Nursing & The Movie Marathon
This weekend I was given the wonderful responsibility of being my husband’s nurse. He was feeling under the weather and in his defense, he really did need some TLC. I am just about the worst nurse…ever. I’m more of a rub some dirt in it kinda gal. As long as I’m not the one feeling icky. Then I’m all about being waited on hand and foot.
So Chris sent me in search of a few items to help speed his recovery:
1. Call of Duty 4
2. Popsicles
3. More shaving gel
I am happy to report I remembered 1 out of the 3.
I did however manage to purchase a cute-as-can-be yellow purse which despite the fact that I am adamantly opposed to wearing yellow clothing I was caught up in the sweetness of this particular bag and completely lowered my standards. I have nothing against yellow as a color more that I am opposed to looking like a gigantic banana. Yellow hair, pale skin and yellow clothing does in fact equal gigantic banana. I have pictures of an unfortunate bridesmaid’s dress if anyone would like proof.
I also picked up some new white shoes to go with the below mentioned white linen pants. Really. Why not?
Needless to say, Chris was disappointed in my shopping excursion but I politely reminded him that if he does not make me a list I can not be expected to remember everything. Goodness, I got the most important thing right? Right.
While Chris played hours and hours and even more hours of Xbox, I watched an equal number of hours of movies. I have not spent an entire day watching movies in years. Unless of course you count the bowl trip each year where I was forced to watch the latest Will Ferrell absurdity while held hostage by 40 or so college students. Throw in days of Subway sandwiches and no showers…for anyone…and you have the makings of torture the likes of which still prevent me from eating a Jared inspired creation.
Anyway, below is the list of movies and my review of each:
1. Star Trek: Insurrection – Okay so true confession, I’d seen this one before. Can’t be married to a “treky” and the daughter of a “treky” without seeing all related blockbusters. I only sort of watched this one because I was folding laundry which is okay because Chris was only sort of watching this one in between his naps. As far as Star Trek movies go, this one isn’t bad. At least they were saving a race of people instead of a whale in this one.
2. A Night at the Museum – We’d never seen this one although the movie channels show it like crazy. Pretty good and it was clean. I like clean. Although I had a hard time buying Dick Van Dyke as the mean guy. He looked pretty good considering I hadn’t seen him since his Diagnosis Murder days. My college roommate loved that show. Not kidding. She never missed an episode. All in all, I’d say I enjoyed this one but won’t see again unless in the company of a child.
3. Becoming Jane – Since I already knew the story of Jane Austin, this was a little anticlimactic for me but still I love Ann Hathaway and I love Jane Austin so I figured I couldn’t go wrong. I really liked this one. She made the right choice. Her love for him would not allow her to let him ruin his life and the lives of those who depended on him. Reminded me that I should really be doing more for Chris. He was sick after all and I was perfectly healthy so I got him another coke. Success. I will say that Chris’ only comment on this movie was at the very end where they’re giving the audience more real life details. He said, “She only wrote 6 novels. That’s nothing. Mozart had written 6 symphonies by the time he was 4”. Okay, that’s not word for word but I sort of saw that coming and blocked it out.
4. August Rush – Let me start by saying I refused to watch this movie with Chris. The story of two musicians who give birth to a musical prodigy that somehow manages to bring them all back together again through his music. Yeah, never watching that with Dr. Band Geek. However, being that I am not musically inclined other than to sing along with my satellite radio, I loved it. Sure it’s completely unbelievable but what good story isn’t. The music was pretty cool even though I knew Julliard likely wouldn’t put a 12 year old conductor in front of thousands of people while debuting his own original symphony and allowing a gospel choir from the hood to sing along. Still all in all a really nice feel good movie.
5. John Tucker Must Die – I have no explanation for this selection other than it was free on demand and I needed a mental relief from watching August Rush. If you’re 14 and have dreams of actually dating the head of the basketball team one day, not a bad movie. Been there, never did that so I took it for what it was and moved on.
6. The Holiday – This was the Cameron Diaz/Kate Winslet movie about a stuffy British gal and glamorous LA girl switching houses for 2 weeks during Christmas. The dialogue got a little long at times and there’s no way the Screen Writers’ Guild plans an event for 250 people and convinces the nominee to participate all while the British gal manages to get the 90 year old dude strong enough to walk without a walker in that same 2 weeks. Oh and both girls manage to fall in love. Of course. However, it was a nice escape. I think there are times when we would all like to swap houses. At least this movie didn’t have the women actually swapping lives. There’s a chick-lit book out there with that theme and it’s ridiculous. Didn’t stop me from reading it but its still ridiculous. I do have to say I can see why Jude Law is so appealing and I was honestly surprised by how attractive even Jack Black came across. Any movie where the director manages to make Nacho Libre into a sympathetic leading man is worth a look.
So there you have it. My weekend. Chris is still down the Popsicles and shave gel but I have faith I’ll remember to pick them up on the way home today. Maybe my best nursing days are still ahead of me.
