Sunday, December 11, 2005

the lion, the witch and tito puente

this weekend has been chock full o' movie-going and cookie-making, both of which are obvious signs of the holidays for me.

friday night i saw pride and prejudice (i know. i know. p&p on the opening weekend of narnia! don't worry, read on.) with the ladies and was honored to be invited into "the nightcap club," a club of whose existance i had no previous knowledge. basically i was the recipient of a hand-made nightcap like they wore in the "olden days." thanks mag, i shall wear it with pride!

saturday i spent making cookings and other goodies for our upcoming shindig and other various holiday obligations.

then today, sunday, we went to the much-anticipated narnia. i'm sure chris will give a full review in due time. i'm not really a "review-giving" kind of person. but i'll just say it was fabulous. it's been years since i read the book so i really didn't recall the nitty-gritty of the story line; so i have no clue where they deviated from the book. but the acting was great, animation amazing, music fabulous, and i was totally pleased. but that whole good vs. evil thing gets me every time.

the rest of the day--you guessed it--more cookie making. but as chris and i decorated our cute, cute, cute cut out sugar cookies, we rocked out to tito puente.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tito Puente Rocks!

Saw him several years ago in my hometown at a free outdoor concert one summer.

He had the place jumping with energy. Regretfully we will no longer have any new music from this wonderful artist.

One of the last recorded performances I was him was in the independent film Calle 54. It is a great film if you like Latin Jazz (plus the soundtrack is wonderful with several known Latin Jazz musicians).

Regardless, I'm sure your kitchen rocked while baking.

May have to do the same this week!

Sincerely,

Dogwood

Anonymous said...

Speaking of decorating Christmas cookies, KOKO had our holiday gift exchange yesterday, and Andrea made me and Fuzzy little bride and groom sugar cookies all decorated with icing and little flowers. It made me cry. Save me some of yours for Christmas!

Waldie said...

if my husband/your brother doesn't eat them all then i'll definitely bring one to you. but don't hold your breath. (remember the whole dancing in the hallway when i was on the phone w/ you bc he wanted a cupcake?)