Home Sweet Home! by The Pioneer Woman
6 years ago
Friday, November 21, 2008
Twilight
I have to admit I was worried... worried that I would have to sit outside all night in the cold on cement, worried that I would be an old fart and fall asleep, worried that I would loose the tickets... worried that it would bite (haha--that's a funny).
Fortunately all it was was worry. I found out that we could get wristbands to reserve our place in line so we didn't have to go to the theater until 9:30 and then we waited just a few minutes until we were seated. We were 227+ in a line of 400 so we got in in the middle of the line and got good seats all together. We even managed to get an extra ticket for my friend Marci who got OUT OF HER PAJAMAS and came down to join us at the last minute (as a matter of fact, there were two seats next to us that never got filled). After 15 minutes of heated discussion over who would sit by whom, we finally got in our seats and settled down to wait the hour and forty-five minutes until the movie started. We played "Would you rather" while we waited... funny.
When the movie finally started, we were all hooting and hollering. It is corny in places and what was up with Carlisle--creepy. And most of the guys in the show need a stiff bristled brush and a haircut. But for the most part it didn't bite. We laughed in inappropriate times and the whole of the audience spent a large portion giggling when the "sexual tension" began to build because they knew where it was going... hehe. It was annoying the way the camera kept panning around them every time they were gazing into each other's eyes--which was often. And then there were the close-ups of their eyes the rest of the time...
Scout insisted on pretending to be our British cousin and she spoke with a condescending accent all night. Oh--she planned to take garlic cloves and sit in line with them around her and fling holy water on people as they walked past us but we restrained her. Her friend was going to put a lightening bolt scar on her forehead to go to the premier last night but when we saw her she had chickened out. Haha... Afterall, it was supposed to be Harry Potter's premier last night. Then, during the movie as Edward confronted Bella about being a vampire, Scout said loudly, "he's a VAMPIRE?" It was pretty funny.
It was good enough everyone, even BNLFan stayed awake. She took pictures of us in line but she's still asleep so I can't get her camera yet--bah! Why do I have to get up? Anyway, after the movie we went to Denny's for breakfast and then came home to collapse. I was so tired, I could feel myself literally "falling" asleep. It was weird. But I was awake at 6:45 to read scriptures, even without my alarm clock. Go me! I mean, Go back to bed now, me!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
There ain't no gaps
Ha! No gaps in my knowledge. Right. This test is WRONG.
There Are 0 Gaps in Your Knowledge |
 Where you have gaps in your knowledge: No Gaps! Where you don't have gaps in your knowledge: Philosophy Religion Economics Literature History Science Art |
Gearing Up
I'm gearing up for a big day...er, evening. BNLFan_1, Scout, N and I have tickets for the midnight showing of Twilight. They want to get in line at 6 p.m. I'm not looking forward to that--6 hours of standing in line in the cold outside a movie theater? Insane!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Musings
Scout and N tried out for the junior high Mock Trial team this past week. The competition was pretty intense. This morning the teams were posted and hurray! N made the team. Scout already knew she made it... at callbacks they said, "So, are you going to be a witness again this year or will you be a lawyer?" So she was pretty confident. I'm proud of her that she said she'd try lawyer. She loves being a witness, though, and she's good at it. She loves tripping up the unsuspecting lawyers. She's quick on her feet and can usually get them confused. I keep telling her she can do it as a lawyer, too. Maybe she can make a witness cry... that would make her day. She can be pretty ruthless with her cutting wit--and I mean that in a good way (she reads this occasionally and I don't want her to think I don't recognize and even, dare I say, covet her tallent).
