Hootin' Anni's Day Trippin'

this photo will be explained below

Monday, February 16th, 2009
12:09 A.M.




Our sweet Gattina is hosting this week's Fun Monday. She is challenging us all to show up with our feet...or our shod feet...well, what we wear [or don't wear] during a typical day. I sure hope there aren't too many in blogland with feet fetishes showing up in our midst this week....that'd be disastrous. I can see it all now...the headlines...Fun Monday goes porn! You know? Those that have a 'thing' with bare feet? Okay....so, forget that....moving on: I mentioned just now bare feet...yep, that's me at home on any typical day. I love shoes, but rarely wear them only to go outside the house. So here are mine in all their glory. [insert snicker here]...the one where I'm standing is taken by looking into my dressing mirror, the other one with the feet crossed is where I'm sitting near the computer desk.





[ps....addendum/8:00A.M.: no I don't go out for professional pedicures nor manicures...I do it myself. I have a huge sanitary issue with those nail parlors!]

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Yesterday, out of boredom being home; no shopping to do on the list of things to get done, no outdoor projects looming in our faces. I didn't want to clean the house [which needs it] because it was Sunday. Everything on television was repeats. The lawn was mowed last week. The sprinkler system ran its course earlier in the morning. All was done that really needed to be done, except for the breakfast dishes. Ya, we stayed home for breakfast. And neither Bud nor I felt like even rinsing them off to fill the dishwasher. L-A-Z-Y. So, after the newspaper was read, I convinced Bud to go to a movie with me. Now, believe it or not, in all my years, and all the movies I've gone to see, I have NEVER seen a movie in 3-D!! Nope, never. In fact I can't even remember movies from my youth that were three dimensional. I do remember the glasses that were given out years ago...cardboard, one red lens, one blue lens. Boy howdy have the special glasses improved!!! [see photo at top of Monday's blog]

When the last two previews came up on the screen we were told by the preview text to begin wearing the special spectacles. A couple of 3 D movie previews of coming attractions. Then......the movie. I was thrilled. Amazed. I think I probably embarrassed Bud a bit. I kept whispering....'oooooo, cool'. A couple o' times I said under my breath....'awesome'. Once with my amazement, he let out a big sigh, so right there and then, I thought I'd better settle down, or he would reprimand me and take away my popcorn. [insert wink now]

Let's just say I was impressed with the effect of 3-D!! Now the movie we went to see was Coraline. I'm a Jim Burton fan. I truly see his movies for the art form. The lanky stick figure creatures and people impress me. I don't know why. I like the macabre-ness of the work. The movie director and the producer have done it again. Filling the screen [for me anyway] with magic and wonder---tho at times it could be a bit on the frightening edge, depending on the age of the viewer I'm sure. The tale is of a little girl....voiced over by Dakota Fanning, Coraline. It's probably on the verge of a dark and more sinister "Alice in Wonderland". If you like the strange and the eerie, I would recommend this movie. If not for the story line and the characters...then perhaps just seeing the art come to life in 3-D.

based on book "Coraline" by N. Gaiman