L.O.N.G Day

I had to be over at the high school this morning at 7:00 am to help get the concessions ready for the volleyball tournament which started at 8:30 am. There was also a football game that started at 1:00 pm. CL and I were anticipating a long day due to both sports, but we'd figured we'd be able to close down after halftime of the football game and then clean everything up. However, the volleyball tournament was running behind, and so we had to stay open about an hour longer than we'd anticipated. Everything went fine, and we made over $1000, but it was a long day, and my feet hurt.

While I was working, Josh was at home with the kids, and he got over 12 half pint jars of strawberry jam made (from strawberries we'd bought a few weeks ago in order to make more jame but had stuck in the freezer til we got around to it) as well as some more zucchini soup to freeze and a bunch of zucchini bread and muffins.

Josh and I watched the movie New in Town after putting the kids to bed. I'd wanted to see it since Josh and I both attended college in a small Minnesota town. Josh said the movie was better than he expected. I thought it was alright. My biggest beef with it was the dorky "Minnesota" accents the characters had. (Josh said they talked like the people in Fargo did (a movie I've never seen). As I said, we went to college in Minnesota, I've talked with people who were born in Minnesota and/or lived much of their lives in Minnesota, and I don't know anyone who talks like that. It was annoying, although to be fair, the stereotype of the selfish, snobby girl from the big city (in this case Miami) played by Renee Zellweger was cliched, too.

However, the movie did have its funny parts. The clip in the deleted scenes where Renee Zellweger's character steps outside of her house in the middle of winter and holds her nose suddenly due to the cold was one Josh and I both thought was hilarious! We knew exactly what she was doing, having stepped outside into those Minnesota booger-freezing temps ourselves!

Movie verdict? Cliched characters, pretty predictable plot, but enough funny parts to make it enjoyable.