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Feb. 23rd, 2015 09:51 pm1. Today concludes two weeks at 11,000 steps. I did not meet my goal three days during this period; one day I just lost track of time and the clock rolled over with a few hundred steps lacking without my noticing it. The other two days were a day I had meetings in a town an hour away (so five hours of the day gone to riding in a car and sitting in meetings) and yesterday when we hosted a barbecue and the entire day was devoted to rigorously cleaning the house. All in all, I feel pretty good about the two week period. As I suspected, meeting 11,000 steps was not any more difficult than meeting 10,000, and out of the past 31 days, I've walked 10,000+ steps every day except two. Not too shabby! Today, I upped the goal to 12,000 steps, and this is where I imagine things start to get difficult. We'll see.
2. Why did I not know how funny Edge of Tomorrow is? I was expecting something totally different and was pleasantly surprised by how endearingly funny the movie is. Tonally, it reminded me of Starship Troopers a great deal. And I thought Tom Cruise was awesome in the role. Oh, Tom Cruise, you are such a good actor and such a bizarre RL person. Why? We were a Nielson family right after he started acting so bizarrely in public (the couch jumping, the screed against drugs for post-partum depression), and one of the questions we were asked in the phone interview was how we felt about him and whether his RL behavior impacted our willingness to watch his movies.
3. I finished the Heroes of Olympus series, and I would like to take this opportunity to fangirl the hell out of Rick Riordan. His books are so damn good. Like really, really good. In the interest of full disclosure, I kinda feel like the series closer is the weakest of the books, just because its scope was so broad and some of the characters who had been more foregrounded in previous books didn't get as much page time, but overall, I am extremely satisfied. ( SPOILERS ) I seriously recommend these books for all ages. I think they do very funny things with the Greek myths and in interpreting the attributes of the gods for the 21st century. If you're into audiobooks, the guy who reads the original Percy Jackson series and the Heroes of Olympus is genuinely gifted.
4. Lemme tell you about 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster. Description: A woody, musky-weird base glooping over with blackberry preserves, a twist of mandarin, strawberry juice, pulverized watermelon, and a handful of smushed gardenia petals. This, my friends, was a world of no for everyone in the house. Emma and I both smelled gardenia + strawberry glooping over something weird and mildewy. Bleck. I sent this to someone who will either smell gloriously of fruit or damn me for the weird glooping. LOL
2. Why did I not know how funny Edge of Tomorrow is? I was expecting something totally different and was pleasantly surprised by how endearingly funny the movie is. Tonally, it reminded me of Starship Troopers a great deal. And I thought Tom Cruise was awesome in the role. Oh, Tom Cruise, you are such a good actor and such a bizarre RL person. Why? We were a Nielson family right after he started acting so bizarrely in public (the couch jumping, the screed against drugs for post-partum depression), and one of the questions we were asked in the phone interview was how we felt about him and whether his RL behavior impacted our willingness to watch his movies.
3. I finished the Heroes of Olympus series, and I would like to take this opportunity to fangirl the hell out of Rick Riordan. His books are so damn good. Like really, really good. In the interest of full disclosure, I kinda feel like the series closer is the weakest of the books, just because its scope was so broad and some of the characters who had been more foregrounded in previous books didn't get as much page time, but overall, I am extremely satisfied. ( SPOILERS ) I seriously recommend these books for all ages. I think they do very funny things with the Greek myths and in interpreting the attributes of the gods for the 21st century. If you're into audiobooks, the guy who reads the original Percy Jackson series and the Heroes of Olympus is genuinely gifted.
4. Lemme tell you about 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster. Description: A woody, musky-weird base glooping over with blackberry preserves, a twist of mandarin, strawberry juice, pulverized watermelon, and a handful of smushed gardenia petals. This, my friends, was a world of no for everyone in the house. Emma and I both smelled gardenia + strawberry glooping over something weird and mildewy. Bleck. I sent this to someone who will either smell gloriously of fruit or damn me for the weird glooping. LOL
