by jphilo | Jul 26, 2012 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
Sherlock, the new PBS series set in modern times, has been a major topic of conversation around here lately. Our son and daughter-in-law recommended the show, so we watched the first episode with our daughter and son-in-law a few days ago. We were instantly hooked and watched the other two episodes in Season One together before they left yesterday. With that information, deducing the reason this week’s three thoughts are about the great sleuth should be elementary, my dear Watson.
- Benedict Cumberbatch plays Sherlock to perfection. Could there possibly be a more British name for an English actor? Anyone else waiting impatiently to hear him as the voice of Smaug in The Hobbit movie?
- Martin Freeman is equally well-cast as Sherlock’s sidekick, Dr. Watson. And he has the perfect hobbit nose, so I totally get why he’s been cast as Bilbo Baggins in the previously mentioned movie.
- I think Sheldon Cooper meets the modern Sherlock would make a bang up episode of The Big Bang Theory. What two fictional TV characters would you like to see make a crossover episode?
by jphilo | Jul 19, 2012 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
We’re having a delightful visit with our daughter and her husband this week – trying to cram a year’s worth of fun into two weeks and doing a pretty good job of it. No wonder this week’s three thoughts revolve around our daughter who made her initial appearance 24 years ago this week.
- Anne and I are in love with Jane Haddam, a mystery writer who’s been around for decades but is brand new to us. The daughter gets my kind of excited about a mystery series that’s well-written and thirty titles long. Heaven, we’re in heaven…
- The Amazing Spiderman in 2D was thrill enough for the daughter and me. To avoid motion sickness, we averted our eyes when that sassy nerd, Peter Parker, started swinging off sky scrapers. We were both smitten by the performances of Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Martin Sheen and Sally Fields. Though I was waiting for Sally to don her habit and take to the skies with her nephew.
- I was born during the drought of 1956. My daughter was born during the drought of 1988. I’ll become a grandma and the daughter will become an aunt during the drought of 2012. Based on such dry family history, we predict Baby Philo will be a girl!
How does your family predict the gender of new babies? What’s your favorite summer movie? Mystery writer? Leave a comment.
by jphilo | Jul 12, 2012 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
Hiram and I celebrated our anniversary with lunch out and then iced coffees from Burgie’s, our favorite coffee house. (Yes, we are raging party animals!) Our delicious anniversary treat led to these three coffee house thoughts for Thursday:
- Try as I might – buy the best coffee, grind it myself, and use a French press – my best cup a joe is never as good what they serve at Burgie’s. The only thing left to do is get a couple tattoos and some body piercings so I look like a barista.
- On the other hand, my chai tea holds up to any I’ve tasted anywhere. So maybe I can hold off on the body art for the the foreseeable future.
- Kailen and Anne arrived last night for a week of fun. Here’s my quandary: do the four of us go out for good coffee, stay home for good chai, or make an appointment for mother/daughter and father/son tattoos?
Do you have a trick or recipe for really good java? Chai tea serving suggestions? Tattoo parlor recommendations? Leave a comment!
by jphilo | Jul 5, 2012 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
Shopping is never my drug of choice. But this week’s forays into the retail rat race and resulted in the following three thoughts for this Thursday:
- Purchasing self-serve soft ice cream for Mom at a Casey’s gas station sounded great until an ice-cream-cone-challenged daughter tried to fill the cone. Guess I’ll take Dairy Queen Girl off the list of possible retirement careers.
- Walgreen’s Drugstores have succumbed to Bieber Fever. Their new Justin Bieber card display (I’m not making this up) takes up at least one-fourth of the card aisle. Rather than explain the phenomenon to Mom next time she wants to buy greeting cards, I think we’ll go to the Hallmark Store.
- Next year, I’ll know better than to plan a Costco shopping trip the afternoon before July 4th. I wonder if any of the other shoppers cramming the aisles and the parking lots will do the same.
What shopping adventures have you had lately? Leave a comment about what you saw.
by jphilo | Jun 28, 2012 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
This Thursday’s thoughts are completely random, so don’t waste your time searching for the missing link that binds them together. Far as I can tell, there isn’t one.
- Life is considerably easier when your husband can bend enough to help make the bed or empty the dishwasher. Imagine how footloose and fancy-free this house will be when the man of steel’s post-surgery driving restriction is lifted.
- Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer. Really? Are they serious?
- I wonder what that last batch of pesto would have tasted different if the bright, basil -green bug hadn’t crawled out of the bunch of leaves I was about to put in the blender.
What are you thinking about this Thursday? Leave a comment.
by jphilo | Jun 21, 2012 | Three Thoughts for Thursday
For the past couple of weeks, my life has revolved around caring for friends and family – Hiram’s surgery June 12, a Camp Dorothy overnight last weekend, and taking some kids swimming so their pregnant mama could get some rest. Such circumstances rarely shine a light on my finest hour, but the situations did result in three care giving thoughts for Thursday:
1. I’m pretty sure the doctor prescribed a 5 pound lifting limit for a certain male patient who had back surgery to keep him from lifting more than 10 pounds.
2. Taking imaginative children to the swimming pool isn’t about going swimming. It’s about prowling in the water like a tiger cooling off on a hot jungle day, hopping in the water like a frog in a pond, and swimming underwater like a tadpole. But after 2 1/2 hours of prowling, hopping, and swimming, the tiger, frog, tadpole, children, and adult weren’t pretend tuckered out. They were honest-to-goodness, for real tuckered out.
3. I usually take Mom for her annual mammogram, but since it was the same day as Hiram’s surgery, my brother took her instead. She had a haircut the same morning, so during our Camp Dorothy overnight last weekend, I asked her, “Did you survive your big squish and snip morning okay?”
She shook her head and smiled. “It wasn’t squish and snip. It was press and tress.”
Yup, Mom’s still got her sense of humor!
Have you had any memorable care giving moments lately? If so, leave a comment.
