Kick back and watch

Managed to find some time today to sit and watch a movie - two, in fact. 

Lily was asleep, the in-laws were resting, and I couldn't be bothered to run around in this heat no more. And later on tonight, when Rob came home, I convinced him to go to the movies. In-laws babysat for us and off we went. You don't what how a big screen, good sound system and air-conditioning can do to my mood!

We went to see Cloverfield. I had seen the trailer a couple of times at the cinema and I have to admit it grabbed me. I was hesitant, however, because of the handheld camcorder type of shoot, à la Blair Witch. Turns out it's a little hard to begin with but it gets easier. I totally loved the sound design - and lack of score and/or music soundtrack. Can't say I really connected with the main cast but what a ride. Very good special effects without being the main thing about the movie.

Saw this one a couple of weeks ago and I forgot to mention it. Really powerful. Not totally original unfortunately (if you've seen 28 Days Later) but well worth it. I just loved that cameo by Emma Thompson.

Fuelled by

2_the_max

's post of a video a few days ago, I went on the hunt to find this little gem of British telemovies. A pearl it is not but it was so funny to treck back nearly 20 years to watch Clive Owen, Caroline Quentin, Martin Clunes and Paul Merton dick around in Ibiza. That's what I did this afternoon and I am not ashamed. :D

Another special day!

Thanks to

lahela_sga

 for remembering it's

sgafreak

 's birthday...



Happy Birthday, Sweetie!





xposted to

satedan_fire

On this special day

  



  A little message for

elfnut

for her birthday!

  I'm sorry it's a little late but timezones and 
  toddlers don't mix!

  Hope you had a fab day in any case.

  Much love, darl.

Impromptu visit to the Blue Mountains

For Australia Day long weekend, we ended up running for a retreat to the mountains.

The place we went to last time with my mom e-mailed us Thursday afternoon to let us know their place was still free and that we could have it at a discounted price. Since Rob's parents wanted to see the Blue Mountains again during their visit, we thought best to snatch that deal. But that meant leaving pretty much without planning the next morning. Rob had to go to work and I had to pack us all up for the trip and drive us there. A bit of a mad dash, if you ask me, but we made it. :) Rob joined us in the evening by train.

I was knackered but it was worth it. (Plus we had heard through the grapevine that the twits two houses down from her were going to throw a party for Australia Day (26th) so we really didn't want to be around for that.) The weather is dryer and a little cooler up there so we slept very well. Now that we're back and still sweating like idiots past 10pm, I wish we'd had an extra night.

Sorry for disappearing on you but didn't get the time to warn anyone online and up there there's no net access. Hope you all had a good weekend.


And, as seen on :

Who is Your Ideal TV Boyfriend?

Created by BuddyTV

Rrroooaaarrr!

As seen on <lj user="Alassante">'s LJ...

1. If your doctor told you TODAY that you were pregnant, what would you say?

Oops, I've done it again. (Actually, today it would take one hell of a mirable considering where I'm at in my cycle...)

2. Do you trust all of your friends?

Most.

3. Would you move to another state or country to be with the one you love?

Been there. Done that. Bought the t-shirt.

4. Do you believe that everything that happens happens for a reason?

I sure hope so or God's got one sick sense of humour.

5. Can you make a pound in change right now?

Probably got enough lying around, yes.

6. Which one of your friends do you think would make the best doctor?

Wow, that's a weird question. None of my friends are doctors to think of it, but of everyone in the gang back in high school, I would say Julie L. could have pulled it off. She ended going into Biology but not Med school.

7. Are you afraid of falling in love?

Already am. In love, that is.

8. How many cars are on your drive?

None. My car is parked up front.

9. Is there someone who pops into your mind at random times?

Sure.

10. What’s your most favourite scar?

I used to have a nice one on my right knee. Favourite back in primary school because it told other kids they didn't really want to mess with me. :) Not showing anymore though. Faded. Gone.

11. When was the last time you flew in a plane?

2007.

12. What did the last text message you sent say and who to?

I have no idea. I very rarely text anyone. Chances are it was to 

2_the_max

 or Mirr when she came to visit me. Something like, 'How was your flight back?' or something.

