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Supermoon Saturday!! May 5th

grendell — Thu, 03 May 2012 02:53:30 +0000

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Also… the Full Flower Moon – In most areas, flowers are abundant everywhere during this time. Thus, the name of this Moon. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon.

Current Mood: Happy & Playful & Thinking! & Yeah! Yippee!

Game of Thrones, Season 2

grendell — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 02:33:53 +0000

I have to admit that the series is pretty good… I am definitely feeling more favorable towards season two than I had season one. Is it just me, or does HBO have sex on the brain?? Yes, sex played a role in the books but I guess I never felt it was so prominent. I will give the producers kudos for their evil skills at creating cliff-hangers. Tonight’s episode left me feeling utterly violated. The final scene was actually quite true to the book to my memory and I was swearing when I realized what time it was. So yeah, they got me coming back next Sunday night. If you haven’t read the books yet you absolutely should otherwise you really are missing out. Having enjoyed other series on HBO (like Rome and Arthur) I can say this is another win but I still think the books are better and I am still waiting for the release date for book 6!!

Twinnkies 3-year old checkup!

grendell — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:21:03 +0000

Immunizations were all up-to-date so no shots today!! Yippee!! This made for a mostly pleasant and easy doctor’s visit. Both of the twinnkies are doing well and growing!

Ellie’s 3-yr Old Checkup!!
Date	Age	Weight	Height	Percentile
4/15/11	2	28 pounds 12 ounces	35.5 inches	90^th/75^th
4/16/12	3	31 pounds 4 ounces	37 inches	50^th/50^th

Marcus’ 3-yr Old Checkup!!
Date	Age	Weight	Height	Percentile
4/15/11	2	25 pounds 8 ounces	34 inches	50^th/25^th
4/16/12	3	26 pounds 8 ounces	36 inches	20^th/10^th

Current Mood: Baby! & Happy & Happy Birthday!

Game of Thrones, Season 1, Episode 1, Winter Is Coming

grendell — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:56:59 +0000

My first nice unbiased comment is that I really do like the opening sequence with the model of the wall and Westeros. That is very cool… I like the kind of ‘clockwork’ aspect to it.

Winterfell…

I also do think that Sean Bean was a a good choice for Eddard Stark, he does fit the picture of Ned that I had envisioned while reading the books. Catelyn, however, is nothing like what I imagined and seems far too old.

Right away I feel like the Winterfell children are all too old and I don’ like it. One of things that made these characters enduring in the books was their tender ages and what they had to go through.

King Robert seems to fit into the role quite well for me but Cersei not so much… I think I may just have issues with all the female casting.

Jaime…. well first I was expecting someone more, well I don’t know… more svelte, sexier… but not player type but more Bondesque or something. I wanted to meet Jaime for the first time and feel the need to jump him, ya know.

Tyrion I think will probably grow on me because I think the actor is good and I think the personality is spot on — however, in the book he was described as being much more grotesque and I think his character needed that to work to create that love-hate relationship throughout out the story. You also get your first glimpse here that Tyrion may not be the most morally corrupt of the cast… stay tuned.

Joffrey… does he remind anyone else of Malfoy? Ugghhh.

I totally love Arya (even though I feel like she’s too old). Sansa isn’t developed enough to comment on and we don’t get to see the true nature of Bran yet.

I wish we could have seen a little more of the dire-wolves.

John Snow… I am going to withhold judgement right now because he is one of my treasured characters.

Across the sea to Pentos….

Daenerys was too old but at least her character behaved younger. Viserys was definitely creepy and I’m seriously looking forward to his demise. One thing though… their hair should have been silvery and shimmery – not white.

Khal Drogo wasn’t really what I pictured but as kind of a minor character (in my view) I guess I didn’t care so much. Off topic I did like him much better in Conan.

Gods… I know that all I want for my engagement gift is a freaking box of snakes!!! If it’s a good omen to have some killed at the reception I’ll be sure to invite all my exes!

Their first time is nothing like what was in the book. *Dislike*

So… episode one leaves us with a cliffhanger and any sane person should want to kick Jaime and Viserys in the teeth.

Game of Thrones, Part Duex

grendell — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 02:52:23 +0000

So after much contemplation I have decided to try watching the miniseries again. I will admit to having hated it on my first attempt. I’ve read all five of the books and am eager for the next. Sadly, it sounds like it may be 2 years before book 6. So, here I go with season 1…