A no-hitter, and what else I did this summer

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I looked back through my planner at every weekend all summer, and I don't seem to have gone to movies much at all. We went to see a couple of things we'd already seen before - Captain Marvel and Endgame, and also Field of Dreams - it was one of those Fathom Events things - I think it must have come out 30 years ago. (God, Rob and I were practically newlyweds. I remember going to see it vividly. We mostly only went because Gene Siskel liked it! Added: I said this to Rob later and he said no it was Ebert who liked it and Siskel who didn't, and I think he's right.) It held up surprisingly well. The only new thing I could find that I went to see was the Spiderman movie. Rob went to a lot of movies without me, especially lately when I've been feeling so tired. He went to see a bunch of horror movies - "Midsommar" he really liked, and I think he went to see the "Annabelle" movie twice, and there was more. And he finally went to see that "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" thing a couple of weeks ago when he couldn't talk me into it. He really liked that one too. I made him tell me how it ended - sometimes I prefer to know, anyway, and I might go see it later if it's still hanging around. Hopefully there will be some things this fall that I'm interested in seeing that weren't made by Marvel or Marvel/Sony.

Let's see, we watch stuff on Netflix and Prime - Rob played out on The Expanse series halfway through the first season, but I was more into it, having read most of the books, and I eventually finished all three seasons. We watched "Good Omens" of course (I had read the book but Rob hadn't, but he seemed to like it pretty well just the same) and lately we've been watching "Turn: Washington's Spies" which we both like a lot. I've been watching "The Magicians" off and on but haven't caught up on that, so don't tell me any spoilers for later on! That's all I can think of offhand. We still watch far too much MSNBC, and lots of baseball this time of year.

Oh, yeah, baseball - we turned on the baseball game quite late on Sunday - it was a very early game, and so it was like the 8th inning by the time I got up. Rob was watching something else, and when we turned the channel he said, "Wow, there's still no score." So we actually saw all of the (very brief) part where they scored. We didn't realize until it was over that it was actually a no-hitter for Verlander, and then we watched all the post-game stuff and then I went back and watched the whole thing from the beginning (and actually I went back later and just watched the parts where Verlander's pitching). That kind of thing is always fun - if you're on the winning end of it, anyway.

I haven't been completely absent from social media lately, but I've been fairly quiet, I think. I tweeted occasionally, and I posted some nail pictures on Instagram when I remembered to. I posted less on my nail blog than I have in years, though, and didn't post here all summer. (I'm so glad this summer is over, and I'm never particularly a fan of summer at the best of times!)



Movies seen at a theater in 2019:

1. Bumblebee

2. Into the Spider-verse (our second time)

3. Lego Movie 2

4. Captain Marvel (three times)

5. Shazam!

6. Avengers: Endgame (four times)
7. Field of Dreams
8. Spiderman: Far From Home