The new TOS.

As of next week, this LJ will be permanently deleted.  But I'm on Dreamwidth as erisiansaint, with the same icon, so y'all will still know me!  Feel free to add me there!

Ok, so.  I'd kinda forgotten that LJ was now Russian owned until ame_chan reminded me.

For all of you who are interested, I'm erisiansaint on Dreamwidth.

In other news, for the New Year, I'm starting with freshly baked challah.  I made it myself, and with any luck, it'll taste good.  (I don't have much of a prayer in having a light, lovely loaf, as I am not a very good bread baker, I just kinda try it every so often.  This one is the no-knead challah from The Kitchn.)  It is braided, though.

I hope everyone has a happy New Year.  Mine was lovely, spent with my son and with some of my best in-person friends.  :)  And today is puttering around the house with family.  Heaven.

I went into one, today, to get some audiobooks to listen to at work.  I had my typical reaction to walking into a library: sheer and utter joy at All These Books.  And then, I had my next typical reaction: I went into a fugue state that only disappated as I was walking out with an armload.  Two hard copy books.  Two musical soundtracks.  Four audiobooks.  Heaven.

This is an open post.  Generally, most of my posts are going to be closed, locked, what have you.  If you are someone who would like to be able to read my posts, this is the place to comment.

Edit to note:  This is for anyone new who I met recently, guys, no worries, no one's going anyplace, honest.  Sorry for the confusion and welcome to everyone who's new!

L is still in the hospital, although they may move her to assisted living today.  (It has to be: this is a split level house, but the bathrooms are either up half a flight of stairs or down half a flight of stairs.  Either way, there are stairs.  Also, everyone works, so if she falls again, no one would be home to help, even if she COULD make it up the stairs, or get transported up the stairs.)

In spite of the gloom, doom, and general darkness, we are doing our best to keep all spirits up, which is why today is going to be full of Potato Gunk and yesterday included good Chinese food, (the buffet place was quite crowded,) and a showing of Into The Woods.

[This is what they took out and what I think about the movie.]
They took out the summing up at midnight songs, except for the last which was played over the credits, so people who hadn't seen it kinda failed to notice it was happening.  They took out Rapunzel's fate, as well as the reprise of Agony about Snow White & Sleeping Beauty, which given the EXCELLENT job they did with the first one, was sad.  (Seriously, the entire theater was howling over the first one.  It was epic.)  They took out the Baker's epiphany song where he realizes he needs to be a good, everyday father, and they took out the first song introducing the second half.

Anna Kendrick's voice made me like the Cinderella part for the first time, (the original was fairly shrieky.)  I do wish they hadn't turned Red and Jack into actual children, there was something a little more sinister about the Wolf when she was older, and Jack's story wasn't quite as punchy when he wasn't really old enough to know better.  Having taken out the song from the opening of the second half, they compressed the timeline a lot, so it was when Cinderella was getting introduced to the kingdom as the princess that the second half starts, which isn't really enough time for the Prince to prove himself to be a cheating bastard, so again, some of the punch is removed.  It also implies that the straying that Cinderella finds out about is with the Baker's Wife, and she doesn't even MENTION that's who it's with, so...not the best compression.  Meryl Streep's version is SO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than Bernadette Peter's that there is no comparing the two, which I liked infinitely.  I really didn't want to have to compare them.  And Emily Blunt was a delight as the Baker's Wife.  I suppose Johnny Depp was good as the Wolf, but honestly, I'm Depped out.

In spite of my kvetching, I loved every second of it, and will HAPPILY see it again.



And Abby came with us, so that was awesome.  Today needs to include laundry and the bank as well as potato gunk.

We'll see what happens.

It's been a long time since I've updated.  D and Tadlet and I are rooming with S and L.  (S & L are husband and wife.  L has cancer.  It started as breast cancer and metastasized to her spine.  Now it's in her lungs.  It's long past the stage where she's going to get better.)

L has been in the hospital for a week and a half, her lungs have been filling with fluid, and the amount of time it takes for them to fill again has been getting shorter.  This isn't a surprise, it happens this way.  The first time it happened, it only took two weeks before it happened again.  Then another week.  Then two days.  (The two days happened last week.)  And they kept giving her transfusions, she had low white blood cells, and they let her out today.

She slipped on the way into the house.  S couldn't catch her because he was behind her and she fell forward, the walker wasn't any help.  And she hit her head and shoulder on the retaining wall and S had to call the ambulance because she was in so much pain.  She hadn't even made it into the house.

The ambulance got here /fast/, and the sounds she made as they maneuvered her back out of the house, in whatever way it happened, were horrible.  I keep hearing them.  She was in so much pain.  (L has a spine and hip fracture that never got better because of the cancer.)  D and I hid in the kitchen: we couldn't leave, we felt like we had to witness, but we couldn't help, either.  We couldn't watch, either, we would have gotten in the way.

S had this look on his face of such anguish, like he felt like it was his fault.  It wasn't.  Even if he'd caught her, it would have hurt her.  He followed her to the hospital.  And D and I fled to our respective areas of the house.

I don't think she's going to make it out of the hospital again.

(I'm aware that there's an awful lot of "I" in this post.  It's my perspective and I can't speak for them, just me.)

Jerry Nelson, who was the Muppeteer who performed Robin and Lew Zealand and Floyd and Mr. Snuffleupagus and Gobo Fraggle and the Count and a host of other characters has died.

Godspeed to you, sir, you made a lot of people happy with your work.

This made me weep, I'm sharing it all over the place.  I loved every second of it.


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I saw it.  And this is a non-spoilery post, although I make no promises for the comments.  So all I will say about the movie is that a) Joss Whedon, ('nough said,) and b) I'm not sure what turned me on more: the man-candy or that compound bow.  Mmmmm.

However, we went to the iPic theater in Redmond and wow.  Just...wow.  Soft recliner seats.  A blanket and pillow and cloth napkin.  Peanut butter s'mores pizza.  Free popcorn that you could tell was freshly popped because it went stale when it got cold, and I've worked in a theater, the only time our popcorn did that was when we were fresh-popping it, every 15 minutes.

God, that was fun.

.This is a non-spoilery link of some of the actors in normal, everyday clothes, (or red carpet clothes, depending.)

Three words for you.

Bates.
Thomas.
Now.