What I'm Reading This Week #14
Annnnd we're revving into Friday. source I must start with a teary goodbye to Val Kilmer. No lie, three days before he passed I got the song " How Silly Can You Get " from the movie Top Secret in my head out of nowhere. I hadn't seen a reference, heard anything about him and definitely hadn't heard that song in 20+ years. I said to the Mr "I wonder how Val is doing?" then I soon got my answer. I remember seeing Top Secret at the drive in with Mom when it came out. When Real Genius came out on HBO, it was one of the few movies my Dad and I bonded over, is in my top five movies of all time and is the Mr and I's love language after I make him king of the winter carnival. source Anyone who followed Val's career and personal life over the decades knows he got a little out of the box and didn't settle for norms which also included his approach to his throat cancer. He lived authentically himself which is something we all hope to say when o...
1 and 4 for me too!
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ReplyDeleteYeah, 1 and 4 at home. When traveling the calm app has some good nature white noise backgrounds we set to run for 8 hours.
ReplyDeleteNumber 1 and I'd ad a #6, which is complete darkness. Back in the day I used to put VHS tapes in front of the VCR so I couldn't see the clock on the VCR. lol Even wearing my eye masks I can see slivers of light and I get twitchy.
ReplyDeleteNo TV or music. I can fall asleep with it but get annoyed if I wake up to it lol
ReplyDeleteMy closest would be #5. There is never complete silence. I can hear the dog cleaning his paws, my partner breathing loudly, the forced air furnace kicking in in the winter or the ceiling fan in the summer. If I'm having trouble sleeping then I will ask the google home to play thunder storm sounds for about 30 minutes. That normally does it.
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