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Have you seen the movie The Holiday with Kate Winslet? She swaps houses with Cameron Diaz? Look at the various houses in that movie. Look for elements that you feel say "home."
Things that read homey to me: soft elements like curtains, pillows, throws and rugs; personal items like frames, knick knacks, candles; a variety of ways of holding items like boxes or baskets; a color palette that is varied but goes together; things that look old and things that look new; flowers; interesting things in the wall, not just one picture in the middle of the wall.
I want to live in Bag End. ;)
http://apilgriminnarnia.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/bag-end-inside-hobbit.jpg
I love the house that Kate Winslet had in The Holiday. I would love to live in a home like that, but no one else around here would go for it. Boys! Boo!
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What's funny is that I can make other people's houses homey, but I can't make mine that way! We live in military housing, and I've always tried to make it feel like home, but it feels forced to me. My friends all love my house, and have asked me to come over and help them. When I work at their houses, it comes out exactly the way I want and feels homey, but mine just doesn't. Of course that could be because we don't live the way I'd like to, simply out of necessity. I also really like pale colors, but I live with 3 boys and 2 dogs, so it's just not practical. They also don't care for the simple, comfy English Country style I like. Sigh. One day I will have a room that is all mine and I will decorate it any way I want and dare them to come in and make a mess.
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I'm on drugs, so be warned. So, on Thurs (Oct 16), I had a breast reduction. I was barely a B cup when James Bond and I got married, but after the boys came along, the girls just wouldn't stop growing! I went to spilling out of a DD. I got terrible back pain from the weight. My doc finally sent me to the plastic surgeon, and he said I was a good candidate for a reduction. It was such a strange appt. He was holding my breasts, moving them up and down and drawing photos of breasts on paper. I tried not to laugh, but I couldn't help it. I told him he had every teenage boys dream job. We got to talking about scifi, and it came out that he has never seen Firefly! Well, I couldn't have anyone operating on me who hasn't seen Firefly. At my next appt, I brought him the DVD. He cracked up, but when I saw him at the hospital the day of the surgery, he said he's watched several of them and quite liked them. Well, that's much better!
So, anyway, the day of the surgery, I got my IV and all that good stuff, and the doc came in to measure me and drew marks and lines all over me. I asked James Bond if that was weird for him, since he was in the room. He said "A little bit." I got my knock out meds and then I remember NOTHING. They put me under at 11am, my surgery was through by 3pm, and I didn't wake up until 8:30pm, and even then they had to pull me out of it. I vaguely remember getting home.
The pain isn't that bad, but it's no walk in the park. I'm trying to manage the pain with the lower pain meds, and stay away from the Oxycontin, but I may have to take one, as every now and then I hurt a lot.. Even though they are all bruised up and a little swollen, I have to say the girls are definitely smaller, and way, way higher, since the did a lift at the same time. Once I'm healed up, they'll be nice and perky! ;)
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My deepest fantasy is to have Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Colin O'Donoghue, and Richard Dean Anderson come clean and declutter my house for me, while I watch. Also, they would feed me and give me foot rubs. ;)
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I'm so excited for you! How long before you're published and famous? ;) I have 2 author friends IRL who have been published. I'd like to add a 3rd.
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We use both and they are great, but there are a lot of worksheets, which can be tiring. Indy really likes the books, and the worksheets are helping him learn to write more comprehensive answers, like he'll need to do in high school.
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I don't care how ugly it may be, I will eat any kind of pumpkin pie.
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S2 of The Paradise is airing on PBS now. Netflix can't air it yet.
Dang. It's a really good show! I have quite enjoyed it, and I'm sad it only lasted 2 seasons. I hear Mr. Selfridge gave it major competition, and as MS had more well known actors, it won out.
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I will just have to live w/ this, my new normal, a world where High Heels watches American shows before watching their British forerunners. Even though Benedict Cumberbatch was in neither Broadchurch nor Gracepoint, I might rat you out to him. Just sayin'.
