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Saturday morning I spent an hour or so at the service station while the guys pulled a bent nail from one of my tires, and plugged the hole. Hopefully I won't have the slow leak problem anymore. And yes, I know I need new tires before winter. I will do that, but hopefully I can get a few more weeks out of these.
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gwendolyngrace and her father. We saw the movie "9" not to be confused with the movie "Nine" due later this year or the movie "District 9" in theatres now. "9" is a post apocalyptic animated full length feature film. It was pretty good, even with a few ginourmous plot holes and needless information. I liked it a lot. I would say yes to seeing it, especially if you like that kind of thing.
Then we went to the mall for the express purpose of looking at the last of the fashion students "shows" in the lobby area of the Nieman Marcus. This time the school was Framingham State, and the students all juniors and seniors. There was some pretty nice stuff, and then some stuff that was dreadful. And stuff that was nice in concept, but poor in execution. And costume stuff that was well tailored and beautifully done, stuff that was costume-inspired and very well done. Our favorite was a girl who had four or five pieces in the "show" and her best by far was a steam-punk inspired gown that had brass hex nuts instead of grommets for the side lacing. It also had a fabulous hat, and she had obviously shopped for findings in the hard ware store, because it had the same size hex nuts and brass wire amid the feathers as dressing for the hat. The gown was a maroon underdress, and a faux-leather browny-black over-tunic thing with brass buttons and the brass hex nuts. It showed off her obvious video-gamer costume background, but at the same time was fabulously creative and fashion-forward.
The one thing that annoyed me was the looky-lous couldn't stop touching the outfits. Look with your eyes, people, not with your hands! I admit I touched exactly one garmet, because it stuck out oddly from the way it was hanging, and I figured out it was hanging too far back - the boned skirt was pushed forward by the back support of the mannequin. But it was one fingertip. One little girl, whose parent/guardian was also fondling work of one designer tugged at the skirt to tell me it was all made from recycled materials, and as it was made out of trash bags and "admit one" tickets, I was afraid she would rip it. Gwen said, "they're clothes, people are gonna touch them" and I replied "But this isn't a store, and they are not testing the goods before they buy. It is more like a museum display. Do not touch!" She laughed at me.
Then we went to dinner (still with her dad), where he treated us to dinner, which was lovely. We parted ways, and I went off to a "Pampered Chef" party at a friend's house. She is working as a Pampered Chef consultant, and she threw this party to practice on her friends. R, another girl I went to HS with was there, and it was awesome to reconnect. I met her (gorgeous, polite, sweet) fifteen year old son. He entertained K's daughters while she gave her spiel. H, another HS friend was supposed to come, but did not show. Sadly, we were not really all that surprised.
Anyway, it was a good night with food and drink, and lovely friends! A prequel to my HS reunion which is in less than a month. Even if I hang with K&H (K's husband) and R all night, it will be awesome!
Today I had such high hopes to Get Shit Done. I did not. I had a bit of a tummy thing going on last night, so I slept in this morning and spent most of the day not doing much at all. I did go grocery shopping as the larder was distressingly bare. But I put the VMAs on this evening as it was something I could mostly ignore and yet it made the house a little noisy. Good god, if this is what popular music is like today!
They are certainly a loud, colorful group. The young man whose group played during one commercial break and they showed the end of segueing back into the show - he was wearing pants and glitter - and not much else. The person known as "Lady Gaga" seems to be a singer of some kind. Or a performance artist. Perhaps both? I did like Pink's aerial act. And Beyonce is still gorgeous, can move, and is a true Lady besides. I muted most of Russell Brand, because I find him kind of repulsive. I Am Too Old And Crochety. I kind of liked Madonna's tribute to MJ at the beginning, although it went a shade to close to her shaking her finger at us.
I dropped by MTV.com to check out some of the red carpet "looks" that I missed, and while poking around I found the advertisement clips for the VMA show that took West Side Story (VMA Side Story). They have them all strung together - the individual artist clips - to make a lovely montage that was funny and clever and very New York. I especially liked the Cobra Starship people as the Jets.
