The description for the nuns' story link was getting a bit long but there's one more thing I wanted to point out from the story: Sister Bernadette, upon finding out she was being discharged from the hospital not to the convent but to a care home, said:

"I'd been in hospital for two weeks and, when I was discharged, I thought I was returning home to the convent," Sister Bernadette explains. "But the ambulance took me to a nursing home in my nightgown. I was shocked. The provost came but didn't speak to me. I called after him, saying I would only be obedient for a week."

I think that last line pretty well shows what the provost is up against!

I've spent some time this week going through my closet. I've been losing weight and I had a lot of clothes set aside for some day when I could fit in them. Well, now I have a lot of things that are too big and I never got a chance to wear them! I mean, yay about losing the weight but some of the stuff I'm bummed about. Most of the clothes are going to the thrift shop but I'm keeping a few things back because I think I might see about getting them tailored.

I had been doing good with my tiara posts, putting one up about every other week and then my run crashed. I have a whole list of tiaras I want to talk about with links to info and pictures. It's not for lack of material that I haven't posted. It's a combination of not knowing which one I want to post about next and also getting lost in my own tiara rabbit holes while looking up info. I think I'll try to get a post out this week and start back up with an every other week posting schedule.

From left to right: Garrad and Co. Late 19th Century Diamond Rivière Necklace/Natural Pearl and Diamond Tiara; "The Nepal Emeralds" Impressive Cartier Set of Emerald and Diamond Jewelry; Antique Diamond and Colourless Gem Tiara/Necklace (1870); Fine Late 19th Century Ruby and Diamond Tiara/Necklace.

There is some tiara news, though - Christie's is having a Magnificent Jewels auction on November 11 and there are 4 tiaras available! Not sure how I feel about that emerald one, though. It's just kind of weird! It's like Cartier had some huge honking emeralds they had to do something with and that's what they came up with. If you go to the auction site they have more pictures of each individual tiara and there's one of the emerald one with both pieces together and it just looks like a bunch of grapes hanging on top of the model's head.

Listening

Some podcasts I listened to this week:

I usually don't listen to whole albums but I listened through 4 while doing stuff around the house. Why don't I listen to whole albums? Two reasons - 1.) one of my special talents is only liking the one, non-typical song that a band does so I have no use for listening to the rest of the album and 2.) I keep thinking I'll listen "later" - when I have time, when I'm done with something else - and later never comes! This week I just told myself DO IT and I did! This was awesome, I should listen to the albums in my music library (well, the ones I know I like!) more often! All links are from Bandcamp.

Reading

I finished The Apothecary Rose by Candace Robb and started The Snake, The Crocodile and The Dog by Elizabeth Peters. This book is part of the Amelia Peabody series which are set in Egypt in the late 1800s.

Watching

I knocked another movie off my watch list, Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone with Peter Strauss, Ernie Hudson, Molly Ringwald and Michael Ironside. If you saw this in the theaters in 1983, then you probably saw it in 3D. I, however, missed out on that. This was not a good movie but it was a fun one. It is campy and looked like it was going for a Mad Max vibe. The special effects were surprisingly not bad, although all the explosions were awfully "sparky." This would be a good film to watch with friends and riff on. I would give it a solid 5.

I am very close to finishing the Babylon 5 series! I think I have 4 episodes left. After I finish that, I have the movies to watch plus the single season of Crusade.

That wraps it up for this week!

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