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Media Consumed and to be Consumed
I'm having a slightly tough morning bc (a) I didn't get home from dinner with the siblings until 11; (b) I woke up at 5 and didn't go back to bed bc I wanted to run before it got too hot, but then didn't run; (c) I have no coffee bc my coffee pot is scarily dirty and I haven't accumulated enough dishes to run the dishwasher; (d) my split pea soup didn't do well in the freezer; and (e) I just went through a third of the accumulated mail from while I was gone and I'm going to be on the phone with Verizon, my main bank, the insurance company, the COBRA administrators, and a few doctors in the next few days. ugh.
Good things: I made myself a really nice cup of the tea my uncle bought me in HK after we ate in the restaurant. I had a salad topped with duck, foie gras, and sausage, chased by a tea-infused macaroon. Just thinking about that meal makes me hate life less. I have a fridge full of food, including ingredients for two different Madhur Jaffrey recipes that are relatively healthy and full of spices. Also, I'm very excited to get dressed up this evening and have drinks and maybe use my brain. I might get to wear one of my new dresses. Further, I weighed myself this morning and I was under 112lbs; I don't think I've weighed that little since hs. It takes a little of the sting out of yesterday's disastrous weights session. Bad: I'm lifting what was my warmup weight 3 months ago. Worse: I can't take advantage of my abnormally low weight to rack up achievements on Fitocracy. Uh...
But that's not the point of this post. Today I'm going to cheer myself up by talking about all the stuff I watched while I was gone. My mother was confused when I said I was looking forward to the 16hr flight: yes, Cathay Pacific has come up with innovative ways to torture passengers, but they also provide a fully loaded tv so. I'm glad I caught The Muppets on the way over: it was cute and I'd've been sad if I missed it, but it wasn't worth a movie ticket. I was particularly happy to see Amy Adams in another adorable singing role.
More importantly, they had the first 8 episodes of Once Upon A Time, which is basically the tv version of the Fables comics, with Jennifer Morrison (aka the hottie from the first 3 seasons of House). I caught part of one episode once on tv and thought it was stupid, which was disappointing. The show started slow, but I kept watching and now I'm kicking myself I didn't get the box set while I was in China, bc it's not on Netflix and grr, I want to see what happens next.
The women on the trip brought an iPad stocked with prior seasons of How I Met Your Mother and we watched 8 episodes in two days while waiting for the rest of the team to come down from the high camps of Ama Dablam. I still don't get the frame tale: how do they not know their mother's name?? It's basically Friends for this generation, right? But I would totally look up the Wiki article when the show concludes to find out what happened/who their mother is.
However, I was most looking forward to watching Game of Shadows while on the plane: it was playing both ways! and I missed both gay ninja Sherlock Holmes movies while they were in theaters. Then I watched the first 20 mins and had to turn it off before I vomited. It's basically "Robert Downey Jr wants to play an action hero rather than a mecha", isn't it. And horrifyingly awful, even if one ignores that Sherlock Holmes would never act like that.
Instead, inspired by my visit to HK's equivalent to the Walk of Fame, I watched Flying Swords of Dragon Gate. I'd say you know it's going to be an excellent movie when there's a good fight scene in the first 10mins, but see above. There were some slow moments and there was an 11 o'clock Heel-Face-Turn that made absolutely no sense, but still way better than the Holmes reboot.
My aunt and uncle lent me the first two seasons of Downton Abbey and I picked up a copy of Kings, bc the NYPL lost its copy. I find it interesting that both my aunt and her houseguest from America said, "Oh yeah, I saw that, I wanted to watch more/I wondered what happened to that show" about the latter, but it was cancelled in its first season. oh well.
I read more books in the past 7 weeks than in the prior 14, but that's a whole 'nuther (series of) post(s).
Good things: I made myself a really nice cup of the tea my uncle bought me in HK after we ate in the restaurant. I had a salad topped with duck, foie gras, and sausage, chased by a tea-infused macaroon. Just thinking about that meal makes me hate life less. I have a fridge full of food, including ingredients for two different Madhur Jaffrey recipes that are relatively healthy and full of spices. Also, I'm very excited to get dressed up this evening and have drinks and maybe use my brain. I might get to wear one of my new dresses. Further, I weighed myself this morning and I was under 112lbs; I don't think I've weighed that little since hs. It takes a little of the sting out of yesterday's disastrous weights session. Bad: I'm lifting what was my warmup weight 3 months ago. Worse: I can't take advantage of my abnormally low weight to rack up achievements on Fitocracy. Uh...
But that's not the point of this post. Today I'm going to cheer myself up by talking about all the stuff I watched while I was gone. My mother was confused when I said I was looking forward to the 16hr flight: yes, Cathay Pacific has come up with innovative ways to torture passengers, but they also provide a fully loaded tv so. I'm glad I caught The Muppets on the way over: it was cute and I'd've been sad if I missed it, but it wasn't worth a movie ticket. I was particularly happy to see Amy Adams in another adorable singing role.
More importantly, they had the first 8 episodes of Once Upon A Time, which is basically the tv version of the Fables comics, with Jennifer Morrison (aka the hottie from the first 3 seasons of House). I caught part of one episode once on tv and thought it was stupid, which was disappointing. The show started slow, but I kept watching and now I'm kicking myself I didn't get the box set while I was in China, bc it's not on Netflix and grr, I want to see what happens next.
The women on the trip brought an iPad stocked with prior seasons of How I Met Your Mother and we watched 8 episodes in two days while waiting for the rest of the team to come down from the high camps of Ama Dablam. I still don't get the frame tale: how do they not know their mother's name?? It's basically Friends for this generation, right? But I would totally look up the Wiki article when the show concludes to find out what happened/who their mother is.
However, I was most looking forward to watching Game of Shadows while on the plane: it was playing both ways! and I missed both gay ninja Sherlock Holmes movies while they were in theaters. Then I watched the first 20 mins and had to turn it off before I vomited. It's basically "Robert Downey Jr wants to play an action hero rather than a mecha", isn't it. And horrifyingly awful, even if one ignores that Sherlock Holmes would never act like that.
Instead, inspired by my visit to HK's equivalent to the Walk of Fame, I watched Flying Swords of Dragon Gate. I'd say you know it's going to be an excellent movie when there's a good fight scene in the first 10mins, but see above. There were some slow moments and there was an 11 o'clock Heel-Face-Turn that made absolutely no sense, but still way better than the Holmes reboot.
My aunt and uncle lent me the first two seasons of Downton Abbey and I picked up a copy of Kings, bc the NYPL lost its copy. I find it interesting that both my aunt and her houseguest from America said, "Oh yeah, I saw that, I wanted to watch more/I wondered what happened to that show" about the latter, but it was cancelled in its first season. oh well.
I read more books in the past 7 weeks than in the prior 14, but that's a whole 'nuther (series of) post(s).