A Few Period Movies.

Little behind, but a few blurbs.

Watched Much Ado About Nothing (Beckinsale).

So far, the amount of people I have recognized in this Shakespeare adaption has been astounding.
Kate B, whom I knew would be in it. Riding up I see OMG is that WILSON?? Then Keanu? Denzel? and I recognize a few more I cannot name... Omg... Michael Keaton???
Wilson, from House and portrayed by Robert Sean Leonard, makes quite a good looking Shakespearean. I'm amused to see this play for the first time here (I know, I know, ME? Unfarmiliar with a Shakespeare?)
It is a bit Cyrano, a bit Romeo and Juliet (why always with the Pretending to be Dead!), and all wonderful.
Loved it! 5/5

Watched The Madness of King George.
Terrifying to see how bleak medicine was, and yet funny to see that the dismissed evacuate was seemingly such a telling key the whole time! Very good flick. 4/5.

Also, in the past few days,
-HYACINTH MACAW! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
-Got my three other Nest raptor hatchlings (plus a few extras to sell).
-Exalted Lower City (23/25 Tabards, so slow. And 28/30 Reputations.)
-Neutral with Bloodsailors. Hey, I got so little left to do before Cata, that it was this or grind AQ. I'm already farming ZG twice a week for those mounts/pet, and MC once a week for Thorium Brotherhood (Honored) and Hydraxian Waterlords (still Neutral).

Did I tell you I got a B on my exam? 88. I was rather upset it was so low. Prof says there were 5 'A's. Shoulda been 6. -.- I'll get the next one.

10/21 Movies, WoW, Recipes.

Recipes @ Bottom:
Breakfast: Bacon Cheddar Whole Wheat Scones.
Dinner: Scallops & Roasted Salad, Roasted Sugar Dumpling Squash.

Last night I watched The Mission. A 'Based on True Story' with Young Jeremy Irons (rawr!), Robert Deniro(sp?), and even Liam Neeson! Great movie. A little tragic, but very moving. Violins & Swords! Glee!

(WoW) Also farmed up my Deviate Hatching in the 17th run (Glee!) Found a Takk Hatching (omg Glee!), and another Razormaw Hatchling (gleeeee!). I can now justify selling the double hatching to buy the one I'm missing. Think I'll leave toons on the nests, to farm up more. Maybe I can make enough to buy other's I'm missing.
Oh, did I mention I got Green Wing Macaw (defias mines)? Can't believe I didn't have it. Third run.

Today, we watched "The Book of Eli" which was fantastic. Really enjoyed it. Go rent it!!

Recipes:

Bacon Chedar Scones (var Taste of Home, unknown issue)
Makes 8

1,3/4 c flour (I use whole wheat)
2,1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
6 tbsp cold butter
2 eggs
1/3c 2% milk
1/2c chopped onion
1/c shredded cheese
3 strips turkey bacon, cooked & crumbled.

Preheat 350
Combine first 5, cutting butter in so mixture resembles crumbles. Seperately, beat eggs into milk, add to dry ingredients and mix only til moist. Fold in onion, cheese, bacon.
Putting dough on greased baking sheet, slice into 8 pieces but don't seperate them.
Bake 25-30min til toothpick comes out clean.
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Roast Sugar Dumpling (var WholeLiving Oct2010)
Makes 4

-Preheat 400°.
-Halve and seed 1 small pumpkin (such as sugar). Drizzle with 2tbsp EV Olive oil, season with 3/4 tsp Salt & 1/2 tsp pepper. Face down, 30 minutes.
-Remove pumpkin, cut in half again (now quartered), dust with ground thyme.
-Bake about 7 minutes.
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Roasted Salad- makes4

2 pints cherry tomatoes
1 pint fresh mushrooms, whole, quartered.
Garlic powder
olive oil
4cups Baby spinach

-Preheat 400.
-Drizzle 13x9 with oil, add tomatoes & roll til covered. Dust with garlic powder to taste.
-Bake 20min.

-In seperate oiled pan, add quartered mushrooms, roll to coat, bake at 400 for 7mins.

-Serve both over half cup of baby spinach, drizzled with oil.

