Holidailies 2018 #1
Here it is, Holidailies time! Which means that I should do one or two entries then forget! Well let’s enjoy it while we can.
I had a very productive day, dog walk, choir rehearsal, Costco to get glasses repaired, tried to buy stuff but couldn’t because I didn’t have my debit card or a visa card that had any room on it, so that was actually pretty awesome because I didn’t need any of that shit anyway. Then I returned a couple of things to Target, and bought some gift bags because even though I’m just giving gifts to myself, and I’m certainly not wrapping them like a complete lunatic, gift bags isn’t a bit crazy, and makes it look more festive under the tree than mailing boxes do.
Then I went home and started setting up the living room for Christmas. This upset Pancake, who thinks that the living room is all his, and he’s not wrong because I’m never in there, except during the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! The tree is mostly decorated, except that I haven’t put on the new ornaments because they are all mixed up with the presents, and I just remembered that I got some new lights after last Christmas, so those need to go on. Anyway, it’s not all done, but it’s mostly done. I will finish it tomorrow, along with the outside lights. And the Christmas card. It’s December 1st and I am ALL IN CHRISTMAS!
Then I started my new cross-stitch! Because I am only doing works in progress next year, 2019 Year of WIPs, this means I’m spending December doing new starts, because I am a cheating cheater who cheats. Today’s new start is Santa’s Sleigh from the Christmas Eve Couriers collection by Nora Corbett for Mirabilia Designs. I have bought several Mirabilias, but I haven’t made any yet. Until today! I did 100 stitches, then it’s a WIP and I’ll deal with it in 2019. It’s actually part of a bunch of patterns that you are supposed to hang together, the sleigh and all nine reindeer, so I imagine I’ll be finished with all ten as I’m climbing into the grave.
Then I had to walk the same dog from this morning, then go see Mamba, the newest movie as part of the Poverty Row series I’ve been going to at Raleigh Studios. This is a movie from 1930 that is the earliest non-musical two-strip Technicolor film ever made. It’s not great, but it’s a fascinating time capsule. It takes place in German East Africa in 1913 and stars Jean Hersholt (of Humanitarian Award fame) as a terrible, racist, murdering, raping, and worst of all, low-class jackass, plantation owner. He is looked down on and despised by the German and British officers because no matter how rich you are, you can’t buy class. So he basically buys a wife, a noblewoman whose father needs money, so that those mean officers will stop snubbing him and invite him to their parties. It doesn’t work, and the wife hates and is terrified by him and his rapey ways, and she falls in love with a German officer who is such a German officer that he not only has a pencil moustache, he also has a dueling scar and a monocle. The British and German go off to attack each other, so the natives think, “Fuck these white people!” and they attack the people left behind. Jean Hersholt is forced into the army, instantly deserts, and is killed by the marauding natives. Nobody is sad, notices, or misses him. The German officer makes his way through the jungle to save his love, and everyone else being attacked by the natives who aren’t Jean Hersholt, and just as they are losing, the British come and save them. Because they beat the Germans. And that’s the end.
Now I’m back home, but I’m going to see Lethal Weapon at midnight. Because weekends for me are all about not getting enough sleep.
I had a very productive day, dog walk, choir rehearsal, Costco to get glasses repaired, tried to buy stuff but couldn’t because I didn’t have my debit card or a visa card that had any room on it, so that was actually pretty awesome because I didn’t need any of that shit anyway. Then I returned a couple of things to Target, and bought some gift bags because even though I’m just giving gifts to myself, and I’m certainly not wrapping them like a complete lunatic, gift bags isn’t a bit crazy, and makes it look more festive under the tree than mailing boxes do.
Then I went home and started setting up the living room for Christmas. This upset Pancake, who thinks that the living room is all his, and he’s not wrong because I’m never in there, except during the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! The tree is mostly decorated, except that I haven’t put on the new ornaments because they are all mixed up with the presents, and I just remembered that I got some new lights after last Christmas, so those need to go on. Anyway, it’s not all done, but it’s mostly done. I will finish it tomorrow, along with the outside lights. And the Christmas card. It’s December 1st and I am ALL IN CHRISTMAS!
Then I started my new cross-stitch! Because I am only doing works in progress next year, 2019 Year of WIPs, this means I’m spending December doing new starts, because I am a cheating cheater who cheats. Today’s new start is Santa’s Sleigh from the Christmas Eve Couriers collection by Nora Corbett for Mirabilia Designs. I have bought several Mirabilias, but I haven’t made any yet. Until today! I did 100 stitches, then it’s a WIP and I’ll deal with it in 2019. It’s actually part of a bunch of patterns that you are supposed to hang together, the sleigh and all nine reindeer, so I imagine I’ll be finished with all ten as I’m climbing into the grave.
Then I had to walk the same dog from this morning, then go see Mamba, the newest movie as part of the Poverty Row series I’ve been going to at Raleigh Studios. This is a movie from 1930 that is the earliest non-musical two-strip Technicolor film ever made. It’s not great, but it’s a fascinating time capsule. It takes place in German East Africa in 1913 and stars Jean Hersholt (of Humanitarian Award fame) as a terrible, racist, murdering, raping, and worst of all, low-class jackass, plantation owner. He is looked down on and despised by the German and British officers because no matter how rich you are, you can’t buy class. So he basically buys a wife, a noblewoman whose father needs money, so that those mean officers will stop snubbing him and invite him to their parties. It doesn’t work, and the wife hates and is terrified by him and his rapey ways, and she falls in love with a German officer who is such a German officer that he not only has a pencil moustache, he also has a dueling scar and a monocle. The British and German go off to attack each other, so the natives think, “Fuck these white people!” and they attack the people left behind. Jean Hersholt is forced into the army, instantly deserts, and is killed by the marauding natives. Nobody is sad, notices, or misses him. The German officer makes his way through the jungle to save his love, and everyone else being attacked by the natives who aren’t Jean Hersholt, and just as they are losing, the British come and save them. Because they beat the Germans. And that’s the end.
Now I’m back home, but I’m going to see Lethal Weapon at midnight. Because weekends for me are all about not getting enough sleep.