Where has the time
gone? Well, I have accomplished some things. I had the dining room chairs
re-upholstered, and ordered table pads which arrived over the weekend; not soon
enough for this Sabbath but to be used the next time we are in New York.
Everything looks good.
What I have not
done is keep any sort of careful track of my activities. I must have been doing
things because I know that I have not been sitting around eating bonbons, but I
am hard pressed to come up with any sort of list. It is somewhat embarrassing
but mostly just frustrating.
We did see a couple
of movies. The first was “Maggie’s Plan.” Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is a 30ish woman
who is still sort of trying to find herself. One thing she does know is that
she wants to be a mother. Not having found a life partner, she sets out to find
a man willing to donate sperm. She runs an advertisement and her interest is
piqued by a fellow named Guy who makes artisanal pickles in Brooklyn. This brings back memories of “Crossing Delancey,”
a charming 1988 movie with Amy Irving and Peter Riegert. She fills the turkey
baster and begins the process but is interrupted by John (Ethan Hawke), a man
she has recently met due to some mix-up with paychecks. John, of course, is
already married - to Georgette (Julianne Moore), but it is not what anyone
would call a good marriage. Two Saturday Night Live veterans, Maya Rudolph and
Bill Hader, play their friends, a couple that leave you scratching your head wondering
why they ever married in the first place.
Fast forward a few
years, Maggie and John are now married with a young daughter but having some of
the same issues that left his first marriage in bad shape. You can sort of see
what is going on but I do not want to ruin this entirely because there is one “surprise”
due to a detail from early on in the story. This movie received good reviews
but I was not terribly enthused. Maybe it was Julianne Moore’s rather odd
accent.
The other movie, as
far as I can see, has only one thing going for it: it provides another politician
for consideration whose personal life and style leave a lot to be desired.
Interestingly, he may well have been a good public servant. But his behavior
was so bizarre that it is difficult to fathom why he and his wife would have
ever agreed to allow the film maker to speak with them and film them. We tried
to figure out how they could have possibly signed a contract that did not have
an escape clause, because they really should have run like the wind (I think
that Huma Abedin would have if she could). The movie is “Weiner.” We are not in
4th grade any more so his name is no joke when you look at his life.
It is just overwhelmingly sad to me to see someone self-destruct so miserably
and then go back for a second round.
I seldom work on the
New York Times crossword puzzles on Friday and Saturday. It would be easy to
use Shabbat as an excuse; the real reason is that I am just not that
good. On Sunday, the puzzles are larger but are sometimes easier than Friday
and Saturday. So when I have some time I will challenge myself. Something in
this past Sunday’s puzzle brought a chuckle:
New
York Times Crossword, Sunday 05 June 2016
73
Down: City whose name looks like it could mean "my friend"
(5
letters, and I was pretty sure the middle letter was an A)
Then
it hit me, although I had never thought about it, we learned this from Dina
when she was just a little girl. We were planning a trip to southern Florida
and Simmie kept talking about the trip until finally Dina said (read it out
loud)
"Simmie
keeps saying we are going to her "Ammy", but
when do we get to go to my "Ammy?"
No matter how hard we
tried, it was never easy to keep things completely equal!
Have a nice week!
Love,
Rebecca
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