Happy 2012, everybody. Let's hope it's a little kinder than 2011.
We went to the neighbor's last night, which was fun. They had another couple over, and the kids watched their three-year-old while the grownups went to dinner (we joined the party when they got back). M., the little one's stepmom, was incredibly sweet, and at the end of the night handed me a few rolled up bills to give to Sara, in thanks for her part keeping Ella occupied and happy all evening.
I didn't unroll it in front of her, because that seems rude, but I assumed it was a couple of dollars. M. said she'd given some to each of the girls for their help, although the neighbor's oldest, Isabel, was ostensibly the official babysitter.
I got it out of my pocket to give Sara this morning, and it's twenty freaking dollars. Of course, they're long gone, and I don't know them, so I don't have a way to protest that it's way too much, but wow. That's a lot of money to give an eight-year-old you just met for playing Barbies with your kid for a little while.
Woot! Looks like I'll be starting the new year out right with a movie date this evening.
Good job, Matt! Beginning as you hope to go on.
(I'm going to my knitting group.)
Also - Billytea - Ryan is just lovely. Can't tell you how much I enjoy seeing pictures of Ryan.
Well, and all the Buffista babies. How they grow! And how funny, smart and amazing they are.
Also - Juliet Landau tweeted this:
julietlandau Juliet Landau
Best lead performances for Matt and I, Best Production + Best Star Making Performance for me. :)
julietlandau Juliet Landau
Found out at midnight that DANNY won 3 awards from Broadwayworld. com
Don't know what that award is - but good for her and the rest of the production.
It looks like she's doing John Patrick Shanley's
Danny and the Deep Blue Sea
at a theater in L.A.
So presumably an L.A. theater award.
Focus, LeN, focus.
Hey, Amy, is this Sara's first outside-the-family earnings? It's much more easy to justify framing it if it's got a *good* president's face on it. It was sweet, though. Happy holidays! And who knows, maybe she rolled it up just so that you wouldn't be able to try and give it back right there. Time to work on hooker tricks of telling what any bill is from a sliver of it. Amongst other hooker tricks, obvs.
Amongst other hooker tricks, obvs.
I forgot to use my hooker tricks!
Yeah, she was appropriately impressed and a little humbled by the amount, although she also went on to say she was "excellent with children," so.
Ben wants his hair buzzed later, and otherwise I'm spending the day in jammies copyediting, possibly with a movie on.
Matt,
what movie?
Still up in the air, though probably either The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or The Darkest Hour. We're meeting a bit before the spate of evening movies at the cinema, and can decide what we want to see there.
What are you looking for to get out of the movie? I've not seen a good review of
The Darkest Hour
yet (well, IO9 called it the best worst of 2011). Bonding through snark? Perfectly viable dating angle.
He likes suspense, so we're aiming for something with some thrills but no sparkly vampires in it.
I actually saw The Darkest Hour on Christmas day, but it's enjoyable enough I don't mind seeing it again with company.
