vanillalime

Did the normal Saturday stuff- grocery shopping, both workouts (I thought about skipping weight training but there really wasn't anything better to do). Then watched/slept through the Bronze Medal game (was hoping that Slovakia could play the Cinderella card, but it wasn't to be). Went to dinner and then to the play my brother was in. It was good and he did well as usual.

I've done a teeny bit of writing today, trying to finish one of my WIPs, but really don't know where I'm going with it (which may be why I'd tabled it in the first place.) I might spend a few minutes after I'm done here working on something.

Gold Medal game tomorrow. Dad has "Miracle" on in the other room. I love that movie and, of course, I'm of an age when I remember the game somewhat, but what I really remember was being in church that Sunday and just wanting to go home to watch the end of the Gold Medal game and being worried that Finland was going to win. I think they mentioned the score of the game during the closing announcements. We did get home in time to watch it though. It's funny because it'll be the other way around tomorrow- wondering if the game will be over in time to get to church.

And then the Jordan Binnington (goaltender for the Canadian MNT and my St Louis Blues) watch begins. If it's not a blowout, some team is going to want him for a rental because even though he's dead last in NHL goaltending this season, he manages to come up big in big games.

That's it for me. See you tomorrow. Off to write.

Everything seemed to take longer than it should with my car today which was a lot of my doing. I had a 9am appointment at the car place which is literally next door. I dropped the car off on the way back from bloodwork at 8:15. They asked, "are you dropping it off?" I said "yes." Not realizing that "dropping it off" meant, "leaving it here so we can tend to everything but your car for the next goodness knows how long." I walked back over at 10, they still hadn't started on it. So aggravating. I didn't get to the DMV til 11:30 and at that point the line was going to take me past the opening faceoff for the Gold Medal game (priorities!) so I left. It moved much quicker when I got back later in the afternoon.

I think the PWHL has spoiled me a bit in that it's so nice to see the best hockey players in the world more than once every four year. Still the Olympics are special and both of the Medal games went to OT today. I was really happy to see Switzerland taking bronze and had mixed feelings about the Gold Medal game. The PWHL has affected me there too because the team that I despise the most there had six players on the USA team which made it a little hard to root for them. I was happy for Hilary Knight and am glad she got to go out on top.

Choir tonight was depressing as only four people showed up. We decided to abandon the idea of singing for this weekend and if we can't get enough people to commit to sing with us for Easter, we're probably just going to stop choir altogether.

I did get to see the moon on my way home. It's a crescent moon right now, only the crescent was rotated on the bottom so it reminded me of a lunar eclipse in a way. Very beautiful.

I finished "Bugonia". Odd film with very strong performances. So that's three of the Oscar nominees that I've seen and "One Battle After Another" is still leading the pack.

Wrote two drabbles today for hardtime100. I'm going back through the list and writing on the prompts that I haven't gotten to yet.

That's it for now. See you all tomorrow.

Hockey wound up predictably though Switzerland did put a little excitement into their game. So USA-Canada in the final and Sweden-Switzerland going for bronze.

Robert Duvall died. His role in "The Godfather" is iconic. I remember at one point that I was going to write something about that look that Tom gives Michael when Michael breaks out his plan to kill Solozzo. Searched my files and didn't find anything, so I guess I'll have to put it out there in the world later on.

Took a day off from the remaining fest work I have to do. I watched parts of movies instead- finished up "Sinners" which you have to watch through the first part of the credits or it won't be as fulfilling and started on "Bogonia" which looks like it could be either hilarious or horrible.

Everytime I'm scanning the movie list on Peacock, I get the incredible urge to watch "Bros" again. Pretty soon that's going to start challenging "Brown Sugar" for Most Watched Movie on a streaming platform.

That's all I've got for now. Going to try to go to bed at a decent hour. See you tomorrow.
-C

It's a little late but Happy Valentine's Day to all.

Spent the morning with the usual Saturday routine- grocery shopping with dad, yoga, weight training- and then helped clean the house because we're having the family over tomorrow.

Drove out in the rain to see my nephew's basketball game. He's a little rough around the edges, but he got 3 points and his team won so I considered it a success. From there we went to dinner at Bob Evans, so no worries about needing reservations or terribly long lines and it still was pretty good food.

I had to make an emergency run out to Wal-Mart to get an electric mixer. Our old one burned up (it was about 20 years old, so it happens).

I posted my final two fics for HalfaMoon. I'll post my list here and also some recs from the fest as well.

That's all I've got for the moment. See you tomorrow.