To recap an extremely eventful weekend… (for the future, when I will probably miss this excessive family time)
I learned of a new common bond my mother and I share, when some trailer involving Anne Hathaway came on TV. She said “I’m sick of her” with a mixture of disinterest and disgust. This is the woman who kept telling me to see “The Devil Wears Prada”. After telling me I should give that princess movie a chance (that’s a link to all the Anne Hathaway movie information one could desire if one cared to use it). Unfortunately, she then stopped me from deleting the 1-star “The Bounty Hunter” from the DVR with the sole argument that Gerard Butler is good looking. (Then stare at pictures of him while NOT listening to over an hour of terrible dialogue recycled from the sewer where decades of Hollywood and soap opera scripts have been flushed down).
She also yelled at me for exclaiming “WHAT’S THAT SMELL??!” when a wave of Kahlua drifted up my nose because my dad walked into the room with his “coffee”. Because mentioning a “smell” with no further details is a cardinal sin in this household (it’s also commonplace). It was probably just some part of my brain going “alcohol? oh hey when do I get some of that next?” without telling my nose what it was yet. The mind works in mysterious ways.
I watched the last 10ish* minutes of a movie when just attempting to channel-surf because Samuel L. Jackson’s acting SUCKED ME IN!!! 187. Not a happy movie. Not a very convincing movie in terms of most of the acting. But GODDAMN was the soundtrack good. Oh, yeah, that was half of what got me hooked, no offense to the great SLJ. The song in the final scene was perfect…
*Can I judge a movie by the final 10 minutes? Hell yes I can. If I can guess from a <2 minutes trailer if a movie is going to be terrible or excellent, which I regularly do, I can definitely judge the last 10 minutes.
Perhaps my most important achievement of all, to end on a happy note, was washing my Eurotrash laundry- a special assortment of shiny, glittery fabrics that I had to be super careful with and wash by hand.
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