This was another movie from our top 13. Jake liked it so much that he actually looked away from his phone and watched most of the movie. That is a rare occurrence.
My rating: 4/5
paint
For someone who doesn’t like to paint, I sure find myself painting often enough. Today, I painted our upstairs bathroom (which is part of the overhaul of the upper floor of our house). I did a two-tone thing–a tan color and an off-white. It turned out nice–it looks so much better than before. It took longer than I was expecting, but isn’t that always how that goes?
Now, Brian will be able to put down the floor in that room and we can finish things up in there.
freezing
A couple of weeks ago, my upright freezer started acting up. After a few days of weirdness, it died. Luckily, we didn’t have a lot of stuff in it (and also that I caught the problem while the food was still mostly frozen), so we transported the food to the freezers of our two refrigerators.
Shortly thereafter, we went to Krisay’s to purchase a new freezer. Since the broken appliance was past its expected life expectancy, purchasing a new one, rather than getting the old one fixed, seemed like the better option.
We found one that we liked and they had it in stock, so we scheduled a day for delivery. The old freezer was a tight squeeze, so they had to take it apart in order to get it out of the room–not to mention that the door (and door stop) to the room had to be removed in order to get it out. We bought a slightly smaller capacity freezer, so we didn’t think to check the dimensions when we made the purchase. As it turned out, the new freezer was even bigger than the old one and it would not fit through the entrance to the room (newer freezers have more insulation, so that’s why it was bigger). At that point, they took the new freezer back and we needed to make a decision about what to do next.
After doing some research and finding out that there weren’t any new freezers that were small enough to fit through the entrance, we made the decision to keep the freezer in the family room. Neither of us were thrilled with this idea, but there weren’t really any other options.
the winter people
This book was recommended to me by one of our employees. It’s considered a ghost story, which is decidedly not my favorite genre of horror, but I gave it a shot and am glad that I did. It was quite a good story and was very original. I rather liked it.
My rating: 4/5
trainwreck
While Snowpocalypse 2016 was going on outside, we figured it would be a good time to watch a movie. We were really looking forward to this one. While it was funny, it was nowhere near as funny as we were expecting. Maybe we’re just over the rom-com? I don’t know.
My rating: 3/5