I wish to catch up on mention of two movies I just recently watched.
I believe that it was Friday morning that my younger brother and I finished watching the second half or so of a movie we had begun the morning prior ─ I had previously downloaded it onto a flash or thumb drive.
The movie was 2017's Just Getting Started.
Initially I thought that it was a quirky mainstream hot-weather Christmas movie, for I could not otherwise think of why I had downloaded it. Only afterwards when I had researched why I ever made the download, I found that it had been included on a list of 2017 "Action" movies.
Well, that was definitely a misfile. Sure, it had some action, but it was more comedic or slapstick in nature ─ I would have been truly surprised if anybody got killed. But it would have helped me understand and enjoy the movie more if I had known that I didn't download it because it had a Christmas theme.
As Wikipedia says, the movie was only around 1½ hours, and so often scenes seemed to end abruptly ─ it was as if some important content had been skipped over. I think some scenes began similarly, with no lead-in.
To me the movie seemed poorly produced, and some of the acting was far from realistic. Nevertheless, it was quite fun, and I enjoyed the scenes of the older actresses playing characters attempting to be seductive ─ which they were to their targeted senior men.
I was finding that the actress I now understand was Glenne Headly was rather working for me, so I was sorry to just learn that she died at the age of 62 the same year (2017) this movie was released.
I cannot recall which website I downloaded the movie from, but it can presently be watched at this OK.ru link ─ just be sure to turn the sound on in the player there. In ensuring that this link was not going to yield a Russian-dubbed video, I re-watched the earliest part of the movie, and now I wish that I had paid the movie far better attention than I did. It may warrant a re-watch.
As I said, we finished watching the movie Friday morning, but Thursday night I sat up exceptionally late if my recollection is true and I didn't go to bed until well past 4 a.m.
Over the course of that Thursday evening I had drunk three cans of Cariboo Malt (8% alcohol), and one each of Cariboo Genuine draft (4.5% alcohol) and Bumper Crop Crisp Apple cider (7% alcohol) while watching three shows with my brother. Of course, all three shows were made available through streaming apps that I have downloaded into our Android TV Box.
The first feature was The Morning Show ─ season three's episode seven ("Strict Scrutiny").
Then came The Kettering Incident ─ episode seven ("The Madness") of the show's only season.
And we finished with Chicago Fire ─ episode four ("The Center of the Universe") of season 11. I was game for one further show, but my brother couldn't handle one more.
It might have been as late as 4:30 a.m. by the time I finally went to bed, yet I found myself awake ahead of 8:30 a.m. Friday morning. What is truly odd is that I believed myself to be just waking up from one of my early afternoon naps ─ I think that I may have even thought that it was Thursday afternoon.
But this was confusing, for I recalled that my brother and I had already watched our Thursday evening T.V. shows. Nothing was making sense ─ especially the time as presented by the lower right corner of my computer screen.
How could it be after 8 p.m. in the evening? What day was it, then?
I checked the date on the computer screen and looked at my wall calendar, and saw that it was Friday. How could it still be light outside if it was after 8 p.m.?
So I looked closer at the time on the computer screen, and realized then that it was Friday morning.
But this has never happened to me before ─ at least not for so long a stretch of time before I was able to work things out.
In the latter afternoon of yesterday, I was in need of a spirits-boosting Christmas movie, so I selected 2017's Wrapped Up in Christmas, even though the terse description sounded like one I had already watched within the past year.
I enjoyed it ─ a lot! More than I expected.
Despite the lead actress Tatyana Ali's lengthy list of credits, there was no familiarity to me. Not so her co-star romantic lead, Brendan Fehr ─ I loved the Roswell T.V. series of a quarter century ago.
I noticed that Tatyana always had loose clothing over her tummy ─ a sign that she has a bit of a belly, shall we say? Where I am concerned, her niece Molly (played by child actress Princess K. Mapp) was so beguiling that she would have made her aunt more appealing to me as a romantic prospect.
Kids are always so perfectly adorable in these romantic Christmas movies!
The actress playing Tatyana's character's assistant struck me as being exceptionally attractive ─ i.e., Ash Santos. She deserves a leading role.
