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May 29, 2011~ 12:00 am
My honey and I finally got to watch a movie rental from Netflix. This past month has not worked for movie-viewing due to Wayne's bout with SHINGLES (poor thing) but he's got them on the run at this point, so we settled down Saturday evening to watch
and it was wonderful. I know I've read some reviews of this film on other folks' blogs and they didn't much care for the film, but it was so surprising to me ...(don't really know what I expected) but I'm sure I thought it was a film primarily about psychics ... and boy I was wrong.
This is a love story through and through and not just about a man and a woman, but love on many levels, in various human relationships, and how death creates such a rend in our psyches we want to reach through that curtain and hold a hand one last time. I found the film very moving.
Matt Damon broke my heart playing one of the loneliest young men I've ever watched, isolated by a psychic gift he neither wanted nor pursued.
The most refreshing surprise was his leading lady, an absolute joy - a lady who reminds me a bit of Audrey Hepburn
Cecile De France... a beauty as well as a terrific actress. The opening scenes are of a terrifying tsunami that provide her with own near death experience: how horrifying it is to watch that LOUD inexorable WALL OF WATER come crashing toward her as she shops for souvenirs in the village market.
Clint Eastwood did a marvelous job of making that disaster as chillingly real as possible.
The movie is actually three very different stories... Damon's, De France's, and a young child actor whose face holds all the pathos in the world.
Just LOOK at him! He's reeling from his own personal loss and eventually... (and even as you're watching) you think it's impossible their stories could entwine, but they do. 'Hereafter' is a movie that made me feel good all over by the end. I was more than pleased, I was simply delighted we'd chosen it for Saturday evening. It brims with longing and it folds us up in hope like the softest, comforting blanket. I give it 5 stars.
Friday evening we stopped for pizza night with the grandkids. Bill was FULL of quesions once again about horror movies, and he was doing his ZOMBIE WALK (which is so 'spot on', it's hysterical.) Where he learned to do that I'll never know, but it's uncanny. (I thought perhaps for his next birthday, I should purchase THIS)
a REMOTE CONTROLLED ZOMBIE!! LOL!!! Kay spent a good deal of the evening wiggling her loose front tooth. She's excited about having something for the TOOTH FAIRY to claim for cash. "See it? It's moving," as she pushed and poked at it with her tongue. (I do think I saw a wee bit of anxiety there as well.) Ah, this family and TEETH! .... I could write a book.
This lovely, looooooooong Memorial Day weekend is also the 60th birthday of my oldest (not in age, but in years) friend, Annette. My dearest 'Netto', who's known me forever. Here she is about a year and a half ago, posed with a cinnamonsugar-colored horse way out there in California.
I'm sure she can ride, too. She's the athlete, I'm the klutz.Happy Birthday, Dear Friend! She got to sixty ahead of me but I'm right on her heels, ready to cross that line in August. Time is a bandit. Pure and simple. The twinking of an eye, and you progress from youth to late middle age (or as Wayne says, "were old. None of that 'middle-aged stuff." ) He's probably right but dang it, I don't feel it. (Maybe my knees, but that's only about 5 percent of me.) Have a GREAT, LONG WEEKEND EVERYONE!
May 29, 2011~ 12:00 am
The season is heating up. For the first time this year I placed my double-fan in the kitchen window and allowed it to run all night. Today is heating up to 88 and tomorrow 92! (Yep, we sorta skipped over spring and went straight to swelter) -and that 65 degree breeze felt GOOD downstairs last night while I was on the computer before bed.
I vowed to NOT buy any more suet cakes for the birds. The gluttons go through one in less than a DAY now, so it's not this lovely-looking picture of polite small nibbles....
it's like a SWARM ... mostly loud grackles with their pointy long beaks, shrieking at one another in a blur of flapping wings and aggression. (Then 'someone' learned to open the cage door, to allow the cake to flop down on the steps.) I outwitted that by using twistie-ties to secure the door.
Oh, I know I said 'no more'.... but I bought six cakes last night and immediately put one out. I just looked out the backdoor and it's gone. LOL!! The greedy marauders.
May 30, 2011~ 10:15 pm
Sitting here for HOURS on end (on Friday, last night and today) trying like crazy to make Blogger behave, but "THAT DOG WON'T HUNT!"
Looking for an alternative to Blogger, I fastened upon Bravenet and set up a delightfully easy-to-use blog over there. That was on Friday.
