Day 289 ....
Jan. 2nd, 2021 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatManaged to get a long walk in today, after watching two more episodes of Bridgerton. Regarding Bridgerton? It has continuity issues. Big time.
Me: So, I made it through episode 6 of Bridgerton, and well, in episode 5, the heroine takes off this expensive necklace that Prince Frederick gave her as a gift.
Mother: Prince Frederick?
Me: Yes, the Duke puts her off, so the Queen sets her up with her nephew, and he gives her an expensive necklace. Which she wears to this ball. But she gets all flustered when she sees the Duke and feels the necklace is suffocating her. They make a big deal out of it. And everything. But she takes it off - and leaves it on the terrace ledge and goes off to talk to the Duke. [Pause] I spent the rest of that episode and good portion of the next worrying about the necklace. She doesn't go back to get it. No one mentions it. Frederick doesn't ask for it back. Nothing. I finally realized that the writers had forgotten about it.
Mother bursts out laughing.
Me: If this were Downton Abbey or Sandition or Pride and Prejudice, or even The Crown or Outlander - we'd have had an episode devoted to the missing necklace.
Mother: True. They'd claim a servant stole it, or that she needed to give it back and provide the funds. Or we'd follow the servant who took it and pawned it..
ME: Exactly. But here? They just forgot about it. (We both laugh our heads off.)
Mother: Okay I'm going to watch this and look forward to the necklace.
Me: OR the fact that the writers forgot about it.
I told her there were explicit sex scenes. Mother agreed that was probably the one thing that was different from most Regency Romances, a lot of them allude to it or they don't have sex until the end if at that. Although the books we've been reading have a lot of sex in them. "Sometimes far too much to my liking," said mother. Oh, as an aside - yes, this is a Regency Romance, there's an episode with demented King George. At some point, I should brush up on my British and world history. My historical knowledge is kind of all over the place and not all that well indexed in my brain.
Mother is still in pain. Excruciating pain. Helping my father - unfortunately strained her back, and she can barely walk. She puts any weight on her leg at all - the pain shoots up and makes her nauseaus, and it is getting worse. Finally called the health care center at her retirement community in an act of desperation, and they encouraged her to contact her primary care doctor - who sent in a stereoid and trimodole pain prescription to the pharmacy. Then she called her next door neighbor, who is a complete sweetheart and has a wife suffering from dementia - to pick it up for her.
He not only picked it up, he also brought up her mail. (She gave him her credit card to pay for it. I'm amazed he didn't run into any problems. But I think she told the pharmacy ahead of time that he was going to pick it up for her - and she also asked them how long it would take.)
In other news...this made me laugh, mainly because what else can I do?
Mike Pence Asks the Judge to Toss the Republican's Congressman's lawsuit seeking to upend the Election
There's a fight going on in the Republican Party right now about the election. It's been going on for the last two months now.
"“A suit to establish that the Vice President has discretion over the count, filed against the Vice President, is a walking legal contradiction,” Pence's brief stated.
I burst out laughing. A bunch of Republican Congressmen want to force Mike Pence to make the decision to throw out the electoral vote. Pence refuses.(Consider for a moment that Joe Biden could have done that in 2016 and possibly had better grounds for it in 2016, that election was less legitimate than this one.)
At least Pence is sane. Although he may be trying to figure out how to take out Trump and his supporters, without getting into trouble. I'm not unconvinced McConnell, Pence, and various other Republicans are meeting behind closed doors discussing ways to get rid of Trump. They won't admit it, but I think they are looking forward to a Biden Presidency, and possibly secretly voted for him or a third party candidate.
It was a lovely walk, crisp, cool, sunny, and blue skies - with lots of sun. I soaked in the sun. The grow lamp in my kitchen is providing me with mood-enhancing non-direct sunlight. I love growing the lettuce. When I'm done with that, perhaps I'll branch out and do herbs or salsa. Of course I have to figure out how to raise the grow lamp to do that.
Going full on greens this year. Also going to up my walking as much as possible.
The brother was in full domestic mode today according to mother - he was baking bread again and straightening up the house. I was being kind of lazy. I had meant to do some re-arranging with clothes over these two weeks but never got around to it. Oh well maybe next weekend? Or Martin Luther King holiday weekend?
In previous years, I couldn't wait for New Year's. Now, I'm on pins and needles for the Inaugration. January 20th can't get here soon enough. It lands on a Wed this year. Just after Martin Luther King Day. And I'm terrified about what will happen the next two weeks. This roller-coaster ride is not over yet, folks. At least it's not in the US.
