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State of the Wendy
Poor Daniel has a very bad cold, which seems to have triggered my domestic instincts. Yesterday I cleaned the kitchen, (including scrubbing down the sink and the glass cooktop with Bar Keeper's Friend, which is my new favorite cleaning product), did a load of laundry, and partially cleaned the master bathroom. This morning I went to the grocery store and restocked all our depleted staples. Now I'm going to do a couple more loads of laundry.
I tend to listen to news and current events podcasts while I do housework, which means I'm now very well-informed. At the moment, I'm not sure that being well-informed is particularly good for my mood. I think maybe I'll switch over to listening to The Moonstone, which I'm currently finding very charming in its Victorianness.
When not being domestic, have mostly been watching movies. Finally saw Avatar: after all that I've read/heard about it, all I can really say is that it was visually stunning, and, while not very original in a plot sense, was less heavy-handed than I'd been led to expect. (It's probably just my stupid sense of humor, but I was really disappointed that when Neytiri meets Jake's human form, she doesn't say, "I thought you'd be taller.")
We also watched Enter the Dragon for the first time. I enjoyed it, though what I found particularly striking were all the ways that it would have been done differently if it were made now: everything from little things like the distractingly obvious overdubbed sound-effects on all the martial arts moves, to big things like the way curiously little is made of the fight where he faces down the guy responsible for his sister's death - I'm sure that if the movie were made now, it would have been built up into a big climactic moment. (I'm also baffled to see from the IMDB page that the original theatrical release of Enter the Dragon was apparently banned in Scandinavia, given an X rating in the UK, and an 18 rating in a couple of other European countries, while getting an R in the U.S., and a 13+ in Quebec. I guess this is one of those cases where cultural standards differ?)
I tend to listen to news and current events podcasts while I do housework, which means I'm now very well-informed. At the moment, I'm not sure that being well-informed is particularly good for my mood. I think maybe I'll switch over to listening to The Moonstone, which I'm currently finding very charming in its Victorianness.
When not being domestic, have mostly been watching movies. Finally saw Avatar: after all that I've read/heard about it, all I can really say is that it was visually stunning, and, while not very original in a plot sense, was less heavy-handed than I'd been led to expect. (It's probably just my stupid sense of humor, but I was really disappointed that when Neytiri meets Jake's human form, she doesn't say, "I thought you'd be taller.")
We also watched Enter the Dragon for the first time. I enjoyed it, though what I found particularly striking were all the ways that it would have been done differently if it were made now: everything from little things like the distractingly obvious overdubbed sound-effects on all the martial arts moves, to big things like the way curiously little is made of the fight where he faces down the guy responsible for his sister's death - I'm sure that if the movie were made now, it would have been built up into a big climactic moment. (I'm also baffled to see from the IMDB page that the original theatrical release of Enter the Dragon was apparently banned in Scandinavia, given an X rating in the UK, and an 18 rating in a couple of other European countries, while getting an R in the U.S., and a 13+ in Quebec. I guess this is one of those cases where cultural standards differ?)