I am working hard getting ready for a big Primary Christmas party. We are doing a "Super Saturday" except it has to be on a Thursday. Anyway, I need some advice... We are meeting from 6-8 (or 6:30 if we don't feed them). Santa will be there--the REAL Santa. He lives in our neighboring ward, if you wondered. Anyway, we are making fleece quilts for a service project (our YM and YW volunteer at a homeless Christmas and they take the blankets there). For the moms we are making a recipe book, for the dads we are making a secret safe. For sisters we are making a shrinky dink necklace and for brothers we are making a color your own hacky sac. We are also making FHE bags. They are little muslin bags with little objects in it that represent stories from the scriptures. We have a dove (Holy Ghost, Noah), fish (loaves and fishes, fishers of men, Jonah and the Whale), snakes (Adam and Eve, Moses healing the Children of Israel), baby (Moses, Baby Jesus), pirate swords (Nephi, Ammon), tree (tree of life, Adam and Eve, parable of the olive tree), rock (wise man and the foolish man, Samuel the Lamanite), and gold coin (betrayal of Christ, tithing). Can you think of anything else I could get to put in there that wouldn't cost much? I need to keep it to about $10 for 50 of each item. I have some magnifying glasses already (another Primary activity) but I can't think of a good scripture story to go with it. Also, is we were to feed them, what would be an appropriate menu? I don't want anything hard/expensive because I am already overwhelmed with the whole activity. I have one councilor on a cruise and another battling a vicious case of shingles. She's young and shouldn't have it AND arthritis at the same time. She's been out 6 weeks and will be out at least that many more, poor thing. So it is left to me. Fortunately I have a new councilor called--yup. I have 3 now. Just like I said I needed when I was called. Hmmm.... She'll function as a councilor until Tammy is back on her feet then she will move to chorister while still a member of the presidency so she can come to presidency meetings and do sharing times and stuff like that. Brilliant!
BNLFan_1 got asked to Senior Cotillion last week. She's pretty excited. It's a formal dance so she needs the dress. Yikes. The funny thing is her date is named Cory Christensen. She says he can't figure out why that would make her feel uncomfortable. Anyway, she has to hurry and answer him because he wont talk to her in the meantime. She asks him direct questions and he puts on his headphones or turns away. Weird. Anyway, I think she's going to deliver a pizza with YES spelled out in pepperoni. It's borring, but it's easy since she's got connections at the Pizza Place. She has a recital tonight. She's getting so good on the cello. I can't believe she's my daughter.
H is in the school choir. The holiday season is approaching so she will start having her concerts. Yip. I mostly look forward to the Festival of the Trees. They sing there every year and I am going along to buy scones and bawl over the trees. Nothing says Christmas like a sad Christmas tree. No really--I love it and look forward to it every year.
M is about to loose her last tooth. It's kind of sad to see all the "lasts" come and go. But then I shake myself and remind myself how nice it is not to change poopy diapers.
I am working hard getting ready for a big Primary Christmas party. We are doing a "Super Saturday" except it has to be on a Thursday. Anyway, I need some advice... We are meeting from 6-8 (or 6:30 if we don't feed them). Santa will be there--the REAL Santa. He lives in our neighboring ward, if you wondered. Anyway, we are making fleece quilts for a service project (our YM and YW volunteer at a homeless Christmas and they take the blankets there). For the moms we are making a recipe book, for the dads we are making a secret safe. For sisters we are making a shrinky dink necklace and for brothers we are making a color your own hacky sac. We are also making FHE bags. They are little muslin bags with little objects in it that represent stories from the scriptures. We have a dove (Holy Ghost, Noah), fish (loaves and fishes, fishers of men, Jonah and the Whale), snakes (Adam and Eve, Moses healing the Children of Israel), baby (Moses, Baby Jesus), pirate swords (Nephi, Ammon), tree (tree of life, Adam and Eve, parable of the olive tree), rock (wise man and the foolish man, Samuel the Lamanite), and gold coin (betrayal of Christ, tithing). Can you think of anything else I could get to put in there that wouldn't cost much? I need to keep it to about $10 for 50 of each item. I have some magnifying glasses already (another Primary activity) but I can't think of a good scripture story to go with it. Also, is we were to feed them, what would be an appropriate menu? I don't want anything hard/expensive because I am already overwhelmed with the whole activity. I have one councilor on a cruise and another battling a vicious case of shingles. She's young and shouldn't have it AND arthritis at the same time. She's been out 6 weeks and will be out at least that many more, poor thing. So it is left to me. Fortunately I have a new councilor called--yup. I have 3 now. Just like I said I needed when I was called. Hmmm.... She'll function as a councilor until Tammy is back on her feet then she will move to chorister while still a member of the presidency so she can come to presidency meetings and do sharing times and stuff like that. Brilliant!
