~Sunday~ I once again used my Amazon Prime subscription to stream a free movie—an unfinished life. I’d never heard of this movie, but it was in one of the “suggested watching” sections, and it had some heavy-hitting actors in it, including Robert Redford and Morgan Freeman. Jennifer Lopez was in it, too, but since I … Read more
~Tuesday~ Bob and I caught the 7:00 screening of The Theory of Everything, for which Eddie Redmayne won the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, and an Oscar-nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role, whose winner is yet to be decided. We saw it … Read more
~Monday~ I watched the 1960 version of The Little Shop of Horrors, not realizing that I would never hear the song Suddenly Seymour at anytime during the movie. I watched this movie free as part of my Amazon Prime subscription, and I was happy to not have paid for it—more so because I’m cheap than … Read more
~Monday~ The first free movie I streamed using my new Amazon Prime subscription was the documentary Stories We Tell. I first heard about this film back in May of 2013, when Terry Gross interviewed the actor-director, Sarah Polley, on Fresh Air. Here's the 38-minute segment, if you're interested. The trailer: The synopsis: In this inspired, … Read more
~Wednesday~ At the Planet Fitness I go to, I've been observing, what are at once called "sanitation stations" and "cleaning stations," depending on who is giving the tour to prospective new customers. Each station consists of a paper towel dispenser, a caddy holding two spray bottles of disinfectant cleaner, and a trash can. Here's what … Read more
~Saturday~ Bob and I watched Love in the Time of Cholera, which he graciously rented from NetFlix on my behalf. My Mostly Social Book Club is currently reading the book, and I’d already read it in February of 1995, as a member of another book club, The Nematomes. I checked it out from the library, … Read more
~Saturday~ “They” say that in order to be a writer, you have to—well—write. For a long while, ten years to be exact, I did that by writing a blog entry for every day—from January 12, 2004 through January 12, 2014. In addition to that, those of you who know me well know that I track … Read more
~Tuesday~ I was at Bob’s to watch two episodes of Scandal, and when we finished, he asked, “Do you want to watch The Cosmic Man?” I’m pretty sure he was kidding when he asked me, knowing full well that science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine. So, I think he was as surprised … Read more
~Sunday~ Today I worked on the last item in the “Around the house” section of my my retirement to-do list, which was to “clean out and organize my storage shed.” Mea culpa CYA: If anyone reading this entry gave me any of the items in this blog entry that I mention having totally forgotten I … Read more
~Thursday!~ Well, it was day 3 of retirement, and so far I just keep thinking it’s the weekend. I had quite the “productive” morning, as I did a load of laundry and wrote out 5 sympathy cards and 12 thank-you cards to put in the U.S. mail. It actually took me a couple of hours … Read more