2 posts tagged “dvd”

Criminy is shut up tight in her room and the other two are with their father tonight, which means I am essentially alone and I'm definitely feeling it. It is the natural order of things to be alone, I guess, but it feels so unnatural to me. I don't think the kids wanted to leave me, either; someday, they won't have to. But by then they'll be more grown up and maybe they won't want anything to do with me. I hope not.

Yesterday I spent time with my own mother. The kids and Duff were there, too. We ate black-eyed peas with rice and cold ham, plus scrambled eggs with sausage that I added to make sure everyone got enough to eat. It may sound like an odd combination but it all went down pleasantly enough, especially with a little fresh salsa to tie everything together. (Except the ham.) Mom had also threatened to make sauerkraut, but somehow we avoided that fate. After dinner we set up Mom's new DVD player (made by Philips--I got it at Costco for $40; I still remember buying my first VCR for $250-$300) and watched the movie I got her, which she had been wanting to see for some time: The Bucket List. Needless to say, sap that I am, I cried buckets.

Today we drove down to the Monterey Aquarium. Criminy had won tickets on the radio. We took Rojo and Sean with us, since Bambi had to work. It's a wonderful place to visit but I just wasn't into it at all. It's not as much fun now that the kids are big and they don't need me to read all the little signs to them anymore.

Q: Name fifteen movies you have seen more than five times.

I thought I couldn't possibly name fifteen, but I forgot that kids' movies (especially the ones that played every year on TV when I was a kid, but also Disney movies) would put me over the top. I cringe to think of all the time I've wasted on some of these.

Pride & Prejudice (BBC 1995)
Persuasion (BBC 1995)
Three Men and a Baby
Three Men and a Little Lady
(embarrassingly enough, these last two ended up as my background video "comfort food" for a few years)
The Sound of Music
The Wizard of Oz
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Rocky Horror Picture Show
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Mulan
Cinderella
Finding Nemo
Dreamgirls
Aladdin
Shrek
Willow
Romeo & Juliet (Zeffirelli)
Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann)
Much Ado about Nothing (Branagh)
Silence of the Lambs
Dirty Dancing
(these last two because my sister kept them on near-permanent rotation when they came out on video)

I'm guessing there are more but this is all I can remember at the moment.

Note: Diabetics should not view the following montage.