Happy happy going places getting things
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beccaelizabethToday I had a day out and some presents and a movie all for my birthday.
... it is not yet my birthday, but today my mum discovered she was double booked with my brother and a thing to do so she needed me to look after my brother which is much much more interesting sitting in the Forum in Norwich with their retro video games exhibit. Even though he's really no good at all at Lemmings.
We looked at a new toy shop - well, collectable figures shop mostly, but also lego of suitable geekiness, and some things that are new and not hugely expensive too. I told my brother if it cost more than £10 don't touch. He only knocked some very well packaged action figures off the shelf and they cost only £15ish. He was also standing next to some £130 merchandise, but that was in a glass case. *phew* It was fun. also they sell comics, new ones, which is less fun because all the kinds of stuff I was avoiding are right there on the covers. blah. Also they play DVDs, like upstairs there was an Xmen cartoon. We nearly stayed to watch, but no, All Done, next shop.
The Forum gaming thing was fun. And then we went in the Library and tried to get a computer for an hour, which was mum's plan, and did not take into account the fact that it was lunch hour and the computers were very very full. We got a computer eventually, but it took most of that hour. And then my brother watched trailers with no sound. Because that to him is a good plan.
Then we had lunch at the West Cornwall Pasty Co. I had vegetable provencal and ribena as usual. my brother had a pizza slice and mum had steak and ale. She said it was mostly potato and onion. all I know is their vegetable ones have actual vegetable in, so *shrug*
After that we went up to the Television and Movie Store and it was birthday present time :-) I had got them to put my present by for later on Pride parade day because I thought they'd run out, and indeed mine was the second to last one they had. But now I have all 11 Doctors in a TARDIS with little sonic screwdrivers and a walking stick and an umbrella. :-) :-) :-) I thought mum was only going to contribute to it, because it cost £50 which is rather a lot for a present I can well afford myself, but mum and my brother decided to just buy it for me. :-) :-) :-) 11 Doctors :-) :-) :-)
... I has a happy.
Also I bought more DVDs and an audio CD while I was there.
:-)
So that was excellent.
And my brother got the Karate Kid box set, so he was having a good day too. I don't so much like it when mum is all 'right, I must go, so you must go, no plans for you'. I can see how she has to, but I like it better that he has employees now as well. But today he liked many plenty things.
So then we went to the cinema. I wrote down three different films I could have watched (or watched again for Inception) and let my brother choose, so he chose The Sorceror's Apprentice. So I got the tickets (eventually, I said three tickets, they made two) and I got a small drink. Small at the cinema does not mean what small means anywhere else. So I had half of that and then mum said she was thirsty so I looked to see how much I'd had and then I found it had little squiggly hair or fibre or something in it, and also some bits of stuff. But mum couldn't see them so she was happy to drink the rest. I don't consider that quite fair, but she liked, so *shrugs* So then we went to see the film.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is fun. There's fireballs and dragons and Science!!! and tricks with mirrors and lots of stylish magic and also Tesla coils that make music. Is win. The worst bit is the first bit though. First there's a voiceover explaining things we're going to be finding out over the course of the film. So we know everything the character finds out much slower. It looked a bit pasted on and a lot annoying. And then it starts out with a much younger character than I'd seen in the review, which left me wondering if I should have read more carefully, but no, it's just like an intro adventure. If they'd started there without the voiceover bit that would have been better. We'd just discover the world when he did. But once it got to being the proper age of the main characters it was all BOOM and POW and ZAP and fun. I liked it.
I did not so much like that the women in the film were either someone's love interest / motivating trauma / damsel in distress or were evil. I actively disliked the moment I saw it the little sequence of the Sorcerer looking for his new apprentice because he travels the world looking for this promised one and testing lots of kids out, and what that means is he tries and rejects a lot of brown kids until finding a suitably awesome white kid. It's this little montage of Ethnic Minorities Aren't Good Enough, and it actively sucks. There is absolutely no reason the physics geek apprentice couldn't be a brown girl, just flip some genders and away you go, much less cliche and much more interesting. But no. It is, once again, the story of how only white guys are actually that cool, and how women with power really need their arse kicked. I am so tired of that story.
Mum says I need to watch more Asian movies. Mum has a point. I like subtitles anyway.
I still enjoyed the movie though. And paid for three tickets. No, two and a carer goes free. But anyway, as far as the movie makers are concerned, that's three wins, and they care not for my frustration with the limited possibilities.
I like it when stuff goes boom. And when people get hit by their own spells. And the bit with the mops like in the cartoon. And the Tesla coils. and the kabooms.
If I turn my brain off I'm kind of easy to please.
I liked that the magic was sciencey, it makes for *facepalm* science a bit but much interesting magic where you can see how it works and maybe make up stuff as you're watching. But I also liked it when it wasn't pretending to be science at all and just looked really cool.
So, anyway, that was fun, and then we caught the bus from outside the Castle instead of from the bus station, which was also novel and interesting. And then I zonked out on the bus and got mum to make sure I crossed all the roads okay on the way home because I woke up at 10pm last night and right now it's 8pm and I only had like an hour of sleep in there somewhere this morning. I sleeped an hour and dreamed a thing with vampires and getting turned into a vampire and not having any blood to drink and lots of running and flying and it was the sort of sleep where it's more exhausting than staying away. So I been awake a long time now.
I can't decide if to eat or sleep or I should hang up laundry because starting it before I went out seemed like a good idea this morning and now not so much and also I can't remember if I remembered to put the wash stuff in with it so it maybe needs done again but maybe not. Laundry requires too much brain. It has sat there for 8 hours, it can sit another 8. and I'm not asleep. So I should go grab food in the hopes I'll remember to shovel it in before I zonk right out.
okay. shall post and move.
aaaaaany time now.
