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Friday morning shorts
Jun. 17th, 2005 11:14 amThe Perfect Man is a fun chick-flick sort of movie, though with the usual issues (apartment size given likely salary, a U-Haul not nearly large enough, stuff like that). A bit funny, technologically reasonably savvy. Fun. And I was pleased to see a trailer for Pride and Prejudice before it. (Thanks to Queue for the pass.)
I just tried a Kudos chocolate granola bar, which was fine, nothing to write home about, not worth actually buying. The descriptor, though, is what got me: "Kudos with Snickers brand chunks". Eh? Peanut butter chips, in other words? I'm still not sure, even after eating it.
Huzzah for thunderstorms. It was gorgeous, though surprising to walk home through, given that it wasn't raining when I got on the T four stops away.
And the plants on my porch are well watered now. The tomato plants have flowers blooming! And everything else is looking reasonably good. It looks like I'll be able to have weekly arugula, basil, chives and pansies for salads :-). And I should figure out something to do with the bountiful sage (I tend to think of it going with poultry, or in stuffing, and that's it.).
( shopping list )
I get to have bugs, snakes, and frogs in my chapters. Pleasing.
I finally read Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family last night. I didn't like it nearly as much as the others; I got the impression it was written far later, and perhaps Sydney Taylor was no longer in the right mood, or something. It was mostly about Ella's dilemma (go on stage or have a quieter life with her Jules, working and singing in a non-professional context), and it just didn't hang together as much as the others, episodic as they were. No one mentions Shabbat (which she's working on), for instance. The other siblings are barely there, except as occasional color, and cousins have completely vanished (though aunts and uncles remain). It doesn't have what I enjoyed about the earlier books, really. I wonder, though, if I'd've liked it better had I read it when younger...
I just tried a Kudos chocolate granola bar, which was fine, nothing to write home about, not worth actually buying. The descriptor, though, is what got me: "Kudos with Snickers brand chunks". Eh? Peanut butter chips, in other words? I'm still not sure, even after eating it.
Huzzah for thunderstorms. It was gorgeous, though surprising to walk home through, given that it wasn't raining when I got on the T four stops away.
And the plants on my porch are well watered now. The tomato plants have flowers blooming! And everything else is looking reasonably good. It looks like I'll be able to have weekly arugula, basil, chives and pansies for salads :-). And I should figure out something to do with the bountiful sage (I tend to think of it going with poultry, or in stuffing, and that's it.).
( shopping list )
I get to have bugs, snakes, and frogs in my chapters. Pleasing.
I finally read Ella of All-of-a-Kind Family last night. I didn't like it nearly as much as the others; I got the impression it was written far later, and perhaps Sydney Taylor was no longer in the right mood, or something. It was mostly about Ella's dilemma (go on stage or have a quieter life with her Jules, working and singing in a non-professional context), and it just didn't hang together as much as the others, episodic as they were. No one mentions Shabbat (which she's working on), for instance. The other siblings are barely there, except as occasional color, and cousins have completely vanished (though aunts and uncles remain). It doesn't have what I enjoyed about the earlier books, really. I wonder, though, if I'd've liked it better had I read it when younger...