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Aug. 6th, 2006 10:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tvordljLovely day yesterday. Mom and i visited my best friend Carolyn and her family. They're moving in 2 weeks, out to Alberta. They're still trying to sell their house here so that's a bit of stress. Because her husband is retiring from the military, they pay for your last move to wherever you want so she doesn't even have to pack. The military sends in people to pack and everything! Bliss! They will also pay the interest on the mortage and sent people to cut the grass until the house is sold and they are paying for their expenses traveling to Alberta, gas, hotels and food.
Speaking of which, Mom, Carolyn and i went to a little Chinese place in Lower Sackville, the Long Dragon which is really more of a takeaway than a sit in restaurant. They just have a few tables but we sat and ate in anyway and the food was great. Huge plate of food on the combo dishes. I only managed about half of it. At the end, Mom offered me a mint. Images of Monty Python's Meaning of Life ("one wafer thin mint....") urged me to refuse, thanks very much. I felt near to exploding as it was!
Came back here and stayed over. We got a couple of movies and watched one called Cavedwellers. Interesting, though i don't know why it was called that. It was about a woman who ran out on an abusive husband leaving two small girls behind, joining up with a man who became her lover and had another child by him. He was a rock singer and she joins his group. As the movie opens, he's died after they had split up and she decides to take her daughter back to Georgia and get her other two girls, now teenagers, back. One is running around town with boys and the other is fervently religious and unforgiving. The formerly abusive husband is dying of cancer. She forges a deal with him, he legally gives her custody when he dies, and she moves back in and nurses him in his last few weeks. In the end of course, it looks like everyone will find some common ground and start to rebuild their family but the ending isn't bright and happy, it just shows that the first steps have been taken just as the father dies. Good cast too. Kyra Sedgewick and Aidan Quinn with Kevin Bacon in flashbacks as the musician lover. The three daughters are unknown and the youngest is a bit wooden but not bad once she gets into it. The religious old mother-in-law who has brought up the older two is Jackie Burroughs, a Canadian actress who played Aunt Hetty on Road to Avonlea. Always liked her. She's only in her mid 60's but she looks well into her 80's. No plastic surgery there then. Anyway, it's a slow, character type movie but i liked it.
In other entertainment related news, this made me snigger...
Speaking of which, Mom, Carolyn and i went to a little Chinese place in Lower Sackville, the Long Dragon which is really more of a takeaway than a sit in restaurant. They just have a few tables but we sat and ate in anyway and the food was great. Huge plate of food on the combo dishes. I only managed about half of it. At the end, Mom offered me a mint. Images of Monty Python's Meaning of Life ("one wafer thin mint....") urged me to refuse, thanks very much. I felt near to exploding as it was!
Came back here and stayed over. We got a couple of movies and watched one called Cavedwellers. Interesting, though i don't know why it was called that. It was about a woman who ran out on an abusive husband leaving two small girls behind, joining up with a man who became her lover and had another child by him. He was a rock singer and she joins his group. As the movie opens, he's died after they had split up and she decides to take her daughter back to Georgia and get her other two girls, now teenagers, back. One is running around town with boys and the other is fervently religious and unforgiving. The formerly abusive husband is dying of cancer. She forges a deal with him, he legally gives her custody when he dies, and she moves back in and nurses him in his last few weeks. In the end of course, it looks like everyone will find some common ground and start to rebuild their family but the ending isn't bright and happy, it just shows that the first steps have been taken just as the father dies. Good cast too. Kyra Sedgewick and Aidan Quinn with Kevin Bacon in flashbacks as the musician lover. The three daughters are unknown and the youngest is a bit wooden but not bad once she gets into it. The religious old mother-in-law who has brought up the older two is Jackie Burroughs, a Canadian actress who played Aunt Hetty on Road to Avonlea. Always liked her. She's only in her mid 60's but she looks well into her 80's. No plastic surgery there then. Anyway, it's a slow, character type movie but i liked it.
In other entertainment related news, this made me snigger...
