Nightmare Alley + more holiday prep

[mistressofmuses]

We went and saw Nightmare Alley for cheap movie day. It's been a few weeks since there was anything we wanted to go see.

I enjoyed it! It's a great example of a negative character arc, and a protagonist that you really kind of don't want to see succeed, haha. I enjoyed the casting, and Cate Blanchett is always damn great. There's an element of a long-con to it, which I always love. It's also very pretty; even the grimy gritty parts are beautifully designed and shot.

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Made a Target run to get the stocking stuffer type things I wanted to get for Alex. (And wound up with one more real gift for him.) I hope he's happy with his haul of stuff. (I do feel a fair amount of pressure on trying to make Christmas good for him - he doesn't have any family left, and Christmas was a complicated and mostly bad thing for him when he was younger, because his mom hated it so much. I know HE doesn't like Christmas much, so I try to do my best to make it good. Usually I think I do okay!)

Just waiting for books for mom/Taylor that are supposed to arrive on Thursday. They were mysteriously delayed in shipping, and there haven't been any updates since Friday, so fingers crossed they still arrive on time. Otherwise they get New Years books.

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MY TENTATIVE PLAN FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK (because I get easily overwhelmed, so if I have at least a vague idea of what I need to do, maybe that will help.)

WEDNESDAY:
Go to work. Maybe I'm training someone?
Make Birch Yule Log cookies
(do writing? That would be good)

THURSDAY:
Go to work. Or is this the day I'm training? Both?
Make kolaches
Wrap mom/Taylor's gifts (hopefully they arrive)
(more writing? We can hope)

FRIDAY:
Half day at work
Go to mom/Taylor's house after work
Make butter cookies and molasses cookies, hopefully
Hang out with Taylor

SATURDAY:
Christmas morning/gift exchange at mom's house
Alex comes to pick me up, brings baked goods that he's making (Norwegian butter squares, shortbread cookies, zucchini cake)
Come home, do at-home gift exchange, marathon our Christmas movies (It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story for him, Christmas Vacation and Muppet Christmas Carol for me, and our ever favorite "Christams Twister" because misspelling the title card of your movie is a GREAT SIGN.)

And Sunday back to work.

*Pain in the ass truffles have been demoted/promoted to New Years
*Alex has a ton of stuff he wants to make, and at this point we're just hoping he'll be able to eat some of it.

SO THAT'S THE PLAN. Maybe!

Comments

[scarlipswolfwife]

I want to see Nightmare Alley. That's one of three movies I really want to see right now. Nightmare Alley, Matrix 4, and Spider-Man: No Way Home. I probably won't get to see any of them at the threatre, but it looks like Matrix 4 will be on HBO Max at the same time as when it premiers at the theatre, so I'll watch it that way and download it.

I'm glad to hear Nightmare Alley's good, but it's Guillermo del Toro, so I'd be surprised if it wasn't spectacular.

[mistressofmuses]

It was really good! I hope you enjoy it when you get to see it. Del Toro is always fantastic.

I also want to see the new Matrix, though Alex is pretty meh about it, so I don't know if we'll see it in theaters or not. (I want to rewatch the older ones first, if I can.)

[scarlipswolfwife]

I'll keep an eye out for it showing up as a good torrent to download if nothing else. I know it looks really strange and interesting, and I like most of the people in it.

Matrix 4 is AWESOME. It's on HBO Max, so I watched it tonight as well as downloaded the torrent. Neil Patrick Harris is a fucking trip. I don't want to give anything away, but it is really good.

[mistressofmuses]

It's definitely worth a watch. :)

I'm glad it was good! I've heard some mixed reviews, but more positive than negative, and I definitely do hope to see it.

[spikedluv]

I had to make a list like that for myself this week, too, lol! Scratch it out, re-do it . . .

I hope your books come in!

[mistressofmuses]

Lists are something for my brain to cling to! Sometimes they can temporarily stand in for actual executive function, lol.

I hope the books get here, too!