Today I:
Made two batches of two different kind of breads...two loaves of Challah & two loaves of Amish Friendship bread. (Is it just me, or is putting chocolate pudding in bread just weird?)
Did three loads of laundry. (Socks galore. Yay.)
Practiced piano. (Ludovico Einaudi soothes me.)
Uploaded photos and a video. (Per request of Hannah)
Looked for heels online. (Possibly found a pair! *hopes*)
Twittered. (Like a bird...)
Cleaned my room. (It needs to be vacuumed still. It amazes me how much dirt gets in there.)
Talked to my sis. (When are we going to do that when she's married????)
Got a book ready to mail. (Paperbackswap...yay, a credit!)
Gave Jules a bath. (We tried to name her ducky, but she said no to: Hezekiah, Bob, Zaccheus, Claudius, Carter, Broccoli, Freddie, AND Juliana.)
Read "Flipped". (Loved it just as much as the movie!)
Listened to Red, Owl City, and "The Hunger Games". (Red is my new fav. fav. fav.)
Friday, December 31, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Randomities of my day
We had our first blizzard of the season...here I am, sitting in the comfort of a blanket on the recliner...I already braved the out doors to walk down to work and back home again. The wind is pretty harsh, and sneakers aren't the greatest things to walk in through the snow, but oh, well. :P
As you all (or at least, the majority of you, I believe) know, I work in the children's room at my local library. This week, the children's room is closed to get a new carpet put in, as well as have the walls painted. Today my brother (who also works at the library) and I trudged our way down the street to the library to help with moving. Everything had to be taken out...tables, chairs, desks, books, bookshelves, displays, etc. It took some time to empty each bookcase, cart the bookshelves down the hall to the Activities Room, then replace the books on the bookshelves, where they shall remain until the carpet is down...then there'll be the whole process of moving everything back into the children's room AND organizing it all! :P
Once everything had been moved out, up came the carpet that was already in the room...and that was a job in itself...It's a large room, so the carpet was really 3? 4? large pieces that had been glued? together...they had to be pulled up, pulled apart, then each rolled. Then came the matting that was underneath the carpet that had to be rolled as well. After that was accomplished, everyone left except for my boss, her daughter, my bro, and I...we stayed long enough to sweep up the mess, and wait for a guy who was coming to take two big pieces of the carpet.
Then, after four hours, Jon and I trudged back home...tired, dirty, and huuuungry. :P
At the moment, I'm listening to music while I type up this blogpost...just long enough to stretch the fingers in my left hand out, as they got all cramped from knitting for a good hour or so.
What am I listening to? Boyce Avenue's cover of "Teenage Dream", which I greatly prefer to Katy Perry's version. As several of you know, I feel pretty strongly about Katy Perry's version...it disgusts me, to put it bluntly. But when I heard Boyce Avenue's version, I had to smile...Boyce Avenue took a song that disgusted me and made me love it with the very few changes they made. :)
I've been watching "Little Dorrit" lately...just whenever I've been working on my sweater. I'm one of those people who hates watching a movie without having something to do with my hands, or working on a mindless project without busying my mind as well. Thus: knitting and movies or audio books go hand in hand. :P
Anywho, watching "Little Dorrit" just reminded me how highly I think of the heroine, Amy (aka "Little Dorrit"). A gentle, sweet, yet firm personality that sees the good in others and bears the annoyances and slights from her family without coming across as a goody-two-shoes/little-miss-perfect. A solid, great character, who should rank up there with the more famous classic literature heroines. She may not be as spirited as Elizabeth Bennet, charming as Emma Woodhouse, passionate as Marianne Dashwood, intriguing as Jane Eyre, interesting as Bella Wilfer...she's normal, yet not normal. She blends in and yet stands out. The kind of woman every girl should want to imitate in many mannerisms. The kind of girl everybody cannot help but love.
And yet, what about books? I have so many books stacked up in my room, waiting to be read. At the moment, I'm currently reading a sequel to "A Little Princess"...I discovered it in a magazine at the library, and I was interested enough to inter-library loan it...just to see what it was like. I am no fan of sequels written by totally different authors...they tend to annoy me to no end. They can never capture the magic of the original story...and so far, it is the same with this sequel. The author tries so hard to capture the characters the way Frances Hodgson Burnett invented them, but she fails, for the simple reason: she is NOT Frances Hodgson Burnett.
