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This week, Carole asks what us to tell Ten Things to Put in a Salad. I lurve me a good salad. I especially like Greek salads, being Greek and all...
I will eat all kinds of other salads though, but here are my usual Ten Things to Put in a Salad:
1. Lettuce - Iceberg is best for Greek salads, but spring mix will work.
2. Tomatoes - I sure like homegrown tomatoes, but they are not always available...especially if one doesn't plant any...
3. Cucumbers - In my salad, they should be chunky cut.
4. Onions - I like the red ones the best.
5. Celery - Can't have too much crunch, as far as I am concerned.
6. Feta cheese - Love the stuff...
7. Kalamata olives - I prefer the pitted ones, but the ones with pits will do.
8. Olive oil - It does not have to be EVOO.
9. Vinegar - anything from plain white to red wine vinegar to balsamic...
10. Salt and pepper.
There you have it.
MK out.
...and it's Memorial Day. Hope yours is going well.
Katie Jarvis' real life is not too different from Mia's, the girl she plays in Fish Tank. Michael Fassbender and Kierston Wareing also star in this film about a rebellious teenager who goes up against her mother for the affections of a man. It was an interesting study of life in the British projects. It was alright.
I've been hearing about the book, Water for Elephants, for several years. I don't know why, but the title wasn't very appealing to me. Since time is a premium resource, I skipped over it until recently. When it was announced that the film was coming out, I knew I would have to read the book. I finally did earlier this month. It is a good story, about a vet student who finds out that his parents are killed in a car accident, is left with nothing, and decides to leave all he has known to to find some sort of job. He ends up on a circus train, falls in love with a married woman and starts tending to the animals. The film is an adequate adaptation of the novel. I liked it.
I've watched Season 1 of The United States of Tara - Showtime's look at life with a family member with Dissociative Identity Disorder - formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. It is quite entertaining, if I do say so myself.
Don't eat too many hot dogs...
MK out.
Don't the guys look relaxed before the game? And this is after being down by 15 points with about five minutes to go, making a run and forcing overtime, before winning the game on Monday night in OKC.
It was quite the defensive game all night. There were missed shots, bad calls, good plays, wonderful stops, big baskets - and the Mavericks were down most of the game, but always within easy making-a-run-to-capture-the-lead distance. They were down by five around the five minute mark, when they started their move. At 1:14, they took the lead and took it all the way to the buzzer...Go Mavs!
The Dallas Mavericks are the 2011 NBA Western Conference Champions!
Everybody had fun!
So, during all this watching of the basketball game, I was knitting. I knitted away happily and it is looking less and less likely that I will have enough yarn to have a decent cuff - let alone the 5-6 inch cuff that I prefer.
Oy vey!
MK out.
It's Wednesday again...cannot believe how fast the weeks just fly by.
There is no news on the knitting front. I have been working on the same two projects this past week.
Elphaba is coming right along. I've inserted some horizontal bust darts and am now knitting my way down to the waist shaping:
The Dimpled Socks have progressed a little...I've done the gusset increases and am ready to turn the heel:
I hope I have enough yarn to get a decent cuff length...
MK out.
Carole's topic this week is Ten Favorite Mail Order Catalogues.
Back in the day, when I was a bachelorette and then young married person, I ordered consistently from the following:
1. Chadwick's
2. Isabella Bird
3. Knights Ltd.
4. Lillian Vernon
5. The Speigel Catalogue
The UPS man actually asked me once why I would order all that stuff, just to send it back. (The nerve...) Didn't he know that if something didn't fit, a person shouldn't keep it? And that extra step of waiting when having to send something back and having a different size sent is the main reason I don't shop for clothes through the mail much anymore...
These days, although I don't really shop for clothes much through mail order, I like these catalogues to see what's in the stores and if it is worth it to go:
6. Chico's
7. Coldwater Creek
Finally, even though I have several wonderful LYSs fairly close, and the world wide web is endless, I love to receive these catalogues to hold in my hand, turn the pages, and add things to my wishlist:
8. Knitpicks
9. Patternworks
10. WEBS
That's it...that's the list!
MK out.
(Note: Picture is totally unrelated to subject matter...just so you know.)
I'm back this week with another mixed bag of films to discuss:
All the usual actors play the same characters we’ve come to know and love in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1. The adventure is coming to a close with this first part of the last book of the popular series written by JK Rowling. As the story unfolds, it gets darker and darker, and this installment was fairly dark. Harry and the gang are on a quest to find the pieces of Voldemort’s soul that he has hidden in different objects across the globe. They must destroy them all to prevent the big V from becoming immortal. It was very good. I cannot wait for Part 2.
Adventureland, with Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Kristen Wiig, Wendie Malick, Ryan Reynolds and more, is about a recent college graduate (Eisenberg) whose parents cannot afford to send him on his dream trip to Europe. Instead, he starts working at this sad amusement park and gears up to have the worst summer of his life, until he meets a coworker (Stewart) who livens things up for him. It was not bad.
Tortilla Heaven is a dumb movie set in a small town in New Mexico, where the face of Jesus is burned into a tortilla, and soon, pilgrims from all over flood the place to see the miracle. There were some funny parts, but this film was pretty silly and only good for a stormy day when you’d rather not leave the house and there is nothing else better to do. Jose Zuniga, Miguel Sandoval, George Lopez and Olivia Hussey (where has she been?) starred in it.
In The Back Up Plan, Jennifer Lopez plays a woman who wants to find a nice man, settle down and start a family. When that doesn’t happen quickly enough for her liking, she decides to get artificially inseminated and become a single mother. So she does and on that very day, she meets the man who could be of her dreams, played by Alex O’Loughlin (who plays Steve McGarrett on the new Hawaii Five-O and is a hottie deluxe). She doesn’t tell him she’s pregnant right away, but when she does, he is game to go for it. All sorts of predictable mayhem ensues, but in the end, it’s a cute, little chick flick.
Gulliver’s Travels is a silly, modernized adaptation of Jonathan Swift’s classic. It stars Jack Black as Gulliver (of course), Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Amanda Peet and Chris O’Dowd. It is kinda slapstick, funny in parts and definitely a renter, but one worth seeing.
Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph star Bridesmaids, about two good friends – one who is getting married (Rudolph) and one whose life is really sucky (Wiig) but who agrees to take on the role of maid of honor and all that goes with it. My friend Jules calls it “An SNL skit gone bad.” It was very crude in parts - very crude - but there were some laugh out loud funny scenes. Other bridesmaids were played by Rose Byrne, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McClendon-Covey and Ellie Kemper. When the bride’s wanna-be new best friend starts throwing her expensive tastes and ideas around and goes over-the-top with wedding events, the relationship between the two long-time friends is tested. I thought it was alright – very predictable and funny...
MK out.
