Thursday, December 12, 2013

Old Age Day by Day Deceember 12m 2013

Today I go to a hardware store for a bulb replacement emergency.  Every year, my husband strings up the lights and discovers which have gone dead.  I also need that cottony stuff that passes for snow and a few other little things to complete our decorating, which is pretty simple but still.  It takes time.

Then I'm going with a friend to shop a bit and I'm happy to go along to have the fun of chatting on the ride.  Tonight we see a play with our friends, so it's a full day, in such a nice way.

I saw in the paper the SAG award nominations are out and "12 Years as a Slave" was up and others I like, but no "Fruitvale Station".  What a pity.  It was a terrific film with a great performance by Michael B Jordan.  I think these summer films just get forgotten, usually, except Cate Blancett's performance this year.  It was a mediocre film, but she was phenomenal.  I love reading about nominations and seeing the awards.  It's utterly trival, but entertaining.  And the dresses!

I did find a couple of heartening stories in the newspaper this morning:  a man wrongly in prison for 30 years got released, a family rescued with all well after two days, the story of the guy submerged in a boat who was surviving in an air pocket until he was rescued.  You've got to search, and ignore the tempting dark stuff, but I've mastered the art.  Also, I always read "Pickles" the comic.  That's my recipe for cheerfulness.

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