Yesterday was my birthday. (No, I’m not going to tell you which one.) We’re actually doing the dinner and cake thing tonight. It’s a rule in this house: all birthdays happen on Sunday. It just simplifies things.
However, since yesterday was my real birthday and since one of my New Years goals is to make (or take) more time for me, I gave myself the day off. There are some things I can’t avoid doing, but other than that, I didn’t do anything if I didn’t want to–and for the most part, I didn’t.
I slept in and then made myself a birthday brunch of Sour Cream Pancakes–absolutelty the tenderest, most melt-in-your mouth pancakes you will ever eat–and bacon.
Sour Cream Pancakes:
1 egg
1 c. buttermilk
1 c. sour cream
1 c. flour
1 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt.
Mix all that together until the batter is smooth. Let it rest at least 10 minutes. And then cook like any other pancakes. Yummy.
Then I watched movies pretty much all day–mostly movies I got for Christmas–with a few breaks to get up and move around a little and occasionally indulge my internet addiction.
I watched:
“Ice Age Continental Drift” — fun, made me laugh.
“Snow White and the Huntsman” — good, even though I’m not a great fan of Kristen Stewart. I didn’t like the slightly ambiguous ending, but that’s me. I tend to like my stories tied up properly.
“Robin Hood” — I’m not a great fan of Russell Crowe, either, but I’ve always been a Robin Hood junkie. Unfortunately, despite the title, this one hadn’t gotten around to being a Robin Hood story more than an hour in, so I quit. I’ll probably watch the rest of it sometime.
Birthday gifts will be tonight, along with the dinner. I did get one thing via email though. Another query rejection. Which might have stung a bit, being my birthday and all, except that this is one I’d already marked down as “No reply means no.” After all, I’d sent the query back in July. Obviously, they’re just doing a bit of New Years house cleaning.
Sounds like a fun day. And I would have enjoyed Robin Hood better if I’d realized it was really a prequel.
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A prequel? Really? At over two and half hours? They need Peter Jackson to pull that off.
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Saw the words “Robin Hood junkie” and had to jump in and say something — *anything*. …which just goes to show how much of a Robin Hood junkie I am. X)
The Russell Crowe “Robin Hood” movie’s a prequel? But tripping merrily through the forest as a devil-may-care outlaw is much (and I don’t mean the miller’s son) of the fun! Of course, I suspected there would be little fun to be had in this film when the previews showed pretty much nothing but battle scenes, which is why I haven’t seen it. If I want battle scenes, I’ll watch “The Two Towers”, thanks so much.
Happy belated birthday, fellow Hood-lover!
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Yeah. Come to that, the battle scenes in The Two Towers were more fun. 🙂
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