Old Navy for some Jingle Jammies for Christmas presents.
Wrapped up Christmas shopping with a few more stops.
An easy commute back to my neighborhood (noteworthy because a major St. Louis highway has been closed for one year and just reopened last weekend. This is the highway that makes it most convenient for me to get to my favorite shopping area in town.)
Got lunch at Crazy Bowl and Wraps. Chicken teriyaki bowl with brown rice - yum.
Went to see a special engagement of Up In The Air starring George Clooney at the Moolah Movie theatre.
Here is a picture of the Moolah. It was a giant old temple and is now a beautiful one screen movie palace with leather couches and chairs. See them down there? Awesome. I managed to snag a loveseat today. Took off my boots and curled up to watch the show. It's so great. And they give you a Hershey's Kiss as you leave the theatre.
Up In The Air is an extra special movie for us St. Louisans as most of it was filmed here. On top of it's good reviews, I wanted to go and spot all the locations. I recognized a lot of it and that was pretty exciting.
The movie was good. I left the movie feeling the same way I did when I left No Country for Old Men. I didn't feel like everything was resolved. It took a lot of time and discussion board reading to accept that sometimes life doesn't resolve itself in 100 minutes and that was part of what that movie wanted to portray. Up In The Air had a similar theme in terms of resolution. I loved Anna Kendrick, whom I have loved since the kooky little movie Camp. I thought her character was solid and there is one scene with the three major characters where she is perfect. It's probably the best scene of the movie - and I won't spoil anything by saying it's the scene where the two female characters meet for the first time right before a convention. The conversation there is real and interesting. It's hard to say much more about the movie without giving away more than I think I should. Go see it. I think you'll like it.
In other news, did anyone love the Glee finale as much as I did??? Woohoo! Great music, great ending - when Mr. Schuester runs out of the room during the finale song I got chills. I've downloaded all of the songs from that episode already. Good stuff Glee - keep it up and I'll see you in the spring!