I know, I've turned your world upside down, and I apologize. I swear I will watch Broadchurch, and then tell you how superior it is, and that I should have listened to you, thus proving your superiority in TV selection. Does that make you feel better? Also, please don't tell Benny on me! I can't bear the complete and utter humiliation.
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High Heels, what will it take to get you to go watch Broadchurch right this minute? At least start?
And can anyone believe I'm having to talk her into this? Girl! You slay me! I am in shock. Nothing makes sense anymore. World, hell, handbasket!
No I will, but right now, since I've started watching GP, I don't want to confuse myself. Since it's gotten so much praise here, I have to watch it. I think it was in my Netflix queue even before I heard about GP, I just hadn't gotten around to it, because I was watching Orange is the New Black, The Paradise (WHY don't they have S2???), and Haven.
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Not having seen BC (I know, I know), I don't have the problem many of you have been having. I watched the first 2 eps today, and thought it wasn't too bad. Having read all your comments though, I'm stressing out on who's going to turn out to be the killer.
OK, Gracepoint, episode 2. Who is your suspect so far?
I'm not sure, but I do suspect the backpacker is a red herring.
I suspect the priest (preacher). I don't like him.
It was the sister's boyfriend. The 3 boys were in together on the drug thing but Danny wanted out . . . and the sister didn't even know anything about it all! She's going to be something to watch when she finds out, though.
:laugh: Ok, that's the best I can come up with for now. Yeah, I was never going to be a writer, even though I dreamed of it as a kid. :laugh:
Interesting.
Yeah, I read that too. Kind of like the death of Henry Blake on M*A*S*H.
I wonder if they will give as many clues in GP as they did in BC?
OMG, the death of Henry was traumatizing. I totally remember that from when I was a little kid, and recently watched it again, and even though I knew it was coming, I was still shocked. How weird is that?
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We're planning on sending Indy to high school as well. The year he's ready to go into 9th grade, Han Solo will be ready to start K. I think it will be hard on HS at first, because he's so used to Indy, and despite the large age gap, are very close. Once he sees that I'm able to devote more time to him though, I think he'll be okay with it. If he went to school, I feel like I would be cheating him out of the years Indy had.
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We've done several ComiCons, and they are so much fun! I wouldn't have any problems letting Indy go with adults, and even wandering around with a friend, as long as they had their cell phones. ComiCons are crazy. I could really sit and people watch for hours. There are loads of geeks, and just out to meet other people who like the same stuff they do, meet some of their icons, and have a good time. Yes, there will likely be some creepy people, but overall, the people are so fun and friendly, and accepting, which is my favorite thing about ComiCons (other than getting to meet some of the people I've seen on TV and in movies).
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I have boys, but plenty of the girls we know have really liked the Kane Chronicles, by Rick Riordon. The stories are told by both the boy and the girl in the books, so you see it from 2, often very different, perspectives. There are 3 books in the series, and they are hefty books (around 500 pages each IIRC). I read the first one, and thought it was great, and really well written. I plan on reading the next 2, but I just haven't found the time. Indy is so upset that there aren't more to the series, like the Percy Jackson books and spinoffs.
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This is the best thread I've seen in a while. No drama (until the cupcake haters find it), general silliness in a snarky sort of way (YAY!) and cupcakes! Hot damn. Also, where is my mini cupcake?
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Thank you! What's wrong with saying, "sit with your legs crossed?"
Or something involving pretzels? They look just like crossed legs!
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I'm not a fan of Indian. We always say Native American, unless it's referring to playing cowboys and indians, and that's only because it feel more like a game title. Cowboys and Native Americans just doesn't sound right.
The whole AA/Black thing is kind of a slippery slope, as many black people aren't actually from America. We always used black when we lived in Europe.
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!! How exciting! I'll happily beta read. I've actually beta'd 3 books that have been published and many, many fanfics.
