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beatnikside's birthday! Happy birthday! I've missed a few in the last week because I couldn't get online from the computer that has the client... so I was using the web update page, which doesn't give birthday reminders. It later occurred to me that I could have gone to the PANEL page, but c'est la vie. I know I missed the birthdays of the very wonderful zoloft and banshee; not sure who else, but you have my apologies if you were slighted!
Um. OK. I was up almost all night last night with no energy due to my dog being... not really sick, but she was having problems and needed company. She'd peed in the house twice on Saturday, then Saturday night she couldn't pee, primarily because she was thirsty. So I spend the day asleep in bed and get up in the evening, and she's peed in her crate again... except that all her bedding was in the laundry (I figured one night without it wouldn't hurt her), and her pee was all over her. I felt like a very bad mommy. I gave her an impromptu half-bath - put her in a bathtub of warm water and let her sit in it until the pee-soaked spots of her coat were clean, but didn't soap her up because I don't have the equipment here. She's spent the evening in the kitchen with a special treat. The kitchen is small, but much bigger than her crate, and easily cleaned if she has another accident, and I'm in and out of the room every few minutes. I put her food & water in there with her giant dog bed, and gave her a carrot-flavor edible Nylabone. Her crate bedding is drying & she's pretty much dry now too, and the Nature's Miracle Stain and Odor Remover is drying on the floor of her crate, which I had to clean. She won't go to sleep until I do, because I don't want her to be lonely or for me to miss any of her needs.
I watched Iron-Jawed Angels earlier, which wasn't bad, although I wasn't paying close attention to it all the way through. Lots of wonderful actresses in it, not just the ones advertised but also Laura Fraser, Molly Parker, and the woman who played Ruth (the eastern-european factory worker who joins the suffragettes). People have complained about the editing style and the contemporary music, but... first of all, I was pleased with the musical choices. They overwhelmingly used feminist songwriters, from Hildegard von Bingen to Sarah McLachlan. Second, the editing contributed to a sense of realism, was handled well to show the concept of time, and isn't that different from how silent films look on modern projectors (usually bizarrely sped-up, because the projector speed is incorrect). Third, I think in dealing with period films it's always good to recall that, if the people had any concept of modernity at all (IE, they weren't thinking, "this is the way things have always been and always will be"), then they lived in - and were possibly aware that they lived in - the most "modern" times that had occurred to that point, even if that meant a decadent decaying society with a lot of lost knowledge. Put another way, 1912 (which wasn't that long ago) was as modern to the people who lived through it as today is to you.
The Space Ghost marathon is on, and I'm terribly pleased that they're showing it.
Also I just ate one of my favorite fast dinners - Campbell's tomato soup, ready to serve (IE not condensed), with a lot of herbs added to it. I usually put in a good amount of oregano and basil, a moderate sprinkle of cayenne pepper, and a very small amount of chili powder. Then I get Kraft's cheese in a shaker (for pasta): the parmesan/asiago/romano blend, which you get from the refrigerated section and which is also great on fresh hot popcorn. The soup goes into the bowl, and I sprinkle in maybe a teaspoon or so of cheese, and stir into the soup. Repeat a few times until there are at least a couple pieces of cheese in every bite. Then sprinkle a bunch of cheese on the top, and don't stir it in. Get bakeable quick garlic breadsticks or garlic loaf from the freezer section at your grocery store; heat it up according to package direction while you make the soup, and it should be ready around the same time so you can eat them together. If you don't have garlic bread or don't want to deal with the baking, garlic croutons are an acceptable substitute, albeit not as good. This only takes about ten minutes total, five if you go the crouton route, and is so yummy & satisfying.