On SATURDAY EVENING, I tried making a second entry and IMMEDIATELY I had a pop up redirect to tell me I had violated their terms of service and they'd removed my blog. LOL!!!! God, I was pissed. All that work just to see it go up in smoke. Then came the most miserable task of all......
I tried on Sunday evening to set up ANOTHER blog in Blogger, using (yes.... what else?) a proxy server... and though it showed up fine through that, my account showed (even though I was looking at it), it 'did not exist.' LOL!!!
I tried all day Sunday and Monday to hack away at that pitiful thing, until I thought to check my Gmail account. Whaddya KNOW! Bravenet had RESTORED my blog and apologized for a false positive for objectionable content (or spam or spurious links, or whatever it was made them pull the plug to begin with) -therefore, for your entertainment, a blog PRIMARILY about 'stuff my fella says' gleaned from emails and conversations over the years, here it is. Click below.
the NEW PLACE! Enjoy! )(Ugh! Work tomorrow and it's already after 10:00)
June 2, 2011~ 9:00 pm
Ok. Here's a FEEL GOOD STORY FOR YA......
If you haven't caught this story in the media yet, reward yourself for a hard day and go visit The HOME DEPOT DUCK; your day will turn suddenly SUNNY! What a cutie.... just look at that face.....
She reminds me of the mallards we had at work for one, fun, glorious day when they decided to float on a mud puddle about 6 ft. wide that formed after some heavy rains. (I guess they went somewhere else to nest, but I miss them.) Oh! And guess what I did this afternoon after visiting my mum? I renewed my library card. (I got it 2 years ago and it was set to expire in 2 weeks and I'd never used it. LOL!! This dumb ass just keeps buying books.) But tonight.....
a JAMES LEE BURKE I didn't even know existed. "White Doves At Morning" - came out in 2002: "Drawing on his personal family history, James Lee Burke crafts a story of enormous scope about three best friends from Louisiana who -- despite their own misgivings about the "Cause" -- enlist in the Confederate Army and set off to war." Yippieee!! Taking a BIG BOWL of Rainbow Berry sherbert up to bed with me now... propping it in my lap, and digging into BOTH the book and the sherbert. Ah....... heaven. :)
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My honey and I finally got to watch a movie rental from Netflix. This past month has not worked for movie-viewing due to Wayne's bout with SHINGLES (poor thing) but he's got them on the run at this point, so we settled down Saturday evening to watch
and it was wonderful. I know I've read some reviews of this film on other folks' blogs and they didn't much care for the film, but it was so surprising to me ...(don't really know what I expected) but I'm sure I thought it was a film primarily about psychics ... and boy I was wrong.
This is a love story through and through and not just about a man and a woman, but love on many levels, in various human relationships, and how death creates such a rend in our psyches we want to reach through that curtain and hold a hand one last time. I found the film very moving.
Matt Damon broke my heart playing one of the loneliest young men I've ever watched, isolated by a psychic gift he neither wanted nor pursued.
The most refreshing surprise was his leading lady, an absolute joy - a lady who reminds me a bit of Audrey Hepburn
Cecile De France... a beauty as well as a terrific actress. The opening scenes are of a terrifying tsunami that provide her with own near death experience: how horrifying it is to watch that LOUD inexorable WALL OF WATER come crashing toward her as she shops for souvenirs in the village market.
Clint Eastwood did a marvelous job of making that disaster as chillingly real as possible.
The movie is actually three very different stories... Damon's, De France's, and a young child actor whose face holds all the pathos in the world.
Just LOOK at him! He's reeling from his own personal loss and eventually... (and even as you're watching) you think it's impossible their stories could entwine, but they do. 'Hereafter' is a movie that made me feel good all over by the end. I was more than pleased, I was simply delighted we'd chosen it for Saturday evening. It brims with longing and it folds us up in hope like the softest, comforting blanket. I give it 5 stars.
Friday evening we stopped for pizza night with the grandkids. Bill was FULL of quesions once again about horror movies, and he was doing his ZOMBIE WALK (which is so 'spot on', it's hysterical.) Where he learned to do that I'll never know, but it's uncanny. (I thought perhaps for his next birthday, I should purchase THIS)
a REMOTE CONTROLLED ZOMBIE!! LOL!!! Kay spent a good deal of the evening wiggling her loose front tooth. She's excited about having something for the TOOTH FAIRY to claim for cash. "See it? It's moving," as she pushed and poked at it with her tongue. (I do think I saw a wee bit of anxiety there as well.) Ah, this family and TEETH! .... I could write a book.
