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
Sounds like a good day. And dinner sounds absolutely delicious.
hi aussie! ah i love salmon! its my favorite meat. i even like it canned. mmmmm. makes me very popular with the kitties, as well.
i have seen flawless. its a wonderful movie! i really like both actors, and they really have chemistry in this movie. i always thought they kind of came to value each other by the end of the story, in spite of their differences.
seems like a good way to spend a day.
kïrstin♫
I figured it out. Rusty makes jokes even when he’s in severe danger. He thinks on his feet but he’s impulsive at times too. Even when he screamed and argued he was in control UNTIL it involved emotions. That’s when he had no real control of himself and disregard for his own well being came in. His character was very well created.
You can get a 4 oz Salmon fillets for $1 at the 10 for 10 sale at Kroger’s and eat like you paid a mint for it all. Gotta love it. I’ve got one more left should I mail it to ya Katm? You and Kirstin can meet up and split it. Who cares about the cost of plane tickets half across the world and hotel stays. 2oz for each of you for a few grand means nothing. We’re all filthy rich here so lets just think of it as dinner between bloggers. Sorry I can’t make it …..maybe next time but you girls have fun.
Austin
I do things like that sometimes, buy something and leave it sitting around forever until I finally open it up. Then I can’t get enough of it. Funny how we people are sometimes. lol
$1 salmon sounds mighty appealing to me, too — I’ll have to watch for those sales!
What about me? I like salmon too! When’re you gonna cook for me, huh?
There are only 4oz Beauty…gosh, don’t be so greedy. Me. Me. Me. I swear. LOL
To make matters worse (for those not eating dinner with me it’s worse) tonight I had zucchini and summer squash w/ a 3 pepper medley in a light garlic sauce over fettuccine. The veggies came frozen but the sauce was homemade. I added grilled chicken to it. So, while the rest of y’all watched a re-run of Criminal Minds I watched Powder with Sean Patrick Flanery . I have coffee waiting for me…decaf of course cause it’s late now. he hee heeee. There was no garlic bread tonight, Maureen wasn’t up to it. Gotta love that girl. Of course there was candle light and three furry kids wondering if there would be any left overs. Too bad, so sad little buggers!
For portion control Maureen cooks in smaller pans, that way there’s no left overs. You should see her make a single serving cake. Ah, her coconut upside down cake is to die for. You’ve gotta eat it warm though. Oh, and she made peanut butter cookies the other day. My goodness! The girl is a domestic goddess I do mean to tell you. You know Monday is clean sheets day right? Jasmine. Jasmine scented sheets. That’s what I’m talkin’ about. The towels are all Downey fresh. She uses the Lavender and Vanilla scented fabric softener. Lord….(deep sigh). She didn’t even complain when she came back this time. Know why? Cause I ran the sweeper, I dusted and I took out the trash. That’s right! I stepped up and did some cleaning. She came back to cook and watch a movie with us. Couldn’t be happier. Our therapist is on vacation until Friday so I figure we’ll do another vacation too. Hurray! for The Austin Team. Even Barney has made himself scarce once again. What more could I ask for? Give me a minute, I’ll come up with something.
If you’ll excuse me, I have coffee calling me
Aussie ( rubbing dinner in really, really bad )
I’m so glad you had a flawless non-holiday day. I want to see that movie. I think I remember hearing about it last year–wasn’t it up for some Oscars?