Month: May 2015

Three sentence movie reviews: Fire in the Sky*

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This was a well-acted exploration of male friendship and is populated with a decent amount of early-90s actors you’ve seen in a ton of other things.  It’s also about an alien abduction, but the vast majority of it deals with the fallout of those left behind. According to the expert who spoke before the movie, Hollywood got the alien part wrong.

Cost: Free. It was kind of a history pub, but McMenamins is going to start having regular History Pub-style meetings at the Mission Theater, but concerning UFO/Alien Encounter stuff.  I couldn’t find anything about it on the website to link to, but that’s what we were told.

Where watched: Mission Theater with Matt, Laurie, Burt, Brooke & Mike.

*It’s like we’re watching the sequel to “Smoke on the Water” Brooke quipped.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/1993/fire_in_the_sky.html

What’s up with me and cooking lately?

Glad you asked.

For the past year I’ve been a subscriber to SoupStones, so a nice lady from Australia sends me five recipes to make each week.  It’s $20.00 per month, which is outrageous, but the food is good, it makes the right amount of portions, I don’t have to think, and most of the meals come together quickly.  So every Friday (that’s aspirational, mostly I do this on Saturday morning) I make my grocery list for the week and then on Saturday go shopping.

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However, since the beginning of April, I’ve been taking a class on Thursday nights, which means my weekly schedule looks like this:

Monday: long work day, can’t do much when I get home.
Tuesday: tap class
Wednesday: restorative yoga
Thursday: Pattern Manipulation Class
Friday: pretty much toast

This schedule doesn’t really leave me much time to cook during the week, so I’ve been doing a week’s worth of cooking on Sunday.  It’s not my favorite thing, but  like it better than spending too much money eating out.  Plus, I know that I have food for the week.

I usually run out of steam before I complete my list, though.  As you can see, the Hot, Cheesy Chickpeas didn’t happen.  I told myself I would do them later in the week. I won’t.

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Requiem: Motion Industries Mug

IMG_3163My first job out of college was for Motion Industries.  I was the receptionist, and the company I worked for had recently been acquired by MI.  Redundednt people were being let go, everyone in the company was older than forty, and there wasn’t  really anything much to do.  I was bored and depressed and it was the kind of company that only had two holidays per year and accrued any vacation time for a full year before awarding it. I lasted eight months before fleeing.  Best part? My boss Roberta Cronin.  “You are terribly overqualified for this job, but it’s yours if you want it,” she told me about a week into my temp gig.  We made it official and I learned–not for the last time–about  the danger of settling for whatever job comes my way.

Three sentence movie reviews: Avengers Age of Ultron

avengers_age_of_ultron_ver11Matt and I celebrated our thirteenth anniversary in style with Marvel’s biggest earners, enjoying their quips and antics.  Overall, I found this to be a tighter movie than the first one* and I enjoyed the Avengers-at-rest scenes more than the big battles.  So here’s hoping the next two movies concern Avengers chatting late at night, and perhaps doing their superhero laundry or cooking a nice meal or home renovation.

Cost: $10.75?  Matt bought the tickets
Where watched: Regal’s Vancouver City Center 12.

*”They have to get that cube thing AND kill off all these creatures? This movie will go on forever!” I thought at one point when watching the first feature.  Luckily, getting the cube thing killed off the creatures.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2015/avengers_age_of_ultron_ver11.html

Three sentence movie reviews: Furious 6

fast_and_furious_sixIn which the series lets go of any small grip on reality as our heroes–currently wealthy and somewhat bored in exile–are recruited by the Rock to help take down a super bad guy which they agree to so 1) they can get Letty–who is not actually dead, but has surfaced with amnesia–back and also 2) be pardoned so they can go home to good old Los Angeles.   But first there must be much fast and furious driving in many different countries and some great hand-to-hand fighting to keep those bored by fast and furious driving, but never (never NEVER) any shooting of anyone by Vin Diesel.* Favorite moment: probably Letty and Dom racing through London and then having a sweet moment together**

Cost: Free from library (because Videorama doesn’t seem to have any copies of this movie due to catagorizaiton error. Employee Yvonne and I looked for it in vain. Luckily, the library still has a ton of copies.)
Where watched: at home with Matt wandering through and stopping for the fight scenes.

*At one point he picks up a gun and attempts to hit someone with it, and then it flies off and we continue with the bare-knucked fighting.
**Because I’m a total sap.

poster from: http://www.impawards.com/2013/fast_and_furious_six.html
IMP poster commentary favorite quip: Vin Diesel’s backside in saggy pants?  What a waste!