Waterloo! I was defeated, you won the war!

Whoa! It’s a lunchtime blog!

So Mom and I went to see Mamma Mia last night. In a summer where most of the movies feature comic book characters, assassins, murders, ass-kickings* and caricatures of women, it was a pleasure to FINALLY see a light-hearted movie!

The plot was contrived, the singing was inconsistent (Oh, Pierce Brosnan…you are SUCH a Trooper. A “super” Trooper. Bwah!) and I loved it!

I sang along in my head the entire movie. It helps that I’ve loved ABBA for years thanks to a cassette tape that was always played when I was young. I even got weepy in the middle, but I have issues.

And I know the characters of Donna (Meryl Streep) and her friends are purely fictional…but darned if I didn’t feel inspired to grow my hair long again, to stop being afraid of growing older, and to walk as if there is a mile-long line of Greek women singing and dancing behind me.

After the movie ended - half the women in the ladies’ room stalls were singing “Waterloo.”

Anyway, we loved loved loved it and I definitely want to see it again when it comes out on DVD.

*Even Kung Fu Panda, though light-hearted, had tons of ass-kickings. I haven’t seen WALL-E yet. I’m tired of “humans suck and are lazy and ruin EVERYTHING” storylines.

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Tonight we’re off to GGs restaurant in Mt. Laurel to celebrate a cousin’s birthday. I’m getting cheaper in my old age, but at $19.00 for pasta marinara, there’d better be someone feeding it to me.

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