We caught this one last night. It was pretty light fare. I’m sure it was a great date movie in its day (1991). The movie is about what happens to you after you die–basically what you go through in order to prove yourself worthy to “move on” (go to heaven?) or whether you have to go back to earth and try it again (reincarnation). No hell here, folks. The movie wasn’t laugh-out-loud funny, but it was amusing. Unfortunately, not a sophomoric joke in sight.
north country
This movie was on HBO last night. I’ve been meaning to catch it, but didn’t get around to it until yesterday. It was based on a true story of the first major sexual harassment case in the U.S. Charlize Theron played the main character who worked in the mines and suffered through some stuff you wouldn’t believe could’ve happened just over 20 years ago.
Brian and I both enjoyed the movie, though he is totally offended that men could act the way they did in the movie. Isn’t that sweet?
speed cleaning
I found this article on speed cleaning last week. It has a lot of good ideas in it. I think we’re going to try it out. I’d much rather have the house look good all of the time versus looking good just after I do a major cleaning.
In other house cleaning news, we spent a good chunk of yesterday getting the office in order. It really needed cleaned. But, it still doesn’t look good up there mainly because that is the last area of our house that needs to be remodeled. I attempted to straighten up the office a few months ago, but could never get Brian up there to work on his desk so only two-thirds of the room was completed then. At that time, I managed to organize the cables for two of our three computers and clean. By yesterday, the room definitely needed to be cleaned again, so we did that. And, I organized the cables for Brian’s desk and he filed a bunch of stuff away and set up his desk so that he’s ready to work come next Friday (his first official day as a full-time self-employed person).
ace, it’s the place
We used to have a Cambria True Value Hardware store up the street. It was good to go to in a pinch–you could get a lot of things there, but it didn’t replace a major trip to Lowe’s or Home Depot. Then, the True Value part was dropped and they became Cambria Hardware. Unfortunately, the name wasn’t the only thing that changed, as they dropped most of their stock as well. We stubbornly continued to go there for years, but nearly always had to run to one of the big box stores because we couldn’t find what we were looking for.
Enter: Cambria Ace Hardware. The old place is under new ownership and a new franchise. We checked it out this week and they have quite the selection of goods (more than the previous store ever had). I hope the store is a success because this should save us a lot of time and running around. It seems like any time we are working on a project, we’re always missing something. Running to Richland to get a part or whatever supplies we need isn’t conducive when you’re in the middle of something, so this will be a good deal if it pans out.
happy thanksgiving
We had Thanksgiving here again this year so we spent the week getting the house in order. I guess it doesn’t hurt to entertain occasionally–it keeps the house clean anyway.
My parents and grandmother and Brian’s parents were in attendance today (besides the three of us, of course). It was nice to be able to spend a holiday with both families–this was the first time for that. Hopefully, it won’t be the last.
Thanksgiving is an interesting holiday in that there are certain things that are expected for dinner. That definitely makes the menu planning easier. And, actually, most of it is fairly easy to prepare, so it wasn’t too much work until the last hour, when it was crunch time, and everything had to be ready at once. We managed, albeit 30 minutes later than I had planned, but everything turned out just fine.