This weekend I was given the wonderful responsibility of being my husband’s nurse. He was feeling under the weather and in his defense, he really did need some TLC. I am just about the worst nurse…ever. I’m more of a rub some dirt in it kinda gal. As long as I’m not the one feeling icky. Then I’m all about being waited on hand and foot.
So Chris sent me in search of a few items to help speed his recovery:
1. Call of Duty 4
2. Popsicles
3. More shaving gel
I am happy to report I remembered 1 out of the 3.
I did however manage to purchase a cute-as-can-be yellow purse which despite the fact that I am adamantly opposed to wearing yellow clothing I was caught up in the sweetness of this particular bag and completely lowered my standards. I have nothing against yellow as a color more that I am opposed to looking like a gigantic banana. Yellow hair, pale skin and yellow clothing does in fact equal gigantic banana. I have pictures of an unfortunate bridesmaid’s dress if anyone would like proof.
I also picked up some new white shoes to go with the below mentioned white linen pants. Really. Why not?
Needless to say, Chris was disappointed in my shopping excursion but I politely reminded him that if he does not make me a list I can not be expected to remember everything. Goodness, I got the most important thing right? Right.
While Chris played hours and hours and even more hours of Xbox, I watched an equal number of hours of movies. I have not spent an entire day watching movies in years. Unless of course you count the bowl trip each year where I was forced to watch the latest Will Ferrell absurdity while held hostage by 40 or so college students. Throw in days of Subway sandwiches and no showers…for anyone…and you have the makings of torture the likes of which still prevent me from eating a Jared inspired creation.
Anyway, below is the list of movies and my review of each:
1. Star Trek: Insurrection – Okay so true confession, I’d seen this one before. Can’t be married to a “treky” and the daughter of a “treky” without seeing all related blockbusters. I only sort of watched this one because I was folding laundry which is okay because Chris was only sort of watching this one in between his naps. As far as Star Trek movies go, this one isn’t bad. At least they were saving a race of people instead of a whale in this one.
2. A Night at the Museum – We’d never seen this one although the movie channels show it like crazy. Pretty good and it was clean. I like clean. Although I had a hard time buying Dick Van Dyke as the mean guy. He looked pretty good considering I hadn’t seen him since his Diagnosis Murder days. My college roommate loved that show. Not kidding. She never missed an episode. All in all, I’d say I enjoyed this one but won’t see again unless in the company of a child.
3. Becoming Jane – Since I already knew the story of Jane Austin, this was a little anticlimactic for me but still I love Ann Hathaway and I love Jane Austin so I figured I couldn’t go wrong. I really liked this one. She made the right choice. Her love for him would not allow her to let him ruin his life and the lives of those who depended on him. Reminded me that I should really be doing more for Chris. He was sick after all and I was perfectly healthy so I got him another coke. Success. I will say that Chris’ only comment on this movie was at the very end where they’re giving the audience more real life details. He said, “She only wrote 6 novels. That’s nothing. Mozart had written 6 symphonies by the time he was 4”. Okay, that’s not word for word but I sort of saw that coming and blocked it out.
4. August Rush – Let me start by saying I refused to watch this movie with Chris. The story of two musicians who give birth to a musical prodigy that somehow manages to bring them all back together again through his music. Yeah, never watching that with Dr. Band Geek. However, being that I am not musically inclined other than to sing along with my satellite radio, I loved it. Sure it’s completely unbelievable but what good story isn’t. The music was pretty cool even though I knew Julliard likely wouldn’t put a 12 year old conductor in front of thousands of people while debuting his own original symphony and allowing a gospel choir from the hood to sing along. Still all in all a really nice feel good movie.
5. John Tucker Must Die – I have no explanation for this selection other than it was free on demand and I needed a mental relief from watching August Rush. If you’re 14 and have dreams of actually dating the head of the basketball team one day, not a bad movie. Been there, never did that so I took it for what it was and moved on.
6. The Holiday – This was the Cameron Diaz/Kate Winslet movie about a stuffy British gal and glamorous LA girl switching houses for 2 weeks during Christmas. The dialogue got a little long at times and there’s no way the Screen Writers’ Guild plans an event for 250 people and convinces the nominee to participate all while the British gal manages to get the 90 year old dude strong enough to walk without a walker in that same 2 weeks. Oh and both girls manage to fall in love. Of course. However, it was a nice escape. I think there are times when we would all like to swap houses. At least this movie didn’t have the women actually swapping lives. There’s a chick-lit book out there with that theme and it’s ridiculous. Didn’t stop me from reading it but its still ridiculous. I do have to say I can see why Jude Law is so appealing and I was honestly surprised by how attractive even Jack Black came across. Any movie where the director manages to make Nacho Libre into a sympathetic leading man is worth a look.
So there you have it. My weekend. Chris is still down the Popsicles and shave gel but I have faith I’ll remember to pick them up on the way home today. Maybe my best nursing days are still ahead of me.
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