I love snowboarding

On a related note, I SUCK at snowboarding.  :)

  It's funny, though...  I didn't intentionally make any New Year's Resolutions this January 1st, but I did take stock of things at the end of last year and I was disturbed by how little I experienced in twelve whole months of living.  And so I recently have been trying to take every opportunity that comes along, no excuses.  I am half-way through SCUBA certification.  I took a snowboarding lesson yesterday (and my whole body is still aching as I type this...).  I am doing a Ghosthunters class, for which I am nerdily, gleefully excited.  My requisite flashlight has already been double-checked for battery power and put in my purse.  It's only half-way through March, and I am exhausted.  I feel better already.

Alice in Wonderland Review

Costumes- Want.  Want want want want.

'Sets'- Perfectly Carrol-ian.  Want want want.

Helena Bonham Carter- quirktastic, laugh-out-loud expressive

Anne Hathaway- dainty and darling, a perfect caricature

Johnny Depp-  He's Johnny f***ing Depp.  I want him, even with the orange wig on.  Endearing, heroic, and quite, quite mad.

Mia Wakikowska (Grown-up Alice)-  Dewy and lovely, a bit wooden but she blooms towards the end

Mairi Ella Challen (Young Alice)-  Darling!!  Want want want a darling little Burton-esque daughter someday.

Alice in Wonderland, almost perfect overall.  They wove a few pieces of Carrol's work seamlessly together, displayed it in the most GORGEOUS computer rendered settings possible, added Burton's go-to cast of faces (and voices), and left with a simple, sweet moral for the someday-daughter who will someday watch this movie with me:  You are enough all on your own, as long as you choose to be so; live your life unfettered by other's expectations; believe in your imagination, but don't cling to delusions that hold you in the past;  and, of course, try to dream six impossible things before breakfast each day.