animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

wine night

Last night we bottled two batches of wine. The first one was a German Traminer Spatlese and was quite good. It’s been a while since we’ve made a German wine and I had forgotten how much I like them. The second one was a blend of muscat, symphony, sauvignon blanc, …

a better life

This was a good movie. It told the story of an illegal immigrant (played by the awesome Demian Bichir from Weeds) and his struggle for his son to have–wait for it–a better life. There wasn’t a whole lot going on in the story so I don’t want to give anything …

drive

Despite the fact that this movie starred Ryan Gosling, it sucked. The dialog was horrible, the movie was slow (even though it clocked in around 1:40), the plot was stupid, and the soundtrack sucked. The only good thing about it was Bryan Cranston–I didn’t even realize it was him until …

painting floors

Because there’s nothing I’d rather do than paint, we decided to paint the floors of the music room, which is in our basement. We’re on a mission to finish up the room. A few weeks ago we painted it, then Brian put up quarter round around the ceiling. Next, goes …

50/50

I rather liked this movie. Brian did, too (he even managed to stay awake for the entire thing despite doing manual labor for me all day). It was the story of a young man (played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who is diagnosed with cancer. Normally not the kind of movie you …