Sunday, December 28, 2008

A girl walks into a wall...

...and says, "Hey, where's my flashlight?"

Yeah, pretty lame as far as jokes go, isn't it? I got a second wind last night and stayed up late. After the rain yesterday, the winds kicked up and were really howling. The power stuttered and came back on...and then it went out. We've lived here for 6 years, and I'm pretty familiar with the terrain, so I felt my way back to the bedroom to get the flashlight I keep by my side of the bed. I had no problem getting to the bedroom, but I miscalculated when it came to the jog in the wall where the closet is, and WHAM! Face first into the wall. I broke the impact with my forehead, though. Ha! It's a good thing I'm hard-headed. It's sore when I touch it, but I didn't get a knot or anything.

I got my flashlight and used the land line phone to call the power company. Other people had already reported the outage, and it turns out that there were only about a thousand of us due to some downed power lines in the area. I sat out in the dining room while I finished my beverage and in the faint glow coming from the direction of the town, I watched the tree branches sway and listened to the winds blow. It was actually kind of neat and only a tiny bit spooky (and spooky in a good way). Sometimes when Mother Nature wallops me up side the head with a fierce thunderstorm, or intense lightning, or high winds like last night--or sometimes something as pleasant as a perfect summer day--I am in awe and so grateful for what we have here. It really is our little slice of heaven on earth, and I'm very happy that we have the privilege of taking care of it for a while.

Anyhoo, the power was off and on a couple of times last night, and came on for good around 10:30, in plenty of time for football! My Colts won in a meaningless game (sorry, Joyce!) and Ken's Bears lost in a game that could have gotten them into the playoffs.

One of the things we discovered in the room cleanup last night was a DVD of "The Village," a sort of spooky movie directed by M. Night Shyamalan. We thought we'd watched it some time ago, but neither of us remembered it at all.

Warning: Here there be spoilers!

Even though we hadn't seen it, it was obvious to both of us pretty quickly that this wasn't set in the past, and that the village in question was actually an enclave protected and removed from modern society. I suppose the big "wow" moment was supposed to be when the blind girl finds her way to civilization, but since we'd already figured it out early on, it was more like an "oh, big surprise" moment.

End of spoilers

I didn't hate this movie, and William Hurt and Joaquin Phoenix are always great, but I found it sort of blah. I guess I'm just jaded when it comes to scary movies, because I didn't find this one all that scary, or even especially suspenseful. It started verrrrry sloooooow, but picked up a little ways in, enough so that we were intrigued. But all in all, nothing overly exciting. When it comes to spooky villages, I'll take "Village of the Damned" any ol' day!

18 comments:

  1. Hi Beth,
    I remember the Village and completely agree. Blah and double Blah. You can't blame the actors. You can't blame the director. You can't blame the script. Afterall, it takes a Village ...
    Best,
    Marty

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  2. Hmm, first I heard of the head banging :o)

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  3. Yea the village was a little lame, good twist however.

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  4. Just say "It's good to be me" because any other exclamation would be "Your havin too much fun or a new movie is in the makings. Hoping your New Year is good to you and yours,

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  5. Send the village kids to the farm and let them wander in the corn- Dannelle

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  6. ...and Ken slept through the head banging?? Glen is a sound sleeper, so I have to be the diligent one and be on my toes for any burglars or things that go boo in the night. He'd sleep through a marching band :) We had some heavy winds last week...good thing no power lines were knocked down.

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  7. I have done the same thing...running into the wall in the dark..LOL Luckily I'm hard headed too. I bet the glow from town was pretty.

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  8. It's always my toes that hit the wall first...

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  9. Doesn't the house get such a different feel when the power is off? We used to lose power all the time for days on end. Since we bought a generator to run the whole has we've needed to use it only twice. HAHA, that's the way it goes.

    Take care of the ol' noggin, we need you on your game for our reading pleasure. ;)

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  10. My daughter walks into walls in daylight - I don't know how to justify that. LOL

    I love when the power goes out as long as it's not the middle of summer.

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  11. Oh, you are always to walk through the dark house with your hands out in front of you to prevent those bumps into the wall. I enjoy just about everything mother nature throws our way. Except extreme heat!!! Wind, thunder and lightening cause my soul to soar! I suppose to me I see the might and power of God in it.

    I don't like scary movies. I do like the old fashioned, lighthearted kind that you can sometimes catch on TMC.

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  12. We got those winds too...but our storms were mild and the power held. Sorry about the WALL. lol

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  13. HarHar, we kept our power last night. ;)~ I was pretty shocked too considering how awful those winds did get. Gotta watch those walls. They have a tendency to sneak up on you.
    Love,
    Jamie

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  14. Glad you didn't get a knot on your head!! Our power almost never goes out here, winds usually aren't strong enough... But I do love when it goes out, I remember making a game of it, when Chris was little so he wouldn't be scared... we'd play games by candlelight!! LOL!! I didn't like the Village much, BECAUSE of the stupid ending.... and for me to even give a scary movie a chance says alot, I don't like scary, so you know this one WASN'T!!!

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  15. We had some pretty good storms last night too. We never lost power but it got bright and loud for a while. Gizmo didn't like it at all. As for the movie...I thought it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It just left you wondering when it was going to start.
    Hugs, Joyce

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  16. i hate it when the electric goes off. Ours seems to go off quite a bit! I have never seen that movie. XO

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  17. The Village was lame. Ok in parts, boring as a whole

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