The Week in Film

I meant to read this week. I read the newspaper if I was lucky. I think I need to get new glasses before reading is going to be the draw it used to be for me. I have several good books lined up to read. I can hear my first eye doctor explaining to me that when your eyes strain to read, then your head is quick to tell you "this is way too much work" and your inclination is to not read, even if you've been a voracious reader in the past. Glasses are on that ephemeral list of things that we will get around to "some day."

So being hungry for somethng creative, and being blocks away from a $1.00 Red Box, Hap and I watched a new movie just about every night. Sometimes two if we had nothing else to do. I found myself becoming a critic, more apt to analyze how I felt about the film when it was finished and then going a bit beyond that and trying to figure out what did work and what didn't. You can learn all kinds of things from film that can carry over into storytelling on the page.

So much I wanted to do today didn't get done. I wanted to plant some seeds--I have some Cypress vine seeds that I've been trying to get in a planter for weeks. But this morning I had a stomach-churning sinus headache. Later, when I finally killed it and got out and about to do all the things that needed doing, I noticed cottonwood fuzzies in the air. The next few weeks won't be kind ones, allergy-wise.

Dh is home tomorrow afternoon. It's time to start thinking about dinners and a "normal" schedule. The pickup is fixed (or it better be for the price) but the rentals are not full yet, which I'd really hoped for before he got home again, but oh, well.

So I guess going off to see a movie at the theater by myself counts as a "Fill-the-Well Friday" activity. And it's still light. Maybe the tail end of dishes and laundry and cleaning bathrooms and floors can wait for dark while I get some seeds planted.....