Movie - Volver

Not a bad movie, except I really couldn't stand that Penelope Cruz's character pretty much runs around the entire time crying. Enough already!

The theme in this Almodovar movie is father figure pedophiles and trust. Of course, as in most of his movies, the overarching theme is his fascination with women and relationships, in this case mothers and daughters. There's token appearances by men, but the message is that they're a burden and aren't needed. Like life after the wars, when there were few men, the women had to build lives without them.

There's a couple big twists in the story, and it's a interesting look at women. Overall ok, but my reaction is more of a 'meh'.

Destinos - Abridged

Woohoo woohoo!!!! All done editing all the silences, unnecessary pieces and repetitions out of the episodes!!!! Very adept at Audacity.

Getting a really good handle on the accents, according to Hubby. Can't wait to practice it for real.

Destinos - Editing

Started the long process of editing out all the long silences, repetitions, etc from the audio on Audacity. Very good exercise too.

Closet Planning, Etc.

After a shitty market day, nothing better than a propeller-purring orange furrball curled in your lap, using your hand for a pillow as you slog through the next tedious task of designing organizers for 4 closets. Mozart’s decided I really only need one hand on the computer. Have to stop myself chuckling when he snores and sighs away. The only one with funnier sleeping sounds is Pixie, with a repertoire of loud grunts, snorts and looong drawn out sighs.

2 hrs later: finally made closet designs I’m happy with, and easy enough to get from Home Depot. Now just Hubby’s closet left to go. God, I am SO looking forward to having all my stuff neat and organized! No more digging through precariously teetering piles of clothing. Of course, now I have to sort crap that’s probably really out of date. And I’ve already seen stuff that I wondered, “What the hell was I thinking when I bought *this*?!”

Only did 1 lesson each of French and Spanish, but still good. *Love* French in Action and Destinos. Saw them years ago on KCSM (they’re always on), and watched a few occasionally. Then, in January, caught the first episodes, and thought, why not? It’s entirely different starting from the beginning than the middle, and once I got the method, I was hooked. It’s elementary, and they’re speaking really slowly, but it’s perfect for practicing accents. Hilarious: I could read books and write book reports, but butchered it speaking! I love Professeur Capretz, and "Raquel"'s good. My accent’s improved a lot. Typed up complete transcripts while watching, and have been faithfully doing the lessons every day. Really proud of myself.

Second spray on the cyms and catts in the war on scale. Dunno if it's working. Some cym spikes coming up, very cool.

Well, back again after feeding the kitties. Had the usual Circle of Death around me, complete with a threat from Mozart that I wasn’t providing dinner fast enough. He licks my bare skin, then nips it. We joke that if we died and the kitties were hungry, they’d eat us. But it’s true, and they’d eat me first. Nature - there you have it. LMAO.