Trials and Tribulations of Wrangell, the dog

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Book Review - Zombies ROCK! or "All-Out-Worldwide-Zombie-Blog-Explosion 2010"

Yippee! I got this book to preview for my blog.

I loved Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. P&P is one of my favorite books, P&P - A&E version is my favorite movie. And I think zombies are hilarious. When Quirk offered a preview of the prequel I wrote write away.

The book was an easy fast read, with more of the origins of Zombies that PPZ left out. It had the Jane Austen style as far as using the same characters and setting, period dialog, and a ball, but with much looser interpretation than PPZ, mostly in the dialog category. I liked having more (possible) backstory and character development to a book that I love. Seeing origins of Elizabeth's rightful bitterness towards men, and Jane's constant goodness was great.

It felt much shorter than the other Jane Austen adaptations, probably because it wasn't an adaptation and thus wasn't as dense as P&P or S&S.

I definitely recommend Dawn of the Dreadfuls to all who enjoyed PPZ. Oh and did you see this? Very exciting!!

Another exciting thing is that you can win one of 50 Quirk Classic Prize Packs: containing advance copies of this book, audio books of PPZ & SSSM , book poster, PPZ journal, and PPZ postcards. (If you win, you need to send me a postcard!!). By going to this link and mentioning my blog!!!

http://quirkclassics.com/index.php?q=QuirkClassicsContest_DOD_Reviews

Thanks for reading my contribution to the "All-Out-Worldwide-Zombie-Blog-Explosion 2010"

Friday, February 26, 2010

‘Crazy Art’ Documentary Explores Art Therapy, Schizophrenia

This looks really interesting. I'll have to see if I can add it to my netflix queue.

Tile Backsplash, grout!

Grouting.

So the grout looks grey in this picture, right? It dried completely white, very annoying. So I did research and ended up buying flat paint and painting all the grout lines, so it would match the caulking (and more importantly not show all the dirt and grime that white grout would show).

And the final pictures!!

Also decided that the white outlet covers were a bit boring too, so sanded and spray painted those. I like them! (Still need to seal the grout, but need a day where I can have the house doors open again.)

Kitchen Backsplash! (adhesive stage)

This Old House came this month, and it had finish your backsplash in a weekend, and since I have had the tiles since August, I decided it was time...

Prep, prep, layout first

Adhesive

The tiles I bought online (1" squares) and tiles I found at ReStore!

Yup, still working.

Washer Necklaces!!

Found this idea, and went for it!!

My early morning set-up, complete with instruction on my fancy phone (and my book club book.)

Finished product!!

1 for me, 1 for Jessie's birthday!

Poo Hole Continued...

We finished digging the hole, then added rocks to the bottom and wire mesh around the border to stabilize the walls.

We took a sturdy garbage lid and epoxied in the PVC pipe. TW painted both for me too. The handle on the lid was just glued and didn't last long with the dogs, we'll have to screw in a handle one of these days.