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Sweet Georgia Brown what a busy weekend!!
Firstly, it was to get all the Christmas stuff rollin'. Totes up from the storage area, go get a tree, put up said tree, decorate said tree, help get the Christmas villages up and the Halloween one put away, start decorating the house, and start getting the lights on the house. Couple things this year. As usual, we went to Home Depot to get our tree. They were having a Black Friday sale of some types of trees and we could get one half off! We could I say. We didn't. Wife didn't care for those and wanted the type we usually get. And so it was. The tree we got has some nice full branches at the bottom. I would normally remove these to ensure there is enough exposed trunk to set well in the stand and provide gift space (and space for my stomach to slide under the tree to water) under the tree. But the next set of branches was a little thin, so they had to stay. This means our tree (8' tall) isn't sitting firmly on the spike at the bottom of the base and is potentially somewhat suspended being held up by the four screws. It seems to be fine, but I think for the next month I'll be watching closely for leaning to start. Then with the house lights, I use these plastic clips that somehow a ton of them from last year seem to be missing. I was able to jury-rig the ones I have to get all the lights up in their spots, but had to order more to correctly mount about a full string of them so I'll have to be up on the ladder again to fix them tomorrow.
Movies. We started a new movie thing. I bought one of those Top 100 Movies" poster where you scratch off the movies you've seen so you track the ones you still need to watch. How they determine they are the best 100 I dunno. But my wife and I have almost as much trouble deciding what to watch as we do deciding what's for dinner. So we agreed we would watch them in order they are in the poster with some rules. Even if we've seen them a bunch before, we still have to watch it again as part of this. If it's not free to stream for us, we can skip and it and come back hoping it might be added in the meantime. The first movie was A Few Good Men, which we've seen many times of course. But this is the reason we set that rule of having to watch them again. We often catch it half-way through on TV so haven't seen the start for a long time. It's still a great movie. Next up is 12 Years a Slave, which isn't free to stream, so we'll move on to Silence of the Lambs, which my wife isn't thrilled with. But if I'm going to have to sit through some of the snoozers, she can sit through this one again.
More movie stuff. I've been waiting for Twisters to be free to stream to watch it. Finally saw that it was and I asked permission to watch it this weekend as a reward for all my hard work. I usually wait to watch this junk when my wife is gone somewhere. I've been waiting for this so I did it up right. Used my stereo speakers instead of the TV and made BBQ pork/tater tot nachos. Well, even though I had hope, the original Twister was better. Better storyline, better actors, way better music. And this there really a need for the stupid love story line in a movie like this? I can't imagine anyone going to an action movie because she heard there's a great love story in it. Well, now I know anyway.
Tedalus Essence w/ Feather Proguard (3)
Nordic Shaving Birch
Sorrentino TSC Anniversary
Thayers Lemon
Nivea 2:1
Yardley Equity talc
Hermetico Source 1
Sweet Georgia Brown what a busy weekend!!
Firstly, it was to get all the Christmas stuff rollin'. Totes up from the storage area, go get a tree, put up said tree, decorate said tree, help get the Christmas villages up and the Halloween one put away, start decorating the house, and start getting the lights on the house. Couple things this year. As usual, we went to Home Depot to get our tree. They were having a Black Friday sale of some types of trees and we could get one half off! We could I say. We didn't. Wife didn't care for those and wanted the type we usually get. And so it was. The tree we got has some nice full branches at the bottom. I would normally remove these to ensure there is enough exposed trunk to set well in the stand and provide gift space (and space for my stomach to slide under the tree to water) under the tree. But the next set of branches was a little thin, so they had to stay. This means our tree (8' tall) isn't sitting firmly on the spike at the bottom of the base and is potentially somewhat suspended being held up by the four screws. It seems to be fine, but I think for the next month I'll be watching closely for leaning to start. Then with the house lights, I use these plastic clips that somehow a ton of them from last year seem to be missing. I was able to jury-rig the ones I have to get all the lights up in their spots, but had to order more to correctly mount about a full string of them so I'll have to be up on the ladder again to fix them tomorrow.
Movies. We started a new movie thing. I bought one of those Top 100 Movies" poster where you scratch off the movies you've seen so you track the ones you still need to watch. How they determine they are the best 100 I dunno. But my wife and I have almost as much trouble deciding what to watch as we do deciding what's for dinner. So we agreed we would watch them in order they are in the poster with some rules. Even if we've seen them a bunch before, we still have to watch it again as part of this. If it's not free to stream for us, we can skip and it and come back hoping it might be added in the meantime. The first movie was A Few Good Men, which we've seen many times of course. But this is the reason we set that rule of having to watch them again. We often catch it half-way through on TV so haven't seen the start for a long time. It's still a great movie. Next up is 12 Years a Slave, which isn't free to stream, so we'll move on to Silence of the Lambs, which my wife isn't thrilled with. But if I'm going to have to sit through some of the snoozers, she can sit through this one again.
More movie stuff. I've been waiting for Twisters to be free to stream to watch it. Finally saw that it was and I asked permission to watch it this weekend as a reward for all my hard work. I usually wait to watch this junk when my wife is gone somewhere. I've been waiting for this so I did it up right. Used my stereo speakers instead of the TV and made BBQ pork/tater tot nachos. Well, even though I had hope, the original Twister was better. Better storyline, better actors, way better music. And this there really a need for the stupid love story line in a movie like this? I can't imagine anyone going to an action movie because she heard there's a great love story in it. Well, now I know anyway.
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