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It's Monday... (sigh)... Time has stolen my weekend from me and sentenced me to a week long term of tireless toil... or something like that. Actually, I had a really good weekend. Amanda and I were on both end of the spectrum this weekend. We attended a friend's wedding, celebrated my Mom's birthday, and discovered a new love for horror movies. My friend from Jr. High and High School, Jeff Chambers, tied the knot yesterday afternoon at a local church in town. The ceremony was small and short and very nice. A reception followed at their house, but because of other things that had to get done, we headed home after the wedding was over. Saturday was my Mom's birthday... she turned younger. To celebrate the festive day, the family drove down to Tyler to eat at a Mexican Food restaurant. Meeting us there were my younger brother and sister, who drove up from school in College Station. It was a lot of fun. The place we were eating happens to be a sister restaurant of my favorite restaurant. Needless to say, I stuffed myself on salsa and chimichanga. Yes, I was a bloated pig on the way home, but I was a happy bloated pig. Friday afternoon, my order from Overstock.com came in. Prior to this purchase, I had never experienced this online phenomena. I found a DVD set of 50, yes 50, old Horror movies for a mere $27. Because of the quantity of movies and their cheap price, I wasn't sure what to expect. I read some of the titles and recognized them, but overall was preparing myself for a dud of a set. You know what I'm talking about... you by a CD because you like a song and sure enough, that's the only descent song on the album... that what I felt like. Friday afternoon came, and my package was delivered. Amanda and I spent the evening watching Vincent Prices' The House on Haunted Hill and The Last Man on Earth and loved every minute of it. After that, on Saturday, we popped in The Killer Shrews followed by The Giant Gila Monster (both of which caused my Dad to be traumatized at an early age) and were again stunned by how much we loved it. Next came Night of the Living Dead, a cult classic. This one we both voted was the creepiest of the movies we had watched so far (with a strong second place coming from those damn shrews), but it was still great. Needless to say, we can't wait to watch the other 45 movies we have left. So that was my weekend. It was a full two days... only five more days until the next one.