Daily Archives: October 2, 2002

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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: November 15

Treasure Planet: November 27

The Two Towers: December 18

Yes, finally, more movies that I want to see in the theatre!

The official Harry Potter web site has released images of the upcoming theatre banners, which has cheered me immensely, because I don’t like the Dobby teaser poster at all.

Treasure Planet is a movie I will see with my husband, who sat a-quiver with excitement when we saw the trailer in theatres a few months ago. It’s as if they reached into his head and pulled out all the things he loves: pirates, science fiction, animation. It also features the voice talents of Emma Thompson and David Hyde-Pierce, which intrigues me. Tamu just contacted me with the stunning news that her brother Emru was unexpectedly happy with the press screening, so my standards have just been raised.

And, well, The Two Towers… what can I say that I haven’t said already? Except, of course, for seventy-seven days, and counting. And forty-one days until the extended version of The Fellowship of the Ring is released on DVD. (Must… wait… till Christmas… argh!)

Buried Treasure

As I was cleaning up today, I found, in the bottom of one of my armoires, a box of Bourbon Cremes.

Finding cookies in a wardrobe is an odd occurrence, I grant you, but it’s directly related to my act of hoarding them away from the light fingers of my ever-munchy husband. My mother gave me this box, and I was determined that every single one of these biscuits was to be mine, mine, mine.

Three-quarters of them were indeed blissfully mine. Then I forgot about them.

It was like finding buried treasure. I brought them out, opened the box, nibbled one. A slight staleness, but when they’re glorious Bourbon Cremes, what’s a breath of stale? The cream filling was still soft and light, and hadn’t hardened in the least.

There’s four left. I’m going to ration them out this afternoon when I eventually flop down on a chesterfield to read, once I’m done with my sewing.

Evidently, I’ll have to pick up another box or so while I’m down visiting my parents at Thanksgiving. This time, I’ll put them in a tin when I hide them, so they don’t grow stale.

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Hmm. From the small flurry of concerned e-mails that landed in my in-box this morning, I appear to have mis-communicated my feelings in my entry on stress yesterday.

No, I’m not currently stressed (well, except about the bath thing no longer being relaxing); I’m just sympathising with Kate about her general stressed-ness, because I’ve been there, and been there often. Although I’ve had a nasty sinus headache for three days now, which I am dealing with by taking Excedrin Extra-Strength and using lavender oil; thank you for asking.

Work proceeds apace on the Hallowe’en costume. I dug out the pattern again to create a second layer, kit-bashed a bit more, and came up with an ingenious way to attach it to the first layer. I’m a better sewing engineer than I thought! We took pictures of the costume last night so that I will have a record of how good it looked before I sink my nice shiny shears into it. You know, in case my idea doesn’t work. It will, of course. I’m just covering all my bases.

However, I’m on the verge of running out of thread, which amazes me since I bought two spools at the outset to be extra-sure I’d have enough. This makes me wonder how long I’ve actually spent on the outfit so far, and after calculation I’ve come up with the following:

Thirty hours, including the two last night.

Eep! And I still have a few to go, including embroidery and those two slashes. I didn’t factor in shopping time (of which Ceri and I invested a few hours) or the anticipated time to be spent tracking down the right colour of hose, embroidery thread, and other little finishing touches. (I can always dye them – hmm.)

Hallowe’en party/due date for costume: 24 days, and counting. Go me!