Weekend Activities

The weekend was fun.

Friday I was at Drunken Knit Night at Merlin's Rest.  The company is always good, and the beer.

Then, because I was having breakfast with a friend in Maple Grove (I know, crazy, and of course I got lost) I decided to pop into  Amazing Threads in Maple Grove .  I dragged said friend to Amazing Threads, where I encouraged her to take a class (she's within walking distance of Amazing Threads - what a wonderful shop!)  Then, because it was Shop-hop weekend I went over to Lila and Claudine's in Mahtomedi.  No, I didn't actually do the Shop-hop; I think this may be my new approach - to go to one shop I know and one that is new to me.

People have been telling me for years to go up to Lila and Claudine's. It is an amazingly fun shop.

As always, volunteering at Central Library in Minneapolis is a trip.  Yesterday there was a middle aged guy who was filling out a profile on Christian singles dot com.  I helped out while he was waiting for his friend to show up.  Apparently he needed his friend to help him decide what kind of lady he wanted to meet (I asked, "You need your friend to tell you what you want?!?!?")

Anyway, never a dull moment in the big city.

The rest of the weekend was spent immersed in the audio version of The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, which I see today has won the Pulitzer for fiction.  I also watched Where do We Go Now? which Girl-child suggested.  It was good, but not a comedy imho.

July 4th

So I'm a week behind. It happens.

For the long weekend, I tried to discipline myself in order to get things done. My method was to alternate between things I wanted to do:
And things I had to do:

Things I wanted to do:

And things I had to do:

And things I wanted to do:

Much got done. I'll have to remember that in the future ... "two more rows and then I'll mow the lawn..."

For the 4th we went to see fireworks and have a beer.

After the fireworks the Soap Factory put on the 7th annual Ten Second Film Festival. Girl-child and friends had a number of entries. It was lots of fun.

Also in the arts, the After Sunset Shadow Puppet Shows, after a rocky start due to weather, and a tumultuous middle due to a puppeteer bowing out of his commitment, ended on a successful note.

Next stop, The Antiques Road Show.

Witty Barbs and Retorts

(Ooohhh, I like this one!)

Your result for The Who's Your Classic Film Alter Ego? Test...

Bette Davis

32% SexAppeal, 47% Comedic and 0% Gender!

Fasten your safety belts, your alter ego is Betty Davis, the queen of American drama and a mighty wielder of witty barbs and retorts. Betty was a tough woman, not an easy one to be reckoned with; and neither are you!

Take The Who's Your Classic Film Alter Ego? Test at HelloQuizzy

And speaking of film, I hope to see The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo this weekend...

My Director

Your result for The Director Who Films Your Life Test...

Steven Soderbergh

Your film will be 55% romantic, 36% comedy, 48% complex plot, and a $ 38 million budget.

Filmography: Sex Lies and Videotape, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve, Erin Brockovich, and various other homemade independent films. He may just want to follow you around for a few months and construct a film out of that. Your humor is either dry or non-existant, but your life is somewhat exciting romantically because you're "bad." At least you'll be surrounded by the best-looking people who will be cast as your friends, who in real life are probably just as good-looking. Then when he wins the Academy Award for your film, he won't have to make anymore "Ocean's" films.

Take The Director Who Films Your Life Test at HelloQuizzy

Wrapping up the Weekend

My assessment of the Golden Globes last night: dresses in neutral colors are all the rage; foofy, feminine and princessy is in. Drew Barrymore needs a new hairdresser. Maggie Gyllenhaal needs a new dress. Pierce Brosnan has a normal wife. No one can beat out a (tragically) dead man. I must see Slumdog Millionaire.

I did go to see Doubt over the weekend. My take on it was not the same as others around me, even though I expected we would react similarly. Anyone else have an opinion on it? Were you more sympathetic to one side or the other? How much doubt did it leave you with in the end?

In the meantime, and in preparation for the bitter cold expected to hit us this week, I bought a flowering plant:
Small compensation when compared with where I was ten days ago, but it will have to do.

And in a fit of devious domesticity, I made cookies.
I normally bake only during the holidays, but special circumstances required I make an exception. They turned out ok.

Also over the weekend, I managed to get through the mail that accumulated while we were gone, which was no small thing.

I made a couple of observations about snowmen too ... 1) Why would anyone buy a nylon blow-up snowman for the yard when there is snow available in the yard to make a real one? and, 2) Why do people let their dogs pee on snowmen? We have a lot of people go by the house on the way to the river and folks, if the dog pees on the boulevard trees that's one thing, but you let your dogs pee on the neighbor kids' snowmen and that is simply not acceptable.

Looking back, it was a great weekend with lots of girlfriend catch-up time; nothing to complain about there.

Except maybe it was a little short.