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which_chickI watched My NeighborTotoro last evening and managed to get through it. This was the second time I tried to watch it -- the first time, I was too tired and it was too late. I am past the age where staying up way past bedtime to watch something that will be there tomorrow is an appealing idea. *sigh* It ain't the fog that comes in on little cat feet, people. It's age.
Totoro was a very quiet film. I kept expecting the mother to die, but she did not. It didn't strike me as a very plotty movie, more of a mood piece. I liked the cat bus a lot once I got used to the excessive number of legs. I liked the soot demons and the way they moved and they reminded me a lot of the coal carriers in Spirited Away. Apparently there is a space in my mind for small black puffy things with eyeballs. While the character designs were in line with other Miyazaki films, for some reason the little sister Mei drove me right the hell up the wall. Her mouth was always doing something weird and I didn't like the pigtails.
I had trouble placing the film in time, but the fact that the kids knew how to prime a pump shoved my mental estimate of the date right back. Normal people do not know how to do that anymore.
Today's agenda was going to include things like plant the raspberries (they arrived in the mail yesterday) and collect mulch from the floor of the barn and mulch roses and peonies and, time permitting, start to straighten up the woodpile. However, since it is a pour down of rain out there, there is going to have to be a change in plans. Seriously. There are steel grey sheets of rain coming down in a thoroughly businesslike, steady I can do this ALL DAY fashion. While we really need a good soaking rain, there is no way that the peonies are going to get mulched in this weather. No way. More distressing than that, the raspberries which arrived yesterday didn't get into the good earth last night so they are sitting in my truck in their long man box (it's in the passenger seat, so not getting soaked as I type to all ya'll) and wondering why the hell they're not in the ground yet. Sorry, guys.
I am waiting for a break in the rain or even a slowing-up of the rain so that I can run right out and plant the raspberries in a hurry and get only slightly wet. There are twelve raspberry plants. I am going to need about an hour to get them planted. If all else fails, I can plant them tomorrow before I head to Philly to welcome Ben back from Good Korea, but then I'd have to get up really early and I'm not a huge fan of that for work and even less of a fan of that on weekends. (Today I slept in to the positively sinful hour of 7:30 AM.)
Also today I need to make something to take to the Ben event. It's a covered dish function. Since I have a three-hour haul to get there, I don't like to take anything that needs to be fridged due to food safety issues. If I want to take pie (always an option) then I need to go to the grocery for Crisco because I don't have enough. Pie is certainly easy and would be well-received. There would be no shame in taking pie even though I've done it before. Or I could make brownies! That, I don't have to go to the store for. All I have to do is run up to the lodge and steal some pecans from the freezer. Brownies. Yeah. I could so do brownies. And they're tasty. Brownies it is. (They're not box brownies. They count for bring something that you made which is my rather overstrict interpretation of how a covered dish works.)
The revised day plan, besides having brownies, is going to include laundry and knitting... and this is okay because I want to get the eyestrain purple socks done in time for MD Sheep & Wool, which is the first weekend in May and I'm not even to the ankles yet. There is going to have to be some serious hump-busting to get the socks done in time. Just... I had a plan for the day and it was a good plan and now I can't do the plan that I had because of the rain and yes I am really too old to be getting that damn bent out of shape by a weather-necessitated change in plans but damn it, I had a plan. *grumble*
Totoro was a very quiet film. I kept expecting the mother to die, but she did not. It didn't strike me as a very plotty movie, more of a mood piece. I liked the cat bus a lot once I got used to the excessive number of legs. I liked the soot demons and the way they moved and they reminded me a lot of the coal carriers in Spirited Away. Apparently there is a space in my mind for small black puffy things with eyeballs. While the character designs were in line with other Miyazaki films, for some reason the little sister Mei drove me right the hell up the wall. Her mouth was always doing something weird and I didn't like the pigtails.
I had trouble placing the film in time, but the fact that the kids knew how to prime a pump shoved my mental estimate of the date right back. Normal people do not know how to do that anymore.
Today's agenda was going to include things like plant the raspberries (they arrived in the mail yesterday) and collect mulch from the floor of the barn and mulch roses and peonies and, time permitting, start to straighten up the woodpile. However, since it is a pour down of rain out there, there is going to have to be a change in plans. Seriously. There are steel grey sheets of rain coming down in a thoroughly businesslike, steady I can do this ALL DAY fashion. While we really need a good soaking rain, there is no way that the peonies are going to get mulched in this weather. No way. More distressing than that, the raspberries which arrived yesterday didn't get into the good earth last night so they are sitting in my truck in their long man box (it's in the passenger seat, so not getting soaked as I type to all ya'll) and wondering why the hell they're not in the ground yet. Sorry, guys.
I am waiting for a break in the rain or even a slowing-up of the rain so that I can run right out and plant the raspberries in a hurry and get only slightly wet. There are twelve raspberry plants. I am going to need about an hour to get them planted. If all else fails, I can plant them tomorrow before I head to Philly to welcome Ben back from Good Korea, but then I'd have to get up really early and I'm not a huge fan of that for work and even less of a fan of that on weekends. (Today I slept in to the positively sinful hour of 7:30 AM.)
Also today I need to make something to take to the Ben event. It's a covered dish function. Since I have a three-hour haul to get there, I don't like to take anything that needs to be fridged due to food safety issues. If I want to take pie (always an option) then I need to go to the grocery for Crisco because I don't have enough. Pie is certainly easy and would be well-received. There would be no shame in taking pie even though I've done it before. Or I could make brownies! That, I don't have to go to the store for. All I have to do is run up to the lodge and steal some pecans from the freezer. Brownies. Yeah. I could so do brownies. And they're tasty. Brownies it is. (They're not box brownies. They count for bring something that you made which is my rather overstrict interpretation of how a covered dish works.)
The revised day plan, besides having brownies, is going to include laundry and knitting... and this is okay because I want to get the eyestrain purple socks done in time for MD Sheep & Wool, which is the first weekend in May and I'm not even to the ankles yet. There is going to have to be some serious hump-busting to get the socks done in time. Just... I had a plan for the day and it was a good plan and now I can't do the plan that I had because of the rain and yes I am really too old to be getting that damn bent out of shape by a weather-necessitated change in plans but damn it, I had a plan. *grumble*
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Date: 2006-04-22 06:11 pm (UTC)we rented totoro to amuse my friend krys's child when they were over one weekend, and for several months after that every time she came over she vociferously requested "TOTORO!" so. i now own this movie. :)
i also love the soot sprites - i have one on a keychain somewhere. no wait, i gave it to kate. ah, well. it's well loved.
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Date: 2006-04-23 12:52 am (UTC)I fear weeding around the roses because I learned last year that just leaving the ground around them dry and bare is not the approved Way. They need Mulch. Maybe not the mulchy mulch of Teepdom, but some sort of moisture-holding-in substance.
My hip was really f'd up. Hurt to walk. Sitting made it hurt to walk more. Had to lie down a lot. Then this morning, as I was lying down thinking "If only there were some magical substance that could reduce inflammation, possibly while also relieving pain", I remembered Tylenol. Hip mostly all better now. Prospect of making it to event tomorrow restored! Yay.
We're bringing cookies.