Wreck-It Ralphette - Nov. 24, 2018
The kids’ movie “Wreck-It Ralph Breaks the Internet” is out and has a good rating on “Rotten Tomatoes” – over 90%! I so wish I had a little one or a number of little ones to take to this movie with me. I cannot take Laurence. He won’t see the humour in it. He lives with his own Wreck-It Ralph…me!
Like this very morning, Laur was on the internet – on Facebook – and he said he was having trouble with something. I gleefully hopped onto the couch beside him and offered to help. I hardly touched his computer - and immediately all his websites closed up. He looked at me despairingly and said, “How do manage to do things like that!?”
It’s almost daily. If fact, everything I’m describing in this short story happened within the past two weeks. For example, when we arrived at our home sweet trailer in Arizona, I whipped open the screen door with gusto – and knocked it completely off its runner.
And then there are the “nearlys” as in I nearly knocked over our TV with my bicycle. Why I had my bike in our Arizona room might be a story in itself.
Oh, and the spaghetti and pasta sauce supper we nearly had – I had the pasta cooking – and then I realized I’d given all our pasta sauce to the food bank. So I used mushroom soup instead. As their website states, “Who would guess Campbell's Condensed Cream of Mushroom soup recipes are so versatile!”
Lest you think I limit my “powers” to inanimate objects… I also do damage to myself. On Monday, Laur and I went bushwhacking – traipsing through cacti laden ridges – and I neglected to wear long pants. Let’s just say by the end of the day, my lower legs looked like they had survived a cougar attack, but just barely.
(Laur comments, “Just to keep the ‘out-of-itness’ even, I only noticed Jan’s short pants halfway through the hike…” Jan comments, “It’s amazing how blood flowing outside of a person’s body raises attention!”)
Oh, and this morning, after I showered at the pool, I backed my behind into a large barrel cactus with far-reaching spikes. I’ll spare you a picture of that. 😊
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Back to Laurence and movies, though. He isn’t opposed to seeing kids’ movies. In fact, when he was courting me, he agreed to see Sleeping Beauty with me. But when I think about it, what was there about Sleeping Beauty not to like? She’s beautiful, she breaks out in song regularly, she has seven little home helpers (only one of whom is grumpy), and she likes to tromp around in the bush.
Even better, when you get tired of listening to her (or repairing things,) all you have to do is feed her an apple. 😊
(Laur comments, “But perhaps you’d better not give her a knife to slice it…”)
Like this very morning, Laur was on the internet – on Facebook – and he said he was having trouble with something. I gleefully hopped onto the couch beside him and offered to help. I hardly touched his computer - and immediately all his websites closed up. He looked at me despairingly and said, “How do manage to do things like that!?”
It’s almost daily. If fact, everything I’m describing in this short story happened within the past two weeks. For example, when we arrived at our home sweet trailer in Arizona, I whipped open the screen door with gusto – and knocked it completely off its runner.
And then there are the “nearlys” as in I nearly knocked over our TV with my bicycle. Why I had my bike in our Arizona room might be a story in itself.
Oh, and the spaghetti and pasta sauce supper we nearly had – I had the pasta cooking – and then I realized I’d given all our pasta sauce to the food bank. So I used mushroom soup instead. As their website states, “Who would guess Campbell's Condensed Cream of Mushroom soup recipes are so versatile!”
Lest you think I limit my “powers” to inanimate objects… I also do damage to myself. On Monday, Laur and I went bushwhacking – traipsing through cacti laden ridges – and I neglected to wear long pants. Let’s just say by the end of the day, my lower legs looked like they had survived a cougar attack, but just barely.
(Laur comments, “Just to keep the ‘out-of-itness’ even, I only noticed Jan’s short pants halfway through the hike…” Jan comments, “It’s amazing how blood flowing outside of a person’s body raises attention!”)
Oh, and this morning, after I showered at the pool, I backed my behind into a large barrel cactus with far-reaching spikes. I’ll spare you a picture of that. 😊
*****
Back to Laurence and movies, though. He isn’t opposed to seeing kids’ movies. In fact, when he was courting me, he agreed to see Sleeping Beauty with me. But when I think about it, what was there about Sleeping Beauty not to like? She’s beautiful, she breaks out in song regularly, she has seven little home helpers (only one of whom is grumpy), and she likes to tromp around in the bush.
Even better, when you get tired of listening to her (or repairing things,) all you have to do is feed her an apple. 😊
(Laur comments, “But perhaps you’d better not give her a knife to slice it…”)