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Fairytales for a Practical Princess - 2008-11-30
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2:21 a.m. - 2005-01-10
Since you asked… I want to go to Quartzsite, AZ because it is the setting of one of my all-time favorite books: The Quartzsite Trip by William Hogan. The book is set in 1962 and I understand things are not the same in Quartzsite anymore. Namely a gazillion trailers and mobile homes have gone in, but I like rocks, cacti, and visiting the real-life settings of my favorite books and movies, so Quartzsite is a must-do. No, I do not have any definite girls’ names on my list. I believe it would be physically impossible for my bod to produce female offspring so girls’ names are moot. I’ve been pregnant a lot and not once did Mike and I seriously consider any girl names. Yes, Madame Fromage, the DC trip last April was indeed to the March for Women’s Lives. An amazing day. Melissa, an entire entry up soon about parenting choices and why I made the ones that I did. Terry, I also like men with crinkly laugh lines, rumbly deep voices, and that little whorl of belly hair around their navels. Colz, driving through counts if you stop to potty and buy a postcard or an ‘I (heart)…’ trinket. The Laura Ingalls Wilder House in De Smet is really cool. It’s actually the surveyor’s house Laura and her family wintered over in during their first year in De Smet. That ‘grand’ and ‘spacious’ house is about the size of a one car garage. The preservation society also has a replica of the Bouchie schoolhouse. The desks are knee high and the building itself is about 6’x 5’. The Ingalls’ family house that Charles built after Laura married Almanzo is also part of the tour and has many examples of Mary’s beadwork, a ton of family letters and photographs, and the Ingalls girls’ needlework on display. The cottonwood trees Pa planted on the homestead are still there and nearby is Cap Garland’s grave. Altogether a wonderful experience for any Laura fan. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sugar and Ivan Johansen have just had kids #7 and #8. Sugar squeezed out twin girls. THE most prolific family in my Sim neighborhood, the Johansen’s also have 7 grandchildren and two more grandbabies on the way. Half elf-half Scandinavian, these green eyed blondes with pointy ears are taking over. All the other families in the neighborhood have each had another kid simply so those damn Johansen kids have somebody to mate with later on. After that? I don’t know. Can any of you Sims players tell me how far removed the cousins have to be before they aren’t ‘family’ anymore? I know, everybody wants to hear about Alex’s girlfriend. Honestly there isn’t much to say. This will sound like another of my absurd height things, but I can’t get a bead on this girl. At 5’ even, Nikki is simply too low for me to look in the eye, even when we’re sitting. So far she’s personable, well-spoken and obviously nuts about my kid. She’s heavy into emo, Buffy, and Hot Topic t-shirts. She does not giggle inanely. She told me I’m nothing like Alex led her to believe. Mwahahaha! My evil scheme worked! I told Alex to scare the heck out of Nikki. Alex laid it on about how bossy, domineering, snobby, and cranky I was. After such a terrifying build-up, the real me was a relief. I figured it would be best that way. Get all the anxiety out beforehand. Mike and I saw Kinsey tonight. Not bad. I do not think Liam Neeson is attractive at all and find his heartthrob status unfathomable, but the guy can act. He also did a pretty good American accent. Set design and costuming were excellent. The story felt a bit glossed over in places, but I can’t come up with any better way to tell such a complex tale, so perhaps some glossing is necessary. Only one odd thing in an otherwise well-crafted movie, only Liam Neeson’s and Laura Linney’s characters aged. The story goes through a few decades of Kinsey’s life and all the other characters stayed exactly the same while the leads wrinkled and greyed. Weird. (Though I didn’t mind seeing Peter Sarsgaard’s unblemished beauty all the way through. Full frontal, too! Whoo!) LA the Critic gives Kinsey 3 stars (***) out of four. To bed I must go, ~LA
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