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Time is Flying This Year

May 1st, 2012 at 09:23 pm

I can't believe it is May already. This year is just whizzing by. Yesterday was very busy. I had an appointment in the morning, $90. DD had a dentist appointment, which will be billed to insurance and be fully covered because it is the first of the year.

We paid the property taxes yesterday for the half year on the old house, $524.75. DH took the two new toilets out to the old house. His father will help him install them on Wednesday. While out there he dropped off the water bill and saved a stamp, $144.

The money from ING showed up yesterday but we didn't have time to go over and make a payment at BoA. I am hoping we will today, but if not then that will get paid tomorrow.

We finally took the kids to The Hunger Games movie last night. We went to the 6:30 showing so we could get out and be home at a decent hour since it was a school night. I would have preferred to go to the 4:00 one, but DS doesn't even get out of school until 3:45. I was really well pleased with the movie. I felt it stayed true to the book on almost everything and only missed one tiny little scene not being included, the district 11 sending the bread scene. It should have been there as it was such a pivotal moment, but oh, well. You can't have everything in a screen adaptation, but this was pretty close.

Still it cost us $40 for the four of us to go. This is why we seldom see movies in the theater. $9.50 per student and $10.50 per adult. Even matinee prices would not have been that good. It's not like they are half price anymore. They are just a buck or two off per ticket to go at a less convenient time. I think it was worth it this time, but I miss the days of $5 movies. Heck, I miss the days of $1 movies.

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4 Responses to “Time is Flying This Year”

  1. Ima saver Says:
    May 1st, 2012 at 09:43 pm 1335905029
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    When I was a kid, it cost 14 cents to go to the movies if you were under 12, 25 cents if you were over. Candy was 5 cents a box and we drank out of the water fountain. Plus, you could stay and watch the movie more than once, which I usually did.

  2. Shiela Says:
    May 2nd, 2012 at 03:07 am 1335924427
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    How she got the mockingjay pin was different, they never mention the major's daugther. Or about the Avox girl. But they did show what happened outside while they were in the game while the book only shows it from Katniss's view. I always prefer the book but this movie was a lot better than I expected.

  3. LuckyRobin Says:
    May 2nd, 2012 at 06:38 am 1335937123
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    Shiela--yeah, I know they took out that entire character of Madge which makes Katniss a little less well-rounded, but that didn't bother me. It didn't really change anything that was too important. They still had the pin. But not having that bread scene bugged me a lot because it showed solidarity. Still that was the only thing I didn't like. I kept expecting them to use the Avox girl, too, but it never happened. Still didn't detract though. I had heard that they were showing stuff outside of Katniss' view and how so I was prepared for that and I think they handled it very well. It would have had to be a much longer movie to put in more than it did. I'd kind of liked to see it done as a mini-series. It would need six hours to tell it fully.

  4. Shiela Says:
    May 2nd, 2012 at 12:38 pm 1335958698
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    I read that they did consider to make it into a tv series first. I would have love it to be made into a mini-series. For one it won't cost any to watch it Smile.
    And I think they didn't show enough interaction between Katniss and Peeta, especially in the cave. They will probably show more of it in the next movie.


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