My younger brother spent last night at the home of his girlfriend Bev, so I was able to watch a Christmas movie very early in that evening.
I almost did not choose to watch the movie that I selected because I am too familiar with the T.V. series (Good Witch). I like the T.V. series, but have only followed it for maybe the past two seasons. I did not realize that the fairly long-running series was preceded by a total of seven movies ─ that's quite a history!
Maybe I'll get around to trying to watch all of the movies, and then get into the series from its inception.
However, the movie I watched last evening was 2010's The Good Witch's Gift. My main concern was that because I was so familiar with its characters, it wouldn't have the same impact that a typical Christmas movie would for me.
The assumption was incorrect. In fact, I plan to rewatch it if my brother brings Bev here for a couple of days right around Christmas as he has been doing for several years now ─ last year was the exception, for Bev had to work on Boxing Day and thus preferred not to come here and risk having a bad hangover.
As for the movie, I only recognized two of the regulars from the series ─ the title character herself (played by Catherine Bell), and the busybody mayor (played by Catherine Disher) who always ends up doing 'the right thing'. So it was almost like watching a Christmas movie unrelated to the T.V. series.
Good Witch Cassandra "Cassie" Nightingale got married at the end of the movie ─ to the Chief of Police, someone who does not exist in the series. In fact, "Cassie" marries Dr. Sam Radford early into season five of the series.
Consequently, I would like to come to learn what happened to the various characters in the movie. Maybe some are still around, but new actors are portraying them and thus I did not see the current actors' familiar faces in the movie (I am quite bad at remembering the names of characters, so that is seldom much help for me).
The movie featured a character named Betty who ran a bakery. She was commonplace-looking enough, but she got all dolled up and was absolutely gorgeous! The actress playing Betty was Laura Bertram. Alas, her character no longer exists in the series, either ─ I would have liked to have seen much more of her.
Yes, I really do feel that I must now watch all of the other movies, and then start watching the series from its beginning. Incidentally, Catherine Bell turned 52 years of age this year, according to Wikipedia ─ I don't think I quite expected her to have achieved that distinction as yet. She looks younger.
I had a can of strong (8% alcohol) beer during the movie, and a good shot of amber or golden rum.
If I am remembering correctly, I had become so weary that by 8:30 p.m. I was to bed. And I think that I remained there until around 2 a.m. before rising to come here to my computer to accomplish a few things.
I had plans to go grocery shopping very early in the morning ─ it would be a round trip of at least 5.625 miles. But I felt myself to be coming down with symptoms of a cold; and by 4 a.m. I had declined drastically.
Nonetheless, I set my cellphone's alarm for 5:30 a.m. and sought some bed rest, hoping that I would recover sufficiently to be up to making that hike. I would need to leave here very soon after 6 a.m., or else the trip would need to be scotched. I cannot bear being out in the busy day.
Well, when my alarm sounded, I could barely believe that so much time had passed. If instead I had checked the time and seen that I had another hour to go, I would have believed it.
I was still feeling ill-rested and below par. I wanted to submit myself to 15 minutes of nebulized hydrogen peroxide therapy (I have quite a good plug-in nebulizer). I only have access to common 3% over-the-counter hydrogen peroxide, for as yet I have been unable to afford to order any food grade hydrogen peroxide. But since I do not undergo the treatment with any regularity, I am hoping that I am getting away unscathed where any undesirable 'extras' in the commercial product are concerned.
I must say, the 15 minutes truly did seem to help me. Unfortunately, though, once I was done, I needed a cup of hot instant coffee to help me normalize, but by then it was already too late to be able to make my getaway to the remote store.
And so I settled on visiting Save-On-Foods (Google Map) maybe 1¼ - 1½ miles from here. I would not have to leave until well after 6:30 a.m. ─ and in fact, it was 6:49 a.m. by the time I was on my way.
I know that face masks are a farce, and all of the political and health authourities who have them mandated ought to be severely prosecuted for the lockdowns and everything else associated with this non-existent SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
However, this morning for the very first time, I decided to take a face mask and wear it instead of struggling with a bandana. Bandanas require such tight knotting at the back of my head to limit slippage on my face that they compress my nose add drastically impede my breathing. Whereas a face mask is such a slight affair, it's presence is barely felt.
So this was the first time that I used one. By the time I got to the store and put the mask on, I was breathing quite heavily; and in the store, I was as often as not breathing through my open mouth because I was not getting sufficient air through my nostrils.
And my mask was not even snug!
I could never wear one all day ─ not without health consequences. There is no question in my mind that people using them for extended periods are harming themselves. There is not enough oxygen getting through. No one should need to be breathing through an open mouth like I found myself doing in that store after walking there.
Anyway, I got my shopping done, and was back home before either of my two stepsons were up, nor my brother home. He was to show up well ahead of 10 a.m. ─ and went directly to his bedroom and bed.
I may have returned to my own bed by 10 a.m., or soon enough thereafter. And to my surprise, not only did I get further sleep, but it was noon before I made a check of the time. I was so loath to rise that I just lay there for maybe 15 - 20 minutes, sometimes semi-conscious.
My brother was still in his own bedroom, but he soon enough emerged. Notwithstanding, it is possibly that he had risen earlier and then returned to bed again. He was to almost straightaway ready himself and ─ late in the noon hour ─ leave for the afternoon.
I have resisted any further napping, despite my day's first meal (a burden that usually causes me to seek a nap). And at present, it is approaching 6 p.m. Since I have a session of some exercise I want to engage, I am going to bring this post to a close.
I will be getting to bed early this evening, regardless of when my brother returns from wherever he is presently drinking.
I want to conclude with the observation that I truly do believe that it is possible that my hydrogen peroxide treatment may have disabled whatever virus it was that was giving me those early cold symptoms. I have felt decent all the day through.
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