tug-o-war and meatpies.....

[thoreau]

This morning - before heading home for work, David and I enjoyed a lovely morning together. He and Miss Kate bonded over some tugowar with The Gingerbread Man (whom I'm sad to report, Miss Kate finally managed to tear a hole in nearly 5 months later). It was so incredibly cute watching Miss Kate show him how to play the game. She'd grab TGM and bring it to David and David wasn't quite sure what to do. so she'd whip into his hand and try nad pull - and David was worried about being too rough. (he's never watched her and I really get into it) He was surprised when the growling dominator of the TGM came out and she started whailing it around "killing it" between tug-o-war rounds. It was really adorable...



After he left - I sat and got caught up on my reading (my Smithsonians and National Geographics are piling up!). and bukephalus emailed me the funniest article entitled "Caring for Your Introvert" (clicky here) which I read - and dutifully sent off to David so he'd know my friends were guiding me through the world of caring and feeding of my favorite introvert.

Last evening I subjected David to a introvert's worst nightmare - a household full of Sondheim queens. I cooked "meat pies" - and we watched Tim Burton's "Sweeney Todd". They honestly turned out perfectly (meatloafs in individual dishes). Paully, Tony and I debated Sweeney and other Sondheim plays over dinner. (I'm a huge fan of the minimalist COMPANY revival with Raul Sparza, Tony HATED it... etc.)

Then we settled in with oatmeal cookies, milk and Sweeney. I thought - for a movie adaptation - it was brilliant. Particularly the scene and cinematography around "A Little Priest" - but of course, in a movie adaptation - the gore was VERY gory - and the final scenes truly terrifying. I thought it was a brilliant re-imagination of the stage production - the show minus the "choruses" runs much faster and tighter.

Comments

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I wish I had been there! I have plenty of opinions on the Sondheim works:) I'm not much for the minimalist productions of Company or Sweeney Todd, but I'm all for Raul Esparza's work. Raul's a cutie and there are insights I could add because of touring with him:)

HUGS!