I saw The Force Awakens! Here are some short, spoiler-free thoughts:

I loved it. I loved seeing the old characters, but even more, I loved meeting the new ones. The heroes and villains are wonderful and the new characters have more personality and life to them than I expected. I love the mysteries. I love that there are now thousands of fan-theories about where this is going. And I love that we need to wait until 2017 to learn the answers to these mysteries.

There are people who hate the movie, or at least loudly proclaim that they hate it. And that’s fine. But if I gave these people a billion-million dollars, they could not create a better Star Wars movie than The Force Awakens. Some people are just being cranky because A) if you disagree with something, it makes you seem smarter and B) they hate everything and nothing is good.

Haters can try to tell me that this movie was terrible, that it was a retread of other films, that the film relied too much on coincidence. And yet nothing they say can travel back in time and wipe the smile from my face that popped up when the movie began and stayed with me the entire night.

If you haven’t seen the movie yet, avoid spoilers if you can, but even if you know how it ends, it’s a whole different experience to see it for yourself.

And to top off the experience, now I get to open a cardboard door and play with tiny piles of Lego Star Wars pieces!

Today’s item is…

Another Gun!

It’s just like the first gun, but this one doesn’t swivel and the “bullets” are orange.

It does have a sweet control panel, though. Look at that control panel!

Now that everyone is weaponized, a friendly game of war began.

Halfway through, Frisco left because he thought he heard his phone ringing, and it might be Theresa. (But no one else heard a phone ringing.)

Day 21 Rating: 1.7 out of 5 (Points added for the control panel, but this is just a gun, so let’s not get too excited.)

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