Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
celebrations

real birthday

My birthday started off on a bad note. I was outside doing a few things and I got stung by a wasp. But, thanks to Jake’s quick fingers, we found a couple of remedies to try and one of them worked. We tried onion, baking soda paste, ice, and Tylenol. I’m putting my money on the ice and Tylenol, but who knows?

After that, things improved. Brian grilled up some food and we had lunch outside on the patio. It was a pretty nice day. For presents, I received more canning stuff (namely a canning cookbook and a pressure canner). I spent a good chunk of time that evening going through the cookbook and picking out recipes. We even ran to the hardware store to pick up some canning jars. Hopefully we’ll get to can something in the next couple of weeks–I can’t wait to try it!

movies

megamind

This was a pretty good film, for a cartoon. Will Ferrell did the voice for the title role and he was totally excellent. All three of us enjoyed it. Sadly, Brian fell asleep halfway through (I don’t remember the last time he made it through a movie, though).

gardening & landscaping

fruit

I planted some fruit trees last year (apple, peach, and cherry). I didn’t get any fruit from them last year, but this year, there are little fruitlings on all of the trees. The peach and apple have a decent amount of fruit on them, but there are like three cherries on the cherry tree. I guess I won’t be making cherry pie.

movies

the girl with the dragon tattoo

This was a pretty good mystery. A friend recommended the movie to me, but just last weekend, my (great) aunt was telling me how good the book series was, so I had intended on reading the book before watching the movie. However, I forgot to update my Netflix queue and the movie happened to be at the top, so guess what we watched this weekend? Oh well. I still might read the book but it’s not as urgent now. By the way, this was a Swedish film so if you don’t like subtitles, you might want to wait until this comes out later this year as an American remake.

celebrations

birthday

We’ll it’s not my birthday quite yet, but my parents had us over on Sunday to celebrate my (and my brother’s) birthdays. We had a delicious turkey dinner and then opened presents, wherein I received the worst present ever from my brother. He bought me a scale that I wanted, but the damned thing makes me weigh four pounds more than my previous scale. I guess the good news is that I still lost the weight I thought I did, but now I want to lose more so I can hit my “real” target weight. Damnit.