Angela Law

animal lover, gardener, knitter, and gourmet cook
 
knitting

blanketed

I finally finished my temperature blanket last weekend! For my temperature blanket, I knitted a two row pattern each day, in a color that corresponded to the day’s high temperature. I used 10 degree ranges for my colors (so, temperatures in the 50s were one color, temperatures in the 60s another, and so on). It took about 35 minutes a day to do this, so that’s over 200 hours for the blanket! There was a lot of yarn involved and I had to buy extra multiple times because I had to guesstimate how much yarn to buy for each color range (I used the previous year’s data) and the weather did not match my estimate.

tv

under the banner of heaven

The patriarchy is alive and well in the Mormon church. Could you imagine having to take orders from your husband in this day and age? And, I’m not even talking about the fundamentalists, who take center stage in this limited series, which is about the murder of a young Mormon mother and her 15-month-old daughter. Worst of all, it’s based on a true story.

I’m starting to think that limited series are my favorite thing to watch. They have just the right amount of time to tell a story. There’s no dragging things out season after season. Conversely, you get so much more detail than you do with a movie.

My rating: 4/5

movies

may december

This movie was based on the Mary Kay Letourneau story from years ago. Sort of–it was an interesting take on it. Instead of simply telling the story, the plot was an actress doing research into the family because a movie was being made about the relationship. So, they made a movie about an actress researching an upcoming movie role. Clever.

While we all have our tolerances about what makes an acceptable age difference in a relationship, I think we can all agree that a 30-something dating a middle-schooler is not the way to go.

My rating: 3.5/5

me

cut my hair

Oops!…I did it again. I got my hair cut short, in a shaggy style. Unfortunately, it ended up way shorter than the photo I provided, but I guess it’ll be the correct length soon enough. The jury is still out on whether I’m going to like this or not–I need to buy some styling products and figure out how to style it properly. Historically, I cut my hair short for a year or so and then let it grow back out because I don’t like it, but I’m hoping to make it work this time.

books

the twelve

This was the second book in Justin Cronin’s The Passage trilogy. I didn’t like it as much as the first one, but it was ok. I’m hoping he has a strong finish with the final book, but I’m going to read a couple other things before I start on that.

One thing about this book that was hard to follow was the number of characters. At the end of the book, he lists them all for some reason and there are over 70. How am I supposed to remember all of that?

My rating: 3/5