Back to work in the morning. Distressing. Ah, well. Time for bed!
Spent Saturday afternoon with
gwendolyngrace and her father. We saw the movie "9" not to be confused with the movie "Nine" due later this year or the movie "District 9" in theatres now. "9" is a post apocalyptic animated full length feature film. It was pretty good, even with a few ginourmous plot holes and needless information. I liked it a lot. I would say yes to seeing it, especially if you like that kind of thing.Then we went to the mall for the express purpose of looking at the last of the fashion students "shows" in the lobby area of the Nieman Marcus. This time the school was Framingham State, and the students all juniors and seniors. There was some pretty nice stuff, and then some stuff that was dreadful. And stuff that was nice in concept, but poor in execution. And costume stuff that was well tailored and beautifully done, stuff that was costume-inspired and very well done. Our favorite was a girl who had four or five pieces in the "show" and her best by far was a steam-punk inspired gown that had brass hex nuts instead of grommets for the side lacing. It also had a fabulous hat, and she had obviously shopped for findings in the hard ware store, because it had the same size hex nuts and brass wire amid the feathers as dressing for the hat. The gown was a maroon underdress, and a faux-leather browny-black over-tunic thing with brass buttons and the brass hex nuts. It showed off her obvious video-gamer costume background, but at the same time was fabulously creative and fashion-forward.
The one thing that annoyed me was the looky-lous couldn't stop touching the outfits. Look with your eyes, people, not with your hands! I admit I touched exactly one garmet, because it stuck out oddly from the way it was hanging, and I figured out it was hanging too far back - the boned skirt was pushed forward by the back support of the mannequin. But it was one fingertip. One little girl, whose parent/guardian was also fondling work of one designer tugged at the skirt to tell me it was all made from recycled materials, and as it was made out of trash bags and "admit one" tickets, I was afraid she would rip it. Gwen said, "they're clothes, people are gonna touch them" and I replied "But this isn't a store, and they are not testing the goods before they buy. It is more like a museum display. Do not touch!" She laughed at me.
Then we went to dinner (still with her dad), where he treated us to dinner, which was lovely. We parted ways, and I went off to a "Pampered Chef" party at a friend's house. She is working as a Pampered Chef consultant, and she threw this party to practice on her friends. R, another girl I went to HS with was there, and it was awesome to reconnect. I met her (gorgeous, polite, sweet) fifteen year old son. He entertained K's daughters while she gave her spiel. H, another HS friend was supposed to come, but did not show. Sadly, we were not really all that surprised.
Anyway, it was a good night with food and drink, and lovely friends! A prequel to my HS reunion which is in less than a month. Even if I hang with K&H (K's husband) and R all night, it will be awesome!
Today I had such high hopes to Get Shit Done. I did not. I had a bit of a tummy thing going on last night, so I slept in this morning and spent most of the day not doing much at all. I did go grocery shopping as the larder was distressingly bare. But I put the VMAs on this evening as it was something I could mostly ignore and yet it made the house a little noisy. Good god, if this is what popular music is like today!
They are certainly a loud, colorful group. The young man whose group played during one commercial break and they showed the end of segueing back into the show - he was wearing pants and glitter - and not much else. The person known as "Lady Gaga" seems to be a singer of some kind. Or a performance artist. Perhaps both? I did like Pink's aerial act. And Beyonce is still gorgeous, can move, and is a true Lady besides. I muted most of Russell Brand, because I find him kind of repulsive. I Am Too Old And Crochety. I kind of liked Madonna's tribute to MJ at the beginning, although it went a shade to close to her shaking her finger at us.
I dropped by MTV.com to check out some of the red carpet "looks" that I missed, and while poking around I found the advertisement clips for the VMA show that took West Side Story (VMA Side Story). They have them all strung together - the individual artist clips - to make a lovely montage that was funny and clever and very New York. I especially liked the Cobra Starship people as the Jets.
Back to work in the morning. Distressing. Ah, well. Time for bed!
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