As hoped, I got to watch a Christmas movie early last evening. My choice was 2011's A Christmas Wish. During the course of the movie, I held myself to just two cans of the strong (8% alcohol) beer that I keep in stock.
I liked this movie from the start, and found an excellent functioning source through one of the links that came up using the Cyberflix 'app' that I have downloaded into our Android TV Box.
I had read enough of the plot just to know that the story involved a woman forced to leave her home in her car with her three kids, one of whom was only her stepson. A daughter was just a little younger than the boy, and another daughter was a baby.
The reason the family was leaving their home was because the father of the family had absconded with everything from the joint savings account, but the mother had kept maybe $250 in cash that he never knew anything about.
And so she had packed up what she could take in the car, and she and the kids left on a road trip ─ apparently in Utah ─ as she tried in every town to see if there were any job opportunities for her to help them get back on their feet.
However, I had not read as much as that. I like to discover the plot as the movie progresses along ─ not read all about it before I see it.
This took place no more than two weeks before Christmas, so things were looking rather bleak.
The main character was played by actress Kristy Swanson, whose name didn't meant anything to me. I was quite certain I knew of the name, and the actress might have been vaguely familiar, but that's the best I could lay claim to.
I now see from her acting credits that I have undoubtedly seen her perform in numerous productions over the distant years, but I simply cannot remember her.
In the opening credits, I noticed the name Starr Hermann ─ the first name meant nothing to me, but the last name did. There was someone with that last name who had the role as the rich T.V. father of the main character played by actress Lauren Graham in the series Gilmore Girls ─ I loved that series and followed it loyally back in its day. It made me a huge fan of Lauren.
What I failed to notice was that Edward Hermann was also listed in the credits, but I soon enough did recognize him as the supposedly big, elderly rancher who was a regular in the Mapleton diner ─ Mapleton was the small town where Kristy Swanson and her movie kids finally tried to put down roots. The diner was where Kristy's character found a job as a waitress.
How odd that Edward Hermann was actually the only actor in the movie I could officially say I was familiar with! Starr Hermann is evidently his wife ─ she played the stern-looking wife of the prick who ran the motel where our refugee family had first taken up residence.
I also found it curiously interesting that Mapleton is actually the name of the town where the movie was filmed. Does that ever actually happen when movies are taking place in a small town? That is, has a town's real name ever been used before as the movie's setting?
I feel I must commend the two child actors who played the oldest of the three kids in Kristy Swanson's movie family: Kirstin Dorn and Kevin Herring III (of whom there is practically no information). I liked them both from the start.
I also would like to compliment actress Danielle C. Ryan, who played the teen who took on the job of 'babysitting' the three kids. She adeptly came across as a teen girl with a heart of gold. I don't remember exactly now, but I think her character was the niece of Starr Hermann's character.
If my brother brings his girlfriend Bev here to spend a couple of days with us over Christmastime, I intend to tune in this movie as the very first one that we will all watch together ─ I truly enjoyed it.
I got to bed early that evening ─ I don't think that it was much after 9 p.m., and perhaps it may even have been slightly before. I remember that a point arrived where I found myself awake after some sleep, and I felt it needful to micturate; and in checking the time, I found that it was only 11 p.m. As I recall, I concluded that I had been abed about two hours.
My brother was watching T.V. downstairs, and my wife was also home ─ she had worked earlier in the evening at her friend's Thai restaurant. I availed myself of the bathroom without anyone noticing.
I succeeded in finding a little further sleep, and next checked the time near the midway mark of the midnight hour. It was then that I rose for my usual several-hour stint here at my computer. I found that my brother had only recently gone to his bedroom (his bedroom light was still on), and my wife was watching a movie or something on her tablet here in the room where I keep my computer (the room is adjacent to our bedroom).
I had yet to brush my teeth ─ a lengthy process that involves coconut oil and concludes with lots of swishing about of the oil before I finally expectorate it outside. The whole episode can take 15 - 20 minutes, and I spit the oil onto a different area of the lawn to avoid harming it (even coconut oil will kill the grass as surely as would petroleum oil if the coconut oil is concentrated in one area over time).
Coconut oil is no good for drainage and sewer pipes, since like any oil it will cake to the pipes and can eventually cause an obstructive buildup.
Anyway, once my wife realized I was up, she vacated this room and watched the movie (or whatever she had going) in our bedroom, and then she retired for the night. I remained up until a little after 5 a.m.
The strong latter afternoon rainstorm that I wrote about in yesterday's post seemed to come and go overnight. When I went outside to spit out the coconut oil, there was no rain; yet a short time later, it was again raining hard.
My morning commenced shortly after 8:30 a.m. when I rose and came here to spend some time at my computer. Then around 10 a.m., I joined my brother downstairs at the T.V., for I wanted to use our Android TV Box to tune in a 23-minute Del Bigtree video on Bitchute.com titled COVID TESTING FRAUD UNCOVERED.
What a superb job that man did in clearly illustrating just how farcical the PCR test is in supposedly finding 'cases' of COVID-19 infection!
I followed that feature with a 2018 documentary on World War Ⅰ titled They Shall Not Grow Old. I used our Stremio 'app' to locate a source (I have the 'app' downloaded into our Android TV Box). I'm sure we only got to watch the shorter "theatrical cut", and not the extended documentary. But it was so very effective at making plain just how horrific that trench warfare was.
Incidentally, I noticed another documentary in Stremio I also plan to watch that seemed likely related to They Shall Not Grow Old. It was also released in 2018, and the description said something to the effect that some smallish English town back during World War Ⅰ had some 60-odd young high school students join up ─ and not one of them returned from the War. The feature apparently was to do with a bunch of current (2018) students perhaps retracing the steps of their predecessors at the school.
The Android TV Box makes it possible to watch all of these shows on T.V. if one has an Internet connection, and the proper 'apps' downloaded into the Box.
I also had my brother and I watch the latest LibertyTalkCanada video featuring lovely Odessa Orelwicz ─ this one was titled Dec 16-Toronto Sun Whispers The Covid Truth And CBC Wants To Talk To Me.
We finished off our bout of television with an episode of Deadbeat.
We haven't had rain today; in fact, there have been some sunny breaks. My wife hasn't had to work today, so she has been home, apart from nipping out on a couple of occasions to shop or whatever.
I even got to have a mid-afternoon nap with her blessing ─ she has been in a very agreeable mood today, I am pleased to report.
But my afternoon is about done, and I have a session of exercise I want to tackle that I must get done in my brother's bedroom while he is away drinking somewhere, so I must bring this post to a close here.
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