*No recipe for the scallops, I just toss them in a seasoned iron pan, cover for 10 mins. Pepper & serve.

Whining: Out of Sync.

Why is it in the wee hours of boredom, of an overnight shift devoid of human contact, that I script detailed plans for running, dinners, meditation? Moreso, why cannot I not follow through with those plans later?

-I want to run; to run a Disney Princess Marathon. Why? Because I CAN! No really! I CAN run, and am almost always happy I did so: feeling accomplished and proud of myself! Though I have such a hard time dragging myself from home to do it!

-I miss Yoga and Meditation. I'm older (its true!) and more sedentary (worse than age!) and my body aches with disuse. I'm tired all the time, and survive on caffeine more than ever. I start practice, a week straight mornings, then sleep in one day and don't go back to it.

-I plan healthy meals, work in snacks, decide to make big batches to grab and go (making eating healthy easier!) Then I'm too lazy to make them. Refuse to drink water out of laziness (I literally sit there thirsty, cause I don't want to get up.) I don't /feeeeel/ like eating a salad, so I rummage around (ooh! Cheese!) BAH! Skip a meal cause I don't /feeeel/ like eating it, then get hungry and demolish some cheerios or ice cream.

I plan, I schedule, I chart. I set goals, mark calendars. I.. Go to sleep, wake up, and change nothing. I'm tired of being tired. Tired of feeling like I have no time, when I know I would if I just MADE some.

Oh great purple monkey spaghetti monster in the sky... Send me a personal drill instructor to kick my butt back into gear. When did I get so lazy? Was it all at once, or a cumulative slide?

Bah.

Exam2=88%. Seafood Sketti. Etc.

Made hubby help me with the Zangar Heroics (they go so much faster!) Also ran MC with him (for Thorium Brotherhood and Hydrax' rep. Used a camped alt to find the Wetlands raptor pet (Razormaw Hatchling) but still need to move it safely from Horde to Alliance. (GLEE, new raptor!) Ran WC 5 times for Deviate Hatchling (no luck yet, makes 10 runs, at about 10m per run.) The runs themselves are fast, it's the looting and skinning that takes time.

Dinner was Seafood Sketti *Squash. Sauteed some scallops, added them to a sauce made of Newman's Mushroom sauce, about 3/4 package of fake crab (the other 1/4 got nibbled), and a can of drained artichoke heart quarters. Topped in on a plate of spaghetti squash innards, dusted (heavily mmmm) with Parmesan cheese. Watched ourselves a little dinner-NCIS.

I took my second Soc exam today, only got an 88. I was rather upset. Still, 96+88,/2=92, so I still have an A-. Will have to bring that up with the next exam.

Also, watched Secret of Kells on Netflix, and I can't remember the last time I saw such an intricately, beautifully, drawn film. I LOVED it.

More WoW achievements :P

Thanks to WarcraftPets.com/News I learned that WoW now sends all three CE pets to a char made with Original CE. They did not, however, send the two pets you were lacking to a character that had already completed the Companion quest (where you chose which CE pet you wanted. I always choose Mini-Diablo!) SO, I made a new junk char, and sent myself the other two pets, since they're Bind on Account. GLEE!

What I did today :P Wrangled Hubby to help me burn through H:Hellfire Ramparts and H:Blood Furnace (Didn't make H:Shattered Halls before his bedtime.) Also landed a group for BWL! Someone wanted to do the old AQ chain and needed something from there, and I hitched a ride to kill Nefarian for the first time. I was the tank, didn't do so hot I think, but I've never tanked a Raid (old or new). Aaaaand bought the last bits of junk to finish Exalted Aldor (makes 27 reps exalted, btw. It also got my 22/25 tabard!)

Now.. to prove I'm not a huge, lazy, fat, WoW-Nerd (but a sexy, active, strong, WoW-Nerd), I'm going to force myself to go run two miles. Ugh. It'll get easier.. the more I do it.. I promise...

Bleh.

PS: I happen to be plagued by the "Cogwheel" bug since 4.0.1... If someone summons someone, or sets out a feast, etc etc, the game freezes. I dump the game, relog, but if the summoned thing is still there I get frozen again. No fix for it.. SO annoying.

