The Time Traveler's Wife

I am one of those few who love both reading the book and seeing the movie based on the book. The movies always fall short of course, but when I go back and think about the book the actors faces sort of fill in my imagination blanks.

One sort of weird set was The Witches of Eastwick. Movie was just about nothing at all like the book, including which character looked like what (as described in the book) and nothing in the movie seemed to happen like it happened in the book. It's almost as if the movie people said, "Hey - let's do an Updike. Ish. Okay, let's just borrow a title." I still liked the movie because it's a fun movie, but if you haven't read The Witches of Eastwick then you should.

None of that has anything to do with The Time Traveler's Wife.

Enjoyable for me, because I did read the book. I went to see the movie with my mother. She said she enjoyed it, but I think this is one case that not reading the book would diminish your excitedness about the movie. It truly was a great story and the movie did it fair justice, but the movie on its own with no written word to fill in all the blanks... Not so much.

At least they did a pretty decent job without totally changing the story. So there you have it.

If anyone happens to lurk by here I need some reading suggestions. What about more Updike? Or is there someone new and exciting?

Ah - new and exciting author: Tom Rob Smith. Child 44 is farking AWESOME and I just found out it's the first in a trilogy. Woot!

Not at my local library yet, however.

Pats foot, looks impatient...

Just Around

The "Cash for Clunkers" (or is that klunkers??) program is over. I paid little attention to this because I bought a new car about eight months ago so. I did pay enough attention to hear that part of the purpose of this program besides stimulating car sales was to encourage the purchase or more gas-efficient cars.

There is a local car company now advertising that they're continuing their own version of the "Cash" program except that they won't be looking at miles per gallon and it's always a great time to buy an SUV.

Figures.

Their tag-line is "geetchi won" (supposed to ge get-you-one).

Again, figures.

Ah, southeast Texas.

Testies, One - Two

Sitting here with my mom. She was curious about the whole blog thing so I'm writing just for her.

Don't say I never gave you anything, Mom.

Damn, I'm tired. Tired, and feeling like I've accomplished exactly zero on my list of things to be accomplished today. Hell, just TYPING accomplished is taking up a lot of my free time. Is there a better word? Not a phrase - just a word that gets 'accomplished' across.

I finally found a job with a company I could see myself sticking with. Woot! Let's just see how this plays out....

I'm still feeling weird about being in this area again. More on that later.

Couple of new movies coming out - The Time Travelers Wife and The Lovely Bones - both fantastic books. I know the movies almost never live up to the books, but I expect that and just kind of use the movies to bring my book characters to life. Anyway, read these books. I promise you won't be disappointed. Good stuff.

A Full Circle

I haven't posted to this blog in so long if anyone even finds this it will just be because of a random search. I could type in various famous peoples names, but why bother? I don't really want to drive traffic to this site because this post may be a fluke. A one-time thing. An immediate urge that needs fulfilling (did I spell that right??) but is over and done with later. Hell, I don't know.

What I do know is that I've returned to the area I grew up in. Most people I talk to seem to find that romantic. I find it slightly less than horrifying, to be honest. My husband got a fabulous job offer and I've started working for a good company so those things are good, but when I left this area I 'knocked the dust off my feet' so to speak. I never, never, never planned on returning. And here I am.

How weird.

First post in forever - let's see where this goes. Maybe I can find my funnybone again. Or something like that.

Alive and Kickin'...

So tomorrow will be a historic day. We will either have our first black president or our first elderly president who has chosen a proud doofus as his running mate. Oh, and she has a vagina and tits so that's historic too, I suppose.

Please, oh please let this be our first black president.....

Update

I should just probably take this damned thing down. Actually, I probably will when I get the give a shit.

I haven't fallen off the earth (again!). I got a new job and it's one of those you don't dare to internet surf, but it's a good job. It's a hell of a lot better than where I was. And it's quiet! No grinding, screeching, screaming or crickets. This was a good move.

Hopefully this will find anyone who wanders here well.

Take care.

PS - Pisser? When you come back to San Antonio to visit your mother email me. We'll do margaritas. Seriously. I don't bite. Well, I do, but it costs extra.