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atotalblamblamWhen the night sky is so clear it looks like thousands of birds have been pecking holes out of the black, and I can see the stars really well, I look at the stars and think that I am lucky to have seen this.
I like to look for clusters of stars and satellites and airplanes, but the first thing I always look for in the winter is Orion, the big bow-tie. In summer, it's the Big Dipper. It's nice to have something up there to say hi to.
This week was spent in a very sedentary fashion. I got some chores and errands done, but for the most part I just recharged, hanging out with Jas and Mom and knitting and crocheting all day. I am very proud of myself because I just knitted my first real hat, knitted in the round on homemade double-pointed needles (formerly colored pencils and dowels. I also have a set made from pick up sticks). It was really really technical and hard. I messed up a few times and had to unravel a few rows. It ended up too short, so I figured out how to pick up already bound-off stitches, knit some more, and that fixed it. Then I wove in all the loose ends, fixed a dropped stitch, wetted it and shaped it (that's called blocking), gently brushed it to give it a nice fuzzy halo, and it's now laying out almost dry. Also in the last couple weeks I figured out how to knit fair isle, and crocheted a few more hats. I cut an old green silk shirt into strips to make a crocheted hat for myself soon. I tried felting this little knitted bracelet for a Christmas present, but I ran out of time and gave up on that for a while.
Yesterday Mom and I saw the Lemony Snicket movie. I went in expecting to be disappointed. The books are just so clever and wicked and wonderful, and I didn't think a movie starring Jim Carrey and his elastic face would live up to the books.
And yeah, there are a lot of things about the movie that are disappointing, such as Jim Carrey trying to make one eye look bigger than the other, all the stupid little throw away comments they had Sunny Baudelaire saying, the boring script, and the character assassination of most of the main people, including Mr. Poe, who is dull and plain and doesn't even cough once.
There are, however, some things that worked, and a lot of stylistic touches that were truly inspired. Things I liked a whole lot:
*The movie's Count Olaf is just as delightfully freaky, and so much scarier on the screen than on the page! I always imagined Olaf's voice to be kind of high and creaky and fey, but wow, I really love this deep, resonant Olaf the Actorrr voice! I love how Olaf's voice ominously peeks through from his ridiculous disguises every now and tehn.
*Carrey's Olaf's Stefano! Haha really funny, again, I love the way he talks, all nasal informative biologist.
*Olaf's acting troupe/henchmen!!! So delightful and awesome: the Pale-Faced Women singing at the start of Violet and Olaf's wedding! the Person of Ambiguous Gender! the Hook-Handed Man! etc.! What great freaks!
*Makeup and costuming.
*The whole movie was just visually stunning. They must have had an arsenal of weird stylistic people.
*All the sets were fantastic, but most especially the house over Lake Lachrymose, and the wedding scene.
*Whoever they chose to play Aunt Josephine interpreted the character perfectly!
*The end credit animations, which were fun and clever.
*The music soundtrack.
All in all, I guess I really enjoyed this movie, and I'm looking forward to seeing the next one. If they can find a better director and script writers, it will be excellent.
Now I would like to go see Motorcycle Diaries and Phantom of the Opera. And I can't wait till Wonka comes out.
Tomorrow it's back to work for me, which means I should really be in bed by now. But! Tomorrow I give my three week notice! I've decided that the 21st will be my last day at the Y, and it is definitely something to look forward to!
I think my outlook on things is finally changing. I think that even if I don't end up going to Norway with this particular family, things will not be so bad, and it will work out. Now I feel a lot more capable and comfortable with the process of finding an au pair job.
Later I will post a picture of the two children I will be caring for.
For now, my bed is calling to me. And Jas has to pee.
If she hasn't already.
I like to look for clusters of stars and satellites and airplanes, but the first thing I always look for in the winter is Orion, the big bow-tie. In summer, it's the Big Dipper. It's nice to have something up there to say hi to.
This week was spent in a very sedentary fashion. I got some chores and errands done, but for the most part I just recharged, hanging out with Jas and Mom and knitting and crocheting all day. I am very proud of myself because I just knitted my first real hat, knitted in the round on homemade double-pointed needles (formerly colored pencils and dowels. I also have a set made from pick up sticks). It was really really technical and hard. I messed up a few times and had to unravel a few rows. It ended up too short, so I figured out how to pick up already bound-off stitches, knit some more, and that fixed it. Then I wove in all the loose ends, fixed a dropped stitch, wetted it and shaped it (that's called blocking), gently brushed it to give it a nice fuzzy halo, and it's now laying out almost dry. Also in the last couple weeks I figured out how to knit fair isle, and crocheted a few more hats. I cut an old green silk shirt into strips to make a crocheted hat for myself soon. I tried felting this little knitted bracelet for a Christmas present, but I ran out of time and gave up on that for a while.
Yesterday Mom and I saw the Lemony Snicket movie. I went in expecting to be disappointed. The books are just so clever and wicked and wonderful, and I didn't think a movie starring Jim Carrey and his elastic face would live up to the books.
And yeah, there are a lot of things about the movie that are disappointing, such as Jim Carrey trying to make one eye look bigger than the other, all the stupid little throw away comments they had Sunny Baudelaire saying, the boring script, and the character assassination of most of the main people, including Mr. Poe, who is dull and plain and doesn't even cough once.
There are, however, some things that worked, and a lot of stylistic touches that were truly inspired. Things I liked a whole lot:
*The movie's Count Olaf is just as delightfully freaky, and so much scarier on the screen than on the page! I always imagined Olaf's voice to be kind of high and creaky and fey, but wow, I really love this deep, resonant Olaf the Actorrr voice! I love how Olaf's voice ominously peeks through from his ridiculous disguises every now and tehn.
*Carrey's Olaf's Stefano! Haha really funny, again, I love the way he talks, all nasal informative biologist.
*Olaf's acting troupe/henchmen!!! So delightful and awesome: the Pale-Faced Women singing at the start of Violet and Olaf's wedding! the Person of Ambiguous Gender! the Hook-Handed Man! etc.! What great freaks!
*Makeup and costuming.
*The whole movie was just visually stunning. They must have had an arsenal of weird stylistic people.
*All the sets were fantastic, but most especially the house over Lake Lachrymose, and the wedding scene.
*Whoever they chose to play Aunt Josephine interpreted the character perfectly!
*The end credit animations, which were fun and clever.
*The music soundtrack.
All in all, I guess I really enjoyed this movie, and I'm looking forward to seeing the next one. If they can find a better director and script writers, it will be excellent.
Now I would like to go see Motorcycle Diaries and Phantom of the Opera. And I can't wait till Wonka comes out.
Tomorrow it's back to work for me, which means I should really be in bed by now. But! Tomorrow I give my three week notice! I've decided that the 21st will be my last day at the Y, and it is definitely something to look forward to!
I think my outlook on things is finally changing. I think that even if I don't end up going to Norway with this particular family, things will not be so bad, and it will work out. Now I feel a lot more capable and comfortable with the process of finding an au pair job.
Later I will post a picture of the two children I will be caring for.
For now, my bed is calling to me. And Jas has to pee.
If she hasn't already.
