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...
It is a shame that having a carved pumpkin is not what it used to be. I think it's just our neighborhood that seems to lack the Halloween spirit but I actually don't see as many pumpkin carvings in general. So yeah, no pumpkin here.
ReplyDeleteMine were getting chewed on by critters so I stopped carving and putting out. I find Halloween sad as I get few trick or treaters and feels like a waste of my time. It also makes me reminiscent of simpler times which can drag me down.
ReplyDeleteWe used to put out carved pumpkins and the plastic ones with the lights built in, but haven't for several years. We'll usually buy either one big pumpkin or some little pie-sized ones for our little stoop. Not sure if we will these year with everything going up in price, but I do have a Halloween flag and mat out front as of now.
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