public service announcement

Just a couple of things I think you should know…

First of all?  Please go and see Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs.  Yes, I see those of you without children rolling your eyes and skipping to the end but HEY! COME BACK! I’m totally serious, this was a great, fun, made me laugh all the way through it movie.  Ok, I guess I can’t swear that you’ll like it if you aren’t going to see it with your kids, because I did go see it with mine (and my youngest’s entire third grade class and their friends and families and how did I get talked into this, anyway?) and I knew nothing about the book except that I had heard of it before (I know!) and I was quizzing Jonathan and Will and their friend Ben about it on the way over to the Rave and the information I got was that:

A. “The illustrations are really nice.” – and

B. “The book is really short so they are gonna have to make up some more stuff for the movie.”

Not exactly leaving me super excited about paying forty bucks for the four of us to see it in 3D.  Especially when a couple of moms decided to let their group of 6 boys sit on the same row as the boys and I, and then removed themselves to the row behind us, which was actually across the big aisle from us – we were in the back of the low section, they were in the front of the high section. This will mean something to you if you are a mother of boys and you have ever had to sit with them in a public place, because it is NOT CLOSE ENOUGH.

But then the movie started and it was really cute and Bill Hader voices the lead, and then there’s Andy Samberg, and Mr. T, and Neil Patrick Harris playing a monkey! And the animation looked really wonderful, and the timing was right, and the main character hums his own stunt music as he runs around his lab and did I mention the monkey? I just fell in love with this cute, funny movie.  I think you’ll love it too.

And second, with absolutely no transition at all, just a hard right turn into a completely different subject – I’m going to put up some of my design work here, so you may see some posts soon that are different things I have worked on.  Feel free to click right past if you aren’t into that sort of thing, but hopefully it will be fun for all.

Or if it isn’t, at least you can laugh about the monkey…