Hurricane? What hurricane?

Can anyone say false alarm? Hurricane Rita brought Austin some of the BEST weather we've seen since the past year. Austin City Limits (the annual music festival) went off this weekend without a hitch, and we didn't receive even one drop of rain or gust of wind.

Hey, at least our pantry is stocked for a month :)

Hurricane Rita!

We are going to be staying in Austin as Hurricane Rita comes for a visit. Just so you know, Austin is a good area to be in: it's in the Texas "Hill Country" and our area does not get tornadoes very often. We have stocked up on all sorts of food and water, but we're not expecting anything drastic. Thanks for all the phone calls and emails!

Can't Wait to Get a House, Part 1

The past few months Elaina and I have been looking for a good area to buy a home. Since our lease is up in March, we have plenty of time to find a good neighborhood, and in light of recent blogs, we are taking our time to make sure it's not ghetto. However, as each day goes by, our apartment complex becomes increasingly more annoying. In the next few months, we will be posting why we can't wait to get a house.

A few months ago our apartment complex had a hail storm. Some six months later, the apartment decided to refurbish each building. What does this mean for us? That's right, dirty people working on our building all hours of the day, including weekends. The past few Saturday mornings Elaina and I were rudely awoken by the clanking and clammering of ladders, Mexicans, and big power tools.

I almost shit myself when I opened my blinds to see this:

I mean, they were right outside our window. I was standing there, butt naked and these guys were painting the side of our building, which, by the way, was never even touched by the hail.

Unfortunately, we did not get pictures of the sketchy guys staring at Elaina every morning when we left for work. Maybe we'll get some of those soon.

Needless to say, we're very excited about getting a house so we won't have to deal with this.

Movie Reviews

This weekend Elaina and I saw two movies: Red Eye and The 40 Year Old Virgin. They were both great, but in very, very different ways. Here are our thoughts on the two (without giving anything away).

Red Eye
It's a short movie, only 80 minutes long...but it feels even shorter. If you like a psychological thriller riddled with plot holes then this movie is for you. Actually, Elaina and I really liked it, but as Elaina said, "I feel like a 14 year old who just finished a hundred page fiction novel over summer break." The problem is this: Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams are too pretty to be in this movie. His pretty blue eyes do not make for a bad guy, and her curly bangs do not make for... well... her character in the movie. All that aside, they both did a great job. Cillian comes across as a sweet, witty young chap until he lets her in on his little secret. Rachel probably could have been played by any actress in the world, but someone that darn cute demands attention.
E-Squared rating: 4 hugs and a pat on the back for trying.

The 40 Year Old Virgin
I've never heard the word "fuck" so many times in my life, and I don't think we've ever laughed out loud so hard either. Steve Carell is a comic genius; paired up with Paul Rudd and a couple other funny-ass people, this movie couldn't be bad if it tried. Con: it's a long movie, over 120 minutes. Pros: funny as hell, over the top jokes, physical humor, Jane Lynch (from Best in Show), Steve Carell's nose, the quote "You need to keep your bitch on a leash."
E-Squared rating: 5 and a half knee-slaps and two spit-takes.