No One Is Born
Last Saturday, I went to a celebration of life/memorial service at One Mile at 1, and a wedding at Five Mile at 4. I kept joking about how it was a good thing we don't know anybody pregnant, because they'd be having the baby that day.
QVC Saves the Day
As tacky as it might seem, I wore the same outfit to both the memorial service and the wedding. There was only one person other than our family who attended both, and I don't know if he noticed us at the memorial.
I wanted to wear my fake pearl jewelry (the only matching set of jewelry I own; it's from Claire's, and I always get compliments on it). I wear jewelry fairly rarely, which means it had been a really long time since I'd worn this set. I can never remember how to work the clasp on the bracelet from the last time. Being the resourceful girl I am, I turned to Google. Once I discovered the clasp is a fish hook clasp, I googled for how to work that, and came across this very helpful page from QVC, which has video clips of how to work a few common but complicated clasps.
I Buy CDs I
I went to Sultan's last night to watch BDTT and BDCC dance. I had already planned to go over to see what I could find at Tower afterwards anyway, and I was totally inspired by their dancing to buy some belly dance music. I ended up with a DVD (Kissing Jessica Stein), a used CD I wanted anyway (Trisha Yearwood's Songbook), and three belly dance CDs (Arabic Groove, The Rough Guide to Bellydance, and Night in the Casbah) for $41.24. There were another two belly dance/Arabic music CDs I was contemplating that I may go back and buy. One of them is Natacha Atlas' new CD, which looked interesting, but I wasn't willing to invest in a whole CD of one artist I didn't know anything about. One of her songs is on Arabic Groove, and I really liked it. It makes sense, of course, because her song is categorized as "Egypt/UK" in the track listing. I tend to like British pop, and we hear a lot of Egyptian style music in class.
I Buy CDs II
Tonight, a friend and I went to Teaz Me to see Aubrey Debauchery and Jon Leroy play.
I started listening to Aubrey because of Franz, whose memorial it was that I attended last week. He was a regular at Peet's, which is where she works, and he finally got her to tell him when she was playing. He took his wife and K and C (C, Franz's wife, and my mom are all in the book group that doesn't read together) to the show, and they all came to breakfast the next morning where they told us how great it was. C said, "Ruth, you would have loved it." I was initially skeptical, because I wasn't sure if C knows me well enough to know what I'd like, but I tried listening to Aubrey's stuff on MySpace, and I loved it.
In person, she's this tiny little thing, and she's light when she speaks, but then she starts playing, and there's this incredible, deep music that comes out of her.
At her show tonight, I bought a copy of her CD, which I'm listening to as I type this entry. I highly recommend listening to her music, with the caveat that "love song for no one" is not safe for work.
The Movies
Last weekend, we went to see The Departed. ( Spoiler-ish )
Today, we went to see The Prestige. We had all hoped it would be better than The Illusionist, and I hoped it would make a better movie than book. ( Did it live up to our hopes? )
Last Saturday, I went to a celebration of life/memorial service at One Mile at 1, and a wedding at Five Mile at 4. I kept joking about how it was a good thing we don't know anybody pregnant, because they'd be having the baby that day.
QVC Saves the Day
As tacky as it might seem, I wore the same outfit to both the memorial service and the wedding. There was only one person other than our family who attended both, and I don't know if he noticed us at the memorial.
I wanted to wear my fake pearl jewelry (the only matching set of jewelry I own; it's from Claire's, and I always get compliments on it). I wear jewelry fairly rarely, which means it had been a really long time since I'd worn this set. I can never remember how to work the clasp on the bracelet from the last time. Being the resourceful girl I am, I turned to Google. Once I discovered the clasp is a fish hook clasp, I googled for how to work that, and came across this very helpful page from QVC, which has video clips of how to work a few common but complicated clasps.
I Buy CDs I
I went to Sultan's last night to watch BDTT and BDCC dance. I had already planned to go over to see what I could find at Tower afterwards anyway, and I was totally inspired by their dancing to buy some belly dance music. I ended up with a DVD (Kissing Jessica Stein), a used CD I wanted anyway (Trisha Yearwood's Songbook), and three belly dance CDs (Arabic Groove, The Rough Guide to Bellydance, and Night in the Casbah) for $41.24. There were another two belly dance/Arabic music CDs I was contemplating that I may go back and buy. One of them is Natacha Atlas' new CD, which looked interesting, but I wasn't willing to invest in a whole CD of one artist I didn't know anything about. One of her songs is on Arabic Groove, and I really liked it. It makes sense, of course, because her song is categorized as "Egypt/UK" in the track listing. I tend to like British pop, and we hear a lot of Egyptian style music in class.
I Buy CDs II
Tonight, a friend and I went to Teaz Me to see Aubrey Debauchery and Jon Leroy play.
I started listening to Aubrey because of Franz, whose memorial it was that I attended last week. He was a regular at Peet's, which is where she works, and he finally got her to tell him when she was playing. He took his wife and K and C (C, Franz's wife, and my mom are all in the book group that doesn't read together) to the show, and they all came to breakfast the next morning where they told us how great it was. C said, "Ruth, you would have loved it." I was initially skeptical, because I wasn't sure if C knows me well enough to know what I'd like, but I tried listening to Aubrey's stuff on MySpace, and I loved it.
In person, she's this tiny little thing, and she's light when she speaks, but then she starts playing, and there's this incredible, deep music that comes out of her.
At her show tonight, I bought a copy of her CD, which I'm listening to as I type this entry. I highly recommend listening to her music, with the caveat that "love song for no one" is not safe for work.
The Movies
Last weekend, we went to see The Departed. ( Spoiler-ish )
Today, we went to see The Prestige. We had all hoped it would be better than The Illusionist, and I hoped it would make a better movie than book. ( Did it live up to our hopes? )