As you all (or at least, the majority of you, I believe) know, I work in the children's room at my local library. This week, the children's room is closed to get a new carpet put in, as well as have the walls painted. Today my brother (who also works at the library) and I trudged our way down the street to the library to help with moving. Everything had to be taken out...tables, chairs, desks, books, bookshelves, displays, etc. It took some time to empty each bookcase, cart the bookshelves down the hall to the Activities Room, then replace the books on the bookshelves, where they shall remain until the carpet is down...then there'll be the whole process of moving everything back into the children's room AND organizing it all! :P
Once everything had been moved out, up came the carpet that was already in the room...and that was a job in itself...It's a large room, so the carpet was really 3? 4? large pieces that had been glued? together...they had to be pulled up, pulled apart, then each rolled. Then came the matting that was underneath the carpet that had to be rolled as well. After that was accomplished, everyone left except for my boss, her daughter, my bro, and I...we stayed long enough to sweep up the mess, and wait for a guy who was coming to take two big pieces of the carpet.
Then, after four hours, Jon and I trudged back home...tired, dirty, and huuuungry. :P
At the moment, I'm listening to music while I type up this blogpost...just long enough to stretch the fingers in my left hand out, as they got all cramped from knitting for a good hour or so.
What am I listening to? Boyce Avenue's cover of "Teenage Dream", which I greatly prefer to Katy Perry's version. As several of you know, I feel pretty strongly about Katy Perry's version...it disgusts me, to put it bluntly. But when I heard Boyce Avenue's version, I had to smile...Boyce Avenue took a song that disgusted me and made me love it with the very few changes they made. :)
I've been watching "Little Dorrit" lately...just whenever I've been working on my sweater. I'm one of those people who hates watching a movie without having something to do with my hands, or working on a mindless project without busying my mind as well. Thus: knitting and movies or audio books go hand in hand. :P
Anywho, watching "Little Dorrit" just reminded me how highly I think of the heroine, Amy (aka "Little Dorrit"). A gentle, sweet, yet firm personality that sees the good in others and bears the annoyances and slights from her family without coming across as a goody-two-shoes/little-miss-perfect. A solid, great character, who should rank up there with the more famous classic literature heroines. She may not be as spirited as Elizabeth Bennet, charming as Emma Woodhouse, passionate as Marianne Dashwood, intriguing as Jane Eyre, interesting as Bella Wilfer...she's normal, yet not normal. She blends in and yet stands out. The kind of woman every girl should want to imitate in many mannerisms. The kind of girl everybody cannot help but love.
And yet, what about books? I have so many books stacked up in my room, waiting to be read. At the moment, I'm currently reading a sequel to "A Little Princess"...I discovered it in a magazine at the library, and I was interested enough to inter-library loan it...just to see what it was like. I am no fan of sequels written by totally different authors...they tend to annoy me to no end. They can never capture the magic of the original story...and so far, it is the same with this sequel. The author tries so hard to capture the characters the way Frances Hodgson Burnett invented them, but she fails, for the simple reason: she is NOT Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Happiness
Spending the evening journaling with candlelight and my Bible. It's the little moments that count.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Narnia...
I think I may be the only one of my friends who has seen the latest Narnia movie so far that did NOT like it.
Don't get me wrong, it's not like I hated it...that has yet to be determined. ;) It has some really good bits, but for me, I think the bad outweighed the good.
WARNING: SPOILERS BELOW.
Let me cover the good bits first:
The ending. SO good. I literally pumped my arm when I heard Aslan speak his famous line. I was so relieved that they actually kept it in there!!
Eustace...was just about perfect. Just as I imagined Eustace in the books. I was very happy about that. :)
Reepicheep...love him. :)
Beautiful ship! Beautiful costumes! Beautiful scenery! Lucy...you just have to love Lucy. :) For the most part I loved Edmund as well!
Okay, for the bad...
Overall...to me, it just didn't feel like Narnia. It wasn't...magical for me. Now, I realize that it's a whole new director, new screen writers...I know about all the different people that worked on it, but...I was originally THRILLED about that. It was like...a whole new chance to make a FABULOUS Narnia movie! But I wasn't so thrilled when I watched the movie. It just felt flat and not the same Narnia.
