Leah's first blog entry EVER
Yesterday it seemed that poor Danny had come all the way to California just to see his silly girlfriend lie in bed wearing about seventy sweatshirts saying "i'm cold i'm cold don't we have anymore blankets in this house?"
But today, after we both recovered from our respective fevers, everything is much better. And even last night we were doing a bit better, although we couldn't get up the energy to cook a real big dinner. But i did manage to steam some broccoli and put garlic powder on it for me and dan. and he thought it was pretty good too, so this is proof in my favor if he ever tries to say that i've never cooked for him.
Then dan wanted to watch sports, and i wanted to watch a movie about ballet dancing, but Kimberly was home as well and ready to watch TV, so the girl vote won. And an important note about the film last evening: apparently 75% of the women who watch the Oprah Oxygen network are morbidly obease, because no less than 75% of the commercials are for radical weight-loss plans and or drugs.
And i've decided that four people living in a house is much more even than anouther couple and just me living in a house. Now i've got someone to back me up in fights.... like, about, why are the pennies covered in chocolate left in the sink? ("but where should they go, if not in the sink?" "But why on earth are they covered in chocolate?")
- Leah
the movie boycott starts now
I pray it's not too late to pass on this vital message: don't watch Master and Commander. Please. We saw it this afternoon; or rather, we saw some of it, cause we walked out about halfway through. It was that bad. What was wrong with it, you ask? Well, asides from the utter lack of plot, characterization and interesting things happening, it was also very noisy. On the plus side, it had one or two pretty scenes. But there are no more pluses. It's a shame cause the book (or books, really: besides the two that make up the title, there was material in the movie from at least two more O'Brian novels) is quite good. So if you already saw the movie and my warning comes too late to save you (poor soul), don't let it put you off the books, which are truly wonderful. And if you liked the movie... well, um... good for you! I guess.
And remember, this was supposed to be one of the good movies out there. I shudder to think what must be going on in theaters showing, say, The Butterfly Effect. My disgust at all things movie-related was only increased by a ad they showed before the film, hectoring the world for downloading movies off the internet. Their tag line was something like 'movies: they're worth it,' but after this experience I have to say... that is incorrect.
On an unrelated note (since Leah didn't say anything about it) you'll note that we now have a header image. Yay. It has its flaws, sure, but it's something; and I'll be improving it in the nearish future. Also, I'm trying to find out if we can add Leah as an author to this here blog, and me too, so I can have my posts signed as Danny and she as Leah. But Eric is busy and lazy in equal measures, so for now we'll have to be content with doing it like
- Danny