Last evening never went at all well.
I suppose a small amount of the blame can be affixed to my decision to watch 2002's so-called Christmas movie Snow Queen. I knew that it was scheduled to run for practically three hours, but I thought that I could pause it approximately midway and get out to hike off and do some grocery shopping (I do not drive).
Or I could just shut it down and then call it up again to finish watching it ─ I had located the link for it through the Cinema HD v. 2 link that I have downloaded into our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box. As I recall, there were three links that the 'app' located, but two were for a cartoon or animation feature bearing the same name as the movie.
It was probably around 7:00 p.m. when I began watching the movie, and throughout the movie I occasionally ingested a little of the three or so ounces of Alberta Premium whisky that I had poured into a small glass for some emotional enhancement.
The movie will not be going onto the list of Christmas movies that I am lining up to rewatch with my younger brother and his girlfriend Bev when he brings her here for what has become our annual two-day Christmastime Christmas movie binge.
I had not seen Bridget Fonda acting in anything for so many years that initially I had trouble remembering what she looked like ─ all I could remember was the cute sort of dimplish crease that her nose has just behind its tip. The only other actress that I can immediately call to mind with a similar feature is Amanda Righetti whom I became familiar with over her tenure on the T.V. series The Mentalist.
Incidentally, that quite obvious crease across the top of the nose just behind the tip might anatomically be termed the supratip break; and then the crease running down from there along each side of the nose (just behind where the nose begins to flare) is the supra alar crease (or just the alar crease). The two parts of the nose that flare out to help define the openings for the nostrils are each called the ala nasi ─ or collectively, the alae nasi.
These two illustrations should help make these features more recognizable:
Those images are respectively from AnatomyNote.com and RhinoplastyInSeattle.com.
Anyway, Bridget Fonda and Amanda Righetti probably have an especially defined creasing. I apologize for getting so carried away with this.
It was only when I saw that Wikipedia article on Bridget Fonda did I realize that she walked away from acting in 2003, the same year that she was badly injured in a car accident ─ something else that I was previously unaware of.
No wonder she had become so unfamiliar to my failing memory.
I always enjoyed watching Beidget's performances, and considered her to be very beautiful, too.
So why didn't I like Snow Queen very much?
I'm a 70 years old male. The movie was a very long fairy tale targeting someone who is not me. Bluntly said, it was quite childish.
Besides, the movie had absolutely nothing to do with Christmas. I never even noticed any Christmas decorations in the featured town, nor the hotel where much of the story took place. No such festival or celebration was ever implied by any of the characters.
On the basis of the movie being a fairy tale unrelated to Christmas, then I will give it due credit. But that was not why I sat at home glued to my T.V. for three hours last evening ─ I thought I was supposed to be watching a Christmas movie.
And I was led to believe that the movie was a Christmas movie because of IMDb's list of All Christmas Hallmark Movies (apparently last updated December 3, 2017). Provided that this link showing those movies listed from the oldest to the most recent still works correctly, you can see Snow Queen listed as #5 ─ in other words, it is supposedly the fifth Hallmark Christmas movie that was ever produced.
Except that it just isn't a Christmas movie.
I did not want to halt the movie so that I could go shopping, and then watch it later. Since I was wasting my whisky anyway, I decided to be done with the movie once and for all.
I will not likely ever watch it again ─ there are no children in my life.
Anecdotally, I was surprised to recognize actor Daniel Gillies (one of the titular vampires in the T.V. series The Originals) with a very small role deep into the movie ─ he was one of several 'princes' at a dress ball trying to woo young Gerda, the main character being played by actress Chelsea Hobbs.
Rather than get to bed following the movie, I came here to my computer and sat up late into the midnight hour, burning out my eyes and my self-respect in depraved fashion.
Gone were my hopes of getting out overnight long before daybreak for a good walk.
Nevertheless, I did get out this morning and do some local grocery shopping at Deepu's No Frills outlet in the Cedar Hills shopping plaza at 128th Street & 96th Avenue (Google map) approximately four blocks from my home, leaving here on the walk just after 8:00 a.m.
It was bright and sunny, and I did not like it at all ─ I wanted the morning to be dreary.
I have not felt at all right today, but much of this may be due to the fact that I did not have my day's first caffeinated beverage until into the early afternoon following a needed nap. It may have been over 24 hours since my last dose of caffeine.
But I am feeling a little better now at 3:57 p.m. Truly, I think I will soon fix myself up a second mug of caffeine in case this is indeed the solution.
My younger brother spent last night at the home of his girlfriend Bev. And not long after he got home this morning after mid-morning, not much after 10:00 a.m. he had on the T.V. and was watching a NFL game. I sought my nap awhile later, and was in bed throughout the noon hour. When I rose near 1:15 p.m., he was still watching football.
Then before it was yet 1:30 p.m., he headed away for the afternoon saying he was going to catch the CFL Grey Cup game scheduled for 3:00 p.m., I believe ─ naturally, he'll be doing that in a bar or pub.
This augers an early evening for me, for without his midday / early afternoon rest, I doubt that my brother will be coming home later on and manage to retain consciousness once he gets himself seated in front of the T.V. this evening.
Well, I still have to create a post in my private blog ─ one for which I am the sole reader, since no one has ever requested access to it ─ so I have to bring my post here to a conclusion.
It sure seems a waste that my private blog ─ which only went private in January of this year ─ has a few thousand posts since the blog was initiated back in September 2008. And now I am its only visitor.
Provided I live long enough, in a few years I will again make the blog public. I just want my two stepsons to be living on their own; or at least to have had so many changes in their lives since I last wrote of them by name in early January, that my revelations about them can be viewed as being historical and not embarrassingly current.
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