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May. 6th, 2023 10:28 pmWoke up this morning and realized I wanted to do nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Did make up the bed clean, took a shower, changed clothes, made pancakes, listened to more of "Killing John Wayne" and stared into space for a bit, before watching the last episode of "A Milling Little Things" (the series turned out to be one about a man with breast cancer and his supportive family of friends). He dies of breast cancer in the last episode, after having a son with the woman he met at his breast cancer support group.
It's very romanticized and manipulative. Not realistic at all. Hyper-realism, it ain't.
Be nice if life worked out the way it does in television shows sometimes. Then again, maybe not.
Also watched Grey's, The Company You Keep (which isn't going the way I expected it to, at all - so that's good, it's definitely not predictable), and The Citadel (also not going the direction that I expected it too and far better than expected, two episodes in.).
Of the shows I listed? I only would recommend The Company You Keep and The Citadel - both are good caper/spy romantic thrillers. And very different. With good casts, and above par writing for that genre. (Hot men and badass women.) The other two, are sappy melodramas, which have been around for a long time, and one just ended. (I think the networks have finally gotten tired of the upper middleclass melodrama, which Shondra Rhimes brought back, and various others took advantage of. It's been played out, and seems to be exiting stage left. While I do have a weakness for it? I'm not upset to see it go. It's been kind overdone.)
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Killing John Wayne goes into a tad too much detail on how each person died of cancer. ( Read more... )
I told mother it was hard not to link cancer to atomic testing after listening to this book. But she informed me that it existed prior to that - since half her relatives had died of it. ( relatives who died of cancer )
Heart disease and cancer are the two big killers in family. Also diabetes, and dementia.
Fun times ahead.
I can't say "Killing John Wayne" is an uplifting book. By the time Wayne dies, his career was pretty much over, and he was a bit of a joke. Doing mainly cancer ads, and trying to fight the liberal left in politics. ( Read more... )
Tried to do watercolors today, but just too tired. Made it to get groceries. Got back, tried to watercolor, went to sleep in my armchair instead. For some reason or other, I just want to crash this weekend. Also the damn blood sugar sensor is all over the place, it's either 169 or 74.
I don't think it's stablized yet. Always takes about two days for the new sensor to figure stuff out.
I'm having troubles getting myself geared up to take a trip anywhere. I may just take a week off in August. Or a lot of long weekends.
Did make up the bed clean, took a shower, changed clothes, made pancakes, listened to more of "Killing John Wayne" and stared into space for a bit, before watching the last episode of "A Milling Little Things" (the series turned out to be one about a man with breast cancer and his supportive family of friends). He dies of breast cancer in the last episode, after having a son with the woman he met at his breast cancer support group.
It's very romanticized and manipulative. Not realistic at all. Hyper-realism, it ain't.
Be nice if life worked out the way it does in television shows sometimes. Then again, maybe not.
Also watched Grey's, The Company You Keep (which isn't going the way I expected it to, at all - so that's good, it's definitely not predictable), and The Citadel (also not going the direction that I expected it too and far better than expected, two episodes in.).
Of the shows I listed? I only would recommend The Company You Keep and The Citadel - both are good caper/spy romantic thrillers. And very different. With good casts, and above par writing for that genre. (Hot men and badass women.) The other two, are sappy melodramas, which have been around for a long time, and one just ended. (I think the networks have finally gotten tired of the upper middleclass melodrama, which Shondra Rhimes brought back, and various others took advantage of. It's been played out, and seems to be exiting stage left. While I do have a weakness for it? I'm not upset to see it go. It's been kind overdone.)
***
Killing John Wayne goes into a tad too much detail on how each person died of cancer. ( Read more... )
I told mother it was hard not to link cancer to atomic testing after listening to this book. But she informed me that it existed prior to that - since half her relatives had died of it. ( relatives who died of cancer )
Heart disease and cancer are the two big killers in family. Also diabetes, and dementia.
Fun times ahead.
I can't say "Killing John Wayne" is an uplifting book. By the time Wayne dies, his career was pretty much over, and he was a bit of a joke. Doing mainly cancer ads, and trying to fight the liberal left in politics. ( Read more... )
Tried to do watercolors today, but just too tired. Made it to get groceries. Got back, tried to watercolor, went to sleep in my armchair instead. For some reason or other, I just want to crash this weekend. Also the damn blood sugar sensor is all over the place, it's either 169 or 74.
I don't think it's stablized yet. Always takes about two days for the new sensor to figure stuff out.
I'm having troubles getting myself geared up to take a trip anywhere. I may just take a week off in August. Or a lot of long weekends.