We were without our quiz-show companions, and it showed with a measly 114 points. Still, it was a fun night. And, as the theme was “heroes” Matt was on fire identifying many obscure super heroes I had never encountered.
Favorite names:
The Rambo Connection
August: Multnomah County
Spaceballs: The Quiz Team: The Quest for More Points
Lowest 2 Lowest Movie Quiz Score (they ranked twelfth, five spaces above us)
Too Close for Missiles, I’m Switching to Puns
Matt was introduced to K-Pop Demon Hunters by his niece and nephew. Like all media children are into, he went into it with a good-uncle attitude and didn’t expect to like it.
But he really enjoyed it. When he returned from Indiana, he showed it to me, and I also greatly enjoyed it, far more than I expected.
When I noticed there was going to be an in-theater sing along for two nights, I told Matt and he wanted to go. So we went.
First of all, I was surprised at the turnout because anyone with a Netflix account can watch this movie with the captioning turned on and sign along. No need for a separate trip to the movie theater.
I didn’t hurry to buy tickets, because Cinemark had it playing hourly and their theaters are roomy. But when I checked at noon, the showing we planned to go to in the evening was nearly sold out. Thankfully, there were still two seats together.
What I hadn’t counted on was all the kids (and adults) dressed like various demon hunters. They were incredibly fun to see. On our way out, two women stopped to take a picture of their character-specific hair.
The sing along was fun, but muted by the stadium seating. Count K-Pop Demon Hunters as one of the happy surprises of 2025
The final episode!
Both Ariel and I agreed that it wasn’t a very good show, but that it also somehow wormed it’s way in and we would like more.
Ariel would like more Cheyenne and her mom, Genvieve, and Nicholas dancing.
For our fourth anniversary, we had the four-course prix fixe menu at Mucca. It was quite good.
Here we are with our desserts. I got the Tortino al Cioccolato and Matt got the Mousse di Pistaccio e Limone. Like all the things we chose, we traded halfway through.
They also gave us a little happy anniversary bonus, too.
I also really liked Cappellettie alla Norma, which was eggplant-filled cappellettie tossed in garlic butter, celery, and a red-wine gastrique roasted bell pepper tomato sauce
While at the de Young, Sara really liked this painting by Richard Diebenkom.
I love when a favorite painting is also represented in postcard in gift shops!
Thanks to the Humboldt fog, Sara’s plane could not land and was routed back to SFO. She got to spend the night in San Francisco. She went to the de Young museum for some good art the next day before her flight.
While there was not as much tap dancing as I would have liked in Anything Goes, this was a very fun musical! It had a great Art Deco set and costumes (rented from the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater, so you might get to see them too), memorable songs, and fun shenanigans.
It was a lovely afternoon at the theater.
Technically, this problem is explained in eight graphs. But you get the point.
Campaign finance reform! We need it!
Publicly-funding elections (real ones)! We need them!
The curtains are gone, but before I put them in the fiber recycling bag, I took the diamonds with birds off of them so that I can repurpose them as part of the new valance.
As I was planning the renovation, I realized I never shut the curtains in the bedroom because I had a shade, so it made more sense to make a valance.
Here, I have cut out the backing material (it was an old sheet of Matt’s) and am testing the best layout for the birds.
Here, I have put the official material over the backing material, but I have not yet moved the birds.
This will be a project that is done in fits and starts.
When I got the bright idea to wallpaper my closet, I wondered if the fact I watched my mother wallpaper thirty to forty years ago meant that I had absorbed skills and that I could also wallpaper.
You know what doesn’t exist anymore? Wallpaper stores. I wanted to go to a store and flip through some books like I did thirty to forty years ago. I made an attempt, visiting a paint store whose website said they had wallpaper, but it turned out the wallpaper had moved to their Lake Oswego location and no one had updated the website.
What does exist now that didn’t thirty to forty years ago is the internet, the place where I bought my wallpaper, and the place where I watched five to ten videos about how to wallpaper.
One of the last videos I watched said, as if this was common knowledge, that if you have textured walls, you need to skim coat them before wallpapering. Cue watching several videos about skim coating.
My painting friend S. North pointed out that this was one and a half walls in my closet, and maybe I didn’t need to skim coat? Because I had to buy two rolls, I figured I would do one panel to see how it went with textured walls.
It was fine. If I was wallpapering the main room, I would have to skim coat, but for my purposes, the textured walls were fine.
Having put one panel up, I kept going and two to three hours later I was done! I did have the skills!
Here’s the wallpaper. I liked the trees and the autumn colors, plus there was orange to go with the green, and orange is good to work into everything.
One of the videos I watched suggested using painter’s tape to mark where the drop was, and that worked very well. This pattern had a big drop, which was annoying.
But look! Done! I hadn’t thought about what to do about that shelf support, but I took the screw at the bottom out and had Matt hold it away from the wall when I was hanging that panel. It worked great.
I probably should have watched a few more videos about turning the corner, because that was a little rough, but overall okay.
This was a super fun project (that I dithered about for quite some time before starting) and I’m pleased with the results.
Now to put the closet back together. In that first picture you can see most of the closet contents waiting to go back.