Now, I realize that they managed to keep in the basic storyline...they didn't even take out huge bits of the story...they just added in huge chunks. Now, I wouldn't have a problem with them adding stuff...but the stuff they added? Green mist?? SERIOUSLY? You should have been in the theater to hear my sister, and my best friend mocking this movie with all it's similarities to other movies:
Green mist? "The Ten Commandments".
Swords that glow? LOTR!
Caspian's new look? Will Turner Wannabe!!!
Just three examples that we threw out there!
What the heck is with the White Witch? Okay, I realize, she may be Edmund's worst nightmare, but seriously? It just does NOT make sense! She's defeated in "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe"...they drag her back in for "Prince Caspian", which I managed to get over. But to have her coming back and tempting Edmund in the 3rd movie just does NOT make sense. HE was the one to "destroy" her in "Prince Caspian"...when she was "seducing" Peter and Caspian did Edmund fall for her tricks all over again?? No. He destroyed her. He knew not to trust her...not to fall for her! So why the is he doing it again in the third movie? Grrr.
I really disliked the scene where they're battling the "green mist/temptations" and the Sea Serpent...in the book, Lucy calls out to Aslan for help, he sends the albatross and that's what gets them out of the darkness. In the movie, the albatross comes, sure, when Lucy calls for Aslan, but it's not Aslan who saves them! It's Eustace-the-dragon-turning-back-to-boy who saves the day by putting the last sword on Aslan's table. It's just NOT the Narnia story of the book! It's Aslan who saves the day!! Not a human!
To return to the swords...okay, so I realize they needed something to tie the story together, to string the movie along, give them a kinda purpose. But seriously? Glowing, magic swords?? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the Telmarines? They came into Narnia and pushed the magic under...they didn't LIKE the magic of Narnia...so why the heck do they have magic swords? Glowing swords?? *sigh*
Another bit that disappointed me was the whole Eustace-turning-from-dragon-to-boy scene. It was just like, "Wait! What? That's it??" To me, it seemed to defeat the whole story of redemption in the book, where Eustace has to learn to change as a dragon, and it's only when he changes and talks to Aslan...that he has to ask Aslan for help getting out of the dragon suit that he turns back into a boy. In the movie, it's like...he's a rotten boy. Then he's a dragon. And immediately, he's sorry and changes right away into this nice dragon. Then when he saves the day, he's like "earned" the right to change back into a boy! It wasn't through Eustace's "heroic deeds" that he turned back into a boy! It was through Aslan! The scene was just lacking. So disappointing.
Cheesy lines. I mean. Come on. I was cringing. Several times. I wanted to blush for the screen writers.
And one line that particularly bugged me was towards the beginning when Reepicheep is singing his song and Lucy stops to talk to him. Speaking of Aslan's country Lucy says, "Do you really believe there's such a place?" (my wording here...). Wha?? Of all the people to ask that?? Lucy? Doubting that there's such a place as Aslan's country?? Good grief! Now, if it were Caspian saying that, I wouldn't have batted an eye lash. But LUCY?
The soundtrack. Okay, so I know the soundtrack really isn't all that important to most people...but I was severely disappointed. A whole new composer...he could've done anything he wanted, and that's all he could come up with? So sad.
I don't think I'll be able to decide how much I really dislike the movie until I see it again a 2nd time...being prepared for it all, perhaps I'll have a "softer" look on it, but at the moment, my overall impression was one of great disappointment. I felt it held SO much potential...so much great potential, and it failed to deliver. Perhaps I expected too much out of it...I honestly didn't think so! What with a new director, new studio, new screen writers, new composer...I thought it would be great! But I fail to see how overall it was great with so many flaws. It definitely is my least favorite out of all three movies. All I wanted was the magical Narnia I know and love from the books, and I didn't get that overall. Sure I got it for the ending, but is it really worth the entire movie? At the moment, I don't think so.
