Finished Mansfield Park & Rain Rain Rain

I've posted my daybook at Cornerstone blog. I've been posting there quite a bit actually.

I finished reading Mansfield Park (Austen) yesterday - took me a while, but I liked it better than Emma or Persuasion. Also watched the last half of the 1999 film adaptation on youtube last night. Wow, that movie was a LOT different from the book. It's not the differences in events or the missing parts that bothers me so much in film adaptations; it's when the filmmakers change the characters' motivations or their inherent qualities. For instance, Fanny Price, the heroine of Mansfield Park, is quite a shy, quiet, morally upright 18-year-old girl in Jane Austen's book. In the film, she was bubbly, defiant, adventurous, and appeared far older than 18. This may make for more interesting or more modern film, but is not an accurate representation of the character. Ah well.

It rained here for 3 days straight. The basement flooded yesterday and we used the sump pump to drain it. The yard flooded as well, and the storm drain on the corner, which hasn't worked right since the village DPW worked on it several years ago. It's all better today and the rain has ended, though there is no sun just yet.

I need to let one of the kids get on the computer to do typing, so I'll stop.

Catching Up

Packed up the campsite this morning and got home around 2pm. Stopped off at the library for some movies - nothing we haven't seen already. Their small collection of DVD's doesn't hold many surprises for us anymore.

Picked up the mail - my business cards are here! YAY! Also the 4GB memory card I bought for David's PSP. (Yeah, it was a bribe. I'll admit it!) Add in a couple of paperbackswap books and some bills too, of course.

I've caught up on most of my blog reading. (I think I posted more than y'all even though I was gone. lol) I didn't do much commenting though, in the interest of saving time. However, rest assured that if I normally comment on your blog, then I've read your recent entries.

The laundry has begun and everything is out of the van and most of the stuff is out of the camper. Tomorrow we'll pop it and clean it out properly.

We went to the waterpark around 5pm - it was hot and sticky here today and we haven't been there in almost 2 weeks.

I'm reading Mansfield Park by Jane Austen and enjoying it far more than any of hers I've read yet, except Pride and Prejudice. I've also found the new movie version on youtube and have been watching bits of that as well.