ago, by country-strongin' my hair for the occassion.

You see, I have stick straight hair, and in the south, that just won't cut it. So after my transformation from little hair (see Exhibit A, to right) to big hair (Exhibit B, clearly) for the event, we were off!

Legacy Place is a beautiful shopping area that apparently (we'd never been here before) is just 10 minutes away from us.

We laughed at how we are so bent on saving money this year, that we will never get an opportunity to shop here. However, when it is summer time, this kind of open air shopping will be much more appealing, and maybe with some money in the bank, a little window shopping won't hurt.

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S and I liked the movie a lot! I think I liked it more so than other people, who's reviews I have read, because it's marked with a lot of tough love moments that I think are fantastic, and which other people might just find sad. The music, for the most part (I dislike the Oscar-nomiated song "Coming Home," actually) is really enjoyable, so much so that I will be listening to the soundtrack all this week I bet. It also inspires me to keep up my song writing - I've already been working on my guitar scales today, though I have such a long way to go before it comes naturally to me to play.

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I am excited for the Academy Awards this year. Of the nominees, I'd like to see The Fighter and The King's Speech. True Grit and Black Swan were both entertaining, but I think Inception is actually my favorite movie nominated for Best Picture. I kind of have a nerd-attack (panic attack for nerds) thinking about the premise of the movie and how much I would like to be a rogue inception agent.

This weekend we won't go snowboarding, so next week this means more time at the gym and planning out a couple of yoga sessions. I love snowboarding, because the exercise is great without feeling like any kind of work whatsoever. Oh well, back to the treadmill it is.

I hope you have a productive, fun-filled week!