Sunday, December 5, 2010
10 Things
10 Things That Make Me Happy
1. Music & Hoodie. Music on Hoodie makes me terribly happy. (In case you didn't know, Hoodie is my ipod.)
2. Photography.
3. Writing. Novels, journaling, blogging, you name it...
4. Talking with my best friends. (You know who you are...)
5. Stargazing. Love the stars.
6. Daffodils. "Aren't daffodils the friendliest flower?"
7. A love letter from the Man of my life. He knows who He is. ;)
8. COFFEE. Yes, it so needed to be put in caps.
9. Brand new journals. Fresh, blank, empty, waiting to be filled.
10. Random phone calls, texts, hugs, talks, and notes from my besties.
What are 10 things that make YOU happy?
1. Music & Hoodie. Music on Hoodie makes me terribly happy. (In case you didn't know, Hoodie is my ipod.)
2. Photography.
3. Writing. Novels, journaling, blogging, you name it...
4. Talking with my best friends. (You know who you are...)
5. Stargazing. Love the stars.
6. Daffodils. "Aren't daffodils the friendliest flower?"
7. A love letter from the Man of my life. He knows who He is. ;)
8. COFFEE. Yes, it so needed to be put in caps.
9. Brand new journals. Fresh, blank, empty, waiting to be filled.
10. Random phone calls, texts, hugs, talks, and notes from my besties.
What are 10 things that make YOU happy?
Friday, December 3, 2010
Interesting or gorgeous
I am posting due to a command from the Ducky gal. Command, might I point out. *ahem*
"As you wish"...to go all Princess Bride-y on you.
Right then. Because I don't know what the heck to post about, you are all in for a rather jumbled post of mish mash. I like that, don't you? "jumbled mish mash". It's so much fun to say.
Oookay. Let me see.
I bought and downloaded 5 Dr. Who episodes from Amazon today. Two from the 5th season, which makes me terribly, terribly happy. I've been dying to see the 5th season, but it's not yet available for inter-library loan. I'm enjoying it so far. I love Amelia Pond. Great name, btw. Matt Smith is not my favorite doctor, however. No one can beat David Tennant. Still, Matt Smith is good as well...I just need to watch more of him before I decide just quite how much I like him.
I have been crocheting. On my third square tonight...and it'd be awesome if I could make 5 in all tonight. Terribly awesome. We shall see.
Today, while doing all my chores and stuff, I was just remembering again how much God loves me, and it just excites me. I mean, just the fact alone that He's watching out for me all the time is wow. And not wow in a Edward-Cullen-stalker-freak-me-out-creepy-sort of way. But in an amazing-awwwww-wow-He-loves-ME-enough-and-cares-about-me-sort of way.
Be jealous gals...I've got a wicked awesome guy who LOVES MOI. :)
Ice skating tomorrow night. Squee! First time this winter...in my own pair of skates. I'm really looking forward to it!
My friends, the E- gals claim I say some words funny...like "else". They say I say it weird...like "elsed" or "elst"...I don't know how they say I say it...bottom line is I say it weird, and I totally don't hear it. I think I sound like I'm saying exactly like everyone else. :P And another friend says I lisp...I don't lisp! I just pronounce my "S's" so that everyone can hear them. *nod* I'd say it's a New England thing, but apparently it's not really...ah well. At least I have some sort of accent...it'd be so extremely boring if I didn't have an accent.
My left hand feels cramped from crocheting. Meh.
I'm trying to decide if I want the entire "Flipped" soundtrack album or not...because it is not available in just single tracks...you have to buy the entire soundtrack or nothing at all, which is so extremely lame, in my opinion. And I really don't know if it's worth spending $9.99 for the tracks I know I like, and trying to decide if I like the other songs enough...*sigh* I COULD just go get the rest of the "Inception" soundtrack instead...
Going to pick up my bridesmaid dress and order my shoes on Monday. Yay! Finally get to see it in the actual color and get to pose in it for pictures.
Okay, Ducky, you'll have to be satisfied with this, because I really am drawing a blank of what else to say...too tired to think of anything particularly interesting. Is that a sign that I'm not a particularly interesting person? Because, if one was a truly interesting person, shouldn't they be interesting all the time? But on the other hand, do I want to be a truly interesting person? I mean, who would want to be that interesting all the time...you'd never get any alone time...everyone would be stalking you, just because you're so interesting. Unless, of course, they were all too busy stalking the gorgeous people...because looks are more important to some people than interesting-ness. But I mean, why is the gorgeous more important than the interesting? The interesting should be more important than gorgeous, because what if the gorgeous, just because she's gorgeous was rather stupid...but then being gorgeous doesn't make you stupid, so that's an invalid statment...but say you were gorgeous and stupid, then when the people stalking you find out that you're only gorgeous with no brains, will they stop stalking you to find the interesting person instead? Or will they continue to stalk you just because you're gorgeous? Gorgeous is not better than interesting. Where would the fun be in just being gorgeous but not interesting? You'd just stand there like a Barbie doll. No, being interesting is more fun than being gorgeous. But being interesting all the time has it's own let-downs, so I wouldn't recommend that either. Let's be boring sometimes, shall we? Okay, great.
