Thursday, December 2
Dec. 3rd, 2021 12:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Besides the wind, reasonable weather.
Going for a nice pasture walk with Roxy. I'm glad we have somewhere to walk a bit where I don't have to drive if I don't want to.
A brief conversation with my Trainwreck sister (which prompted the other post today). She's getting bummed about the holidays coming, and she doesn't have a vehicle to go see her kids, and her house is too hoarded up for any of them to come visit her. She doesn't want to hear anything positive, like that I'm working on Christmas cards. I understand a bit, and share her sadness that because of Covid and changes in our family dynamic with Mom in the hospital, our family is more and more unable to get together and we are missing things like all the new babies that have been born in the last few years. There are something like five kids that I haven't even met. There have also been losses, such as her partner in December 2019. Christmas really does bring those kind of things into focus. Again, we have to make a choice about how to embrace what we do have.
I did some cleaning. Dishes, laundry, changed the sheets, vacuumed the rugs.
My sweetie came home at about supper time.
We watched a terrible but funny old movie called "Murder by Death". It really brought me back to my childhood, as this is the kind of movie you used to see all the time. The old cast of actors like Peter Sellers and David Niven that kept showing up in the same kind of comedies, made often with obvious sets the whole time. Very low budget but still very funny. Edit: Apparently the sets cost an arm an a leg.
Of course it was sexist and racist, and I wonder with everything going to movie channels like Netflix etc. if there will be any way of seeing this in the future, or will they just preface them with "beware of content" warnings?
Besides the wind, reasonable weather.
Going for a nice pasture walk with Roxy. I'm glad we have somewhere to walk a bit where I don't have to drive if I don't want to.
A brief conversation with my Trainwreck sister (which prompted the other post today). She's getting bummed about the holidays coming, and she doesn't have a vehicle to go see her kids, and her house is too hoarded up for any of them to come visit her. She doesn't want to hear anything positive, like that I'm working on Christmas cards. I understand a bit, and share her sadness that because of Covid and changes in our family dynamic with Mom in the hospital, our family is more and more unable to get together and we are missing things like all the new babies that have been born in the last few years. There are something like five kids that I haven't even met. There have also been losses, such as her partner in December 2019. Christmas really does bring those kind of things into focus. Again, we have to make a choice about how to embrace what we do have.
I did some cleaning. Dishes, laundry, changed the sheets, vacuumed the rugs.
My sweetie came home at about supper time.
We watched a terrible but funny old movie called "Murder by Death". It really brought me back to my childhood, as this is the kind of movie you used to see all the time. The old cast of actors like Peter Sellers and David Niven that kept showing up in the same kind of comedies, made often with obvious sets the whole time. Very low budget but still very funny. Edit: Apparently the sets cost an arm an a leg.
Of course it was sexist and racist, and I wonder with everything going to movie channels like Netflix etc. if there will be any way of seeing this in the future, or will they just preface them with "beware of content" warnings?
