Well, almost, but close enough. :) I think I'll start the holiday nails tomorrow...I've got a really nice dark burgundy creme on right now and a good red/green glitter topper I might put on over it. We'll see...Need to look at what I have. At any rate, I'm trying to get into the Christmas spirit. This year seems to be harder than most and I think it's because Halloween wore me out. I've only NOW started thinking of Christmas presents and normally I've got it all planned out before Thanksgiving even arrives. *sigh* It probably also doesn't help that Christmas started Nov 1st so I'm a little desensitized already. At least the music hasn't started, yet!
Last night our power went for 4 hours (went out at 9pm). It forced an early bed, which I then proceeded to read an entire book instead of sleeping. Oh well. It was a good book! I might make it to 50 books for the year! It means I'll need to read 4 books in December, but it's possible...The book I read, though, reminded me why I enjoy YA novels so much. I've read some good ones this year, but this one was probably one of my favorites recently. Luckily, I don't have too much longer to wait for the 2nd one. :)
At any rate, movies...Still haven't seen Twilight (turned it down twice now), but maybe sometime between now and The Hobbit (Dec 14th!!). So...My one movie this week.
Lawless (Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Guy Pearce) - Uhm. Well. What to even say...It's definitely one of my least favorite movies I've seen this year. I knew it was going to be bad based on the reviews, but I didn't think it'd be THAT bad. The acting was good and the cinematography was good, but the story was not good. The end ended up being on the cheesy end and there is a lot of blood. Blood doesn't really bother me, but some of the scenes just made me cringe (the tar and feathering, for example). You have to admit that the 20's in the U.S. was an...interesting...time period, but this one looked at the prohibition and the lawlessness that came with it. You'd think this would set-up to be a good mobster movie or something, but it didn't really hit anything. At least the cast can act, but there's nothing else really redeeming about the film. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone and kind of wish I can scrub it out of my mind. I will say, Forrest (Tom Hardy) is one seriously resilient man! He just would not die...I still like LaBeouf as an actor (I practically grew-up with him), but his personal life does cloud my enjoyment of seeing him in movies. It makes me a little sad and hope that he doesn't go down the path he seems to be just barely skirting. With that...Skip the movie! Grade: D
With that...I think I'll spend this rainy day in bed reading some more. :)
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