PLACES TO VISIT
North Park Mall, Dallas TX: 8 points
Now that the new wing is finished, the mall goes in a full circle. The new wing features a food court for the common people, like Chic-fil-A and a more expensive version of Sbarro. Why do I like this mall so much? I can't think of any GOOD reason. Maybe because the majority of the stores are so full of silly fashion and coordinating silly fashion prices, it doesn't feel like reality.
Maumelle Park, Maumelle AR: 6 points normal, 2 points during Labor weekend
Joel and I agree this would be nice place to have a family reunion if you have an RV. Labor day weekend was too crowded and too noisy to be relaxing. Silas liked playing with the pebbles in the park though, and Lewis liked barking at the other dogs who had come to camp. It has a nice view of the river, but no good walking or hiking trails that we could find.
MOVIES
"Princess Mononoke" 10 points if you like Japanese animae, 1 point if you don't.
I can't say that I like Japanese animae. I tried though. I gave it an honest to goodness try. I just don't understand how getting stabbed enough times makes you turn into a demon-worm animal, nor can I follow along with the introduction and disappearance of characters (such as the Ape Tribe). It's rated PG-13 for violence and some language though I imagine if someone tried to make this into a real-people movie, it might have been rated R for all the arms that got cut off.
"Merlin's Apprentice" 1 point
This came on the Hallmark channel Saturday night. Tooooooo boring. Tooooooooo cheesy. Why did we suffer through it? We had no-bake cookies.
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the No-Bake Cookies I made on Saturday: 10 points
The receipe called for brown sugar instead of white sugar. Joel and I ate the entire batch (minus a few we shared with the neighbors for letting us use their saw) within 24 hours. But with all the oatmeal we were getting, they couldn't have been THAT bad for us, right?
Silas: 10 points
Despite teething, he's really a sweet kid. Polite too. He says, "thank you" to everything, "good dog" to Lewis, and sings "dooby dooby dooby" to me while I'm doing the laundry.
11 comments:
Exactly where did Silas learn "dooby dooby dooby"? and why during Landry Time does the washing mashine make thoses noises. ours sure doesnt i thouhgt that was Scooby Doo's Thing
Hmm well if i ever need advice on whether or not i should do Something or avoid it at all Cost at least i know where to go!
Love ya'll
Yeah, oatmeal and stuff with cheerios is always good for you no matter how much of it you eat. Today Anabelle and I made rice cripsy treats except we used cheerios instead of rice crispies (you might remember 6 boxes of cheerios at our house trying to be eaten- Heath thinks we should sell them on ebay). We're on course to have them all eaten today. And I'm sure that WIC would be very proud.
i shall now make my own rankings without all the explanations:
north park mall: 6
maumelle park:2
princess mononoke: 1.5 (2.5 if no-bake cookies are present)
merlin's apprentice: 1.1 (if no-bake cookies are present; it would've completely fallen off the scale if no-bake cookies weren't present).
no-bake cookies: 10
silas: 10
my atlanta braves: 1, this year...
today's weather: 10
eating no-bake cookies outside today with alice and silas: 20
night float at UAMS: 3.
all these comments on no-bake cookies are really making me hungry.
-joel
I don't think I would risk floating anywhere at UAMS at night. I'm scared I'd end up in some vat of hazardous waste but it would be too dark to tell. I imagine some kind of secret, Doctor's, underground lazy river (ala Wild River Country) that winds through industrial catacombs of darkness beneath the UAMS complex.
As for Princess Mononoke, okay, it is Miyazaki's most violent movie. Don't give up. Check out "Spirited Away." Fun for the whole family. Even the witches.
-Matt
matt,
i've actually seen "spirited away" and really enjoyed it. okay, from an "american" point of view, it's freakishly weird. but i still liked it.
i just found "princess mononoke" to have so many subplots that were never explained. like the fact that ashitaka was from the emishi tribe being brought up on several occasions? maybe that means something to japanese folks but it was definitely lost in translation (without intended reference to the movie of the same name). and the ape tribe? where'd they go at the end? and where'd they come from? and HOW DOES STABBING A PIG-GOD MAKE HIM INTO A WORMY PIG DEMON? and were there two pig gods? why?
-joel
We watched "Grave of the Fireflies" a few months back fell into the pits of despair afterwards. We do not recommend. But "Howell's Moving Castle" was wonderful! It's from the same gentleman that brought us "Spirited Away."
Also from the same movie guy (I think), My Neighbor Totoro. I would reccommend it, although I've only seen it in Japanese with Ayumi half-heartedly translating. (Ten minutes of dialog turns into "she said, 'go to school' and the girl answered, 'ok.'")
I'm not sure who's family matt was referring to as having witches in it...hope it isn't ours.
-elody
Spirited Away and Howls Moving Casle are very popular among the South Korens that i've met. i think spirited away was okay but i dont think the parents were very appercative of what the girl did for them i mean if my parents turned into pigs i whould be very tempted to runa way instead of going to find a river's spirit who forgot it's name....
i liked Howls Moviing Castle a lot. i thought it was much better than Spirited Away and i think it had a better mesage,too.
Well have a good Wednesday tommorow!
Love Always
Sasa
well, i've spent one more night floating at UAMS and haven't ended up in any toxic dumps to the best of my knowledge,
and i'm pretty sure matt was referring to the hypothetical witches in any typical but hypothetical japanese american family.
and i notice that no one is making an attempt to explain the questions i have from princess. and, ben, intended or not, i appreciate the princess bride/princess mononoke reference in your most recent comments.
if anyone has any good movie suggestions to, well, um, suggest, feel free. alice and i signed up for netflix a while back and we NEED to have a list that's impossibly long. right now, it's only improbably long.
have you got "the brave little toaster" yet? what about "my little ponies"?
sasa, that's silly talk. of course we got the brave little toaster. and my little ponies isn't available.
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