Well!  This post is going to tell you a lot more about me, as a person, than most other posts!

As you know I visit with my best friend on weekends, a lot.  This Weekend, she invited me over for lunch.   It was great!  We first went shopping, for a few very specific things, then came back to her place for lunch. 

And then, her pets (about whom I've written before, at length) gave me tons of love, and finally we settled down to watch Brave.

It was awesome!  You know, from the previous time I watched that movie, I had missed so many details!  I think the Scottish accent had been a little too difficult for me to penetrate.  But this time, I asked for the subtitles, and it was lovely.

Kelly MacDonald, who voices Merida, and Emma Thompson, who voices her mother, were just wonderful.  (I've seen them work together in Nanny McPhee, which was great.)  The Comedy was over the top, definitely, but this time it made much more sense.  I loved the sly digs at automated phone systems, and the millennial suitors who came forward for Merida!  For anyone who regarded the scene with the suitors as just a long comedy skit, I guess it would have been perfectly fine, but I was going cross-eyed trying to read the captions and watch the action at the same time. 

Merida was sort of a tomboy, but she was my kind of tomboy: feminine to some degree, and soft-voiced.  Maybe I need to be deprogrammed, or something, because so many feminists insist that women should learn to be loud and insistent.  OK, I'll shut up now. 

Kay