Happy Holiday!
Jul. 4th, 2006 07:11 pmWe saw Macbeth at Shakespeare in the Park (and much thanks to
feiran and
darkling1 and all the others who were with them to wait for the tickets), which was fantastic. I've never seen Shakespeare of any vogue performed live, nor had I ever been to the summer theater in the park, so it was a double treat. Liev Schreiber was great as Macbeth, with Jennifer Ehle so-so as Lady Macbeth (good as manipulative harridan, not so good as grief-stricken crazy person). It was strange to see the story translated to a 1930s stylized set, but it wasn't distracting from the story, so that was okay.
I came home for the 4th, had a good barbeque with family, and got to see my sister's college roommater and her new baby, Samantha. Well, the baby is as active and cute as anything, and she spent a good hour just gaping at all of us. I've never seen a baby look so shocked before. Predictably, when I got to hold her, she started to cry. Babies always cry with me. This is probably due to a vicious cycle--a baby cried on me once, I stopped volunteering to hold babies which led to me not being offered a baby to hold until it was cranky from being passed around, and thus it would cry on me, beginning the cycle again. Cute baby, just the same. I can't wait to be an auntie!!!
And my youngest sister needed to go to Best Buy (so she can have cable in her room GRRRRR), so I went with. Used up my coupons from the Reward Zone thing in abot ten seconds. They were having a sale on certain TV sets (
ivy03: The Pretender is on sale--$15 a season!), so I picked up the first season of Futurama. With my coupons, that cost me $10. I also got Spider-Man, which I never actually bought despite owning Spider-Man 2, and Devin provoked me into buying the Family Guy movie, which was only $6 with coupons factored in. Now I just need to get all the seasons of Family Guy.
And more DVD storage.
Also, I've found myself defending Superman Returns left and right of late, and I only just found that odd. I definitely enjoyed it, but I didn't looooooove it. It was good, did what I needed/wanted it to do for the most part, and it tugged the old heartstrings. I guess it was good enough to defend, maybe not good enough to be obsessed with (though I definitely want to see it in 3D--mostly because, hey, movie in 3D!)
I came home for the 4th, had a good barbeque with family, and got to see my sister's college roommater and her new baby, Samantha. Well, the baby is as active and cute as anything, and she spent a good hour just gaping at all of us. I've never seen a baby look so shocked before. Predictably, when I got to hold her, she started to cry. Babies always cry with me. This is probably due to a vicious cycle--a baby cried on me once, I stopped volunteering to hold babies which led to me not being offered a baby to hold until it was cranky from being passed around, and thus it would cry on me, beginning the cycle again. Cute baby, just the same. I can't wait to be an auntie!!!
And my youngest sister needed to go to Best Buy (so she can have cable in her room GRRRRR), so I went with. Used up my coupons from the Reward Zone thing in abot ten seconds. They were having a sale on certain TV sets (
And more DVD storage.
Also, I've found myself defending Superman Returns left and right of late, and I only just found that odd. I definitely enjoyed it, but I didn't looooooove it. It was good, did what I needed/wanted it to do for the most part, and it tugged the old heartstrings. I guess it was good enough to defend, maybe not good enough to be obsessed with (though I definitely want to see it in 3D--mostly because, hey, movie in 3D!)
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Date: 2006-07-10 09:45 pm (UTC)You lie like a cheap rug!
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