My birthday haul!

[lunabee34]

Here's what I got for turning 28!

1. Cards from Anna, Great-Aunt Ruby, trekgirl55, and Cousins Robert and Nancy.
2. Melanie took me out to lunch
3. Janette took me out for drinks
4. MeeMaw C hooked me up with some cash
5. MeeMaw D gave me three necklaces and a rotisserie
6. Sarah gave me three months of Netflix!
7. Aunt Gail gave me some gorgeous silver earrings and some bath wash
8. Aunt Linda gave me a whole bunch of lipgloss and some nail polish
9. Mama and Daddy gave me a silver and turquoise bracelet and necklace set and Mom bought me three dresses
10. My brother Russell and his fiance got me a George R. R. Martin book that looks really promising
11. Josh's parents gave me some money and then Margaret went through her cabinets and gave me four boxes full of antique dishes and linens, some of which belonged to Josh's grandmother--(pictured below)
12. Andy took me to lunch and to see Waitress in Memphis; he also gave me a Lorne doll and a drawing he made (pictured below)
13. executrix gave me a purse and some shiny shoes
14. sweet_exile gave me some paid lj time!

All in all, not too shabby. :)

Comments

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I'll tell you, I really enjoyed Waitress. With the exception of a pretty big quibble right at the end, I thought it was very entertaining and enjoyable. Have you seen? If so, I'll tell you my quibble.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Not only did I see it, I saw it before it opened and for free. I liked it, although I would not consider it precisely the first and last word in sexual politics. Still, "boys are stupid: let's throw rocks at them" although simplistic is a message one seldom sees in the commercial cinema, and I liked the cast.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

I liked the cast as well. And while I was intitally skeptical, I really ended up liking the food metaphor thing the movie had going on for it.

My quibble: I thought Keri Russell's character's ambivalence (even hostility) toward her pregnancy was refreshing and very much a plausible emotional state given her character's situation. When she holds her baby for two seconds and all that ambivalence disappears? Lame, Lame Lame. The more interesting choice would have been to have that ambivalence continue. If I'd been making the movie this is the way it would have gone down: The nurse would have asked her if she wanted to hold the baby. She'd have said no, or yes but not looked overjoyed and then everything else would have played out the same way it did, just without the wacky, "My baby fixes everything." I'd have left the final scene the same, so that you can see in the intervening time between the baby's birth and that scene that she has come to love her baby. That makes more sense to me.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

You didn't watch EastEnders, of course, but it reminded me of Michelle taking her A-levels in the hospital after giving birth to Vicky and taking a break to go and look at her in the nursery. It didn't read to me "my baby fixes everything" so much as "in addition to wanting to win the pie contest and have my own business to satisfy my own ambitions, now I want to do so even more strongly so I can give my baby a good life."

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

Well, all that's certainly there, too. Why in the heck did she have to name the rugrat LuLu, though? LOL *shudders*