seven quick takes: a book, a cake, a mermaid
1. Just finished "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." Very good mystery story. A little on the graphic side--not blood and guts necessarily, but just descriptions of bad things that bad people do. Especially sensitive souls might want to stay away from it. But *I* liked it a lot! A very unconventional heroine.
2. Also--a nice little bonus at the back--the book contains an excerpt from the sequel ("The Girl Who Played with Fire") and it is set in Grenada! On Grand Anse beach! Dude, I've been there!
I just love it when a book or movie is set in a place that I have been. Or, when I get a chance to visit the setting of a book or movie I have loved. This may be why I loved visiting England so much--so many of my favorite books are set there.
3. Made a new recipe for carrot cake yesterday. It had a cup of crushed pineapple in it. A little different, but it worked. Made it moist and sweet. Even my husband, who inexplicably hates pineapple, liked it. Yum.
4. Evie is sitting on my lap as I write, having woken up unfortunately early from her nap. I gave her a handful of goldfish crackers to eat while I finished this post, hoping it would keep her happy, but instead she is stuffing them into my mouth one by one. This kid LOVES to feed other people. She gets the biggest kick out of it and is very insistent. I had not planned on eating a mouthful of goldfish crackers just now, but I had no choice. Evie is feeding me, and I must comply.
5. I think that we will soon have a zucchini big enough to pick. Exciting!
6. It's Friday night and Eric's not going to be home, so I'm surprising the girls with a video of "The Little Mermaid" that I got at the library earlier in the week. Beth saw it once when we rented it a couple years ago, but Lucy never has. I wonder if they will be impressed or just annoyed when they learn that I can recite most of the dialogue and sing all the words to every song in that movie? It was my sister's absolute favorite movie growing up. We watched it a lot. A. WHOLE. LOT.
7. I'm going to write a story for the paper about how to fix up garage-sale furniture and make it cute. To illustrate it, they're going to take pictures of me, re-painting old furniture I have. This is me being clever: doing a story for the paper and forcing myself to actually refinish the adorable kid-size table and chairs that I have been meaning to refinish for a really long time. Hmmm, looks like it was about two years ago that I first said I was going to re-do it. Now I actually am. We'll stretch the definition of "I'm going to do that this summer" to include "it will actually get done two years from now." Unfortunately, it seems that's just how I roll--lots of grand intentions...limited results.
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10 comments:
I had to comment because my niece's name is Evie - and her dad is Eric. Too funny :)
And The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is officially on my 'to read' book list. Thanks for the recommendation!
Look at this stuff isn't it neat...oh I could go on and on!!
Well I probably shouldn't admit it, but that song that Cheryl started... I sing it to Kaden ALL the TIME! It was my favorite. (I do have red hair after all... that makes me just like Ariel!) Jen if you need someone to quote and sing with you let me know! :)
Your blog made me think about so much today! My family always makes carrot cake with pineapple - we got the recipe from my grandma. I'm glad you enjoyed it that way - it's so yummy! Also, I just picked two zucchinis from my mom's garden and they are as large as a beater's bat from HP. And one other thing: did you actually have to strip the furniture to repaint it? I had to do that with the table I currently have (which came from my grandparents) and it was a pain in the you-know-what. Painting is fun, though! I'm sure it'll be super cute when you're done!
Love your #7-- I'll get a kick out of reading that story knowing the background :)
funny, it was Mandi's favorite to... so we also watched it a lot. And we own it, so my kids watch it a lot as well :)
Two things:
1. PLEASE share your moist carrot cake recipe. Bryan LOVES carrot cake and I have never even attempted to make it, being fearful that it won't live up to his expectations. Lame, I know. But share if you will.
2. For some reason (probably non-nutrient-rich desert soil) our zucchinis are only growing to about four inches, then shriveling up and dying. So we've been picking them small and they are really good! You just have to have five or six to actually make something with. :)
Mmm- Carrot cake is my favorite! And I've never seen The Little Mermaid. I guess it's because I grew up with brothers instead of sisters, but I feel like it's a huge gap in my kid-movie-watching-experience.
Well, I nearly fell out of my chair just now. I stumbled onto your blog about the doll cake/ballerina barbie fiasco when googling for a picture of such a cake to show my husband because our daughter who has a party coming up wants said cake. So I read your blog and laughed. I told my husband that I'm pretty sure you and I are sisters from another mother. You are me. I am you. He read your story and laughed out loud and whole-heartedly agreed that we are eerily similar. NOW I go to click the "follow blog" button after signing in and finding my way back to your page and I see you saying Evie woke up from her nap... my youngest daughter's name is Evie. Isn't life quirky-strange sometimes??
@Jenn -- I tried to leave a comment on your blog a couple time tonight, but couldn't get it to work. Some weird Blogger problem? I don't know.
What I would have said, could I get it to work, is this:
1. Your daughters are adorable. My oldest is starting kindergarten in a few weeks and I don't know how I'll handle it.
2. One of the things I really enjoy about blogging is the chance to "meet" so many other people who are just like me, but spread all across the world! Makes you realize what a small place this world is when you read the blog of some stranger who sounds just like yourself.
3. Good luck with the doll cake!
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