My batteries for my camera have gone kaput and I can’t get new ones until tomorrow. Which is just as well because I didn’t do anything at all today apart from watch a few movies (Quills, Donnie Darko, Bend it Like Beckham, and Velvet Goldmine. It’s what I do when I’m broke 
and cook another batch of stew.
So the picture I’m posting is a screencap from the Brokeback Mountain trailer. I’m looking forward to this one though I’m fairly certain it won’t appear in GI. I found the short story the film is based on and have been reading through it this weekend. It’s just gorgeously haunting. I blathered on about it in my other blog so I won’t do it here.
Anyway, here ’tis.
I used the shot on Indyknow in the Top 5s article cos I like it. I dunno, I’ve watched the trailer a million times. I can’t explain what it is that grabs me about this movie. It just does.
I let Shannon drive to Jack’s house tonight. She was off to babysit his two little kidlets and I decided to let her get a little more driving practice in. I’ve been slowly teaching her to drive for a while now beginning with driving in a circuit in the Fonner Park parking lot. Then it was parking practice which she managed very well and only once did she come close to taking out a fence Soon Grampa was letting her drive the Cruiser around St. Francis and just last week I let her tackle the mean streets of GI and let her drive all the way home from the Gs.
Then tonight it was dusk driving up to Jack’s. As much as I miss my ‘little girl,’ it’s fun watching her grow up as well.
For the record – I flippin’ LOVED Goblet of Fire – and more importantly, so did my daughter. But due to the fact that I forgot to bring my camera with me to get a shot of the long line to get in that I wanted for today’s picture, I had to take this wretched pic of my laptop again. Sorry.
But anyway yes, the new Harry Potter in indeed the best of the four so far which is saying something because I love them all. I think the actors have vastly improved. As much as I love the first three films, even I can admit that the actors weren’t… quite… ummm.. polished.
But they are now. They had me in tears at the end.
CanNOT wait to see this movie!
I’ve been looking forward to this one for months and months. It totally sucks it’s opening on Harry Potter weekend but that’s ok. Potter Friday, Johnny Saturday
Well, I’m le tired myself, but apparently Spooky the Demented Furball is as well. Currently she is sitting practically on top of my head, perched on the headrest of my chair. She’s very sleepy which is why she allowed me to take yet another pic of her.
So yes, it’s another photo of my cat. This usually means my day was boring and nothing struck me as blog-worthy. Sorry
Well sort of… It didn’t do much here in GI other than spit snow but it was enough to gracefully layer my car with it anyway. But technically, it’s the first snow of the season, even if it is a rather wimpy first snow.
After becoming frustrated with Legend of Zelda, Windwaker and the seemingly endless search for 8 shards of the flippin’ Triforce, I stopped playing the game – over a year and a half ago.
Just the thought of having to sail in that damn boat looking for 8 needles in the ocean put me off.
But tonight, I felt the need to play again. And it seems the trick to the game, is to take a year and a half-long break
Wheeee I got my tickets
If I could have I’d have gotten the tix for the 3pm show but while I can use my vaca time to take the day off I can’t *quite* justify taking the kid out of school just to see a movie. I’m not *that* cool of a mom. So I’m going to spend the day cleaning the place to get ready for company the following week, and as soon as the kid’s out of school, we’re going to scope out the lines
I took Shannon dress shopping again because I guess the winter dance coming up is a formal. (Thank you Grammy for paying for all of these dresses btw.) So as she was trying on dresses I snapped a pic of her as she came out of the dressing room – and I got in trouble from the little dressing room twit.
She actually came over and said I couldn’t take pictures of my daughter because I could be some kind of secret dress spy coming in to steal designs.
Puh-leeeze. If I WAS a secret dress spy I hardly think I’d be in a shop in the mall of a town like Grand Island, Nebraska. Gimme a break!
Anyway I didn’t delete the photo so here’s the forbidden pic of the day:
And this is the dress we bought as well. And I still couldn’t take a photo of it. Silly dressing room twit.
Other than that, we just spent time with the Gs, and I got my hair chopped. Now there’s some spaghetti cooking I must attend to.
One of these flags belongs to my beloved grandfather, James. A. Gleason. He served as Gunners Mate First Class aboard the USS Daly during WWII and he served again during the Korean War.
Love you Grampa, and thank you.
