animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 

a star is born

Everyone already knows what this movie is about since it’s the umpteenth telling of it. I will say, it was quite a good film. I especially liked how they did the vocals and music live (instead of lip syncing–that was one of the things The Dirt did horribly). And, while …

seven

I got tattoo number seven this evening. It’s an American traditional style anchor with a couple of flowers around it (I am now officially on an American traditional kick). Brian designed the tattoo for me. I like to think that it pays homage to my penchant for swearing. I went …

the dirt

This was an entertaining movie about the history of Motley Crue. It didn’t delve too deep, though (it just hit the high–or low–points that we’ve all heard about already). Stylistically speaking, I wasn’t a fan, but it did make me long for the gold old days of hair metal. My …

the killing hour

Not sure where this book came from, but it was in my pile, so I read it. It was about a killer who would take two women, kill one of them and leave the second woman somewhere remote. He would leave clues with the first woman as to the location. …

widows

This was a pretty good heist flick. It starts off with a group of four thieves getting killed during a robbery. They gave a little background on all of them to make us realize this was going to leave the wives in a financial lurch. So, the wives end up …