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Dec. 18th, 2022 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. I need to make dinner but am procrastinating. Other than that have accomplished a few things..
* Got my new contacts
* Gathered up financial information (for appointment with financial advisor on Friday)
* Picked up more vitamins
* Got money out of bank for trip down south
* made bed up clean
Probably should have cleaned out fridge and cleaned apartment, but will do that when I get back. (By clean apartment - I mean get rid of clutter.) It's not bad, but it could be better.
I've not really been in the Xmas spirit this year. I got my brother and his family what they asked for, because I drew a complete blank on my own. And I've yet to come up with something for mother - who insists I just get it when I come down and visit. (This will be our first Christmas without my Dad. And my mother's first Christmas without him for 57 years. The grief never goes away, it just kind of fluctuates or comes in waves, if that makes sense? Most like does to anyone who has lost someone who was an integral part of their lives. My father has always been an integral part of my life - to the point that it was hard to imagine life without him in it.
That type of loss - isn't necessarily new to me. I've had it before. But it doesn't get easier. If anything, I'd say quite the opposite.
Mother says it makes sense that I've not been able to get "into" the holiday spirit or focus on it. Up until this weekend, I've been worried about my job. To the point of having nightmares almost every night about it. This is the first weekend in a very very long time - that I'm not worried about it.
Also the first in which I'm not sick or physically ill in some way. I appear to have my blood sugar under control finally.
2. Watched Enola Holmes #2 - Cavill still feels like an odd choice for Sherlock. I don't think of Sherlock as a hunk or a big man. I don't know, when I think of Sherlock Holmes - I see Basil Rathbone or Benedict Cumberbatch in my head. But Cavill works well enough, I guess. I like the diversified casting - the musical Hamilton really opened that up. Prior to Hamilton - they rarely did interracial or colorblind casting.
The second film was okay. You don't have to see the first one to follow it. I'd forgotten the first one and was able to follow it without any issues.
I did get a little bored during it, and found the mystery hard to follow. However, it did have some good action sequences. Unfortunately - the relationships between Enola and her family members are more interesting than those between Enola and Tweaksberry or other cast members.
Netflix has some intriguing things popping up. White Noise - the Noah Baumbach film is coming to it in late December, as are Blood Origin (spin-off from The Witcher series about the eleves), Glass Onion - a Knives Out Mystery; Alice in Borderland (not sure what that is); and Matilda the Musical.
* Got my new contacts
* Gathered up financial information (for appointment with financial advisor on Friday)
* Picked up more vitamins
* Got money out of bank for trip down south
* made bed up clean
Probably should have cleaned out fridge and cleaned apartment, but will do that when I get back. (By clean apartment - I mean get rid of clutter.) It's not bad, but it could be better.
I've not really been in the Xmas spirit this year. I got my brother and his family what they asked for, because I drew a complete blank on my own. And I've yet to come up with something for mother - who insists I just get it when I come down and visit. (This will be our first Christmas without my Dad. And my mother's first Christmas without him for 57 years. The grief never goes away, it just kind of fluctuates or comes in waves, if that makes sense? Most like does to anyone who has lost someone who was an integral part of their lives. My father has always been an integral part of my life - to the point that it was hard to imagine life without him in it.
That type of loss - isn't necessarily new to me. I've had it before. But it doesn't get easier. If anything, I'd say quite the opposite.
Mother says it makes sense that I've not been able to get "into" the holiday spirit or focus on it. Up until this weekend, I've been worried about my job. To the point of having nightmares almost every night about it. This is the first weekend in a very very long time - that I'm not worried about it.
Also the first in which I'm not sick or physically ill in some way. I appear to have my blood sugar under control finally.
2. Watched Enola Holmes #2 - Cavill still feels like an odd choice for Sherlock. I don't think of Sherlock as a hunk or a big man. I don't know, when I think of Sherlock Holmes - I see Basil Rathbone or Benedict Cumberbatch in my head. But Cavill works well enough, I guess. I like the diversified casting - the musical Hamilton really opened that up. Prior to Hamilton - they rarely did interracial or colorblind casting.
The second film was okay. You don't have to see the first one to follow it. I'd forgotten the first one and was able to follow it without any issues.
I did get a little bored during it, and found the mystery hard to follow. However, it did have some good action sequences. Unfortunately - the relationships between Enola and her family members are more interesting than those between Enola and Tweaksberry or other cast members.
Netflix has some intriguing things popping up. White Noise - the Noah Baumbach film is coming to it in late December, as are Blood Origin (spin-off from The Witcher series about the eleves), Glass Onion - a Knives Out Mystery; Alice in Borderland (not sure what that is); and Matilda the Musical.
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Date: 2022-12-21 06:41 am (UTC)Good news about getting your blood sugar under control!
I remember thinking Cavill is too "pretty" and too big to be Sherlock Holmes too but I looked it up up once and I guess in the novels, he was described as over 6ft? I've read them and I didn't remember that but I suppose it was a throwaway line. I feel like it would be harder to be inconspicuous. Cumberbatch definitely has the looks for it, but personality wise, I do prefer Cavil's (and Jonny Lee Miller) Sherlock. I haven't seen Rathbone's or Jeremy Brett's versions.