Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
pets

puppy fever

Jake and I caught this ailment this evening when we went to see Grammy and Pappy Law’s new puppy, Maddie (Jake took this photo, by the way. I think we have a budding photographer on our hands). She is a 10-week-old Bernese Mountain Dog (aka a ball of fluff). What a cutie! I think Jake loved her more than I did–he has already made his reservations for his next stay at the Law’s, which is only 11 days away according to his calculations.

One thing I like about big dogs is watching them grow. I’m looking forward to having the opportunity to do this again as I seriously doubt we will have any more puppies here. I guess it could happen, but I’d much rather get a dog that is past the puppy/destructive phase. But, it certainly doesn’t hurt to live vicariously through others.

movies

the human stain

We watched this movie last night. It was pretty good. Nicole Kidman and Anthony Hopkins starred in it, so it was bound to be decent. We’ve watched so many movies in the past few months, that it is sometimes hard to think of something to write about them (this, being one of those times). But, this is definitely one of the better movies we’ve seen.

Maybe I should turn this into a movie and book review blog. That’s all I seem to be doing lately. Hopefully, I will have more to do (and therefore write about) in the coming months.

books

cell

After Brian’s reaction to the last Stephen King novel, I don’t think he’s going to like this one. Not to give anything away, but the ending kind of sucks. Again. Up to that point, I really did enjoy the book even though I found it to be a bit derivative. And I have to say, the whole cell phone concept was rather implausible. I was hoping for some kind of explanation, but never got one. I don’t think it ranks up there with his classics, but it’s still a lot better than most of the other stuff out there these days. It only took a week to read and I didn’t even have time to read it each day, so it must’ve had some redeeming qualities.

movies

goodfellas

I don’t know how I managed to get through the last 16 years without seeing this movie, but I finally rectified that last night. Brian had already seen this one a number of times, so he made sure I didn’t miss any of the good parts (you know, when I was off mixing drinks or whatever). Obviously, this was a good film. The only thing I didn’t like was the part where they explained the title, “You know, we always called each other goodfellas. Like, you’d say to somebody: “You’re gonna like this guy; he’s all right. He’s a goodfella. He’s one of us.” You understand? We were goodfellas, wiseguys.” Granted, a minor piece of dialog, but ever since we watched The Stand miniseries on tv so many years ago, where they did a similar such thing, we always make fun of movies that do this by yelling out “Stand!” And, you know what? Practically every movie does this. Just watch. Is it really necessary to explain the title to the viewer? If so, then maybe they ought to work on the plot a little harder.

Rant aside, I really did like this movie. And, it’s got me primed for The Sopranos, which starts back up in a few weeks.

family

mackay’s baptism

We spent much of this weekend on the road as we trekked to upstate New York in order to attend our nephew’s baptism.

We left here after lunch on Saturday and arrived around 6:30pm. After getting settled in at the hotel, we went over to Jenn (Brian’s sister) and Bill’s new house to check it out and visit for a bit. We had a nice evening. Brian’s parent’s, grandmother, and our niece were all there, too.

The baptism was today, of course. Brian played the part of Marlon Brando in that he was the Godfather. Afterwards, they had a nice dinner at a local pub. We headed home pretty early (relatively speaking) because Brian has to go to work tomorrow. He’s not permitted to take any time off yet since he is a new employee. We stopped at Ruby Tuesday’s in Altoona and had an enjoyable supper and then arrived home around 9pm. Now, I need to decompress a little before I head to bed. Jake and I are off tomorrow and we need to run to the Cozy Inn in the morning to pick up Lizzy.