Wednesday, May 28, 2025

ducks, emeralds, and a*list

What was that middle thing?
(smile!)
Missing Kevin Kline's silliness must mean it's time to see "A Fish Called Wanda" again.
(smile!)
 
That "middle thing" is what I gave great-niece Carissa for her "sweet 16" birthday today.
I bought those earrings in Gresham, Oregon, in April 1980, on my only trip to that state.
I hope she will enjoy this jewelry that I never wore.
If she likes them, I have another pair, never worn, that I'll give her, too, as we share that birth stone... and almost share a birthday!
 
The ducks are from dinner today with my first niece after she got two new tires on her van.
Three guesses where we dined?
Oh, please, of course we went to Cici's!
Olive Garden doesn't have a game room.
Hahaha haha! 
Miyah "won" the blue duck and found the pink one, but both came home with me.
Both ducks, that is.
(smile!)
As for my AMC dance card, only three made it onto my A*List... and that's actually two and a half.
Remember?
I only caught about that much of "Thunderbolts* (The New Avengers)" on Easter.
The other two were seen as a double header on Tina Tuesday following my periodic appointment with my nutritionist at the Savannah VA.  
The only reason I went to "Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning" was to finish out the series.
I knew going into it that it would be overly long, and it was. 
I loved seeing Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg again, I did.
But all the congratulatory, back-patting, speeches given to Tom Cruise (and his character) really smacked of boasting and could have been omitted.
Ptooey! Ptooey!!
I had to spit all that out with the palate-cleansing sweetness of "The Last Rodeo".
It was so good to see an aging Neal McDonough as a rodeo cowboy riding to the rescue of his ailing grandson!
Oh, and here's a nice touch: his real wife plays his wife in the film.
That's because the role called for kissing and he -only- kisses his real wife.
They have five children, so he must be onto something, right? 
That's Ruvé, man, real Ruvé.
LOL!
Just a bit of humor in there for those who know the 60's slang!
(smile!)

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