Netflix: The Chestnut Man

 

This was excellent.  

The kind of program I was expecting when I subscribed to Netflix.

Gripping and worthy of a bingewatch.

The Nordic/Scandinavian shows are pretty consistently the best mystery type productions anywhere.

Unfortunately there are so many services now that unless you spend a fortune subscribing you can't see all the good stuff.  

MHz, Acorn, BritBox all have great programming.  Not to mention the many many North American services.

A friend commented recently that even with all these services it can be very hard to find a particular program/movie that you're interested in, especially older things.

I borrow a lot of  DVD's from the library but unfortunately the older they are the more scratches they have and it is so frustrating when there's a section of a program that you cannot play - especially if it's the ending!

What Have I Done?

 

Yesterday I bought a frozen turkey at Loblaws.  They had a two day sale and small turkeys were $22, plus store points worth $6 on future purchases.  So I have a 10 pound turkey that cost me roughly $1.60 per pound, which seems like a pretty good deal.  I don't have enough room in the freezer in my fridge so I have no choice but to cook the bird.  It's thawing the fridge, I have bread drying for stuffing, and tomorrow I will roast it. I live alone, and with the pandemic I'm not having people over to my home.  

My question is...what am I going to do with all that meat?

Making Space

 

It's been a lot of years since I started downsizing and decluttering and for a while I've been thinking that I had done as much as I could as far as furniture goes.  But a few days ago I was looking at the wall in my bedroom where I had my TV and my computer desk and two cabinets, and a printer stand.  I've always found it cluttered but manageable.  But looking at I realized that I could put the printer on the lower shelf of the desk and everything else on the stand could go somewhere else.  So I did that and the printer stand is gone.  It has made a huge difference - that cluttered look is gone.  I am so pleased and I have been smiling about it for days.

Netflix: Clickbait

 From the description I had decided not to watch this, but a friend really liked it so I gave it a try.

I wasn't impressed with the opening scenes but stuck with it and got hooked and ended up bingeing the whole thing.

Families

 

When I hear someone proudly talking about their family background I tend to think that that's fine, but no family is purely good, somewhere back in your bloodline there are going to be individuals who were absolutely horrible creatures. 

 What's important is what you are in the here and now.

Back to School

 

I live near a high school.  What I was thinking, or not thinking, when I bought this unit I don't know.  Although in downtown Toronto it's hard not be near a school of some sort.

It's been so peaceful during the pandemic with the school closed, but soon it will be open again and the neighbourhood will once again be filled with students and the little bastards will be running around being their usual rude obnoxious selves.

I don't understand why they're around on the streets, parks and stores all day long.  Do they ever actually sit in a classroom?

Skinny Jeans

 

Today on Twitter there were a lot of people complaining about "mom jeans" and saying how they will NEVER give up their skinny jeans etc etc.

I find myself being a bit smug about this because I've felt that way often over the years about changes in styles but in the end the fashion people always win -  at some point clothes wear out and you simply have to give in and buy the new style because there is nothing else available in the stores.  And eventually almost everyone is wearing the new style and you start to feel uncomfortable being in seen in out of style clothing.

Personally I have never liked tight clothing.  I have been around for several bouts of tight pants and while have had to give in and wear them I have never liked them.  I like clothing that is comfortable to wear and is easy to move around in, clothes where you don't feel constricted or have to keep adjusting them because they're pinching or they've rolled up.

As for the current thing for skinny jeans and tights (both on men and women) I think they look ridiculous on anyone who doesn't have a perfectly toned body.  I mean seriously, who wants to have their eyes affronted by someone's sags and bulges flopping around.  Clothing ideally should be about making you look your best and that often involves concealing, not flaunting, your flaws.  (That's what women do with makeup so why not with their clothing?)

Currently in men's fashion I find tight pants, low rise pants, shirts with no pocket, bizarre facial hair, extreme haircuts and bits of hair tied up in clumps annoying.