Today's FoodDay has a tip for when you run out of baking powder. You mix baking soda, cream of tartar and cornstarch. Great! Now I know what I can do with all that cream of tartar. Whatever that is.
Bob and I live in a two person household with two of just about everything. We're not good at sharing. Well, since he can't defend himself, I'll say that he's not good at sharing. I would share just fine if I could be in charge of everything.
We do share kitchen and laundry facilities. We share a netflix queue (239 + 31 saved) and I keep my movies (23 at present) clumped together in the middle. We're on the 5 movie plan and since he watches way more movies than I do, he gets 4 and I get 1. I watch way more shows than he does which uses up most of my TV time.
I always feel weird that we hardly ever watch movies together. But we're rarely on the same schedule. If I'm going to watch a movie it's usually in the late afternoon on weekend day. Or I watch it in pieces over a few nights. Bob likes to watch movies at any time of day, often when he's doing other things: grading, reading, napping, internet-surfing, listening to music. Also if he's awake he goes downstairs and watches movies in the middle of the night.
A couple of weeks ago he had Frozen River and I had Let the Right One In. We watched them separately and then in an unusual move, traded.
All that long warm up was to say that I finally watched Frozen River last night and it was really good. It's about a woman in desperate financial straits who finds herself in the smuggling business on the Mohawk Indian Reservation. It's a knuckle-biter. Recommended for people who like independent movies.
Update: I wanted to make sure I had the reservation name right since I don't know much about Indians in that part of the country. I think the movie takes place on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation and Akwesasne Reserve.
posted by Pamela at 9:31 AM
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Comments:
Very interesting. We're the opposite. It's like a personal offense if you see another movie without the person--if they wanted to also see it. Okay, I exaggerate slightly, but not much.
Frozen River is waiting for me now. Watched Synechode Saturday night. It was too much for me.
Frozen River is waiting for me now. Watched Synechode Saturday night. It was too much for me.
I heard an interview with one of the actresses from Frozen River and the director. The movie sounds very compelling.
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