10 things

I have been so absent and I'm sorry... there are a kabillion different reasons that I will not bore you with...
instead- I bring you 10 things... 10 totally random, get you up to speed type things.

1. This week's dare is up... so love the idea of this one...I may just do lots more... Here's mine:

my apologies to SarahPea on the photo in this one...hehe... love you.

2. Kirsten and I went on our recently established monthly scrap date last night. so good for the heart and head and hands and all that. I adore that girl. end of story.

3. Tyler's new best thing:

me: hey T- what does Santa say?
T: HO HO HO! Merry Christmas! What do you want? I want a Michael Cudyer bobblehead. (said all in one breath)

4. Zac is getting four teeth all at once. yikes.

5. We got two goldfish the other day. One is pretty and orange w a white fan tail- his name is Dexter. The other is one of the black moor ones who is black w/ pop out eyes- his name is The Dark Passenger. Which amuses me, and confuses most people who come to our house and innocently ask "Ooh- what did you name them?"

6. Last weekend I had three friends over who had never scrapped before and brought them over to the dark side of patterned paper and adhesives and rub-ons... it was delicious.

7. I would like to thank Hannah and Lindsay for getting the Might Boosh "Soup" song stuck in my head... whenever there is a quiet moment in my brain, I find it is quickly filled with "Oriental prince in the land of soup..."

8. Went to Neutrino again this past Thursday. It is so indescribably funny. the end.

9. Started reading "Atonement" a couple nights ago... wow. Backstory here being that when I get stressed I read VC Andrews books, cuz they are at once brainless and horrifying... now I finished one series and tried to start a new one and my brain shut down with near audible pleas of "are you TRYING to KILL me???" - so I decided to pick up something a little more up my usual alley... yes, Atonement = fabulous.

10. Just one of the many reasons I adore Kirsten- yesterday she asked if I wanted to go see Atonement when the movie comes out here- and I said YES. Cuz seriously, my girlfriend Keira Knightly (who really does need to eat a steak or something, but that's another story) and my boyfriend James McAvoy together is a must see. She also asked if I'd read the book yet and I went on to tell her that I'd started it the night before, after much discussion and math with Ben about - do I read the book first- and risk hating the movie cuz it might not live up to the book? Or do I wait til after I see the movie and hope I then love both? Or risk that something beautiful and different happens in the movie and not in the book, and then I hate the book? Ben and I then tried to figure out the odds of hating the movie, or hating the book...or loving both... Ben held up fingers as he went: "Ok- you could love the book, hate the movie. Love the movie, hate the book. Love both. Or hate both." me: "So basically there is a 75% chance I will hate something???? that seems so sad and wrong... I don't like your math."
that long explanation is simply the preface to say that I explained all that to Kirsten and she squealed in agreement of the HUGE dilemma rather than looking at me quizzically as many of you may be staring at your screens now that I wrote all that out...

Comments

[Ruthie]

Anything by Ian McEwan is worth a read. (First Love, Last Rites, etc, but I'm a Brit so I'm possibly biased).
Personal choice for me is the read first, then the movie. Usually that means I prefer the book, but I prefer books to movies anyway, as they are truer.Thank you for letting me know this book is going to film, I did not know.
Mr McEwan has some interesting quotes on IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568605/bio
Ruth

[Kirsten]

I'm a still a little worried about your decision to read the book...so I shall read it AFTER the movie and then we'll discuss.

[Kavan]

Ah but your math (in part 10) assumes each event has an equal probability of occurring. This is unlikely to be the case, I bet you could adjust probabilities of each event and come out with a strong likelihood that you don't end up hating something..... Just thought that might give you a vote of confidence go either route. (One too many statistics classes for me?...Probably!)

[amy lapi]

lol! i totally know what you mean!

are you excited for the time traveler's wife to come out? i read it after reading your rec. and it's one of my FAVES!! also excited for ps i love you, the kite runner, SATC, and EAT PRAY LOVE!! oh man.

[jennifer davis]

Hope you don't mind my asking here...I created a layout for the most recent dare and have logged in to the Wordpress site, but for the life of me cannot figure out what I am supposed to do to link my LO up! Do I just post it on my blog and leave a comment on The Dares site or is there a special Flickr site to add it to? Thanks for any help you can offer, sorry to hijack your blog for this!

[Andrea]

1. my scrap desk is so messy it just took me five minutes to find my keyboard!!!
2. you are hysterical - i,m so impressed you can get all that stuff from your brain and onto a computer screen in australia! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
3. I love kristina Contes and her dare layout broke my heart as i can't leave a message on her blog i HAD to please ask you to give her a hug from a fan in australia who loves her stuff and hates that i don't get to see her work every month in THAT magazine.
how can i get an invite to her blog - i'm very nice!
take care and merry christmas
andrea
in australia

[Angelia]

I totally get your dilemma, as I've picked up the book 3 times, finally read page 1, and then put it back down. In the past, the movie has NEVER lived up to the book (worst case, "Gone With The Wind" - everyone raves about the movie, and I hated it, because the book was my best friend for weeks before I saw the movie. Then there was "Raiders of the Lost Ark". I could go on.) I want to love the movie. I want to love it as much as "Pride & Prejudice" (after seeing it 3 times, I tried to read the book *ICK* and went back to the movie 2 more times.) I think I will still enjoy the book after. Hey, have you read the Outlander series?

[Ruth Pannell]

Oh God... do not get started on the Outlander series... I got hooked into it so badly that I listened to it on tapes (before the CD days) for 24 hours straight. Glass of wine, crocheting like mad, listening like crazy. Fantastic. Loved the... er... hottier bits with yummy Jamie. What's not to love about a man like that in a kilt (also it is actually quite historically accurate and not just a series of romance novels).
Went to see Atonement and it has haunted me for days and I cried over it and dug out my box of a gazillion hardbacks and found it and read it again... wow. Reminded me of my the stories my Mum told me of her war stories plus it is so tragic and so superbly filmed. I'm English so I related to it in a different way, but after the matinee the American audience were quite strangely subdued and I can see why it is up for nominations.
Sorry to ramble... look forward Nisa to some new scrapbook pages and always like reading your lovely blog.
Ruth