Despite my small gripes, just as I said earlier, I enjoyed this movie, and could comfortably watch it again.
There are sources for the movie online, but I watched in on T.V. with the aid of our Android TV Box. Even so, you could try this VK.com link if you are curious about the movie. Again, ensure that you activate the sound for the onscreen player.
Last evening I never got to bed until it was approaching 10:30 p.m., so I set my cellphone alarm for 2:30 a.m. to get me up to ready for a five-mile+ walk. However, I could hear that it was raining when I retired.
I found myself awake enough before my alarm that I checked the time and saw it to be around 2 a.m., so I rose then. My wife seemed newly retired for the night in her own bedroom; only her youngest son was still up.
It was raining.
I managed to dawdle until within 10 minutes of the arrival of 3 a.m. before I was finally outside and on my walk ─ with a necessary umbrella.
There was to be no exercising at the elementary school playground three or so blocks from here.
I wasted little time getting this walk over with, so even though the rain finally did stop when I was maybe four or five blocks from home as I was returning, I had no motivation to do anything but get home, so I passed right on by the elementary school playground.
I am quite confident that I was back to bed ahead of 6 a.m.
When after some sleep I was to check the time, it was after 10 a.m., so I hurriedly rose. My wife was still in her bedroom, so I knew that she was only going to work the latter part of the day at the Thai restaurant where she is employed part-time.
My brother had not yet turned on the T.V., still evidently reading the Saturday morning edition of the Vancouver Sun that I subscribe to. When he finally did turn on the T.V., he tuned in an old Wagon Train episode.
Initially I was not too interested, and was taking my turn going through the newspaper. But then the rather dashing head of a gang of Mexican bandits began to remind me of Lee Marvin, so I started paying more attention. My brother initially denied that it was Lee.
The episode took us to noon, so we were to watch nothing else. But we stuck with it right through the credits to validate that it was indeed Lee Marvin.
I see now that the episode was season four's episode five ("The Jose Morales Story") from October 26, 1960, and also featured Lon Chaney Jr. Unbeknownst to me, it additionally featured a child star named Charles Herbert, whom I am unfamiliar with. He was something like 10 months older than I, but he died on Hallowe'en in 2015. I'm still here, and considerably older now than he got to be.
I began noticing in the latter morning that I seemed to suddenly be evidencing symptoms of a cold or something similar. These symptoms intensified over the day, my Sabbath fast.
After sunset today I availed myself of three drops of an ivermectin solution, so it's going to be interesting if I will be able to best this condition.
Anyway, after watching T.V. earlier today, my brother went back to his bedroom for some further rest. I delayed doing similarly, and was still seated here at my bedside computer when my wife rose.
After she showered, she came to me and said that she was going to deposit $1,500 into our joint account. I told her that she could just do it tomorrow, but she self-deprecatingly countered that if she was left with the money, I'd be lucky to get $800 tomorrow.
This is money she owes me, but I was not seriously expecting she would be paying back this degree of a sum.
After she had gone out, she phoned to say that the deed was done, but she did ask me to e-Transfer $200 back to her so that she could pay her car insurance. I sent her $250.
I waited until she was back home with some groceries, and then I went downstairs to let her know that I was going to have my nap ─ I am unsure if it was any later than 1:30 p.m. She in turn said that she was going to make a supper and then leave for work ─ which she usually does around 3:10 p.m. on her partial days of work.
I never roused from my nap until 3:44 p.m. ─ she was long gone. I found that a little sad.
Tomorrow is my grocery shopping morning walk, so the plan is to rise at 4 a.m. and adjust into getting away by 6 a.m. I'm really looking forward to that first big mug of instant coffee with all the works!
It is presently approaching 10 p.m., so I am going to deem this post sufficiently padded, and free myself up to slowly wind down towards my bedtime ─ maybe 11 p.m., but possibly earlier.
By the way, I have been hearing a little rain a few times this evening.
If this post seemed rather disjointed, it's because I have been working on it ─ off and on ─ since my afternoon nap. This does muddle the proper sequence or flow of things.
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