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Thanks for the tip. Definitely use it next month when the in-laws come! We are going to Stuttgart and Weisbaden (swim meets). We're going to go to Dakau and a bakery/castle on the way to Stuttgart, then after the Weisbaden trip head to Rimestad (sp?) to meet up with some friends and do some more sight-seeing and visit some villages to see Christmas stuff. We may go to Austria and do the VonTrapp thing...or we may save it for another time. I keep praying we'll get to stay for 5 years...but we are living on borrowed time. The clock for returning officially begun on 10/1...job postings are already going out. So, it's a matter of when dh's group is relocated and we have to go home (cannot turn down a promotion to stay here...just can't).
We lived in Wiesbaden! Downtown is beautiful! If you can, stop in Heidelberg! It's about 2 hours north of Stuttgart and an hour south of Wiesbaden. It is hands down one of the most beautiful cities you will ever visit. We lived there for 9 years, and both boys were born there. The Hauptstrasse is incredible.
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I don't think we've ever forgotten, but it falls close to my birthday, and the day after St. Patrick's Day, so it's hard to forget. The priest who was originally supposed to marry us was from Ireland, and told us he couldn't do the rehearsal the night before, as it was St. Pat's day, and he had to go out and drink some green beer. Unfortunately, the week before the wedding, his mother died, and he had to fly to Ireland. The other priest that ended up marrying us had a stutter, couldn't say my name correctly, and fudged up the vows when it was James Bond's turn. JB looked up at the priest and said "Can you repeat that?" Everyone laughed, but Fr. Jow leaned in quietly and said, "No, just put the ring on her finger." It's a great memory though. It will be 20 years in March.
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Wow! A year? It seems like you just moved! Holy cow. I'm glad things are starting to settle down for you though, and that you will finally get to start sightseeing. You're going to have so much fun, and see so much amazing stuff. Here's a tip for when you go to the Colosseum: Tickets for the Colosseum will also get you into the Forum, which is just up the road. The lines for tickets at the Colosseum are ridiculously long, so go to the Forum first, where the line is never long, buy your tickets there, tour around the Forum, then go to the Colosseum, and you can go right into it, instead of waiting in line again.
I hope you'll post your photos! Where are you going in Germany? We still all miss it like crazy. I can't believe we've been back int he the US for just over a year. We want o go back!
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I didn't like Scorpion. It's a bit over the top IMO. I'm pretty sure the real group of nerds on which it is based do most of their heroic deeds from a computer keyboard or in conference rooms. Nerds in car chases! Nerds risking their lives in bio hazard labs! Nerds getting all mushy because single mom's genius child reminds them of their younger selves. No. I'm done.
Hahaha! This is pretty much what James Bond and I thought. We couldn't even watch the whole pilot, because it was just too ridiculous. It looked interesting from the commercials, but it seems they just picked the few non-over the top scenes and spliced them together to make it look like a sharp, witty show.
I like Forever, but I would watch Ian Grupffud (or however you spell it) stare at a wall. I vaguely remember New Amsterdam (it starred the guy who now plays Jamie Lannister in GoT), but not enough to compare them. I'm content to not think about the other show and just watch the new one.
Does anyone watch Continuum? JB and I both really like it, but the Syfy peeps haven't decided wether or not they're going to renew it for S4. I HATE THAT. They left us with a cliff hanger, and now we may never know what happens!
Any Haven watchers? I am so into that show! JB watched the first 4 seasons and enjoyed it well enough, but after that, he said he was done. Um, whatever! S5 is now airing.
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I am loving The Paradise, but Netfix only has S1. Why? The other shows I like have already been listed. We've watched a few episodes of Whitechapel, and it's okay, but it's not something I just want to binge on for hours. ;)
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So, when will you find out if it makes it to the top 25?
Do you allow your pets on your furniture?
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Our dogs are 4 lbs (teacup Pomeranian) and 5 lbs (teacup Yorkie), and yes, they are allowed on the furniture. We have to be careful not to squish them! They are not allowed on the bed, like our previous (slightly larger) dogs were, because I really like not sleeping with dogs in the bed, and I'm afraid we'll roll over on them and they'll get hurt. I love my fur babies.