One for the Money.

Mees raha eest... really? It's always interesting to see, how they translate the movie or book titles. I wonder how the second movie would sound in Estonian.

Apparently it's the week of long-awaited movies. First Sherlock, the second season  and now One for the Money. I have waited for this movie for about 7 years. Back then I discovered Janet Evanovich' Stephanie Plum books. I got addicted to them, read them all in no time and also managed to create another fan - my friend Triin. Even Marx read the first book and quite liked it.
The movie wasn't half bad. Although I had feared that Katherine Heigl as the protagonist would ruin the story for me, it didn't. She was ok. Of course I still think that Lauren Graham would have been much better...
But Ranger, how sad was that! First of all, he was supposed to be hot... This man was... hmmm... blaah. Secondly, he should have been the strong and silent type, man of mystery, smiling only a couple of times during 10 books or so. In the movie he was giggling like a girl and blabbing too freaking much. Babe!
Morelli was a bit less disappointing - he didn't look like Morelli but at least he behaved like one.
Grandma Mazur was deffinitely way too young.
But everything else was not half bad. Lula was spot-on, Rex too. Winnie could have been a bit more sleazy.
Trenton was awfully awful, as I kind of imagined. Cannot understand why somebody wants to live or work in a town like that, brr. Or why someone built a town like that in the worst place. Glad not to live in America, I guess.
The story followed the book quite closely I was happy to see. That's good, no point to fix something great, right?
So no I'm waiting for Two for the Dough.

My cat has apparently severe identity crisis

Sherlock's here. Actually he arrived on monday, but they made me wait the whole day and a half to watch it. A day and a half more guessing how the situation in the end of the season will solve itself. All sorts of heroic and clever scenarios crossed my mind... But not this, not even close. And I can bet that non of the fans thought of the right answer. Pure genius this one, so absurd, so ironic, so unexpected. "Sorry, wrong day to die". Just so.

In my opinion, Sherlock is not your typical TV series. Firstly of course the length of the episodes but more importantly the quality, attention to the details. Sherlock was full of delightful sarcasm, twists and tiny but oh-so-inspiring details. You have to watch it several times to get them all. And it never gets boring. On the contrary. And also beautiful spot-on soundtrack. That reminds me, must order it from Amazon.

The first one - Scandal in Belgravia - was the funniest of episodes so far. Many laugh-out-loud moments. 
More mrs. Hudson. In series one she was just a pleasant landlady but this time she was sort of surrogate mother for Sherlock and Dr. Watson. It was so cute how Sherlock and John bellowed at Mycroft when he told Mrs. Hudson to shut up.
And also more Mycroft. He is one of the three great theatrical speakers here, together with Sherlock and Moriarty. Loving it.
Lara Pulver as Irene Adler was astonishing. The One He Could Not Read. The Woman who beat Sherlock, with one stupid weakness... I keep wondering, that if she hadn't told Sherlock about her connection with Moriarty... maybe he wouldn't have had this final mental outburst that solved the mystery of the camera phone.

Compared to the first series, Sherlock has become more human, he even seems to have some soft emotions. The situation where the CIA thugs hurt Mrs. Hudson - oh the rage and the joy of revenge 
And with Molly - apologizing after hurting her feelings over the Christmas present -  it was something completely new. Also, there was a second apology for the history of SH "I don't have friends ...."

As with the first series, also here the second episode was the weakest of all. And I so loved the original Hound of Baskerville... 

Laters!

Viva Cuba!

As you probably already guessed, today's dinner-theme was Cuba. As none of us knew much about cuban cuisine (rum? cigars?) we had to turn to internet for help. 3 guys from Miami came to our aid as well as tasteofcuba.com
Three guys teached us how to make empanadas - filled pastries. We chose two different fillings - cheese-chicken and shrimp. It was easy to make them and they tasted ok, but nothing special to write home about. But even Tristan and Enric ate their share without any complaints. And that's really something.
For main course we chose Pollo Rancho Luna - you can guess why that particular meal ;) . This I really liked. The sauce was sour and a the meat was soft and delicious. Nice dish with a nice name.
For dessert I baked a cake - Cuban Banana Rum Custard Tart - superb. I especially liked the crust - with tiny pieces of nut. That's a cake I will definitely bake again sometime soon.

The special thing about todays dinner was the fact that Luna sat at the dinner table on her own chair with the rest of us. And had dinner too. A special dish though...

For the next time we have very exiting arraingement. Namely the whole dinner - english - will be cooked by the gentlemen. The try to prove that they are at least as good cooks as the next man... or us. Good luck!

Waiting for Sherlock

Got an e-mail from Amazon that my pre-ordered second season DVD is dispatched. Hurry, postman!

Luna's big birthday

My baby is half year old now. How time flies!

6 months ago

Happy birthday to meeee!

Interesting...

If there's a book you want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. 

~ Toni Morrison