A Show, Sketch, Film, and Birthday Walk into a Post

Show

It ended up raining during the reception on Saturday night after all. But despite that, we still had a great turnout. People came in waves throughout the whole evening and everyone had a great time. My small camera is pretty much ready to die, so I hope you'll excuse the lack of photos. I'm waiting to see if anyone else grabbed a few. Here's one Alex took of me answering a few questions.

Sketch

Inspired by the critical mass viewing of early morning paintings, a few of us went out Tuesday morning to paint. The sun was a little dodgy, and to be honest, I'm out of practice in both, plein air painting and waking up early, so I avoided being overly ambitious by sticking to a watercolor/gouache sketch in my book.

Film

I finally watched The Great Race the other night with Alex. I say 'finally', because it's a classic that I've wanted to watch for nearly ten years, ever since I caught a brief moment where Jack Lemmon's character lights a match along his teeth. I could never find a copy of the film in a video rental, and I don't watch much TV (where they apparently play it every year). But it was recently reissued on DVD, so we Netflixed it. It was pretty funny, especially how every character in the film resembled a cartoon character in very obvious ways.

Birthday

Today is my thirty-first birthday. That's an odd number to get excited about, so I insisted that Alex not get me anything this year. So what does she do? She goes and gets multiple gifts. She began celebrating my birthday before I even realized it was here.

I chose "P" which turned out to be a DVD of Pixar's animated shorts. What a gal!