COSTUME DRAMAS w/ROMANCE

Bleak House. Okay, this borders on too much drama, not enough romance. But Gillian Anderson is a goddess as the incredibly reserved and elegant Lady Dedlock, and you wouldn't want to miss the subtle colors of Martin's performance as Esther.
Wives and Daughters. I learned to love Gaskell watching this. (I had a bad college ( Read more... )

Let me tell you: the last thing you want on a business trip is a movie with heavy drama and no happy ending. No. You want mental comfort food. Preferably a romantic comedy. Or at least a comedy. Or at least a fun drama that doesn't leave you wanting to claw your eyes out ( Read more... )

A happier post. I've now read about seven pregnancy books and pulled together a list of to-do items combed from all of them. Seriously, this is handy.

Everything from "what to do when you're thinking of having a baby" to "you need this" to "here are legal obligations you should address."

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I had a really lovely vacation recently. During that lovely vacation, I gave myself miserable shin splints. Again. Despite working for years to avoid them (and improving to some extent - motion-control shoes, strengthening exercises, proper warm-ups and cool-downs), I did it again. After further research, it turns out: I overstride ( Read more... )

Very unspecific, mostly critical comments of the dumbing down of Julie in the Julie/Julia movie, but cut just in case:

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I always take too long to tell things, so this is the short version: the angry pit bull next door terrified me until I fell in love with dogs, until I realized how horrible her situation was, until I realized no shelter I could find would take a sick, angry, overweight, old pit bull, until I stayed up nights worrying about her, until I started to ( Read more... )

I'm disgusted by your comment. I'm sure everyone else is, too. Next time leave your name so I can tell you that in person.

Why must I always celebrate new and exciting things with kidney infections?

Argh.

Long story short, he told me more (including pictures and video), and well, 6 people in our family lost cars. The way he'd explained it sounded like our car and one others were the only one that went under. As it turns out, our car and one other was just what was in the first picture he showed me. In the video, most of the yard is underwater - only ( Read more... )

Despite the angst of this week, I've mostly been annoyed until today. Today, when C. left me home to be sickly while he took the kids to the park and asked I make dinner, in his absence I went from vicious to sad to weepy to calm to just off. Maybe I'm making up for the past week. I just hope he comes home with the antibiotics. I'm tired and I ( Read more... )