Hey, it's me...
Well, that was another kind of tough week, honestly.
Wednesday was the one year anniversary of mom's passing. What are you supposed to do for that? It feels like there should be some kind of social ritual marking and remembering someone's passing... but there isn't. I mean, we have the funeral or memorial or whatever, and then we're just supposed to move on. Some of us an All Hallows Eve or Day of the Dead tradition to honor all those who have passed, but socially I'm not aware of any specific traditions honoring an individual passing... and truthfully, I'd never thought much about it before. I remember my Grampa Ted's passing because it was so close to All Hallows, but I would have to look up my Gramma Cathy's. I don't really remember when my dad's folks passed. I guess mom just feels different because she's mom and I want to do something to remember her.
In the end, it's my mom... so I think good food, art and movies are called for.
So, pulled from the Cathy Collection (her collection of DVDs), I pulled The Equalizer 1, 2 & 3. Three movies staring Denzel Washington as Robert McCall. The basic plot... bad guy does bad thing within line of sight of Washington/McCall and he calmly and politely gives them a chance to make amends. Then, when the laugh in his race, he calmly and politely proceeds to reduce said bad guy to broken and/or dead bad guy. Repeat, several times, over three movies... and no, it never gets old. What can I say, mom loved movies like that.
Also, she has a bunch of Jane Austin movies.
What? It's my mom. Does this really surprise you?
In other news, I've actually be managing to stick to my chair-yoga this week (ok, I missed two days... one for a trip to get blood drawn and other because I did other exercise stuff that day). It feels good and I like it. That even with J's cat giving me a look of withering contempt as if to say "you know, cat's invented yoga and you're doing it wrong."
Cats.
Well, I have more movies to watch.
Onward
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