Muppets get into everything

We are taking a break from watching The Muppet Movie, which The Beau has never seen before, because he needs to get some work done on deadline. We’ll finish watching it later tonight or tomorrow night. We stopped at a very good point: when the Swedish chef screwed up the film and it melted onto the projector bulb. Excellent timing.
I felt I deserved a short, relaxing break because I had just done something very difficult, which I knew would be difficult, and had been worrying about all day if not all weekend: I called my mom and told her that my boyfriend and I were going to live together, that he was moving into the house this month.

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pink and sparkly holiday

Last year I finally caved in and bought a Christmas tree … the day after Christmas when it was on clearance. It was one of those Pink and Sparkly Barbie Holiday Trees, which seemed like the right size and temperament for me and my house.
I assembled the tree last night and my boyfriend helped me decorate it. It is very sparkly, especially when you add blinky lights. They aren’t as blinky as some people might like them, because the super-fast blinkiness promised to be a migraine trigger. However, a nice slow blink, reminiscent of the old HTML blinky tag that I am not going to resurrect here, produced a very pleasing effect.

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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)

The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean: 1972, dir. John Huston. Seen on DVD.
I did a really idiotic thing, although in my defense, I didn’t realize it until it was too late. I watched The Wild Bunch for the first time a couple of days before I saw The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. And after you’ve seen The Wild Bunch, most other Westerns will seem terribly contrived and shallow, especially a frivolous, light-hearted sort of Western.

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