Last night I (finally) watched "The Notebook." I chose last night because Hubby was working late and I prefer to not subject myself to his commentary on romance movies. While I thought the acting was fine, Rachel McAdams' outfits visually interesting and the outdoor scenes beautiful, I hated the movie. It gave me a bad, icky feeling and I felt depressed. I'm not really the romance movie-type. Hubby came home a third of the way in and watched, on-and-off again, with me (I think he was still working).
Afterwards, he went on and on about how that wasn't really what Alzheimer's was like ("The Notebook" was such a huge hit I don't feel the need to summarize the plot or list of characters but he thought it was preposterous that Allie didn't remember how she and her husband met because it was in her youth and in Alzheimer's, it's recent events you forget, not the ones from your youth) and how the entire premise of the movie was patently untenable and how could they have made an book, let alone a movie, out of something so unrealistic? Then I went on to tell him it was a hit movie and that his sister owns it, she's watched it so many times. He retreated, mumbling, and we did not speak of the movie again.
Other happenings. . .
A new Costco is opening up near us, family members are quite excited. My mother wants to check it out today (it's the grand opening, whatever that means) and Hubby is interested in visiting tonight when he gets home from work (hopefully earlier than he got home last night). Princess is not cooperating though, so we'll see if any of these plans come to fruition.
My Purple People Eater socks are almost done, I just need to finish the cuff ribbing and bind off, and then I'll have another pair of socks to wear. My (store-bought) exercise socks don't work very well for rowing; while I'm on the rowing machine, they start to slip and roll down in to the sock and I end up having to pull them back up. It's infuriating. I've found (of course!) that hand-knit socks are more comfortable to exercise in, so I'll be knitting even more socks. The only question is. . . which sock yarn next?
And my sweater, the cardigan with ribbing at the collar, button band, arms and waist. It's coming along nicely. I'm finally at the ribbing for the waist. Afterwards, I'll pick up stitches for the button band, and whatever I have left will be for the sleeves. I'm a bit worried that I'm going to run out, so my plan is hoping that I have enough before I get to the high ribbing, then possibly buying more yarn in the same color, but if it's a different dye lot, at least it's just the ribbing for the cuffs. Or will that look funny? I'm not sure yet but I guess we'll see.
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