I got to see
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement last night. I had to fight for it. In the end, it took a promise to see
Alien vs. Predator next time, as well as chocolate chip cookies. I felt like baking and had promised Greg cookies ages ago, so they made a nice bargaining chip. I had the oven too cold at first, but Ms. Betty Crocker's recipe pulled through with a hotter blast on that batch.
The movie was nice. It was every bit as fluffy and fun as I expected it would be. The plot was totally contrived by the scriptwriters. The crucial elements of the book (including Mia's mother romance with her Algebra teacher, and Mia's relationship with Michael) were glossed over in favor of the movie plot. I didn't identify with Mia as much as I did in the first movie. As with
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White, and Blonde, I think PD2 was a good movie, but largely unnecessary. True Mia fans likely turned to the books for more after seeing the first movie. I did. In the books, she's still in high school! Mia was more a princess than ever in this movie, but in becoming that, she lost most of her lovable geekiness.
Megan and Stephanie are back in town. They were evacuated due to the two (!) hurricanes headed up the coast. "Party at the Shell station!" I'm glad they're safe, even if their vacation was cut a few days short.
I still haven't called my roommate. At this rate, she'll call me first. I spent today cleaning. I dusted almost every piece of wooden furniture, and most of my figurines. My bookshelf is next to the window, in partial sunlight, but I was still surprised to see a faded spot where my books were lined up. I hadn't realized the sun was so strong there! I have a few more shelves, then the closet. Please, please, let the giant spider be gone. I can't handle another week of creeping in to get clothes and shoes. I shouldn't have to be afraid of my own room.
The
Friday Five
1. If your family was a television family, who would they be? Name family and/or television show. My parents' jobs aren't professional enough for us to be the Huxtables (
The Cosby Show), but our family dynamic is something like that. Maybe with a smidge of the family from
My Wife and Kids.
2. If you and your friends were a television show, what show would best describe i.e. personalities and/or day-to-day relations? Maybe
Lizzie McGuire, with a tad less Disney fluffiness.
3. What television show would best represent your life? I have a lot of the perfectionism and frustration reactions of Ren from
Even Stevens.
4. What theme song would run for a television about you? May be one used by a show already or something different. I like "What I Like About You", the version sung by Lillix for the show of the same name.
5. Who would you have play yourself? Friends and family? I forget who played me in the movie version of my life (from my scrapbook). I really don't know. It's hard to think of people with the proper skin-tone and ages. Why can't we just play ourselves? After all, I am the greatest expert there is on me.
