Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
movies

21 grams

21 grams is supposedly the weight of the human soul. It is also one cool movie. Brian and I caught it on Starz last night.

It was 30 minutes into the movie before I could figure out what the heck was going on. It was rather Memento-like in that the scenes were played in a different order than they happened. Once I figured that out, the movie started to make some sense. And, Brian and I really like Naomi Watts–she’s such a great actress. Whenever I want to see a movie again as soon as it’s over, that’s how I know it was good. It’s on again Wednesday, so we’re going to catch it again then. There were a lot of interruptions (i.e. Jake) during the viewing last night, so I’m sure we missed some cool stuff.

Strangely enough, the Flick Filosopher didn’t have anything to say about the movie.

shopping

with visions of cherry furniture dancing in my head

Well, we finally won the lottery today–the auction lottery. In the past few years, Brian has attended the occasional auction in an attempt to get some cheap lumber. The only thing he ever won the bid on was a small pile of oak.

Today there was an auction that had some cherry and maple–the two types of wood we need. So, Brian went and won the mother lode–two truckloads of wood (mostly cherry). His friend John was there (unfortunately for him) and had his truck. And being the nice guy that he is, he offered to help Brian haul the lumber home.

Of course, we don’t have any place to store that much lumber, so into the shed it went. It’s sitting in the spot reserved for the motorcycle! motorcycle! motorcycle!. Looks like Brian has a lot of work to do before next spring in order to reclaim his spot…

pets

sponge bob the second

I almost forgot to mention the new addition to the family, Jake’s new betta fish, Sponge Bob II. Hopefully this betta will live longer than the original Sponge Bob’s 5 days. He ate a bunch of fish food today, so he’s already ahead of the game. I think I might buy him a larger home tomorrow, perhaps a nice goldfish bowl would do the trick. We’ll see if he’s still alive in the morning and then I’ll decide.

jake

the karate kid

Brian and I always vowed that if we ever had children, they would take karate. This revelation came after watching a bunch of little kids expending all of their energy while we went to watch a friend practice karate a number of years ago.

With much apprehension and even a few tears in anticipation of, Jacob had his first karate lesson this evening at Joe Goss Karate. Jacob takes a while to warm up to situations in general, so this was no different. He was all freaked out about going and has been talking about it for days now. But, once we got there and all of the kids started to arrive, I knew everything was going to go well. After the lesson was over, he came out to the waiting room and proclaimed “I love karate!”

I knew he would.

finances

busted

I tried to cash one of Brian’s expense checks this afternoon (for the whopping amount of $5.88) and was reprimanded by the bank teller: “Angela, did you sign both names on this check?” Duh.

So, instead of cashing it, they had to deposit the darned thing. I’ve only been signing Brian’s checks for about 8 years now. It must’ve been a new teller, because all of the other ones I’ve gone to sure didn’t care. Jake’s more pissed than I am, though–he didn’t get a lollipop.