BNLFan_1 got asked to Senior Cotillion last week. She's pretty excited. It's a formal dance so she needs the dress. Yikes. The funny thing is her date is named Cory Christensen. She says he can't figure out why that would make her feel uncomfortable. Anyway, she has to hurry and answer him because he wont talk to her in the meantime. She asks him direct questions and he puts on his headphones or turns away. Weird. Anyway, I think she's going to deliver a pizza with YES spelled out in pepperoni. It's borring, but it's easy since she's got connections at the Pizza Place. She has a recital tonight. She's getting so good on the cello. I can't believe she's my daughter.
H is in the school choir. The holiday season is approaching so she will start having her concerts. Yip. I mostly look forward to the Festival of the Trees. They sing there every year and I am going along to buy scones and bawl over the trees. Nothing says Christmas like a sad Christmas tree. No really--I love it and look forward to it every year.
M is about to loose her last tooth. It's kind of sad to see all the "lasts" come and go. But then I shake myself and remind myself how nice it is not to change poopy diapers.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Sister Fun
I went on a fun hike with elle_cossette yesterday. She took me to her Rivendale. It was beautiful. We had fun trying to figure out our new cameras. So here's another before and after ad nauseum picture post :)
This is an interesting arched tree... I think it had broken but it looks like it grew this way. The first picture is way too dark but I liked the frame of the heavier limb in the top left corner, as well as the shape of the arched trees. And, I was trying to use the "shapes" technique, as well as the "rule of thirds" that elle and I learned at our photo class at Inkley's this week.
Before:
After:
Again, the canyon where we were hiking was very dark for that time of day (11 a.m.) so the first picture is very dark but I wanted the sunrise over the crest of the hill.
Before:
In order to get any detail, I had to kind of wash out the picture. Someday when I learn photoshop better, I am going to come back to this and make it look right because I think it could be very interesting.
After:
The canyon was very chilly, to say the least. I was fascinated by the frost on the leaves.
Before:
Just by upping the light, the colors really popped.
After:
My big project was to get the water to look soft, which takes a slow shutter speed. But without knowing what we were doing, we took a lot of pictures. Then elle got a shot that worked. I coppied the settings and started to have some success. It would have been better with a tripod, of course, but this is good enough for this trip. Besides, I'm not sure I'm up to a hike with a tripod yet :)
Before:
After:
This is an interesting arched tree... I think it had broken but it looks like it grew this way. The first picture is way too dark but I liked the frame of the heavier limb in the top left corner, as well as the shape of the arched trees. And, I was trying to use the "shapes" technique, as well as the "rule of thirds" that elle and I learned at our photo class at Inkley's this week.
Before:
After:
Again, the canyon where we were hiking was very dark for that time of day (11 a.m.) so the first picture is very dark but I wanted the sunrise over the crest of the hill.
Before:
In order to get any detail, I had to kind of wash out the picture. Someday when I learn photoshop better, I am going to come back to this and make it look right because I think it could be very interesting.
After:
The canyon was very chilly, to say the least. I was fascinated by the frost on the leaves.
Before:
Just by upping the light, the colors really popped.
After:
My big project was to get the water to look soft, which takes a slow shutter speed. But without knowing what we were doing, we took a lot of pictures. Then elle got a shot that worked. I coppied the settings and started to have some success. It would have been better with a tripod, of course, but this is good enough for this trip. Besides, I'm not sure I'm up to a hike with a tripod yet :)
Before:
After:
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