Me: So, I made it through episode 6 of Bridgerton, and well, in episode 5, the heroine takes off this expensive necklace that Prince Frederick gave her as a gift.
Mother: Prince Frederick?
Me: Yes, the Duke puts her off, so the Queen sets her up with her nephew, and he gives her an expensive necklace. Which she wears to this ball. But she gets all flustered when she sees the Duke and feels the necklace is suffocating her. They make a big deal out of it. And everything. But she takes it off - and leaves it on the terrace ledge and goes off to talk to the Duke. [Pause] I spent the rest of that episode and good portion of the next worrying about the necklace. She doesn't go back to get it. No one mentions it. Frederick doesn't ask for it back. Nothing. I finally realized that the writers had forgotten about it.
Mother bursts out laughing.
Me: If this were Downton Abbey or Sandition or Pride and Prejudice, or even The Crown or Outlander - we'd have had an episode devoted to the missing necklace.
Mother: True. They'd claim a servant stole it, or that she needed to give it back and provide the funds. Or we'd follow the servant who took it and pawned it..
ME: Exactly. But here? They just forgot about it. (We both laugh our heads off.)
Mother: Okay I'm going to watch this and look forward to the necklace.
Me: OR the fact that the writers forgot about it.
I told her there were explicit sex scenes. Mother agreed that was probably the one thing that was different from most Regency Romances, a lot of them allude to it or they don't have sex until the end if at that. Although the books we've been reading have a lot of sex in them. "Sometimes far too much to my liking," said mother. Oh, as an aside - yes, this is a Regency Romance, there's an episode with demented King George. At some point, I should brush up on my British and world history. My historical knowledge is kind of all over the place and not all that well indexed in my brain.
Mother is still in pain. Excruciating pain. Helping my father - unfortunately strained her back, and she can barely walk. She puts any weight on her leg at all - the pain shoots up and makes her nauseaus, and it is getting worse. Finally called the health care center at her retirement community in an act of desperation, and they encouraged her to contact her primary care doctor - who sent in a stereoid and trimodole pain prescription to the pharmacy. Then she called her next door neighbor, who is a complete sweetheart and has a wife suffering from dementia - to pick it up for her.
He not only picked it up, he also brought up her mail. (She gave him her credit card to pay for it. I'm amazed he didn't run into any problems. But I think she told the pharmacy ahead of time that he was going to pick it up for her - and she also asked them how long it would take.)
In other news...this made me laugh, mainly because what else can I do?
Mike Pence Asks the Judge to Toss the Republican's Congressman's lawsuit seeking to upend the Election
There's a fight going on in the Republican Party right now about the election. It's been going on for the last two months now.
"“A suit to establish that the Vice President has discretion over the count, filed against the Vice President, is a walking legal contradiction,” Pence's brief stated.
I burst out laughing. A bunch of Republican Congressmen want to force Mike Pence to make the decision to throw out the electoral vote. Pence refuses.(Consider for a moment that Joe Biden could have done that in 2016 and possibly had better grounds for it in 2016, that election was less legitimate than this one.)
At least Pence is sane. Although he may be trying to figure out how to take out Trump and his supporters, without getting into trouble. I'm not unconvinced McConnell, Pence, and various other Republicans are meeting behind closed doors discussing ways to get rid of Trump. They won't admit it, but I think they are looking forward to a Biden Presidency, and possibly secretly voted for him or a third party candidate.
It was a lovely walk, crisp, cool, sunny, and blue skies - with lots of sun. I soaked in the sun. The grow lamp in my kitchen is providing me with mood-enhancing non-direct sunlight. I love growing the lettuce. When I'm done with that, perhaps I'll branch out and do herbs or salsa. Of course I have to figure out how to raise the grow lamp to do that.
Going full on greens this year. Also going to up my walking as much as possible.
The brother was in full domestic mode today according to mother - he was baking bread again and straightening up the house. I was being kind of lazy. I had meant to do some re-arranging with clothes over these two weeks but never got around to it. Oh well maybe next weekend? Or Martin Luther King holiday weekend?
In previous years, I couldn't wait for New Year's. Now, I'm on pins and needles for the Inaugration. January 20th can't get here soon enough. It lands on a Wed this year. Just after Martin Luther King Day. And I'm terrified about what will happen the next two weeks. This roller-coaster ride is not over yet, folks. At least it's not in the US.