It’s a gorgeous day. Son has gone to mail an application to work in the California Mid-State Fair, in late July. Gracie is having one more day of IV fluids at San Carlos Pet Hospital, but the vet says she can finally go home this afternoon. YAY!!! Meanwhile, our older beagle, Bella, sleeps and snores as usual. But now we keep the back door to the garden shut, all the time.
For a while self watched the Michael Jackson accolades, and then she decided to go to the garden. It makes her feel a little mournful, to remember that she is responsible for Gracie’s near-fatal poisoning. What incredible luck, that Gracie pulled through. Otherwise self would feel very differently about the garden, today.
Last night, such was our little family’s jubilation at Gracie’s miraculous spunk and grit, that we broke out the popcorn and watched “Twilight.” That was quite an interesting movie! There is poetry in the cinematography, though the dialogue is mostly risible (”Hello, I am Edward,” spoken over a lab table. Many piercing, meaningful glances thrown Kristen Stewart’s way. Before self saw this movie, she was under the impression Robert Pattinson could act. Now, she’s not so sure).
Self thought the moody cinematography and Kristen Stewart’s performance were perhaps the best things about the movie. Hubby reminded self that the movie had won “Best Kiss” at the MTV Movie Awards (What a surprise: self hadn’t even known hubby was listening to the program). Self loved the opening scene, where a camera tracks a deer’s pell-mell progress through a forest. Also, the floor-level camera work during the movie’s climax, the way the action is inter-cut with shots from Kristen/Bella’s point of view, as she lies injured on the floor. Self thinks one of the highlights of the movie is the scene where the Vampire family plays baseball, all moody pouts (like no other family fun & games in the world, dear blog readers, but oh so ineffably cool), and the one where Robert Pattinson’s character tells Kristen Stewart’s character that he was trained not to take human life, but that doesn’t dampen his desire for real, human blood because not having it be a part of his vampire diet is “like eating tofu everyday.” (!!@@##)
Self, though, feels that any guy with hair as ridiculously blow-dried as Robert/Edward’s (It is, if one can believe this, even more ridiculous-looking than Zac Efron’s “do”) would be made the instant butt of all manner of high school jokes. Seriously!
Stay tuned, dear blog readers, stay tuned.