Ciao.
"As you wish"...to go all Princess Bride-y on you.
Right then. Because I don't know what the heck to post about, you are all in for a rather jumbled post of mish mash. I like that, don't you? "jumbled mish mash". It's so much fun to say.
Oookay. Let me see.
I bought and downloaded 5 Dr. Who episodes from Amazon today. Two from the 5th season, which makes me terribly, terribly happy. I've been dying to see the 5th season, but it's not yet available for inter-library loan. I'm enjoying it so far. I love Amelia Pond. Great name, btw. Matt Smith is not my favorite doctor, however. No one can beat David Tennant. Still, Matt Smith is good as well...I just need to watch more of him before I decide just quite how much I like him.
I have been crocheting. On my third square tonight...and it'd be awesome if I could make 5 in all tonight. Terribly awesome. We shall see.
Today, while doing all my chores and stuff, I was just remembering again how much God loves me, and it just excites me. I mean, just the fact alone that He's watching out for me all the time is wow. And not wow in a Edward-Cullen-stalker-freak-me-out-creepy-sort of way. But in an amazing-awwwww-wow-He-loves-ME-enough-and-cares-about-me-sort of way.
Be jealous gals...I've got a wicked awesome guy who LOVES MOI. :)
Ice skating tomorrow night. Squee! First time this winter...in my own pair of skates. I'm really looking forward to it!
My friends, the E- gals claim I say some words funny...like "else". They say I say it weird...like "elsed" or "elst"...I don't know how they say I say it...bottom line is I say it weird, and I totally don't hear it. I think I sound like I'm saying exactly like everyone else. :P And another friend says I lisp...I don't lisp! I just pronounce my "S's" so that everyone can hear them. *nod* I'd say it's a New England thing, but apparently it's not really...ah well. At least I have some sort of accent...it'd be so extremely boring if I didn't have an accent.
My left hand feels cramped from crocheting. Meh.
I'm trying to decide if I want the entire "Flipped" soundtrack album or not...because it is not available in just single tracks...you have to buy the entire soundtrack or nothing at all, which is so extremely lame, in my opinion. And I really don't know if it's worth spending $9.99 for the tracks I know I like, and trying to decide if I like the other songs enough...*sigh* I COULD just go get the rest of the "Inception" soundtrack instead...
Going to pick up my bridesmaid dress and order my shoes on Monday. Yay! Finally get to see it in the actual color and get to pose in it for pictures.
Okay, Ducky, you'll have to be satisfied with this, because I really am drawing a blank of what else to say...too tired to think of anything particularly interesting. Is that a sign that I'm not a particularly interesting person? Because, if one was a truly interesting person, shouldn't they be interesting all the time? But on the other hand, do I want to be a truly interesting person? I mean, who would want to be that interesting all the time...you'd never get any alone time...everyone would be stalking you, just because you're so interesting. Unless, of course, they were all too busy stalking the gorgeous people...because looks are more important to some people than interesting-ness. But I mean, why is the gorgeous more important than the interesting? The interesting should be more important than gorgeous, because what if the gorgeous, just because she's gorgeous was rather stupid...but then being gorgeous doesn't make you stupid, so that's an invalid statment...but say you were gorgeous and stupid, then when the people stalking you find out that you're only gorgeous with no brains, will they stop stalking you to find the interesting person instead? Or will they continue to stalk you just because you're gorgeous? Gorgeous is not better than interesting. Where would the fun be in just being gorgeous but not interesting? You'd just stand there like a Barbie doll. No, being interesting is more fun than being gorgeous. But being interesting all the time has it's own let-downs, so I wouldn't recommend that either. Let's be boring sometimes, shall we? Okay, great.
Ciao.
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