A Christmas Switch

My 6 a.m. cellphone alarm roused me for the second consecutive morning, for as yesterday I planned on hiking the half mile or so to the nearby No Frills outlet to do further grocery shopping.

Yet I felt more ill slept than I should have ─ as yesterday, in fact. And so for the second day my general overall lack of well-being withheld me from any exercising in the tool shed. The walk bearing groceries home was to be my day's total, although yesterday I did have some light enough exercise in my wife's vacant bedroom (and I intend it today as well).

While I was downstairs this morning to boil water for my day's first of two mugs of instant coffee, I missed a 6:53 a.m. Facebook Messenger phone call from my wife (she is over in Thailand).

So at 7:07 a.m. I used Messenger to text her:

Sorry ─ I was downstairs boiling water for coffee.

She in turn texted back at 7:25 a.m.:

Ok just wanna say hi, how are you ?

And at 7:30 a.m. I replied:

Well, hello!

I suppose I'm okay. I'm going to leave soon to go to No Frills ─ it opens in half an hour.

But that was the end of our communication, and nothing further came from her.

Thankfully it was another heavily overcast morning, so that helped ensure I kept to my planned errand, although it could have been 8 a.m. by the time I left home.

I was to get held up in the store in one of the aisles by a very talkative (White) woman who was reportedly 60 years old. I take it that she and her live-in 'boyfriend' are presently more or less disabled.

She certainly was not shy about critiquing her two brothers back in Ontario where she had lived before coming out here sometime in the 1980s.

But it's never bad for these sort of pleasant enough social interactions with a stranger from time to time, rare as they are for me.

I got back home to find my brother already downstairs with the T.V. playing. I largely already knew what I had in mind for us to watch once he invited me to put our Android TV Box into action, so after putting away my purchases and dressing down in my bedroom, I was not much longer in joining him.

I tuned in an hour-long documentary, although now I am not absolutely certain of my source at the platform, for there are a number of them. But lets just say that it was this one where the documentary was publshed August 14 to Rumble's Awakening World - Truth & Secrets Revealed channel: Inside MRNA Vaccines - The Movie.

This film explores the unprecedented global rollout of mRNA vaccine technology - and the complex scientific and regulatory questions it continues to raise.

At its heart, the story follows scientists and physicians who voice concerns about potential gaps in data transparency, risk assessment, and long-term safety - not to discredit science, but to uphold its highest standards.

“We turned the body into a factory, with no clear controls.”
Dr. Robert Redfield - Former CDC Director

The Science Behind mRNA: A Second Opinion
Regulators and much of the scientific community maintain that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are safe and effective. Meanwhile, the technology is rapidly expanding - from new vaccines to potential use in the food supply.

Around the world, thousands of medical professionals are calling for a pause and careful reassessment of this rapidly adopted platform.

Source: https://www.insidemrnavaccines.com/

Next we watched This Is Us ─ episode eight ("Six Thanksgivings") of season three. These episodes are always surprisingly good.

After that we got halfway through a World War II nigh hour-long documentary, but we cut it short because it was something like 11:50 a.m. by then and my brother wanted further bed rest. Likely we will complete watching it tomorrow, so I will cite it then.

I had eaten during the mRNA documentary, so that was out of the way. Still, I managed to spend more time here at my bedside computer than I expected to before I had my nap. And man! It was tough to pull myself from bed afterwards.

Thankfully sunning was off for a fourth consecutive day because heavy cloud cover has prevailed; I just don't feel up to enduring 1½ hours of time spent like that here in our backyard.

Right now it is 5:13 p.m., so I am going to take a break for that bit of exercise in my wife's bedroom, primarily to work my damaged right leg. Then I will gather together a very light supper; and with it eaten, I plan on watching something here on my bedside computer ... maybe even a Christmas movie, but that is undetermined.

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I did choose to watch a Christmas movie ─ 2018's A Christmas Switch.

At first I had some doubt about the movie, but I quickly grew interested in both of the main characters and the whole plot ─ I even came to care to varying degrees for the secondary characters.

The lead actresses were Jackie Seiden and Ashley Wood, neither of whom has yet warranted a Wikipedia biography. The latter was definitely the more beautiful, but they were both alluring ─ I would have been proud to have been linked with either woman.

I loved this movie! Often it had me laughing aloud; and it also generated my tears. I would happily watch it again this coming Christmas season with my brother and Bev.

I chose to watch it via this OK.ru link, even though I first noticed it was also available at another OK.ru link. Why did I choose the link that I did? Well, simply because it listed the movie there as being 23 seconds longer than the other source. I wanted to ensure that nothing had been cut.

I drank two cans of Cariboo Malt (7.9% alcohol), however. That's generally my beer allotment for drinking alone here in my bedroom.

My brother got home soon after the movie's conclusion ─ he was here possibly as early as 7:50 p.m. Even so, due to my own dallying and such, it was already just past 9 p.m. ere I was set to watch anything else.

Well, I want to try and be up at 3 p.m., so I cannot dare sit up too much later this evening. And so I elected to watch the second appearance of then-young teen Emily Hampshire on Are You Afraid of the Dark?, since it was well under a half hour long.

I wrote about this yesterday; and as I recall, my source was Archive.org here where all of the episodes are listed.

However, I wanted specifically episode 11 ("The Tale of the Vacant Lot") of season five, and Archive.org lists a different one for S05E11, instead having the episode I want as S05E09.

Rather than fart around, I chose to watch the episode at YouTube where it was uploaded September 12, 2016, at the Are You Afraid of the Dark? - WildBrain channel as Are You Afraid of the Dark? 511 - The Tale of the Vacant Lot | HD - Full Episode.

All episodes of the series are likely at that channel. I just didn't like that the video had been landscaped or stretched out so that everyone looked 'thick'. For instance, there wasn't a slim pair of female legs in the episode ─ in that world, there was no such thing.

As for Emily Hampshire, she hardly had a role. She just appeared once as 'arm candy' for the teen 'jock' that our heroine was crushing on.

I had myself a glass of red wine along with the show that I found to be most instructional. I hope young folks who ever watched the episode did not lose sight of the lesson.

Honestly, I truly enjoyed it.

But that's it ─ those two episodes of Are You Afraid of the Dark? are all I ever plan to watch of the series. I was only interested in enjoying earliest Emily Hampshire.

Maybe I'll be setting my cellphone alarm for 3:30 or even 4 a.m., for right now it is 10:15 p.m., and I still have to start at shutting everything down here on my computer.