His message is righteous
His love is everlasting
His gift is life

Over the weekend, while joyriding around the internet, I stumbled across the trailer for Saw V.  It’s only a mini-teaser, but enough of a buzz to get me excited about it hitting the theaters October 24th.

My only, and I do mean only, problem with the fifth installment is that one of the most brilliant horror series in history is starting to cheapen.  Personally, I believe we could have ended things at a trilogy.  Sure, it would have left some questions, but you must admit, it would have been a much stronger finish.  The traps in number four were just not enough after number three.  Jigsaw and Amanda are dead now.  I don’t want someone new carrying on his work!

I will never forget when I begged my youngest son to go with me to the theater for Saw III.  He is not, I repeat:  NOT a horror fan, but I didn’t have anyone else to go with.  I finally wore him down enough that he agreed to go.  All the way from the opening scene until the movie title appeared, we were scrunched down in our seats, jackets over our heads, and I believe a single TEAR rolled out of my eye.  I leaned over and whispered ever so gently:  I’m so sorry I made you come with me, son.

Sadly, I will be at Saw V on opening night…

This is a test post right from my laptop to see how things will end up when I export from MacJournal. If I like it, I may be well on my way to updating more regularly!

(Moments later….)

Now, I wonder how this will respond to an edit….
Hmmmm, worked like a charm! Yayyyyy, me!

Let’s see how one of my scrapbook pages displays:

So, it looks like this upgrade to version 5 was worth it, because now I can blog right from my electronic journal. I’m so excited. The only setback: the upgrade overwrote my entire version 4, which included all my previous entries. Yes, devastating. But these are the knocks you take along the way, I guess. I can’t say I haven’t been through something similar [on several occasions] with my website…because I have. But now, I’ll have a full backup from one to the other…blah, blah, blah.

Anywho, thanks for enduring this little test.

EDIT: I heard from customer support…my journals are NOT lost!!!!!!  HOORAY!!!

My good friend, Chris, drove down from Tacoma to visit me today. We had a lovely breakfast and hit the Bridgeport Mall. As you all know, I’m quite fascinated [addicted] to MAC makeup right now, and have been since last summer when I visited my bestie in Seattle. So, there is no way I was going to be at the mall without hitting up the MAC store to buy at least ONE goodie for my collection.

I’m happy to report that I’m now the proud owner of my 3rd paint pot in the color “Constructivist”, which is a sort of a dark brown, kind of taupe and slightly silver shimmer. It’s gorgeous! [But then, no one does color like MAC].

I have to say, I was pretty impressed by my friend’s endurance in a makeup store. He waited patiently as I geeked out on products and “talked shop” with my new fave makeup artist, George [who I will be booking an appointment with soon because I’m dying to have him do a look on me].

Next up, we went to Anthropologie. I’ve wanted to visit their store for awhile now [ever since I saw their website], but have to say it wasn’t nearly as exciting as I had hoped. While it is pretty girlie [which I love], it was way too pricey for the type of merchandise they had available. Maybe it just isn’t the right season for me to have gone in, because I do tend to like fall fashions better. I don’t know. There were just too few items I even liked, let alone justifying the cost. But I did get a very, very, VERY cute book from there called “The Goddess Guide” by Gisele Scanlon.

This book is so freaking CUTE! From it’s pink shiny cover adorned in black velvet cutouts to it’s collage-style pages…just adorable. I’ve flipped through a few of the chapters so far and can tell that not ALL the material is for me, but there are so many cool tips and resources in there for the girliest of girls [aka ME].

Ok, back to the shopping trip…we went to Borders, Banana Republic, White House | Black Market, and our last stop: Coach, where he bought his daughter a darling handbag. After stopping in White|Black, I’m now currently obsessed with these shoes:

I can’t even begin to tell you how great the conversation was all day. He and I have such a congruent energy and we make each other laugh…a lot!

It was a very good day.