Art

For those of you who don't know our latest favorite cartoon, above you see Daughter's rendering of two of the main characters, Candace and Phineas.

Since she drew these all by herself I feel justified in showing them off here. :-) I think she did a fabulous job! Tomorrow they will be sent to the local cartoon channel's ongoing drawing competition. I think they deserve a gold star, with merit, but sadly, I'm not in the jury...

Seven!

Daughter is turning 7 today. As a good friend of mine from college would say: "Unbelievable!"

Since I wikid my birthday before, I thought I'd find out what amazing things have happened in the past on this most important of days:

1605: the infamous Gunpowder Plot - Guy Fawkes Day, in other words.
1688: start of the Glorious Revolution, with William of Orange taking over England.
1872: Susan B. Anthony votes in an election, despite the law telling her not to. On behalf of all women that may now vote: thank you.
1913: Vivien Leigh is born.
1931: Ike Turner is born.
1940: Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to a third term as president of the US.
1941: Art Garfunkel is born.
1946: Herman Brood is born.
1960: Tilda Swinton is born.
1965: Famke Janssen is born.
1968: Sam Rockwell is born.
1977: René Goscinny dies.
1982: Jacques Tati dies.
1996: Bill Clinton elected to his first term as president of the US.
2002: Daughter is born, at 19.02 (one of the first things The Other Half said to me afterwards: "She's all prime numbers!")(05.11.02, 19.02 hrs)(geek!).

Spine-tinglingly Cool

Cerulean

Yep.

That would be Cerulean, a rogue, and my second max-level WoW character (that link refers to the days before The Burning Crusade came out)(and she's level 80 now, too).

Not sure if this is a step up in the ÜberLeet-Gaming-Geek Standings, or a step down in the Whatever-Happened-to-Doing-Household-Chores Hall of Shame. :-)

Moment

Mother-Daughter moment at our favourite joint, Bagels and Beans.

For the record, we didn't eat all the chocolate coffee beans. This time.

Public Service Announcement

Just noticed on The Other Half's computer that the nifty little Tweet Feed in the right corner of this blog is filled with all kinds of stuff that isn't mine.

Odd.

You see, on my computer, I just see the last three I posted. So apologies if that part is filled with garbage; if it's still like that tomorrow I'll take the widget-thingie off.

Castle

The Other Half and I happened to see an ad for a new fall show: Castle, starting Oct. 8th on SBS6, of all places.



That's right, everyone's favourite Captain Tightpants, or Captain Hammer, if you prefer, in a new show that's already on Dutch tv! Hooray!

Tune in with me, will you?

PS. Another Firefly alum, that lovely and very lethal Mrs. Yo-Saff-Bridge Reynolds, is the sex bomb on Mad Men (it was on Nederland 2 on Wednesdays this past summer, at the very accessible *cough* time of 22.50 hrs)(no mention of reruns or the second season, but what with that winning more Emmys I'd hazard a guess at yes).

PS. Some more love for Pushing Daisies, which got cancelled: Kristin Chenoweth, who plays Olive Snook, got an Emmy for the role! If only the touch of that Emmy could bring the show back to life...

Caught!

I wonder who tried to sneak out to the neighbour's balcony...

State

Daughter and I travelled in state this afternoon to wave at our Queen in her golden carriage. This is a yearly returning phenomenon - the Queen in her carriage on her way to the State of the Union address, that is, not us waving at her. We figured she needed our support today, though, since her speech was all doom and gloom (leaked to every single news outlet throughout the past week)(I guess the recession has hit members of the Cabinet so much they need some side income)(as long as they declare it ;-)).

We were on that square so handily called Square. Not the greatest of spots, but thanks to the crooked way in which the barriers were set up Daughter had a clear view up to the flags in the distance (which look much further away in the picture than they were in real life). We saw six billion three hundred gazillion twelve thousand and seven horses go by (she kept an exact count), and four carriages, including the Big Kahuna, drawn by no less than six horses (I kept an exact count):



We saw Princess Maxima's pink outfit, the Queen's hat, and Crown Prince Willem-Alexander's military uniform. They waved, all the way down the street, to Daughter. Very gracious of them, it must be said.

And then we bought presents for The Other Half, and ice cream for ourselves, and Daughter had a heart-to-heart with the street organ man she gave some money to, and eventually we found our way back home, all tired and contented.

Sunday Evening

11.30 p.m.ish. Apparently I have a comfortable lap (that's my foot, btw).