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Fiona is two!!!!!

We went to my parents' this weekend in MS, and she had a proper birthday party with cake and etc., even though her birthday was actually yesterday.

She got some presents from friends after we got back home, and her daycare threw her a little party.

She's been singing happy birthday every day for a week. :)

Best presents include a stuffed Peppa Pig (I'm so happy to see you, she says after bath time when clutching her night time sleep friends), Peppa books, Superman Duplos, and a fold out card full of animals.

In other news, Emma is loving the Abhorsen Trilogy. She thinks Sameth is a waste of space and that the Disreputable Dog and Lirael should rule the world.

I've been reading Trigger Warnings, and it does not disappoint. I meant to read Parasite by Mira Grant but got sidetracked. I think I'm probably going to read Jane Eyre before I read that as well; I made a pact with a colleague. It seems beyond the pale to have a Ph.D. in Victorian lit without having read it (although I am well and thoroughly spoiled for every plot point as the amount of criticism I've read about that novel is legion).

What are y'all up to?

I just finished reading Sabriel, the first novel in the Abhorsen trilogy. I liked it well enough. It's an interesting universe, great world building, the way the magic works is interesting. But it left me emotionally uninvested. I mean, I'll read the next two novels, but it's curious to me the way that this first book didn't move me at all. I can't tell you how many times I laughed out loud while reading Fionavar or how many times I put my hand on my chest and gasped when I was reading Ancillary Sword or how many times I cried while reading both. But nary a tear or a giggle or an OMG for Sabriel. I hope that changes in the next books.

Josh and I rewatched the first Mission Impossible movie last night. It came out in 1996. I watched it in the theater but remember almost nothing about it. I remember really liking it twenty years ago but not so much on this watch. I think it's just dated in a way that's not appealing to me now which possibly makes me shallow. LOL A movie like that now would be shot in shades of blue and grey and everything would be black and shiny and slick and fast paced. All the characters would be impossibly beautiful, and there would be a decent amount of humor and quippage, definitely a focus on snappy dialogue. Instead, everything moved really slowly, there wasn't a great deal of dialogue that seemed to matter, and I didn't feel super emotionally invested.

Even so, Ving Rhames and Vanessa Redgraves were awesome. Tom Cruise is always good; he's a phenomenal actor. I also liked the reveal of the villain(s).

What are y'all up to?