13. What features do you find most attractive in the preferred sex?

Eyes, sense of humour, ass... someone you can have an intelligent conversation with, someone who's not afraid to laugh at themselves.

14. Fill in the blank. I love___________

CHOCOLATE.

15. What is a goal you would like to accomplish in the near future?

Getting back to writing. 

16. Do you ever disobey your parents?

Like now? My mom knows better than to tell me to do something. If it pisses me off she knows I'll be doing the exact opposite. As a kid, because she was a single parent with three monsters, I tended to listen to her more... to give her a break because my brothers sure as hell didn't.

17. How many kids do you want to have?

Still trying to figure out if I want a second one.

18. Would you make a good parent?

Jury's still out on that.

19. Where was your default picture taken?

Stolen from a microbrewery back in Quebec. It's an illustration of La Chasse-galerie, which is the story behind one of their beers - La Maudite.

20. What’s your middle name?

Juliette.

21. Honestly, what’s on your mind right now?

I wish I didn't have to stop browsing the net to go start dinner, that's what. :) And also the whole Heath Ledger thing. That hasn't left my mind all day.

22. If you could go back in time and change something, what would it be?

Wow. Ever watched Journeyman? Messing up with the pass can have dire consequences in your future, things you might not want to see changing. Honestly, if I had the assurance that me changing something wouldn't affect anything else, I'd go with staying fit. Never giving up volleyball and whitewater rafting.

23. Who was or will be the maid of honour/best man at your wedding?

nausica_3

 was.

24. What are you wearing right now?

Gym pants and a sleeveless top.

25. Righty or Lefty?

Righty.

26. Best place to eat?

Around these parts? French restaurant Larousse.

27. Favourite jeans?

Used to be Levi's but I'm not so bothered anymore. I tend to like the Urbane ones.

28. Favourite animal?

Cats. 

29. Favourite juice?

Apple and cranberry

30. Have you had the chicken pox?

Yep.

31. Have you had a sore throat?

Is there actually someone on this planet who's never ever had a sore throat?

32. Ever had a bar fight?

ehhh not exactly <- what 

alassante

said.

33. Who knows you the best?

Probably my husband and

nausica_3

.

34. Shoe size?

9.

35. Do you wear contact lenses or glasses?

Both but prefer contacts.

36. Ever been in a fight with your pet?

Not the current pets, no.

37. Been to Mexico?

Nope.

38. Did you buy something today?

Nothing, unless you count paying for parking buying.

39. Did you get sick today?

Nope.

40. Do you miss someone today?

Yep.

41. Did you get in a fight with someone today?

Not yet and hopefully won't.

42. When is the last time you had a massage?

Around October last year at my osteopath.

43. Last person to lay in your bed?

My husband.

44. Last person to see you cry?

Hmm, no sure someone noticed.

45. Who made you cry?

It was 'what' actually - a play.

46. What was the last TV show you watched?

Journeyman.

47. What are your plans for the weekend?

Keeping the in-laws happy. What a plan indeed.

48. Who do you think will repost this?

Have no idea. Maybe

2_the_max

.

49. Who was the last person you hung out with?

That would be my husband.

So sad

Woke up this morning and got ready to go pick up the in-laws at the airport. Strap baby in the car, get in myself and start the engine. And what comes up on the radio? 

Heath Ledger is dead. 

28 years old. 

So sad. 

My thoughts are with his family.

An alternative?

LiveJournal. What can we expect? With all the changes, will it remain what it's been? And if not, where are people planning to flee en masse to?

I'd like to know so I can get ready, you see. :)

GreatestJournal, which was an alternative following LJ's horrendous strikethrough mess, is no longer an option. So, InsaneJournal? You can still get a pemanent account for very little, so if that's where we'll all end up, I'd like to know so I can get one before they pull it, which, I believe, they're planning on doing in Feb.

Let me know what you guys think.

I'd very much prefer a place similar to what LJ's been offering so MySpace and Facebook and Blogger don't really cut it.

The Box

Snatched from

tray_lord

:

Bold all of the following television shows which you’ve ever seen three or more episodes of in your lifetime. Italicise a show if you’re positive you’ve seen every episode of it. If you want, add up to three additional shows (but keep the list in alphabetical order).

