WHAT I ENJOYED THIS WEEK . . .
- It finally happened! The African violet I’ve been trying to propagate for months finally took! Look at these little handsome leafies! The big leaf is the original cutting that I somehow managed to keep alive all this time.
- And now I’ve been emboldened.
- Waking up peacefully on Saturday morning, drinking coffee, and watching a spooky movie. Just being content (totally unheard of before therapy)
- My interpreting cohort busting into a rendition of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” on Tuesday in class.
- Getting two big presentations out of the way this week.
- Music bingo date night!
- Saturday date night Nick and I attended a play that was written to be like a 1940s radio play with a little boy listening.
- We bought a dishwasher
WHAT I LEARNED THIS WEEK
- You can make popcorn in the dryer, but it’s going to taste like moist towel.
- Some cookbook authors lie about an “easy weeknight dinner,” which I learned about 40 minutes into hacking away at a pile of vegetables.
- I used a broiler for the first time ever. Hint hint, it will burn your shit, even if you spent 40 minutes hacking away at vegetables just to get started cooking.
WHAT I WATCHED THIS WEEK
- Pretty Woman (1990) — Nick had never seen it, and I quote it, so watching was a must. We both loved it, and now, as an adult, I got all the subtleties I missed back in the 90s.
- Black Christmas (2019) — I’ve realized Gen Z horror is not for me.
- Z (2019) — absolutely loved it, scary
- Cobweb (2023) — loved it, scary; like a fairy tale meets The People Under the Stairs.
REACTIONS TO MY REVIEW
So far, it sounds like folks are learning a lot from my Deaf History Month posts, such as Sweet Bells Jangled. Again, I’m not reviewing these books in a traditional fashion; I’m highlighting them. It does seem like there is some confusion over how deafness is often a difficult journey that leads to joining the hearing world (often through technology and surgery) or finding the Deaf Community (culture and language). Consider how other people learn about their cultures: their parents. What if your parents and you were not part of the same culture, so you had to find your tribe, so to speak? It would be a journey of finding where you fit in, right?
FORTHCOMING REVIEW
I’m continuing to celebrate National Deaf History Month with my post about the memoir I Was #87 by Anne M. Bolander.
SHOPPING AT THE LIBRARY IN MY TBR BOX PHOTO
Nothing this week; I had a busy Saturday.
Grab the Lapels 
See – that’s why I don’t cook.
Z, the movie, was a very big deal when I was at uni (1969), about the political situation in Greece – a dictatorship under ‘the Junta’, or the Colonels.
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That is definitely a different Z movie! I also must confess that my historical knowledge of Greece jumps from Ancient Greece to oh-no-Greece is broke from about ten years ago.
I was not aware that you do not cook. Does that imply you basically forage?
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I don’t enjoy cooking, really. I’m glad my spouse does! I do like to bake. Somehow it is more fun and easier for me than cooking a meal.
Congratulations on the plant propagation!
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It’s funny how Nick is good at baking because his ADHD makes him meticulous when he hyperfocuses. I’m too willy-nilly for precision science in the oven.
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I hate when recipes don’t seem to include prep time (slicing veggies, making sauce etc) into the cooking time! I set off all our smoke alarms making dinner last night and Rose helpfully informed me that she doesn’t like burned food.
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Ha! I do not have a Rose to be so helpful in that situation. I appreciate you sharing the same woes. 🙂
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Yes easy weeknight dinners is what I like to go for, but I take about an hour to make any dinner from scratch, even when the recipe claims it will take 20 minutes. They are always wrong!!!
The dishwasher purchase is exciting, this will make your life much easier 🙂
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I haven’t washed a fork in like two weeks. Life is good.
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Woo hoo! Look at all those little violet leafies! My grandma was emboldened with African violets and had an entire wall shelf full of them, so watch out! It’s a slippery slope!
Broilers will get you if you aren’t careful! One of my helping mom in the kitchen at Thanksgiving tasks was to keep an eye on the marshmellows on top of the yams when my mom put them under the broiler to brown the tops. Since I loved yams and marshmellows I took the job very seriously!
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I’m here for it. I should get more pots and get going instead of doing one at a time. My great-grandma also had violets that she propagated like crazy, a fact I totally forgot until my mom reminded me after reading this post. We had so much in common. She also loved rocks and peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
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Popcorn in the dryer, omg!!
Love Pretty Woman. Glad you got to revisit it and that Nick enjoyed it too 🙂 I recently rewatched it with my mom, and I think she forgot who she was watching with because she asked me about seeing it in theaters… Reader, I was not born in 1990 and I don’t think anyone knows that better than her lol! Also, “absolutely loved it, scary” has me sold on checking out Z, that is all the review I need.
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I’m not sure why this fella thought he should try popcorn in the dryer, but there is always someone online to try the things you want to know but aren’t willing to do.
I still can’t believe how much of Pretty Woman I missed because I first saw it as a kid. There are a lot of adult comments in there because, well, duh, she’s a prostitute. Interestingly, I love the soundtrack to Pretty Woman and frequently sing those songs.
Yes, Z was great! For some reason, my library is carrying DVDs of Shudder originals. I don’t pay for Shudder anymore because when I had it, pretty much everything they had was free on Tubi, too. Now, I’m having regrets about cancelling my subscription if they’re going to keep doing cool originals.
If you saw Imaginary in theater, Z has a similar premise but does it WAY better (Imaginary was pretty meh).
Also, I just saw Abigail in theater and LOVED IT. The trailer does not sell it, so I went in skeptical.
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As a lifetime popcorn fan and self-proclaimed creative sort, it never would’ve crossed my mind, but I’m glad it crossed someone’s and that they recorded it lol
I also first watched Pretty Woman as a kid, we only had cartoons on Saturday mornings so the rest of the time I watched whatever the adults had on TV, which was a lot of reruns. My brother and I both had mildly traumatizing experiences with horror films we saw too young that way (mine was The Ring, which I like now, his was I Know What You Did Last Summer, and he is still freaked out by the man with the fish hook hand lmao), but Pretty Woman was a fun watch even before I understood it and even more fun to return to and catch everything. The songs are def still good!
I haven’t seen Imaginary, the trailer did not excite me for that one, but Z does look better! And I’m glad to hear Abigail is good, I heard vampire and was intrigued, I need to get that one into my schedule too!
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I saw The Ring in theater! I didn’t have any horror friends back then, but I was independent and determined, so I went to the theater alone. I remember they were sold out, so an employee came in and told everyone to scoot to the middle to fill in empty seats. I saw next to a boyfriend-girlfriend situation and accidentally kept grabbing his arm, lol.
I don’t think I was afraid of I Know What You Did Last Summer, probably because the actors were all so beautiful/famous, whereas old slashers had new nobodies in the roles of victims.
Tell me what you think when you see Abigail.
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