Our Purpose

So the never ending dilemma hit us again tonight. 1000+ channels and nothing to watch on tv. How is it humanly possible that out of all of these options, there is absolutely NOTHING that Andrew and I can agree on? My suggestion (as it often is when we cannot agree) was to pop in a movie.

"Let's just pop in a movie." Six simple words that spark controversy, conflict, and a need forsome sort of bargaining everytime they are spoken. "If you let me watch ______(fill in obnoxious gender preferred movie title here), I promise to clean the kitchen every night for a week." "Well, if you let me watch ________(an equally obnoxious gender preferred movie title here), then I'll do whatever you want. Please, please, please."

That being said, it is easier said than done to pick out a movie in our household. So Andrew, my husband, and I made an agreement. We agreed to not fight over picking movies, rather to just simply go in order. We are going to spend our time together when we cannot find anything to watch to watch all of the movies we have collected over the past 7+ years of being together. There is no "veto" in this agreement. We are watching all of them. All guy movies, all chick flicks, all of the war films and all of the tear jerkers. This will not be some quickly accomplished fate. Movies will not be watched everyday. We have also agreed that TV series box sets that we own, for now, will be passed over. That means there will be no Newlyweds, One Tree Hill or Sex and the City; however, the SATC movie is fair game. We will also not watch any of the concerts that we have on DVD. No OAR, no DMB, and no PHISH. All of this will be from my perspective, with random thoughts from Andrew thrown in here and there. I'm not counting on many people reading this. In fact, I was inspired by watching Julie & Julia tonight. The idea of blogging about something as it happens and giving your thoughts seems freeing to me. I look forward to being able to express my reviews of these movies. Most people will probably disagree with how I see things. I just look forward to voicing myself.