Can I call them holiday Hallmark movies if I am watching the Netflix version? Hmmm. Anyway.
I don’t have a related photo, but here’s a picture of the Red & Green Velvet cake Steven and I shared yesterday from Pie, Pie My Darling! It was every bit as amazing as it looks.
I was in training this week at work and one of our segments was on negotiation. The instructor was talking about small-town, rural negotiations, where negotiations are more successful if you have (or create) a relationship with someone. He asked if anyone had any experience in that.
And I responded with “I am watching a Hallmark movie where a big city lawyer goes to a small town to negotiate with a woman about buying her land, but realizes he needs to form a relationship with her first.”
Ha ha ha. Totally on point, right?
I was NOT trying to be a jackarse and the instructor liked my example. But then it got a bit derailed with people asking me what the movie was (A California Christmas) and then I did have an entire discussion on the side (in chat) with someone about all the horrible Hallmark-esque holiday movies they are watching with their spouse.
I wish MY SPOUSE would watch them with me! COME ON, Steven! Ha ha ha. Just kidding. There are plenty of bad holiday movies not created by Hallmark or Netflix (last night we watched New Year’s Eve).
And people get on these Hallmark (or similar) movies’ cases for not being realistic! Clearly someone did their research on A California Christmas!
I’ve been very in the mood for Christmas movies this year (probably because I actually have time to watch them this year, as opposed to most years where the Venn diagram representing “December” and “free time” are two separate circles), but I haven’t watched any corny romances yet. I should get on that! I feel like it’s a very important subset of the Christmas movie genre that I haven’t even touched!
Also that cake looks insanely good.
Yes yes! Ha ha ha!
Are you liking having more free time this year to watch those movies? You definitely need to add cheesy romances to your list and let me know which you watch!
It’s so amazing. I hope you can try them someday!
Yes! It’s been amazing! I’m not wild about the pandemic, but let me tell you, I could 100% get on board with party-free Decembers from here on out. Maybe this is just my introvert showing, but this has been the least stressful December I’ve had in years, and I am LOVING having the free time to do things I want to do rather than schlep all around Chicagoland running from one party to the next every single weekend. I can watch movies! I’ve baked! I’ve gone to bed at a reasonable time every Saturday this month! It’s amazing!
Yay! I am so glad you are finding this silver lining and loving it! And I hope people realize they don’t have to jam everything into December every year, moving forward… fingers crossed… and I hope they also realize you don’t have to get together with people just because you always do… whether you like it or not… LOL (you did not mention that, that is what I am thinking, lol)
Harrison is a captive audience for all the holiday movie fare. I don’t think he enjoys them, but he’s also too lazy to get up and go somewhere else. He still gets sucked in and offers commentary. I think “A California Christmas” fell in the middle of this year’s movies. (It was surprisingly risqué, wasn’t it?? I feel like all the other ones are so chaste.)
LOL!!! Does he scroll on his phone or do something else while he watches? Or not, so he can offer commentary? 😉
Yeah, I guess it was, since they hooked up!!!! I didn’t even think about that!