Update #2: I love veggies. Steamed but crunchy.
I got exactly what I was looking for tonight. Steamed and crunchy!
Except it was my thumb. I was the perfect example for my kids of what not to do. Much like years ago when my dad was cutting a tough roast and slipped on the platter, driving the knife through his wrist. One does not pull the blade out unless one is… well, one just doesn’t do it. He turned pale and sat down hard.
Me, I stared at my hand in shock after pulling the plastic off the microwaved bowl of veggies. I knew what I’d done and then I felt it, and immediately punched a wall. No, it did not help. Water-gel burn cream helps but not for a few hours.
It doesn’t actually look that bad but I’ll bet in a few days that sucker peels like a scalded hog.
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Update – I am at work and taking a five minute break:
James Delingpole over at Telegraph.co.uk…
Then the scientist issued a cut-out-and-keep guide of Signs That Show Man Made Global Warming Is Definitely Still Happening And That Cancun Won’t Be An Almighty Flop.
1. Warm weather
2. Cold weather
3. In-between weather.
4. Dark skies at night
5. Light skies in the morning
6. An unpleasant moist/damp/wet sensation when it rains
7. Ice appearing when the temperature drops below zero
8. Clouds rolling across sky in all sorts of funny shapes, some days like cotton wool, other days in streaks, and on some days not there at all.
9. Ursine subarboreal toilet activity
10. Strong new evidence of ultramontane sympathies at the Vatican
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In case you’re wondering where I’ve been, I’ve been waiting still for nerves in my neck to die. It’s hard to care about blogging when you don’t feel so hot and graphics are not easy to do on painkillers. What a waste of three weeks.
Anyway, I just got done with “The Road”.
Sure, it was probably bordering on high art. It was grey, bleak, post-apocalyptic, didn’t really show that many gleaming examples of humanity. The photography was breathtakingly lifeless and was done with top-notch professional-quality. Viggo and the lead kid who plays his son, their acting was impeccable.
But I hated it.
No one forced me to watch it but I still finished it, hoping for a glimmer of hope. Let’s just say that the worst possible thing didn’t exactly happen but I’ll say this:
They’re all gonna die. Sooner rather than later, I’m sure.
That’s it. One hour and 45 minutes of my life that I won’t get back again.
It’s worse than a SyFy movie because at least then you get T&A, however bad the acting.
I just can’t bring myself to watch it. As emotional as I am (I still cry every time I watch Somewhere in Time, and just can’t ever seem to watch Taking Chance without a towel to my face), I don’t think my psyche could handle it every well.
And I sure as hell won’t be watching that kind of stuff during the holidays, while getting ready for Hubby’s deployment.
Even if hubby was there, I can’t say I’d recommend it.
Way I see it, if you want to feel bad go to a shelter for battered women and children – at least there you can help someone and there is a good chance you can not only brighten someone’s day but yours as well.
The Road just ends up leaving you with this rather hopeless feeling (extrapolate the story out for X-number of years and it’s still not pretty).
I sure hope Mr. Aggie is going somewhere where he can be safe.
I used to volunteer my time at a crisis center, LK. And I can attest to that.
Hubby will be deploying to Egypt for a year, with the MFO. It’s not as bad as Afghanistan, obviously, but though he is technically not in a combat zone, he still gets combat pay, so no telling.
I do hope you get better soon, especially in time for the holidays. I’ll be praying fervently!!
Thanks for the mini-review, LK – seriously. You just saved me $20 or whatever. I was gonna buy it.
The last thing I want to watch is a depressing flick with no apparent point.
At one point “Man” (Viggo) and “Old Man” (Robert Duvall) are talking when “Boy” (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is asleep. They go down this long wandering discussion where the boy is pretty much elevated to god-like status by each man.
And at some other points in the movie there’s reference to carrying fire in one’s heart (hope/perseverence?). At the end, a family takes the kid in and they’re all rapturous over this kid and I’m trying to figure out if the whole thing is a Christianity symbolism thing.
I don’t like my movies symbolic unless they’re also a joy to watch (think Blade Runner).
If there was a point, I didn’t get it.
Yeah, I didn’t see the movie, or read the book. I agree with the sentiments already stated in this thread, that overly depressing movies with no point really suck.
That’s not to be confused with movies that have tragic or sad endings. Taking Chance, which I have yet to see, would seem to me to be a really sad movie, yet still be worth watching.
The Perfect Storm had a sad ending, but was a great movie nonetheless.
Some of you probably remember Brian’s Song from the seventies, another sad movie but one which I would still enjoy watching.
I tried reading the book “The Road”, but quit after maybe finishing a fifth of the story. Just couldn’t get into it. I also watched the movie “No Country For Old Men,”which was written by the same author, and I fell asleep and missed most of it, but woke up for the end. I felt I wasted two hours of my life on that piece of cinematic art.
As to James Delingpole, #9 for tha WIN!!!!!!!
And just how did you manage to steam your thumb???