It’s been a stressful few days.
That’s all I have right now.
Monthly Archives: July 2008
More Bubbles
So we got to bed at around 3:30am and we were either both up or awake from about 6:30am because Bubbles doesn’t understand why she can’t go out and can’t eat.
Grete’s got a vet’s appointment at 9:10am so we just had the ‘fun’ of getting Bubbles back into the cat box and out of the house. She’s been walking around the house all morning, on me, on the sofa, in the lounge. Suddenly, she just runs upstairs and hides. We haven’t even got the cat box out of the outhouse. She just knows. She hid under the bed so I got to be Evil and dragged her out.
Hopefully it’ll be fast and they don’t have to keep her in.
Not sure about our plans for the weekend now either, if we need to be in and keeping an eye on her 🙁
Bubbles
So we just got back from the vets (2:20am). Bubbles has scrapped/sliced the skin of her stomach but somehow managed to not go through the first layer of fat. There’s a bit of blood but nothing hugely serious. Vet gave her some jabs and advised us to maybe get a stitch put in tomorrow at our regular vets. She came in as usual at around 11:30pm, seemed fine and happy, was playing in the sitting room. Grete spotted a scratch on her nose but she gets those from time to time, then she rolled over quite happily to play with the toy and we noticed her stomach wound.
Cats have bad timing, that’s £215, plus whatever tomorrow is, on top of around £300 we weren’t expecting to be paying out this weekend (for other stuff). Ah well, she’s covered by insurance thankfully so we’ll get some of it back, and there’s no way I’d hold off getting either of them medical assistance just because of the money. But, her timing does suck.
So now we’re both too wired to sleep.
Photo’s
So I’m finally (again?) doing the deed and going through our photo collection scanning them all in. We’ve had a couple of goes at this, but this time, I’m serious!
No really I am.
I may post some of the more embarrassing ones of Grete as a kid, if I think she won’t kill me.
Almost
I almost wrote a blog post today, but then didn’t.
Trailers
Here’s the Watchment trailer,
and the Spirit one,
10th Wedding Anniversary
So today is our 10th wedding anniversary, and I hope our marriage continues as strongly over the next 200 years (I’m betting on the side of medical science) as it has over the last 10.
I think Grete enjoyed her roses, balloon and chocolates, even if she did have to answer the door in her pyjamas!
Fizz loves the balloon, or at least the ribbon that hangs down, she’s made three or four runs for it so far, dragging it behind her.
Looking forward
I’ve posted a couple of times about upcoming movies, and obviously the recent entry about The Hobbit, but I really am looking forward to a few movies.
In some respects, The Dark Knight is one I’m happy to see but looking forward to least. Maybe I’m apprehensive it won’t be as good as I hope or maybe it’s been hugely over-hyped (no really). I really liked the first Batman movie, it had the dark gothic feel I really wanted, and I was increasingly disappointed with the subsequent films, until Batman Begins which I enjoyed a great deal (despite it’s flaws).
So I’m nervous that Dark Knight will fall into the same trap and result in an underwhelming experience. I’m actually on-call this coming week so I won’t be able to get to the cinema anyway to see it, so if we do go (and we may not, Grete didn’t enjoy Batman Begins) it’ll be in a few weeks maybe and by then the reviews will be out, and the truth (if there is such a thing) will be known.
Hellboy 2 I’m really looking forward to, but it’s not out in the UK until mid/end August. I’ve seen the trailer and I like the irreverent style to the first one and this one looks like it has the same. It’s out in the US already and I’ve read some mixed reviews (without reading spoilers). Some people say it’s all style over content, and others say it presents a good story and has amazing visuals.
I’m ok with style over content in my movies, if that style is something I enjoy and entertains me (they are, after all, entertaintment). So fingers crossed Hellboy 2 will deliver and I’ll get to laugh while watching him crush the enemy beneath is infeasibly large fist.
On an unrelated note, IMDB is superb, and following links on there is as time consuming as Wikipedia. I checked out Ron Perlman, and he’s in a huge amount of upcomming movies! Including the Mutant Chronicles.
Then there’s the Mummy 3 (sorry The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor), which despite all the regular concerns and warnings actually looks half decent based on the trailer. If they can keep the same insane frantic pace the first two had, and the short witty dialog, then I think they’ll have another winner on their hands.
However, if they try to get too complex or the pace suffers they may end up giving us a stinker. The Mummy was excellent, the second one was ok but a bit overly sentimental. Let’s hope this instalment returns to what made the first one so good – frantic out-of-breath non-stop crazy action madness. Brendan Fraser is just superb at this character, just the right amount of charisma and air of stupidity and luck.
And then towards the end of the year we have Babylon AD (cross between Barbed Wire and Children of Men) and Death Race (hey it’s Jason Statham driving cars) – both could be terrible, both could be ‘ok’ and in another place, another time, maybe they could even be excellent, although I’m not holding out too much hope 🙂
tired
really tired
Dim Sum
I’m not really sure what dim sum really is. I know what I like it to be, and I guess since the name of this blog is perception is truth then my perception of dim sum must be what it truly is.
My first experience of dim sum was a visit to the China Garden in Brighton with quite a few people who ordered quite a few different dishes from their dim sum menu. It was a bit of a revelation really, and since I love strong tasting food and lots of different tastes, dim sum was just the thing. If I could have my way in most restaurants I would order 10 starters and no main course, and that’s just what dim sum in the China Garden offered.
We went a few times after that (Grete of course had been loads before), and it was delicious every time. We found somewhere in Nottingham which did ‘ok’ dim sum, but it eventually turned into a buffet (cold mostly) and we couldn’t stomach it after that. We’ve not found anywhere as nice as the China Garden since, although we’ve not looked incredibly hard. There are some places which do dim sum in or around Nottingham but the menus are not as extensive as the China Garden and that variety is the whole point.
Anyway, we’re hoping to go when we’re next in Brighton so that should be nice!