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Oops

The rest of the family went to see a theatrical screening of The Wizard of Oz yesterday, but I spent the hours that they were away knitting a second fuzzy slipper, hand-felting the slippers, and then running a couple of quick errands.

Last evening, one of my oldest friends -- we met each other on the first day of kindergarten -- came into town for one night, and we stayed up late watching Twilight.  Neither of us had seen it before, but thanks to blogs and Entertainment Weekly, I was thoroughly spoiled.

The movie was fine.  Totally and completely silly, but so shamelessly so that I was amused.  I am slightly more e inclined to read the book now than before, and I already assumed I'd get around to it one of these days.*

As for the whole daily posting thing, which was broken in the process, I have a confession to make.

This meme about books?  After that Friday o' vomit, I fell asleep in my clothes at 9pm and slept through until morning.  I answered the questions and then backdated the post first thing on Saturday.

So I was already out of the running.  First time I didn't make it, but then that seems like a fitting tribute to the frequency of my blog writing the rest of the year.


* This reminds me: After New Moon grossed $140 million dollars in three days, there was a lot of chatter in the press about how it would drop quickly.  NPR interviewed a media reporter who claimed that most of the fans came opening weekend, and implied that return traffic wouldn't be enough to outweigh the lack of interest men have in the franchise.

Ah, sexism.  Women make up more than half the population, and more than 80 percent of the audience for this movie, but hey, "you're going to see this fall off fairly quickly at the box office."

Ha.

November 28, 2009 in Film, GloBloPoMo, Metablog | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)

Post-Turkey Exhaustion

I meant to post a photo essay on today's feast, but I'm too sleepy.

In honor of the show's fortieth anniversary, and in honor of our trip to the zoo yesterday, here's one of my favorite Sesame Street bits ever:

November 26, 2009 in GloBloPoMo | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Late night, early morning

At the last minute, I decided to go along to the zoo today with Calder, the kids, and my in-laws, which meant that the last of the last-minute grocery runs happened at 8:45pm, and that I still have two pies to bake and some stuffing to prepare.  Now that the apples are sliced and the pumpkin filling ingredients are all lined up and the wild rice is boiling, It's not going to take that long (dice onion, dice celery, rinse sliced mushrooms, saute) and I'm glad I went to the zoo and I do love the prep for Thanksgiving, but wow, am I getting too old for late nights.  I am exhausted.

My major goal is to eat dinner at 12:30pm tomorrow, and my micro-goal is to time the mashed potatoes properly for the first time ever.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the States!  Happy Thursday to everyone in other countries!  See you on the other side.

November 25, 2009 in GloBloPoMo | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

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