... it is not yet my birthday, but today my mum discovered she was double booked with my brother and a thing to do so she needed me to look after my brother which is much much more interesting sitting in the Forum in Norwich with their retro video games exhibit. Even though he's really no good at all at Lemmings.
We looked at a new toy shop - well, collectable figures shop mostly, but also lego of suitable geekiness, and some things that are new and not hugely expensive too. I told my brother if it cost more than £10 don't touch. He only knocked some very well packaged action figures off the shelf and they cost only £15ish. He was also standing next to some £130 merchandise, but that was in a glass case. *phew* It was fun. also they sell comics, new ones, which is less fun because all the kinds of stuff I was avoiding are right there on the covers. blah. Also they play DVDs, like upstairs there was an Xmen cartoon. We nearly stayed to watch, but no, All Done, next shop.
The Forum gaming thing was fun. And then we went in the Library and tried to get a computer for an hour, which was mum's plan, and did not take into account the fact that it was lunch hour and the computers were very very full. We got a computer eventually, but it took most of that hour. And then my brother watched trailers with no sound. Because that to him is a good plan.
Then we had lunch at the West Cornwall Pasty Co. I had vegetable provencal and ribena as usual. my brother had a pizza slice and mum had steak and ale. She said it was mostly potato and onion. all I know is their vegetable ones have actual vegetable in, so *shrug*
After that we went up to the Television and Movie Store and it was birthday present time :-) I had got them to put my present by for later on Pride parade day because I thought they'd run out, and indeed mine was the second to last one they had. But now I have all 11 Doctors in a TARDIS with little sonic screwdrivers and a walking stick and an umbrella. :-) :-) :-) I thought mum was only going to contribute to it, because it cost £50 which is rather a lot for a present I can well afford myself, but mum and my brother decided to just buy it for me. :-) :-) :-) 11 Doctors :-) :-) :-)
... I has a happy.
Also I bought more DVDs and an audio CD while I was there.
:-)
So that was excellent.
And my brother got the Karate Kid box set, so he was having a good day too. I don't so much like it when mum is all 'right, I must go, so you must go, no plans for you'. I can see how she has to, but I like it better that he has employees now as well. But today he liked many plenty things.
So then we went to the cinema. I wrote down three different films I could have watched (or watched again for Inception) and let my brother choose, so he chose The Sorceror's Apprentice. So I got the tickets (eventually, I said three tickets, they made two) and I got a small drink. Small at the cinema does not mean what small means anywhere else. So I had half of that and then mum said she was thirsty so I looked to see how much I'd had and then I found it had little squiggly hair or fibre or something in it, and also some bits of stuff. But mum couldn't see them so she was happy to drink the rest. I don't consider that quite fair, but she liked, so *shrugs* So then we went to see the film.
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is fun. There's fireballs and dragons and Science!!! and tricks with mirrors and lots of stylish magic and also Tesla coils that make music. Is win. The worst bit is the first bit though. First there's a voiceover explaining things we're going to be finding out over the course of the film. So we know everything the character finds out much slower. It looked a bit pasted on and a lot annoying. And then it starts out with a much younger character than I'd seen in the review, which left me wondering if I should have read more carefully, but no, it's just like an intro adventure. If they'd started there without the voiceover bit that would have been better. We'd just discover the world when he did. But once it got to being the proper age of the main characters it was all BOOM and POW and ZAP and fun. I liked it.
I did not so much like that the women in the film were either someone's love interest / motivating trauma / damsel in distress or were evil. I actively disliked the moment I saw it the little sequence of the Sorcerer looking for his new apprentice because he travels the world looking for this promised one and testing lots of kids out, and what that means is he tries and rejects a lot of brown kids until finding a suitably awesome white kid. It's this little montage of Ethnic Minorities Aren't Good Enough, and it actively sucks. There is absolutely no reason the physics geek apprentice couldn't be a brown girl, just flip some genders and away you go, much less cliche and much more interesting. But no. It is, once again, the story of how only white guys are actually that cool, and how women with power really need their arse kicked. I am so tired of that story.
Mum says I need to watch more Asian movies. Mum has a point. I like subtitles anyway.
I still enjoyed the movie though. And paid for three tickets. No, two and a carer goes free. But anyway, as far as the movie makers are concerned, that's three wins, and they care not for my frustration with the limited possibilities.
I like it when stuff goes boom. And when people get hit by their own spells. And the bit with the mops like in the cartoon. And the Tesla coils. and the kabooms.
If I turn my brain off I'm kind of easy to please.
I liked that the magic was sciencey, it makes for *facepalm* science a bit but much interesting magic where you can see how it works and maybe make up stuff as you're watching. But I also liked it when it wasn't pretending to be science at all and just looked really cool.
So, anyway, that was fun, and then we caught the bus from outside the Castle instead of from the bus station, which was also novel and interesting. And then I zonked out on the bus and got mum to make sure I crossed all the roads okay on the way home because I woke up at 10pm last night and right now it's 8pm and I only had like an hour of sleep in there somewhere this morning. I sleeped an hour and dreamed a thing with vampires and getting turned into a vampire and not having any blood to drink and lots of running and flying and it was the sort of sleep where it's more exhausting than staying away. So I been awake a long time now.
I can't decide if to eat or sleep or I should hang up laundry because starting it before I went out seemed like a good idea this morning and now not so much and also I can't remember if I remembered to put the wash stuff in with it so it maybe needs done again but maybe not. Laundry requires too much brain. It has sat there for 8 hours, it can sit another 8. and I'm not asleep. So I should go grab food in the hopes I'll remember to shovel it in before I zonk right out.
okay. shall post and move.
aaaaaany time now.
