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I had so much to update in
yesterday's post—with its many listed links, to both backdated photo digest posts from Australia, to just all the socializing I did over the weekend—that today I have little more to add. In less than a week, I'm back to the standard Tuesday Post: little to say, because it was all said yesterday.
I did take myself to a movie last night:
Emily, which was a fine, solid-B period piece about Emily Brontë. The title character is played by Emma Mackey, who I've really liked ever since seeing her as Asa Butterfield's high school sex advice business partner in the Netflix series
Sex Education (which was first recommended to me, of all people, by Karen). I often see her in other things and take a minute to place her, which was the case when I first saw the trailer to this film as well. The same thing happened when I saw her in
Death on the Nile.
Anyway, the movie was at 5:00 at the Uptown Theater on Lower Queen Anne, an easy walk from work. I was really hungry so I got one of the free popcorns from the punch card I get for renewing my SIFF membership. Their butter machine was broken, though, so it wasn't nearly as good as usual. Plus, I added salt just for some added flavor, but accidentally dumped way too much on it. Barbara would have loved it.
I was one of five people in the theater. At first I was one of three, but then this couple of older ladies came in, bizarrely like twenty minutes into the film, one of them constantly waving her lit-up phone around, which was annoying. Another lady, across the theater from me, got on the same #8 bus I did to come home, and got off at the same stop as well. I wondered where she lived. Oddly, she had worn a mask on the bus, but not in the theater.
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My review was shorter than usual, less even than 500 words, but I found I had nothing more to say about the movie, so I decided to be satisfied with that. It's slim pickings in movie theaters right now, likely because of the Academy Awards having finally aired on Sunday. I could go to see
Scream VI, but after Laney and I did a marathon through the other 5, I decided to wait on that until it's streaming so she and I can watch it for the first time together.
Shobhit had watched Sunday's
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver without me already, but encouraged me to watch it in the living room anyway, just so I would spend some time with him out in the living room. So I did.
I already have a lot planned for the coming weekend. A movie night with Alexia on Friday, and Shobhit and I will go to Lake Stevens for Becca's baby shower on Saturday. This will be the first baby shower for any of my nieces I have ever been to, actually, and thus the first one I have ever purchased a gift for: from her Amazon registry, we got her the "
Grow-With-Me Baby Bathtub," which came to about $60 with taxes. At first I was reticent to spend that much. Shobhit responded: "She's your niece!" Sure, yes, but aside from airfare when I used to have them come visit me from Spokane, I've never spent that much on a gift for any of them. What makes Becca so special? Well, she lives closer to me now, and I'm actually going to her baby shower. That's what makes the difference, I guess. Anyway Shobhit and I made the decision together and that's what we got.
Then I'm having a Braeburn Condos theater double feature with Laney on Sunday, watching two Scarlett Johansson films from 2013:
Under the Skin (the novel on which it was based I recently finished reading), and one of my very favorites,
Her, which I cannot believe Laney has never seen.
As for looking out at the rest of the year, a lot of that remains up in the air. We got back from Australia significantly under budget, with $761 to spare in my travel budget (that's minus the cost of Becca's gift, as I took that out of there), although a couple hundred of that at least will likely go toward a vet checkup for the cats. Where Shobhit and I go for our anniversary in June, if anywhere at all, depends on how involved he manages to get into the idea of running for Seattle City Council. I'm still holding out hope that we can go at least somewhere. I have a stamp for one hotel free night stay on Hotels.com after all the places we stayed at in Australia, so I'm hoping to redeem that around that time. But, there's also the vague idea of Danielle and me going to the Hot Air Balloon Festival in Albuquerque in October. There's no telling at this point whether we can make that happen this year or not.
All of that isn't even to mention the week I'll be taking off for my birthday at the end of April. But I'm not likely to stay any hotels that week this year. I will go and stay one night with Jennifer, however.
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[posted 12:34 pm]
