This movie had a couple of my favorite actors in it (Jason Bateman and Tina Fey), so I was expecting a little more from it, but I still found it to be rather entertaining. The story was about four adult siblings who sit shiva in their childhood home after their father’s death. Judging from the previews, it looked to be a straight up comedy, but it was really more of a dramedy (which I don’t mind, but just sayin’).
My rating: 3.5/5
Now seeing twice as good.
I’ve been putting it off, but I couldn’t put it off another year, so I got bifocals today. I got progressive lenses, so you can’t tell they are bifocals unless I tell you, which I just did. So, beyond the four people who read my blog, no one else will be the wiser.
Next up on my old age bucket list: my AARP card.
We were getting ready to go work on our investment property this afternoon and I jokingly said that we should take Buster. Brian was surprisingly on board with that idea so we took him. While we were getting set up to work, Buster gave us his opinion of the place by taking a giant dump on the living room carpet (he does not adapt well to new surroundings).
Beyond that, we did get a lot accomplished this afternoon. Brian removed the old kitchen flooring. Jake removed all of the cabinet doors and drawers, along with the old hardware that was attached to them. And I painted all of the cabinet frames and (as a bonus) the drawers. This puts us in good shape for next weekend. I feel like I’m finally starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.
I don’t know how Brian lucks out. We just had his 4th birthday celebration this evening. He wanted the two of us to make spinach lasagna (complete with homemade noodles) for supper, so that’s what we did.
His first celebration was dinner at my parents’ last month; the second was when we went away two weeks ago (originally that trip was planned for this weekend, so he considered it to be part of his birthday celebration); the third was dinner at my in-laws’ last weekend.
Three of the four celebrations involved pasta. Coincidence?
This was another good story recommended to me by Brian. I read most of it while we were away the other weekend. The plot was about a man who becomes obsessed with a woman and subsequently kidnaps her.
The first part of the book was from the man’s point of view and I found this more interesting than the latter part of the book, which was told from the woman’s point of view. The reason for this is that her point of view didn’t really shed additional light on anything–it was just kind of rehashing the previous story.
My rating: 3.5/5