DAY 31 - Showgirls Saturday Night.

Please stand by for this post! I am experiencing some technical difficulties. In true Ken McEntire fashion, I have mis placed my camera. I don't think its too far away, I remember picking it up, but I don't remember where I put it back down. So the photo for Saturday has not yet been uploaded... Oh but its a good one!....

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The vault has been unlocked and the missing photo has been recovered...and by vault I'm referring to under my car seat.  I found my camera!  YAY!!  This was the last picture taken on the camera before I "lost" it...maybe it was best.  I wonder if maybe I reveal too much on this blog.

Tonight we got together at Clete and Greg's and had a "Showgirls & Chip's" party.  Don't judge!  Brandy has the collectors edition box set of the movie.  It comes with you're own pasty's, and blind fold.  It's really hilarious.  Now you have to understand this box set is marketed as "the worst movie ever made"  I'm glad the distributors realize what they are dealing with, and have accepted it.  The only way to get through this movie is to watch it with the commentary.  It's done by a guy who has been traveling around to Universities and gives lectures about this movie and why it is the worst movie ever made.  The commentary is HILARIOUS!  He points out during the movie that there is an underlying theme about chips and finger nails...they are always eating chips, talking about chips or doing their fingernails..or talking about doing their fingernails..hence the "chips" part of the party.  We each brought our favorite chips....I brought Parmesean Wheat Thins.  

This movie is so scary and disturbing, it really should be classified as a horror movie, and it is the opposite of anything sexy.  They should show it in high school to discourage kids from even having sex.  I don't understand were AC Slater or Zach Morris were to come help poor Jesse Spano get out of her life of sin in Las Vegas...maybe that's the sequel.  

DAY 30 - I Wonder What Ken is Doing Tonight?

I filmed Camelot up at Bonneville tonight. This was actually the second time around. They did the show last fall and I filmed it but one of the tapes had a glitch and the audio kept getting out of sync. Was making editing a nightmare. They got to do the show again for the Utah Theater Association conference that was held in Ogden this year, so Alane had asked me to film it with just one camera so she had a copy of the performance. But since I was having trouble with last falls tape I just decided to redo the entire thing.

I enjoy filming the shows and putting them together, but it always turns into such a big ta do! Since I only have one camera I have to track down two other cameras for a three camera shoot, then I couldn't find the adapter for one of my tripods so I had to rent two tripods, and one camera. Luckily a friend of mine let me borrow his camera, but I was almost half way to Ogden by the time he called me to let me know where and when I could pick it up. So for a moment I thought I would have to use my tiny little camcorder for the far shots. Quality! I wish I just had thousands to go get myself all outfitted with equipment so I didn't have to rely on renting, or borrowing from anyone. But I can't justify spending all that money for just a few times a year.

I have been filming these shows for the past six years! Crazy, I can't believe it, I was trying to figure out which shows I've done and what years they were, but they are all starting to run together. All I can remember is one giant show about a lovable elephant who meets Adam and Eve, then Adam accuses these ladies of being witches, but they were just confused...then a little Polish boy meets a Puerto Rican girl and they know that tonight won't be just any other night because this doctor in the town has developed a potion and he's gone just plain wacky and terrorizes the streets of London with a capital T that rhymes with P that stands for Pool. His actions make you wonder, is it possible to love someone one who hits you, and hits you hard? then you realize, yes, it is possible to love someone who hits you and hits you hard. Luckily it was all just a movie, one of those talkies, and everyone wakes up safe and think its fun to stay out late, but good mornin' good mornin' to you. Just your standard tale as old as time.

DAY 29 - FAME...I'm gonna live forever

Thursday with the parentals! Tonight was our traditional Thursday night dinner, we ate at the Bountiful favorite, El Matador! Olé! It's real good greasy Mexican food. It seems to have lost something since they tore down the old building to build Costco. The new place is nice, but just doesn't have the same charm of going into the Bountiful industrial park for a "fancy" dinner.

After I got home I did a little workin' out at my apartment. I did my standard Power 90, but had a surprising amount of energy after I was done. I started doing these "hop kicks" that Nancy and I had done a few years back when we did this old school obstacle course in the foothills of Ogden. The course was built in the late 70's or early 80's, so all the little exercises seem a bit antiquaited. We thought these hop kicks were hilarious. They are just how they sound, you hop on one foot and kick the other leg in the air. I like to do them when I play the "Fame" home game. So as I was doing these hop kicks I must have had a little more kick than hop and I compeletly fell. If the man below me wasn't all ready annoyed with the repetitive romping of the hop kick, the giant thud of my body hitting the hardwood floor probably was enough for him to request my eviction. I'm sure it had to have loosened some plaster from his ceiling which fell right in his proidge...I don't know if he was eating poridge, but he seems like the time to skeer up a pot of poridge now and then.

After my work out and hop kick fiasco I had worked up quite a thirst. It was about 10pm and I didn't want a diet coke, so I opted to walk to Smith's for some Crystal Light Green Tea. Since its been colder I haven't walked to the store very often, but I was feeling adventurous, ready to take on the frigid cold. I felt like Admiral Peary as he embarked on his quest for the North Pole. The journey was rough, but I was successful. As I was returning home I was only a block away from my apartment building when a white van with no windows turned the corner, its headlights hit me and I turned around and saw it pull to the side of the road. The lights turned off but no one got out. All of the sudden I was 9 years old walking home from school looking for a Mr. McGruff house to run to. I didn't want to look silly and take off running, with arms flailing about. So I played it cool and did a speed walk. I didn't want to look back to see if anyone was following me, but I had the creepy feeling that there was someone breathing down my neck. I would slow down, then speed up , my heart racing, my fight or flight instincts were kicking in. I was almost home. I got to the steps of my building and glanced back in the general direction of the molester van just in time to see someone pulling a lifeless.........stack of newspapers out of the side cargo door. Thank you News Corp for you dedicated serivce in providing the greater Salt Lake area with news and information in such a timely and creepy manner.

