This was the sight that greeted me - clean dishes, washed before bed.
You'll notice a plate and a fork -
the strike must be coming to a halt!
We'll see about that.
Still no glasses, but eight coffee mugs and both large pots this time around.
Mostly, I've used all five of my donburi bowls for warm, soupy, food over these cooler days and nights.
Who knows?
Maybe I'll even use the oven this week - maybe for pizza!
But that won't be on this Tina Tuesday, as I will be at El Potro with the bear.
Today's coffee mug is the one from Alaska, totally appropriate for the below-70 temperature in my house this chilly morn.
An instant egg salad sandwich (mayo on a wrap, sprinkled with lemon pepper, topped with two halved boiled eggs) made a quick no-cook, no-fuss breakfast.
This graph, with the 7-day sums of new cases of infected people since August 24th, shows a mixed bag of reactions two weeks after the Labor Day weekend.
Florida, Texas, Alabama, and Oklahoma had folks, whether local or visiting, getting that last bit of vacation, apparently.
Maybe those upturns will be flattened back out by Friday.
"Earth Girls Are Easy" had just begun, with my girl Geena Davis, at 32, as a klutzy manicurist with a no-good boyfriend.
Enter a trio of alien males!
Distracted by her sunbathing in the back yard, they'd crashed their spaceship - boys are boys, all over the galaxy!
She takes them to Curl Up & Dye for haircuts and conversion to human-like beings...
and ends up with three hunks to date for her and Candy Pink!
Red Wiploc (32-yo Jim Carrey), yellow Zeebo (28-yo Damon Wayans) and blue Mac (36-yo Jeff Goldblum) were big hits in the Valley nightclub, especially with those long tongues - yeah, baby!
then again, it's entirely possible that it was me that I heard.
This movie came out in 1988, when I was thirty, hot on the heels of "Silverado", so Goldblum already had my attention.
He and Geena were wed in 1987, during the filming, and the love they shared certainly was reflected into the movie.
Very nice!
Plus, there were three songs, so this was a semi-musical!
Fabulous!
(smile!)
Energized, I 'got busy' around the house.
No, not busy like Elisa, more like June Cleaver.
(smile!)
First, I balanced the checkbook and paid bills, transferring my dream 'savings' from the movies and shopping into my real savings account.
(So far, that amounts to $117 saved from the cinema and more than $407 at CVS! I am SOOO good at using coupons on things I was going to buy anyway!)
I took out the two little bags of trash out to the bin.
I met the postman with mail in hand and sorted it out, recycling the political ads and requests from charities into the recycling bag.
Then it was time for bit of lunch: soup it was!
Yes, the weather is still chilly for me, as the 80-degree temperatures are on hiatus this week.
Now, to change into long pants - but still wear my sandals! - before joining the bfrb for hugs, Mexican comfort food, and "Infidel".
Hey, those are his picks for food and film.
I'll no doubt want something lighter to polish off my night.
Maybe I'll finally watch "Beyond Borders: Green Butterflies"...
it has Kevin Bury in it, making this a doubleheader for Tina Tuesday.
(smile)
2 comments:
Well, I've saved the "Mariposas Verdes" for another day!
The movie with Kevin was not quite what either of us expected.
Instead of cautioning folks from stirring up trouble in other countries, it was a bit of a fairy tale about ugly Americans managing to succeed in escape, despite a series of terrible choices on their part.
Ack.
Disappointing - but it lead to a good discussion, so that was beneficial for both of us.
Neither of us really wanted to go out tonight, but we came anyway because it was Tina Tuesday... and very much part of how we keep track of time passages during pandemic.
Good.
I count this as a big success for our friendship.
Hallelujah for that!
Right place, right time.
FYI: September 22 was the Autumnal Equinox this year.
What that means is there were the same number of daylight minutes as there were night-time minutes.
13:31 PM was the dividing line used by folks who keep track of such things.
Hey, I just thought it was interesting.
(smile)
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