Enough about St. Ben already!

I am kidding, of course. Ben rocks! I know he and his progress are what keep you all coming back for more so I will not deny you an update.

This past week Ben abandoned the grandpa four-footed walker in favor of the very cool, flamin' hot pimp cane, which allows him to move more swiftly, smoothly, and 'coolly'.

He also beat me in a one-armed, one-legged swimming race this weekend, accompanied me to the symphony, and is recovering now from a hard gym workout, where he spent an hour throwing up some 1 and 2 kilo weights.

In other words, it has been another great and promising week. We are getting good at rolling with the ups and downs and are still determined to make sure the ups out weigh the downs.

I do have a complaint though and it has to do with Ben's amazing appetite for bad movies. If you recall in Bangi, we did not have a TV or cable, we were reliant on pirated DVDs and downloaded TV shows for our entertainment. This was a pain sometimes and we often found ourselves anxiously waiting for days for a new episode of the Office or Scrubs to download but it is nothing compared to the torture I have had to endure over the past few weeks. As Ben hinted at in an earlier post, he will watch just about any movie beginning to end given the opportunity but I am not sure he did justice to his use of the word any.

We get one crappy movie channel here, which once in awhile plays a gem but more often plays the worst of the worst American pop-culture has to offer and Ben can't help but indulge. So in the past three weeks he has watched and I have suffered through (I know you are thinking just leave the room but most often he finds these awful movies in bed just as we flip off the light to go to sleep - so there is no escape really, they haunt my dreams) an astounding array of terrible movies. Movies so terrible that I feel it necessary to out him so maybe we can help him to overcome this shameful and sleep depriving addiction. The following list is a factual and truthful account of the movies Ben has consumed over the past two weeks:
1) Into the Blue (yes I know Jessica Alba's ass is incredible but... oh well, I won't even try. Maybe the ladies will understand)
2) Beauty Shop (ha, see fellas hot women are not his excuse - Queen Latifah is the leading lady in this movie)
3) Princess Diaries 2 (I have to admit this was not terrible)
4) Ice Princess (ever even heard of it?)
5) Too Fast, Too Furious
6) Roll Bounce (starring lil bow wow as the roller skating ghetto kid whose dream is to win the local skate off and make his dead mother proud)
7) Saw 3
8) The Family Stone (this he got hooked on during dinner)
9) Herbie: Fully Loaded (he had already seen it so he was able to shut it off halfway through)
10) Eight Below (a cool movie because of the awesome dogs but want to point out that Paul Walker was in this as well - so was it Jessica Alba after all???)

And for a preview of this upcoming month, we have She's the Man (which I actually had to force him to turn of last night with the promise it would be aired again), Scary Movie 4, and Material Girls to look forward to. So please send your help before it is too late for the both of us. He is already saying things like 'that list is not too embarrassing' and 'ohh Material Girls with the Duff sisters'.