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inchoatewordsMovies: Rental Family is now on Hulu/Disney+. It stars Brendan Fraser as an American actor in Tokyo, who takes a job with an agency that specializes in "rental families," so he goes out on jobs where he has to play the role of a father for a young child, for example. So of course, things get complicated when feelings are involved, and it brings up questions of family and the lines between the personal and the professional. It was really good and there were points where I got a little emotional, honestly. I recommend it.
Television/Streaming: two episodes of Farscape: "Thanks for Sharing," where the two Crichtons end up getting split up on Talyn and Moya; and "Green Eyed Monster," where Talyn gets swallowed by the Budong and Crichton thinks that Crais is sleeping with Aeryn.
We also watched the second half of the newest season of Bridgerton. I ended up liking the second half better than the first. ( Cut for spoilers )
Books: I finished Pylon. It was very stream-of-consciousness early Faulkner. A departure from his usual southern gothic kind of tale; this one was in a fictionalized New Orleans and involves an air show in the early days of small airplanes. People crash, the reporter is in love with the wife of the pilot (who is apparently in a poly relationship but without using that term), and the people involved with the planes just kind of float along.
February was not a great month for books, as I DNF'd two books, so I only finished two.
Last night, I finished Butter by Asako Yuzuki. This was my online book club's pick for March. There is a lot to unpack here regarding the role of women in patriarchal society, especially Japan; food and culture; and the role of weight is discussed a lot, so if that is a trigger for you, you might want to avoid this book. I did make the pasta and it made me want to cook more, heh. I did enjoy the food descriptions more than anything else here, honestly.
Television/Streaming: two episodes of Farscape: "Thanks for Sharing," where the two Crichtons end up getting split up on Talyn and Moya; and "Green Eyed Monster," where Talyn gets swallowed by the Budong and Crichton thinks that Crais is sleeping with Aeryn.
We also watched the second half of the newest season of Bridgerton. I ended up liking the second half better than the first. ( Cut for spoilers )
Books: I finished Pylon. It was very stream-of-consciousness early Faulkner. A departure from his usual southern gothic kind of tale; this one was in a fictionalized New Orleans and involves an air show in the early days of small airplanes. People crash, the reporter is in love with the wife of the pilot (who is apparently in a poly relationship but without using that term), and the people involved with the planes just kind of float along.
February was not a great month for books, as I DNF'd two books, so I only finished two.
Last night, I finished Butter by Asako Yuzuki. This was my online book club's pick for March. There is a lot to unpack here regarding the role of women in patriarchal society, especially Japan; food and culture; and the role of weight is discussed a lot, so if that is a trigger for you, you might want to avoid this book. I did make the pasta and it made me want to cook more, heh. I did enjoy the food descriptions more than anything else here, honestly.
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So glad we are out of the snow and I am not looking forward to returning to it. Had more snow on Wednesday but luckily Thursday was calm so nothing interfered with our departure from JFK. Worked a half a day on Thursday, then had lunch and eventually made our way down to JFK. We parked at one of the off airport lots since parking at JFK, even in the long term lot, is just insanely expensive now. Not that this was cheap but at least cheaper. Anyway, took their shuttle to the terminal, checked in and dropped our luggage off and made it through security. All went pretty smoothly and we had a good amount of time before the actual flight. The flight itself was super turbulent which didn't make me too happy. They didn't even do a drink service and skipped the dinner service altogether. Handed out sandwiches, which is fine, I wasn't really hungry anyway but more so just wasn't happy about the turbulence but is what it is. Arrived in Lisbon ahead of schedule and had a 5 hour layover there so quite some time to kill. Our connecting flight was on time and fine. Just a short hour long flight to Faro. Picked up our rental car there which took a bit longer than expected but all in all not a huge deal. Made it to our hotel in Lagoa a bit after 6pm I think. And ended up walking to a nearby tapas bar called Villa Garden. Had some delicious food and wine before eventually crashing at the hotel. A long day for sure.
Snow ... I am so over snow and winter!! Things had finally started to look up a bit with the snow and ice from the last big storm having melted somewhat. There was still snow on the ground, especially in parking lots and where it was piled up. But things were starting to get better. Well here we are after this blizzard and everything is covered again. Ugh. So much snow. And this time it was also a heavier wet snow and because of the high winds there were a lot of drifts where in certain areas it was barely anything and in others it's feet of snow. Crazy. This winter is definitely the snowiest and coldest winter we have had in A WHILE.