One down, many more to go

Finished watching Digimon Adventure 02 this afternoon. Now I can happily move on to Tamers, since I'm still on a big Digimon kick. I'd considered switching off with other anime before tackling another season of Digimon, but I may as well ride the wave while I can.

Took advantage of a sale where Rei works, and I now have the cupboards stocked with exactly 96 packets of ramen. It may be low on nutrition, but given that we're short on money and a case of 24 packets only cost $5, we thought it best to pick up some while we could. A few extra dollars and we can buy a few fresh vegetables to add to them, and so long as we're not looking for a great deal of variety, we can eat for almost a month on about $25.

When one considers the amount of rice in the cupboards, too, we're well on our way to having a bland pseudo-Japanese diet. I might see if we can scrape together the money to buy some smoked salmon from the local farmer's market, so I can make some onigiri. At $12 a pound, it's pricey, but we won't need very much of it, so we might be able to swing that as a little treat.

I'm submitting to a guilty pleasure right now and rereading the House of Night series. I say rereading, but I've really only read the first two books thus far, and they're quick enough reads that I can add reviews to my book blog to keep readers amusing while I get through other books that are taking longer. (A heavy-handed Christian children's fantasy novel makes for slow reading, I'll say that much.) Fortunately, while these books are fluffy and present vampires as Wiccans with fangs, they aren't as bad as a lot of other teen vampire novels out there right now, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed the first and second books when I first read them. They'll never have a spot on my favourites list, but they are a fun way to pass the time, if you're into that sort of thing.

Must try to remember to ask Cass on Wednesday if she doesn't mind dropping me off at the fabric store for a moment, so I can check the prices on some fabric for a project. I can't imagine she'll mind, since she and Rei and I will be in the area anyway, and the sooner I find out about the cost of material, the sooner I can start the sewing.

[Edit] - Or I would be watching Digimon Tamers if I could find a site that has subbed episodes streaming. The one I bookmarked only a few weeks ago seems to be down at the moment, and annoyingly, all the torrents for the season seem to have vanished. *grumble* Looks like I might be taking a break from Digimon after all.

[Edit 2] - Haibane Renmei it is! I watched almost all of the episodes, but that was about 6 years ago, and I don't remember much of it. It's short enough that I can watch it all in a few days, and hopefully by then one of the streaming sites for Digimon Tamers will be back up.

Open letter to people who keep making 3D movies,

Please stop making 3D movies. No, seriously. It's a nice little novelty, but you seem to be overlooking something when you do this: people who already wear glasses.

If I go to see a 3D movie, I have three choices. 1) I can not wear the 3D glasses, and the movie will be blurry. 2) I can not wear my regular glasses and use the 3D glasses instead, in which case the movie will be even blurrier, because I'm more than half blind without my glasses. 3) I can wear both my glasses and the 3D glasses, which is uncomfortable and also means that considering where on my nose I have my glasses resting, I practically have to hold onto the 3D ones if I move my head even a small amount.

Which will happen, because my Tourette's causes my head to jerk violently, and acts up more than usual if I'm stressed or edgy.

I did not get to see Avatar in theatres because they only showed the 3D version here. It's now likely I'll have to miss out on Alice in Wonderland for the very same reason.

You may say, "Why don't you just wear contacts?" To this, I invite you to pay for my optometrist appointment and then the price of the contact lenses, because there's no way I can pay for that stuff myself right now. I prefer glasses to contact lenses anyway, and that argument is asking me to pay hundreds of dollars for some small pieces of flexible plastic that allows me to wear novelty glasses to see a movie. Um, no.

Also, some people can't wear contact lenses, for various reasons.

So please get over this novelty soon so that I can return to viewing movies comfortably. Or come up with a design for clip-on 3D glasses that actually work.

No love,
Sarasvati