"Ever have one of those days...

Magnet #1257 - Winnie and Eeyore

...where you just can't win?"

- Pooh, to Eeyore

Another Lovely Day Designs magnet...that I totally bought in anticipation of Winnie the Pooh.

Although it seems to me that if any of Pooh's friends had just given him some huney when he asked for it at the beginning of the (really less than) 63-minute movie, there would have been no need for the movie at all.

The poor guy - all he had was a rumbly in his tummy, and off he and his pals went on a very important adventure. A supercute, felt longer than 63 minutes, adventure.

While I hated the deliberate misspellings running rampant, I was most charmed by the interaction of all the characters and the actual book text. Watching Pooh and Eeyore and the rest of the bunch wrapping themselves around letters, or jumping on top of them, or pulling whole paragraphs across the page? Love. I haven't a clue if they do that in the book, though.

I know, I know. I should be shot for never actually having read Winnie the Pooh.

Captain America

Magnet #1255 - Captain America

Now I know I'm definitely back home, getting things back to normal - I did an almost full-day movie marathon today, watching Winnie the Pooh, Captain America and The Smurfs.

I probably could have squeezed in Transformers 3 (yes, I'm totes late on that one), but I didn't have it in me to fork over another $17 for a 3D movie. Oiy. Pricing's gone nuts up here!

I think I bought this magnet at one of the Comic-Cons, or maybe even Forbidden Planet down at Union Square, but I remember when I bought it, I was all excited about the movie coming out this year.

I was kinda disappointed today.

True to form, I fell asleep during a pretty important part - well, important to my sister, anyway. She's been waiting on Captain America because her boyfriend Richard Armitage was in it, and only for like 10 minutes. I totally missed about eight of those minutes.

Oops. I know, ridiculous to wake up and see cute Richard Armitage running away from Chris Evans. I'm sure I'll have to watch the RA sequence over again, probably with DCsis - whose birthday is today - Happy Birthday!

But it wasn't just that sequence - I fell asleep again, and woke up to Steve Rogers fronting the USO...and at that point, I figured you know what? Maybe I should just leave, and catch the earlier showing of The Smurfs at the next theatre. Then Steve Rogers had to go and save his BFF and 400 POWs.

Don't think I didn't spend the next hour considering walking out, but I'm glad I stuck with it, given all the cool Avengers content at the end. (C'mon, that's not a spoiler!)

I'm also glad, because it did remind me also that I totally forgot to see Thor in the theatres earlier this year.

Yep. I need to get on that.

Silly old bear

Magnet #1229 - Pooh & Piglet

I picked up this magnet in a random shop down in Wilmington, NC last year. So, so cute! Love these two BFFs!

And yes. I am eagerly awaiting the new Winnie the Pooh movie coming out in a few days. And no. I won't try and borrow some kids to get me into the movie. I'm just gonna go see it.

Picked Pooh and Piglet for today, because I spent most of this absolutely gorgeous NY day at Bryant Park and the NY Public Library. First outside, then inside, then outside, then inside again - depending on my laptop battery.

And each time I exited the library, I passed by the Children's wing of the library, where the original (!) Winnie the Pooh dolls live. I saw them before they were moved to the main branch, but haven't seen them in their new home, as described most excellently by ScoutingNY.

Oh, Winnie. Maybe tomorrow I'll drop by.