dinner at k's - movie the graduate//90 degrees most of the week with rain//library book sale
super hot 90 degrees most of the week. the rain started on tuesday and we've had it each day in the later afternoons. we need the rain.
had dinner at k's during the downpour. finally had the new sangria (which is fabulous by the way), white wine with chicken with red sauce, veggies, salad, and perogies with red sauce as well, which was actually good. i usually have sour cream with perogies. rum mojitos, also excellent, coffee and watermelon.
watched the movie the graduate (1967) with dustin hoffman. i think this is the first time i've seen it from the beginning without falling asleep. lol. i always thought the main character knew the daughter first and her family didn't like him and the mother seduced him after all this. instead i discover its a "cougar" romance between him and the mother who explicitly asks him to NEVER date her daughter who is his age. and he does because his family insists he take her out and he falls for the daughter.
its actually hilarious and dramatic more than "serious" and a really short movie, so no idea why i never stayed awake for it before. i actually had TWO different step mothers who we used to call "mrs robinsons" because of their attempts at dating younger guys including a few of my own boyfriends. there are soooo many guys out there, you can't just make passes at your own finds. seriously.
in my generation the term mrs robinson was just slang for an older woman trying to seduce much younger guys. we knew it came from that movie, but i think most of us never really watched the movie all the way through because it was such an old movie. too bad too, because there are a lot of good quotes in there. like, i'll give you $10 for a dime. (it used to cost a dime to make a call on a pay phone back then. it also shows you the amount of money both he and his girlfriend come from that he would offer $10 for a dime and not think anything of it. $10 in 1967 would be about equal to $100 today). or the stupid choices young people make when he chooses to look for a bar to take the daughter to, and goes to the same hotel he meets her mother at every week and all the workers at the hotel recognize him there and are saying hi mr. gladstone (the alias he uses when at the hotel with the married older woman who is his date's mother). i also used to think he didn't realize that was her mother, boy did i miss most of that movie.
went to the library book sale which i haven't done for a while.
tried to find dessert for dinner. called around to get an Italian wedding cake since publix no longer has it in the summer, and summer is the time of year i enjoy italian wedding cake. at an italian bakery it costs $69 for a 9 inch italian wedding cake. wth? i respect publix more and more all the time, as its MUCH cheaper there. but they won't have it again until october. grrrr.
so I call for a strudel from the European caf and they only sell it by the slice, $4 per slice. so I call winn Dixie who has an apple, cranberry, walnut pie that tastes as good as the apple strudel at the caf but they only have that kind of apple pie in October through february.
put another coat of paint on the chairs this morning. I have discovered that i have to "rest" a full day, from the labor of painting. wth? never had to "rest" frompaintingbefore. this is a whole different me. no wonder people move to condos in their old age. its like going full circle here. hoping when myirongoes back up (if it ever does?) then i'll be me again. is that how that goes?
i've been trying to take a full day of just resting, like the doctor and the bible says, and i fidgit most of that day in between sleep because i think of all these things i rather be doing - even though i'm obviously tired and fall asleep without meaning to anyway. but the next day i always feel a lot better because i rested. the only time your body grows or heals is when you are sleeping.
had dinner at k's during the downpour. finally had the new sangria (which is fabulous by the way), white wine with chicken with red sauce, veggies, salad, and perogies with red sauce as well, which was actually good. i usually have sour cream with perogies. rum mojitos, also excellent, coffee and watermelon.
watched the movie the graduate (1967) with dustin hoffman. i think this is the first time i've seen it from the beginning without falling asleep. lol. i always thought the main character knew the daughter first and her family didn't like him and the mother seduced him after all this. instead i discover its a "cougar" romance between him and the mother who explicitly asks him to NEVER date her daughter who is his age. and he does because his family insists he take her out and he falls for the daughter.
its actually hilarious and dramatic more than "serious" and a really short movie, so no idea why i never stayed awake for it before. i actually had TWO different step mothers who we used to call "mrs robinsons" because of their attempts at dating younger guys including a few of my own boyfriends. there are soooo many guys out there, you can't just make passes at your own finds. seriously.
in my generation the term mrs robinson was just slang for an older woman trying to seduce much younger guys. we knew it came from that movie, but i think most of us never really watched the movie all the way through because it was such an old movie. too bad too, because there are a lot of good quotes in there. like, i'll give you $10 for a dime. (it used to cost a dime to make a call on a pay phone back then. it also shows you the amount of money both he and his girlfriend come from that he would offer $10 for a dime and not think anything of it. $10 in 1967 would be about equal to $100 today). or the stupid choices young people make when he chooses to look for a bar to take the daughter to, and goes to the same hotel he meets her mother at every week and all the workers at the hotel recognize him there and are saying hi mr. gladstone (the alias he uses when at the hotel with the married older woman who is his date's mother). i also used to think he didn't realize that was her mother, boy did i miss most of that movie.
went to the library book sale which i haven't done for a while.
tried to find dessert for dinner. called around to get an Italian wedding cake since publix no longer has it in the summer, and summer is the time of year i enjoy italian wedding cake. at an italian bakery it costs $69 for a 9 inch italian wedding cake. wth? i respect publix more and more all the time, as its MUCH cheaper there. but they won't have it again until october. grrrr.
so I call for a strudel from the European caf and they only sell it by the slice, $4 per slice. so I call winn Dixie who has an apple, cranberry, walnut pie that tastes as good as the apple strudel at the caf but they only have that kind of apple pie in October through february.
put another coat of paint on the chairs this morning. I have discovered that i have to "rest" a full day, from the labor of painting. wth? never had to "rest" frompaintingbefore. this is a whole different me. no wonder people move to condos in their old age. its like going full circle here. hoping when myirongoes back up (if it ever does?) then i'll be me again. is that how that goes?
i've been trying to take a full day of just resting, like the doctor and the bible says, and i fidgit most of that day in between sleep because i think of all these things i rather be doing - even though i'm obviously tired and fall asleep without meaning to anyway. but the next day i always feel a lot better because i rested. the only time your body grows or heals is when you are sleeping.
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