Early last evening I tuned in the 2008 Christmas movie A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride using the Cinema HD 'app' that I have downloaded into our T9 Android 8.1 TV Box.
I did not certainly recognize one of the main actresses ─ JoAnna Garcia Swisher ─ but I now realize that she had the role of Ariel in the T.V. series Once Upon a Time which I regularly watched.
I was familiar enough, though, with Helen Shaver, who was playing JoAnna Garcia's T.V. mother. Helen has acted for decades, but apparently not recently ─ she turned 68 back in February, so she's a little over 1⅓ years younger than I am (if I calculated that correctly).
Playing some rather 'hot stuff' roles is behind her now, as are any fairly action-involved roles.
The movie was okay, but I won't likely ever be watching it again. It was not that good.
I was drinking some Appleton Estate Signature Blend amber rum throughout the feature, and at the movie's end I felt unexpectedly depleted ─ I had thought to keep watching Christmas movies until my younger brother got home from the bar he was drinking at.
And so I decided to have a needed bath to perk up with ─ it was maybe 8:00 p.m.
When I finished, I exited the bathroom to see that my brother was downstairs and planted in his chair before the T.V. ─ and passed out already.
Well, there would be no further T.V. for me ─ I will not sit in the company of a passed out drunkard. And although he was not out for too terribly long, the damage was done. I was tired; so just because he got his second wind, I had no intention of sitting up deep into the midnight hour operating our Android TV Box (he doesn't know how to work it).
Besides, he would only bellyache if I tried to watch anything sentimentally Christmas-related, and I was not quite in the mood for regular T.V. fare.
And so I had some supper here upstairs at my computer; and then after brushing my teeth and readying for and into bed, it was a little after 10:00 p.m.
Then in what seemed less than 10 minutes, my wife was home from her long day working at her friend's Thai restaurant. I never know when she'll show up ─ sometimes she misbehaves and does not come home until well into the a.m.
Initially I was distressed, for even wearing a blindfold and earplugs, I find myself too uneasy to sleep when she is in and out of the bedroom, and especially when she leaves the light on.
Fortunately, though, she did not sit up late as she often does. Well within an hour, she, too, had retired for the night.
Around 8:30 a.m. this morning, my wife's cellphone alarm sounded. Normally, she does not rise till around 10:00 a.m. to begin readying for her day, for even though she has a fair drive to get to work, the restaurant does not open until 11:00 a.m.
Well, she didn't rise just then at 8:30 a.m., and about 10 minutes later, her alarm sounded again. And this time, she did get up.
I waited until she had exited the bedroom, and then I also rose ─ my brother was already downstairs watching T.V.
It seems that my wife wanted to get up early so that she could do some cooking for us all. She also prepared three turkey drumsticks for roasting in the oven, leaving them with me to cook sometime in the afternoon (I never got them started until 5:36 p.m.).
And then at her appointed time, she left us ─ but bearing a lot of baggage, which somewhat surprised me.
You see, she usually spends her weekends somewhere in Vancouver, and rarely comes home from work on Fridays. What surprised me so much was that I thought that it was only Thursday today. It was not until the afternoon that I realized what the true day of the week is.
At 10:00 a.m., by the way, I did tune in a so-called Christmas movie for my brother and I to watch ─ again using the Cinema HD 'app' in our Android TV Box. However, it was not at all 'sappy', and so my brother didn't grumble.
The movie was 2005's The Ice Harvest.
It was no more a comedy than it was a Christmas movie.
Although it was interesting enough without any question, I don't feel the need to ever see it again.
Following the movie, I then tuned in an episode each of Game of Thrones (we're only into season two) and The Conners.
Thereafter, it was time for some bed rest for my brother, for as usual he would be heading away in the afternoon to go drinking. I soon enough also sought a nap, and was only down approximately an hour. My brother is usually gone by the time I rise from these naps, but he was still here ─ out in the backyard tamping down clumps of turf that one or more skunks keep turning over and ripping up as they search for grubs and such.
I took at couple of candid photos through the living room window of my brother when he went to the front yard to do the same ─ I took these at 3:11 p.m.:
The damage in the front lawn is nothing compared to how the backyard looks. It has now gotten to the point that my brother plans to go to Home Depot tomorrow to buy a roll of wire to see if he can effectively reinforce the backyard wooden fence near its base to try and prevent the vandalous critters from gaining entry any longer.
Anyway, just a few minutes after I took those two photos, my brother left afoot to find his way to the bar. He is presently suspended from driving, and his van is still impounded.
I am again in the mood for a Christmas movie as I type these words at 6:00 p.m., so I wish to wrap up this post and get it published. This time, I will only enjoy some beer while watching whatever I tune in ─ I don't want to burn myself out on rum like I did yesterday. I can always have some rum later in the evening after my brother is home.
I will try and force another Christmas movie on him, as well. I just have to ensure that it is not the romantic, emotional stuff that I masochistically subject myself to.
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