Christmas report

We had a lovely low-key Christmas - I slept very late, Rob and I opened our gifts to each other once I got up, and then we went over to my sister's house, did another gift exchange and ate subs (we wanted to be seriously low-key, and Rob found some really good hoagie rolls at HEB so they were great) plus a whole buttload of desserts. And then we watched movies - in particular we watched Arrival, which I had not seen for some reason. (I think everybody else had.)

Let's see, as far as gifts: Rob got me a Funko Grogu that is solar-powered and waves his hand - I think it's meant to go in a dashboard but I may not use it that way, but it's really cute - and we both got each other some assorted books and stuff. (I got Son of a Witch, which is the sequel to Wicked.) Paula got me a Butter London polish (which is fairly expensive these days) and then passed on a bunch of assorted items that were re-gifts, but some of it was really nice, like one of those Youth to the People sample sets - I love their moisturizer so I was happy to have that in particular. I had gotten Rob a wallet on Etsy with his name on it that turned out to be very nice-looking, among other things.

And we still have another whole week off - we go back after New Year's. So yay!

Movies of 2024, and favorites

I don't think I'll be going to any more movies between now and Tuesday night, and Rob just got home from Nosferatu, so I figure it's time to talk about the movies we saw in 2024.

I put up a list of what we'd seen in a movie theater this year a month or so ago, and I've updated it to reflect those multiple viewings of Wicked. As far as favorites, I think here I mostly have to go with the two that I saw multiple times - meaning Wicked and Deadpool and Wolverine (which I saw twice in the theater and have seen two more times on D+ so far). Other movies I really enjoyed include Alien: Romulus and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Oh, and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, too. (I had not seen any of this new round of Planet of the Apes movies - meaning, I'd seen the really old stuff, only! -  and the minute I expressed interest, Rob made me watch all three of the previous ones in preparation.)

There are another couple of movies that I know I enjoyed while I was watching them but immediately forgot the minute I got home - I'm thinking of Dune 2 and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Seriously, I can hardly remember Dune 2 at all. (Christopher Walken was in it? I had completely forgotten.)

I feel like - no, this is far fewer movies than I typically see in a year. Eventually we figured out that part of that was the aftermath of the strikes in the movie industry a while back, which caused a lot of movies to get delayed. As you can see from his list below, Rob still found a lot of movies to see - not only horror movies, either.

(For anybody reading who doesn't already know this part: I don't do horror movies unless I'm really convinced they're not very scary - which doesn't happen a lot - and my husband loves them, so he is accustomed to going to the movies alone a lot.)

I grabbed Rob and got him to look at the list and tell me what he liked. He named five of them and so I'll put them in bold type in the list below rather than type them all out again! And he said that Nosferatu - which he just saw - was good, but probably not quite to the point of being in the top 5.


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Rob and I saw these movies together (newest to oldest):
Wicked (twice, and I saw it one more time with my sister)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Deadpool & Wolverine (twice)
Alien: Romulus
Young Woman and the Sea
Furiosa
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Dune 2
Wonka (which we also saw it once in 2023)


And Rob also saw (with favorites in bold)
Nosferatu
Juror #2
Heretic
Smile 2
Terrifier 3
Speak No Evil
Never Let Go
Trap
Blink Twice
Longlegs
Maxxxine
The Exorcism
The Watcher
In a Violent Nature
Quiet Place Day 1
I Saw the TV Glow
Tarot
Abigail
Civil War
First Omen
Late Night with the Devil
Immaculate
Demon's Daughter
The Iron Claw
Godzilla Minus One Minus Color
Night Swim