This lovely, looooooooong Memorial Day weekend is also the 60th birthday of my oldest (not in age, but in years) friend, Annette. My dearest 'Netto', who's known me forever. Here she is about a year and a half ago, posed with a cinnamonsugar-colored horse way out there in California.
I'm sure she can ride, too. She's the athlete, I'm the klutz.Happy Birthday, Dear Friend! She got to sixty ahead of me but I'm right on her heels, ready to cross that line in August. Time is a bandit. Pure and simple. The twinking of an eye, and you progress from youth to late middle age (or as Wayne says, "were old. None of that 'middle-aged stuff." ) He's probably right but dang it, I don't feel it. (Maybe my knees, but that's only about 5 percent of me.) Have a GREAT, LONG WEEKEND EVERYONE!
May 29, 2011~ 12:00 am
The season is heating up. For the first time this year I placed my double-fan in the kitchen window and allowed it to run all night. Today is heating up to 88 and tomorrow 92! (Yep, we sorta skipped over spring and went straight to swelter) -and that 65 degree breeze felt GOOD downstairs last night while I was on the computer before bed.
I vowed to NOT buy any more suet cakes for the birds. The gluttons go through one in less than a DAY now, so it's not this lovely-looking picture of polite small nibbles....
it's like a SWARM ... mostly loud grackles with their pointy long beaks, shrieking at one another in a blur of flapping wings and aggression. (Then 'someone' learned to open the cage door, to allow the cake to flop down on the steps.) I outwitted that by using twistie-ties to secure the door.
Oh, I know I said 'no more'.... but I bought six cakes last night and immediately put one out. I just looked out the backdoor and it's gone. LOL!! The greedy marauders.
May 30, 2011~ 10:15 pm
Sitting here for HOURS on end (on Friday, last night and today) trying like crazy to make Blogger behave, but "THAT DOG WON'T HUNT!"
Looking for an alternative to Blogger, I fastened upon Bravenet and set up a delightfully easy-to-use blog over there. That was on Friday.
On SATURDAY EVENING, I tried making a second entry and IMMEDIATELY I had a pop up redirect to tell me I had violated their terms of service and they'd removed my blog. LOL!!!! God, I was pissed. All that work just to see it go up in smoke. Then came the most miserable task of all......
I tried on Sunday evening to set up ANOTHER blog in Blogger, using (yes.... what else?) a proxy server... and though it showed up fine through that, my account showed (even though I was looking at it), it 'did not exist.' LOL!!!
I tried all day Sunday and Monday to hack away at that pitiful thing, until I thought to check my Gmail account. Whaddya KNOW! Bravenet had RESTORED my blog and apologized for a false positive for objectionable content (or spam or spurious links, or whatever it was made them pull the plug to begin with) -therefore, for your entertainment, a blog PRIMARILY about 'stuff my fella says' gleaned from emails and conversations over the years, here it is. Click below.
the NEW PLACE! Enjoy! )(Ugh! Work tomorrow and it's already after 10:00)
June 2, 2011~ 9:00 pm
Ok. Here's a FEEL GOOD STORY FOR YA......
If you haven't caught this story in the media yet, reward yourself for a hard day and go visit The HOME DEPOT DUCK; your day will turn suddenly SUNNY! What a cutie.... just look at that face.....
She reminds me of the mallards we had at work for one, fun, glorious day when they decided to float on a mud puddle about 6 ft. wide that formed after some heavy rains. (I guess they went somewhere else to nest, but I miss them.) Oh! And guess what I did this afternoon after visiting my mum? I renewed my library card. (I got it 2 years ago and it was set to expire in 2 weeks and I'd never used it. LOL!! This dumb ass just keeps buying books.) But tonight.....
a JAMES LEE BURKE I didn't even know existed. "White Doves At Morning" - came out in 2002: "Drawing on his personal family history, James Lee Burke crafts a story of enormous scope about three best friends from Louisiana who -- despite their own misgivings about the "Cause" -- enlist in the Confederate Army and set off to war." Yippieee!! Taking a BIG BOWL of Rainbow Berry sherbert up to bed with me now... propping it in my lap, and digging into BOTH the book and the sherbert. Ah....... heaven. :)
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