Also: whoever came up with that KIDZ BOP anthology of cds, with the covers of pop hits by chanty gangs of tweens, should be fucking strung up and gutted for CRIMES AGAINST MY EARS. christ. every time i see a commercial for that I want to, um, I don't know, hurt the producers or pop my own eardrums or something. There should be a law.
beatnikside's birthday! Happy birthday! I've missed a few in the last week because I couldn't get online from the computer that has the client... so I was using the web update page, which doesn't give birthday reminders. It later occurred to me that I could have gone to the PANEL page, but c'est la vie. I know I missed the birthdays of the very wonderful zoloft and banshee; not sure who else, but you have my apologies if you were slighted!Um. OK. I was up almost all night last night with no energy due to my dog being... not really sick, but she was having problems and needed company. She'd peed in the house twice on Saturday, then Saturday night she couldn't pee, primarily because she was thirsty. So I spend the day asleep in bed and get up in the evening, and she's peed in her crate again... except that all her bedding was in the laundry (I figured one night without it wouldn't hurt her), and her pee was all over her. I felt like a very bad mommy. I gave her an impromptu half-bath - put her in a bathtub of warm water and let her sit in it until the pee-soaked spots of her coat were clean, but didn't soap her up because I don't have the equipment here. She's spent the evening in the kitchen with a special treat. The kitchen is small, but much bigger than her crate, and easily cleaned if she has another accident, and I'm in and out of the room every few minutes. I put her food & water in there with her giant dog bed, and gave her a carrot-flavor edible Nylabone. Her crate bedding is drying & she's pretty much dry now too, and the Nature's Miracle Stain and Odor Remover is drying on the floor of her crate, which I had to clean. She won't go to sleep until I do, because I don't want her to be lonely or for me to miss any of her needs.
I watched Iron-Jawed Angels earlier, which wasn't bad, although I wasn't paying close attention to it all the way through. Lots of wonderful actresses in it, not just the ones advertised but also Laura Fraser, Molly Parker, and the woman who played Ruth (the eastern-european factory worker who joins the suffragettes). People have complained about the editing style and the contemporary music, but... first of all, I was pleased with the musical choices. They overwhelmingly used feminist songwriters, from Hildegard von Bingen to Sarah McLachlan. Second, the editing contributed to a sense of realism, was handled well to show the concept of time, and isn't that different from how silent films look on modern projectors (usually bizarrely sped-up, because the projector speed is incorrect). Third, I think in dealing with period films it's always good to recall that, if the people had any concept of modernity at all (IE, they weren't thinking, "this is the way things have always been and always will be"), then they lived in - and were possibly aware that they lived in - the most "modern" times that had occurred to that point, even if that meant a decadent decaying society with a lot of lost knowledge. Put another way, 1912 (which wasn't that long ago) was as modern to the people who lived through it as today is to you.
The Space Ghost marathon is on, and I'm terribly pleased that they're showing it.
Also I just ate one of my favorite fast dinners - Campbell's tomato soup, ready to serve (IE not condensed), with a lot of herbs added to it. I usually put in a good amount of oregano and basil, a moderate sprinkle of cayenne pepper, and a very small amount of chili powder. Then I get Kraft's cheese in a shaker (for pasta): the parmesan/asiago/romano blend, which you get from the refrigerated section and which is also great on fresh hot popcorn. The soup goes into the bowl, and I sprinkle in maybe a teaspoon or so of cheese, and stir into the soup. Repeat a few times until there are at least a couple pieces of cheese in every bite. Then sprinkle a bunch of cheese on the top, and don't stir it in. Get bakeable quick garlic breadsticks or garlic loaf from the freezer section at your grocery store; heat it up according to package direction while you make the soup, and it should be ready around the same time so you can eat them together. If you don't have garlic bread or don't want to deal with the baking, garlic croutons are an acceptable substitute, albeit not as good. This only takes about ten minutes total, five if you go the crouton route, and is so yummy & satisfying.
Also: whoever came up with that KIDZ BOP anthology of cds, with the covers of pop hits by chanty gangs of tweens, should be fucking strung up and gutted for CRIMES AGAINST MY EARS. christ. every time i see a commercial for that I want to, um, I don't know, hurt the producers or pop my own eardrums or something. There should be a law.
