Movies galore

After an evil tempered day full of distractions, during which I barely wrote, only 50 words or so, a friend took me out to the movies. We saw The Italian Job, which was a pleasant surprise (decent script, nice cast, fun, and action) and Kill Bill, which was exactly as I expected it to be. Actually no, I never imagined it could be *that* bloody, but my expectations came close. Liked part of it, thought part of it was... drawn out a bit. Liked O-Ren-Shii and her whole storyline, but then again I adore Lucy Liu. But to be frank, I like Pulp Fiction and True Romance a lot better.

Does anyone know where I can find a nice O-Ren-shii in the snow icon? Gosh LL looked pretty in that Japanese garb. Mmmm.

I saw previews for The Last Samurai and Master and Commander - both previews gave me a mental hard-on. Yowsa! Seriously, watching that ship plough through the churning sea, and in slow mo, with the cannon crashing through the ship, and the friendshippy and comrades-in-arms vibe sent tingles down my spine. Usually I only get that when I watch James Marsters turns on his charm.
So, I had a lovely evening, where I and my pms couldn't cause any damage. :-)

So, apart from the not writing I had a really nice evening.
But I do have a frightening yen now for sushi. So I better go to bed before I decide to ransack the fridge in search of something to eat. One shouldn't eat at 2 at night.
Nite nite.

Lego Duplo

Why, oh why, didn't I buy the lego duplo dinosaurs when they were still available in the shops? Now I have to try and get them via ebay. Waaah. But a few years ago my daughters weren't interested in Lego. But nowadays they play with it every single day. They are not interested in the small legos because they want to build huge constructions that reach up to their waists, and they have lots of animals, but I'd love to give them dinosaurs - alas, they are no longer available. Grrrr.
Also, visiting Toys 'R Us on a Saturday post-lunchtime is a doomed endeavour. Christ it was packed! Anyway, I bought a big box of lego duplo blocks for them, a couple of Alahmbras (award winning boardgame, absolutely smashing) as prezzies for friends and lots of Kinder surprise eggs, because they now have fogures of LotR3 in it. I had hoped to do most of our Chrismas shopping, but most of the toys were either ugly or too expensive.

I'd like to write, but.... Saturdays belong mostly to the family. *sigh*