"It seems to me, that if there is a bad taste in your mouth...."

"...you spit it out. You don't constantly swallow it back"

  So this is me spitting it out.  Last night I watched a movie that is commonly known as the 2005 Pride & Prejudice.  There is only one other movie that I have seen that made me think "What a complete waste of my time!"  Incidentally, that movie also starred Jena Malone.

  The historical inaccuracies!!!  I mean they were so numerous and historical inaccuracies drive me crazy!  And the screen writing!!  All of the actors were very good......but the screen writing was (to talk like the Trolls from The Hobbit) 'WUBBISH'!!!  I mean like seriously!!!  They tried to fit Pride & Prejudice into 2 hours!!!!  I knew before I watched it that it was going to be awful, but ugh!!  Blah, blah, pluh!!  Yuck!   As my mom said, it felt more like 1790's American Frontier, then 1810's Regency England.

  And the second proposal?!?!?!?  I know that some people think it far more romantic then the 1995 second proposal, but OH MY GOODNESS!!!!  THEY ARE WALKING AROUND HALF DRESSED!!!!  And the cheesy lines!!!  I thought that it couldn't get worse then the second proposal scene........and then we reached the very end.  Guys, I love mushy, gushy, melt-me-into-a-puddle-of-goo, romantic kissing, love scenes, but THAT?!?!??!?!?!   It was seriously vomit inducing!!!!  Pluh!!!  It was soooooo sick!!!!  Afterwards, I pulled up the Second Proposal and the Meeting at Pemberley from the REAL P&P to wash out the bad taste!!  Oh! it was glorious!  I was rather ridiculously rapturous over Colin and Jennifer, but it was 11:45 PM, so I had legit reason for being a nut!

  I did laugh through a lot of it though because of how dumb I found it.  And I realized the Mr. Collins is too be Tabaqui the Jackal in the upcoming  The Jungle Book: Origins movie that I am very much looking forward to.  Also Rupert Friend resembled Orlando Bloom so much that I couldn't quite hate him, not that there was really anything of Wickham in it.  Mary was prettier then she should have been.  And the costumes?!?!?!  Caroline Bingley is wearing a NIGHTGOWN at the Netherfield Ball!!!  

  To those of you who are reading this and very much like.....well, what I watched last night, I apologize if this offends you and I am coming across as a snob.

  To those of you who agrees with me.......COME COMMISERATE WITH ME!!!!!!!

Eeeeeeee!!

Super excited because two musicians who I very much like just got engaged!!!  Congratulations to Colm Keegan and Laura Durrant!  For those of you who don't know the names right off the top of your head, Colm Keegan is one of the vocalists of Celtic Thunder and Laura Durrant is Celtic Thunder's amazing cellist. 

Colm's post on Instagram

Laura's post on Instagram

Happy Spring......?

So I have been having fun doodling on our windows with dry erase markers.  When I looked outside this morning this is what I saw and I figured it was the perfect time to take pictures of my 'Happy Spring' doodles.

And here are a few random other pictures that I took the other evening.

Hello Everyone!

Hey Guys!!  I know i haven't posted anything in a while.  I just have kinda been busy....with a lovely little thing called SPRING CLEANING!!  Which is something that I do not like very much.  House cleaning is soooooo boring!!!  But, as I told someone earlier, it is unfortunately one of those things that if you don't do it, it just becomes a worse problem.  So what have I been doing besides the lovely cleaning?  Well I haven't actually been reading a lot, I have like seriously been reading The Hobbit for 2 weeks and normally I read it in 2 days if I am reading it to myself.  I have actually been working on writing a story.  It's just a fun one to amuse my little siblings.  I have also been wishing that it would be sunny outside instead of rainy and that we had enough people to play Ultimate Frisbee.

Also I made a Sea Slug cake for my brother's birthday.  Well it wasn't actually a cake, it was a Cinnamon Roll that we didn't cut into slices.  And it was amazingly delicious!!  We also decorated the center of the table in a Ocean theme....which was fun and a bit challenging!!  I will post pictures below.  So yeah, not a lot has been happening here and I will try to post more regularly.

The slug before it was baked.

The slug after it was baked.

The best shot I have of the whole thing.

And the slug in his habitat.

Enjoy!!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Inkling Explorations Link Up // March 2016

I am joining up with Heidi Peterson's Inkling Explorations this month.  It is my first time and I also read the subject wrong.  I thought that it said, 'A scene involving a post office in a film', but it really says, 'A scene involving a letter, package or post office in film'.  So, because of my mistake, I have been wracking my brains out trying to think of a 'post office' scene.  I finally thought of the scene from Emma 2009 when John Knightley and his boys met Jane Fairfax going to the Post Office in the rain.  Since I re-read the post, I have dozens of other options, but I think that I am still going to do that scene.

Emma 2009: Jane Fairfax in the Rain

So the three things I love the most about this scene.

 3. Henry and James Knightley.  They aren't very important, but I think that they are adorable and I very much enjoy the few scenes that they are in.  Sadly I wasn't able to find a picture of them from this particular scene. 

Aren't they adorable?

I'm afraid I don't know which is which.

 2. John Knightley and his attitude towards Jane.  I find the portrayal of John Knightley in this version very intriguing.  John doesn't come into the story very much and in the more central moments of him in here he seem rather grumbly.  But when you get him alone with Emma or Knightley he is different.  I really like the John/Emma moments and I think that he purposely went in the other carriage to give Elton a chance to propose to Emma because he soooo could tell that Elton adored Emma.

 3. Jane Fairfax's devotion to Frank Churchill, although we all know he doesn't deserve it.  She daily goes to the post office rain or shine to send him a letter.  It is so sweet.  

See!  And her bonnet is really pretty.  Oh and you can see a wee bit of the boys in the corner.

Thank you all for reading my blog.

Spring and Legos

Hey guys!!  So it is finally looking like Spring here.  I took a few pictures this morning that I thought I would share with all of you.

Isn't the coloring amazing? 

I really, really like the above photo.  The gold of the stubble in the field, then the deep purpley-blue of the mountain, then the white snow all against the deep blue sky.  It is gorgeous!

And the Sandhill Cranes are back.  

And this cat.  This is Turtle One, and she doesn't like having pictures taken of her.  She prefers rubbing her face all over yours.

Now for the Lego part.  My little brother wanted a Lego themed birthday, so I made him two Lego brick cakes and I did the decorations.  

Behold the cakes.

I wanted to hang the copter from the ceiling and duct tape wasn't working, so we used string and thumbtacks.  20 hours later, it still hasn't fallen down.  And the banner that the Lego guy is holding says, 'Long Life' because 'Happy Birthday' was too boring.

Then he wanted Lego faces drawn on the balloons.  Here is the result.  Jill (who helped me) and I have determined that we can go into the party decoration business, and our slogan can be, "You name it, We make it."

This was my attempt at what Google called a 'goatee'.  Jill couldn't look at it without laughing.

I drew a mustache!!!  And it isn't lopsided!!

Drawing these ladies was the hardest part.

They look extremely comical without noses!!

 And since we didn't have any helium, we had to resort to good ol' Duct tape.  I do love that stuff!!