According to Warcraftpets.com, this gorgeous purple (jade) kitty was available only to Taiwanese players who prepaid a certain amount of WoW time. I so sad... he so pretty.

Razzashi hatchlings are 6k on the AH, and rising. I don't want one THAT bad. Now... I'd pay that for the Hyacinth Macaw... which I've wanted since classic. But no one farms/sells it anymore. /missed the boat.

Ok, ok, really, I'm going now.

2miles, and 3 WoW Achievements.

Started out by finishing Stormpike :) Celebrated by summoning Ivus (below). It was neat: He was up for a while minute.

(Kitty Formation!)

Accidentally got "Save the Day", a risky achievement requiring you to kill a flag carrier, IN their base, WHILE they have their own flag. I was stalking the mound to pick up the flag when it fell, when their carrier ran in. Tried to kill him, succeeded (making him the worst player ever, besides me), and it turned out they returned the flag during that whole mess. Holy cow :) I think we still lost.

Aaaaand hadn't done this yet, so did it in conjunction with trying to finish out my Lower City rep. I'm really running out of things to do: I still need Nefarion and C'thun from Classic, but we can't 4-5 man those and trying to get a run is like trying to survive on just your spit in the desert.

Hate when Hubby's at Drill. I'm bored, the dog's bored (and needy and obnoxious, yet somehow still cute).

I ran 2 miles on the treadmill, and have wisdom to share: an entire 840 calorie bag of cheddar Goldfish crackers is NOT a healthy dinner to have before you run :D

WoW 100 Mounts, Zandalar, 25 Reps Exalted

MUWAHAHAHAHA!!

I think I drove my husband crazy with this one in the last month near the end :D

With the "destruction of the Blood God" and the trolls moving back into ZG in Cata (since no one DOES ZG 'cept to farm the mount) they're taking it out, making the exalted Rep with them a "Feat" and presumeably just killing the Swift Zulian Tiger. If you don't get it before release, too bad so sad. That's one I can't solo: Though I just proved I can solo the Raptor guy in unspecced bear. So far no cat (or mini raptor pet, or raptor mount). I figured I'd grind out Zandalar, thinking it would take a while, but I was already into exalted. Took me one and a half runs. About 5 hours, but I'm slow in kitty :)

It happened to give me my 25 Exalted Reps. :) Glee.

Hmm, now what?

WoW 4.0.1, Wintersaber Mount, Timbermaw/Diplomat!

Here I was worried it would be DiabloII's 1.10 (murderously bad enough to make me stomp off and quit.)

-Well.. Having ravage out of stealth (even for ONE hit) after pounce is FANTASTIC! I'm still not always BEHIND a target and FACING them when I pounce (oi vey).
-Hmm, any hit seems to consume Omen of Clarity now.. so much for healing myself. I'd have to be faster than autoattack.. Is this new? I remember healing myself with that before..
-OMG what did you do to THORNS?? /ugh/
-Multiple trackers at the same time. I like it.

YES YES YES! (0623, I couldn't go to bed just TWO RUNS from having it...) WEEEEE!
I've wanted this since CLASSIC! (PS that makes 99/100 Mounts!)
HE'S SO PRETTY!

Timbermaw's "Winterfall Spirit Beads" courtesy of all the Wintersaber Runs :D ('Love Me' is for Timbermaw Exalted; 'Diplomat' for being Exalted Timbermaw, Kurenei, and Sporeggar) (PS: That makes 24/25 Exalted).

And that's it for the evening :D WEEEEEEE!


OH, and to show I do more than WoW in my free time:
Today I made Taco Lasagna (mmm!)
Did Upper Body at the gym, and ran 1.5 miles. Nyah.

18thC Movie: The Duchess

The Duchess (Based on a true story)?

The 18thC not being my specialty I will leave off my opinions of what's period or not for the flick. Overall seems well done. I do think it pretty in its opulence.

