Happy turkey to all, and to all a good nom!

I’d like to start out by wishing everybody a happy Thanksgiving! Stay safe, don’t try driving home if you’re too tired and/or tipsy, and all that good stuff. There isn’t really anything big to report this week, so I’d like to share some holiday-themed images I saw on Facebook. My ‘puter’s not letting me actually share them for some reason, so use your imagination if you will:

A turkey with a lampshade on his head hiding from a man who’s searching everywhere in the kitchen.

A button reading, “I shot my first turkey yesterday, scared the shit out of everyone in the frozen food section … It was awesome!”

Yoda getting ready to munch down on turkey and fixings.

DC Comics (Superman, Green Lantern, etc.) sitting down to carve the turkey.

How do you tell it’s almost winter?

You can tell it’s almost winter when people start getting extra-cranky at the heating technicians. And the folks who answer phones for the heating techs. There seem to always be cranky people, but more and more have been crawling out of the ductwork over the past month and a half or so as the temperatures have started dropping. It’s pretty chilly tonight. Sometimes I ask myself why I keep living here in the northeast, then I remind myself of location, location, location, and that I need to find something that will make the expense of moving to warmer climes worth it. And if not warmer, I’d settle for less snowy.

Speaking of “snowy,” that animated Tintin movie is coming out soon! I know it’s a bit of a jump from talking about weather to movies, but there’s a good segue here, I swear. If you’ve never read Tintin, or it’s been so long you forgot, his little white terrier(?) is named Snowy. Snowy’s a good boy, but Captain Haddock was always my favorite character from the books when I was a kid. I’m pretty sure I read all of the Tintin books (I’d guess they’d count as graphic novels nowadays) at least once by the time I finished middle school. I’m definitely going to try to see this movie because not only did they cast Nick Frost and Simon Pegg as the voices of the practically-identical Thomson and Thompson, which is pretty cool in and of itself since I enjoyed Shaun of the Dead, but Andy “Gollum” Serkis is providing the vocal talent for Captain Haddock! That’ll most likely rock my stripy socks.

 

Two fun weekends in a row

This past weekend was a blast! We didn’t really explore Baltimore that much, but it didn’t matter. We were having too much fun sitting in the basement watching good movies and talking. The friends I was with are fellow Shakespeare nerds, and we enjoyed our first viewing (well, second for one of the other gals) of the filmed version of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 2009 Hamlet starring David Tennant and Patrick Stewart. David Tennant is mainly famous for playing the title character in a couple seasons of Doctor Who (not to mention being Barty Crouch, Jr. in a couple Harry Potter movies), and Patrick Stewart, of course, is most famous for being Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship Enterprise 1701-D. It was a brilliant production, if a tad edited for length, and Mr. Tennant is truly excellent at Crazy - a skill needed to play the Prince of Denmark.

It’s been a long week, and a tad stressful given that I work for a heating and plumbing company and we’re getting into prime heating season. I have to get up earlier than usual on Monday, but I do plan on having some fun this weekend. It will mostly involve sleeping in if possible, and playing some Magic the Gathering with two good friends who live closer to me than the ones I saw last weekend. Magic the Gathering is a fantasy trading card game that has been around for decades, and I just started playing it this spring despite the fact that friends of mine have been playing and talking about it around me for years. It’s fun.

Time for another fun weekend!

Sorry for the short post last week, but I didn’t have much to report. There isn’t much this week either, but I do plan on having a good time this coming weekend. I’ll finally be exploring Baltimore, Maryland, and what makes it better is that I’ll be doing so with some good friends. Two of them live there, and two others will be joining us from Pennsylvania. We’ll wander, talk, possibly watch some DVDs, play with a pair of cats (one of whom is a World-As-It-Is dead ringer for Puss in Boots from the Shrek universe), and generally have a good time. I’m bringing my good ol’ 35mm camera, and hopefully I’ll get to have my picture taken in front of Charm City Cakes which is the shooting location of Ace of Cakes from the Food Network.

I came across this on Facebook today, and it’s too cute not to share. Enjoy! http://asana.com/kittens