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National Curmudgeon Day

Since I am always  trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, reverent and occasionally prepared, I did not bring up this proposal on October 15, that being National Grouch Day.  I did not want to rain on their parade.

Just as an aside my daughter’s birthday is the 15th of October, and while I am sure, like all of us, she can be grouchy at times, that is not how I think of her.  She can be, however, very opinionated and does not hesitate to mount a soapbox if the need is there.  She truly cannot Continue reading “National Curmudgeon Day”

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True Grit

True GritWe were walking outside the theatre.  I had purposely waited this long to comment on the movie to Robin as I wanted our conversation to be private.  No particular reason, it is just my preference.  I begin gushing about the movie and how much I enjoyed it.  I think I may have used the word fantastic in there somewhere.  I ended my spontaneous critique with the comment, “But then I do not go to a lot of movies.”  And I do not.  Last movie I saw in a theatre before True Grit was Avatar.

There was a “gentleman” walking in front of us.  He turns around and asks, “What movie did you see?”  I’m thinking I did not invite you into the conversation, but politeness lead me to answer, “True Grit.”  Continue reading “True Grit”