Enchanted

i think my husband and i are about the last 2 people on earth to see Enchanted — but finally, last night, we rented it and watched it.

and i had heard only great reviews — that people loved it, left the theater wanting to sing, to dance. that it was just a great, fun movie. so i was prepared to love it. i wanted to love it.

i didn’t love it. i liked it, but that’s about all i can say, really. i think for the most part, it’s because i had seen the previews (more than once) and felt like evern funny part in the movie was included…it was like they gave it all away beforehand. and i was expecting some other funny or charming bits that i didn’t know where coming, but they just weren’t forthcoming. to me.

for the record, i do love disney movies (by and large) and musicals. but there we have it. enchanted. what do you all say — did you love it?

don’t know if you all read Notes from the Trenches. you should.

today was possibly the best blog entry ever.

just check it out. so great.

the story of the bath pouf…

well i found a pattern online for *making* a bath pouf — crocheting a bath pouf. and i thought that it was just a great idea. it was made using kitchen cotton, so i got started and once it was done — ta-da! here it is!

but in using it, i found it didn’t lather up very well, and was rather scratchy on my skin! so, sadly, all the work was for naught, and i ended up going to the store to get one of the regular old bath poufs. it was a fun adventure, though!

ah, it’s been a beautiful day today — the first day in a long time i’ve had some serious, sustained pain relief. and it is AMAZING how happy it makes me. of course this is due to pain medication and not the preventative meds actually working.

it is just a beautiful fabulous thing to feel normal. i could really get used to this.

i got a lot of work done today, and enjoyed spencer’s birthday immensely.

here’s a question for all you bloggers out there: do you keep a journal in addition to your blog? i do. what i write in my journal is either a) too personal to go on here, b) too negative or c) too repetitive (usually whining about headaches). do you all keep journals too? or do you feel like your blog acts as your journal?

i seem to be unable to move these pictures around — my blog ability is skyrocketing (in a downward fashion). also, i can’t get rid of a spam comment from one of my previous entries.

oh jeez.

so i’ll tell you about these pictures as they came out of the camera. they’re from a very short hike spencer and i took last weekend down a nearby canyon. first up are my shoes, i don’t know if you can tell, but they’re soaked — the only way up to the falls was across the stream. and let me tell you something — whooeeee was that water cold!! straight from the snow, baby!

and then this picture is up a little canyon, you can see part of the falls here, and i love how waterfalls look running over rocks. mmmm…so relaxing.

more water running over rocks — and that white stuff near the top of the frame is snow, even though it was near 80 outside. always colder up the canyon!

this is a better picture of the same thing. this is where we crossed, trying hard to avoid the slick rocks and logs. we didn’t fall in.

here’s spencer, coming across. i must admit i was hoping (a little bit) he’d fall so i could take pictures of it.

of course i told him that once he got safely across, he mentioned that would’ve been a bad thing if he’d've fallen in with his camera strapped to his back. seriously.

not worth the blog fodder.

that’s all she wrote! if you’re in the area, and want to check it out, this is called the Hidden Falls, and is up the Big Cottonwood Canyon.

home again!

that’s right, i’m back home. i was in chicago again, this time (thankfully) just overnight. no hospitalization for me this time. i went back for a follow-up appointment with my doctor at the diamond headache clinic. it went well, he adjusted my medications and added another med to (hopefully) help control the pain better. we shall see.

overall i felt like it went well. it was the first time i’ve traveled by myself with a migraine. i was nervous. i was nervous something would go wrong — that i’d be flustered, that i’d look like an easy mark to mug, that i’d have trouble making the connections i needed to in the city. many of you know exactly what it’s like to live in pain: it’s hard to do what needs to be done when you’re in pain. it’s hard to think and it’s hard to keep your wits about you.

obviously everything worked out just fine.

and, BONUS! i missed the earthquake this morning! sweet!

if you are in need of an extra dose of humility, i recommend flying as a passenger on a small airplane during high winds. i haven’t prayed with such urgency for a long time. the wings were swaying back and forth – i was worried that one big gust was going to come along, and we’d just flip right over and bite the dust. thankfully, we landed without incident. also gratefully, the plane on the way back was bigger.

craft day recap!

we had a great craft day just a little while ago, and so i thought i would show you what i made! i finally finished my sign:

the N is actually a purple, not blue like it looks here.

and here’s a close up, so you can see the glittery goodness. and the cuteness of the ribbon, of course.

then it was onto the bags. these are kind of small tote bags. i should’ve shown you these on me for scale, but i’ll just say that they’re the perfect size for a 3-ring binder. they are great for a big purse or a small tote bag. first is the green and turquoise one:

which i like quite a bit, but i really love the black and white one. i love the outside print

as well as the inside (bubbles!) print.

there it is! you can also see the cute bags Muum made for gretchen here. if you want.

i feel compelled to mention that Edge was there as well. all this talk about Muum and Gretchen, i can’t leave out the mother on the edge!

There’s nobody like my sister!

guess who’s 25 today?

that’s right!!! it’s gretchen!! go on over and wish her a happy birthday, won’t you?

here we are laughing it up — mom says we look like the 4 stooges. so true, so true. i figure i can post an unflattering picture of everyone else if it’s MORE unflattering of me. that’s fair, right?

we miss you, G!! we can’t wait to see you again. and we LOVE YOU!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

this is beautiful to me:

how Steinways are made.