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May. 8th, 2011 09:35 pmI dislike Mother's Day as a commercial product (show your mother how much you love her by buying her this!), but I'm a fan of any day that forces us to take a step back and think consciously about people or things we might take for granted. My mom definitely isn't perfect, but she's been there when I needed her. She sacrificed a lot for her kids, and it's hard to encapsulate "thank you" with flowers, brunch, and a card (we're not the most physically or verbally affection 'round here), but I think she gets it.
Moms on my FL, keep rocking on.
Yesterday involved lots of running around. My bros and I had planned on seeing Thor in the afternoon, but I had to head uptown to get my father's Mother's Day present to my mom. I met a jeweler friend of a my dad, a guy who my dad has known for almost as long as I've been alive. He also has to be one of the most earnestly racist people I've ever met. After I bought the earrings my dad had sent me for, the jeweler and his son treated me to a quiet hate-filled diatribe on the ethnicity that's caused Washington Heights to fall into decay. He'd initially seemed like such a sweet level-headed guy (fighting pancreatic cancer, no less), so to hear him tell me that this one group was a "lower breed" and "genetically one step above swinging on trees"... I was actually struck dumb. I deal with people every day, some of them very ill, and I know that ignorance and hate comes in many packages. But, yeah, it was still an awkward and painful situation to run into. I just listened and "hmm"'d at certain intervals, but otherwise beat a hasty retreat.
We did end up seeing Thor in the evening , after I had to come back home and deposit the earrings and the shit ton of flowers I ended up buying for my mom and aunts. I liked Thor, found it to be very funny at times, but I was definitely expecting more after the raves I'd been seeing. I could have done without the Jane parts, probably because I'm not at all familiar with the Marvel comic verse, and I could have used more Heimdall (I love you Idris Elba!), but Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Tom Hiddleston as Loki totally knocked it out of the park. I really liked how Loki wasn't portrayed as a jester or overtly evil, just a god who lied very well.
On the entertainment front, while I've been DVRing A Game of Thrones I haven't watched anything but the first episode. I didn't mind the first episode, but it's lost my attention. The only things I think I routinely watch on TV are repeats of It's Always Sunny, Reno 911!, and the new Let's Make a Deal (I do indeed DVR that show). I've started watching Happy Endings on ABC and have found it more than a little amusing, even though it is of the Friends vein. I'm supposed to be reading The Book Thief for a bookclub, but I find myself slogging through. It's a massive book, and I find the e-format more daunting because it seems like I'm making no headway.
Aside from that - worksleepwork. Life, it is not exciting. But I make do.
Moms on my FL, keep rocking on.
Yesterday involved lots of running around. My bros and I had planned on seeing Thor in the afternoon, but I had to head uptown to get my father's Mother's Day present to my mom. I met a jeweler friend of a my dad, a guy who my dad has known for almost as long as I've been alive. He also has to be one of the most earnestly racist people I've ever met. After I bought the earrings my dad had sent me for, the jeweler and his son treated me to a quiet hate-filled diatribe on the ethnicity that's caused Washington Heights to fall into decay. He'd initially seemed like such a sweet level-headed guy (fighting pancreatic cancer, no less), so to hear him tell me that this one group was a "lower breed" and "genetically one step above swinging on trees"... I was actually struck dumb. I deal with people every day, some of them very ill, and I know that ignorance and hate comes in many packages. But, yeah, it was still an awkward and painful situation to run into. I just listened and "hmm"'d at certain intervals, but otherwise beat a hasty retreat.
We did end up seeing Thor in the evening , after I had to come back home and deposit the earrings and the shit ton of flowers I ended up buying for my mom and aunts. I liked Thor, found it to be very funny at times, but I was definitely expecting more after the raves I'd been seeing. I could have done without the Jane parts, probably because I'm not at all familiar with the Marvel comic verse, and I could have used more Heimdall (I love you Idris Elba!), but Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Tom Hiddleston as Loki totally knocked it out of the park. I really liked how Loki wasn't portrayed as a jester or overtly evil, just a god who lied very well.
On the entertainment front, while I've been DVRing A Game of Thrones I haven't watched anything but the first episode. I didn't mind the first episode, but it's lost my attention. The only things I think I routinely watch on TV are repeats of It's Always Sunny, Reno 911!, and the new Let's Make a Deal (I do indeed DVR that show). I've started watching Happy Endings on ABC and have found it more than a little amusing, even though it is of the Friends vein. I'm supposed to be reading The Book Thief for a bookclub, but I find myself slogging through. It's a massive book, and I find the e-format more daunting because it seems like I'm making no headway.
Aside from that - worksleepwork. Life, it is not exciting. But I make do.
