December already!
Summer Fun 2013
Celebrated "Idgy's" 38th Birthday yesterday morning...hard to believe...closing in on our 8th year together! And Che is almost grown. Face it, babe, we're getting old...lol. Well, you are...I got there a while back!
One year closer to floppy hats and tea on the verandah.
So...busy boxing up the Fall stuff and decking the halls. and all that business. Already enjoying my evening cup of tea beneath the dim glow of the Christmas tree. And Christmas is scattered all over the Calendar this year. Starting with Donna and the boys next week...and a Christmas Brunch and Terre Haute Getaway with Loretta the day before...and a holiday tea here for Judi and Ola the following week. Have to have all my Out-Of-State ordered and shipped before the 17th and Hannah (my middle grand-daughter) is coming over for Friday and Saturday Grandma Rose time this weekend...and Tess' Craft Show. Christmas shopping and then Tina and Chris for the 23rd...and Tanya and the girls for Christmas Eve...so by Christmas Day, I think all I want is a NAP, A Bubble Bath and Chinese Carry Out!
~laughing~
Finishing the Cards this week. With my handwriting skills at best abysmal at this point and the fact that I absolutely abhor those impersonal, pre-addressed, pre-signed cards and refuse to use them...holiday cards take forever these days. Thanks, FRED.
Still...they are coming along. Was thinking of years past last night and how I used to write all the holiday cards for Bill's work, my work, our friends and family, and cards for the people in both our daily rounds. It would be an impossible task now.
The bright spot?
Visa only really cares if you can sign your name.
I'm good.
And buried under a flurry of Christmas Catalogs this week. Swiss Colony. Figis. Wine Country Baskets. Godiva. Coldwater Creek. Pyramids. David Allen Baskets. Crate and Barrel.
And wish-lists from the "Grands". An American Girl Doll. A Real Baby Doll from JC. Anything Mickey Mouse. Trucks. Electronics. Games.
Thank goodness for Amazon.com.
The review this week? Not a book but a movie. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Re-assembling the same cast from the original film...this was darker...better. Sutherlin's character drips evil. You get the feel for how the Capital will do anything to prevent an uprising. Outstanding special effects. Amazing new characters. The triangle and misma of feelings between Gale, Peeta and Katniss are explored thoroughly. A perfect adaptation from the book. Woody Harrelson is, once again, delightful as Haymitch. And left to segway nicely into the third film/book of the Trilogy.
Note:
If you haven't seen the first film...see it before viewing this one...it wouldn't stand alone well.
And a loss in the movie world with the death of Paul Walker...co-star of The Fast and Furious films.
With the filming under-way for the 7th F&F film and the loss of Vin Diesel's street-racer sidekick...it makes you wonder how they are going to handle this slice of "real-life". I can't imagine them scrapping the film now. Maybe the opportunity for the "lesson" here may make its way into the film.
Although the car in which he was riding was not engaged in street racing at the time...the authorities say that speed was certainly a factor.
Perhaps by writing out (ending) Walker's character (through a horrific street race crash) and maybe dedicating the film to his memory...as well as using part of the proceeds to set up a trust for his 15 year old daughter, something good can come from this tragedy.
And in the "I just can't make this shit up" catagory
Rush Limbaugh makes the headlines again by comparing Pope Francis to Karl Marx.
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Seriously...I thought this windbag was suppose to leave the country if President Obama got re-elected...per his own rantings.
The door is still wide open.
I'll help you pack.
