Yesterday's snow has been rained away.
I also want to report that as yet, I have not set up the Christmas lighting for the archway outside our front door. Maybe I will manage it tomorrow, for I expect that my wife will not have to work that day, and I therefore won't have the free time to spend sitting here in front of my computer.
Something else I will likely do tomorrow is contact Amazon Canada about three of four items that I ordered last month, and which have yet to show. I received notifications on both November 13 and 14 that one each of those items had been shipped; and the third was shipped on November 23.
Perhaps I will allow some time yet for that latter item to arrive, but the first two were supposed to have arrived no later than November 16 in one instance, and November 19 in the other.
Okay, I wish now to write about two movies that I watched yesterday, beginning with the 2012 Christmas movie Help for the Holidays (a better description is at HallmarkDrama.com).
I loved Summer Glau as the elf Santa sends to help out a family with parents who had lost the Christmas spirit because of their obsession with making their business successful over the recent several years. Summer embodied all the cuteness and 'sexy' that a guy could want in a lass!
It was only while I have been researching this movie to write of it that I now realize that Summer is not also Amy Acker ─ to me, they look like twins. I was convinced while watching the Christmas movie that Summer was the actress with a supporting role in Person of Interest, which I was a fan of. I thought that Summer was truly a wonderful actress to be able to be so menacing in that T.V. series, yet so adorable and innocent in the Christmas movie as an elf.
Summer had her 40th birthday back in July, whereas Amy hit the age of 45 just two days ago (i.e, December 5).
How could I have been a fan of both actresses for years, yet not realizing that they were not the same person?
Summer Glau:
Amy Acker:
Incidentally, at times the actress (Izabela Vidovic) ─ who was portraying the little girl in the movie's Christmas family ─ seemed so very familiar to me, but I cannot see any reason for that in reviewing her acting credits. Sure, I am a fan of Supergirl where Izabela sometimes acts in flashbacks as a young Carla Danvers (Supergirl), but I know that Izabela is not familiar to me from that series ─ I can't even recall that younger Carla Danvers.
Curiously, Izabela is now 20 years old as of last May, and surely cannot keep pulling off that role as Melissa Benoist's younger character very convincingly, for there is only about a 12½-year difference in their ages. After all, how many of us look dramatically different at the age of 20 than we will or did at the age of 33? Melissa turned 33 in October.
The two actresses are too near in age and just look too different as adults.
I loved Help for the Holidays. All else I will say concerning it is that I never liked Eva La Rue's character (the mother in the Christmas family), even when she was being nice. I don't find that the actress presents as a particularly likeable person.
I had maybe three ounces of dark rum as I watched Help for the Holidays, I must confess.
The next movie I was to watch was the 2017 feature T2 Trainspotting. I watched it later in the evening with my younger brother after he had gotten home ─ I would not have tried to watch a Hallmark Christmas movie with him.
We had watched the original 1996 movie Trainspotting a few weeks ago, and all of the main characters returned to reprise their roles as considerably older adults in the sequel, T2 Trainspotting.
What I did not realize when I watched the original movie was that the violent character was played by an actor very familiar to me. Only when I saw his mature self in T2 Trainspotting did I recognize him almost immediately from his role in Once Upon a Time as the sinister Rumplestiltskin / Mr. Gold.
The actor ─ Robert Carlyle ─ was unrecognizable back in 1996's Trainspotting. It's quite amazing what better than two decades can do in the ageing process.
I watched both movies because Scottish actress Kelly MacDonald was in them, but her role in the sequel was disappointingly small. She played a lawyer (solicitor) whose legal advice was sought by the movie character with whom she had a controlling sexual affair with back when she was an underage schoolgirl. In the sequel, I don't think that the male character recognized her, but I had taken a bathroom break just before he came to her law office and thus missed that initial connection. Was it any sort of reunion?
She obviously knew who he was, but I never detected any sign that he had a clue about her identity.
The movie was something of an improvement over the original ─ it was a little more realistic, I think. However, it kept my brother up until 11:30 p.m. (he had meant to retire to his bedroom at 11 p.m.), so he would likely report more negatively about it overall than would I. He did at least appreciate that the dangerously violent character (as portrayed by Robert Carlyle) was re-incarcerated, and would probably die in prison. It took him 20 years to finally make an escape and be a major part of T2 Trainspotting ─ he is unlikely to be as fortunate in the future.
I do not have aught to report concerning today, except for that light rain that held sway for more than the first half of it. My wife had to work a full day today, so she left here well in time on her fairly long drive to get to the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time. On her full days, she has an 11 a.m. start.
She has me feeling a little weighed down because she wants to place a huge order to Thailand for various health-related products that she resells, and she can only place the order through my VISA credit card which is already carrying enough of a balance because of her.
She recently put $2,500 towards that balance to lower it and probably make this latest purchase easier for me to accept. But what strikingly concerns me is that if this planned order is to be $2,500 or less, then why not have made the order when she had the omeny?
The sole and worrisome reason that I can come up with is that the order is going to be considerably more than that.
Lord, she can depress me....
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