Ever Alert

It occurred to me recently that, with all the drama around here, I had really let my training regimen go to heck in a handbasket.  This is simply unacceptable.  To whom if not The Sheep, will the world turn when that faint moaning is heard and the boards nailed across the windows start to give way?

I take my role in the future of the human race seriously.  Very seriously.

So, I put on my finest hoodie, found the part in my hair for the first time in days and steeled myself for some of Hollywood's finest in digital education.  At my side for this endeavor were Future SIL Sheep and Niece Sheep.  Niece Sheep brought along Great Nephew Sheep, but he is still sort of a work in progress and doesn't really have much of a view at this point so I doubt that he got much out of it.  However, I hear good things about the ability of the little ones to pick up sound in utero so there is every reason to believe that he will be able to join my Army Against Annihilation at some point.

I like to think that Zombie fighting will bring our family even closer together as time passes.  I'm already working on a design for our matching jackets.  I think that the little baby version will be particularly darling...

Now there are those who will claim that I Am Legend is not about zombies, rather that these are simply poor souls horribly mutated through infection.  I beg to differ.  This film falls squarely within the genre and anyone who fails to understand that the coming Zombie Menace could arrive in any form is just asking for trouble.  We need to consider all possibilities here, people!  I came away from today's little outing with any number of new and exciting possibilities for surviving the hordes of ravaging flesh eaters.  I highly recommend this movie to not only the experienced zombie hunter, but also the newbies out there who are only just beginning to glean the importance of stockpiling batteries and fruit cocktail.

Plus you get to see Will Smith without a shirt and doing chin-ups.  This particular scene led to the following in-depth discussion:

Niece Sheep:  (in an awed whisper) Damn.

Auntie Sheep:  (who is older and perhaps having more trouble catching her breath at that point)  Um.  Yeahhhhhhh.....

I also brought along the second of The Sort Of Purple Socks That Might Match Something I Own and knit on it for a bit during the previews.  But that is really incidental and the sock was set aside for the viewing of the training film in order that it might receive my full attention.  My only complaint is that there is no accompanying course material handed out at the ticket window and it was really too dark to take notes.  I'll wait for it to come out on video and then see if I can't jot down a few helpful thoughts.

And no...not just on the "chin-ups" scene.  

SA