Away We Go Movie Review

Away We Go
Grade: A

BW's on vacation this week, so I took the afternoon off and we went and saw Away We Go. Not only is it cheaper to see a movie in the afternoon, but we practically had the theatre to ourselves.

What a lovely little movie. It's a funny, touching, quirky film that would best be described as an adult coming of age story. This is the story of Burt (John Krasinski) and Verona (Maya Rudolph) who are expecting a baby together. This propels them to take to the road to find a place to call home. Along the way the visit family and friends (Catherine O'Hara, Jeff Daniels, Allison Janney and Maggie Gyllenhaal to name a few of the fine actors who show up here) who expose them to situations that unknowingly help guide them home.

The girls and I are big John Krasinski fans. He plays Jim on The Office and he is just adorable. He's made a couple other films recently that turned out to be busts, so I am so pleased he finally got to be in a really good film.

This movie was also a nice change from the series of mega-films that we've recently seen (Wolverine, Star Trek, Transformers). It just felt really good to see a simple movie based on a story, characther development and quality acting.

Go see it if you get the chance.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Movie Review

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Grade: B

We finally got a chance to see the new Transformers movie on Saturday evening. I really enjoyed it and and thought the one review I read, in People, was a little harsh. Sure there were times I wasn't sure which robot was which but overall I certainly understood the good guys from the bad guys. (Bad robots have red eyes.)

I was glad to see the return of many of the original cast especially Josh Duhamel as Major Lennox and John Turtorro as Agent Simmons. They also added some fun comic relief in the character of Leo Spitz, who plays Sam's new college roommate who gets dragged along on the latest fight against the Decepticons.

This chapter in the Transformers saga has the Decepticons returning to Earth to kidnap Sam and extract important ancient codes implanted in his brain. Sam is joined in this battle as usual, by the ever impressive Omptimus Prime and his particularly full lipped girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox).

My only real gripe with the movie is that Megan poses and pouts her way through the film looking more like she's on the cover of Maxim, then in the middle of a battle for the fate of the world.

In this scene...visualize if you will, that they are running in slow-mo...and now let's zoom in even closer and you can only imagine the full on bounce effect that takes over the screen. It was at this moment that BW said..."I think her boobs are Decepticons". I think he might be right.

Now in chatting with a few younger guys I know that have seen this movie...none of them saw any problem with how Megan was presented in this film. In fact, to quote Stinky, "Megan Fox is hot.". (I'm just so proud. He's so...articulate and quote worthy. I'm sure all the major publications will be after him for his succinct and deep thoughts.)

Card of the Week (CPS #121)

I used the CPS Card Sketch for this week as the inspiration for Jena's Wedding Shower card. Here is the CPS Sketch:


And here is my version:



I'm trying photos again as the scan doesn't look good at all. Using the "Close Up" setting on the camera seems to help. Although, I'm still not thrilled with my photography as you can barely see the detail on the ribbon, which is really very pretty. (Caaiittyy....Help!)

My One Perennial

I'm not the a super flower grower. I find veggie's a little easier to grow. Several years back though, I did plant this Blue Clematis on the side of my house. I thought it would like nice climbing up the side of my house. Despite my ignorance, it's done pretty well.







I likey. You likey?

Testing the Opening of a New Window

The is a test of how to get a URL link to open in a new window. Normally, when you add a link to your post and a reader clicks on it, they are taken to the new site...away from yours.

Here is a friend's website. Go ahead, click on it. See how it opens in a new window. Now I won't lose readers when I add a link to one of my posts. (When you only have 8 readers...you can't afford to lose a single one!)

I've been trying to do this for week's and finally figured it out. I'm so excited. Nerd joy!

Garden Update - June

We've had an unusually cool and wet Spring. In fact, this week is our first week of hot weather. This slow Spring has ushered in a magnificent growing period for my container garden.

Here are my veggies and flowers; before and after:

Pretty amazing. Happy Summer Everyone!

(I give up...this post has been a formatting nightmare. I'm just leaving it as is, despite the fact that it looks off balance with way too much white space.)

Latest Update - I reloaded one of my pictures and I think this is formatted a little better now.

Wedding Placecards - The Blurry Version

As promised, here is a picture of the placecards Caity and I made for my niece Genevieve's wedding. Under no circumstances should you blow up this picture or you will truly see what a disaster it is (and this was the best of the 3 pictures that I took).

You can at least get the idea of what we created. The aqua colored ribbon matched the girls dresses perfectly.

(Caity - HELP! If you get a break from texturing your bathroom wall, could you upload a better photo. Did you even get photo?)

Which brings up another point. Has anyone ever textured a wall before? The stuff is so thick and then flakes off when she uses the whisk broom for the design. We don't know if this is how it's supposed to go on or if Cait just got a really old bucket of texture goop.

Card of the Week (CPS #120)

Here is the CPS card of the week...







and here is my submission.

This is the card I used for my niece's wedding yesterday. To be honest, it took me two times to get this card right. The first version had some good ideas, but ended up...pretty ugly. It is now happily residing in the bottom of the garbage can. (Yes...it was that nasty. Just ask Caity. She'll tell you.)