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That's what I reckoned. *shrug*
Or else she's just insane (caused by going through puberty twice, probably), so her plans don't have to make sense. heh.

Well, that's part of the reason I figured she remembered. Why would she be so mad about going through puberty twice if she didn't remember the first time? Doesn't make sense. I must agree that it is because she was too mad to realize her mistakes (or more likely, the writers were too oblivious to realize theirs. It may be a light movie, and it was still fun, but it'd be nice if the plot made some sense ).

I tried Benadryl before I got the Allegra and all the Benadryl did was make me sleep, but it didn't get rid of the itching or make the hives go away. I guess the Allegra works better for me. It completely made the hives go away, so no itching. I'm not sure how it'd work on my seasonal allergies, though. For those I usually just take Sudafed during the day and Claritin-D at night (Claritin makes me too drowsy to take in the day).

I just saw this movie and, like the others, I found it very fun, but without much depth (which it doesn't need cause it's suppose to be a light fun movie).

One issue I had with the plot, though, (THE FOLLOWING IS A SPOILER) is that Royal Pain obviously remembers everything that happened to her before becoming a baby for the second time, and yet she thought that by turning all the superheroes into babies, she could raise them to be super villains. How does this make sense? Wouldn't they remember that she was the one to turn them into babies again? And that before then they stood for justice? If you ask me, she's just asking for double trouble. She would have to deal with not only the children of these heroes, but their now young parents as well (granted, it would be a few years until they would be able to fight, but there would still be more than otherwise). Don't you guys agree? (I'm sorry if this has been talked about, but I didn't see anyone mention it.)

Well, this was a grumpy thing yesterday, but now it's happy, sort of. I went to go to work yesterday and my car wouldn't start. I've been worried about this happening for three years cause it's old (over 220,000 miles on it), but it's been running great this whole time. So here I am, needing to get to work that is 15 minutes away (not far, except if you have to walk it). I finally decided to ride the bus to the bus stop closest to my work and bike the rest of the way (a little over a mile). It took me 1 hr 15 min. And when I got to work I had two flat bike tires  (don't know if they were like that when I started, but they weren't the last time I rode, so I didn't check). But I got there and I asked if anyone could give me a ride home and I found someone who could (and could bring my bike, too, so that's a happy thing). And then I talked to my step-dad who's a mechanic and he said it was probably the battery or the alternator or alternator belt. It's okay if it's the battery or belt, but bad if it's the alternator. So my husband and I got the battery charged and drove over to Auto Zone. They test batteries and alternators for free. Luckily it turned out it was the battery. Yeah! Something easy and relatively cheap to fix! Plus the Auto Zone guy installed the battery for us for free. So it turned out okay.

K is for Lemony Snicket's other sibling, I believe. His sister Kit, who the Baudelaires meet at the end of Book 11.

I figured it was the other sibling, but since it's been months since I finished the series, I forgot they introduced Kit. That makes sense because LS circles her picture and writes a note like, "Will I ever see her again?" She leaves with two orphans when she leaves the Prufrock school. Do you have an idea of who? And why are they always taken by their ankles?? So weird.

Okay, so I got it last night and slightly read it. I was reading during commercials, so I probably missed stuff, but it did bring up a lot of questions for me. For example, it sounds like it was kids running the VFD, not adults (referring to the script from a meeting that says something like, "I'm nine years old . . ." Also, it Lemony Snicket made it sound like he was a kid when he fell in love with Beatrice and there is a picture of Beatrice as a child. Plus they showed a picture of that movie director and he was a kid, too.

Have you figured out who all the letters stand for? There are obvious ones, like J = Jacques, L = Lemony, B = Beatrice, O = Olaf, E = Esme, G = (can't remember name, but one who did the newspaper articles, Gertrude, or something), but did you catch K? I need to go through that book again and see if I can understand more. It's interesting that all the families have three children. What is the significance of that? (Jacque, Lemony, and other sibling; the triplets; Sunny, Violet, and Krause; maybe others I don't know of). Also what is up with the sugarbowl??! Do they use that for secret messages or something? I was disappointed that they didn't leave any of those "Ring" codes things undone so we could figure it out on our own.

Have you read Artemis Fowl? It has a secret code on the bottom of the pages of book 1 and 4. That's pretty fun to figure out, even though no language would translate letter per letter like that, but still fun.

Probably more clever than anything. This is possible, but I'd have to reread the books before I could have a real opinion. I guess I'm one of those people who would read a mystery, but rather than trying to figure out who'd done it, I'd just enjoying reading as the characters figure it out.

EUOL makes some interesting points about the movie and I think he's right. I agree that the plot was quite repetitive and it wasn't until we found out that there was more to the plot than just "Olaf trying to get guardianship so he can get the money" that I was really intrigued. Before that, it was just the style that really kept me reading. I thought that Lemony Snicket's humor was great (although the parts where he'd be like, "You should know this is dark and dreary and there's no reason to keep reading" was overdone). I was really excited though, when it diverged and the plot started giving us more. Sometimes the characters bug me, though. Their motivations don't seem real. Sorry if I don't remember names--it's been awhile since I read the series--but when the girl in the submarine goes off with her brother and turns bad just because she has no family left, that was totally annoying. Like that's a good reason!

*Shrug*

But you all may pronounce it however you want.  

This is probably dumb, but I've only seen it written and I pronounced it (in my head) shim - er- a. Then it can be like shimmer. I think that is cool. I have no basis really for why it should be pronounced this way, but there you go.