I had a nap with Vlad and Wednesday. Catching up on my sleep from last week.
Church Christmas party this evening; we’re taking fruit salad.
I went to my daughter’s this morning, and did a load of laundry, (which I still have to hang up) and she told me my fingernail had healed enough to put on a new set of nails for the Christmas holidays! WOO-HOO!
When she did them the last time, I made it to my class reunion and back, but during the night after she had done a fill, I hit my nail dead-on as I was feeling my way into the bathroom in the dark. It tore the nail off the nailbed till there was just a thin strip of flesh holding it on.
*sigh* So it’s been healing. It’s covered enough of the nailbed now that I can get new nails put on. Just in time for the Christmas party at church.
We’re having a “Pajama Party” next Friday night, so I’m wearing my red flannels and will take my bunny slippers! (That is, if I feel well enough to go. It sounds like so much fun!)
BTW, RE: Beowulf
Got this firsthand review from a local homeschool mom:
“My husband and I previewed Beowulf before allowing our 13-yr-old to see it, and we are glad we did. He will not be seeing this feature film, nor our other (older) children. It was very disturbing! It was closer to an R-rated movie, not PG13. Although semi-animated, it was very realistic and graphic, like some on-line games for older teens and adults. Besides being violent and overtly explicit in content visually and thematically, it did not follow the story of Beowulf at all. The plot and the characters are not what they are in the book, nor can they follow the “types” they were designed to represent. An example of this is the hero who does not follow the pattern of being truthful and honorable, but hides his sin and lives in shame most all his life, destroying his relationships.
This tragic movie was very disturbing on many levels. A very distorted and confusing triangle of love, deceit and sin, not a story of a hero. This corrupted version of Beowulf will wreck, not improve your child’s understanding of the story and life.
As you can tell, I was not pleased with the showing. I rarely speak up with my movie opinion or give a review, but since we read the book, and I was eager to preview this movie, I assume you might also be contemplating a trip to the theater...”
Thought you’d like to know.
— HKMk23