- Man, I’ve felt moody this week! It started Tuesday morning when I broke the snowblower (Steven fixed it Wednesday morning) and got worse. I made a list of the insignificant things bothering me so I could see how stupid they were, but that didn’t help much. Oh well.
- One thing on that list – my Bath & Body Works account is still effed up, despite starting over with a new one, and using a different credit card. I placed a real order this week (using a gift card and credit card) and they canceled it. If that’s not a sign I didn’t need that stuff, I don’t know what is! Ha ha!
- Kevin talked on his blog about he and his son had to sit through nearly an hour of commercials and trailers to watch the new Lego movie at the theater. This annoys me too – we get to the theater early, even though we have assigned seats, and sit through all that crap, and totally have our snacks finished before the movie actually starts. BUT WE CAN’T NOT GET THERE EARLY!!! AHH!!! So this week, we were at the theater, and I left right before the movie was supposed to start, to get more butter topping for the popcorn, and I was shocked when I got back and there were NO trailers. I almost missed the start of the movie! Ha, the one time I assume there will be twenty minutes of trailers…
- We saw Alita: Battle Angel. I don’t recommend it. It was slow and a bit juvenile. I think the reason there was no trailers was because it was an early release showing. There were Alita features to watch after the credits, if you felt like it (meh).
- I finished The Only Woman in the Room. I liked it! For some reason, I like the parts of her story in Austria better than the parts in Los Angeles.
- Now I’m reading another book about Los Angeles – The Library Book – about the 1986 fire that happened in the main branch of the LA library. The book talks about the fire, the history of the library, and the author’s personal connection to libraries. It’s a bunch of big and little stories about people and I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! And need to finish reading it by Saturday, eek.
- We have two important anniversaries in February! The 6th was the day we closed on our house (three years ago!) and today is Khali’s Gotcha Day (two years ago)!
- Yesterday we decided to play with the kittens with a laser pointed for the first time and they went BONKERS!!! Apollo got so worked up he was doing his crazy panting thing. But he did catch the red dot, phew.
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Happy Gotcha day Khali!!
She says thanks!
Happy house and Khali-versary! I’m glad you had two happy memories to celebrate during your moody week.
I love trailers but not ads. It has never occurred to me that you end up watching 20-30 minutes of trailers. Thanks for the review of “Alita.” I was leaning towards not seeing it, and it sounds like that’s the right choice.
Thanks, me too!
It’s a bummer the movie was so slow and juvenile. The special effects and fight scenes were actually super neat, but the whole plot made me yawn. There was lots of jerking off hand motions being made to Steven. Oops.
Doesn’t that suck? And you can’t try to guess when it will actually start because there is no consistency to how many trailers there are (or are not, in your case).
It does suck! I was shocked there were NO trailers. This is the first time that’s ever happened to me. A lot of people came late and there were arguments about seat assignments. Sigh.
Happy Gotcha Day to Khali!!! I have missed reading your blog!! So glad I “talked” to you this morning and joined the new page!!
Thank you! I am glad you joined it too! Sorry that I dropped you off by accident!
I had a whole comment typed out and then went to verify some information I was going to include in the comment, and accidentally did that on the same tab as I had your blog open in, and the whole thing disappeared. Alas! I shall start over.
I really enjoy movie trailers! I guess that’s maybe a little ironic, given how I complained about concert openers earlier this week, because the two are really in a pretty similar vein: exposing you to an artist or movie you might not have heard about otherwise in the hopes of piquing your interest, all while you’re there to see something else. Maybe I don’t mind trailers because each trailer only lasts two and a half minutes or so, as opposed to concert openers, who tend to play a LOT longer than that 😛
I just recently heard about The Library Book in the New York Times! It made their nonfiction bestseller list, so they linked to a review about it. It sounds super interesting! I was especially fascinated by the fact that the whole thing went practically unnoticed when it happened, because it was the same week as Chernoybl. I doubt the review contains any information that the book doesn’t, but here’s the link, in case you’re interested: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/books/review/susan-orlean-library-book.html
No! That is so annoying! LOL. That reminds me of a habit I’ve had for years now after some bug Blogger had where it kept eating my comments. (This wouldn’t have helped you, just made me think of it). Before I post my comment I always copy it in case the internet eats it. Because it kept happening to me so much it was making me nuts. It rarely happens now but I still do it.
I usually enjoy trailers too (not the ads, though)! Even though I watch them online, it seems I somehow see new ones in the theater. There are just SOOOOO many. Ha. And I am an old lady and don’t want to get home late. Trailers are way better than openers you don’t want to hear!!!!!
Thanks for sharing the review! They give a lot away about the book in that review, ha! That IS interesting that the fire was unnoticed because of that timing, right? I should ask my parents if they heard about it, in 86.
I thought our local theatre listed the time the movie actually started but I just checked and can’t find anything like that…but an hour of crap before a kid’s movie begins?? That is insane.
Also I said it’s a kid’s movie but I loved the first Lego movie and will be seeing the new one, so…
Maybe if you call them they will tell you! Ha, I can never find out how to talk to an actual person at a theater.
They do a good job of making (some of) the kid’s movies appeal to adults now too!
My brother and I have a strict policy: no eating until the movie begins! Haha. We’ve done this since we were kids. We reason that we got the popcorn for the movie, not for the movie trailers. But I hear you on the length of commercials and movie trailers before the movie – I feel like it’s worse at some movie theaters than others. I’m not sure why! But it’s really annoying.
Happy gotcha day to Khali! How sweet! 🙂
So when do you get there and do you feel like your popcorn isn’t as fresh by the time you get to it? Or is it fine? I should start doing that 🙂
Now you have TWO Gotcha Days!!!!!