Jake and I watched this movie last night–Brian was busy in the shop finishing up a Christmas present (for me!), so he got a pass. Since I watch the television show which is based on this movie, it was interesting to watch it (again, for that matter, as I saw the movie when it first came out). While I thought the movie was good, I now understand why the television show is so boring–they basically took a two hour movie and based the first two seasons on it. Talk about slow-moving!
11/22/63
This is the latest Stephen King book (or should I call it a tome?). I rather enjoyed it. When I first heard about it, I was not looking forward to reading it because 1. it is a time travel novel and I’m not normally into science fiction and 2. it is about a historical event (the assassination of President Kennedy) and I’m not all that into history, either. But, as it turns out, it was a pretty good read. It took me a little while to get into it, but at 800+ pages, this was not a surprising development. The time travel stuff was kept to a minimum (that is, it wasn’t a book about time travel, it just involved time travel) and it wasn’t much of a lesson in history, either (the bulk of the book took place in the late 50s and early 60s but was reminiscent of “It” and “Stand by Me”).
in concert
Last night, my parents and brother went to church with us in order to see Jake play guitar. Apparently he’s going to be doing this every Saturday, so the novelty will probably wear off at some point. After church, we all came back to the house, had dinner and sat around the table and talked for a bit.
Jake has some additional performances coming up this week. He’s in a choral concert at the school on Wednesday and he’s also performing at one of the Christmas Eve church services at our church. This will be different than what he has been doing as he’s going to be playing the melody while someone else plays chords along with him. At our regular Saturday services, he’s one of a group of four guitarists.
limitless
Eh. This movie was ok, but nothing earth-shattering. The three of us watched it last night and I believe we’re all of the same opinion. Just in case you haven’t heard the premise, the movie is about this pill that can make your brain work at 100%. You would think this would be interesting, but ultimately it wasn’t.
christmastime
While I am not completely done with preparations yet, I feel like I am on top of things this year. I got all of my shopping done early, so that helped immensely. And, the dog treats have been baked and the Christmas cards were made and are in the process of being mailed. Those are my three main things. Everything else is just a bonus.
Sure, the house isn’t decorated yet, but I hate decorations so we never do that until around the 15th. So, technically, I’m still on schedule. And, I still need to wrap gifts and bake cookies. I normally like to wrap all of the gifts at the same time, but I had to wrap my sister-in-law’s crew’s gifts last week because my in-laws were going there for a visit and they were taking the presents for me. I didn’t have time to wrap the other gifts, so those are still on my to do list.
As for baking, I’m going to bake even less this year than usual because Brian rarely eats things like cookies and I have cut back on them myself. And we’re not celebrating Christmas here, so we’re not likely to see a bunch of cookie-eating people at our house over the holiday. Still, I feel the need to make something, so I will bake a couple of batches of cookies next weekend. And, Christmas gives me a good reason to make truffles–there’s no other time of year I can justify the calories.