Aug 6, 2007
Waitress
We awoke this morning to rain. Not our usual summer storms which are full of sound and fury and very destructive. This was a peaceful, soaking rain which lasted into the afternoon. It was a much needed and welcome rain.
Son Sneed and I went to the movie this afternoon and saw Waitress. It was a nice enough movie, a movie by women for women, so we weren't the target demographic. I asked Son Sneed for his opinion and he said he had seen better. It might have helped had he not slept through most of it. I would give it a better rating, I think it is better than average. It was funny, but predictable.
The theater we went to is a bargain theater, where the ticket price is $3.25 all the time. The snacks are priced accordingly and Monday is half-price popcorn day. I am sure the popcorn is left over from the weekend. There were maybe 20 people in the theater. Mostly old couples and women, either alone or in pairs. Then there were the two big freaks sitting in the back row. I'm sure people were trying to figure us out.
The theater was built years ago with narrower seating than we are accustomed to these days. The rows are closer together, too. Son Sneed and I are collectively twelve and one-half feet tall and weigh 440 pounds, so we were crammed in pretty tightly. Fortunately there were plenty of empty seats to spill over into.
I mentioned yesterday that I like tidiness. I have become a fan of a show on BBC America called, How Clean Is Your House, perhaps you have seen it.
The show stars Aggie MacKenzie, a Scottish TV presenter, Good Housekeeping editor and cleaning expert, along with Kim Woodburn, English housecleaning professional and television personality.
The show centers on Kim and Aggie cleaning Britain's filthiest homes and teaching the owners to keep them that way. It is shocking how bad the condition of these homes is. The owners are just pigs, or as Kim put it in one episode, "A woman doesn't live here, she's a beast." Well said.
I especially like some of the cleaning tips that Kim and Aggie pass on. I am probably the last person in the hemisphere to discover this show, but in case I'm not, look it up.
Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky
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I liked the way Waitress's boyfriend honked his horn whenever he picked her up.
I have never heard of it...??
I've heard of that show but I haven't seen it. (I missed "Waitress," too.) I think that cleaning show is really about peering into other people's lives, the same way a lot of home improvement shows are. As people, we're all so curious about each other!
I like Clean Sweep, too - I think it's on the Learning Channel.
I'm extremely clean, to a fault some of my friends think. I find cleaning very soothing. I wish we got BBC America here ... though maybe I can find this on the website.
The BBC program showed homes so filthy I was disgusted!!!--I only have seen one truly filthy house in my lifetime--a friend took me over to her friend's house--just to freak me out. I will never forget how awful this house was-- food remains, clothing and mold were everywhere--no one bothered with trash bags--you could not see the floor at all and my friend just tramped over a foot or two of mashed down trash to get from room to room. I was introduced to a woman lying on a sofa in a pile of trash-- and I was back outside in a flash.
The house was a mansion and the people were very well off. they left the doors unlocked. They certainly didn't need any security.
I had a hard time watching the BBC show-- mold freaks me out.
lots of movies shown at theatres should have been :made for TV, instead.
I used to watch that show years ago! I didn't know it was still on. I couldn't believe how many houses they found that were that filthy. It was horrifying.
Dude!
I like a peaceful soaking rain.
I like a peaceful soaking rain.
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