Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

the ballad of songbirds and snakes

I’m on an entertainment roll lately. Apparently all I do is watch tv and movies and read books. And, that’s not too far from the truth.

This book took me forever to read, but once I started nearing the two month mark, I made an effort to finish it. I’m a little past the Hunger Games at this point, which was part of the problem. The story was interesting, so I’m not sure why it took me so long. It was about Coriolanus Snow when he was high school age. I guess you could say that it showed how he became the person he was in the rest of the series. But, his personality kind of took a convenient abrupt turn at the end of the book.

My rating: 3.5/5

the usual suspects

This movie wasn’t as good the second time around because the plot twist was so good. But, when you know it’s coming, it doesn’t have the same effect. It was still a great story, though anytime I see Kevin Spacey in things anymore, it makes me cringe.

My rating: 4/5

dead to me

I really enjoyed this show. Season 1 was fantastic, 2 was a bit convoluted, and 3 was sad. It starred Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini who end up becoming best friends through a grief support group. There’s a lot more to the story than that, but I don’t want to give anything away.

Season 3 was delayed due to Christina Applegate’s MS diagnosis. She’s having a lot of mobility issues and it was interesting to see how they handled that on the show. I might not have noticed that most of her scenes had her sitting down or just standing had I not read about that beforehand.

The final season had Katey Sagal as Linda Cardellini’s mom. It always makes me happy to see her on shows.

My rating: 4/5

thanksgiving week

It’s been a busy week! Sylvia had a dental cleaning scheduled for Tuesday morning. She did well with it, but they had to extract a tooth (a pre-molar). That was an expensive trip!

Wednesday morning, Jake went to his home office, which is in the former family room, and there was blood tracked all over the place. At first we thought it was Syliva-related since they said to watch out for bleeding from the extraction. But, I found a broken glass behind the bar and it turns out Sylvester was the culprit. He cut one of his paws, but it had stopped bleeding by this point and he seemed to be fine, so we avoided a second trip to the vet.

Wednesday, I took off work to prep for Thanksgiving and then we had an early Thanksgiving dinner here yesterday. Everything turned out nice and everyone appeared to have a good time.

My office is closed today so I’m just doing things around the house. I have wrapped up my online Christmas shopping and am making some turkey stock from yesterday’s turkey bones, which will be turned into Turkey-Kielbasa Soup with Wild Rice (a recipe that I invented last year and is apparently my new delicious tradition) tomorrow.

catching up

Last week, I wrapped up the last of three mixology classes I took at Penn Highlands. The classes were pretty basic, but it was still fun and I picked up a couple tips. They’re planning on having one-day classes for St. Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo next year, so I may attend one or both if it works with my schedule.

Yesterday, I volunteered at the humane society’s annual Cash Bash. Richland Fire Hall was packed–it was sold out before the day of, but I guess it always does that. People were trying to get in before the doors opened–I guess some people are really into this sort of thing. Everyone did appear to have a good time. My job was to sell tickets for the high-end baskets. Business was pretty brisk until the food was served, then it slowed down to a trickle after that. I stuck around until the end and helped cleaned up before heading home.

Today, I painted the hall and foyer. You’d think that would be an easy job, but the hall has 5 trimmed doorways (so that was a lot of cutting in to do)! It took a bit longer than I had anticipated. I did the foyer first and it was pretty easy except for the glass block cubbies, which were a little time-consuming. I went with Poetic Light for the color. While it is not the same as the previous color (a creamy white), you probably wouldn’t notice the difference unless I told you or if you’re really observant.

It has been a busy month! And, of course, Thanksgiving is this week, so I’ll catch a little break from work (I’m off Wednesday through Friday).