So funny to see the Duke moaning over the birth of a girl, now with modern science telling it's HIS fault (raspberry). However, her movie-self wishing to breast feed her daughter herself was JUST not done for a lady of her rank, so, I wonder if there is basis for that. That would make her quite rebellious indeed, almost scandelous. They would have called her unfit for her standing: having risen too high over her worth.

ah yes, and there is why in the SCA we play at chivalry. Lawful rape

All in all very good flick :)

14thC Movie: Virgin Territory

Done in play by play. Summary: Could have been good if it wasn't for the soft-soft-core, and Hayden Christiansen needing acting lessons.

Dude, the badguy (DelRatta) in Virgin Territory is the SAME bad guy from The Musketeer! Dude get's around I guess.

Ahh another late 14c flick with a modern-inspired soundtrack. And I could tell, right around the spot where the hot young (and clean shaven) nuns jump into the bath with the stranger to bang him... thaaaat this wasn't going to be very good. Oh yea.. awful. Almost soft-core porn.

Long rifle? Freaking did NOT exist yet. Best Europe had in the late 14thC were large cannon type weapon that lay on a table. I think I'm going on about the weaponry because it helps me detract from YET ANOTHER make-out-almost-softcore scene.

OMG is that Hayden Christianson (or who the hell ever) played Young Vader? I think it is. No wonder this movie is bad. God he's an awful actor.

Right.. the slave trader has a stripper pole? Seriously, this movie is a terrible porn script that just couldn't get the money to be a real porn.

At least the Painter/Priest is funny. That confession chair was really cool, I wonder if I could find that in history... And the movie gets a bit better later on, but if they took out all the boobs, butts, and making out it'd be about 30 minutes long!

You know the whole thing would be slightly amusing and interesting if they took out all the soft-soft core.

Prince of Persia, The Musketeer

Got to see Prince of Persia tonight with Hubby for MovieNight. I really liked it. Yar, I understand it isn't quite what the gamers wanted, but Hubby played the game and said that they did right by the special effects and acrobatics.

Also watched The Musketeer. I'm not sure why they diverted from the popular (and novel appropriate) telling of how D'Artagnon meets the Three, but other bits pleased me. The rappelling sword fight though? Why not just cut his rope?? The LADDER fight.. omg.. felt so ridiculous. All in all, they seemed to just want to remake the movie for more Muske-Money. The fights were good, the intrigue poor, I'll stick with Disney's version (which is truer to the book, AND has Oliver Platt. Rawr.

The Dishwasher and his Wife - A grim faerie tale

The Dishwasher and his Wife - A grim faerie tale.
Janna A Kepley 2010.

There was once a dishwasher, who was very handsome and was very honest: but he didn't have very much motivation; and at last his kitchen was piled high with pots, pans, plates, bowls, and his counters crusted with sauces.

He stacked them all neatly as he could, set a few bowls to soak, all ready to wash up the next day, meaning to rise early in the morning to his work. His conscience was clear and his heart light amidst all his troubles; so he went peaceably to bed, left all his cares to Heaven, and soon fell asleep. In the morning after he had said his prayers, he went to the kitchen to work; when, to his great wonder, there stood the dishes clean in the drain-rack. The good man knew not what to say or think at such an odd thing happening. He looked again and truly the counters had been scrubbed and the floor swept.

That day he was so light of heart that he bought ingredients for a hearty meal for he and his wife, and he chopped, sliced, sauted, broiled, and sauced, a culinary masterpiece (and quite a terrible mess!) In the evening after they feasted, he went to bed early, that he might get up and wash up next day; he dreamt he heard tiny footsteps in the house among the soft clanging of cookware and spoons. He had set his alarm to wake up early but he was saved all the trouble, for when he got up in the morning the work was done!

One evening, as he and his wife were sitting over the fire together, he thought to himself, ’I should like to sit up and watch tonight, that I may see who it is that comes and does my work for me.’ He kissed his night-owl wife goodnight and went to bed, to rest until the wee hours he believed his little dishwashers would come, but quickly fell asleep. He dreamt he crept to the kitchen, and over the island counter, saw two naked little dwarfs scrubbing and sweeping with their little hands. They cleaned at such a rate that the whole kitchen was clean before daybreak, and they bustled away quick as lightning. Tucking himself back into his dream bed, he vowed to tell his wife about this miracle.

