It was determined that this weekend shall be a Star Wars weekend for Oboe-Wan. Since ROTS was released on DVD, I had yet to sit down and watch the entire Saga in a short period of time, a marathon if you will. In fact, I didn't even really have a plan as to how I was going to order the films. I'm normally tout the 456123 order here on the boards, but I guess when the **** came down, I wanted to watch 123456. And so I attempted the marathon, starting on Friday night.

In fact, the most fun part about this marathon was that for 4 of the 6 movies I was chatting on Yahoo IM with my good friend Darth Vader! The blue lightsaber wielding noob mod? One in the same. I logged into Yahoo, waved hello to my armored pal, cracked open the TPM box that I so rarely open unless my son wants to watch, slipped it in to my computer and.....

nothing

Ok. let's try this again, open the disk drive then close it quickly....

nothing

Alrighty then. This time let's open the disk drive, take out the DVD, wipe it delicately on my T-shirt, put it back into the disk drive and.....

nothing

I repeated this process about 15 times before I realized that it was not meant to be. TPM would not be the first movie of my marathon and I wasn't about to go into the living room & watch on the actual t.v. because I so badly wanted to chat while watching. So... AOTC became movie #1. Chatting ensued.... I made a wisecrack about Anakin carrying Padme's bags like Lone Starr in Spaceballs & DV suggested I write a blog about it. Ok, file that in my brain under: blog ideas. AOTC ended around 11pm and ROTS took its place in the disk drive. More chatting, more movie enjoying. Movie ended at 1:30am but the chatting continued for another 30 minutes. Sadly, poor DV is 2 hours ahead of my time zone... so... if anyone though the sith lord looked a little red eyed on Saturday, then, well, it was my fault.

Saturday afternoon rolls around & I am busily pounding out my Spaceballs blog and decide that I am wasting precious Star Wars viewing time. But, it was not meant to be. No SW for me at any point on Saturday. Seems there is too much to do, but never fear! ANH happily plays in the computer Saturday night while I catch up on email, upload pictures to my son's website, and visit with my favoirte sw.com message boards. I had big plans to start ESB that same night since it was only 10:30pm when ANH ended, but this mommy was tired from a long hike in the desert then chasing her 4-year-old around all day. So I decided to go to bed instead.

Sunday afternoon I do have time for ESB, but my parents arrive home after their weekend away, so instead of hiding in the computer room, I decide the good "daughterly" thing to do is visit with them instead. Our heroes had made it to Cloud City when I have to pause the movie. Later on Sunday night, though, after Padawan-Wan went to bed, I had the pleasure of finishing ESB & ROTJ while again chatting with my dear pal Darth Vader.

I mean, let's face it, who cares at this point in my Star Wars career if I'm 100% tuned into the movies, right? If I had a dollar for every time I watched anything Star Wars I would be pretty darn rich by now. But, sadly my DVD player does not spit out one dollar bills so here I am just as broke as I was when the movie started.

Now, as of Sunday night I had watched 23456 but still no Ep. 1. Bad Oboe-Wan, bad, bad. Well, is it really necessary? Does TPM even have to exist? In the words of DV, it's not really a marathon now is it if you skip a movie. You're right, you're right, I know you're right. So Monday afternoon while pounding out my horseracing blog TPM plays quietly in the corner of my computer screen. There. Are you happy?

But... that's not all! After all the discussion on Spaceballs there is no way I could call my marathon complete without tacking Spaceballs to the end of it. I laughed so hard I couldn't stand it and I totally needed it. My father was also excited to sit and watch it with me - we'd been talking about starting a Mel Brooks marathon so now starts the next movie marathon of the summer.

So all my tough talk on the boards about watching Star Wars in the order of 456123 so that the "surprise" of DV being Luke's father is preserved wasn't even what I ended up doing. My final order was: 234561 SB.

Now I can join the ranks of all you real SW fans and say i've watched the entire saga in a weekend.

May the Schwartz, I mean Force, be with youuouououououoououoouwhataworldwhataworld!!!!!!!