As expressed toward the finish of yesterday's post, I was able to watch a Christmas movie. My choice was Christmas Comes Home to Canaan. It is listed as having been released in 2011, but I have seen other claims that the movie hails from 2013.
I think that it was either the Christmas period two years ago, or else the one before that, when I watched the original Christmas in Canaan from 2009. The link I have attached to that movie brings up the Wikipedia article talking about it, but nowhere does the article mention the sequel that I watched last evening.
Both movies feature the same family headed by the character portrayed by Billie Ray Cyrus, so I don't know why there is that important omission.
Other than Billie Ray Cyrus, I had no idea who was going to be in the movie last evening, so I was pleased to discover that the teen daughter of the family was played by Emily Tennant, whom I immediately recognized as having a key role in the 2010 movie Battle of the Bulbs which I watched twice in December ─ once on my own, and then again when my younger brother had his girlfriend Bev here for a couple of days over the recent holidays.
The amazingly innocent-looking young lass turned 30 this past Summer, and I tracked down a couple of photos taken of her since those three Christmas movie appearances:
Those images sure don't fit the two Christmas characters the little sweetheart portrayed, do they?
People grow up.
I enjoyed the movie well enough, and with the help of a can of strong (8% alcohol) beer and two or three ounces of amber or golden rum, I did have one extended tearful episode that had me practically blubbering to God in beseechment for the liberating means of effecting life-enhancing change. But I will not get into that.
Billy Ray's character had a love interest in Christmas Comes Home to Canaan that was played by Gina Holden. I found the actress herself to be very appealing ─ I love her slightly upturned nose; and the character she played was of course absolutely sterling and wholesome.
Yet there was just something not quite right ─ something almost villainous. And I now see why. She played a conniving bitch competing for the leading man against Amy Acker's character in the 2011 Christmas movie that I had seen last month or so titled Dear Santa.
In that movie, her character was so well played that I didn't even find her ─ that is, Gina herself ─ physically appealing. Consequently, seeing her portray such a selfless and desirable woman in Christmas Comes Home to Canaan almost seem an incongruous achievement.
I'm a little cloudy about it now, but I may have gotten to bed around 9:20 p.m. last evening; my younger brother had just come home from having bused away to hook up with a couple of drinking buddies.
I only slept tentatively. My wife probably showed up reasonably soon after my brother, and she may have contributed to my poor sleep because of fussing about in the bedroom a few times. When I finally checked the time and saw that it was only something like 11:08 p.m., I was disappointed ─ I had hoped that it was into the midnight hour.
But I soon realized that I was not going to easily find sleep anytime soon, so I opted to rise even though my brother was still downstairs watching T.V.
I just came here to my computer ─ I keep it in a small room next to my bedroom.
My wife was in the bathroom when I rose; and when she exited and found our bedroom door open and me not in the room, I heard her make an expression of surprise.
I was to soon enough get a look at myself in the bathroom ─ the area surrounding my eyes was tinged with a mauve discolouration due to improper sleep.
Regardless, I was to sit up until possibly 4:30 a.m. or later, but at least I finally published the post I have worked on for over a month at my website Thai-Iceland: Thailand Hard Drive Factories.
In yesterday's post, I wrote about how extremely difficult it was for me to find sleep after similarly getting to bed well into the a.m. Well, matters were even worse this morning. It was disheartening ─ how can it possibly be so difficult to get to sleep when a person was as weary as was I?
What I did not know was that even my wife was in the throes of a discouraging night. But she since told me that her body was aching, and she felt as if she was becoming ill from an infectious agent. She even rose to take an Advil, something I wish that she would not do.
I am thankful at least that she did not have to work today, nor did she have to go anywhere for appointments. She was able to spend a few hours midday and into the mid-afternoon back in bed needfully napping.
My own morning began just after 9 a.m., and at 10 a.m. I joined my brother at the T.V. to put our Android TV Box into operation, leading off with a BitChute video by Laura Lynn Tyler Thompson.
I was specifically interested in this video because the second half of her show (titled Censorship, Lockdowns & The Financial Hammer) was to feature Liberty Talk Canada's lovely Odessa Orlewicz and her husband Norbert.
I've now seen maybe three of Laura-Lynn's videos, and she appears to be openly Christian ─ I like that. But what I did not know until researching her for this post is that back in September, she was elected as the leader of the Christian Heritage Party of British Columbia.
I would vote for her!
She even heads a registered religious charity called Laura Lynn Ministries for which official charitable income tax receipts are issued for donations. If I did not have my monthly pension as my sole income source, I would emphatically get behind this jewel of a woman financially.
But I need to move on, for my evening is already underway. My wife returned to bed in the latter afternoon and is still there. I just hope that this does not adversely affect her sleep tonight.
Today has been our second consecutive day without any rain. Such trends do not last hereabouts at this time of year.
Finally, I want to report that my brother received a Christmas card today from his 27-year-old daughter who lives in Washington State with her boyfriend on a bit of a farm. Of course, Christmas was nearly three weeks ago, wasn't it?
Well, closer inspection revealed that the envelope was postmarked December 28th. If it took as long as it did to get here since then, one can only speculate that it also likely took considerable time before it was stamped with the postmark.
This scamdemic is preposterous.
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