Movie Meme - 1 through 10

1: What Movie did you last watch? When was that?

What about last movie that I remember? Promising Young Woman - about a month ago. It is a movie that won't leave you, trust me on this.

2: What movie are you anticipating or excited about?

Minari - assuming it ever makes it to On Demand. And I'm anticipating "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness", Shang-Chai and the Ten Rings, Marvels, and Black Widow. I have a weakness for Superhero films.

3: What movie are you planning to watch next?

Various possibilities: Minari, Things Heard & Seen (a Netflix horror flick about a hidden secrets and a house), Pieces of a Woman, and Thunder and Rockets (?) - movie with Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Butler (I adore Octavia Butler)...also possibly the Mitchells vs. the Machines, and when it becomes available Ravka and the Dragon...(can't remember the name exactly).

4: What was the last movie you added to your to watch list?

Minari

5: Which movie did you last re-watch?

The Quiet Man

6: Which movie was the last one you really, really loved?

The Sound of Metal and Nomadland. I adored both, but Nomadland may have a slight advantage.

7: What was/were the last movies you bought on DVD?

Can't remember...it was so long ago. I've stopped watching DVD's or buying them - since I discovered streaming and on demand. I did buy various Avengers films on streaming - Amazon.

8: Where do you like watching movies best - Movie theater, laptop, phone, ebook player (Amazon Fire HD), or television set? Why?

Movie Theaters. I honestly don't understand how people watch them on computers, phones or ebooks - that gives me a headache. For me it's either movie theaters or a large 55 inch screen. I need the visual experience to be large. Sound I'm less picky about - but it helps if I can hear it.

9: Children's, YA, NA or Adult? Why?

Adult, although partial to animation, and some children's, YA flicks.

10: Sci-Fi or fantasy? Why?

Science Fiction for the most part. Fantasy hasn't been as successful on film, no clue why.

Day #49 of Year #2

Another sick sinus headache - so no walk. I want one - but there's a disturbance in the weather and that always gives me sick sinuse headaches, which can lead to vertigo. My balance is off - I can feel it. So am leery of going anywhere at the moment. They are also predicting thunderstorms.

Not a good day. I'm not feeling well - due to my allergies, and I'm angry and frustrated, mainly sad. I asked for three miracles in the fall, and the only one that didn't happen was my parents...being okay. They were okay last year at this time, but the world had gone insane. Now the world appears to be evening out a bit, but they aren't okay.

My plan had been to fly down this spring to see my parents, as soon as I got vaccinated. But I can't - I need to wait until my mother gets better at least. Mother saw the doctor today. It's not good news. They still have no idea how she broke the bone. And no, they've never had any cases in which they couldn't figure it out. There's no cancer, no tumors, no osteoporosis.
Nothing. And she swears she did nothing to break it.

But..it's also not healing that much. As mother posted on her FB page: "It still is not healed and no signs it will soon. Blood does not circulate well in that area to help with healing. So I will continue as I am for awhile before I search out a trauma specialist. That might incur more surgery which I hope to avoid."

Per mother, Sisinlaw is a bit of an activist apparently. At least in her small town of Kinderhook, NY.

Mother: She found out that the Town Council was meeting on outlawing solar panels or not permitting people to put them on their houses and lawns.
Me: Okay, why would anyone want to outlaw solar panels?
Mother: I don't know - they were putting them on wrong? At any rate as your brother said, it's one thing to make restrictions on how to put them on, and another to outlaw them all together.
Me: So what did she do?
Mother: She called all her Democrat friends, and brought twenty people with her to the meeting - they ended up tabling the vote.

Apparently that's not Sisinlaw's only project.

Mother: Sisinlaw discovered that New York had slaves back in the day. And there's a slave graveyard underneath the ball field and playground in a nearby park. So she's putting together a protest to get the ball field and playground moved, and recognition to the slaves. But your brother told me that he doesn't think they are going to want to give up their ballfield or playground or care that much.
ME: I don't know. I'd not want to have my kids playing over a graveyard. Are the bodies still there?
Mother: Yeah, the bones are still buried there.
Me: Nor would I want to be playing ball over graves. It's a bit creepy, that's a horror flick or novel waiting to happen.
Mother: Like Poltergiest.
Me: Exactly.

Sisinlaw finds ways to entertain herself. She's also really social and apparently not plagued with phone phobia. I'm activist, but I'm a loner. Calling folks and persuading them to do things doesn't work for me - I've enough troubles persuading them to just do fun stuff. But I don't blame her for getting riled up over those two things - I'd feel much the same way.

Adventures in aerogarding - or gardening for folks who accidentally kill plants.



As you may or may not be able to see? The Genovese Basil kind of survived my butchering, the mint and thyme have gone nuts, the Thai Basil is doing find, and the Dill is off doing it's own thing, alone. The parsely won't germinate or bloom, and I've given up on it.

Sigh still nursing this headache. Ugh. Took stuff, put ice on the back of my neck, etc, it will not go away.

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Elisi does an excellent job of explaining transgender and the issues concerning it in her journal.

Transthology: Like an Anthology on Transgender issues

Sometimes...I think people who went to school and either graduated from it in the 20th Century or early 21st Century...were programmed to think a certain way about gender, sexuality, race, etc. And we have had to deprogram ourselves. For me it wasn't that hard - because I always questioned what I was taught, my father taught me to question everything. So the programming never took. But I don't think that was true of most folks?

Anyhow Elisi goes into detail and it's rather long - so go there for more information.