After taking a short break for most of January, I’m officially back! I was unofficially back yesterday for a short musical interlude, but now I’m really back. So here’s what I have been up to the last few weeks.
I’ve been continuing to read the Inspector Montalbano series by Andrea Camilleri. In January I read the sixth, seventh, and eighth in the series, The Smell of the Night, Rounding the Mark, and The Patience of the Spider.
We got a new chair (electric, even with a USB port so I can charge my phone) for me and a new cat tree for our two cats (their first!).
A coworker also had some extra prints of photos from the western part of the U.S. that he wanted to give away to us for free. These are the ones I selected:
We caved (more accurately, I caved) to finally getting Disney Plus. I saw that The Muppets, the TV series, is coming later this month and it was too enticing for me to pass up. Plus I knew Kim would like to see The Simpsons. We also wanted to see Hamilton, but weren’t going to get the platform just for that. Now that we have it, we’ll watch it, but of course. Last night, the first thing I watched was Toy Story 2, my favorite Toy Story, especially for this scene, which has me in tears every single time:
Last night was no different as I bawled, from the first note. That’s all it took.
Today, I have zero plans beyond this. I don’t go back to work until tomorrow. We might watch Hamilton later today. We might not. It’s wide open. Usually on Feb. 2, we watch Groundhog Day, but this year maybe we won’t since we’ve already been living it for the last year.
Oops, added this in later: I forgot to include we watched the 1980s cult classic They Live. Kim had seen it, I had not, but when a mutual friend of ours mentioned it in conversation, we knew we had to watch it. It was over the top, but fun.
So what have you been up to since I’ve been gone? Reading, watching, listening to anything good? Share in the comments.
Still an unfinished person... 
Welcome back! Enjoy Hamilton as well! We got Disney+ right away, partly for that and partly because of the Marvel and Star Wars movies. I’ve been working my way through the SW series, including the cartoon series The Clone Wars because it helps to explain some of the backstories of The Mandalorian. Also, I am a geek and have all the time in the world. Now, there is WandaVision to watch as well. We use it often enough to justify the expense.
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So is WandaVision good?
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Holly and I really like it. The thing is that it gets so deep in the Marvel comic world that it can be a bit intimidating, but Holly and I talk about each episode for a good hour or two after watching it.
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