I find it very difficult to enjoy the community that Live Journal has built. I can't just post one post and have it shared. I have to post multiple posts to cover the various groups I belong to. Things like that. This explains why I don't post here very often. BUT you can find me on two of my blogs to keep up with me:

Cutest use of cats in a commercial EVER!!!

SECOND ANNUAL SILVER CINE AWARDS

After long hard hours and lots of debates, we have finally put up our Second Annual Silver Cine Awards. See images and listen to music clips to help you decide, if you aren't familiar with some of the nominations in the categories. And, while we would love for everyone to vote for everything, we know you can only really vote for what you know and/or love! So don't feel ashamed. Sometimes that one vote actually does make a difference!

So spread the word, forward our message, tell a friend who can tell a friend or friends. . .Even if you don't want to vote, sometimes those friends might or know someone who might. Get our name out there by passing this on!

Go either to www.pictureshowpundits.com or to the direct article on the awards http://www.pictureshowpundits.com/index.php?target=article-detaile&article_id=81&column_id=38 and VOTE!!!

Happy Voting!!

As we're approaching the last month or so that we'll be in North Carolina, we're starting to get our act together. Our pool is fixed. First day of nice weather I am soooo going swimming. The realtor is coming out next week to give us an appraisal so that we can put our house up for sale! That just leaves fixes around the house and yard work.

Ray also got his birth certificate yesterday. Now he can refile for his passport. I think he just needs to send in a notarized copy of his birth certificate. I'm not sure, I have to check. So that'll be taken care of. That just leaves visas. I actually don't need a work or student visa, which is awesome. Ray, though, might, especially if he'll be working to support us. So we have to plan that.

Then we're starting cleaning. This evening I'm hoping to get the upstairs straightened. I'm going to go buy those huge Ziploc bags for my clothes that I have to go through. Divide them into "taking", "not taking", and "maybe". That way when I do actually get around to packing the suitcases at my parent's house, I'll know which bags to invest myself in. My mother-in-law is supposed to come over and help us with the yard. That's kind of her thing. I need to borrow their weed whacker and their bush trimmer. We're debating over getting someone to help us landscape. We might still do that. Call our lawn guy, who totally abandoned us last year, and see if he can come out and do a cursory landscaping job and not worry about mowing even couple months, because we're moving.

And on top of everything else, there's also getting the shows up for Full Frame and me finishing my full frame article and catching up on movies and visiting family. When I'm done at state, I think I can file for unemployment again.  Even though... I don't know. I'm wondering if they'd want me to work with paper writers for maybe half of the first summer semester. So that way I can leave mid-June? Or maybe we'll leave at the end of June? I don't know. I need to talk to some people. I'd be working pretty awesome hours, though, if I stayed for the first summer semester, I think. The whole unemployment thing is such a joke, though. No wonder unemployment insurance is such a huge thing now-adays.

Bottom line, everything is starting to fall into place and we are starting to see the horizon. We've even picked out a few rental places to inquire about. Ray is starting to look for jobs over there. I am starting to feel excited. And on top of that, my plateau has finally ended and I'm losing again!!! WOOO!!! Just 5 more pounds and I can wear these new jeans comfortably. I gotta finish getting ready for work. Hopefully it'll warm up enough this weekend for a quick dip in the pool. That'd be lovely!

John W. Schleicher, age 81, was born to Eternal Life on Friday, April 13, 2007. Born into life on Oct. 18, 1925, the son of Joseph and Gertrude (nee Lockner) Schleicher. The youngest of seven children. Loving brother of Steve (Freda), Frank (Clara), brother-in-law of Lauraline. Preceded in death by one sister and four brothers, and his dear friend, Elizabeth Dallmann.

John retired from the United States Air force after 20 years of dedicated service. After his retirement he relocated to Milwaukee. He then resided in Pardeeville, until he was called home to the Lord.

Dear John,

There is so much I am learning about you now, when you're gone. I never knew you were such a great writer. I had read some of your letters to the editor before, but never before now. I always knew you were a good guy. A smart man. A very religious man, but I never knew you.

Age is a difficult thing. Too often the most interesting people are gone before you're old enough to appreciate them. And even if you feel that you appreciate them, you don't fully realize it until it's too late. I wish I had written you more. I wish I had watched the movies you gave me and read more closely the books you gave me. I wish I had had a stronger relationship with you. I wish I knew you.

So many questions are left to ask. And they are really only asked once a person is gone, when you think about that person. You checked up on me. You read my work. Did you learn about who I was as a person? Do you know me now that you're in Heaven? Can you look down on me and see how horrible of a person I am? How selfish I am, even though I pretend to be so selfless?  Why did I never get to know you?

I always asked about you. I wanted to make sure you were okay. I guess we all get so caught up in own lives that it is hard to look around and check in with everyone always. I found the envelope the other day that had my master's thesis and thank you card from graduation in it. It is over a year old and I never sent it out. Somewhere along the line I got caught up in other things. Does life consume you that much that you can no longer keep track? That we have to pencil in every aspect of our existence? Maybe I should have.  Call grandma on Saturday. Write David on Monday. Send Aaron a letter on Friday. Did you know I thought about you?

If you weren't so selfless, thinking about your "burden" on the world, I would want to be there now, mourning your loss and hating myself for not having taken the time to know you better. Like your life, even your death is a mystery to me. Who were you John?

I know you'd forgive me for all my youthful negligence. For my vain pursuits and lack of fundamental focus. You were never just "that guy who took care of great grandma." You were family and someone I loved. Until your final day you were always thinking about the world and your impact on it and I thank you for everything you've done for me. I will miss you, more than I guess I ever showed.

Love,
Sarah

 

This is gonna rock!!! Ask not what this movie can do for you, but what you can do for this movie!!

Picture Show Pundits Episode 24

Cast: Sarah "Reel Monkey" Bonilla, Ray "Macabre Stalker" Bonilla & Nate "Boxman" Zoebl
E-Mail: podcast@pictureshowpundits.com

Movie Reviews: United 93, Silent Hill, The Sentinel, Scary Movie 4, Punk Rock King
Festival Review: Ohio 24 Hour Science Fiction Marathon

Next Week: Poseidon, Mission Impossible: III, and An American Haunting.

Picture Show Pundits Episode 22 Part 1 of 6

Coverage of the 9th Annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina.

Cast: Sarah "Reel Monkey" Bonilla & Ray "Macabre Stalker" Bonilla

Movie Reviews: Stranger with a Camera, Send Me Somewhere Special, I for India, Sketches of Frank Gehry

Events:  Filmmaker Welcome Reception, Opening Night Reception Dinner