DAY 28 - Wednesday With BO!

So it's Wednesday! Hump Day! This week is going surprisingly fast even with how slow it is at work, and I haven't had a lot going on in the evenings either. But I'm not going to complain. Tonight was the traditional Wednesday at Brandy Oliver's. Sundance is over so she finally has time for me again... A big congratulations to her for breaking her all time record, and seeing 31 movies! Also congratulations to her on her new job!!!! Counselor Brandy! YAY! If I were a student at Granger High School I would make a big banner that read "CONGRADUATIONS" the students really need your help.

We watched an episode of Top Chef, then the Real World, then a bit of the Salt Lake American Idol auditions. I had watched American Idol earlier, but I was working out and doing some other things so I didn't see all of them. I was kind of disappointed, they were kinda blah. I expected more from the home of David Archuletta and Carmen Rassmussen! If I feel like it I will watch the next few weeks, but its about this time I get bored and like to wait til its down to the finalists.

The picture is us at Brandy's house,we are doing some sort of sign language interpretive chair dance.

DAY 27 - SOLID

Today was very, very uneventful. I actually had a few things at work to keep me busy, was a nice change. I got home and just kind of relaxed, then ended up chatting with Jake on Facebook. We had a really good chat and it made me remember all of our good times, so I put in the little video I made for him when he got back from his mission. It was fun to see a bunch of the old pictures and stuff. It was super cheesy, cheesier than I remember it, but it made me laugh. I watched it 3 times. We were such dorks, but they were some of the best times of my life. I'm really grateful to have such a great friend.

Jake and I would do this high-five/hand shake thing and say "solid" every time we'd see each other and when he was on his mission we wrote pretty much every week, and we'd end the letters saying "SOLID". So the video was called...of course, Solid! Just like our friendship...SOLID (cheesy I know, but it's true)

DAY 26 - Fatty, fatty, fatty...in a skinny world!

I gave in to my yearly temptation! I try not to eat hamburgers and fries very often. The past few years I have only had 1 per year. I did eat at Training Table over the holiday's and had a burger then, but technically that was last year. So tonight my Crown Burger counts as my only burger this year. I had been craving it for a while, I mentioned it to Clete and Greg, and Greg was all over it. So we decided to indulge our greasy fatty desires. Clete was bringing the kids home from swimming so we met them there. Parker's eyes were hurting from opening them while he was underwater. Apparently wearing my glasses cured the pain. Who knew they were such miracle glasses.

After dinner I drove home filled with fatty caloric induced guilt and shame, so I got out the weights and did a little work out to try to work off a few of the thousands of calories ingested. Then I met Brandy and her friend Michael at the Rose Wagner Theater for the final Sundance movie of the year! Greg was going to come a long but when he got home from dinner he found out Beency had eaten his Sundance check... So far that dog has eaten a rug, a wooden bench, a library book, gnawed on all the cabinet doors in the kitchen, my jeans, and really enjoys licking feet. I'm sure there is a lot more that I'm not aware of, my point being he eats and chews on everything...but he's real cute.

The movie we saw was really good, it is called "Push." It won "best of fest." I heard it had Monique and Mariah Carey in it and was a little unsure, I didn't know if it was going to be an Indy version of "BAPS" or something. But it turned out to be really, really good. It was a major tear jerker, sort of a continuation of my Lifetime marathon from Saturday. Not going to go into the whole plot, but it was about this young girl who has been abused verbally, physically, and sexually and how she has to over come... Kinda that sort of thing. It just amazes me people can treat other people that way, especially family. It made me grateful for my family and makes me feel kind of guilty for ever complaining about my life. I don't have it bad at all. It also made me want to be a teacher more than ever, I just know that I have to do something in life that will give back and help. I know that's kind of cheesy, but just getting up and going to work everyday to put in my time is so unrewarding. I wanna do something more.

DAY 25 - SUNdance...more like SNOWdance

Wow, what I will do for a movie...it's not so much even the movie, just to get out of the house. Today was the last official day of Sundance. Greg had an extra ticket for "Paper Hearts" it was in Park City. So I braved the snow storm through Parleys Canyon to go see it. I left about an hour before it started, which normally would have given me plenty of time, but with the roads the way they were, it took me about 45 minutes to get up there. Greg had to stash my ticket under a pot of flowers on top of an ATM machine so he could go inside and save me a seat. The movie was really cute, it was done documentary style and I'm so gullible I thought it was all real. I was sad to find out Micheal Cera and the little oriental girl never really dated. But I really liked the movie. Out of the few that I saw it is near the top of my list.


After the movie I went home and cleaned up my cupcake mess from Friday night. During the process I cut my finger open with the super sharp knife my mom got me from QVC for Christmas. They really will cut through anything. It also proves my theory that house work is hazardous to your health.

Later on in the evening I got tired of sitting around the house, so I went to Maverick (and got another free drink from the Maverick guy) then stopped by Clete and Greg's for a little bit where we shared stories of our grandparents deaths. Odd, but a fitting way to end a kinda blah depressing weekend. The week can only get better from here...right?