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We are still frozen
Mar. 25th, 2014 01:45 pmI don't actually remember what green looks like. And 66 inside/13 outside is starting to feel warm and pleasant to me now. One of my son's friends (high school) wears shorts to school every single day, and I'm starting to see that as a real possibility. Maybe we should move to Greenland next...
My kids are finally all back in school today, too. YAY!! The 5YO has been home for quite a lot of days, but I think finally he's ready to go back. Still has a bit of a cough, but it's not very frequent, and he's certainly feeling a lot better. In the meantime, though, there's been an awful lot of Scooby Doo and Frozen at our house. The kid can recite almost the entire script of Frozen, complete with all the weird reindeer and Norwegian store clerk accents. Which means I've watched it a fair number of times this past week, too.
Some movies or books lessen with each time you watch them, but I have to say that I liked it the first time, and it's grown on me even more. The at is just SO beautiful! I look at ice every single day, and have gotten in the habit of noticing the details of light and ice, light and snow, frost and snow, clouds and ice, clear and ice--you name it, if it's got ice, I've seen it. And they really, really captured it. I love how they really paid attention to local details--the horses, if you notice, are all Norwegian Fjords (they have the black stripe in the middle of their blond manes.) Even as cartoons, the people LOOK Norwegian (I live in the state with the highest population of Norwegians in America and know of which I speak. :) ) And I swear Arendelle is based on a real place (google Sognefjord or look at this picture). Love the music (although perhaps a break from That Song would be okay by now...ahem). Love how the opening song (with the ice cutters) encapsulates the entire plot, as my 16YO pointed out. Love how the last musical line of the movie is the sisters song, only turned happy. I love the expressions on all the characters--the thing I love to draw most of all is humans,and the oh-so-accurate expressions of all kinds of feeeeelings leaves me with that same sense of, very cool! and man, I will NEVER be able to do that! that I get from a very well done book. And I love all the many different levels of truth in the story: how some things AREN'T easy to fix, and you have to do it Rubik's cube style (Elsa running away let her develop one part of her--but it wasn't the final solution by ANY means). How true love is not kissing the first boy you meet* but "putting someone else's needs before your own." And that line in the middle of the trolls' funny song keeps coming back to me whenever I see people in turmoil of their own making: "People make bad choices when they're mad or scared or stressed./ Throw a little love their way, and you'll bring out their best." So true. Everyone needs that tattooed on their brain when dealing with angry people.
The thing I really wish was real, though, is the way the snow magically lifts into the air and disappears without any flooding. Now that's some magic/technology we need in this place! :) Happy spring to those who have it!
*Ahem, it is perfectly fine to marry the first boy you meet, but maybe let some time go by to get to know each other before you get engaged. *whistles*
My kids are finally all back in school today, too. YAY!! The 5YO has been home for quite a lot of days, but I think finally he's ready to go back. Still has a bit of a cough, but it's not very frequent, and he's certainly feeling a lot better. In the meantime, though, there's been an awful lot of Scooby Doo and Frozen at our house. The kid can recite almost the entire script of Frozen, complete with all the weird reindeer and Norwegian store clerk accents. Which means I've watched it a fair number of times this past week, too.
Some movies or books lessen with each time you watch them, but I have to say that I liked it the first time, and it's grown on me even more. The at is just SO beautiful! I look at ice every single day, and have gotten in the habit of noticing the details of light and ice, light and snow, frost and snow, clouds and ice, clear and ice--you name it, if it's got ice, I've seen it. And they really, really captured it. I love how they really paid attention to local details--the horses, if you notice, are all Norwegian Fjords (they have the black stripe in the middle of their blond manes.) Even as cartoons, the people LOOK Norwegian (I live in the state with the highest population of Norwegians in America and know of which I speak. :) ) And I swear Arendelle is based on a real place (google Sognefjord or look at this picture). Love the music (although perhaps a break from That Song would be okay by now...ahem). Love how the opening song (with the ice cutters) encapsulates the entire plot, as my 16YO pointed out. Love how the last musical line of the movie is the sisters song, only turned happy. I love the expressions on all the characters--the thing I love to draw most of all is humans,and the oh-so-accurate expressions of all kinds of feeeeelings leaves me with that same sense of, very cool! and man, I will NEVER be able to do that! that I get from a very well done book. And I love all the many different levels of truth in the story: how some things AREN'T easy to fix, and you have to do it Rubik's cube style (Elsa running away let her develop one part of her--but it wasn't the final solution by ANY means). How true love is not kissing the first boy you meet* but "putting someone else's needs before your own." And that line in the middle of the trolls' funny song keeps coming back to me whenever I see people in turmoil of their own making: "People make bad choices when they're mad or scared or stressed./ Throw a little love their way, and you'll bring out their best." So true. Everyone needs that tattooed on their brain when dealing with angry people.
The thing I really wish was real, though, is the way the snow magically lifts into the air and disappears without any flooding. Now that's some magic/technology we need in this place! :) Happy spring to those who have it!
*Ahem, it is perfectly fine to marry the first boy you meet, but maybe let some time go by to get to know each other before you get engaged. *whistles*
