Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
Dec. 27th, 2009 01:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
handful_ofdust...you may wonder what's been going on, chez Files-and-Barringer. So:
Had Christmas Eve and Day with Mom. Took Cal to his very first-ever movie in a theatre, and that went amazingly well...so much better than I'd ever dreamed it would. Helped that there were three people he could move around between, that we bought him popcorn as a distraction, and that the place was not exactly full up with kids who were just as excited as he was. Also, turns out that The Princess and the Frog is A) really good and B) has a musical number roughly ever five to ten minutes: Excellent. So that's a keeper, once it's out on DVD.
Later, we returned on our own to see Sherlock Holmes, which I liked a heck of a lot. It's more faithful than you might think, and entirely engaging. Worth more of a review, too, but not right now.
Next day: Slight shopping, illness, Cal decompressing. Today: Barringers faux-Christmas. More reading Sunburst awards books; I sorted the first load yesterday, separating out maybe six which proved unreadable/deadly boring, then compiling a "Read Now" and "Read Later" pile. First up was Megan Crewe's Give up the Ghost, which proved less fun than Sarah Rees Brennan's in-five-minutes version of the same--but then, most things do. Her version of The Magicians and Mrs. Quent was fairly hilarious as well, and made me long for her to do one of A Book..., not that that's ever likely to happen--though my interests and hers do seem to intersect, overall, there is that little "heinous lack of awesome ladies" problem to consider.
And--that's it. Gotta go catch a train. Back tonight, maybe with a list of prezzies and such.
Had Christmas Eve and Day with Mom. Took Cal to his very first-ever movie in a theatre, and that went amazingly well...so much better than I'd ever dreamed it would. Helped that there were three people he could move around between, that we bought him popcorn as a distraction, and that the place was not exactly full up with kids who were just as excited as he was. Also, turns out that The Princess and the Frog is A) really good and B) has a musical number roughly ever five to ten minutes: Excellent. So that's a keeper, once it's out on DVD.
Later, we returned on our own to see Sherlock Holmes, which I liked a heck of a lot. It's more faithful than you might think, and entirely engaging. Worth more of a review, too, but not right now.
Next day: Slight shopping, illness, Cal decompressing. Today: Barringers faux-Christmas. More reading Sunburst awards books; I sorted the first load yesterday, separating out maybe six which proved unreadable/deadly boring, then compiling a "Read Now" and "Read Later" pile. First up was Megan Crewe's Give up the Ghost, which proved less fun than Sarah Rees Brennan's in-five-minutes version of the same--but then, most things do. Her version of The Magicians and Mrs. Quent was fairly hilarious as well, and made me long for her to do one of A Book..., not that that's ever likely to happen--though my interests and hers do seem to intersect, overall, there is that little "heinous lack of awesome ladies" problem to consider.
And--that's it. Gotta go catch a train. Back tonight, maybe with a list of prezzies and such.
