urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:divina_oculta divina_oculta divina_oculta 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:divina_oculta:20353 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z I had a much better weekend than I expected to have.&nbsp; Friday night, SH came home and said that the little Morenci theater was showing Spider-Man 3 for $4, so we went to see it before heading for Casa Grande.<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a>I liked it.&nbsp; Not excessively, not one of the great movies of all time, but it was fun.&nbsp; The last ten minutes or so dragged, with all the tearful forgiving and completely predictable death scenes, and so on.&nbsp; I figured if they redeemed Harry they'd have to kill him off.&nbsp; It would've been less predictable if they'd had him leave NYC, set off to find out who he was away from the shadow of his dad and best friend.&nbsp; And since the death scene was so predictable and pointless, there wasn't a lot of emotion there that they would have been sacrificing.&nbsp; The end could really have used a jolt of humor.&nbsp; (For example, Peter could've been explaining to MJ some of the things he'd been doing to make up for his bad boy moments, like apologizing to Gwen, and then added, "But I'm going to keep the job at the <i>Daily Bugle</i>, I'm not crazy!"&nbsp; Then add in an easter egg where he gets fired for not getting any pictures of the Venom/Sandman fight.)<br /><br />I can see where Venom fans would be disappointed, he was only really in it for about fifteen minutes, if that.&nbsp; Topher Grace, being a better actor than just about everyone in the movie except J.K. Simmons, made everyone else look really bad.&nbsp; The scenes with Aunt May were pretty cheesy, the science wonky and unexplained, the Sandman shallow - but that's all par for the course for comics, doesn't bother me.&nbsp; And Raimi redeemed himself with the Evil Disco-Emo Goo from outer space.&nbsp; I thought those scenes were hilariously stupid.&nbsp; Overall, for a popcorn comic, it's still in the top ten.<br /><br />Then we drove to CG and got there late.&nbsp; Spent most of Saturday shopping, some with Mom.&nbsp; We ended up in a line next to this Russian woman and her daughter.&nbsp; They were from Moscow and had been here about 13 years, and were an absolute riot.&nbsp; New Yorkers, talking over each other and to everyone else constantly.&nbsp; The mom was buying little cacti in pots and trying to figure out how to smuggle them back to NYC (I don't think there are regulations about cacti on planes?), and the daughter was talking about how she'd shaved her head (like SH) but it was really ugly and how she used to have knee-length hair (like me) but it was too hot.&nbsp; They thought we were twins.&nbsp; I'm not sure which is worse, people assuming we're brother and sister and then freaking out when we're affectionate, or realizing that we're married but secretly assuming there's some incestual relationship...for the record, no relationship at all.&nbsp; We just look a lot alike.&nbsp; Narcissism at its finest.<br /><br />Mom and I had a couple of talks, not instigated by me, and she actually repeated most of what I wrote last week, down to the 'I just need to get over it' part.&nbsp; I also got to realizing that a large part of my dreading visits to her is that for so long visiting CG meant that something terrible was going on that I needed to cope with - too many trips to the hospital, too many fights over insurance-money-sick leave, too many horrible attempts to play nurse.&nbsp; I'm still braced for disaster every time we head west.&nbsp; And I keep assuming the problem must be Mom.&nbsp; But mostly, we just had a good time this weekend.<br /><br />Misplaced my purse while we were shopping.&nbsp; I thought it was gone for good - couldn't find it anywhere - until SH rang my phone and we followed the ring.&nbsp; Adrenaline jolt for the day.<br /><br />Also got to visit the M&M's, and see her new baskets.&nbsp; They are really gorgeous and unique, and she's developing a brochure and hoping to start selling them.&nbsp; Someday my basket's going to be a collector's item, I swear.<br /><br />OTOH, SH wore himself out (shouldn't have pushed so hard after his reaction) and stayed home from work today, just to sleep.&nbsp; His allergist still hasn't gotten back to him on how to continue his therapy.&nbsp; That guy is sliding from object of anger to object of contempt pretty quickly.&nbsp; We may have to find a new allergist, which will once again suck.<br /><br />(168.5)