When he woke her the next afternoon he grabbed her by the hand, brought her to view the kitchen, truly sparkling as though his dream had indeed been true! "The kitchen, Wife! It's perfect! Not a pot out of place, every spoon clean, and even those burnt crumbles in the stove-plates have been scoured away!" She smiled and made as if to speak, when he shouted "Elves! Wife, we have HOUSE-ELVES!"

Three months later his broken nose was healing nicely, and his ex-wife was shacking up with her SCUBA instructor.

THE END


((To read the original "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by The Brothers Grimm, click Here))

10/07 Well it started crappy, but I'm content.

I went to bed early last night (0500 this morning) since I couldn't sleep well the night before. Around 0600 I awoke to Hubby's alarm: he killed it, kissed me, and I dozed back off. At 0730 I awoke to him ringing the doorbell furiously as my phone vibrated viciously from the nightstand. He'd accidently left his keys on the hook when he left the house and locked the knob behind him. At 1130 though, I was truly aggitated...

I heard the doorbell but didn't believe it until Rook jumped out of bed and barked (something she only does to warn me.) I wandered to the door, set the chain as we have no peephole, and looked out "Can I help you?" I squinted through the sunlight, my unwashed hair over the eye peeking through the crack. I'm sure my pink pajama pants were visible. A young Hispanic man and an older white woman (of which I could only see her thin hand pinching a business card and her gold-painted name-tag). "Yes," she says, "is Mrs. Hay home?" I blink and tell her "There's no Hay here: this is the Kepley residence. Try next door." That, apparently, did not compute. I expected the usual "sorry, have a nice day" and instead the woman, in a tone of almost indignation, replied "Well she told me to meet her here and knock on [this house number]." I had to smile to repress what I truly wanted to say and just repeated "Well she doesn't live here. Have a nice day." I promptly shut the door.

I mean really...? You've obviously dragged me out of bed, and then what? Assert that EYE must be lying or mistaken? Its impossible Mrs. Hay lied to you, or GASP you have the right house number but the WRONG STREET. No: surely the resident is harboring her, a fugitive from your ugly tan nail polish. Didn't the "You can try the neighbors" clue you in that I had no idea who Mrs. Hay is? The nerve of some people. I need a sign over the doorbell that reads "If you ring before noon, and are not the postman, I will let my dog at you." So what if she doesn't know she's a lab: maybe they drown really easy.

The neighbor's yappy dog then kept me up another 15 minutes. I thought briefly of poisoning it.

Finally, I slept the rest of my 'night', husband even extending the alarm til 1400 to help make up the broken sleep.

We went to the gym, I ran/walked. Ran 1, walked 1, ran another 0.5. Combined 0.5 for warm up/CD.

Made simple turkey sausage and red cabbage (from a jar) for dinner, with our usual episode of NCIS. I even got in a wintersaber run & ZG mount run on WoW.

At work I've had a quiet night dissecting one of the Whole Living mags that came yesterday, and going through FlyLady.net. I need to revamp my decluttering: moving desks is teaching me just how broken my "filing system" really is.

So, though there was a shaky beginning, the day has panned out nicely. (smiling).

Beer & WoW. :P

Found a neat beer-site that let's you order beer-label's with your name on them..
Hmmm.. "Captain Katryn's Port o'No Return!"
However, still can't find anyone to ship me a 6-pack of Summer Weiss for under $30. Boooo

Lawl! Someone took the INC Gnome Invasion idea (Draenor, 2007?) and used their powers for EEEE.. erm, GOOD! Bajillion Gnomes for Breast Cancer awareness :)
I wonder what I did with all the Inc Gnome Invasin pix. That's the kinda stuff I keep, so I'm sure I have em. OH.. Good Job AVAST for thinking WoW was a virus! Had me running my PC through a Gauntlet trying to find this MalWare. Thank goodness someone broached the subject on the tech forums, and that I happened to see them, before I went to uninstalling anything O_O.

No... I didn't run today.
I did.. eat like a pig, and sleep in. *Raspberry*.

OH! Found a site that shows a bunch of neat stuff going on in West Palm Beach!
HUSBAND. I FOUND.. OKTOBERFEST.
He's going, he just doesn't know it yet.