Entries in the Category "Brandon"
30 Before 30 (Six Month Progress Update), Part 2
Yesterday's entry was about achievement and progress and today's entry is about goals which may or may not be attainable, but which, in my naivete, I set for myself last May.
Here are the list items that I am scared to do or confused about how to do (as well as some which, through no fault of my own, have been modified) which, as yet, I still fantasize that I someday check off on "30 Before 30."
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Movie Reviews: No School in December! edition
A pretty modest comedy from the producers of Little Miss Sunshine, which suffers from the comparison, and from being a bit too miserable to really be funny. Still, there are great performances from Amy Adams and Emily Blunt.
So you have Greer Garson and Ronald Colman. She’s a life-affirming singer, and he’s an amnesiac fresh off the boat from World War 1. They fall in love, get married, and have a baby. Maybe you can guess what happens next, or maybe you can’t. But it’s TRAGIC. IT’S 1940s ERA TRAGIC, which is second only to 1950s era tragic. I’ve been seeing a lot of tearjerkers lately, but this one was above-average.
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Another carb addict in the family
Probably my nephew was just sleepy. But I like to imagine that he's thinking, "Macaroni and cheese...is SO...GOOD." Ah, to be one year old and living on the good old orange stuff.
Even though nobody asked, my favorite mac and cheese recipe is a slow-cooker recipe by Paula Deen. So, so delicious. I look quite a bit like Brandon there when it's gone. Luckily, the recipe makes 12 servings, so it takes like, three days for the two people who live in my house to finish it. Don't do that math, please.
My nephew is a mini macho man
Even though I've been threatening to introduce him to books and foreign films and tea drinking and all the other sissy things I do, I think my nephew's machismo is already well-established.
Here he is at five months:
And here he is at seven months:
I hear that when he won the push-up contest, he moved on to a Steven Seagal movie and a case of beer.