Maru's Mun Journal

My Little Lady was both bored and ouchy just now (she is old enough to be ouchy in a TMI way now; well, she turns 13 tomorrow), so to distract her, I took her to my computer to show her something, and when I said 'Bad luck we can't watch movies', she said 'Why not?' and I looked and saw I had some episodes of Doctor Who on my netbook.

One of them was a standalone, so I introduced my Little Lady to the Doctor. Her English is finally good enough. Never mind her grades, she can follow an episode of Doctor Who, so that's good enough for my standards.

She got what was funny in the beginning, then she got why the next part with their dad being missing and the dreadful telegram was so sad, she followed it right along, asked for a word here and there, I told her what she couldn't know (What is a police box? What is a TARDIS?), and we got to half-time when her folks wanted to leave and go home, as all her little brothers have a strep infection.

We'll continue the episode tomorrow. If we can have an USB stick, we might even hijack the huge TV in their living room.

In any case, advancement of civilisation was achieved.-

The Little Lady and I went to see PotC4 today, in 3D -- that was the only version still on, anyway. This was the first movie I've seen where the 3D didn't distract from the story or jar with the cinematography.

What struck me as especially interesting was how alive and real the fabrics seemed. Rich soft velvets, woollen coats on the soldiers and sailors, the canvas sails on the ships: - they all seemed so much more tangible than on normal film. That was an effect I really hadn't been expecting. There were a few other nice gimmicks to make full use of the 3D technology, but this I found most impressive.

This year, my Little Lady (who loves 'Harry Potter', has read all the books and seen all the movies, so is no stranger to magic and scary/serious things) gets the first dose of PTerry and GNeil for Christmas

Just ordered 'The Graveyard Book' and 'Wee Free Men' (both in German, though) to be delivered to my parents' so I can gift-wrap them myself and deliver them by hand on Christmas eve...

So looking forwards to what she'll say!

I think it's really sweet how they're holding paws...

( More randomness from my phone camera )

Sphinx sent me pictures:


Me pushing the Little Lady about at a little zoo, when she still had her plaster cast


Her first day at school! I swear, it was not my idea for her school bag to be purple! Much less for their house to be painted pale lavender! Nothing to do with asar_suti at all. The purple just happens, somehow.

The Little Lady is something less of a trouper today; she chafes, screamed blue murder all afternoon, and terrorized everybody. The plaster cast is getting on her nerves. The result: endless kiddie TV, on the tube or on video. Tomorrow, my mother is going to drag her to doctors and rent a wheelchair to push her around. At least, that is activity, and Phia will be too afraid to be much of a pest.

In other news: essayel , that little violet-blue stone with the smile has been identified. There was a little mineral shop at the place where we stopped for a break yesterday, on our way back from the Baltic, and they sold things made of that material. It is  blue goldstone, the one traditional artificial material that does equal a natural gemstone in hardness and workability. That reminds me of silima, the stuff Feanor made his gems from, in the Silmarillion. Hey, you gave me - not only a pretty stone that reminds one of asar_suti  (the colour) and gil_whimple  (the little smile), but that might be made of the same stuff as a palantír.



Also, esoteric lore ascribes various healing properties. Strong ones. That stone is magic.

And the Little Lady always wants to see the smile when I wear it...

Little Lady has torn a ligament. No OOMs till Saturday, and then I'm back online early. Sorry.

Sphinx sent me a mail asking where the pictures from Easter were, and so I finally edited them and put them in my 'bucket for RL and family stuff.



Even little ladies can do drama...

Gank & credit icon if interested.

( More and bigger drama inside! Ending with ice cream! )

I am still alive, and not just an empty shell for margolotta, and to prove that I give you another picture of Phia, my very favourite little red-headed lady, and her little brother.-