(This is the new shirt I got from Chris and Angela for Christmas!)
Hello, hello.
How's life been treating you?
I'm just happy it's Winter Break...
It's been fun thus far.
I've been enjoying using my new coffee mugs I got for Christmas:
I've been enjoying my break like a true couch potato; sleeping in, lying around watching VHS movies, listening to records, reading magazines and books, and of course, surfing the World Wide Web (all while staying in my pajamas and/or bathrobe).
However, I did leave the house to:
1. Celebrate my dad's birthday.
2. Visit the thrift store.
3. See Sherlock Holmes.
4. Go to Vinyl Fever and IKEA
(On our way driving to the IKEA:)
Because my dad is young at heart, we all went to laser tag for his birthday. It was really fun.
I had the codename of "Impulse" (I didn't pick it, it was on my light jacket) and I received the second lowest score (but at least I beat my sister, whoo!).
I really didn't think I was going to suck so bad. I mean, my asthmatic friend even beat my score.
I dressed all in black and was feeling really macho, prepping myself in the bathroom, you know, like "eye of the tiger, baby", "I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey!" But alas, I guess I'm just a greenhorn at laser combat.
So yesterday, I went and saw Sherlock Holmes with Dante, Molly, Molly's boyfriend, and Christina.
Molly's boyfriend came and picked me up. He played really hardcore, and I mean really hardcore metal on the ride to the theater, which isn't exactly my cup of tea. But it was all good, I mean, I couldn't really hear the music because my ears were bleeding.
But the movie was pretty good.
I have to say though, the trailer was really misleading.
I was under the impression that it was going to be a comedy, but it really wasn't. Don't get your hopes up, the movie's five jokes were all displayed in the trailer. But as an action flick, it was a pretty well done movie.
I loved Robert Downey Jr.'s spin on the Sherlock Holmes character. It was raw and modernized, different than the detective I grew up reading in The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventure of the Speckled Band, but the character still retained the traditional Sherlock Holmes-est psyche and avant-garde spirit but combined with that certain bad-ass-outlaw character which is oh so likeable to the young and restless 21st century audience.
(love the dress!)
I loved the cinematography in the film, especially the slow motion scenes.
I also really liked how the director would allow the audience to see the way Holmes viewed the world and his methods of deduction (but he never once said, "Elementary, my dear Watson"! Pity).
Overall, it was an entertaining movie, with an interesting story and good action. And while it probably won't win any awards, it was a nice bit of escapism to watch over the winter holidays.
How's life been treating you?
I'm just happy it's Winter Break...
It's been fun thus far.
I've been enjoying using my new coffee mugs I got for Christmas:
I've been enjoying my break like a true couch potato; sleeping in, lying around watching VHS movies, listening to records, reading magazines and books, and of course, surfing the World Wide Web (all while staying in my pajamas and/or bathrobe).
However, I did leave the house to:
1. Celebrate my dad's birthday.
2. Visit the thrift store.
3. See Sherlock Holmes.
4. Go to Vinyl Fever and IKEA
(On our way driving to the IKEA:)
Because my dad is young at heart, we all went to laser tag for his birthday. It was really fun.
I had the codename of "Impulse" (I didn't pick it, it was on my light jacket) and I received the second lowest score (but at least I beat my sister, whoo!).
I really didn't think I was going to suck so bad. I mean, my asthmatic friend even beat my score.
I dressed all in black and was feeling really macho, prepping myself in the bathroom, you know, like "eye of the tiger, baby", "I'm gonna come at you like a spider monkey!" But alas, I guess I'm just a greenhorn at laser combat.
So yesterday, I went and saw Sherlock Holmes with Dante, Molly, Molly's boyfriend, and Christina.
Molly's boyfriend came and picked me up. He played really hardcore, and I mean really hardcore metal on the ride to the theater, which isn't exactly my cup of tea. But it was all good, I mean, I couldn't really hear the music because my ears were bleeding.
But the movie was pretty good.
I have to say though, the trailer was really misleading.
I was under the impression that it was going to be a comedy, but it really wasn't. Don't get your hopes up, the movie's five jokes were all displayed in the trailer. But as an action flick, it was a pretty well done movie.
I loved Robert Downey Jr.'s spin on the Sherlock Holmes character. It was raw and modernized, different than the detective I grew up reading in The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventure of the Speckled Band, but the character still retained the traditional Sherlock Holmes-est psyche and avant-garde spirit but combined with that certain bad-ass-outlaw character which is oh so likeable to the young and restless 21st century audience.
(love the dress!)
I loved the cinematography in the film, especially the slow motion scenes.
I also really liked how the director would allow the audience to see the way Holmes viewed the world and his methods of deduction (but he never once said, "Elementary, my dear Watson"! Pity).
Overall, it was an entertaining movie, with an interesting story and good action. And while it probably won't win any awards, it was a nice bit of escapism to watch over the winter holidays.
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