The whooping cough came and went, our friends' baby had it (seems to be recovering now, praise the Lord) and because we had been holding him a few days before he'd been diagnosed, Shawn's work freaked out, along with the WHO or something like, and so he and I went on a stint of antibiotics in massive doses which lasted 5 days. It's odd that the Dr prescribed the same dose for Shawn as he did for me, as he is bit bigger than myself. Needless to say, I didn’t feel good for the duration. Shawn had a culture done the first day, which was a week ago, and we only found out today that he was negative for the plague after all. Oh well.
So while I was unwell, I was a wee bit lazy-ish. :D I read an exiting novel by John Grisham, entitled The Broker. I liked it. Also, I got hooked on the tv series 24, I managed to watch a whole season, heh.
So I got back to work finally. I made some more baby dresses, and more bloomers. Really ugly fabric turned into oh-so-cute dresses. I'll see if I can get Em to model one so I can get a pic up.
I finished the scarf I'd started in October, it turned out ok, I wish I had crocheted it, knitting takes too long. Cher I checked out magic blankets, very cool. When I'm old and have a million hours to crochet that’s what I will make, or if I get tempted to sooner. The one I saw was made of a gagillion different yarn, crocheted rectangularly around and around, using different stitches for each lap. Is that what you had in mind?
My back is killing me, I need to get a real sewing chair, and a real desk chair too. Wah, wah.
Hip hip horray! Jody is coming on January 10th, for SIX weeks. YAY! We're gonna sew a lot, and play too. I can’t wait. :D
A few weeks back Shawn and I went and saw Pride and Prejudice. It was a pretty good summary, though I do love the 6 hour version more. I was a little disappointed with Lizzy, she disrespected her terrible mother twice in this new version. In the book, and the 6 hour version, she was a perfect example of how an inferior aught to treat a superior, albeit one that is constantly dishonoring herself. Lizzy is to be admired as irreproachable in this respect. She's so smart and quick witted, love her! The cinematography was much better in the new, and a lot more realistic with respect to costumes and in the choice of actresses. In this one you do see the greater contrasts between the classes, I don’t recall if it was supposed to be there from the book, but perhaps a pretended, imagined one of the wealthy city dwellers, toward the country folk, anyways, that’s there.
Anyway, bla bla bla
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I just read the book this year, and I do believe there was a great contrast between classes. Thanks for the movie review, I wasn't sure whether to see it.
I meant more of a class difference aside from just attitude, but in life style, more than clothing, and fashion. In this movie they were more farmer types, where as in the 6 hour one Lizzy used the fact that she was a gentleman's daughter to try to prove her equality to Mr Darcy, as he was a gentleman also.
You're welcome Gretchen!
Maybe Lizzy did disrespect her mother (although I'm not sure which instances in particular you're talking about), but with a mother like that, it's understandable. :D I actually thought she was pretty tolerant! And yeah, I really liked too how realistic the scenery and costumes were. Yet somehow the set still seemed romantic! :) Go figure.
Kris and I made scarves last month too, but we crocheted. They sure have funky yarn out there now! The stuff we used was a bit difficult to crochet with, but you can make as many mistakes as you want with it, and they're unnoticeable. :D My kind of yarn!!
Glad to hear Jode's going to visit! Can't wait to see all the finished products (if you actually do get any work done ;) ). I love the apron top and skirt she made me.
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