So, what does one do on a holiday when they don’t celebrate them? Well, I got up early, for some reason. I’m not sure why I woke at 8am but I did. I fiddled around happy that my roommate was gone. Around 10am he came back carrying loads of presents. I thought to myself, “He’s early. He can’t be early. I need to change the locks so he can’t get in when he comes back early.” I hurried back to my area because I wasn’t dressed quite right to be around him. “Gotta change those locks.” I thought. “Coming back early, what kinda crap is that?” I then went for a short nap that turned long, got up and made dinner, watched some TV, talked to a few friends and hung out on the love seat to watch a little more TV. That’s what I did.
Dinner: Linguine, roasted peppers, broccoli, diced tomatoes all in a garlic butter sauce with a 4 oz salmon fillet. A meal out like that would have cost me about $12 but a meal in cost me about $4. I paid $1 for the 4oz salmon fillet and $1 for the steam-in-bag veggies with Linguine. The other $2 comes in from garlic bread and coffee. It was a beautiful meal by candle light. I can’t complain at all.
I’ve gotta go watch my movie again, for the third time in a week. Flawless with Robert De Niro and Philip Seymour Hoffman. The movie isn’t one for people that can’t stand the F-word or who are a bit squeamish when it comes to the whole transvestite thing. It doesn’t have sexual overtones to it by any means but the supporting character is a “drag queen” who struggles to find his identity. The main character is an ex-cop who needs voice lessons to help him through a stroke. He takes the lessons from the “drag queen” down the hall. The reason I like the movie is because of how each of them has their mind set of how things should be and each of them are dead set in their ways. The “drag queen” thinks he has the whole world of heterosexuality figured out and the ex-cop doesn’t even attempt to understand the other world he just constantly makes fun of it. You see them both develop, but you don’t see them change their mind on who they think the other should be. I guess they tolerate each others differences. That’s not what draws me to the movie though. What draws me to it is how the “drag queen” has such issues with abandonment, not just with his abusive boyfriend but with the ex-cop De Niro as well. I keep watching him because something nags me about him. I haven’t put my finger on it yet. I suppose that’s why I keep watching it to try and figure out what it is about that character that I’m relating to. I got the movie from Dollar Tree. It was worth a buck. I’ve had it for over a year now but this week it came out of the plastic wrap. No clue why now but this week it actually got watched….several times in fact.
A Flawless Day-Tuesday, December 25, 2007-10:26PM EST
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