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Jul. 8th, 2011 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntiemeeshAnother work week has passed us by and another weekend has found us. *does a little happy dance* My 'vacation' officially started when I clocked out of work at 5:45 this afternoon. I have no travel plans but plenty of things to keep me occupied. I want to get the apartment into some semblance of clean and organized. I hope to go to the Butler County Fair on Sunday (plans dependent on others, of course). I need to get my resume polished and do some serious job hunting. I hope to spend a day or two planted at one of the local coffee shops doing just that. There' a story I've been playing around with and I want to stop fiddling around with world building and get down to plot structuring. I need to either find fabric for the Gangers costume or find another costume. Plans are in place to go to the gym. I think that should be enough to prevent me from moping about the fact that I had to burn my vacation time when I couldn't afford to take a vacation, while still leaving plenty of 'laze about the house staring at the tv/internet' time.
I started things off on the right foot by watching a silly movie. This one was an Indie called Ten Inch Hero. I first heard of it during my Supernatural days because Jensen Ackles is in it, and then, as it's an Indie and wasn't showing anywhere, I promptly forgot about it. But it's now available on Netflix, so I queued it up and off we went. It's a ridiculously romantic comedy in which four misfits end up working together at a sandwich shop where they "share touching moments and laughter about their personal struggles," according to Netflix. I do love Jensen Ackles when he's playing this sort of role - his character is mohawked (a different color every day), tatooed, pierced, and a total dufus with a heart of gold. This is not to say the role was well written or anything, but the man is just too adorkable to diss on. Sadly, I can't say the same for the rest of the cast. There's stupidly pretty Tish, who picks up a different guy to go home with every day (feeding them all the line that no man has ever given her an orgasm before); Jen, a computer nerd who's been online dating some guy for a year and panics when he decides it's time to meet; and Piper, an art school student who gave up a baby girl for adoption when she was fifteen and thinks she's found her (start playing the crazy stalker lady music, folks). All of these people work for Trucker, who's pining for the New-Age mystical lady who runs the crystal shop across the street. Naturally, this being a ridiculous romantic comedy and not an example of the real world, they all like each other and band together to form a sort of family. And also naturally, they all end up in happily ever after situations with the loves of their lives by the end. So, just a tad saccharine. But I expected that going in and adjusted my tolerance levels according, thus allowing the movie to entertain me without causing me to hurl things at my tv at the sheer amount of Holy Heck Stupid!
I started things off on the right foot by watching a silly movie. This one was an Indie called Ten Inch Hero. I first heard of it during my Supernatural days because Jensen Ackles is in it, and then, as it's an Indie and wasn't showing anywhere, I promptly forgot about it. But it's now available on Netflix, so I queued it up and off we went. It's a ridiculously romantic comedy in which four misfits end up working together at a sandwich shop where they "share touching moments and laughter about their personal struggles," according to Netflix. I do love Jensen Ackles when he's playing this sort of role - his character is mohawked (a different color every day), tatooed, pierced, and a total dufus with a heart of gold. This is not to say the role was well written or anything, but the man is just too adorkable to diss on. Sadly, I can't say the same for the rest of the cast. There's stupidly pretty Tish, who picks up a different guy to go home with every day (feeding them all the line that no man has ever given her an orgasm before); Jen, a computer nerd who's been online dating some guy for a year and panics when he decides it's time to meet; and Piper, an art school student who gave up a baby girl for adoption when she was fifteen and thinks she's found her (start playing the crazy stalker lady music, folks). All of these people work for Trucker, who's pining for the New-Age mystical lady who runs the crystal shop across the street. Naturally, this being a ridiculous romantic comedy and not an example of the real world, they all like each other and band together to form a sort of family. And also naturally, they all end up in happily ever after situations with the loves of their lives by the end. So, just a tad saccharine. But I expected that going in and adjusted my tolerance levels according, thus allowing the movie to entertain me without causing me to hurl things at my tv at the sheer amount of Holy Heck Stupid!
