Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
movies

bowling for columbine

I just realized that we watched this movie last week and I did not post about it. We can’t have that, so here goes…

This was another documentary from Michael Moore. This time, it was about gun violence in America. He made quite the compelling argument that Americans kill out of fear, which is perpetuated by the media and the government. Like I said before, you can make the statistics work any way you want them to, but he did bring up some good points. It also helps to be leaning to the left while you are watching this film.

This was another Blockbuster rental. Brian’s two month gift subscription ends next week. But, I’ve decided to extend it another month or two so we can see the rest of the movies on our list. Damn Blockbuster, anyway. I guess that’s how they get you, though. I will definitely be cancelling after we see all that there is to see. We have HBO and Starz, so there’s really no reason to continue on with the subscription indefinitely. After Jacob was born, we fell really behind on our movie watching. We should be caught up in a month or two so then we won’t need it anymore.

holidays

more christmas preparations

Last night, Jake stayed at my parent’s house. This gave Brian and I the opportunity to wrap his gifts plus the ones we’re giving to each other. I wrapped the rest of our gifts this evening. We also put up our new tree and decorated it. I was worried that we wouldn’t have enough ornaments, but the tree looks great. Jake had fun decorating it. I’m surprised at what a pain in the neck it is to get an artificial tree to look good. Had I known that, I might’ve stuck with a real one. Oh well, at least I won’t have to vacuum pine needles every day. Plus we put the tree up a week earlier than we usually do since we don’t have to worry about it drying out. So that leaves me with just a few more things…baking cookies and making some decorative envelopes for the large amount of gift cards we bought this year.

do-it-yourself

bathroom remodel: day 39

This afternoon, Brian installed our new ceiling. I helped a little, mostly, by handing him things. The ceiling is from Armstrong’s WoodHaven series (laminate ceiling planks) and looks like maple. The job went pretty well and looks awesome. Cross another one off the list. The nice thing about completing this is that now we can put all of our wall stuff up, like the poster we’re hanging above the toilet, magazine rack, towel racks, etc. So, it should start to look more like a finished bathroom very soon. The only major thing that is left is to install the vanity and I’m planning on doing the finishing work on that this week.

Is that a light at the end of the tunnel?

movies

mr. & mrs. smith

This was a movie with something for everyone. Namely, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. If you don’t find one or both of them attractive, it’s time to make an appointment with your eye doctor. The movie was about a pair of assassins who were married (neither of them knowing what the other one actually did for a living). Things came to a head when they were supposed to assassinate each other. They prevailed in the end, of course. The movie was OK–a perfect “date” movie, if you will (or the married person’s equivalent–Margarita and a movie night). Definitely nothing to ponder the next day. After all the hype, I thought it was going to be better, but it was entertaining enough.

holidays, jake

putting the x in xmas

Yesterday, when I was getting the Christmas decorations out of the attic, I got out one of our nativity sets. Jake, seeing the picture on the box, said, “What are you getting that Jesus stuff out for? That doesn’t have anything to do with Christmas.”

I guess we shouldn’t have skipped church yesterday…