May 31, 2013

This morning I continued my Mission: Impossible marathon, starting with M:I3. That one starts out a bit depressing with Keri Russell and I was reminded at how freaky they made her eye look. Nightmare-inducing. Also, Philip Seymour Hoffman plays an excellent villain. Of the four movies, he has far and above been the best villain. He just seemed the most genuinely evil.

Starting in the third movie with the introduction of Simon Pegg, and then coming to fruition with his complete integration into the main team in the fourth movie, comedy was added to the series. There was a bit here and there in the first two movies but it got better in the third and the fourth was on a whole new level. It was definitely a benefit to the series. I enjoy a good action movie but when they take themselves too seriously it becomes comical, unintentionally. That is the cheesy kind of comical, which is good in its own right but I like when an action movie is intentionally comical. The fourth movie was the best in terms of actions and special effects and comedy but I don't know if it was necessarily the best movie. I wanna say the second one was the best one, at least in terms of plot, but I am feeling a little biased toward Philip Seymour Hoffman in the third movie. In the end, I enjoyed them all.

However many days ago I made the oyster cracker snack mix. Today I used the same mix but put it on Cheez-Its instead. I've only tried a little bit but it seems to be good as well. I had no idea how many Cheez-Its I should use so I just poured them into the bag until it looked like there was around the same amount of oyster crackers I had in the other bag. And then added a bit more to compensate for the oyster crackers I have eaten. I probably could have added even more but I'll wait to make that determination until I have tried a larger sample size. A problem will arise when I want to make it with Cheez-Its again and I don't have a bag of oyster crackers to compare it to.

Before work I went over to help my dad, sister, and brother move furniture around at my grandma's house. The goal was to make the place easier to move around in with the walker she has to use because of her broken leg. Me moved her queen-sized bed down to the basement and moved the twin-sized bed from the spare room into her room which gives her a lot more space between the dresser and the walls and the bed. Then we moved the love seat from the living room into the spare room where the bed had been, and moved the cedar chest, which is like a coffee table in the living room, up against the fireplace. Now she won't have any real obstacles getting around her room or the living room. A vast improvement.

At work tonight I started and nearly finished my next letter to my friend. I also watched a lot of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, read a few chapters in my book, and watched Now You See Me. I would say it was a good movie. I like the idea of magic, there were some cool stunts, some good action, comedic relief (especially from Woody Harrelson), and I liked the French lady played by Melanie Laurent (or rather Laurent herself, not necessarily her character, though she wasn't bad either). Overall, not a bad night I guess. I might try some cross stitching tomorrow afternoon when I work. I brought it tonight but get to it.