Tag Archives: Ardeth Bey

Jun 11 2014

H Is for Hamunaptra

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The A to Z Challenge continues on my blog! At this rate, I’ll probably be wrapping up with Z about the time every other blogger in the world starts up again. I’m having fun though and I hope you are too.

The first thing that comes to my mind for the letter “H” is Hamunaptra, mostly because???????????????????????????????

I spend entirely too much time cruising eBay and look what I found and HAD to have! It’s only a resin replica of the Key to the Book of the Dead (in the movie) and doesn’t actually open (so no treasure map inside) but the 1999 “The Mummy” is one of my all time favorite movies. And the invented-for-this-movie  “city of the dead” Hamunaptra was the destination everyone in the movie was going to, for better or worse.  My younger daughter and I watched the movie at the theater on opening day, went outside, bought another set of tickets and watched it again immediately. SO good! All that adventure, hints of ancient Egypt, Brendan Fraser in his prime, Ardeth Bey the Medjai leader, with the long hair and the big gun….mummies, cats, scarabs….what more could I ask??? I try to capture that spirit of adventure, magic, romance and  anything-is-possible in the “Gods of Egypt” novels I write, which are set in ancient Egypt.

???????????????????????????????H would also be for the goddess Hathor, of whom I’m very fond. She appears in “Magic of the Nile” at a critical point and I have an unfinished novella  where she’s very key to events.  She was the Goddess of many things, but particularly of love, beauty, motherhood, music, joy and dancing, and could appear as a cow, a cow-headed woman, or a woman with curving cow horns.

Or, H can be for honeybee. Those little guys are so important to our food supply….plant flowers for them if you can, ok? This site seems to have a good year round list of what flowering plants the bees prefer.  We need the bees! (Yes, the bees are a total non sequitor from the subject of Egypt…)

So I’ll leave you with this photo from “The Mummy” – can’t talk about all that Ardeth Bey goodness and not have his picture anywhere. In our house we also quite loved Jonathan as portrayed by John Hannah.

Mummy snapshot

Jun 7 2012

What’s In Your Purse?

What’s in your purse? I always enjoy looking at the celebrity ones in various magazines, all that high end stuff spread out so neatly and beautifully photographed as if it just fell out of the purse that way. LOL! If I tip my purse over, there will be a flurry of mini dust bunnies, pennies, an odd aspirin or two, Ralph’s receipts and THEN the actual contents. Nothing high end. The key to my Honda Civic, the day job badge (with its very old and out of date photo), a checkbook, although I hardly ever write actual checks any more…not all that long ago I did get organized and put most of the small, annoying loose stuff into color coded mini purses, mostly so I can find my asthma and migraine medications fast.

I’m not going to add a photograph of my purse hoard to the thousands of google images (wow, had no idea how many people had shared theirs until I went looking today!). You can probably imagine what it all looks like. Recently  I was at a baby shower where we played a “What’s In Your Purse” game, with different numbers of points attached to items. I scored 201 points, out of a possible 671, which is 30%, so I guess I’m kinda average.  Alas I had no rock, no spoon, no baby food – all of which were worth 20 points each. I always used to halfway fear I’d somehow end up on “Let’s Make A Deal” and be unable to win anything, for lack of the variety in my purse.

I did have a mini screwdriver and two flashlights, which weren’t even on the list.  If I’d had a photo of the mother-to-be, that would have been worth extra points but alas, no. Don’t normally keep photos of my co-workers in my purse. I do have a photo of the character Ardeth Bey from “The Mummy” and one of Aragorn from LOTR. It’s a family joke between me and my daughters, although it was bit embarrassing once when someone asked me if I was related to them. Ummm, no.

Before motherhood, I used to carry a really small purse, or sometimes would even just go with keys, cash and driver’s license but somehow over the years my purse has morphed into something closer to Mary Poppins’ carryall than a Judith Lieber minaudiere. (ALWAYS wanted one of those, the glittery-er the better). I also carry this fantastic Betsey Johnson bag (found at Ross Dress For Less) to and from work daily, with my lunch, my kindle, my notepads for writing in case inspiration strikes on break or at lunch…

Maybe the best purse I ever saw though was the one in “My Stepmother Is An Alien”, pictured above at the start of the post In that 1988 movie with Dan Ackroyd and Kim Basinger, The Bag could whip up diamonds and designer dresses and just about anything else on demand. There were some odd cultural challenges and I think it kinda turned on the heroine toward the end as I vaguely recall. Tried to destroy the Earth maybe? The worst thing my purse does is get caught in doorways or lose things in the tiny black hole I know it’s hiding in the very bottom. Otherwise it’s very well behaved!