What I'm Reading This Week #33
Good morning to you! Friday is finally here and that's a good reason to take a hooky day. You know, for mental health reasons. 😁 Remember when it felt like you had to give an actual excuse when you wanted to call in back in the day? Then if you said you were sick and you really just wanted to go to lunch, a movie and maybe hit the grocery store on the way home, you had to pray you didn't run into anyone from work to bust you, like it was illegal or something. 🙄 I guess that's something that's changed for the better is not having to lie about why you're out. The workouts this week have been absolutely kicking our butts! We thought the band workout was hard then I was like "we should do Powerstrike to see where we are". Remember that dream sequence in Dumb and Dumber where Lloyd puts the dude's heart in a doggie bag, folds it up and hands it to the guy? It was like Powerstrike doing that with our asses. Then the followi...
Had a great walk. It was so amazingly pleasant outside. So unlike July but I'll take it! Movie night was a bit of a miss but that's okay. I liked some parts of Transcendence but they definitely could have edited it down a bit and they did go overboard with some of the things he was able to do. The Other Woman just didn't quite capture my interest as much but there were some funny parts. I've certainly seen worse.
ReplyDeleteYeah when it's that nice outside any time of year much less July, you get out and soak it up!
DeleteYes we most certainly have seen MUCH worse.
I just love that waterfall!
ReplyDeleteI love the way it sounds. We walked in a park last week that had a nice babbling brook (man made) and I thought "man, I'd love to have that in the back yard and listen to that all day!" So soothing!
DeleteIt's been a much wetter cooler summer here. That's been nice, but it means the hot days are more humid that usual and my swamp cooler does nothing. The drier it is outside, the more effective the thing is - but after years of drought I won't complain.
ReplyDeleteI've been wanting to see Transcendence, and I will probably rent despite your "glowing" review. The other one I'm not real interested in. I tried to rent Winter's Tale last weekend because I really liked the book when I read it years ago, but they didn't have it on dvd and I haven't upgraded to a BluRay yet.
I'm feeling some of your remodel pain. The tile wall in our bathroom split at a seam so hubby is tearing it out to put in a tub surround. We have another bathroom, but not another shower so he's tearing out one wall a night and then cleaning it up so we can bathe (but no showers until he's done). We found out last night that we even have to replace the insulation because it was soaked through too. We get the sheetrock and tub surround on Friday so hopefully by the end of the weekend it'll be done. The we'll have to repaint the bathroom to seal any exposed sheetrock and make everything match. Ick.
It's the hot, humid days that'll get ya. We walked earlier in the day after the rain and it cooled off for like 10 minutes and then the moisture started to rise out of the ground. Ugh.
DeleteWinters Tale was far better than either of the ones we rented last night but everyone seems to hate that one too for some reason.
Ugh, the bathroom is the worst because it's the one room everyone uses regularly! Hopefully it's done soon for you guys!
Love the waterfalls! That looks so peaceful to walk and sit by. And the duckies are so stinking cute! We just rented Ride Along over the weekend and that was pretty funny. It wasn't knee-slapping funny, but for someone like me who doesn't have a good attention span, I watched the whole thing and enjoyed it. I heard someone at the store say that they rented Tammy and were so disappointed with it, so that kind of bummed me out. I thought about watching it, but the trailer didn't look that spectacular, so I took a pass.
ReplyDeleteYeah one lone duck further down thought we had food and came swimming up then saw the frenzy and flew over us to get to them. "Screw you people!"
DeleteI have no expectations for Tammy but I'm sure we'll rent it. I'll have to look up Ride Along.