Summer Plans and Miscellanea
So there's a few things I want to put in this journal. One thing is reactions to things that I watch/read, because I feel like it's fun to do that. Another is a record of how my summer is going.
I saw The Hunger Games last week, and it was particularly fun. I really liked all of the acting (particularly Jennifer Laurence as Katniss), and, to be honest, between how it was shot and the acting and the way it showed and developed that world, I really liked it more than I enjoyed the actual book, which was a fun read, but not anything earth-shattering, whereas the movie was excellent. I feel like the story that it tells is just better for a movie.
I've been watching Once Upon a Time and Smash. I've finished the season of the first and am still about halfway through the season of the second. The former is just all-together really solid and fun, with good acting and well drawn out interpretations of the fairy tales(*coughDisneyMoviescough*) and how they all fit together. I love all of the parent-child relationships, especially. The latter has a lot of promise and great characters, if they would just stop sleeping with one another and being catty. Which is probably the main reason other people actually watch the show. Go figure.
I just read Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson, which is mostly about dead animals and mental illness. It's very David Sedaris-esque, but a bit more surreal. Her blog is also fun, though her style gets a little monotonous for me after having read a couple hundred pages of it.
Okay. My summer plans.
I'm growing a garden this year. A humongous, could-feed-a-family garden. I'm growing beans, carrots, lettuce, chard, spinach, soybeans, tomatoes, fennel, eggplants, zucchini, radishes, arugula, corn, and something called sunberries (a form of huckleberries.) That's if I'm not missing something. Before I got to Vermont from school, my Dad tilled a huge amount of earth for me to grow these on, and over the last couple of days I have removed the stones from that earth and raked it to get out more stones. Soon we need to form the beds, and then I think I can finally start planting.
Oh, and that list does not count the herb garden that I am planting separately, which includes rosemary, basil, parsley, and shiso, and probably other stuff that I haven't gotten yet. We've been hitting plant sales, which is wonderful, including one by a friend of the family who had a stroke recently and who we probably won't ever buy plants from again because this will probably be his last year due to the stroke and heart problems, so it was very emotional for me to go buy plants from him one more time.
I'm also planning on doing a lot of hardcore baking this summer. Lots of bread, possibly some other things. I want to hit up a Japanese grocery so I can do some Japanese cooking, but time will tell if I get a chance to do that at all. I'm definitely going to try to make Tiramisu. I've got good ladyfingers and an espresso machine, and I can probably find some mascapone, so why not?
The main purpose of this summer, though, is to work on my health . . .which I've kind of been putting off. I want to find a good psychiatrist, it's just that I've had such bad experiences that I'm not sure I can bring myself to try. But I will.
And that's all I feel like typing right now. See you.
I saw The Hunger Games last week, and it was particularly fun. I really liked all of the acting (particularly Jennifer Laurence as Katniss), and, to be honest, between how it was shot and the acting and the way it showed and developed that world, I really liked it more than I enjoyed the actual book, which was a fun read, but not anything earth-shattering, whereas the movie was excellent. I feel like the story that it tells is just better for a movie.
I've been watching Once Upon a Time and Smash. I've finished the season of the first and am still about halfway through the season of the second. The former is just all-together really solid and fun, with good acting and well drawn out interpretations of the fairy tales(*coughDisneyMoviescough*) and how they all fit together. I love all of the parent-child relationships, especially. The latter has a lot of promise and great characters, if they would just stop sleeping with one another and being catty. Which is probably the main reason other people actually watch the show. Go figure.
I just read Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson, which is mostly about dead animals and mental illness. It's very David Sedaris-esque, but a bit more surreal. Her blog is also fun, though her style gets a little monotonous for me after having read a couple hundred pages of it.
Okay. My summer plans.
I'm growing a garden this year. A humongous, could-feed-a-family garden. I'm growing beans, carrots, lettuce, chard, spinach, soybeans, tomatoes, fennel, eggplants, zucchini, radishes, arugula, corn, and something called sunberries (a form of huckleberries.) That's if I'm not missing something. Before I got to Vermont from school, my Dad tilled a huge amount of earth for me to grow these on, and over the last couple of days I have removed the stones from that earth and raked it to get out more stones. Soon we need to form the beds, and then I think I can finally start planting.
Oh, and that list does not count the herb garden that I am planting separately, which includes rosemary, basil, parsley, and shiso, and probably other stuff that I haven't gotten yet. We've been hitting plant sales, which is wonderful, including one by a friend of the family who had a stroke recently and who we probably won't ever buy plants from again because this will probably be his last year due to the stroke and heart problems, so it was very emotional for me to go buy plants from him one more time.
I'm also planning on doing a lot of hardcore baking this summer. Lots of bread, possibly some other things. I want to hit up a Japanese grocery so I can do some Japanese cooking, but time will tell if I get a chance to do that at all. I'm definitely going to try to make Tiramisu. I've got good ladyfingers and an espresso machine, and I can probably find some mascapone, so why not?
The main purpose of this summer, though, is to work on my health . . .which I've kind of been putting off. I want to find a good psychiatrist, it's just that I've had such bad experiences that I'm not sure I can bring myself to try. But I will.
And that's all I feel like typing right now. See you.