*jumping out of her skin with excitement* Yea! Hooray! Yippy Ky Yay!
I got my hands on an advanced copy of Ms. Dawn Rand's cd! Yea Baby!
As if I even need to affirm it's greatness, it's the bomb! I think I'm gonna have to go with @ least 2 copies for myself (one in my car simply isn't going to do,) not to mention those I want to give away... oh the anxiety!

note to self: breathe amancay, it'll be ready in due time!

Seriously though, Dawn is an amazing woman with God given (very developed) talents that surprise me more and more each day! Who else would quietly come up with a cd of 8 tracks (ok, so I really do like "7 & a bonus" better, call me a number freak,) covering guitar, drums, lead & background (all except two) vocals all herself!?!
Plus, her voice is right in my butt-comfortable range, so it's made perfectly for me to worship with!

*sigh*

"In the safety of Your Presence,
In Your arms, I'm secure
I want to be, Lord
Holy & pure"

I'm glad to see someone else had the same sense of mixed feelings about this flick as I did. I watched it early morning the 7th (after midnight), just after a somewhat disturbing moment of introspection. So you can imagine where my mind was...
However, I went into it with an open mind, and prepared for the worse. Perhaps that is exactly why I was so pleasantly surprised, not to mention impressed! Never in my life would I have imagined that a Farrelly Bros. movie could bring me to sincere tears. Not laughing so hard I'm peeing my pants tears, not even crying because I'm offended/hurt tears, but sincere "I'm moved/touched" tears!
I specifically watched it alone, at home, and without previously mentioning it to anyone. I didn't want to hear people laughing where I wasn't, gasping where I wasn't, or even maybe where I was. Nor was I interested in pre-judging it through someone else's eyes.
All this allowed me to make my own determinations of the movie. Those being:

• I most likely won't watch it again, which doesn't necessarily mean I didn't appreciate watching it.
  
• I wouldn't recomend watching it if you are male. There is way too much scantily claddness of the female counter parts involved.
  
• The movie was handled very well. I was not offended in any way shape or form (as someone being overweight!) In fact, in watching deleted scenes with commentary, they specifically held themselves back/cut stuff out to keep up with the integrity of the film (they recognized scenes that were too harsh/overboard!)
  
• Gwyneth Paltrow is slowly but surely digging herself out of the wretched hole she jumped into in Shakespeare In Love. She played the part just wonderfully (especially coming from a stick girl!)

So really, that's all I can say. That's my $0.02 worth (someone know how to make an actual cents mark?)