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Last night Laney and I met at Pacific Place for the 5:15 showing of the relatively (and therefore a bit surprisingly) acclaimed Pamela Anderson movie,
The Last Showgirl. We both enjoyed it, but also had a lot of criticisms of it.
In fact, once I got home, made myself an utterly delicious grilled cheese & mushroom & tomato sandwich for dinner, and wrote the review, I kind of surprised myself by giving it a C-plus. I had been leaning toward B or B-minus during the movie, but it was easier to see all the things wrong with it upon thinking about it after the fact.
That effectively took up my whole evening, though. Go to a movie; walk home; make dinner; write a review. There's not a lot more to report on the past 24 hours, really.
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I did get on FaceTime with Shobhit after I posted my review, but only briefly. He said he was "a little under the weather" so I sure hope he's over that by the time he's back home on Sunday. He had to bail because he and his mom were headed out there somewhere. It was around 9:30pm my time which would have made it roughly 11am theirs.
I guess I could provide a minor work update. We had our weekly team meeting today, for the first time with Brandi and Cathryn included: now being referred to as "P3" because we're now "Pricing, Promotions & Project Management." I was concerned we might start needing more than half an hour now that we have five people instead of three, but everything we needed to discuss fit into the half-hour block quite neatly.
There was also some discussion about upcoming PTO, as it's always listed last on Gabby's meeting agenda. I learned yesterday that the "Co+nvergence" conference run by National Cooperative Grocers (NCG), which I went to for the first time in 2023 but did not happen this year, is confirmed for this year—albeit as a 2-day conference rather than a 3-day conference as happened in the past. I am very eager to go again. Thankfully Gabby is again eager to do whatever she can to help make that happen, and Noah even said yesterday "We want to take you with us," but the tricky part this year is the timing of the new Downtown store opening, which
may happen in August—and the conference is on August 14 & 15. I was somewhat surprised by that as in the past it was the first weekend of August, but the concern would be the same either way. And actually if we can manage the store opening early in the month that might make going easier. There's also the office move to consider, which will happen around the same time, so we'll see.
The thing is, I want to tack extra days on just like I did last year, but I really want to, at least once, go up to the tiny town of Baudette so I can see my Aunt Cyndi, my mom's biological sister, where she lives. In the past I was looking up ideas for how to fly up there from the Twin Cities and rent a car the rest of the way, maybe also taking a day trip for the three-hour drive from there to Winnipeg. It just occurred to me yesterday that it makes way more sense to swap that around: fly from the Twin Cities to Winnipeg and back, and take a day trip from
there one day to visit Cyndi in Baudette. Winnipeg is the closest thing to a major city in Manitoba, a province I have not yet been to—it has a metropolitan population of 834,678, only slightly larger than that of Spokane & Coeur d'Alene; but its city proper population is 749,607, which is very close to that of Seattle (but whose metro population is 4 million). In any case, there will be way more to see in Winnipeg and travel between there and the Twin Cities will be much easier, so that's my working idea right now. We'll see how Shobhit feels about it, as he never wants to spend money. Hopefully he'll have found a new job by the time I'm seriously considering this.
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