24
30 Rock
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America’s Next Top Model/Germany’s Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Common
Boston Legal
Boston Public
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Chappelle’s Show
Charles in Charge
Charlie’s Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci’s Inquest
Dawson’s Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadliest Catch
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who (2005)
Dragnet
Due South
Earth 2
Ed
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friday Night Lights
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan’s Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Green Wing
Grey’s Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Heroes
Highlander
Hogan’s Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell’s Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Jericho
Joey
John Doe
Kyle XY
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Moonlighting
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My So-Called Life
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Picket Fences
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Psych
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Reno 911!
Rescue Me
Road Rules
Robin Hood (BBC)
Rome
Roseanne
Roswell
Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Simon and Simon
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Spooks
Sports Night
Star Trek
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Voyager
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70’s Show
That’s So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Brady Bunch
The Colbert Report
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three’s Company
Top Gear
Torchwood
Tru Calling
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Veronica Mars
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace
Wonderfalls

 

Wai, Palya?

Went to the Belvoir St. Theatre tonight to see Ngapartji Ngapartji. In this intensely moving story of his family, spinifex man and master storyteller Trevor Jamieson weaves a powerful global narrative in his native tongue Pitjantjatjara. The tale of one family's displacement from the South Australian desert set against the epic sweep of the Cold War, Ngapartji Ngapartji is a passionate and stirring piece of theatre. See the Sydney Festival 2008 and the Company B websites for more info. It brought me to tears...

  

Could be considered a spending spree... perish the thought! 

Last week, Lily, my mom and I went shopping. Can't remember exactly what for (could have been to get an aircon break as it's been damn hot and humid here) but I came across a big DVD sale. Oh, , I must have been channeling you and your bargain bins! Anyway, I found the first three seasons of Without A Trace for $14 each! The slimcases too! So my mom picked them up for me. Birthday's in February so that's that sorted. :D

Today I took Lily to another shopping mall (same reason as last week - gets expensive this warm weather!) and wandered in JB HiFi, as you do. They had this 20% discount on all DVDs. No exception. So guess what. I got myself a copy of Shoot 'Em Up. I'm so annoyed it never made it to the screen here, dammit! I just have to see it. And would have done so tonight, had I not been going to the theatre.

And while  was there, I spotted that the Babylon 5 season box sets were still at $24.98. Now I have to admit that I've been looking at those for a long, long time. Back when they were close to a 100 bucks each. So anyway, down to near 25 with an extra 20% off, I couldn't resist. I picked up seasons 3 and 4, my favourites. Hopefully, hubby won't have a heart attack when he finds out.

Oh, and I had a lovely refreshing drink tonight: Lemon, Lime and Bitters. On ice.

Album Cover meme

As seen at

betagoddess

'  LJ:

Instructions:

1. Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. Then go to: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. And lastly, go to: http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

Then you go and make it. :D

Here's mine:

One dodo left

Just a quick post before I forget...

Went to see PS I Love You with my mom on Thursday. Nice chick flick and a good choice for my mom, even if I had to translate half the jokes for her. :)



And came across this last night while looking for something else. Who can say no to Rick O'Connell?



The second movie was bad, and with Rachel Weisz bailing out, I'm not holding much hope. But my dear John Hannah is coming back, and Maria Bello, Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh joined the ball, so I'm wondering just how bad the third one can really get. Rob Cohen has a little weblog about the movie and the shoot and all that jazz here.

My mom is catching a plane home tomorrow after five weeks with us. It is a sad day.

Ben voyons

It shows that I left Quebec a while ago... Earlier this evening I got an e-mail from my father, wishing us Happy New Year. And in the message, he joined a .pps about the forthcoming 400 years of Quebec. That bit, I knew about. But the music that graced the presentation? Well, I wasn't acquainted with. Had to do some research and it turns out it's a band called Mes Aïeux and the track is Dégénération. I simply love it. Now I need to go home to get my hands on their albums.

Found it on YouTube...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKf7CrmqKvY

How was everybody's 1st day of the year? It's already over and done with here but I bet most of you are still smack bang in it. Just had a swim at quarter to midnight. The weather's nice. The water's fine. Loads of stars above us, and, after a quick shower, I bid you goodnight.