feast of stephan......

ok, so on this traditional boxing day there was little to box up...and certainly no snow deep and crisp and even........we have have already eaten most foods as firsts...and tonight only the crown roast remains to be finished........i got up early to see off my brother, and then settled back into a nice late morning nap.....but not until i had cleaned out the plastic storage container cabinet.....tupperware and its many clones do get out of hand from year to year......and then.......to the theatre to see the lion the witch and the wardrobe with stephan........i will say at the get-go that i was amazed that filmmakers took a 900+ page book (harry potter and the chalice of fire) and whittled it down to 2.5 hours........and that the narnia filmmakers took a book that weighed in at less than 200 pages....and expanded it to 2.5 hours........with neither film seeming to last near that long.......this is surely the year of special effects....the oscar race will certainly be tight, when one adds in king kong.....narnia is a film i could see again....much like the harry potter installments......last night we all watched charlie and the chocolate factory....yet another book made into a fine motion picture this year.......and yet another fine effort, if i must say so......i do regret that stephan and i were not able to make it to lex to see pride and prejudice...i opted out on friday night assuming it would still be there on sunday.....only to have it replaced by the usual also-rans of christmas day released films.......i feel bad about this because i would have liked to have discussed this adaptation with him.......now all i can hope for is for the dvd to come out while he is home on a break at some point......ah well.......the microwave beckons with warmed-over roast....and it is time to eat....and then to bed...because mm must go to work for tuesday and wednesday...before a nice 5 day weekend.........