Yesterday we went into Dublin to watch some movies, since we have no net access and we were all bored. :) We went to King Kong, which Shaun walked out of (not surprisingly), Ted decided was too long to like, and I felt rather guilty liking, because it really was *much* too long and self-absorbed. The opening–everything up to them getting onto the ship, for example–could have been done in about 7 minutes, instead of the 30 or more it took, f’rinstance. But I rather liked it anyway. :)
We also saw The Family Stone, which had much more serious underpinnings than I expected, but which was quite good. Plus Diane Keaton’s hair is good. :)
The other thing we did was meet up with Deirdre & Gavin & Company (Gavin’s siblings are all visiting) over at the Temple Bark farmer’s market for a few minutes. We did this in large part because Gavin’s sister, Liz, was going through Christmas pictures, and saw one of Shaun, and started yelling, “Who’s that! Who’s that!” and when she was told it was Shaun, said, “I knew that!”
It turns out Shaun and Lizzie know each other completely independently, and while he’d told her he was moving to Ireland, and she’d said her brother’d moved to Ireland and she’d be visiting him in January, they never managed to quite connect that Lizzie’s brother was my sister’s husband. Even more peculiar is that we had Gavin’s whole family over for dinner once, but apparently Lizzie left before Shaun got home, and while I know they were both at the wedding, evidently they didn’t see one another. Two ships passing in the night, indeed. So they got a chance to catch up, and we all got to be amused at the whole situation.
Deirdre & Gavin & Co had all just come back from the Aran Islands, the largest of which, Deirdre reported, is 10 x 3 miles and has 7000 miles of stone fences. (Really.) They enjoyed themselves a lot. :)
A clear problem with having a job is that it makes it harder to dash off and go explore Ireland. Not that I’m objecting to having a job. I like my job. But it does require me actually working, which is bothersome when I’d like to explore. Another problem is not having a car, though we’re working toward rectifying that problem. Now all we need is a sudden very large influx of money so we can buy Ted a B&B. Then, er, we’ll ALL be too busy to explore! Yeah! o.O :)
miles to Mount Doom: 319.5
You could get a part time manager to take care of this future B&B when you feel like going exploring, they could also work as a PA to your author self, and then you’d have everything covered bar the actual writing ,traveling and owning of said future B&B!;)
Phsst! Catie! How come from TF, LUNA’s become a $1 dearer?
No idea! i didn’t know they had become a dollar dearer! They, er, must figure the readers are good for it. :)