Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reviews. Show all posts

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Ugli!

Kaia has been asking for an UgliFruit every time we go to the store, so I decided it was time to try one....


This is actually one of the prettier specimens.


Peeling it was hard, I needed a knife to start me out... but after the first cut, the peel came off really easily, revealing quite a pretty little citrus!





Kaia insisted I be in some of the pictures, so here I am showing off the peeled fruit in all it's unassuming glory.




and it's sampled! Conclusion?



"It's weird." (She ate about a quarter of it)



My take on it was that they taste like a very bland orange. I don't think we'll be purchasing these again. But it was cool to try something new!

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

I highly recommend....

Watch the movie Stardust! I'd put that as a hyperlink, but I'm feeling lazy at the moment. However, the movie is AWESOME. humor, magic, love, pirates, ghosts, stars, captive princesses (well, one), witches, princes, and one boy who works in a shop (but he's not a shop boy!)

My two favorite characters are Captain Shakespeare (a sky pirate played by Robert De Niro) and Billy the goat/pseudo-innkeeper. I also like the bevy of ghost-princes. After he grows up a bit, Tristan is pretty cool. There aren't any characters that I don't like (unless they are supposed to be unlike-able, of course!)

Monday, July 30, 2007

Various Mutterings

Had a Dr. appt this morning. Went fine, am now going to every two weeks, until week 36, when it'll be every week. We tentatively scheduled the c-section for Monday, October 1st!

Mike and I had an interesting and convoluted conversation this morning on the way into town about Time. Basically, it started out with talking about if time were stopped, but you were still aware of your surrounding - or not stopped with it- then (this was the first part) one, you'd be blind, since the light bouncing off of things into your eyes would be stopped too...and two, that you'd be dead, since all the air around you would be frozen, so you wouldn't be able to breathe. Oh, and three, that you couldn't move, since again, the frozen air around you. The conversation spiralled from there, going into how you could solve those problems. Without going into excruciating detail (the conversation lasted about 40 minutes) it boiled down to needed an EXTREMELY high level of technology. It was a fun conversation.

WARNING: HARRY POTTER SPOILERS AHEAD
I finished the last Harry Potter book. Overall, I was quite happy with how it ended. I was also very pleased that I had guessed about Snape's patronus being the doe, and had to listen to Mike laughing off my guess, then having to come back to me and admit I was right!
Snape's ending was sad. I had been hoping all along that he was actually good, and he was, deep down, but it was sad he had to die (though, really, inevitable I think) and even more sad about his unrequited love for Lilly. I still don't get how Lilly ended up with James, since he was such as ass in school.
I loved how she put an epilogue at the end, 19 years later. I knew Ron and Hermione would get together of course, and glad that Harry and Ginny did, too. I was happy he named one of his sons Severus, as well as other sons after other cool characters. I would have liked to hear what happened to other characters, good and bad.
It was sad that Fred, Lupin, and Tonks died, but I think it wouldn't have been realistic to have none of the good guys die in the final battle.
I love how it was all orchestrated by Dumbledore, the wand being taken by Snape with the previous owner's permission, so not to have it take Snape as it's owner, and how Harry ended up being it's owner by default.
END OF HARRY POTTER SPOILERS

We're house sitting for John and Andrea this week. It's going well, despite my previous email about money issues! Kaia enjoys looking for eggs and having the dogs around, though she is pissed she can't ride until Andrea comes back. Even with all the animals and trees, it's a really easy house sitting venture, as Andrea has good systems set up, and it's summer, so almost no supplementing going on.

That's it for now I think....Let me know what YOU thought of Harry Potter!

Sunday, June 24, 2007

See This Movie!

I just got back from watching Knocked Up.

Awesome movie. One of the best I've seen in a while. Funny as hell, but also very moving.

Also, just cause squeaky clean newborns in movies are one of my pet peeves, I have to say they did a good job with the birth scene. Sweaty screaming mother, messy baby. Not a few little grunts and then a 6 month old bright eyed baby to hold. thumbs up just for that.

It's just all over a wonderful movie. Go see it.

Thursday, January 18, 2007

No Pillowpants in my........

alright, to understand the title you have to watch Clerks II. And don't watch it unless you thoroughly enjoy Jay and Silent Bob movies. But seriously, I cannot remember the last time I laughed so hard. We actually had to pause in a few places to laugh. then rewind and watch the parts again.

Then we had.....oh, anyone under 18, shut your eyes!! And ask your parents before watching Clerks II.....oh hell, watch it anyway, it's a HILARIOUS movie. Just don't tell them I let you....

anyway, where was I? Oh yes! The rug burns on my butt.

Alabama Slammers, man. The drink of the Gods. Not to mention my husband has a marvelous PTE. and no, I am NOT going to tell you what that stands for. hee hee..... (and I know you don't really want to know.)

seriously, watch the movie. pillowpants.....sooooo funny.

I'm still giggling....

Saturday, September 23, 2006

first of all, ya gotta watch "Hoodwinked". cutest kid's movie I've seen in a long time.