Laura Holt

My mother went back to university after she became an empty nester and finally was able to take the subjects she would have taken if she'd had the chance when she was younger. She loved it. But I admit I'm like you. I am done with school. I got as far as my masters and that's as far as I intend to go. The idea of studying, writing papers and being graded does not appeal!

He left after lunch and my house is so quiet now. Lesson learned - I've taken the TV out of the spare bedroom. Never again!

I don't got to a lot of movies and was shocked a few years ago when I finally got around to going to one and saw that it sure wasn't popcorn and a soft drink anymore! And the seats! Wow, no one put their big feet up on the back of my chair - heaven. In terms of an intermission every play I have ever gone to has an intermission built into it. Now this may be in part for the benefit of the performers and to change the scenery etc but it's also absolutely expected by theatregoers no matter how long or short the play. I still remember seeing a play in London with my mother and during the intermission they came into the theatre itself selling little dishes of ice cream. Now that's classy 🙂

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Intermission Violations: Apple, Paramount Crack Down on Handful of Theaters Breaking Agreement I don't understand why it matters if theatres offer an intermission. Do the film makers feel it ruins the experience? Because intermission or no if I am in a movie that long I am making my own intermission at some point anyway!

I was completely thrown. Maybe if I'd read his book I'd have expected this more but as it was no, not at all. I guess it's just I see these rockers out there who have abused their bodies with drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, hedonistic lifestyle who are still going strong into their 80s and think it's more the norm than not. But I guess it really isn't the norm at all.

I never saw that but when I came across The Odd Couple I was really impressed with Matthew's performance. It only last 2-3 years and I don't know if it was poor ratings or what that got it cancelled but it sure wasn't because Matthew wasn't wonderful in it.

I'm not sure if you want to edit but if you do all you need to do is click on the 3 dots in the top right corner of your post and choose edit. It is the rare post of mine where I don't end up editing it for spelling, grammar or something or another!

What an absolute shock. Like many of you Chandler was my favourite friend. I also really liked him in The Odd Couple. Reading the news stories coming out I have just learned for the first time that he went to school in Ottawa once upon a time. I had no idea. RIP Matthew.

My cousin is driving me crazy. Every single time she gets a new man in her life she completely makes herself over into this person she thinks he wants her to be. This time around the new guy is a hunter and suddenly she's taking lessons in gun safety so she can buy guns. This is a woman who, a few guys back was a born again vegan. It's infuriating to watch because I know, based in every relationship she's ever had, that when this one runs its course she will change herself around to be the "soul mate" for the next guy.

Men who act like that always count on women feeling they've somehow done something wrong. And all too often women do feel that way. If he doesn't stop he needs to be getting a call from HR.

The Night the Roof Fell In 😄 at the scene where Rob comes in looking (and dancing) like Fred Astaire completely ignoring Laura looking and acting like a total slob. Other shows have done this, two people recounting the same scene from their own POV, but no one has done it better!

Speaking of grandchildren we had two of ours for a few hours this afternoon. I made the critical mistake of getting my haircut while we had them so my husband took them with him to bulk barn while they were waiting for me. As I reconstruct the scene later it appears they took a shopping cart and had a happy half hour going up and down the aisles while Granddad bought them candy from almost every bin in the store. Granddad being retired now may be a joy for the grandkids but it's going to hit our pocketbook. Badly!

One of my all time favourite songs is Angels by him but otherwise I know very little about him. If I am visiting someone with Netflix I will have to check this out.

Over my lifetime I've moved a lot - I think roughly 25 times but some of those moves were as a child where my parents had to do most of the planning and actual moving. Moving yearly, or if we were lucky every two years, for my husband's job over the course of about 15 years was hard but fun in some ways but now that I'm older the idea of hauling out packing boxes, disconnecting utilities and getting used to a new area has lost its charm!

We are happy where we are for now but if we do move it will be because we'd want to be closer to the grandkids (and the kids too - but mainly the grandkids 😀). Right now we're about a 45-60 minute drive which means we are a little far for anyone to just drop by. For some that would be a positive but for me I'd like to be closer. Maybe not Everybody Loves Raymond closer with in-laws across the street but closer would be nice.

Loud TVs are today's peeve. My great-uncle is staying with us for a few days while he has outpatient treatment and being a good niece I made sure he had a TV in his room. Not the first mistake, or likely the last, I will make in my lifetime. But today, of all days, when the news has been uniformly just awful, is not a day when I need CNN blasting down the hall. He's not in the best of health and I don't have the heart to make this an issue since it's temporary. Ear plugs are my new best friends.

Just saw the episode where Richie comes home saying a bird is pecking his head. So, ok, how am I going to narrow these shows down to a top 5? And I'm still only in season 2!

I just had a flashback to the summer my husband was between jobs and friends came to stay with us for a few days. Before they left they filled the pantry - which would have been a nice gesture but instead only served to make me feel even more embarrassed and, awkward (excellent word) about our circumstances. In trying to be helpful they had bought stuff like economy size containers of peanut butter, pasta, canned spaghetti sauce, tuna and the like. All the things that you would be most likely to donate to a food bank. I had been so happy to see them but them doing this didn't make me feel loved, it made me feel pitied. I am absolutely not suggesting you would do this to your friend @Spartan Girl but maybe right now that is what she is afraid will happen if she reconnects with old friends. Being pitied.

This bothers me so much! If they never release any seasons on DVD, ok, I can accept it - but when they release all but one season, or do release the final season at twice or three times the price of the others, I am profoundly not impressed. I am the same and also I will add so that I can watch shows without constant commercials (especially shows like Big Bang Theory that are basically 18 minutes of actual show and 12 minutes of adverts, promos etc).

I loved Sisters!! And the Mom was the thread that held it all together. RIP Ms. Hoffman.

I lost my mother last summer and today I am thinking just how final the loss of someone close to you really is. I woke up feeling blue and and I know it's because my husband is retiring today. Up to now I've been upbeat about this, seeing only the positives and joking about the downsides (he'll be underfoot all day kind of thing) but anyway I really want to pick up the phone and talk to my mom. I want to ask her how she felt when my Dad retired. What was it like for her when one chapter of their life ended and a new one began. Did she feel blue? Was she excited? Why did it never occur to me to ask her things like this at the time? And of course now it's too late. I guess that's a refrain all of us who have lost someone are always thinking.

Do men get called "sprightly"? A close friend of mine is about my age and very athletic (I'd love to say we're similar in this respect. We are not) she ran the Boston marathon a few years ago as one example of what I mean by her being athletic. Anyway she was telling me that while she was playing tennis today with a friend a couple of younger guys came up to them and were full of praise for them being so "sprightly" at their age. She was laughing when she told me about it but it really bothered me that she was being condescended to partly for her age but mainly I think for her age combined with being a woman. Sprightly middle age. Ugh.

I would open my windows more often if we didn't have a new development going in not too far from us. Between the noise of the construction vehicles, the construction and the rerouted traffic I am happier with the windows shut right now!