Once I got to my parents' house it was a lovely Thanksgiving. We had delicious food and too much of it. My sister's children were well behaved. The dressing was vegetarian so Chris had plenty of options.
The return trip took only 4 hours and that includes getting gas on the way back.
- Location:Flatland
- Mood:
content
A couple of amusing little quirks about our house are there are no grounded outlets in any of the bedrooms and Chris and I both think the master bedroom door opens the wrong direction. Other, more adorable, little quirks are the neighborhood cat that sits just outside one of our windows and the many squirrels.
A lot of my work got pushed to the wayside last week as I was preparing to move. All of this work is rushing back right now. Whew! I'm looking forward to being caught up and unpacked and able to relax. The time is just not now.
Back to work!
- Location:The land of WiFi
- Mood:
exhausted
- Mood: pleased
The second roll was just beyond the range of pages.
The third roll gave us how to store oils.
The fourth roll was Creamy Baked Pasta with Mushrooms and Cheese. It's in the oven right now and smells awesome.
- Mood: excited
- Mood: satisfied
- Mood: content
- Location:Chris' Place
- Mood:
Introspective
Why is this interesting?
It's the puzzle that was featured in the movie Word Play. I actually figured out that it was the same puzzle before reading a single clue.
- Mood: chipper
- Location:Home
- Mood:
distressed
- Mood: chipper
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mykque01 I'm willing to take what the academy gives me.Motion Picture -- Milk
Actor -- Mickey Rourke
Actress -- Kate Winslet
Supporting Actor -- Michael Shannon
Supporting Actress -- Amy Adams
Directing -- Gus Van Sant
Screenplay for Screen -- WALL-E
Screenplay based -- Frost/Nixon
Cinematography -- Slumdog Millionaire
Editing -- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Art Direction -- The Dark Knight
Costume Design -- The Duchess
Makeup -- The Dark Knight
Original Score -- Slumdog Millionaire
Original Song -- Jai Ho
Sound -- WALL-E
Sound Editing -- Iron Man (My biggest complaint about Slumdog was its sound! Who nominated that?)
Visual Effects -- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Animated Feature -- WALL-E
Foreign Language -- Okuribito
Documentary -- Trouble the Water
Short Documentary -- The Conscience of Nehm En
Animated Short -- Presto
Live Short -- Auf der Strecke
grouchychris and I went to Pacific Science Center to see Lucy this last weekend. A lot of the exhibit is about the history of Ethiopia. Some of the exhibit is about paleontology. You get a really good look at the real Lucy.Things I learned: Ethiopia is a Christian country. Ras Tafari was a real guy (and became the Emperor of Ethiopia). Lucy's skeleton is about 40% complete which is amazing considering her age. Ethiopian food smells really good.
Through much of the exhibit I felt crowded, but I was able to get a close look at everything I cared to get a close look at and play with everything I wanted to play with. The one place that didn't feel crowded was the room with Lucy. They did a really good job of crowd control in that area.
I highly recommend going to see her. She's only in Seattle until March 8.
- Mood:
accomplished
- Mood: amused
grouchychris and I went to the Museum of Flight. At the Museum of Flight they have a Concorde, which made me think of Tiffany. Back when I was a young miss I used to read Young Miss magazine (which was calling itself YM in preparation for the change to Young & Modern). In one YM magazine was an article about Tiffany the teenaged pop star. They mentioned that she flew on the Concorde (with some comment like "you know, that jet that costs more than most teens' allowances"). Thus the Concorde and Tiffany are forever linked in my brain. So I started to wonder "What's Tiffany up to these days?" The answer is Gay Dance Club Music. She's still preforming and competing with Brittany Spears for the top of the Dance Club charts. So now I know. Now you know too.- Mood: satisfied
2. Which one was your favorite? Bellingham is my favorite!
3. Where have you visited that you would like to live? Nowhere. There's no place like home.
Finally, Post pics!
4. List the cities you have lived in, go to http://www.flickr.com and search for images tagged with that city's name that you like and post them!
( A photo tour of where I have lived. )
- Mood:
nostalgic
Disclaimer: This doesn't mean that I will be posting any more frequently, only that my excuses are even lamer than before.
- Mood:
bouncy
If you'd like to see the rest click here.
- Mood: cheerful
I've been doing a lot of crosswords lately. When grouchychris and I were down in Portland visiting friends I picked up The Little Black and White Book of New York Times crosswords at Powell's. At first Chris was a bit dismayed at my obsessiveness ("Diid you just start another of those damned crosswords!?"), but now we've been working on them together (a good indoor activity for snowy days). When we started working on them all of the crosswords offered some challenge, but as we picked up the standard crossword vocabulary (The Charles' canine is ASTA, a needlecase is an ETUI, Max BAER is a 1930s boxing champ, etc.) the Monday and Tuesday puzzles became really easy, so we've been playing with ways to make them harder. One variation we do is one of us takes all the across clues and the other takes all the down clues and we don't look at the clues in the other direction, which makes for a situation in which you can't be really certain how good a crossing answer is. Another variation we've tried is one does cross clues, the other does down clues but we start in a corner and are only allowed to do clues that cross previous clues. This makes even a Monday hard because you MUST get previous clues before moving on. Anyway, it's been fun. Much more fun than our little drive down to the Junction for cupcakes yesterday (Cupcakes and Coffee get an A, Roads a D-).
- Mood: nerdy
- Mood:
mixed
mcjulie talk about drawing comics at the Ranch Room Thursday night and I got kind of jealous. I've wanted to be able to draw at various times in my life. At one point I actually took an art class. I woke up Friday morning with an idea for the kind of comic I would draw and an opening gag. Yesterday I actually drew a bit of it and it was fun. It was also not nearly as different from the picture in my head as I had imagined. I won't be doing the 24 hour thing, but I just wanted to say that I was inspired.- Mood:
inspired
