June 2, 2013

Holy balls. It is late. But I'm going to write this anyway.

This morning I watched Thor. I enjoyed it and like most movies, it is better watched all the way through. I had forgotten that Jeremy Renner was in it briefly as Hawkeye. I was thinking that he was only in The Avengers.

Next I watched Nature Calls, starring Patton Oswalt and Johnny Knoxville as brothers with differing views on Boy Scouts. Oswalt is all about the Scouts and Knoxville is not. Oswalt kidnaps all the kids from Knoxville's party and takes them camping. It hit a little close to home because of my Scouting history, and the father looked a lot like my grandpa. It definitely wasn't a great movie but I think it was a good commentary on how kids seem to be more interested in technology and being indoors these days, than they are about being outside.

The third movie I watched was Timer. In the movie, people can get a timer implanted in their arms that counts down when they will meet their soulmate and then beeps when they make eye contact with the person. There are two grown sisters, one whose timer won't hit zero until she's in her forties, the other whose timer hasn't started yet (because her soulmate doesn't have a timer yet). The first sister has a lot of one-night stands. The second sister goes on dates only with guys who don't have a timer and then if things get serious she takes them to get a timer to see if they are really meant to be. There is also a younger brother who gets his timer and it immediately displays a countdown of only three days off, which kind of annoys the sisters. I did like the movie for the most part but I wasn't too into the ending. Everything wasn't happy and there were loose ends.

Tonight I went and rented movies. Mainly because I wanted to watch The Avengers after seeing Captain America and Thor. I also got the first two Hulk movies because he is currently my favorite super hero. The Avengers was just as good as I remembered it. The next one will probably be badass.

Throughout the day, while I was watching all this stuff, along with some YouTube videos, I worked on my cross stitch. And I freaking finished it. Finally. At one o'clock in the morning. It is a pretty simple pattern but good grief did it take forever. It feels good to be done with it and it doesn't look half bad if you don't look too closely. Now I will need to look up how to frame it and make it official looking. Then I can start work on a new one. Or maybe take a small break. And then start work on a new one.