La la la, long weekend.
So we helped the Deligiorgakis's move on Saturday. It all happened amazingly fast and neat! Well done everyone.
Sunday and Monday were awesome. 25 hours of
The Katherine and Justin Show, 4 movies, 3 milkshakes, 2 a.m bedtime, 1 tricycle, and way too much food. Good weekend? I think so.
I'll start with moving day.
Got the Deli's at about 8, and the truck arrived right after. Spent a good portion of the morning sorting out all Karen's books with Beth and trying to figure out a solution to the books-to-shelf-space ratio problem we appeared to be having.
Oh, and enjoying their new living room rug:
These three promptly dove upon it the second it got laid down, to make sure they got to test it before they coffee table was put in place. I think the new rug has their approval.
I can't remember why Justin put his hand over Beth's mouth ... might've been trying to stop her talking while I took the picture....
Anyway. While Beth and I sorted the books on one shelf Justin and Katherine busied themselves attempting to put all the DVD's onto the other shelf. They didn't think it out very logically. Ended up putting ALL of them on the shelf and then took them ALL off again to sort them alphabetically. Silly kiddies.
And yeah. Arrived home that evening and watched Old Dogs with the family. Low expectations = hilariously funny film. That's how it's done.
Moving onto Sunday and Monday, I shall begin with a detailed account of the food us three persons (Justin, Katherine, and myself) consumed over the space of the 25 hours we were together. It was quite epic.
At 5pm on Sunday Katherine and her parents arrived at our house for dinner. Dinner consisted of:
- A huge salad of lettuce, cucumber, capsicum, carrots, tomatoes and feta cheese
- A choice of both beef and lamb (we all had both, of course)
- Cooked veggies - potatoes, pumpkin, eggplant and capsicum
It was so good. Thank you parentals for the lovely dinner. Sorry for giggling about Toy Story quotes during grace.
Dinner was followed afterward by:
- Milk and chocolate chip cookies from Aldi, eaten in the duration of the movie 9
- Popcorn - popped sometime in the middle of The Island
- Strawberry and chocolate milkshakes, made by me halfway through The Island
- Sour lollipops - given to us by Jackie, and sucked on whilst playing Little Big Planet
- Peanut butter slathered heavily on thick-cut bread - consumed at about 1am during Psycho - apparently too thickly for Katherine's liking!
We fell asleep somewhere around 2:45 am, and accidentally missed the Australia/Germany soccer match. Dad put the replay on at 7 the next morning but Katherine and I determinedly slept through this as well, to try and make sure we wouldn't be insane for the rest of the day from lack of sleep.
At 10 a.m that morning I made French toast with maple syrup, and for lunch we had hot chips with ketchup. Yes that's right, Heinz tomato ketchup. Not tomato sauce. Munched on some apples during more Little Big Planet. Thoroughly enjoyed the array of vegetation and cheese mother produced later that afternoon when Katherine and I were snuggled on my bed watching
Julie and Julia. Not that great a film, really.
Speaking of films, we watched 4 in the 25 hours and I wanted to give a short review on each, in the order we watched them.
9 was the first film we watched. 80 minutes wasted, in my opinion. I had hoped it would be better. Had wanted to see it for a long while; it seemed kind of interesting but the plot was lame and rather pointless. Long story short (or should I say, short story in a nutshell), the little sack creature 9 wakes up in a post apocalyptic, clockpunk world and goes searching for others. He meets 2, and 2 gets captured by a mechanical beast. 9 is discovered by 5, who takes him to meet all the others. 1 is the leader of the group and leads in fear, so he basically sucks at being a leader. 9 and 5 defy him and go to try and rescue 2. Upon rescuing him with the help of 7 who kills the beast, 2 is killed by a second, larger beast that 9 awakens. Got all that?
*SPOILER FOLLOWS*
The entire rest of the film involves most of the characters being killed off by this beast. 1 and 7 eventually destroy it and free all the souls of their dead friends from the belly of the monster. I had expected their friends to come back to life but instead their souls float up to heaven. The film ends with 7 saying, 'They're free now.' Fade out. Bor-ing. Don't watch it.
The second film was
The Island. I quite liked this one. Appreciated the cinematography and the general mood of the movie. I can't say much about the plot because it gives away the movie, but it's essentially a sci-fi thriller starring Ewan McGregor (LOVE) and Scarlett Johansson (HATE).
Basically in this movie Ewan McGregor, named Lincoln 6-Echo, questions his safe, enclosed environment to the point of annoying the antagonist enough that he wants to kill him. That sounds dumb but you have to see the movie, okay?!
Scarlett Johansson plays the best friend turned love interest ... yeah I know, I don't like her either.
BUT Ewan McGregor saves the world, so that's why you should see it.
Third film of the night was
Psycho. Do I need to explain this one? It's Alfred Hitchcock! Very famous, very clever, and very creepy. Grab some friends and go watch it.
Final film was
Julie and Julia. Meh. I mean, it was a film about food. So I wanted a bit more 'wow' factor when it came to the dishes that were incorporated into the actual plot. I also felt a bit like Julie Powell's mother concerning Julie's blog - 'No one cares!' It was a bit boring. I think Katherine fell asleep at one point. It wasn't a bad movie, just not my kind of film. Especially after watching movies such as
The Island and
Psycho, it was a bit bland. But Meryl Streep was good, if you like Meryl Streep.
Anyway, back to Monday. After lunch we had an epic time doing the kind of stuff we Stanmore kids do on a regular basis, of course, such as...
Taking the Ford Anglia for a spin
Driving a bus
Stealing a tricycle
And doing crazy stunts
As you do. Yep, just a typical day in the life of me. :)
