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weekend ate me

My Big Exciting News is that my sister is pregnant and I'm going to be an aunty again. This is Very Exciting Indeed.

The less exciting news follows: This weekend I achieved a lot. I cleaned up my giant pile of stuff that had been becoming mountanous in the spare room. This invloved a lot of hanging costumes on hangers in the wardrobe, sorting fabrics into new plastic boxes (those nice white ones on wheels from the WareWhare) and folding of donated jeans waiting to become quilts.

The room looks much nicer, although the problem is that I found a lot of projects that need doing. Here's the list:

• Mega pile of jeans needs cutting first, then assembling into many quilts.
• Tiny rainbow quilt needs binding so that it's finished and can become a gift with rainbow fairy rag doll
• Three, count 'em three black garments that need rennovating. (These are a wool skirt that needs shortening, a black gatheredy top that needs two rows of elastic unpicked and a black velvet dress that...something is going to happen to. I've had it since form five, it still fits, it's just a bit dated. It has potential dammit!)
• Giant teddy bear. I've had the fabric and the pattern since forever and I never get round to making the beast.
• Little cuttings from quilts I've made can be made into pretty scrapbook pages about the quilts.
• Rag doll that Mum wanted me to make years ago. (She probably

So yeah. Feeling a little overwhelmed when this is combined with returning to working 40 hour weeks. My holiday seemed too short, but then, they always do.

Movies I saw on the weekend:

Homegrown: Love and Other Catastrophes was a collection of New Zealand dramatic short films. Mostly depressing studies of bad relationships and their consequences, very well made but hard to watch. I particularly liked the Lost One and Nice Pants. Two totally different films, but both with hopeful endings.

Who Killed the Electric Car is a documentary about the strange fate of the EV1, an electric car marketed by General Motors. Basically they were awesome cars, people loved them, and then GM took them all back and destroyed them. The drivers were only ever leased the cars you see, and GM refused to sell them, instead respossessing them, crushing them and then shredding them. Just in case. Well worth a look when it comes to Reading later this month.

Maxed Out is a documentary about credit card debt in America, specifically how the banks offer credit to those least likely to be able to pay it off and then send them to the debt collectors, or offer them loans or other credit cards to pay it off with. There were some stories of people who had commited suicide, driven by the embarassment of being unable to pay their debts, and feeling there was no other solution. Pretty depressing stuff that Lee got very incensed by. He is determined we shall never get into debt! (Apart from the mortgage and my student loan, obviously).

...so that's it. I saw 32 films in the festival this year, a pretty good score given the number that I decided to stay home and be slack instead of seeing!

PoF: purple stripes
CO: saving the world

Posted by jenni at August 7, 2006 04:41 PM