Hello. Nothing much to actually say. Watching Pirates of the Caribbean at the moment with numb feet. Yesterday was actually really great, one of the best Christmas' for some time. Even though I was ill.
I made truly wondrous name settings for the table, so much so that, not only did it take me a good three hours, but I also didn't have time to decorate the table. In fact, I didn't even have time to put them on the table before all the food was there!
I got a lovely little pool table so the three of us (mum, as is usual, went up to bed to sleep off the minimal amount of wine she'd had!) had a mini tournament, whilst trying to guess what films the tracks on Rebecca's cd came from. Every so often she would prompt us with "Hannah owns it". As Dad kept pointing out, this doesn't really narrow it down at all!
I do have a lot of DVDs. Over 200 now I should think. I had to move all my Buffy videos and blank videos off else where... although that was because I had too many books and needed to vacate one shelf of my 2nd bookcase to make room for them. I don't remember acquiring so many of these DVDs. I swear I don't remember buying so many this semester, but I still find myself taking home about 15 new ones. D'oh!
Ooh, saw Pan's Labyrinth with Charlie on Friday. Had to go to Southampton for that, but it was worth it. To warn anyone who thinks it'll be a nice gothic fairy tale, it has a hell of a lot of realism (including torture and someone being smashed in the face with a thermos until they die (not nice)). And it's in Spanish. Didn't know that, but didn't do anything to the film. The girl who plays Ofelia (the little girl) is wonderful. And Pan is supposedly the faun, but we're never told that. In Spanish, it's just 'The Labyrinth of the Faun'.
Saw Eragon today. It was alright, but I hated the beginning. I could so write a better beginning than that! They missed out quite a bit, but then I suppose it is rather a long book to adapt. But still! The King (who was poorly cast in John Malkovich - he seemed as though he should have been Keith Alan's Sheriff of Nottingham, but he just had no presence at all. Not nearly evil enough.) shouldn't have been in it at all. And the Varden's hideout was in completely the wrong place, it looked completely wrong and there were no dwarves! Or those creepy twins! I suppose this is how a lot of Potter fans feel when they watch those films, whereas I'm just happy to see that it's Potter! I still enjoyed it, but I was nowhere near spellbound (especially as I spent the first 15 minutes or so imaginning how I could write and direct a better beginning than that. The book doesn't tell you anything. Why shoudl the film?).
Baby Saphira was so cute -I want one!
You know, Glen and Michelle's hamster, Disney, died on Sunday. Glen wrapped him up in tissue paper, put him in an empty tissue box, dug a little grave and buried him. Glen made a little cross and everything.
Two hours later, someone knocked on their front door. It was just Glen (everyone else was at church where i was attempting to play the piano) so he answered it and it was this couple.
"I'm sorry to bother you," says woman, "but is this yours?"
She opens her handbag and out pops this little hamster head.
"But he was dead!"
Ahh, Disney the miracle hamster. He'd gone into hibernation mode because it was so cold and then burrowed his way out of his little cardboard coffin, out of the ground, run around the side of the house and then was apparently sitting on Glen and Michelle's front doorstep waiting for them to let him back in! How amazing is that?
Ok, I can't really think of anything else to write. I didn't have much of a mind to write too much to begin with, anyway: considering that I've written quite a bit. Well done me. I'm feeling a bit listless/restless to tell the truth. No one will play with me. Boo! And my feet are still cold. Boo! ANd I'm ill. Boo!
All in all: boo, boo, boo!
Anyway, goodbye, unless I find something else to write about. I am very good at rambling. Eloise apparently doesn't like me rambling. I think it's quite interesting. You know: amusing and stuff. Rebecca doesn't like it too much either, but then she's my sister and she's grumpy. Honestly, what does WIll turn think he can acheive: he has no grip, running rapidly out of air and is trying to move this massive plank. Silly boy. And Elizabeth is a bit silly. She's rather pathetic heroine? Fair enough she stabbed him before, but he can't die? ANd what would she do then?
Orlando, you are a silly silly boy.
"Yes, we know that one."Â Loverly.
I'm going to have to post this soon, because i'm running out of battery.
Merry Christmas to... well, no one really, because I really don't think anyone reads this blog. But, if there are, well... Merry Christmas.
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