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For all you nurses, doctors and medical type people out there: please check this out:

Boyfriend Doesn't Have Ebola (Probably)

This totally made my evening and will be accompanying me to all future doctor's visits.

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(I'd like to just stay in bed all weekend. How 'bout you?)

Alice: Reviewed

At JP's request:

On Burton's Alice:

 
       I liked it. I really did. Keep in mind, I'd pay to watch Burton direct Depp read the back of a cereal box, so perhaps you should take my opinion with a grain of salt. (If you don't take ALL reviewer's opinions with a grain of salt, more fool you.)

I won't rehash what everyone has been saying - the visuals are fantastic. We didn't see it in 3D, I didn't see the point (and from what I understand, it's a waste to see it in 3D.) Depp is his usual wonderful self. Mia Wasikowska is gorgeous and surprisingly fitting as Alice in that 'what the hell is going on?' sort of way. I loved Carter and Hathaway as the opposing Queens. Matt Lucas as the Tweedles was achingly adorable. 

That said: I feel like the point that people have been missing is this isn't Carrol's 'Alice.' This is a newly invented story using Carrol's characters and some of his ideas. Don't go in expecting Burton's take on the old story. You're not going to find it. 

The only place you're going to find the story you know called 'Alice in Wonderland' is in the dream-like recollections of our heroine's past. That story was something that happened to her in her childhood.  Our new, nearly grown Alice was once Carrol's little girl and hardly remembers that Wonderland she once visited.  Burton should have entitled this 'Return to Wonderland.' Was he afraid it would have given away too much?

Our Alice is a young woman. A reluctant hero, coming into her own and discovering who she is and what her place is in the world. 

It's a Victorian coming of age story that has little to do with Romance (nary a Darcy in sight!) Rather, there are Knights and Hatters and a Jabberwock to battle.  

It is a coming of age story for the Victorian tomboy. One who finds further adventures at the end of the story instead of a ring on her finger and a husband by her side. 

Snippets of My Weekend

I meant to do this yesterday, but things kept cropping up.

 Spent a rainy Sunday at the coffee shop in the window table with my laptop. 

 Finished one project and started a couple of others. It was a productive weekend on the knitting front. More on that later.

 Sunday, March 14 (3.14) was Pie Day. I got The Boy™ and I chocolate, peanut butter pie from Wegman's. Yum!

Spring is in the air and I can't resist filling my apartment with flowers. Daffodils are inexpensive at the store right now, so they're my flower of choice. Who can pass up a bright yellow bouquet for the kitchen table? 

How was your weekend, my Lovelies?

Spring Break

This week was Spring Break in State College. For some of us. The College itself had break. Some of the schools (the private schools) had the week off. The public schools had a few days off, but not the whole week.  We had the week off of classes and lessons, though I still had to go in and woman the desk in case people called or stopped in (which they didn't do.) All in all, it was an uneventful week.

I went to Mom's last weekend with B. We had a nice time.  Hung out with the Fam (Beebe included.) Nice visit with Sister, BIL and Nephew. Saw Alice in Wonderland (which I absolutely LOVED.) Went out to dinner.

Nephew likes going out to eat. Aside from all the attention he gets from the other diners (because, let's face it, he's adorable,) he finds menus to be fascinating.  He helped Grandpa decide what to eat at Chellango's:

Otherwise, the weather this week has been beautiful. Warm enough to melt all the yucky snow we have gotten this winter. 50-60 degrees and sunny. Until today, that is. Today, it is in the 40s and raining. Better rain than snow, though, am I right?

I snuck out of work early on Tuesday and went off to campus to take advantage of the nice weather.

With my favorite shoes on my feet and my bag on my shoulder, I took off downtown to see what I could see.

I stopped first at Uncle Eli's, my favorite store, to buy a postcard for my Tana-Banana.  Uncle Eli's has the best window display (and is the best place in State College to buy art supplies and random gifts to send to friends in Liverpool.)










After that, I met up with The Boy™ and we walked over to the Creamery for the best Frozen Yogurt in the world.

Well, I got frozen yogurt. He got ice cream - keany-beanie, his new favorite.

On the way back to the car, we spotted some strange yellow things.  Could it be a sign of spring?

Alice

I know there are mixed feelings about this weekend's opening of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland.

 

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Personally, I'm looking forward to it. I've always been a big Alice fan - From Lewis Carrol's original with the Tenniel illustrations to the first movie I saw, Disney's first animated full length Alice. 

 

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Becca and I plan to go to Mom's this weekend and see it on Sunday with Mom, Sister and Grandma (and maybe Cousin Suzy?) Plan to, but I've been sick for the past few days, so we're going to see how I feel tomorrow.

 

Anyway, back to Alice.  I think one of the things I like so much about it is that it's so versatile. It really is a story that allows for a lot of variation.

 

You can go sugary and sweet.

 

 

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You can go gothic and angsty.

 

 

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Or you can just do your own thing altogether.

 

 

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Besides, what other children's story has such wonderful role models? Hooka-smoking, 'shroom ingesting Caterpillers?  A step up from the Brothers Grimm in my opinion.

 

 

 

And it has the added bonus of Johnny Depp, and directed by Tim Burton. Both of whom I love.  So it can't be that  bad, can it?

 

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